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A66695	Historical rarities and curious observations domestick & foreign containing fifty three several remarks ... with thirty seven more several histories, very pleasant and delightful / collected out of approved authors, by William Winstanley ...	Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698.	1684 (1684)	Wing W3062; ESTC R11630	186,957	324

with Child and after to Ismael and God told him That the Soul of Mahomet in the beginning of the Creation was mingled with his and that his Name in Heaven though he were never like to come there should be Asmet in Earth Mahomet in Paradise Abualtrazim At this Sarah grieved until three Angels comforted her with the Promise of Isaac From Ismael it removed to Keidar his Son who was endued with seven gifts viz. Sound Couragious Fair Swift Just a Hunter and an Archer This Keidar married Nulia of the Land of Isaac but being warned by an Oracle he took to wife Algadira an Arabian and after by Divine warning carried the chest of this Light to Jacob. Then was Hamel born to him and received the same Light in which succeeded Thebicht Hamiessa Adeth Adnue Adue Machat Nizar Musar Aliez Madraca Horeima Knieua Anofra Melic Falhrem Luie Galiben Rab Murran Cudai Abdamenef Hesim a man by Divine testimony free of all uncleanness and that was more than Mahomet was himself To him did all Kings offer their Daughters in marriage and among the rest Constantine which he refused and married Seline the Daughter of Zeit and had by her Abdulmatalib whose Light caused Rain in drought To him an Elephant prostrated himself and said with man's voice thou canst not O Reader but believe it Salvation be on you and on the Light that shineth out of your Reins Dignity Fame Honour and Victory be on you and that there should proceed from him a King greater than all the Kings of the Earth Another time as he slept on the stone which was placed by Abraham in his Oratory at Mecca he dreamed of a Chain reaching East and West and to Heaven and to the Depth which was presently converted into a flourishing Herb. Noah and Abraham presented themselves Interpreters of this Dream Abdalla his Son the Father of Mahomet had a Tutor given unto him to defend him from his Enemies who seemed a man but was none He was preserved from the lying in wait of the Jews by threescore and ten Angels which seemed men He wedded Ermina and therefore two hundred Women perished for his Love some hanging some burning themselves But if this be the effects of Love Heavens send that I may dote on nothing but upon Canary powder'd Beef and Mustard When the prescribed time was come in the Month Dulheia on a Fryday night God bad Aridunan to open the Gates of Paradise that the innermost of his Secrets might be manifested for it pleaseth me saith he this Night to transport the Light of my Prophet from the reins of Abdalla into the Womb of Ermina and that it come into the World This being done as Abdalla the Judge and Lord of the Arabians went into the House of Prayer he perceived a great Light to lighten from his House up toward Heaven and presently died On the twelfth day of Rab on a Tuesday Mahomet was born circumcised and all Frolick And then all Idols fell and became Black All Kingdoms were destroyed and not one stood upright Lucifer was cast into the bottom of the Sea and in forty days could not get out 't was wonder he was not drowned in all that while but then he called to his Fellows and told them that Mahomet was born with the Power of the Sword who would take away all their Power The same also God caused to be proclaimed in Heaven and Earth His Mother said that she was delivered of him without pain and Angelical Birds came to nourish the Child and a man clothed in white presented him with three Keys like to Pearls which he took and these forsooth were the Key of Victory the Key of the Law and the Key of Prophecy and with these Keys he did pick-lock the Hearts of all his Followers After came three Persons with shining Faces presenting him a Cauldron of Emeralds with four handles which Mahomet accepted can you blame him as a sign of his Rule over all the World The Birds Clouds Winds Angels contended for the Nourishment of the Child there was old striving for a thing of nothing but the cause was determined by Heavenly Voice affirming that he should not be taken from the hands of men An Ass also almost famished worshipped him and since many more Asses have done the like and receiving him on her back became Herald to this new Prophet with mans voice proclaiming the worthiness of her carriage Three men carried him up into a Mountain of which one opened him from the Breast unto the Navel and washed his Entrails with Snow the second cleaved his heart in the midst and took out of it a black grain saying that it was the Portion of the Devil The third made him whole again Seraphin nourished him three years and Gabriel nine and twenty who gave unto him in the fortieth year of his Age the Law and carried him to Heaven you cannot chuse but believe it for this his Journey is related by Fryar Richard sometimes a Student in the University of Baldach Chap. 14. and is as true a story as that of the Fryar and the Boy Now as concerning his going up to Heaven there is several relations of it and all alike true In La vita Mahometi it is said that Mahomet went up to Heaven with the Angel Gabriel in a shining ladder where the Stairs hung by Chains of Gold as big as Mount Notho by Medina Another saith that Gabriel with threescore and ten pair of Wings came to Mahomet in the Chamber of Aissa his best beloved Wife and said that God would have him to visit him where he is and brought with him the Beast Elmparac or Alborach of nature between a Mule and an Ass This Beast told Mahomet for Asses then could speak as well as those that believed in Mahomet that he would not take him on his back till he had prayed to God for him His steps were so far as one could see for he was swister by half then Paccolet or Pegasus so that in the twinkling of an eye he had brought Mahomet to Jerusalem Then Gabriel with his Girdle tyed the Beast to a Rock and carried Mahomet on his shoulders into Heaven where he knocked and the Porter opened Others say that it was not Gabriel but another Angel that carried him up to Heaven and that Gabriel being Porter there let him in so that varying so much in their reports you may well conclude he never came thither But as their story lyes we will go on with it In the first Heaven say they he saw Angels of the shape of all Creatures praying for the Creatures of their shapes and a Cock so great that standing upon the Moon his Coxcomb reach'd into the Imperial Heaven many millions of miles Altitude and when this mighty Chanticleer crowed all the Cocks upon earth re-ecchoed him Then he brought him to the second Heaven which was a Journey of five hundred years wherein was Noah and this Heaven was of Gold The

