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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

and thirtieth year of his age 4. In Devonshire there is a stone call'd the Hanging Stones being one of the bound-Stones which parteth Comb-Martin from the next Parish It got the name from a Thief who having stoln a Sheep and ty'd it about his own Neck to carry it home at his Back he rested himself for a while upon this Stone which is about a foot high until the Sheep strugling slid over the Stone on the other side and so strangl'd the Man 4. Dr. Andrew Perne though very facetious was at last heart-broken with a Jest as I have been most credibly inform'd from excellent hands He is tax'd much for altering his Religion four times in twelve years from the last of King Henry the Eighth to the first of Queen Elizabeth a Papist a Protestant a Papist a Protestant but still Andrew Perne now it fortun'd he was at Court with his Pupil Archbishop Whitgift in a rainy afternoon when the Queen was I dare not say willfully but really resolv'd to ride abroad contrary to the mind of her Ladies who were on horseback Coaches as yet being not common to attend her Now one Clod the Queens Jester was employ'd by the Courtiers to laugh the Queen out of so convenient a Journey Heaven saith he Madam disswades you this heavenly minded man Archbishop Whitgift and Earth disswades you your Fool Clod such a lump of clay as my self and if neither will prevail with you here is one that is neither Heaven nor Earth but hangs betwixt both Dr. Perne and he also disswades you Hereat the Queen and the Courtiers laugh'd heartily whilst the Doctor look'd sadly and going over with his Grace to Lambeth soon saw the last of his life 5. Anastasius the Emperor was slain with Lightning so was Strabo the Father of Pompey the Great so was also Garus the Emperour who succeeded Probus whilst he lodged with his Army upon the River Tigris 6. Child his Christian name is unknown was a Gentleman the last of his Family being of ancient Extraction at Plimstook in Devonshire and had great Possessions It hapned that he hunting in Dartmore lost both his company and way in a bitter snow having kill'd his Horse he crept into his bowels for warmth and wrote this with his blood He that finds and brings me to my tomb The land at Plimstook shall be his doom That Night he was frozen to death and being first found by the Monks of Tavistock they interr'd him in their own Abbey and sure it is that the Abbot of Tavistock got that rich Manor into his possession 7. Arrius who deny'd the Divinity of Christ was sent for by the Emperour Constantine to make recantation of his former heresies but he first wrote out a copy of his own opinions which he hid in his bosome and then writing out the recantation expected from him took oath that he did really mean as he had writen which words the Emperour reserr'd to the recantation he to the paper in his bosome but God would not be so cozened though the Emperour was for as he pass'd in triumph through the Streets of Constantinople he drew aside into a private house of ease where he voided his guts into the draught and so dyed 8. Alexander the Elean Philosopher swimming over the River Alpheus light with his breast upon a sharp reed which lay hid under the water and receiv'd such a wound thereby that he dy'd upon it 9. Heraclius the Ephesian fell into a Dropsie and was thereupon advertis'd by the Physicians to anoint himself all over with Cow-dung and so to sit in the warm Sun his servant had left him alone and the Dogs supposing him to be a wild Beast fell upon him and killed him 10. Milo the Crotonian being upon his journey beheld an Oak in the Field which some body had attempted to cleave with Wedges conscious to himself of his great strength he came to it and seising it with both his hands endeavoured to wrest it in sunder but the Tree the Wedges being fallen out returning to it self caught him by the hands in the cleft of it and there detain'd him to be devour'd with wild Beasts after his so many and so famous exploits 11. Polydamas the famous wrestler was forc'd by a tempest into a cave which being ready to fall into ruines by the violent and sudden incursion of the waters though others fled at the signs of the dangers approach yet he alone would remain as one that would bear up the whole heap and weight of the falling Earth with his shoulders but he found it above all humane strength and so was crush'd in pieces by it 12. Attila King of the Hunns having marryed a Wife in Hungary and upon his Wedding Night surcharg'd himself with Meat and Drink as he slept his Nose fell a bleeding and through his Mouth found the way into his Throat by which he was choak'd and kill'd before any person was apprehensive of the danger 13. Calo-Iohannes Emperour of Constantinople drew a Bow against a Boar in Cilicia with that strength that he shot the Arrow through his own hand that held the Bow the Pile of it was dipt in poyson as 't is usual in huntings and of that wound he dyed in a few days and left the Empire to his Son Emanuel Anno 1130. 