Costermonger who had only one Daughter but she the Paragon of Nature of an admirable Beauty and thereto was added such Excellencies of inward Qualifications as made her to be desired in Marriage by many young Gallants and other wealthy Citizens But Love that knows no Laws nor Limitations had setled her Affections upon a young Page whose smooth Tongue and complacent Carriage had fetter'd her Heart in Cupid's Chains he also seeming so amorously bent to her as if he saw with no other Eyes but what she bestowed upon him nor thought no other Thoughts but what she inspired But under this green Grass of Dissimulation lay lurking the Serpent of Ingratitude and Deceit for this innocent Maid mistrusting no Evil as intending none was by the sly Insinuations of that Deceiver whose Love was Lucre and Faith Falshood under Pretence of seeing some Friends carried on Board of a Barbadoes Ship where this wicked Wretch O Grief to hear for twenty Pounds most villanously sold her to be a Slave Thus the Cat having plaid a while with the Mouse at last devours her thus the innocent Lamb is by the Wiles of the Fox betrayed to her own Destruction This wicked Wretch having received his Money departeth home with the Reward of Iniquity the whilst the Ship set Sail from Graves-end manned with fourscore tall Men and the Wind standing fair they smoothly glide along the Thames and enter into that vast Gulph the boundless Ocean but the Heavens being angry for the forcible carrying away of this innocent Virgin sent forth such a violent Tempest on the Sea as made the stoutest Spirit of them all to tremble for they had not sailed far when there arose a foggy Mist from out the Seas so that the clearness of the Skies might not be seen for the darkness of the Air dreadful Flashes of Lightning seemed to have set the Seas on Fire and terrible Vollies of Thunder threatned the shaking of the Heavens and sundring of the Earth Showers of Rain poured down amain which with the Impetuosity of the Winds caused Showers of Tears to trickle down the Cheeks of the stoutest Spirits there who all of them now expected no other but to be devoured in that merciless Element of Water the beautiful Virgin who before had wished all ill both to the Master of the Ship as also to the Mariners for carrying her thus away against her Will now as heartily prayed for their Welfare knowing if they miscarried she were lost if they failed she were cast away Twelve hours did the Wind and Seas contend thus together for the Destruction of this Vessel tossing her about like Fortunes Tennis-ball tearing her Masts in Pieces and making her Tackling unserviceable when at last the Skyes began to clear and the Winds to cease the violence of their raging which cheared up their drooping Spirits hoping now all danger was past but Fortune that is constant in nothing but Inconstancy soon made them to see their Error and that they were now entring into the hands of more violent Enemies than Storms and Tempests for being by the Fury of the Seas brought upon the Coast of Barbary they were espyed by a Turkish man of War belonging to Tunis a Receptacle of Pirates under the Protection of the Grand Seignior who presently seized upon this stately Vessel altogether now disabled for Resistance and having boarded her secured her Goods carrying all the Persons thereof into the Town who according to the Custom of that place were immediately committed to Prison Now were the Saylors in their Dumps knowing their Lot was perpetual Slavery but the lovely Maid in whom Beauty sat triumphant though lately shaded with the Clouds of Fear began to pluck up her Spirits knowing that she had not worsened her Condition but changed her Masters and this gave her great Content to see those unto whom she was lately so subject now to partake of the same Lot with her so that those Roses which before seemed to die in her Cheeks now revived each several Beauty resumed their former Estates so that she soon appeared to those dark African Inhabitants a Sun upon Earth and rather an immortal Goddess than an earthly Creature The Fame of her Beauty had soon filled the Ears of the Inhabitants of Tunis who in multitudes came flocking to the Prison to behold her amongst others was the Governour of the Town who was so stricken with Admiration at the Perfection of her Excellencies that he could not chuse but break forth into these Words O Mahomet what do I behold A Beauty able to tempt a Hermit from his Cell and make gray Hairs to become young again Who can look on her and not admire Who can admire and not love nay rather adore such great Vertues for can we think Nature would not put her best Jewels into so rich a Casket Certainly so smooth a Fore-head diamond Eyes rosie Cheeks coral Lips alabaster Neck so well featured a Body was not ordained for Captivity but rather to be embraced by a mighty Monarch I will therefore send her as a Present unto my Master the mighty Ottoman unto whom I know she cannot but be welcome as one that exceeds in Nature's Endowments the choicest Beauties in all his Seraglio Accordingly in pursuance of his intended Purpose he taketh the lovely Damsel out of Prison treats her nobly and cloaths her gorgeously who not willing to hide those Lustres wherewith she had captivated the Eyes of those Mahumetans employs her utmost Skill with the bravery of Apparel to add to those Perfections