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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

himself a Subject to the King of Spain he was executed at Tyburn where being cut down half dead after his privy members were cut off he rushed on the Executioner and gave him a blow on the ear to the wonder of the by-standers 5. It is said of Crassus Grandfather to that Crassus who was slain in the Parthian War that he was never known to laugh all his life time and thereupon was called Agelastus or the man that never laught 6. Antonia the Wife of Drusus as it is well known never spit and Pomponius the Poet one that had sometimes been Consul never belched 7. It is memorable which is recorded of a King named Wazmund and was the Founder of Warwick Town that he had a Son named Offa tall of stature and of a good constitution of body but blind till he was seven years old and then saw and dumb till he was thirty years old and then spake 8. In the first year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth died Sir Thomas Cheney Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports of whom it is reported for a certain that his pulse did beat more than three quarters of an hour after he was dead as strongly as if he had been still alive 9. George Nevil fourth Son of Richard Nevil Earl of Salisbury was consecrated Bishop of Exeter when he was not as yet twenty years of age at twenty five he was made Lord Chancellor of England and discharged it to his great commendation his ability supplying the luck of age in him 10. When I was in Italy that Paradise of the World the outward skin of a Lady of Verona though lightly touched did manifestly sparkle with fire This spectacle so worthy of the research of the inquisitive and curious is faithfully exposed to the World by the publick Script of Petrus à Castro the learned Physician of Verona in his Book de Igne lambente whom I shall follow in the relation of this story The illustrious Lady Catherina Buri the Wife of the noble Io. Franciscus Rambaldus a Patritian of Verona of a middle age indifferent habit of body her universal temper hot and moist her liver hot and dry and so abounding with bilious and black blood with its innate fervour and an age fit for adustion increased by vehement grief This noble Lady the Creator endued with so stupendous a Dignity and Prerogative of Nature that as oft as her body was but lightly touched with linen sparks flew out plentifully from her limbs apparent to her domestick Servants as if they had been struck out of a flint accompanied also with a noise that was to be heard by all Oftentimes when she rubbed her hands upon the sleeve of her smock that contained the sparkles within it she observed a flame with a tailed ray running about as fired exhalations are wont to do insomuch that her Maids were oftentimes deluded supposing they had left fire in the bed after warming of it in Winter in which time also fire is most discernible This fire was not to be seen but in the dark or in the night nor did it burn without it self though combustible matter was applied to it nor lastly as other fire did it cease within a certain time but with the same manner of appearance of light it shewed it self after my departure out of Italy 11. I have read saith Ross● of one who had a horn grew upon his heel a foot long which being cut off grew again and would doubtless have still renewed if the tough and viscous matter had not been diverted and evacuated by Issues Purges and Phlebotomy 12. Fernelius saith he saw a Girl that lived in near neighbourhood to him the ligaments of whose joynts were so very loose that you might bend and turn any of them this or that way at your pleasure and that it was so with her from the time of her birth 13. Sir Iohn Mason born at Abington bred at All souls in Oxford died 1566. and lies buried in the Quire of St. Pauls I remember this Distick of his long Epitaph Tempore quinque suo regnantes ordine vidit Horum à Consiliis quatuor ille fuit He saw five Princes which the Scepter bore Of them was Privy Counsellor to four That is to Henry the Eighth Edward the Sixth Q. Mary and Q. Elizabeth 14. Thomas Bourchier successively Bishop of Worcester Ely and Archbishop of Canterbury and Cardinal by the Title of St. Cyriacus in the Baths being consecrated Bishop of Worcester An. 1435. the fourteenth of Henry the Sixth he died Archbishop of Canterbury 1486. the second of King Henry the Seventh whereby it appears that he wore a Miter full fifty one years a term not to be parallel'd in any other person he saw the Civil Wars of York begun and ended having the honour to marry King Henry the Seventh to the Daughter of King Edward the Fourth Nor is it the least of wonders that he lost not himself in the La●yrinth of such intricate times 15. Sir Thomas Frowick was made Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in the eighteenth year of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh four years he sate in his place accounted the Oracle of the Law in his Age though one of the youngest men that ever enjoyed that Office He 〈◊〉 reported to have died floridâ juventute before full forty years old so that he was Chief Justice at thirty five he died 1506. Octob. 17. 