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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26566	The vanity of arts and sciences by Henry Cornelius Agrippa, Knight ...	Agrippa von Nettesheim, Heinrich Cornelius, 1486?-1535.	1676 (1676)	Wing A790; ESTC R10955	221,809	392

even to desire of Copulation The other Wife to King Minos suffer'd her self to be known by a Bull. It is not our business to set forth here a Catalogue of Illustrious Curtesans yet we must not omit to inform you that the Beds of Harlots and Adulteresses have brought forth the most Illustrious Heroes in the world for example Hercules Alexander Ishmael Abimelech Solomon Constantine Clodoveus King of the Franks Theodorick the Goth William the Norman and Raymund of Arragon So lightly are the Laws of Matrimony set by among great Personages who at their pleasure divorce leave and change their true and lawful Wives and so often they wed and rewed their Sons and Daughters that it is hard to say which is the most lawful Marriage Do we not read how Ladislaus of Poland having taken Beatrice to Wife by whose very nod as it were he obtain'd the Kingdom of Hungary at length repudiated her to marry a French Harlot Do we not finde how Charles the Eight the French King having divorc'd Margaret the Daughter of Maximilian Caesar took away his espoused Wife and married her whom afterwards Lewis the Twelfth having put away his own Wife took afterwards to his Bed the Bishops and Chief Clergy of the Kingdom assisting him therein and consenting thereto who esteem'd and valu'd the ends of obtaining Britany more than the observation of the Laws of Marriage But let us return to the Discourse of Harlots whose cunning devices he that will understand that is to say by what ways they prostitute their Chastity with what wanton casts of the Eye with what nods of the Countenance with what gestures of the Body with what flatteries of Speech with what obscene Embraces with what allurements of Habit and artificial Paintings they provoke their Corrupters together with the rest of their cunning Harlotry Devices Snares and Stratagems let him seek 'um among the Comick Poets But he that desires to know what Allurements what affectionate Language what Kissing Handling Rubbing Resisting what postures of Lying what impulse of Action what reciprocations of Kindness compleat the Venereal Game let him search into the Volumes of Physitians Yet there be others that have set forth Treatises of Harlotry as Antiphanes Aristophanes Apollodorus and Callistratus in particular Cephalus the Rhetorician wrote in the praise of Lais the Curtesan and Alcidamus in honour of Nais Not have many others both Greeks and Latins been wanting to discover their wanton Amours as Callimachus Philetes Anacreon Orpheus Alceon Pindarus Sappho Tibullus Catullus Propertius Virgil Juvenal Martial Cornelius Gallus and many others more like Panders than Poets though all of them were outdone by Ovid in his Heroick Epistles dedicated to Corinna which were also outdone by himself in his de Arte Amandi which he might have better intitled The Art of Whoring and Pimping The learning whereof because it had corrupted Youth with unchast Documents therefore was the Author deservedly banish'd by the Emperour Octavianus Augustus to the farthest parts of the North Archilochus also the Lacedaemonian caus'd all Love-books and Verses to be burnt Yet now adays this Art is publickly learnt and taught in every School by our unwary Pedagogues with vain and obscene Commentaries upon the Text. Nay I my self have seen and read under the Title of The Curtesan publish'd in the Italian Tongue and printed at Venice a Dialogue touching the Art of Bawdery wickedly explaining the Veneries of both Sexes which with the Author were more fit to be committed to the fire I omit to rehearse the most detstable vice of Buggery which the Great Aristotle so much approves of and which Nero solemniz'd with a publick Wedding at which time St. Paul writing to the Romans denounces the anger of the Omnipotent against them For on them shall God certainly rain Brimstone and Coles of fire shall be the portion of their Cup. Against these the Emperour commands the Laws to arm themselves and with exquisite torments to inflict capital punishment upon them the Sword being the Executioner but now adays they are burnt with Fire Moses in his Laws ordain'd most severe punishment for this Crime and Plato extirpates it out of his Republick utterly condemning it in his Laws The Antient Romans as Valerius and others witness inflicted most severe penalties on those that us'd it Examples whereof were Quintus Flaminius and the Tribune stain by Caelius But that