of Nature In the mean time a Messenger is dispatched to the Grand Seignior's Court to certifie him of the beautiful Prize which was coming to him the Governour with his Charge following more leisurely after When they put forth to Sea it is said that the Fishes danced and leaped about their Ship and though it was a Serene time and very calm Weather yet the Billows rose up gently as it were to behold her Face and having seen it sunk down again as it were in Obeysance to her They having arrived at Constantinople and word thereof brought to the Grand Seignior he straight gave order for her Reception which was indeed very magnificent more like the Off-spring of some mighty Potentate than a poor Costermonger's Daughter being attended by several Bashaws Cadies Mudressies Chiansies and Sansiacks with a great number of Saffies Calsies Hogies and Nupies after whom followed a strong Guard of Janisaries who altogether attended her to the Seraglio where she was received by the Aga of the Women and not long after visited by the Grand Seignior himself who beholding her exquisite Beauty having never seen such peerless Perfections before as if Nature herein had imitated Apelles to draw the several Excellencies of all Women into one Piece he stood as it were wrap'd into Admiration for a time at last recovering the use of his Speech he thus accosted her Most peerless Lady whose heavenly Beauty hath captivated my Heart and
the House is very long and at twelve of the clock it is full of Noblemen they sit upon Carpets on the ground the House is always full of People till midnight The last King Gembe never used to speak in the day but always in the night but this King speaketh in the day howbeit he spendeth most of the day with his Wives And when the King cometh in he goeth to the upper end of the House where he hath his Seat as it were a Throne and when the King is set they clap their hands and salute him saying in their Language Byam Pemba Ampola Moneya Quesinge On the South side of the Kings Houses he hath a Circuit or Village where his Wives dwell and in this Circuit no man may come on pain of death He hath in this place an hundred and fifty Wives or more and if any man be taken within this Circuit if he be with a Woman or do but speak to her they be both brought into the Market-place and their Heads be cut off their Bodies quartered and lie one day in the Streets The last King Gymbe had four hundred Children by his Women When the King drinketh he hath a Cup of Wine brought and he that bringeth it hath a Bell in his Hand and as soon as he hath delivered the Cup to the King he turneth his Face from him and ringeth the Bell then all that be there fall down upon their Faces and rise not till the King have drunk And this is very dangerous for any Stranger that knoweth not the fashions for if any seeth the King drink he is presently killed whatsoever he be There was a Boy of twelve years old which was the Kings Son this Boy chanced to come unadvisedly when his Father was a drinking presently the King commanded he should be well apparelled and Victuals prepared so the Youth did eat and drink afterwards the King commanded that he should be cut in quarters and carried about the City with Proclamation that he saw the King drink Likewise for the Kings Dyet when it is Dinner-time there is a House on purpose where he always eateth and there his Dyet is set upon a Bensa like a Table then he goeth in and hath the door shut and when he hath eaten he knocketh and cometh out so that none see the King eat nor drink for it is their belief that if he be seen eating or drinking he shall presently die This King is so honoured as though he were a God amongst them and is called Sambe and Pongo that is God and they believe that he can give them Rain when he listeth so once a year when it is time to rain which is in December the People come to beg it and bring their Gifts to the King for none come empty Then he appointeth the day and all the Lords far and near come to that Feast with all their Troops as they go in the Wars and when all the Troops of Men be before the King the greatest Lord cometh forth with his Bow and Arrows and sheweth his skill with his Weapons and then he hath a merry Conceit or Jest that he speaketh before the King and kneeleth at his feet and then the King thanketh him for his Love and in like manner they do all The King sitteth abroad in a great place and hath a Carpet spread upon the ground which is some fifteen Fathoms about of fine Eufacks which are wrought like Velvet and upon the Carpet his Seat which is a Fathom from the ground Then he commandeth his Dembes to strike up which are Drums so great that they cannot carry them He hath also eight Pongos which are his Waits made of the greatest Elephants Teeth and are hollowed and scraped light which play also so that with the Drums and Waits they make a Hellish noise After they have sported and shewed the King pleasure he ariseth and standeth upon his Throne and taking a Bow and Arrows into his Hand shooteth to the Sky and that day there is a great rejoycing because sometimes they have Rain which when it happens is a great Confirmation of their Folly Here is sometimes born in this Country White Children which is very rare among them for their Parents are Negroes and when any of them are born they are presented unto the King and are