16. That was great and excellent in Socrates that whatever fell out of joy or otherwise he returned with the same countenance he went forth with and was never seen to be more merry or melancholy than at other times in any alteration of times or affairs 17. In the Reign of King Iames in the year 1613. on the 26. of Iune in the Parish of Christ-Church in Hampshire one Iohn Hitchel a Carpenter lying in bed with a young child by him was himself and the child burnt to death with a sudden Lightning no fire appearing outwardly upon him and yet lay burning for the space of almost three days till he was quite consumed to ashes 18. Lucius Fulvius being Consul of the Tusculani who at that time rebelled he deserted them and was thereupon made Consul at Rome and so it fell out that in one and the same year in which he was an Enemy to Rome he triumphed at Rome and a Consul over those to whom he had been Consul 19. It is said of Charles Earl of Valois that he was the Son of a King Brother to a King Uncle to a King and Father to a King and yet no King himself 20. There was amongst the Magnesians one Protophanes who in one and the same day won the Prize in the Olympick Games both at Wrastling and other Games when he was dead certain Thieves opened his Sepulchre and went into it hoping to have found something to prey upon after which

colour do you know too added he the complaints she makes of you they are sad ones and such as I would not th●y should be true he shakes faulters in his speech says and unsays being urged home he confesses all frees the woman from any fault and casting himself at the Dukes feet said he placed all his refuge and comfort in the good grace and mercy of his Prince and that he might the better obtain it he offered to make amends for his unlawful lust by a lawful Marriage of the person whom he had injured The Duke as one that inclined to what he said and now somewhat milder you woman said he since it is gone thus far are you willing to have this man for your Husband she refuses but fearing the Duke's displeasure and prompted by the Courtiers that he was Noble Rich and in favour with his Prince overcome at last she yields The Duke causes both to joyn hands and the Marriage to be lawfully made which done You Mr. Bridegroom said he you must now grant me this that if you die first without Children of your body that then this Wife of yours shall be the Heir of all that you have he willingly granted it it is writ down by a Notary and Witness is to it Thus done the Duke turning to the woman Tell me said he is there enou●h done for your satisfaction There is said she But there is no● to mine said he And sending the woman away he commands the Governor to be led away to that very Prison in which the Husband was slain and dead to be laid in a Coffin headless as he was This done he then sent the woman thither ignorant of what had passed who frighted with that second unthought of misfortune of two Husbands almost at one and the same time lost by one and the same punishment fell speedily sick and in a short time died having gained this only by her last Marriage that she left her Children by her former Husband very rich by the acces●ion of this new and great Inheritance 19. Sir Iohn Markham was Knighted by King Edward the fourth and by him made Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench at which time one Sir Thomus Cooke late Lord Major of London and Knight of the Bath a man of a great Estate was agreed upon to be accused of high Treason and a Commission granted forth to try him in Guild-Hall The King by private instructions to the Judge appeared so far that Cooke though he was not must be found guilty and if the Law were too short the Judge must stretch it to the purpose The fault laid to his charge was for lending Moneys to Queen Murgaret the proof was the Confession of one Hawkins who was wracked in the Tower Sir Thomas Cooke pleaded that Hawkins came indeed to request him to lend a thousand Marks upon good Security but that understanding who it was for he had sent him away with a refusal the Judge shewed the proof reached not the charge of high Treason that Misprision of Treason was the highest it could amount to and intimated to the Jury to be tender in matter of life and discharge good Consciences they found it accordingly For which the Judge was outed of his place and lived privately the rest of his days and gloried in this that though the King could make him no Judge he could not make him no upright Judge CHAP. XXX Of such persons as were illustrious for their singular Chastity both Men and Women THere is no Vice whatsoever that is very easie to overcome but that of the Lusts of the Flesh seems to have a peculiar difficulty in the Conquest of it for whereas Covetousness hath its seat in the mind alone this seises upon the mind and body also whereas other Vices use to grow upon us only through our loosing the Reins unto desire this is ingenerate born with us and accompanies us all along from our Cradles to the Tomb for the most part having fixed its roots so deep within us through long indulgence that not one of many is able to prevail against it By how much the more strong therefore the enemy is and the more intimate and familiar he is with us the more noble is the Victory and the Conquest more