we may not farther vex the honest Ear let us return from this monstrous Lust and beastly uncleanness to our first Subject For the Love of women is common to all there is no person that at one time or other does not feel the Fire thereof though the women love one way the men another young men one way great pesonages another way the poor one way the rich another way and which is more miraculous according to the difference of Nations and Climates The Italians are of one humour in their Amours the Spaniards of another the French of another the Germans of another The same difference of Love appears in the difference of Sex Age Dignity Fortune and Nation every one having a different sort of amorous Frenzy The Love of men is more ardent and impetuous the love of women more constant the love of young men is wanton the love of aged persons ridiculous the poor Lover strives to please with Obsequiousness the rich Lady with Gifts the vulgar sort with Feasts and Treatments Noble-men with Interludes and Plays The ingenious Italian courts his Lady with a dissembled heat a quaint kinde of Wooing praising her in Verse and extolling her above all other women If he be jealous he perpetually shuts her up and keeps her as his Captive if he despair of enjoying his Mistriss then he confounds her with a thousand Curses and loads her with Maledictions The Spaniard is rash impatient of his heat mad and restless and bemoaning the torments of his Flames with miserable lamentations worships and adores his Mistriss If he be cross'd in his Love he grieves and pines away to death if he grow jealous he kills her or being ●atiated leaves her to prostitute her self The lascivious French-man trusts in his Obsequiousness and strives to win his Ladies favour with Songs and merry Discourse If he grow jealous he complains of his hard fortune but if he lose his Love he reviles her threatens revenge and attempts to compass his ends by force After enjoyment he neglects her and marries another The cold German slowly moves to love but being once inflam'd he makes use of art and liberality If he grow jealous he shuts his Purse After enjoyment the heat is quickly over The French-man feigns his Love the German dissembles his Heat the Spaniard hath a good opinion of himself and believes himself to be belov'd but the Italians Love is never without Jealousie The French-man loves a witty though unhandsome woman the Spaniard prefers a fair woman before a witty the Italian loves a fearful bashful woman the German one that is

Partnership of the Kingdom These were the Originals of the Roman Empire which for two hundred forty three years was govern'd by cruel Kings and ended under Tarquinius the Proud exil'd for the Rape of Lucrece And as the Posterity of Cain ended in the seventh Generation destroy'd by the Flood so these Roman Successors in the Seventh King from Romulus were driven out of the City by Popular Tumult However though the Romans threw off the Yoak of Kingship yet they could not shake off the Yoke of Servitude For the Kings being now thrown out and the Government translated into the hands of the Nobility Brutus a Nobleman was the first Roman Consul chosen He to establish the Foundations of intended Empire not onely labour'd to equal Romulus the first Founder of the City in Murther but also to outdo him for he slew two of his own Sons and two of his Wives Brothers in the Market-place after he had caus'd 'um to be publickly whip'd After this the Government continued for many Ages sometimes in the hands of the Nobility sometimes of the Commonalty under the power and command of sundry Magistrates and petty Tyrannies at length under Julius Caesar a man I cannot say whether stronger in War or corrupter in Manners and afterwards under Antonius a man inslav'd to Lust and Luxury wholly determin'd After which the whole Command of the Roman Empire fell into the sole hands of Octavianus Augustus In him began the fourth Monarchy of the World but not without Murther for though Augustus was accompted one of the mildest Princes in the world yet he put to death a Son and a Daughter of his Uncle Caesar begot upon Cleopatra though his Uncle had Adopted him and left him his Heir by Will not regarding Name Kindness Affinity nor Childhood And now the Roman Emperours held the Monarchy of the world among whom behold these Monsters of Cruelty and Impiety Nero Domitian Caligula Heliogabalus Galienus and others under whom the whole world was oppress'd till Constantine the Great having slain Maxentius for his Lust and Cruelty hated of the Roman people was proclaim'd Emperour He because he re-edifi'd Byzantium making her equal with Rome or else as it were a new Rome