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A67489	The wonders of the little world, or, A general history of man in six books : wherein by many thousands of examples is shewed what man hath been from the first ages of the world to these times, in respect of his body, senses, passions, affections, his virtues and perfections, his vices and defects, his quality, vocation and profession, and many other particulars not reducible to any of the former heads : collected from the writings of the most approved historians, philosophers, physicians, philologists and others / by Nath. Wanley ...	Wanley, Nathaniel, 1634-1680.	1673 (1673)	Wing W709; ESTC R8227	1,275,688	591

his presence Young man said he was your Mother ever at Rome he discerning whither the Question tended No Sir said he my Mother never was but my Father hath often wittily illuding the intended suspicion of his own Mother and begetting a new concerning that of Augustus 23. Pompey the Great carry'd such a resemblance in his Visage to the Statues of Alexander the Great that some called him Alexander and Pompey himself seem'd not against it So that Lucius Philippus a consular person one time pleading for him said that he did nothing absurd in that action for seeing he was Philip it was no wonder if he was a lover of Alexander 24. Hybreas the Mylasenian an Orator of a cop●ous and quick Eloquence was so like unto a servant that gather'd up what was scatter'd in the Theatre that the Eyes of all Asia design'd him for his natural Brother although he was not in the least of kin to him 25. Amatus Lusitanus tells of two Monks of the order of the Predicators who though they were not of the same Country yet were most like one to the other in age temperature and physiognomy these two were in one and the same day seis'd with a Pleurisie and both on the same day restored to their health 26. Polystratus and Hippoclides were both Philosophers they were both born upon the same day both followed the Sect of their Master Epicurus and as they were both School-fellows so they equally participated of one and the same Estate being both arriv'd to a very great age they both dy'd in one and the same instant of time Such an equal society both in fortune and friendship who can think otherwise but that it was begot nourish'd and finish'd in the very bosom of a Heavenly Concord 27. Iohn Maudelen a Priest was Chaplain to King Richard the Second and so exceeding like him in all proportion and favour that the one could not without difficulty be discerned from the other Many a time saith one have I seen him in Ireland ride with the King his Master so fair a Priest and goodly a person I had not lightly seen When the Dukes of Excester and Surrey conspired against Henry the Fourth they made use of this man and his likeness to the King they perswaded the people that the King was escaped out of Pomfret Castle and was now amongst them and to make them believe it the better they put the Priest in Armour with a Crown upon his Helmet so as all men might take him for King Richard This cost the poor Priest dear for soon after he was executed for Treason at London by command of King Henry 28. I have heard a Gentleman yet living say that his Mother knew not his Brother from him but by the treading of their Shoes that when they were Scholars both of them were ordinarily whipt for the offence of one and that being bound Apprentices to two Merchants in London they would ordinarily wait in one anothers rooms undiscovered by their Masters or any other of the Family 29. Cambyses King of Persia dream'd that his Brother Smerdis sate upon the Throne as King of Persia troubled at this he made choice of Comaris one of the Magi from amongst the rest of his friends and sent him away with orders to kill his Brother Cambyses in the mean time by a fall upon his Sword receiv'd his death in Egypt-Comaris understanding the Kings death before the fame of it was arrived to Persia executed his former order and had privily made away Smerdis the Kings Brother which done he set his Brother Oropastes by some also called Smerdis upon the Throne instead of Smerdis Two things there were which served well to help forward his design one was that amongst the Persians the King is but very seldom seen and the contrary is thought a diminution to his Majesty A second thing that preserved the fraud from being detected was that Smerdis the Kings Brother and this Counterfeit Oropastes were so extremely like both in the features of their Face and the lineaments of their Bodies that by these means and the diligence of the Magi he held the Kingdom till such time as by the industry of a Nobleman called Orthanes the whole plot was revealed and the design overthrown CHAP. XXI Of the Heart and in what manner it hath been found in some Bodies SUch as are skilful in the way of Natures production and generation do assure us that of the Embryo in the Womb the first part that is formed is the Heart which saith Galen is the first root of all the entrails and members of the Body and the very fountain of Life and of all innate and vital heat It is say the Peripateticks in a Humane Body as the first intelligence is in the World and as a kind of Monarch in the little World The substance of it is therefore more solid and compact both that it may be the less obnoxious to receive damage or harm as also the better to preserve the vital heat and spirit which would soon breath out and vanish away from it were it of greater rarity and softness What curiosities have been found in this little Cabinet upon the death of its owner together With other not unpleasant observations about it takes as followeth 1. Richard London of London a person learn'd in the Greek and Latin Tongues and an assistant Physician in our Hospital of the holy Ghost hath set down in Latin the Epitome of a History written originally in English by Edward May in this manner Anno 1637. Octob. 