glorious 1. St. Ierome Relates a Story of one Nicetas a young man of invincible Courage who when by all sor●s of threatnings he was not to be frighted into idolatry his enemies resolved upon another course They brought him into a Garden ●lowing with all manner of sensual pleasures and delights there they laid him in a bed of Down safely enwrapped in a Net of Silk amongst the Lilies and Roses with the delicious murmur of the Rivulets and the sweet whistling of the winds amongst the Leaves and then all departed There was then immediately sent unto him a young and most beautiful Strumpet who used all the abominable tricks of her impure art and whorish villanies to draw him to her desire The youth now fearing that he should be conquered with folly who had ●riumphed over fury resolutely bit off a piece of his own tongue with his teeth spitting it in the face of the whore and so by the smart of his wound extinguished the rebellion of his flesh 2. While King Demetrius was at Athens there was a young boy of so lovely a Countenance that he was commonly called Democles the fair him did Demetrius send for and court with fair speeches large promises and great gifts at other times he sought to terrifie him by threats and all tha● he might gain the use of his body But the chast Lad was proof against all these and to avoid the importunity of the King he resorted not to the publick places of exercise or to the Baths with his companions as before but used to wash himself in private and alone Demetrius was inform'd of it and finding his time rushed in upon him being alone the boy perceiving he could not now avoid the lust of this Royal Ravisher though he had infinite horrors at the apprehension of it he snatched off the cover of the Cauldron where the water was boyling and leaping into it soon choaked himself chusing rather to dye than to outlive the violation of his Chastity 3. Thomas Arch-Bishop of York in the Reign of Henry the first falling sick his Physicians told him that nothing would do him good but to company with a woman to whom he replied that the reamedy was worse than the disease and so dyed a Virgin 4. Anno ●421 Pelagius was in Spain and after the terrible slaughter received in the Battel of Iuncaria under King Ordonius he was given as hostage to the Moors for his Uncle Hermogius the Bishop Abderamine King of the Moors was surprised and strangely taken with the beauty of this Prisoner of his for he was a lovely youth to look upon and therefore determined to reserve this flower for himself accordingly he began

cause afraid to go to Sea Before I answer you said the Captain I pray tell me Where dyed your Father In bed said he and where your Grandfather In his bed said he also and said the Captain Are you not afraid for that cause to go to bed 4. A certain Captain that thought he had performed much for his Country in the Fight with Xerxes in an insulting manner was comparing his deeds with those of Themistocles who thus returned There was said he a contention betwixt a Holy-day and the day after the day after boasted of the labours and sweat which it was spent in and that what was gained thereby was expended by those that kept Holy-day True said the Holy-day but unless I had been thou hadst not been and so said he Had I not been where had you all been 5. The Spaniards sided with the Duke of Mayenne and the rest of those Rebels in France which called themselves the holy League and a French Gentleman being asked the causes of their Civil Broils with an excellent allusion he replied They were Spania and Mania seeming by this answer to signifie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Penury and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Fury which are indeed the causes of all intestine tumults but covertly therein implying the King of Spain and the Duke of Mayenne 6. Sir Robert Cateline Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench in the first of Queen Elizabeth had a prejudice against those who wrote their names with an alias and took exceptions at one in this respect saying That no honest man had a double name or came in with an alias The party asked him What exception his Lordship could take at Jesus Christ alias Jesus of Nazareth 7. The Goldsmiths of London had a custom once a year to weigh Gold in the Star-Chamber in the presence of the Privy Council and the Kings Attorney This solemn weighing by a word of Art they call the Pixe and make use of so exact Scales therein that the Master of the Company affirmed that they would turn with the two hundredth part of a grain I should be loth said Attorney Noy standing by that all my actions should be weighed in those Scales 8. Dr. Andrew Perne Dean of Ely was excellent at blunt sharp Jests and sometimes too tart in true ones he chanced to call a Clergy-man Fool who indeed was little better he replied That he would complain thereof to the Bishop of Ely Do saith the Dean when you please and my Lord Bishop will confirm you 9. Iohn Iegon D. D. Master of Bennet Colledge in Cambridge after made Bishop of Norwich by King Iames a most serious man and grave Governour yet withal of a most facetious disposition Take this instance While Master of the Colledge he chanced to punish all the Undergraduates therein for some