14. Giachetus Geneva a man of great reputation amongst the Salucians though he was stricken in years and had had some Children by his Wife yet being addicted to Venus he privily let in a Girl at the back door and when one night he delay'd his coming to bed longer than he was accustomed to do after they had knock and call'd in vain at his Study door his Wife caused it to be broken open and there was Giachetus and the Girl found both dead in mutual imbraces and in a shameful and base posture 15. In the nineteenth year of Queen Elizabeth at the Assize held at Oxford Iuly 1577. one Rowland Ienks a Popish Bookseller for dispersing scandalous Pamphlets defamatory to the Queen and State was arreigned and condemned but on the sudden there arose such a damp that almost all present were endanger'd to be smothered The Jurors dyed that instant Soon after dyed Sir Robert Bell Lord Chief Baron Sir Robert de Oly Sir William Babington Mr. de Oly high Sheriff Mr. Wearnam Mr. Danvers Mr. Fettiplace Mr. Harcourt Justices Mr. Kerle Mr. Nash Mr. Greenwood Mr. Foster Gentlemen of good account Serjeant Barham an excellent Pleader three hundred other persons presently sickned and dyed within the Town and two hundred more sickning there dyed in other places amongst all whom there was neither Woman nor Child 16. Anacreon the Poet had exceeded the stated term of humane life yet while he was endeavouring to cherish the poor remainders of his strength by the juyce of Raisins the stone of one of them stuck so fast in his dry and parched

all the rest of his body so that nothing but his face did appear without it He died in the fifty fifth of his age when he had reigned thirty tree years excelling all the Kings his Predecessours for humanity and easiness of access 4. Sanctius King of Spain Son of Ranimirus carried such a heap of fat that thence he was called Crassus being now grown a burden to himself and having left almost nothing untried to be quit of it At length by the advice of Garsia King of Navarre he made peace with Miramoline King of Corduba went over to him was honourably receiv'd and in his Court was cured by an herb prescribed by the Physicians of that King 5. Gabriel Fallopius tells that he saw a man who being extremely fat his skin was so thickened that he lost all feeling by reason of the over impaction of the Nerves thereby 6. Philetas of Coos was an excellent Critick and a very good Poet in the time of Alexander the Great but withal he had a body of that exceeding leanness and lightness that he commonly wore shooes of Lead and carried Lead about him lest at some time or other he should be blown away with the wind 7. Ptolomaeus Euergetes the seventh King of Aegypt by reason of his sensuality and luxurious life was grown saith Possidonius to a vast bulk his Belly was swollen with fat his waste so thick that scarce could any man compass it with both his arms he never came out of his Palace on foot but he always lean'd upon a staff His Son Alexander who killed his Mother was much fatter than he so that he was not able to walk unless he supported himself with two Crutches 8. Agatharcides tells of Magan who reigned fifty years in Cyrene that living in peace and flowing in luxury he grew to a prodigious corpulency in his latter years insomuch that at last he was suffocated with his own fat which he had gained in part by his idleness and sloth and partly by his Epicurism and excessive gluttony 9. Panaretus the Scholar of Arcecilaus the Philosopher was in great estimation with Ptolomaeus Euergetes and retain'd by him with an annual stipend of twelve Talents It 's said of this man he was exceeding lean and slender notwithstanding which he never had any occasion to consult any Physician but passed his whole life in a most entire and perfect health 10. Cynesias was called by Aristophanes and others Philyrinus because he girt himself round within boards of the wood Philyra and that for this reason lest through his exceeding talness and slenderness he should break in the waste 11 I have seen a young Englishman who was carried throughout all Italy and suffered not himself to be seen without the payment of money he was of that monstrous both fatness and thickness that the Duke of Mantua and Montferat commanded his picture to be drawn to the life and naked as of a