called Dondoes These are as white as any white man and are made the Kings Witches being brought up in Witchcraft and always wait on the King There is no man that dares meddle with these Dondoes if they go to the Market they may take what they list for all men stand in awe of them the King of Longo hath four of them This King is also a Witch and believeth in two Idols which are in Longo the one is called Mokisso a Longo the other is called Checocke This last is a little black Image and standeth in a little House at a Village that is called Kinga which standeth in the Landing-place of Longo The House of Checocke standeth in the High-way where all that go by clap their hands which is the courtesie of the Country Those that be Craftsmen as Fishermen Hunters and Witches do offer to this Idol that they may have good luck This Checocke doth sometimes in the night come and haunt some of his best beloved sometimes a Man sometimes a Boy or a Woman and then they befrantick for the space of three hours whatsoever the frantick Person speaketh that they think is the will of Checocke making a great Feast and Dancing at his House There is another Mokisso which is also in Ringa and it is called Gomberi it is the name of a Woman and is in an house where an old Witch dwelleth and she is called Ganga Gomberi which is the Priest of Gomberi Here once a year is a Feast made and Ganga Gomberi speaketh under the ground and this is a common thing every year I have asked the Negroes what it was and they told me it is a strong Mokisso that is come to abide with Chacocke There is a place two Leagues from the Town of Longo called Longeri where all their Kings be buried and it is compassed round about with Elephants Teeth pitched in the ground as it were a Pale being ten Roods in compass These People will suffer no white man to be buried in their Land and if any Stranger or Portugal come thither to trade and chance to die he is carried in a Boat two miles from the shore and cast into the Sea There was once a Portugal Gentleman that came to trade with them and had his House on shore thiâ— Gentleman died and was buried four moneths thaâ— year it did not rain so soon as it was wont which beginneth about December so that they lacked Rain some two months Then their Mokisso told them that the Christian which was buried must be taken out of the Earth and cast into the Sea and so he was taken up and cast into the Sea and
of a Conquerour made me thy Slave thou shining like a Star of the first Magnitude in Beauties Horizon well dost thou deserve to be the Queen of my Affections whom Nature hath already crowned with such transcendent Prerogatives Know then that I bid thee heartily welcome rare English Damsel and for those Excellencies which I do see in thee I will prefer thee before all the Women in my Seraglio making thee Empress of all my Domions as thou art already of my Heart Now though Women naturally do love to hear themselves praised especially by great men yet the sight to Majesty in so mighty a Prince did raise a modest Bashfulness inher and bespread her Cheeks with a Vermillion Tincture Silence for a while possessed her Lips at last recollecting her self with an humble Obeysance she returned this Answer Great Sir how much I am bound to your Goodness my Heart is as little able to conceive as my Tongue to express for which though I cannot in the least make you Satisfaction my Means being so infinitely below my Will yet shall not my Endeavours be at any time wanting wherewith to serve you in what may stand with my Honour Gracious Lady replyed the Grand Seignior the only thing I desire of you is your real Affection more worth to me than Crowns or Scepters 't is not your Portion but Person that I sue for and tho' I might have compelled you by Constraint yet I rather seek to win you by Love for forced Affection is but feigned and that Musick of Marriage is but a jarring Melody where Hearts are not joyned together as well as hands Worthy Prince answered the lovely Maid should I deny so great Honour I might justly be taxed of Folly in the highest degree If therefore dread Sir there be any thing in me worthy to be loved yours I am the highest of my Ambition being only to be entituled your Servant in it's largest Latitude Being thus agreed with reciprocal Joy on both sides next day was the Marriage solemnized in one of the principal Mosches of the City the Rites and Ceremonies were performed by the Mufti in his Pontificalibus She was most gorgeously attired at that time the Jewels that she wore being estimated at five thousand Pounds and that the Joy might be the more universal the Grand Seignior distributed amongst the Janisaries an hundred thousand Sultanies The next day the Grand Seignior sitting in the Divano with the Beglerbegs of Greece and Natolia together with several Bassas Sansiacks and other high Ministers of State the beautiful Lady was by a general Decree ordained chief Sultaness of all the Turkish Dominions and so to be honoured of all the People notwithstanding the former Custom that she who bore the first Son to the Emperour had only that Title conferred on her She was also made free at that time a great Honour amongst the Turks and immediately was by the Title of Sultaness proclaimed all over the City of Constantinople The Proverb says Give a Maid Luck and throw Her in the Sea she 'll thrive