general offence and the penalty was put upon their heads in the Buttery and because he disdained to convert the money to any private use it was expended in new whiting the Hall of the Colledge whereupon a Scholar hung up these Verses on the Screen Dr. Jegon Bennet Colledge Master Brake the Scholars head and gave the walls a plaister But the Doctor had not the readiness of his parts any whit impaired by his age for perusing the Paper e●●tempore he subscribed Knew I but the Wag that writ these Verses in a bravery I would commend him for his wit but whip him for his knavery 10. When the Wars in Queen Elizabeths time were hot betwixt England and Spain there were Commissioners on both sides appointed to treat of Peace They met at a Town of the French Kings And first it was debated in what Tongue the Negotiation should be handled A Spaniard thinking to give the English Commissioners a shrewd guird proposed the French Tongue as most fit it being a Language the Spaniards were well skilled in and for these Gentlemen of England I suppose saith he that they cannot be ignorant of the Language of their fellow-Subjects their Queen is Queen of France as well as of England Nay in faith my Masters replied Dr. Dale a civil Lawyer and one of the Masters of Requests the French Tongue is too vulgar for a business of this secrecy and importance especially in a French Town we will therefore rather treat in Hebrew the Language of Ierusalem whereof your Master is King and I suppose you are therein as well skilled as we in the French 11. The Inhabitants of Tarracon as a glad presage of prosperous success brought tydings to Augustus how that upon his Altar a young Palm-tree was suddenly sprung up to whom he made this answer By this it appears how often you burn Incense in our honour 12. Thomas Aquinas came to Pope Innocent the Third in whose presence they were at that time telling a great sum of money Thou seest Thomas said the Pope that the Church need not say as she did at her beginning Silver and gold have I none Thomas without study replied You say true holy Father nor can the Church say now as the ancient Church said to the same Cripple Arise walk and be whole 13. There was in the Kings Wardrobe a rich piece of Arras presenting the Sea-fight in 88. and having the lively Portraictures of the chiefest Commanders wrought on the borders thereof on the same token that a Captain who highly prized his own service missing his Picture therein complained of the injury to his friend professing of himself that he merited a place there as well as some therein seeing he was engaged in the middle of the Fight Be content quoth his friend thou hast been an old Pirate and art reserved for another Hanging 14. A great Lord in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth that carried a white Staff in his hand as the Badge of his Office was spoken to by her Majesty to see that such a man had such a place conferred upon him Madam said that Lord the disposal of that place was given to me by your Majesty at such time as I received this Staff The Queen replied That she had not so bestowed any thing but that she still reserved her self of the Quorum Of the Quarum Madam said the Earl At which the Queen somewhat moved snatched his Staff out of his hand And Sir said she before you have this again you shall understand that I am of the Quorum Quarum Quorum and so kept his Staff for two or three days till upon his submission it was restored to him 15. Alexander Nequam or Bad in English was born at St. Albans an excellent Philosopher Rhetorician Poet and a deep Divine insomuch that he was called Ingenii Miraculum His name gave occasion to the Wits of the Age to be merry with Nequam had a mind to become a Monk in St. Albans the Town of his Nativity and thus Laconically wrote to the Abbot thereof for leave Si vis veniam sin autem tu autem

Tribune to be found to intercede for his life at last he escaped by anothers mediation the fury of his adversary whom in his Censorship he had removed from the Senate And yet though there were so many of the family of the M●telli in great authority and power in the state the villany of this Tribune was overpassed both by him that was injured and all the rest of his Relations CHAP. XXXIV Of such as have patiently taken free Speeches and Reprehensions from their Inferiors THe fair speeches of others commonly delight us although we are at the same time sensible they are no more than flatteries and falshoods nor is this the only weakness and vanity of our nature but withal it is very seldom that we can take down the pill of Reproof without an inward resentment especially from any thing below us though convinced of the necessity and justice of it Great therefore was the wisdom of those men who could so easily dispense with any mans freedom in speaking when once they discern'd it was meant for their reformation and improvement 1. A senior Fellow of St. Iohn's College in Cambridge of the opposite faction to the Master in the presence of Dr. Whitaker in a common place fell upon this subject what requisites should qualifie a Scholar for a Fellowship concluded that Religion and Learning were of the Quorum for that purpose hence he proceeded to put the case if one of these qualities alone did appear