thing altogether extraordinary 12. Vitus a Matera was a learned Philosopher and Divine but so fat that he was not able to get up a pair of stairs he breathed with great difficulty nor could he sleep lying along without present danger of suffocation All this is well known to most of the Students in Naples 13. Alphonsus Avalus being dead his body was opened and the carcase taken care of by Physicians and dried as much as might be with salt and sand and other things yet for all this the fat of his body ran through his Chest of Lead whereinto he was put and larded the stones of the Vault upon which it stood 14. Anno 1520. there was a Noble Man born in Diethmarsia but living sometime in the City of Stockholm in Sueden this man was sent to prison by the command of Christierne the Second King of Denmark when he came to the prison door such was his extreme corpulency that they who conducted him were not able to thrust him in at it The Guard that went to convey him thither were to hasten back to assist in the torturing of some other persons so that being extreme angry to be thus delayed they thrust him aside into a corner thereabouts and by this means the man escaped being put into prison as was intended 15. Pope Leo the tenth of that name had so mighty a Belly and was so extremely corpulent that to this very day his fatness is proverbial in Rome so that when they would of a man that is extraordinary well fed they use to say of him that he is as fat as Pope Leo. CHAP. XXX Of the Longaevity and length of life in some persons HE who hath but dipped into Anatomy can easily apprehend that the life of man hangs upon very tender filaments considering this with the great variety of diseases that lie in ambush ready to surprise us and the multitude of accidents that we are otherwise daily liable unto it is not the least of wonders that any man should have his life drawn out but to a moderate space Sunt quos saliva crassior male lapsa per fauces subi●● strangulaverit saith Seneca Their very spittle has ended them so little is sufficient to thrust us out of this earthly tenement the nearer the felicity of them that ●ollow 1. There is a Memorial entred upon the wall of the Cathedral of Peterborough for one who being Sexton thereof interred two Queens therein Katharine Dowager and Mary of Scotland more than fifty years interceding betwixt their several sepultures This vivacious Sexton also buried two Generations or the people in that place twice over The instance of his long life is alledged by such who maintain that the smelling to perfect mould made of mens consumed bodies is a preservative of life 2. Richa●d Chamond Esquire receiv'd at God's hand an extraordinary favour of long life in serving in the office of a Justice of Peace almost sixty years he saw above ●ifty several Judges of the Western Circuit was Uncle and great Uncle to three hundred at the least and saw his youngest child above forty years of age 3. Garsias Ar●tinus lived to a hundred and four years in a continued state of good health and deceased without being seised with any apparent disease only perceiving his strength somewhat weakened Thus writes Petrarch of him to whom Garcias was great Grand●ather by the Father's side 4. A while since in Herefordshire at their Mayga●●es saith my Lord of S. Albans there was a Morrice Dance of eight men whose years put together made up eight hundred that which was wanting of an hundred in some superabounding in others 5. I have been credibly inform'd that William Pawlet Marquess of Winchester and Lord Treasurer of England twenty years tog●ther who died in the tenth year of Queen Elizabeth was born in the last year of Henry the Sixth he lived in all an hundred and six years and three quarters and odd days during the

Upon which Lipsius justly cries out I know not what I should herein chiefly wonder at whether that a man could so do or so speak 5. Solyman the Magnificent Emperour of the Turks having obtained a Victory over the Germans finding amongst the Captives a Bavarian Souldier a man of an exceeding high Stature he caused him to be delivered to his Dwarf to be by him slain whose head was scarce so high as the others knees and that goodly tall man was mangled about the legs for a long time by that apish Dwarf with his little Scimiter till falling down with many feeble blows he was at last slain in the presence of Solyman who took marvellous pleasure in this scene of cruelty 6. Mahomet the Great first Emperour of the Turks after the winning of Constantinople fell in love with a most beautiful young Greekish Lady called Irene upon whose incomparable perfections he so much doted that he gave himself up wholly to her love But when he