where e're she go Stones being thrown hard 'gainst the ground do by The force of that their Fall mount up on high Historical Observations out of several Authors AT such time as the Tartars began to reign and were first known in the World there were four Brethren the eldest of which Mongu reigned in Sedia These purposing to subdue the World went one to the East another to the North to the South a third which was Vlan and the other to the West This Vlan having an Army of an hundred thousand Horse besides Foot fought against the Caliph of Baldach a great City in the Confines of Tartaria whom he overcame and took both him and his City wherein he found infinite store of Treasure at which he greatly wondring sent for the Caliph whom he sharply reproved that having so much Treasure he would not therewith provide himself of Souldiers for his Defence and therefore commanded that he should be inclosed in that Tower where his Treasure was without any other Sustenance so long as he lived This say the Historians of that time seemed a just Judgment from our Lord Jesus Christ on him for he in the year 1225. seeking to convert the Christians to Mahomet and taking advantage on that place of the Gospel that he which hath Faith as much as a grain of Mustard-seed should be able to remove Mountains He convented all the Christians Nestorians and Jacobites and propounded to them in ten days to remove certain Mountains or turn Mahometans or be slain as not having one man amongst them which had the least Faith They therefore continued eight days in Prayer after which a certain Shoo-maker by Revelation to a Biship was designed to perform it This Shoo-maker once tempted to Lust by sight of a young Woman in putting on her Shoo zealously had fulfilled that of the Gospel and literally had put out his right Eye he now on the day appointed with other Christians following the Cross and lifting his hands to Heaven prayed to God to have Mercy on his People and then with a loud Voice commanded the Mountain in the Name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost to remove which presently with great Terror to the Caliph and all his People was effected And that day was for a long time after kept holy with fasting also on the Evening In Draugiana a Province of Persia near unto a City called Mulebet lived a seditious Persian named Aladine commonly called the old man of the mountain he had in a pleasant Valley betwixt two Mountains very high made a goodly Garden furnished with the best Trees and Fruits he could find adorned with divers Palaces and Houses of Pleasure beautified with Gold Works Pictures and Furnitures of Silk There divers Pipes ansvvering divers parts of these Palaces vvere seen to run Wine Milk Honey and clear Water In them he had placed goodly Damsels skilful in Songs and Instruments of Musick and Dancing and to make Sports and Delights unto men vvhatsoever they could imagine They vvere also fairly attired in Gold and Silk and vvere seen to go continually sporting in the Garden and Palaces This Place thus furnished vvith Delights he had made in imitation of Mahomet vvho had promised such a sensual Paradise to his devout Follovvers the entrance into vvhich he fortified vvith a strong Castle called Tigado Hither he brought all the lusty Youths he could light on casting them into Prison vvhere they endured much Sorrovv and Woe And vvhen he thought good he caused a certain Drink to be given them which cast them into a dead sleep then he caused them to be carried into divers Chambers of the said Palaces where they saw the things aforesaid as soon as they awaked each of them having those Damsels to minister Meats and excellent Drinks and all varieties of Pleasures to them insomuch that the Fools thought themselves to be in Paradise indeed Having enjoyed this Happiness a whole
with Acclamations till thou revenge my stained Blood Beorn who was not used to be welcomed home in such a Dialect much amazed at his Wives Maladies with gentle Words drew from her the Particulars of her inward Grief who revealed as well as Shame Tears and Sobs would suffer the manner of the deed still urging Revenge for the Wrong Beorn touched thus to the Quick to pacifie his distressed Wife did not a little dissemble his Wrath and excusing the Fact with the Power of a Prince that might command and her own Weakness unable to resist the Strength of a man commended much her Love and Constancy and alledging his Wrongs to be equal with hers if not greater in regard of their Sex willed her to set her string to his Tune till fit opportunity would serve to strike but she distasting that sweet Consort wrested her Passion into so high a Strain that nothing could be heard but Revenge and Blood Beorn thus instigated by the continual Cries of his Wife whose Rape already of it self had given sufficient cause of Wrath first consulting with his nearest Friends was offered their Assistance against that wicked and libidious Prince and then repairing to his Court in the presence of them all made known his unsufferable Wrongs resigning into his Hands all such Services and Possessions as he did hold of him and with utter defiance departed threatning his Death This done he took shipping and sailed into Denmark where he had great Friends as having his bringing up there before and is reported to have been allianced unto the Danish