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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

to be men of a turbulent and contentious nature it was brought before King Philip that he might determine thereof according to his pleasure who is said to have passed this Sentence You said he to one of them I command immediately to run out of Macedon and you said he to the other see that you make all imaginable haste after him A good riddance of such Salamanders as delight to live in the fire of contention who commence quarrels upon trivial accounts and withall know no time wherein to end them 1. Gloucestershire did breed a Plaintiff and Defendant which betwixt them with many alternations traversed the longest suit that ever I read of in England For a suit was commenced betwixt the Heirs of Sir Thomas Talbot Viscount Lis●e on the one part and the Heirs of Lord Barkely on the other about certain possessions lying in this County not far from Woton Vnder-edge which suit began in the end of the reign of King Edward the fourth was depending untill the beginning of King Iames when and was it not high time it was finally compounded 2. There was in Padua an ancient House called de Limino two Brothers of this Family being in the Country on a Summers day went abroad after Supper talking of divers things together As they were standing and gazing upon the Stars that twinkled in the Firmament being then very clear one of them began in merriment to say to the other Would I had as many Oxen as I see Stars in that Skie The other presently returns And would I had a Pasture as wide as the Firmament and therewith turning towards his Brother where then said he wouldst thou feed thine Oxen marry in thy Pasture said his Brother But how if I would not suffer thee said the other I would said he whether thou wouldst or not What said he in despight of my teeth yea said the other whatsoever thou couldst do to the contrary Hereupon their sport turned to outragious words and at last to fu●y in the end they drew their Swords and sell to it so hotly that in the turn of a hand they ran one the other through the body so that one fell one and the other the other way both weltring in their blood The people in the House hearing the bustle ran in to them but came too late they carried them into the House where both soon after gave up the Ghost 3. An extraordinary accident hath of late happened saith Iustinianus in the Confines of Tuscany Iohn Cardinal de Medices Son to Cosmo Duke of Florence a young Prince of Great estimation got on Horseback to ride on hunting accompanied with two of his Brethren Fernand and Cartia attended with some others their Dogs having followed a Hare a long time in the Plains at last killed her The Brothers thereupon began to debate about the first hold each of them attributing the honour thereof to his Dog one speech drew on another and from bare words they fell at last to taunts the Cardinal not enduring to be set light by and being of a haughty nature gave his Brother Cartia who expostulated with him a box on the Ear Cartia carried away with his choler drew his Sword and gave such a thrust into his brother Cardinals thigh that he presently dyed A Servant of the Cardinals in revenge of his Master gave Cartia a sore wound so that with the Venison they carried home to Duke Cosmo one of his Sons dead and for Cartia his wound was also such as within a while after he dyed of it thus for a matter of nothing the Father lost two of his Sons in a deplorable sort 4. Sigebert was King of Essex and the restorer of Religion in his Kingdom which had formerly apostatized after the departure of Mellitus a Valiant and Pious Prince but murdered by two Villains who being demanded the cause of their cruelty why they killed so harmless and innocent a Prince had nothing to say for themselves but they did it because his goodness had done the Kingdom hurt that such was his proneness to pardon offenders on their though but seeming submission that his meekness made many Malefactors The great quarrel they had with him it seems was only his being too good 5. The Chancellour of Theodoricus Arch-bishop of Magdeburg was attending upon the Duke of Saxony and was sate down with him at his Table in the City of Berlin when the Citizens brake in upon them drew out the Chancellour by a multitude of Lictors into the Market place of the City and there sever his head from his Shoulders with the Sword of the publick Executioner and all this for no other cause but that a few dayes before going to the Bath he met a Matron courteously saluted her and jesting asked her if she would go into the Bath with him which when she had refused he laughing dismissed her but this was ground sufficient for the mad multitude to proceed to such extremities upon 6. In the reign of Claudius Caesar Cumanus being then President in Iewry the Jews came up from all parts to Ierusalem for the celebration of the Passover there were then certain Cohorts of the Roman Souldiers that lay about the Temple as a guard whereof one discovered his privy parts perhaps for no other reason than to ease himself of his Urine but the Jews supposing that the uncircumcised Idolater had done this in abuse of the Iewish Nation and Religion were so incensed against the Souldiers that they immediately fell upon them with Clubs and Stones the Souldiers on the other side defended themselves with their arms till at last the Jews oppressed with their own multitudes and the wounds they received were enforced to give over the conflict but not before there were twenty thousand persons of them slain upon the place 7. Fabius Ambustus had two Daughters the elder he married to Servius Sulpitius then Consul the younger to Licinius Stolo a gallant man but of the Plebeian order It fell out that the younger Fabia sitting at her Sisters House upon a visit to her in the interim came the Lictors and smote upon the door of the Consul as the manner was when the Consul came home The younger Fabia was affrighted at the noise as being ignorant of the custom for which reason she was mocked at and derided by her Sister as one ignorant of the City affairs This contempt of her was afterwards an occasion of great troubles in Rome For the Father vehemently importuned by his young Daughter ceased not though contrary to the Law and the mind of the greater part of the Senate till he had made his Son Stolo Consul though a Plebeian and extorted a Decree through his practise with the people that from thenceforth Plebeians might be Consuls 8. In the reign of King Edward the sixth there were two Sisters in Law the one was Queen Katharine Parre late Wife to King Henry the eighth and then marryed to the