7. in London at the opening of the Body of Iohn Pe●n●nt his Heart was found globular more broad than long the right Ventricle of it was of an ashy colour wrinkled and like a leathern Purse without Money we found nothing in it and the Water of the pericardium was perfectly dry'd up The left Ventricle of his heart was three times bigger than the right and seem'd as hard as a stone upon incision the blood gush'd out and in it was found a fleshy substance wrapt in various folds like a Serpent the body of it was white as the skin of a man but slippery transparent and as it was painted over it had Legs or Arms of a fleshy colour Fibers or Nerves call them as you please were found in it the body of it were hollow but otherwise solid in length a Roman Palm of the lesser sort it had a Gut Vein Artery or somewhat Analogous subservient to the uses of Nature found in it 2. There was a man who at several times was exceedingly troubled with fainting fits and a strange palpitation of the Heart at last overcome with his Malady he sudden dy'd at the opening of his body there was found sticking to the right Ventricle of his Heart a Worm it was dead the colour of it black and in shape like to those Worms that are bred in Wood. 2. There was a bold Thief who

had been often seis'd with a palpitation of the Heart being apprehended he was adjudg'd to the Wheel by the Magistrate my self with two more of my Collegues desirous to see the Heart of this Man as soon as his Body was divided into four quarters cut it open yet beating and in the right Ventricle of it we found three stones of the bigness of a pease of an ash colour somewhat long and of the weight of one drachm these were not only seen but wondred at by divers persons of Learning and Curiosity 4. Upon the dissection of the Body of the Emperour M●ximilian the Second there were found in his Heart three stones of the bigness of a pease one bigger than the other of a redish or rusty colour by reason of these he had in his life time been much a●flicted with the palpitation of the Heart 5. Hieronymus Schreiberus leaving Italy came to Paris Anno 1549. and under Sylvius Fernelius and Hollerius studied Physick In March the year aforesaid he fell into a violent and unknown Disease and in May following dy'd of it his body was opened and when the substance of the heart was cut therein was found a stone big as a Nutmeg hard somewhat black colour'd round and weighing some drams which his Masters and others taking in their hands not only saw but wondred at 6. In the dissection of the body of Cardinal Gambara Brixianus at Rome I found ●aith Columbus a very hard tumour in the left ventricle of his Heart which was of the bigness of an Egg. 7. Within the right ventricle of the heart near the ori●ice of the Vena Cava in such persons as die suffocate with sudden and unexpected death there are sometimes found pieces of fleshy substance growing together to the bigness of a Man's fist as was lately found by my self in the heart of the Bishop of St. Maloes 8. Anno Dom. 1602. there were these wonders seen in the hearts of two Polonians who were Brethren the heart of the one was solid without any Ventricles but towards the Basis of the Heart the Vessels were exceedingly dilated and those Anastomoses which are in the foetus did remain the Heart of the other Brother had in the middle Sept of it a remarkable glandule 9. Anno 1644. The Body of Pope Vrban the Eighth was opened in order to the embalming of it By Io. Trullus an excellent Anatomist and in the left Ventricle of his Heart there was found a triangular bone in form of the letter T as also five stones in his gall each of them of the bigness of an Hazel Nut. 10. Upon the dissection of the Body of a Rustick who dy'd at Copenhagen of a consumption his Heart was found so vast that oftentimes that of an Ox is neither bigger nor more weighty the left Ventricle as yet unopened felt more hard than usual to the touch which begat suspicion that a Cartilage might be bred there like to those that are found in the Hearts of Stags nor were we mistaken for at the Root of the Aorta there was a three corned bone resembling the figure of a Heart or the Letter Y but the bone was somewhat spungy and friable not unlike to some of those stones that are voided by Urine 11. I dissected a Scholar at the Academy at Rome in the presence of that excellent Physician Alexander Trajanus Petronius the Heart of the miserable young man was found without its pericardium by reason of which he fell into frequent Syncope's and of this kind of disease he dy'd 12. We read of some Hearts quite dry'd and shrunk up for want of the Water in the pericardium such was the Heart of Casimire Marquess of