Blood so coming to Godorick King of that Country made his Case known instantly desiring his Aid against the Villany of Osbright Goderick glad to have some Quarrel to invade England levied an Army with all speed and preparation made for all things necessary sendeth forth Inguar and Hubba two Brethren to command in chief over an innumerable Multitude of his Danes which two he thought at this time the fittest for the attempt not only for their good Conduct and approved Valour but also for that he knew them to be on particular Motives which usually more affect than doth a common Cause implacably inraged against the English on an occasion unfortunately happening but most lamentably pursued which came to pass in manner as followeth A Danish Noble-man of Royal Extraction named Lothbroke which is in English no other than Leather-Breech the Father to the two Brothers Inguar and Hubba being upon the shore his Hawk in flying the Game fell into the Sea which to recover he entered a little Skiff or Cock-boat nothing fore-seeing the danger that immediately did ensue for a sudden Tempest arising carried the Boat into the Deep and drove him upon the Coast of Norfolk where he came to land at the Port called Rodham but see his Fortune no sooner had he scaped one danger but he fell into another for the People there took him for a Spy and as such a one presently sent him to Edmund then King of that Province but in his Answers he sufficiently cleared that Suspicion and also declaring his Birth and Misfortune was honourably entertained in the Court of that East-Angles King whom Edmund much esteemed for his other good Parts but for his dexterity and expertness in Hawking held him in special regard insomuch that his Faulkner named Berick envying the good parts of Lothbroke as being endued with none himself he therefore conceived such deadly hatred and malice thereat as having him at advantage alone in a Wood he cowardly murthered him and hid his dead Body in a Bush But Lothbroke whose noble Parts had made him eminent was soon miss'd and diligent Inquisition being made could not be found until his Spaniel which would not forsake his dead Master's Corps came fawningly unto the King as seeming to beg Revenge of so bloody an Act which he did more than once and at length being observed and followed by the Trace the dead Body was found and Bericke demonstrated to be the Murtherer and on sufficient Evidence convicted for the same his Judgment being to be put into Lothbroke's Boat and that without either Tackle or Oar as he therein arrived and so left to the Seas Mercy to be saved by Destiny or swallowed up by just desert But behold the Event the Boat returned to the same place and upon the same Coast arrived from whence it had been driven where being known to be Lothbroke's Boat Bericke was laid hands on who to free himself from the punishment of his butcherly Fact added Treason to Murther laying it to the charge of innocent King Edmund saying that the King had put him to death in the Country of Norfolk This was thought sufficiently worthy of Revenge to which Goderick's Quarrel being added did very much inflame the Courages of Inguar and Hubba the two Sons of the murthered Prince who thereupon having their Army in readiness set forth to Sea and first arriving at Holderness burn'd up the Country and without Mercy massacred all before them sparing neither Sex Calling nor Age and surprizing York which Osbright had taken for his Refuge there slew that lustful Prince with all his Forces making thereby good that Saying of the Poet. Those whose Delights are in the Cyprian Game Warming themselves in Lusts alluring Flame And wallowing in that Sin their Lives do spend Do seldom to the Grave in Peace descend Afterwards the two furious Brethren marched with their Army into Norfolk where they sent this Message unto King Edmund That Inguar the most victorious Prince dread both by Sea and Land having subdued divers Countries unto his Subjection and now arrived in those Parts where he meant to Winter charged Edmund to divide with him his Riches and to become his Vassal aend Servant The King being stricken into Astonishment at this strange and unexpected Message consulted with his Counsel what to do therein where one of his Bishops then his Secretary and a principal man used Persuasions to him to yield for preventing greater mischief who notwithstanding returned this Answer Go tell thy Lord that Edmund the Christian King for the love of this temporal Life will not subject himself to a Heathen and Pagan Duke Inguar and Hubba herewith exasperated with the furious Troops of their Danes pursued the King to Thetford and from thence to his Castle of Framingham where he pitying the terrible Slaughter of his People yielded himself to their Persecutions who because he would not deny Christ and the Christian Faith those Pagans first beat him with Bats then scourged him with Whips he still calling upon the name of Jesus for rage whereof they bound him to a Stake and with their Arrows shot him to death and cutting off his Head contemptuously threw it into a Bush Of which Head we have a Monkish Story written by the Author of their English Martyrology for which the Author doth very well deserve the Whet-stone viz. That when St. Edmund was murthered by the Danes the Christians
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