whether a Religious Dunce were to be chosen before a Learned Rake-Hell and resolv'd it in favour of the Latter This he endeavoured to prove with two arguments First because Religion may but Learning cannot be counterfeited He that chuseth a Learned Rake-Hell is sure of something but who electeth a Religious Dunce may have nothing worthy of his choice seeing the same may prove both Dunce and Hypocrite His second was there is more probability of a Rake-Hells improvement to Temperance than of a Dunces conversion into a Learned Man Common place being ended Dr. Whitaker desired the company of this Fellow and in his Closet thus accosted him Sir I hope I may say without offence as once Isaac to Abraham here is wood and a knife but where is the Lamb for a burnt offering you have discovered much keenness of language and fervency of affection but who is the person you aim at who hath offered abuse to this Society The other answered If I may presume to follow your Metaphor know Sir though I am a true admirer of your most eminent worth you are the sacrifice I reflected at in my discourse for whilst you follow your studies and remit matters to be managed by others a company is chosen into the College of more zeal than knowledge whose judgments we certainly know to be bad though others charitably believe the goodness of their affections and hence of late there is a general decay of Learning in the College The Dr. turn'd his anger into thankfulness and expressed the same both in loving his person and practising his advice promising his own presence hereafter in all elections and that none should be admitted without his own examination which quickly recovered the credit of the house being replenished with hopeful Plants before his death which fell out in the 38th of Q. Eliz. Anno 1593. 2. Augustus Caesar sitting in judgment Mecaenas was present and perceiving that he was about to condemn divers persons he endeavoured to get up to him but being hindred by the Crowd he wrote in a Schedule Tandem aliquando surge Carnifex Rise Hangman and then as if he had wrote some other thing threw the Note into Caesars Lap Caesar immediately arose and came down without condemning any person to death and so far was he from taking this reprehension ill that he was much troubled he had given such cause 3. A poor old Woman came to Philip King of Macedon intreated him to take cognisance of her cause when she had often interrupted him with her clamors in this manner the King at last told her he was not at leisure to hear her No said she be not then at leisure to be King the King for sometime considered of the Speech and presently he heard both her and others that came with their complaints to him 4. One of the Servants of Prince Henry Son to Henry the fourth whom he favored was arraigned at the Kings Bench for Fellony whereof the Prince being informed and incensed by lewd persons about him in a rage he came hastily to the Bar where his servant stood as Prisoner and Commanded him to be unfettred and set at liberty whereat all men were amazed only the Chief Justice who at that time was William Gascoign who exhorted the Prince to be ordered according to the Ancient Laws of the Kingdom or if he would have his servant exempted from the rigour of the Law that he should obtain if he could the gracious Pardon of the King his Father which would be no derogation to Law or Justice The Prince no way appeased with this answer but rather inflamed endeavoured himself to take away the Prisoner The Judge considering the perilous Example and inconveniency that might thereupon ensue with a bold Spirit and Courage Commanded the Prince upon his Allegiance to leave the Prisoner and to depart the place At this Commandment the Prince all in a fury and chafed in a terrible manner came up to the place of Judgment men thinking that he would have slain the Judge or at least done him some harm But the Judge sitting still without moving declaring the Majesty of the Kings place of Judgement and with an assured bold countenance said thus to the Prince Sir Remember your self I keep here the place of the King your Sovereign Lord and Father to whom you owe double Allegiance and therefore in his name I charge you to desist from your wilfulness and unlawful enterprize and from henceforth give good example to those which hereafter shall be your own Subjects and now for your contempt and disobedience go you to the prison of the Kings Bench whereunto I commit you until the pleasure of the King your Father be further known The Prince amazed with the words and gravity of that worshipful Justice laying his Sword aside the doing reverence departed and went to the Kings Bench as he was commanded When the King heard of this action he blessed God that had given him a Judge who feared not to minister Justice and also a Son who could patiently suffer and shew his obedience thereunto 5. Fridericus was consecrated Bishop of Vtrecht and at the feast the Emperour Ludovicus Pius sitting at his right hand admonished him that being mindful of the profession he had newly taken upon him he would deal justly and as in the sight of God in the way of his Vocation without respect of persons Your Majesty gives me good advice said he but will you please to tell me whether I