heard his Captains and chief Officers murmured at it he appointed them all to meet him in his great Hall and commanding Irene to dress and adorn her self in all her Jewels and most gorgeous apparel not acquainting her in the least with any part of his design taking her hand he led this miracle of beauty into the midst of his Bassaes who dazzled with the brightness of this Illustrious Lady acknowledged their errour professing that their Emperour had just cause to pass his time in solacing himself with so peerless a Paragon But he on a sudden twisting his left hand in the soft curls of her hair and with the other drawing out his crooked Scimiter at one blow struck off her head from her shoulders and so at once made an end of his love and her life leaving all the assistants in a fearful amaze and horror of an act of that cruelty 7. Novellus Carrarius Lord of Padua enflamed with an ambition of greater Rule took away by poyson William Scaliger the Lord of Verona and Vincentia though a familiar friend of his And to enjoy Verona the more securely having betrayed into his power Antonius and Bruno his two sons he caused them also to be slain Being in the City of Vincentia he fell in love with a Maid of singular beauty and required her parents to send her to him but being refused he sent his Guards to fetch her when brought he basely violated her chastity two daies after he caused her to be cut in small pieces and sent her so back in a Basket to her Parents The father amaz'd with the atrocity of the fact represented the whole to the Senate beseeching their assistance in so great an injury The Senate having deliberated upon the matter sent the body of the Maid so inhumanely mangled to the Venetians declaring that they did commit themselves to their care and Patronage The Venetians took upon them their defence and having wearied out Carrarius with war at last pen'd him up in Padua and compelled him to yield himself being taken they strangled him together with his two sons Francis and William 8. Vitoldus Duke of Lithuania was a man of a truculent and cruel disposition if he had destin'd any to death his way was to cause them to be sew'd up in the skins of Bears and so expose them to be torn in pieces by doggs In all his Military expeditions he never was without a Bow in his hand and if he saw any Souldier to march out of his rank he used to shoot him dead with an arrow This fierceness of his that Nation though otherwise haughty and a contemner of death did so stand in awe of that many under his dominion at his command without expectation of an Executioner either hang'd or poyson'd themselves 9. Perotine Massey her Husband was a Minister in Q. Maries Reign he fled out of the Land for fear but she with her mother was condemn'd to be burnt as Hereticks which was done Iuly 18. 1556. she was near the time of her delivery and by force of the flame her young child burst out of her belly this babe was taken out alive by W. House a by-stander and by the command of Elier Gosseline the Bayliff supreme Officer in the then absence of the Governour of the Island Guernsey cast again into the fire and therein consumed to ashes here was a Spectacle without precedent a cruelty built three Generations high for the Grandmother Mother and Grandchild suffered all in the same flame at the same time 10. Demetrius the King of Syria after he had overcome Alexander the Jew in a Battel he led the Prisoners taken in that fight to Ierusalem where he caused eight hundred of them in the midst of the City to be Crucified the sons in the very sight of the mothers and after commanded the mothers themselves to be slain 11. In the Reign of King Edward the sixth upon the alteration of Religion there was an Insurrection in Cornwall and divers other Countries wherein many were taken and Executed by Martial Law The chief Leaders were sent to London and there Executed The Sedition being thus supprest it is memorable what cruel sport Sir William Kingston made by vertue of his Office which was Provost Martial upon men in misery One Boyer Major of Bodmin in Cornwall had been amongst the Rebels not willingly but enforced To him the Provost sent word that he would come and dine with him for whom the Major made great Provision A little before dinner the Provost took the Major aside and whisper'd him in the ear That an Execution must that day be done in the Town and therefore required that a pair of Gallows should be set up against dinner should be done The Major failed not of his charge presently after dinner the Provost taking the Major by the hand entreated him to lead him to the place where the Gallows was which when he beheld he asked the Major if he thought them to be