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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16240	Certaine secrete wonders of nature containing a descriptio[n] of sundry strange things, seming monstrous in our eyes and iudgement, bicause we are not priuie to the reasons of them. Gathered out of diuers learned authors as well Greeke as Latine, sacred as prophane. By E. Fenton. Seene and allowed according to the order appointed.; Histoires prodigieuses extraictes de plusiers fameux auteurs grecs & latins. English	Boaistuau, Pierre, d. 1566.; Fenton, Edward.	1569 (1569)	STC 3164.5; ESTC S105563	173,447	310

withdrawn into a circle and as other beastes went to the water he aduaunced him selfe vpon a sodain and swallowed certaine of them forthwith the rest he kept within the circle of his taile to praie vpon afterwarde These hunters beholding at large and with discretion the orders and doings of this Serpente whome they accompted without policie or vnderstandyng beganne to marche neare him thinking to take him with their coards and chaynes but being come within his full view that they sawe his eyes flame as fire his huge and great téeth and being astonied withal at the hideous noisemade by his hard scales or finnes when he moued on eyther side and lastly notyng his other fearfull regards of his heade they began to stande in more awe of the daunger than able to attempt it to the vttermost effect of their meanyng and yet notwithstanding this feare thei cast forth their hookes and coardes vpon his taile which so kindled his fury vpon a sodaine that he assailed them forthwith with hissing and horrible noyse at his mouth deuouring at one morsell him that was nexte him throwing his taile aboute an other of the company who likewise passed the same way the same so amazing the rest that they reskued themselues by flight without intēt eftsoones to practise their deuise albeit not long after the hope of gaine profit ouercame the present perill and daunger they were in for that they proued against him a seconde experience rather by arte and policie than strength making of great cordes hollowe as a bowe net sufficient byg by their estimation to contain within it the sayd serpent and then noting diligentely his place of retire with his times of comming and going as sone as he was gone abrode to hūt for some pray they stopped the entrie of his caue with stones and earth by and by made a vault or hollow hole in the grounde neare to the other where they laid their net the effect and successe answered fully the meaning of their deuise for after the serpent had fed sufficiently abrode and repairing towards his place of rest was amazed when he heard himselfe pursued with a great noise of trumpets horsses dogges and men whose brute made the whole aire sound after him and thinking lastly to saue himselfe in his denne was forthwith ouerthrowne in the net and so ouercharged with blowes notwithstanding his force that he yelded vnwillingly to the snares of the hunters who to preuent any mischiefe by his mouth knocked out his téethe and so wrapped in his nette as he was taken they caried him into Alexandria and presented him to the King who wondring no lesse at y e strāgenesse of the beast than their pollicie in taking him gaue order from that time forward to preserue him with a thin diet to the end to diminishe his strength which being iustly obserued made this horrible Serpent by succession of time so tame and familiar that he made him to be shewed as a thing of great miracle to straungers that came to visite him it appeareth in a volume or remembraunce of the acts of Alexander that in the pursute of Porus king of India who fled afore his furie he found among the deserts burning sandes many Serpents called C●rastes other whose terrible hissing procured a fearefull brute in the aire and had eyes sparkling with venim who charged the soldiours with such fury that notwithstanding their resistcāe euery way they killed well nigh .xx. mē of warre .xxx. seruants there be also found in hot places an other sort of Serpent which some call Dipsas and other Prester the which is very short white in coloure with thrée strokes of blacke in his taile suche as are bitten of them become immediately so oppressed with an extreme drought that they be neuer afterward satisfied with drinking being so distempered that way that the more he drinkes y e more he desireth to drink the same beeing the cause as Dioscorides wryteth that the auncient Phisitians finding no remedy able to encounter this venomous infection haue lefte it at large and vncurable There is a kind of Serpent considered of by the Historians