Brandenburg which was like unto a roasted Pear and shrivell'd up in that manner 13. The Body of a Noble Roman who dyed vex'd with a continual disease being opened there was found in him no Heart at all only the tunicle it was wrapt in the Heart it self and every portion thereof being dry'd up and consum'd by an immoderate heat 14. I remember when I was at Venice saith Muretus there was a famous Thief executed and when he was cut open by the Executioner his Heart was found all hairy 15. Aristomenes the M●ssenian was a valiant person he was several times taken by the Athenians and shut up in prison from whence notwithstanding by admirable subtilty he made his escape but at length when they had retaken him by reason of his craftiness they resolv'd to make sure work with him they cut out his Heart and found it all hairy 16. The Greeks write of that Hermogenes whose Books of Rhetorick are yet extant and compos'd with a great deal of wit that his Heart both for bigness and hairiness was remarkable above t●ose of all other mortals 17. Leonidas a Noble Spartan Captain the same who kept the striats of Thermopylae against the huge Army of Xerxes where also he was slain Xerxes in revenge of the affront caus'd his heart to be pull'd out and found it all rough with hair he liv'd Anno Mund● 3470. Lysander a Lacedemonian Captain under whose conduct Sparta overcame the A●henians he was a crafty man one that cared not for oath or truth longer than they serv'd his turn when he was dead his Heart was found hairy He liv'd An. Mund. 3550. 18. Zuinglius fighting valiantly in the foremost ranks of his party against the Swissers was by them beaten down and slain after which his Body was cut into four parts by the Enemy and cast into the ●lames to be burnt to ashes three days after some of his friends came to the place and amongst the ashes found his Heart whole and untoucht by the Fire This was Anno Dom. 1531. 20. Upon the 14. of Febr. in the 30 year of Q. Marry was Cranmer Archbishop of Canterbury brought to the stake where he first thrust his right hand into the ●ire with which he had before subscribed a recantation till it first and then his whole Body was consumed only which was no small miracle his Heart remain'd whole and not once touch'd by the ●ire 21. I remember I have seen the heart of one that was bowell'd as suffering for high Treason that being cast into the fire leap'd at first a foot and half in height and after by degrees lower and lower for the space as we remember of seven or eight minutes 22. Prosper Cecchinus a Roman Surgeon related an accident above all admiration A certain Priest in his madness had guelded himself and persisting in the same fury he thrust himself with divers stiff needles into the Brest under the lest Pap. At last that is after five or six days as he had hated life so he easily obtain'd death by these wounds Upon the opening of his Body it appear'd that all the Needles had pierc'd the very substance of the Heart with all which yet he

could live as you have heard for several days 23. A Student at Ingolstadht was stab'd into the left side by a Printer the wound was made in the substance of the Heart a cross each Ventricle of it and yet being thus wounded he ran the length of a prety long street and but only so but for almost an hour he was so perfect in his senses as to be able to speak and to commend himself to God His Body being opened after his death all the Professors of Physick and not a sew of other spectators beheld the wound and by the form of it was able to discern of the kind of weapon it was made with and to speak to that purpose at the bar 24. An insolent young man here at Copenhagen stab'd a Pilot with a knife betwixt the third and fourth rib on the left side The wound reach'd the right Venticle of the Heart so that his Body being afterwards opened there was found therein a round and crooked hole yet thus wounded he not only went out of the Suburbs on foot to his own house but liv'd after it for five days As far as I am able to conjecture by reason of the narrowness and obliqueness of this wound in the Heart the lips of it falling together the circulation of the Blood was uninterrupted for so many days 25. I saw saith Parry a Noble man who in a single Duel was wounded so deeply that the point of the Sword had pierc'd into the very substance of his Heart yet did he notwithstanding for a good while lay about him with his Sword and walk'd two hundred paces before he fell down After his death the wound was found to be the breadth of a ●inger and a great quantity of blood in the Diaphragma 26. I knew saith Cardan Antonius Benzius a man of 34 years of age pale-fac'd thin bearded and somewhat fat out of whose Paps such abundance of Milk issued as would almost suffice to suckle a child 27. I knew one Lawrence Wolff a Citizen of Brisac saith Conradus Schenckius who from his youth to the 55 th year of his age did so abound with Milk in both brests that by way of mirth in their merry meetings he would spirt Milk into the Faces of his companions who sate over against him He was well known to all the inhabitants for this faculty yet did he find no pain gravity or tension in those parts CHAP. XXII Of Giants and such as have exceeded the common proportion in Stature and height AS the tallest Ears of