to leave the Kingdom to the other But for all this the great Officers of the Court did most stoutly oppose him saying that since he had commerce with that servant she was ennobled by a superior Law and that her Son being the eldest ought not to lose the Rights and Privileges of his Birth The King notwithstanding persisted in his intentions and the rest to oppose them whereupon many were by the King's orders thrust out of their places oth●rs left them of their own accords and having let down the Ensigns of their Dignity hung the● at the Gate of the Palace and departed to their own Homes despising at once the Honour Profit Dignity and Revenue of their place only for the defence of Reason and the Laws and Customs of the Realm and the preservation of a just right of a youth that wanted protection The King at length though a more potent than himself had seldom sate on the Throne was yet enforced besides his custom to hold a Royal Audience and taking his eldest Son now as Prince he placed him next behind him and shewing him to the Mandarines he recommends unto them the care of the publick peace and quiet without doors assuring them that all was quiet in the Palace and that Thai Cham that was the name of the Prince should succeed him in the Kingdom as in effect it fell out 11. The Daughters of the Emperours of China have their Palaces in the City of Pekin one of the domestick Servants of one of those Princesses had committed sundry insolencies and amongst those one such crime as deserved death The Mandarines much desired to apprehend him but in the Palace they could not and he never went abroad but when he waited on his Princess At length a Mandarine resolved to take him by any means he could and therefore when the Princess went next abroad he with his men set himself before the Coaches made them stop and then presently laid hands on that man and carried him away The Princess resenting the affront that was done her returned presently to the Palace full of indignation and was so transported with choler that not staying the Kings return from the Audience where he then was she went thither in person to complain The Mandarine was presently sent for who had put himself in readiness supposing he should be called He presented himself before the King who sharply reproved him He answered Sir I have done nothing but that which your Majesty commandeth and your Law ordaineth But you ought replied the King to haue sought some other time and opportunity I have sought it long enough answered the Mandarine but I should never have found it At least said the King ask my Daughter pardon and bow your head Where there is no fault said the other there is no need of pardon neither will I ask pardon for having discharged my office Then the King commanded two Mandarines that by force they should bow down his head to the ground but he by strength kept up himself so stiff that it was not possible for them to do it so that the King sent him away and a few days after gave order he should have a better office bestowed upon him being well pleased with his integrity and generous zeal to Justice 12. The Turks had taken the City of Buda in Hungary the Inhabitants being fled out of it for fear But the Castle was guarded by German Soldiers under the command of Thomas Nadast the Governour these Germans also affrighted began to confer with the enemy about the surrender of the Castle which Nadast not enduring being full of courage and constancy he brake off their conference and commanded the Guns to be planted against the enemy these cowards converting their minds to villany laid hands upon their Captain bound him while he threatned in vain and having conditioned for the safety of their lives and goods yield up the Castle when the Turks were entred and found Nadast in Bonds they related all to their Emperour as they had heard it from him who was so incensed with their persidious cowardise that he immediately sent out his Janizaries after them to cut them all in pieces as for Nadast he freed him of his bonds caused him to be brought into his presence highly commended him invited him with a liberal stipend to serve on his side and when he refused honourably dismissed him 13. Papinianus was the honour of Lawyers and to this great man it was to whom the Emperour Severus dying recommended his two Sons with the government of the Empire but the impious Caracalla having embrew'd his hands in the blood of his Brother Ge●a was desirous that this excellent person should set some colour by his eloquence before the Senate and people upon an action so barbarous to which proposal of 〈◊〉 freely made answer it was more easie to commit a patricide than to justifie it uttering this truth to the prejudice of his head which this wretched Prince caused to be cut off 14. The Father of Lycurgus being slain in a popular tumult the Kingdom of Sparta descended to Polydecta the elder Brother but he soon after dying it came in all mens opinion to Lycurgus and he reigned till such time as it was known that the wife of his Brother was with child This once clearly discovered he declared that the Kingdom did appertain to the Son of Polydecta in case his Wife should be delivered of a Male Child in the mean time he administred the Kingdom in the quality of Protector But the Lady privately sent to Lycurgus offering him to cause an abortion in case that he thereby receiving the Kingdom would also receive her as his Wife He though detesting the impiety of the woman yet rejected not her offer but as one that approved and accepted the condition represented to her that by no means she should endanger the state of her body by any such harsh medicaments as that case would require but that as soon as she was safely delivered it should be his care to see that the Child should be made away By this means he fairly drew on the woman even to the time of her Travel which as soon as he was informed of he ordered persons to be present together with a Guard attending there with this precept that in case she should be delivered of a Girl they should leave it with the women but if otherwise they should by all means forthwith convey it to himself It so fell out that as he sate at Supper with the Nobles she was delivered of a Male Child and the Boy was brought to him where he then was As soon as he received him he said to them that were present O ye Spartans there is a King born to us and so placed him in the Throne of the Kingdom he gave him the name of C●arilaus because all persons received him with greatest expressions of joy and highest admiration of the justice and greatness of his