bear affection to a young Maid upon the breaking thereof to her Friends the fashion is that a day is appointed for their Friends to meet to behold the two young Parties to run a Race together The Maid is allowed in starting the advantage of a third part of the Race so that it is impossible except willing of her self that she should ever be overtaken If the Maid over-run her Suiter the matter is ended he must never have her it being penal for the man again to renew the motion of Marriage But if the Virgin hath an Affection for him tho' at the first running hard to try the Truth of his Love she will without Atalanta's golden Balls to retard her speed pretend some Casualty and make a voluntary hault before she cometh to the Mark or end of the Race Thus none are compelled to marry against their own Wills and this is the cause that in this poor Country the married People are richer in their own Contentment than in other Lands where so many forced Matches make feigned Love and cause real Unhappiness Of Spirits or Devils and that they have had carnal Knowledge of People PHilostratus in his fourth Book de vita Apollonii relateth of one Menippus Lycius a young Man 25 years of Age that going betwixt Cenchreas and Corinth met a Phantasm in the Habit of a fair Gentlewoman which taking him by the Hand carried him home to her House in the Suburbs of Corinth and told him she was a Phoenician by Birth and if he would tarry with her he should hear her sing and play and drink such Wine as never any drank and no man should molest him but she being fair and lovely would live and die with him that was fair and lovely to behold The young man a Philosopher otherwise stay'd and discreet able to moderate his Passions though not this of Love tarried with her a while to his great Content and at last married her to whose Wedding among other Guests came Apollonius who by some probable Conjectures found her out to be a Serpent a Lamia and that all her Furniture was like Tantalus's Gold described by Homer no Substance but mere Illusions When she saw her self descried she wept and desired Apollonius to be silent but he would not be moved and thereupon she Plate House and all that was in it vanished in an instant Multi factum cognovere quod in media Gracia gestum fit Many thousands took notice of this Fast for it was done in the midst of Greece Sabine in his Comment on the tenth of Ovid's Metamorphosis at the Tale of Orphaeus telleth us of a Gentleman of Bavaria that for many Months together bewailed the loss of his dear Wife at length the Devil in her Habit came and comforted him and told him because he was so importunate for her that she would come and live with him again on that condition he would be new married never swear and blaspheme as he used formerly to do for if he did she should be gone He vowed it married and lived with her she brought him Children and governed his House but was still pale and sad and so continued till one day falling out with him he fell a swearing she vanished thereupon and was never after seen This Story saith he I have heard from Persons of good Credit which told him that the Duke of Bavaria did tell it for a certainty to the Duke of Saxony Florilegus an honest Historian of our own Nation telleth us that in Anno 1058. a young Gentleman of Rome the same day that he was married after Dinner with the Bride and his Friends went a walking into the Fields and towards Evening to the Tennis Gourt to recreate themselves whilst he played he put his Ring upon the Finger of the Statue of Venus which was there by made in Brass After he had sufficiently played and now made an end of his Sport he came to fetch his Ring but Venus had bowed her Finger in and he could not get it off whereupon loth to make his Company tarry at present there left it intending to fetch it the next day or at some more convenient time went thence to Supper and so to Bed In the night when he should come to perform those Nuptial Rites Venus steps between him and his Wife unseen or felt of her and told him that she was his Wife that he had betrothed himself unto her by that Ring which he put upon her Finger she troubled him for some following Nights He not knowing how to help himself made his moan to one Palumbus a learned Magician in those days who gave him a Letter and bid him at such a time of the Night in such a cross-way at the Towns-end where old Saturn would pass by with his Associates in Procession as commonly he did deliver that Script with his own hands to Saturn himself the young man of a bold Spirit accordingly did it and when the old Fiend had read it he called Venus to him who rode before him and commanded her to deliver his Ring which forthwith she did and so the Gentleman was freed Hector Boetius the Scottish Historian writes that in the Year 1480. it chanced as a Scottish Ship departed out of the Forth towards Flanders there rose a wonderful great Tempest of Wind and Weather so out-ragious that the Master of the Ship with other the Mariners wondered not a little what the matter meant to see such Weather that time of the Year for it was about the midst of Summer At length when the furious rage of the Winds still increased in such wise that all those within the Ship looked for present Death there was a Woman underneath the Hatches called unto them above and willed them to throw her into the Sea that all the residue by God's Grace might yet be saved and thereupon told them how she had been haunted a long time with a Spirit daily coming unto her in man's Likeness and that even as then he was with her using his filthy Pleasure after the manner of carnal Copulation In the Ship there chanced also to be a Priest who by the Master's appointment going down to this Woman and finding her like a most wretched and desperate Person lamenting her great Misfortune and miserable Estate used such wholsome Admonitions and comfortable Advertisements willing her to repent and hope for Mercy at the hands of Almighty God that at length she seeming right penitent for her grievous Offences committed and fetching sundry Sighs even from the bottom of her Heart being witness as should appear of the same there issued forth of the Pump of the Ship a foul and evil favour'd black Cloud with a mighty terrible Noise Flame Smoak and Stink which presently fell into the Sea and suddenly thereupon the Tempest ceased and the Ship passing in quiet the residue of her Journey arrived in safety at the place whither she was bound Not long before the hap hereof there was in like