Corn are the lightest in the Head and Houses built many stories high have their uppermost rooms the worst furnished so those humane Fabricks which Nature hath raised to a Giant-like height are observ'd not to have had so happy a composition of the brain as other men so that like Pyramids of Egypt they are rather for ostentation than use and are remembred in History not for any accomplishment of mind but chiefly if not only for the stature of their Bodies 1. Artachaees of the Family of the Achaemenidae a person in great favour with Xerxes was the tallest man of all the rest of the Persians for he lacked but the breadth of four fingers of full five Cubits by the Royal Standard 2. There was a young Giant whom Iulius Scaliger saw at Millain who was so tall that he could not stand but lie along extending his body the length of two beds joyned together 3. Walter Parsons born in Staffordshire was first Apprentice to a Smith when he grew so tall that a hole was made for him in the ground to stand therein up the knees so to make him adequate with his fellow workmen he afterwards was Porter to King Iames seeing as Gates generally are higher than the rest of the Building so it was sightly that the Porter should be taller than other persons He was proportionable in all parts and had strength equal to his height valour to his strength temper to his valour so that he disdained to do an injury to any single person he would make nothing to take two of the tallest Yeomen of the Guard like the Gizzard and Liver under his Arms at once and order them as he pleased 4. Williams Evans was born in Monmouthshire and may justly be counted the Giant of our age for his stature being ●ull two yards and a half in height he was Porter to King Charles the First succeeding Walter Parsons in his place and exceeding him two inches in height but far beneath him in equal proportion of Body for he was not only what the Latins call compernis knocking his knees together and going out squalling with bis feet but also halted a little yet made he a shift to dance in an Antimask at Court where he drew little Ieffery the dwarf out of his Pocket first to the wonder then to the laughter of the beholders 5. The tallest man that hath been seen in our age was one named Gabara who in the days of Claudius the late Emperour was brought out of Arabia nine foot high was he and as many inches 6. I saw a young Girl in France of eighteen years of age who was of a Giant like stature and bigness and though she descended of Parents of mean and small stature yet was her hand such as might equal the hands of three men if they were joyned together 7. Iovianus the Emperour was of a pleasant countenance grey-ey'd of a vast and huge stature so that for a long time there was no Royal Robe that was found to answer the height of his body 8. Maximinus the Emperour was eight foot and a half in height he was a Thracian barbarous cruel and hated of all men he us'd the Bracelet or Armlet of his Wife as a Ring for his Thumb and it is said that his shooe was longer by a foot than the foot of another man 9. I saw a young man of Lunenburg call'd Iacobus Damman who for his extraordinary stature was carry'd throughout Germany to be seen Anno 1613. he was brought to us at Basil he was then 22 years of age and a half beardless as yet strong of body and in all his limbs save that at that time he was somewhat sick and lean he was eight foot high compleat the length of his hand was one foot and a third he surpass'd the common stature of man two foot 10. Anno 1572. Martinus Delrius as himself tells us saw a Giant the height of whose body was full nine foot And in the year 1600 saith Zacchias I my self saw another not inferiour to the former in stature 11. I saw saith Wierus a Maid who for the Gigantick proportion of her body was carry'd from one City and Country to another on purpose to be seen as a monstrous representation of humane Figure I diligently enquired into all things concerning her and 〈◊〉 inform'd both by the Mother and

him this declaration that he might stand upon his guard Thus Badius the Campanian betwixt both Armies renounced friendship with Q. Crispinus a Roman that so he might have the freedom to assault him as an Enemy and thus dealt King Amasis with Polycrates not that he had disobliged him but that he feared his misfortune 37. Amongst the Persians they had this Custom That when any was accused in the Court for a breach of the Laws though it did plainly appear that he was guilty yet should he not be immediately condemned but first there should be an exact inquiry made into the whole course of his life and a strict account should be taken whether his evil and unhandsom actions or his gallant and commendable ones were the most then if the number of his base and unworthy doings were found to be the greatest he was condemned if otherwise he was absolved For they thought it was beyond humane power perpetually to keep to that which was right and that they were to be accounted good not who never did amiss but who for the most part did that which was honest 38. When the great Chan is dead and his Funerals prepared his Body is carried to the Mountain Alcan which is the place appointed for the sepulture of their Kings and then those that attend upon the Corps thither are commanded to kill