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lord_n	die_v	earl_n	william_n	10,476	5	7.6296	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46234	An history of the wonderful things of nature set forth in ten severall classes wherein are contained I. The wonders of the heavens, II. Of the elements, III. Of meteors, IV. Of minerals, V. Of plants, VI. Of birds, VII. Of four-footed beasts, VIII. Of insects, and things wanting blood, IX. Of fishes, X. Of man / written by Johannes Jonstonus, and now rendred into English by a person of quality.; Thaumatographia naturalis. English	Jonstonus, Joannes, 1603-1675.; Libavius, Andreas, d. 1616.; Rowland, John, M.D.	1657 (1657)	Wing J1017; ESTC R1444	350,728	372

and sound and died within a little while together with their mother to whom this Epitaph following was erected in the Monasterie of Lodun where there were Nunnes of the order of S. Bernard and it is hard by the Hague in Holland THE EPITAPH The daughter of the right noble Lord Florent Earle of Holland and of Mawd his Wife the daughter of Henrie Duke of Brabant sister of William King of Almaine named Margaret of the age of fortie two yeares was brought a bed upon the Friday before Easter in the yeare 1276 at nine a Clock in the morning of three hundred three-score and five Children as well male as female who after they had been all baptized in a great bason by the reverend Bishop Don William Suffragan in the presence of some great Lords and notable persons the male Children being called by the name of John the female by the name of Elizabeth dyed all of them together with their mother their souls returning to God to live eternally their bodies resting under this Tombe The like storie well neere is reported of the beginning of the noble race of the Wolfes Irmentrudes the Wife of Isenbard Earle of Altorf having given her selfe the reines so far as to accuse of adulterie a woman that had three Children at one birth being not able to believe that one man could at one time get so many Children adding withall that she deserved to be sowed in a sack and thrown into the water yea and accusing her in that regard to her husband It happened that the next yeare the Countesse felt her self with Child and the Earle being from home she was brought a bed of twelve male Children but all very little She fearing the reproach of adulterie whereof yet she was not guilty and the punishment of like-for-like commanded that eleven of them should be taken and cast into a River that was not far from the house and that one should be saved to be brought up It so fell out that Isenbard met the woman that was carrying the little infants to their death and asking her whither she went with her paile he had this answer that she was going to drown a few baggage whelps in the River of Schere The Earle came unto her and for all the resistance the woman made would see what was there and then discovering the Children pressed her in such wise that she told him all the matter Then he caused them to be nourished and educated secretly and so soon as they were grown great and brought home to him he set them in an open hall besides him whom his wife had brought up and then being all known to be brethren by their faces and their other fashions their mother moved in conscience confessed all the fact and obtained pardon for her fault In remembrance whereof the honorable race of the Wolfes got that name which ever since it hath kept Article 7. Of monstrous Births NAture in working intends her own businesse but because divers obstacles may happen in respect of the first agent the seed the constitution of the Heavens the formative vertue imagination heat it is no wonder if she erre sometimes And though there be Monsters almost in all mixt bodies yet those Monsters that happen amongst living creatures are chiefly remarkable And such fall out either in quantity or quality A woman of Troas Anno 1569 brought forth twins joyn'd by the heads Pareus l. 24. oper c. 2. Valeriola locor commun l. 1. c. 8. saw at Avignon one with two bodies all from the neck Munsterus saw two Maids joyn'd together with their foreheads one against the other and when one went forward the other went backwards At Florence there were two boyes one was an entire body the other was fastned by his shoulders to the others stomach that all his head seemed to be thrust into it and when the former sucked he moved as if he sucked also Benivent de reb abdit Paraeus l. 24. c. 2. Anno 1530 saw the same at Paris in a man of 40 years About the end of the Empire of Lotharius a certain woman bore a child like a man and a dogg their bodies joyn'd entirely and they were fastned at the ridge of their backs Lycost lib. prodigior In Scotland there was one that was a male for the nether parts but above the navell it had two members distinct both for use and in shape This Monster was taught the Musicall Art and learn'd many Languages It held consultation and when they differ'd they would chide and quarrel it lived 28 years And when one body dyed many dayes before the other the other that lived pined away half the body being putrified before Buchan in histor Scotica Lastly in former times there was a child born at Cracovia from noble Parents that was terrible to behold with flaming shining eyes the mouth and nostrils were like to an Oxes it had long horns and a back hairy like a dogs and faces of Apes in the breast where the teats should stand it had Cats eyes under the navell fastned to the hypogastrium and they looked hideously and frightfully and the heads of dogs of both elbowes and at the whirlbones of each knee looking forwards It was splay-footed and splay-handed the feet were like Swans feet and it had a tail turn'd upwards that was crooked backwards about half an ell long It was born and lived four hours and then spake thus Watch the Lord your God comes and then it dyed Peucer in Tetratosc To this may be added the stony birth at Agendicum of the Senones that was carried 28 years and was cut out of the mothers womb when she was dead It is seen to this day at Agendicum for a miracle and is not corrupted Thuan. l. 76. Histor. He that would hear more let him read Bauhinus de hermaphrodite Weinrichius de monstris and others Article 8. Of the recompence Nature makes to Monsters IT is commonly said that those that are deficient naturally are marked for some malignant qualities and this is sometimes found to be true but it is most false that it is alwayes so For to say nothing of the diversity of parts which Lemnius adviseth us to take notice of such is the force of education that it made Socrates good that would have been bad Moreover Nature is so indulgent that as if she were ashamed of her mistake she largely recompenceth her errour with other endowments Count Mansfeld that fail'd in sight could by touching know white from black Keckerm in Physicis Hamar a Captain of a Caravan would know where he was by onely smelling the same Leo African A Preacher in Germany that was blind from his nativity chose the fairest of three Sisters by taking her by the hand Camer Hor. subcis Cent. 3. c. 80. Cicero saith Homer was blind we see not him but his Poetry His words are Tusculan 5. What Country what place what Town of Greece what form what fight what Army what rowing what motion of men