which is called Boza who féedes most commonly of y e milke of a Cow He if he haue time to assist his inclination becomes very huge and bigge which was very wel approued in the time of Claudius Caesar when one of them was taken and killed in whose belly was found a whole childe Plutarche is of opinion that euen as Honye flies are engendred of beasts waspes of horsses hornet of asses so may it be y t of the marrow and carion of men certain kind of Serpents are bred which he iustifieth in that he affirmeth that many by reason of this corruption haue bene bredde in graues and Sepulchres of men Which accordyng to mine authour happened in Auignon in the time of hys studie there where a simple Artisian opening the lidde of a coffer of leade wherein was a deade man included was bitten of a Serpent which was of suche mortall operation that if he had not ben spedely rescued he had dyed of the infection Conradus Lychostenes in his prodigious workes writeth that in September the yeare a thousand four hundred ninety and foure there was a woman in Cracouye in a place called the holy Ghost who was deliuered of a dead childe hauing tied at his backe a quicke Serpent which ceassed not to deuoure and gnawe the deade bones of the childe neyther is that of lesse maruell whereof Baptista Leo makes mention in the time of Pope Martine the fifth when he sayeth was founde amongste a sorte of rockes or stones a great Serpent on liue the same being so enclosed wyth a heauy stone that there appeared neyther place to discerne him nor hole from whence he might eyther take or yelde breath the wise men which were there assembled to pronounce a reason of his being there helde opinion that he was engendred of the moiste substance of the stone which being putrified brought forthe such deformitie But when they should resolue touching hys respiration or taking of breath they séemed greatly troubled bicause the stone being massiue and heauie had also neyther vent nor conduicte whereby he mighte either cast vp or receiue any breath no more than that which was found in the Sepulchre whereof I haue made mention here before which was so surely closed and stopped with leade on euery side that the aire could not pierce into it But now albeit our sundry histories haue here preferred diuers cruell and venomous Serpents yet I thinke nature and the earth haue formed none more maruellous than the Basilick to whom all antiquitie hath alwayes giuen the name of king of the Serpents this is a kinde of those Serpents which beare in their head a white marke or stroke séeming vpon them in sort and maner of a crowne hir head is very sharpe hir throte red hir eyes and other coloure drawing somewhat neare a blacke she chaseth

from corruption any flesh that is either rubbed or perfumed with it There is an other herb which hath ben heretofore very rare albeit now somwhat familiar called Lyons foote which groweth in mountaines and hath leaues like vnto the leafe of a Mallowe sauing that they be more hard ful of sinews and crispie it springs in May and floures in Iune it is moste soueraine to consolidate all kind of hurts and much employed that way by the surgeōs of Almayn The physitiōs of late put it among the rare and wonderful plants bicause of his wonderfull power to consolidate all hurtes they write that if eyther maides or wiues that be corrupted or haue forfaited their virginitie do vse of it it maketh them séeme maides as at the first specially if it continue any time in his decoction as if ther be pieces of canuas or linnen cloth dipped or bathed within the water of it and applied or layed vpō their dugs it maketh them shrinke and retire and becom round and hard it begins now to be cōmonly knowne in Italy and of special delite with certain womē that stand in nede of it The Corall whiche is called Lythodendron that is to say a Tréestone is no lesse meritorious for estimation thā the rest seing it is a plant that groweth in y e sea which as Dioscorides writeth being drawen out of the botom of the sea becomes hard with the aire so is made a stone This little trée or plant of Coraile is gréene softe being in the sea and beareth a frute like vnto hor●es aswel in bignesse as in figure this plant when it is drawen out of the water is all ful of mosse and is not red but cōming after into the hands of workmen they polishe it artificially either vpon the tornell by force of the file and so smoothe him with the pouder of trypoly to giue him his glée and beautie Al kinds of Coral be very cōmon in Italy bicause that y e people there do fishe for them in the sea Tyrenum The Corralls haue an hiddē vertue against the Epilepsia or