all persons indifferently whom they meet with upon the way and to charge them that they perform diligent service to their dead King in the other World when the dead body of the great Chan Mongo who was the fifth in order was conducted to that place there were no less than twenty thousand slain by this means upon the way at another time 300000 were so killed upon the like occasion saith Kornmannus 39. The Common-wealth of the Lycians heretofore ordained that all those who would propose any novelty in matter of Law should deliver it in publick with a Halter about their necks to the end that if their propositions were not found to be good and profitable to the Republick the Authors thereof should immediately be strangled upon the place 40. The Funerals of the Indian Perses are in this manner They put the dead body into a Winding-sheet all the way his Kindred beat themselves but in great silence till they come within fifty or an hundred paces of the burial place where the Herbood or Priest meets them observing ten foot distance attired in a yellow Scarff and a thin Turbant The Necesselars or Bearers carry the Corps upon an Iron Biere wood is forbidden in that it is sacred to the fire which they worship to a little Shed or Furnace where so soon as some mystick Anticks are acted they hoise it up to the top of a round stone Building twelve foot high and eighty in circuit the entrance is only at the N. E. side where through a small grate or hole they convey the carcass into a common Monument the good men into one and the bad men into another It is flat above wholly open plaster'd with smooth white Loam hard and smooth like that of Paris In the midst thereof is a hole descending to the bottom made to let in the putrefaction issuing from the melted bodies which are thereupon laid naked in two rows exposed to the Suns flaming rage and merciless appetite of ravening Vultures who commonly are fed by these carcasses tearing the raw flesh asunder and deforming it in an ugly sort so that the abominable stink of those unburied bodies in some places 300 is so loathsom and strong that they would prove worse seen than spoken of The desire to see strange sights allures a Traveller but the Persees delight not that a stranger should go up to view them 41. In the Roman Marriages which commenced with Contracts mutually sealed and signed with the Signets of divers Witnesses there present there were sundry customs observed by them The man in token of good will gave to the woman a Ring which she was to wear upon the next finger to the little one of the left hand because unto that finger alone a certain artery proceedeth from the heart The word Nuptiae which signifieth Marriage had its derivation à nubo which in old time signified to cover the custom being that the woman should be brought to her husband with a covering or veil cast over her face Also because of the good success that Romulus and his followers had in the violent taking away of the Sabine women they continued a custom that the man should come and take away his wife by a seeming violence from the lap or bosom of her mother or her next kin She being thus taken away her husband did dissever and divide the hair of her head with the top of a Spear wherewith some Fencer had been formerly killed which Ceremony did betoken that nothing should disjoin them but such a Sp●ar or such like violence Towards night the woman was brought home to her husbands house with five Torches signifying thereby the need which married persons have of five Goddesses and Gods Iupiter Iuno Venus Suadela and Diana who is also called Lucina When the woman was thus brought to the door then did she anoint the posts of the door with Oil from which Ceremony the wife was called Vxor quasi unxor This ended the Bride-men did lift her over the Threshold and so carried her in by a seeming violence because in modesty she would not seem to go without force into that place where she must cease to be a Maid At her carrying in all the company did cry out with a loud voice Talassio Talassio for which custom Plutarch alledges this reason for one At the rapture of the Sabine Virgins there were some of the poorer sort spied carrying away one of the fairest women some of the chief Citizens would have taken her from them but they began to cry out That they carried her to Talassius a great man and well beloved among the Romans At the naming of Talassius they suffered her to be carried away themselves accompanying her and often crying Talassio Talassio from whence it hath been continued as a custom amongst the Romans ever after at their Marriages to sing Talassio Talassio 42. The black people or Caffares in the Land of Mosambique have a custom amongst them that when they go to War against their Enemies he that taketh or killeth most men is accounted the best and bravest man and much respected As a proof of his gallantry unto his King of as many as he hath slain or taken Prisoners he cuts off the privy members drys them well because they should not rot with these thus dryed he comes before his King with great reverence in the presence of the principal men of the Village where taking these members one by one into his mouth he spits them on the ground at the Kings feet which the King with great thanks accepteth and the more to reward and