strong enough Yes said the Major doubtless they are Well then said the Provost get you up speedily for they are provided for you I hope answered the Major you mean not as you speak In faith said the Provost there is no remedy for you have been a busie Rebel and so without respite or defence he was hang'd to death Near the said place dwelt a Miller who had been a busie actor in that Rebellion who fearing the approach of the Martial told a sturdy Fellow his servant that he had occasion to go from home and therefore bad him that if any came to enquire after the Miller he should not speak of him but say that he was the Miller and had been so for three years before So the Provost came and called for the Miller when out comes the servant and saith He was the man The Provost demanded how long he had kept the Mill These three years answered the servant then the Provost commanded his men to lay hold

Messenger is come to thee our will and pleasure is that thou send us by him thy head unto Constantinople In vain was it to dispute the command of his Lord and thus the miserble man perished 3. William the Conquerour for his game and the pleasure he took in hunting enforested thirty miles in Hamshire pulled down thirty six Parish Churches and dispeopled all the place chasing the inhabitants from the places of their inheritance But the just hand of God was visible and remarkable upon his posterity for this his grievous oppression for in this very New Forest his two Sons Richard by a pestilent air and King William Rufus by the shot of an Arrow and his Grandson Henry son of Duke Robert by hanging in a bough as Absolom came to their untimely ends 4. Anno Dom. 1570. at Ry● in Sussex there was a strange example of Gods judgements upon a covetous oppressive Gentleman and one that desired to grind the faces of the Poor This Gentleman living near the Sea had a Marsh wherein upon poles Fishermen used to dry their Nets for which he received of them yearly a sufficient sum of money but at length not being content with it he caused his servants to pluck up the poles not suffering the Fishermen to come upon his ground any longer except they would compound at a larger rate but it came to pass the same night that the Sea breaking in overwhelmed all his Marsh which saith Hollinshead continueth in that manner to this very day 5. Lucullus the Roman Consul visiting the Cities of Asia found the poor country afflicted and oppressed with so many evils and miseries as no man living could believe nor tongue express for the extream and horrible covetousness of the Farmers Customers and Roman Usurers did not only devour it but kept the people also in such miserable bondage and thraldome that Fathers were forced to sell their goodly Sons and Daughters ready for marriage to pay the interest and use money of that which they had borrowed to pay their fines withall yea they were forced to sell the Tables dedicated to the Temples the statues of their gods and other Ornaments and Jewels of their Temples and yet in the end they themselves were adjudged for bondslaves to their cruel Creditors to wear out their dayes in miserable servitude And yet the worst of all was the pain and torment they put them to before they were so condemned for some they imprisoned and cruelly racked others they tormented upon a little brazen Horse set them in the Stocks made them stand naked in the greatest heat of Summer and on the Ice in the deepest of Winter so that bondage seemed to them a relief of their miseries and a rest from their torments Lucullus found the Cities of Asia full of such oppressions whereof in a short time he exceedingly eased them 6. King Iohn of England was a great oppressour on a time a Jew refusing to lend this King so much mony as he required the King caused every day one of his great teeth to be pulled out by the space of seven dayes and then the poor Jew was content to give the King ten thousand marks of silver that the one tooth which he had left might not be pulled out The same King assaulting the chastity of the Daughter of Robert Fitzwater called Mawd the fair and by her repulsed he is said to send a messenger to give her poyson in a poached Egg whereof she died not long after he himself had but little better fate being poysoned at Swinestead Abbey 7. Luther reports that he being at Rome a great Cardinal died and left behind him great store of mony Before his death he had made his Will and laid it in a Chest where his mony was After his death the Chest was opened and therein by the mony was found written in Parchment Dum potui rapui rapiatis quando potestis I scrap'd together while I could That you should do so too I would 8. Five Brethren of the Marshalls