and commanded it to be call'd Constantinople from his own name seems to have translated the Roman Empire to the Greeks and at Constantinople as Romulus at Rome assur'd it to himself by the murther of the two Licinii the Husband and Son of his Sister as also of his own Childe and Wife Thus the Empire remain'd among the Greeks till the time of Charles the Great under whom the name of the Empire onely was remov'd into Germany And thus far for Monarchies Let us make inquiry into the beginnings of some other Kingdoms and we shall finde them founded upon no better principles nor upheld by less impiety nor the occasions of their dissolutions less remarkable I shall omit the Murthers of Dardanus and by what devilish contrivances having besotted the Greeks to be his impious accomplices he laid the Foundation of the Greek Monarchie I omit the Governments obtain'd by the murthers of their Husbands as the stories relate concerning the Amazonians I come to later times and the verges of our own memories In Spain in the time of Theodosius the Emperour Alarick the Goth was the first that raign'd at which time the Vandals also possess'd a great part of the same Country The first King of the Goths that obtain'd the Monarchy of Spain was S●ytilla which Roderick the King because he had ravish'd Julia Daughter of the Prefect of the Province of Tingitana some while after lost to the Saracens or Moors who after him possess'd Spain till Pelagius having again recover'd some places they were then call'd no more Kings of the Goths but Kings of Spain the Seat of the Empire being settled at Leon until the raign of Ferdinando the Holy who first call'd himself King of Castile who having slain his Brother Garsias by means of that parricide obtain'd the Kingdom of Navarre Their Brother Romanus whom their Father had begot upon a Concubine being a warlike and fierce man became the first King of Arragon The first King of Portugal was Alphonsus the Son of Henry of Lorain and Terese the Bastard-daughter of Alphonsus King of Castile A stout man at Arms who slew five Princes or great Governours of the Saracens in one Battel which was the reason that the Kings of Portugal carry five Shields for their Arms yet was this Alphonsus curst and cruel to his Mother whom because she married a second time he cast into perpetual imprisonment nor could be mov'd to set her free by any perswasions intreaties prayers or menaces of Ecclesiastical Censure Thus all the Kingdoms of Spain have been obtain'd by unheard-of Villanies and held by the same Arts. I omit the Kingdoms of the Burgundians and Lombards compos'd of the greatest and most famous people of Germany and begun in Lombardy by Alboynus in Burgundy by Gondaicus and in both places maintain'd and propagated by Murther and Bloodshed Let us view the most Potent Kingdom of the Franks in Gallia whose first Foundations were laid by Pharamond Son of Meroveus who coming out of Germany into France was made King of the Franks excelling in nothing more than in Cruelty and Fierceness His Posterity remain'd till the time of Childerick the Third who for his sloth and libidinous wantonness was depos'd from his Kingdom and thrust into a Monastery In his place was Pipin advanc'd Steward of Childerick's House who having got the Kingdom for himself and his Posterity by treason establish'd his own Power by the Murther of Grifo his Brother His Posterity continu'd to Lewis the Second Son of Lotharius who for adulterating his Wife Blanch's bed was poyson'd by her at which time Hugh Capet laid violent hands upon the Scepter a stout Warrier and there highly esteem'd by the Parisians but otherwise ignoble as being the Son of a Butcher He rebelling against Charles the Uncle of Lewis and right Heir of the Crown scrapes together a loose Band of debauch'd fellows and Vagabonds and having got the said Charles into his hands by treachery thrust him into Prison and there kept him till he di'd and thus having most barbarously murther'd his King and Prince he assum'd the Regal Diadem changing a Kingdom into a Butchers shop whose Succession endures to this day It would be too long and tedious in this place to enumerate the Originals of all Kingdoms and discourse the Histories of all Antiquity I have in another Volume writ more at large of what I have here but lightly touch'd where I have painted out Nobility it self in its proper Colours and Lineaments and I have shewed that there never was nor is any Kingdom in the world or famous Principality the Foundations whereof were not built upon Particide Treachery Perfidiousness Cruelty Murther Slaughter and other most horrid Crimes the Arts and Utensils of Nobility whereof when we see the