foule euil being an infection in the head they defend houses from harme by lightning they restraine the flux menstruall they are good for gnawing in the gummes for blaines and biles in y e mouth and for the flux of seede Auicen holdeth them moste soueraine to glad and comforte the heart Dioscorides maketh mention but of two kindes of Corall that is red black and yet we read that in diuerse seas in Europe are founde of them that be very white and they be sponging light Dioscorides Schylyen in his .xvii. boke telleth a wonderfull historie of a plant y t was shewed to Alexander in a vision wherwith he healed his people y t wer hurt with venomous weapons which me think not much impertinent to put in this place by reson of his wōderful effect After Alexander sayth he had victorie against y e Brachmans wherof y e most part were either killed or taken prisoners he foūd sundry of his Macedonians sore hu●te and in daunger of deathe by reason that the ende of the Darts and Arrows of their enimies were poysoned the same mouing corage in them to attempt the battail against him The venom was made of certaine serpents which they killed and layed them to drie against the Sunne the heate wherof made issue out a sweate with the which sweate also distilled the poyson of the serpente the whiche was of suche violence that who was hurte with any weapon dipped in it lost incontinent his f●elyng and by and by turned into wonderfull tormēt by the retraction of sinews and tremblyng of all his bodie his fleshe became blacke lyke leade and by continual vomite caste vp a maruellous deale of choler bisides the which came out of the hurte a blacke scumme wherof engendred a putrifaction which as it was fermed and iellied gained forthwith the noble partes and made the paciente die in great martyrdom The King was not so sorowfull for all the rest of his people as it grieued him in the payne of Ptolomeus at that time one of the kings minious and after his death supplied his place with no lesse loue awe of his people than he And as there was thoroughout the whole armie generall sorow for the martirdom of Ptolomeus there chaunced a straunge case and the same of more meruaile bicause as Diodorus sayeth many referre it to an expresse prouidence of the Gods The King sleping in his tent not without great care for the griefe of his Ptolomey a great dragon séemed to houer afore him as in a vision holding an herbe in his thr●ts wherof he taught him both the vertue and the place where it grewe Alexander awaking vpon this vision wente immediatly to séeke the herbe and hauing founde it he ordered it in sort of a plaister and applying it to the body of Ptolomeus gaue him also to drinke of the iuyce wherupon he with others were restored and made hole in fewe dayes Diodorus although he recite the Historie yet he feareth to tel the name of the herbe but Plinie treating of a like accident declareth the name of a certaine herbe which was good to cure the hurtes of souldiers speaking in this maner Sometime sayth he the vse and experience of herbes are founde by chaūce or rather to speake the truthe by a certaine Oracle of the gods as hath ben written of the plant called Cynorthombi which is a kinde of a wilde Rose very good to heale the biting of madde Dogges his vertue and operation was founde by chaunce For a woman ha●ing hir sonne in the warres of Spayne and so bitten with a madde Dogge that he was in greate perill of life the whiche they iudged bicause he beganne to feare water or any thyng that was moyste Thys woman dreaming by nighte on the disease of hir sonne dyd imagine in hir sléepe that she sente hym thys hearbe Cynorthondon whyche she hadde séene the day before vnder a woodde side to drynke in Mylke conceyuing some hope in the effecte of hir dreame wrote vnto hir sonne the nexte day what hadde happened hir in hir vysion Hir sonne obeying the contentes of hir Letter was healed by the meane of thys Hearbe whereupon after it grewe to be a common remedie against the like disease A thyng truely of more wonder in that we came to the knowledge of it by suche meanes approuing also the vnspeakable goodnesse who in sleeping dothe reuele vnto vs remedies to preserue oure health Theophrastes maketh mention of a certaine hearbe of India whiche so stirreth and moueth in the bodie of a man that it drayneth all the seede of nature Wherevpon some haue taken occasion to write that Heracles defloured in one nyghte a great number of virgins by the only helpe of thys herbe The Scythians in lyke sorte haue an hearbe very common in their countrey which they do call by none other name than by the hearbe of Scythia whiche beyng