successively Earles of Pembrook dyed issueless Which Mathew Paris attributeth to the judgement of God upon them for their Fathers iniquity who detained from the Bishop of Firning certain Manours which he had violently taken from him 9. Lewis the eleventh King of France having been a great oppressour of his Subjects by excessive Taxes and enforced Contributions when he grew old resolved to redress that and other mischiefs whereby they had been oppressed but was in a short time after this purpose prevented by death 10. Anno Dom. 1234. in the reign of King Henry the third there was a great dearth in England so that many people died for want of victuals At which time Walter Grey Arch-bishop of York had great store of Corn which he had hoarded up for five years together yet in that time of scarcity refused to relieve the poor with it but suspecting lest it might be destroyed with Vermine he commanded it to be delivered to Husband-men that dwelt in his Mannors upon condition to return him as much New Corn after Harvest but behold a terrible judgement of God upon him for his covetousness and unmercifulness to the poor When men came to one of his great Stacks of Corn near to the Town of Rippon there appeared in the sheaves all over the heads of Worms Serpents and Toads so that the Bayliffs were forced to build a high wall round about the Stack of Corn and then to set it on fire lest the venemous creatures should have gone out and poysoned the Corn in other places CHAP. XIII Of the bloody and cruel Massacres in several places and their occasions THe Naturalists tell us of a Serpent who is therefore called Haemorrhois that wheresoever he bites he makes the man all over bloody It seems his poyson hath a particular command over the blood so as to call it all into the outward parts of the body The vulgar rout and headstrong multitude when once it is enraged is such another kind of Serpent wheresoever the scene of its insolency is it makes it all over bloody This unbridled torrent bears all down before it and being transported with its own fury it knows no difference of age sex or degree till it hath converted a flourishing place into an Akeldama or a field of blood In the year 1506. in Lisbon upon the tenth day of April many of the City went to the Church of Saint Dominicks to hear Mass On the left side of this Church there is a Chapel much reverenced by those of the Country and called Iesus Chapel Upon the Altar there stands a Crucifix the wound of whose side is covered over with a piece of Glass Some of those that came thither to do their devotions casting their eyes upon this hole it seemed to them that a certain kind of glimmering light came forth of it Then happy he that could first cry a miracle and every one said that God

gathered put into an Urn and carefully buried But the body was no sooner laid upon the funeral pile in order to his burning but a sudden tempest and vehement shower of rain extinguished the fire and caused the attendants of the Corps to betake themselv●s to shelter when came the Dogs and pulled in pieces the half-burnt carkass Domitian being certified hereof began to grow into more fearful apprehensions of his own safety but the irresistable force of Destiny is no way to be eluded but he was slain accordingly 12. Alexander Severus the Emperour marching out to the German Wars Thrasybulus a Mathematici●n and his Friend told him that he would be slain by the Sword of a Barbarian and a Woman Druid cryed out to him in the Gallick Tongue Thou mayst go but neither hope for the Victory nor trust to the faith of thy Souldiers It fell out accordingly for before he came in sight of the Enemy he was slain by some German Souldiers that were in his own Camp 13. A Greek Astrologer the same that had predicted the Dukedome of Tuscany to Cosmo de Medices did also to the wonder of many foretel the death of Alexander and that with such assuredness that he described his Murtherer to be such a one as was his intimate and familiar of a slender habit of body a ●mall face and swarthy complexion and who with a reserved silence was almost unsociable to all persons in the Court by which description he did almost point out with the singer Laurence Medices who murdered Prince Alexander in his Bed-chamber contrary to all the Laws of Consanguinity and Hospitality 14. Pope Paul the Third wrote to Petrus A●oisius Farnesius his Son that he should take special care of himself upon the 10. of September for the Stars did then threaten him with some signal misfortune Petrus giving credit to his Fathers admonition with great anxiety and fear took heed to himself upon that day and yet notwithstanding all his care he was slain by thirty six that had framed a conspiracy against him 15. Alexander the Great returning out of India and being about to enter Babylon the Chaldean Soothsayers sent him word that he would speedily dye if he entred the Walls of it This prediction was derided by Anaxarchus the Epicurcan and Alexander not to shew himself over-timerous or superstitious in this kind would needs put himself within the City where as most hold he was poysoned by Cassander 16. The very same day that the formentioned Alexander was born the Temple of Diana at Ephesus was set on fire and certain Magicians that were then present ran up and down crying that a great calamity and cruel scourge to Asia was born that day nor were they mistaken for Alexander over-ran all Asia with conquering Arms not without a wonderful slaughter of the men and desolation of the Country 17. When Darius in the beginning of his Empire had caused the Persian Scimitar to be made after the manner of the Greeks and commanded all men to wear them so forthwith the Chaldeans predicted that the Empire of the Persians should be devolved into the power of them whose Arms and Weapons they thus imitated which also came to pass for Darius overcome in three Battels and in his flight left treacherously wounded by some of his own men lost his life and left his Empire to his Conqueror the Grecian Alexander 18. While Cosmo Medices was yet a private man and little thought of the Dukedom of Florence Basilius the Mathematician foretold t●at a wonderful rich inheritance would certainly fall to him in as much as the Ascendant of his Nativity was beautified and illustrated by a happy conspiracy of Stars in Capricorn in such manner as had heretofore fallen out to Augustus Caesar and the Emperour Charles the Fifth upon the 5. of the Ides of Ian. he was advanced to the Dignity of the Dukedom 19. Belesus a Babylonish Captain skilled in Astrology and Divination beyond all the Chaldeans told Arbaces the Prefect of Media that he should be Lord of all that Sardanapalus did now possess since his Genesis was favoured as he knew with a lucky Position of Stars Arbaces encouraged by this hope conspired with the Babylonians and Arabians but the Revolt being known the Rebels were thrice in plain field overthrown by Sardanapalus The Confederates amazed at so many unhappy chances determined to return home But Belesus having all night made observation of the Stars foretold that a considerable body of friends were coming to their assistance and that in a short time their affairs would go on more prosperously Thus confirmed they waited the time set down by Belesus in which it was told them that the Bactrians were come in aid of the King It seemed good to Arbaces and the rest to meet the Bactrians with an expedite and select Body and perswade them to the same Revolt or force them he prevailed without stroke they joyned with his Forces In the night he fell upon the Camp of Sardanapalus who feared nothing less and took it twice after they overcame him in the field with great slaughter and having driven him into Niniveh after two years siege took that also and so fulfilled the prediction of Belesius 20. The great Picus Mirandula who for writing more against the Astrologers and also more reproachfully than others or indeed than any man ever did was called Flagellum Astrologorum the Scourage of Astrologers met at last with one Bellantius of Syena who was not at all deceived in the Judgement that he gave upon his Nativity for he foretold him that he should dye in the thirty fourth year of his age which accordingly came to pass 21. Iunctin an Italian of the City of Florence foretold that himself should dye of some violent death and upon the very same day was knocked on the head by the Books in his own Study falling upon him 22. The Duke of Biron being then only Baron of Biron and in some trouble by reason of the death of the Lord Cerency and others slain in a quarrel is said to have gone disguised like a Carrier of Letters unto one la Brosse a great Mathematician whom they held to be skilful in casting Nativities to whom he shewed his Nativity drawn by some other and dissembling it to be his he said it was a Gentlemans whom he served and that he desired to know what end that man should have La Brosse having rectified this Figure said to him that he was of a good House and no elder than you are said he to the Baron asking him if it were his The Baron answered him I will not tell you but tell me said he what his life and means and end shall be The old man who was then in a little Garret which served him for a Study said unto him My Son I see that he whose Nativity this is shall come to great honour by his industry and military valour