father was somewhat ashamed of him had thoughts of creating another Successour to himself and for the benefit of the Common-Wealth to have taken at once from his son both the title of Caesar and his life it self but the evil fortune of the Roman Empire at this time intercepted all his purposes by a sudden death 9. Saladine who left so great a name behind him left also the Kingdom of Syria to his son Noradine whose sloth and unprincely qualities were such that he was driven out by the people and his Uncle Saphadine set up in his stead after which he had so exhausted his own Patrimony that he was fain to subsist upon the mercy and charity of his brothers and at last died with the just reproaches of all men 10. Iohannes Galleacius who first had the title of Duke of Millaine was a Prince of a great and liberal mind and adorn'd with all other vertues that were to be required in a great person he was belov'd at home and fear'd abroad He was possessed of a great part of Italy which he had gain'd with much honour so that he was thought superiour rather than equal to some Christian Kings This man left his son Iohn to succeed him than whom Phalaris himself was not more cruel what his father had got by blood and valour and sweat this mad-man lost at least the greater part thereof laughing so that at last growing hateful and contemptible to his own people he was flain by them And his other son Gabriel having lost Pisa whereof he was possessed was openly beheaded at Genoa 11. Although Cassander through his equity and industry in his affairs had many who voluntarily became the followers of his greatness yet he made war upon divers Cities of Greece the destruction of which as a neighbouring fire struck such terror into the Spartans that they then first surrounded their City with Walls which before they only defended with their arms So far were they degenerated from the vertue of their Ancestors that whereas for many Ages the valour of the Citizens had been the only Wall of their City the Citizens now thought they could not be safe unless they lay hid behind the Walls of their City 12. Franciscus Sfortia Duke of Millaine amongst Christian Princes excelled in all kind of vertues he was not inferiour to Trajan for humanity and to the degree of his fortune was reputed as liberal as Alexander the Great But his sons did mightily degenerate from the so great vertue of their father Galeacius the Elder was ambitious and lustful proud of the least successes and extreamly dejected when any adversity befell him Philip the second son was corpulent foolish and a coward Ludovicus was prophane saying That Religion and Justice were fictions invented to keep the people in order he was of a haughty mind covetous lustful broken in adversity and unfortunate if not cowardly for though he had greater forces than his enemy he lost that Dukedom to Lewis the 12. King of France in sixteen daies which his father had gain'd by arms and kept with the singular love and benevolence of all men to the day of his death 13. Phocion was an excellent person but his son Phocus was so dissolute and resigned up to intemperance and excessive drinking that he could not be reclaimed by the Spartan discipline it self When Menyllus had presented Phocion with a great gift and he had refused it he requested that he would at least permit his son Phocus to receive it If said he my son Phocus reform himself he will have a Patrimony sufficient to maintain him but as he now behaves himself there is nothing that can be enough for him 14. Marcus Tullius Cicero the famous Orator had a son of the same name but of a very different nature for whereas his father was a temperate and abstemious person his son was so addicted to Wine that he would swallow down two Gallons at once and in one of his drunken fits he so far forgot himself that he struck M. Agrippa upon the head with a Pot. 15. Theodosius the great was a most happy and fortunate Emperour but in this one thing unfortunate for he left behind him two sons Honorius in the West and Arcadius in the East both Emperours but both so slothful and unlike their father that partly by that and partly by the treachery of Ruffinus and Stilichon the Empire was miserably and foully dilacerated by the Goths Hunnes and Vandalls 16. The sons of the Emperour Constantine the Great were as much below the Genius of their father in all praise worthy things as he did surpass all other Princes in piety and true greatness of mind For in respect of the Government of his life no man was more heedless than his son Constantinus Constans the second son was a man much addicted to unseemly pleasures And Constantius the third son was yet more intollerable by reason of his inconstancy and arrogance 17. Casimirus was fetcht out of a Monastery and made King of Poland a man of great vertue but his son Boleslaus who succeeded him in the Kingdom did much degenerate from the noble example of his father For he was a despiser and contemner of Religion a neglecter of the administration of Justice and of a cruel nature and disposition He slew Sanctus Stanisiaus the Arch-bishop of Cracovia and at last died himself an exile from his Country 18. Herodes Atticus the Sophist in respect of his wit and eloquence was second to none of his time yet had he a son of his called also Atticus who was of so dull and stupid a nature that he could never be made capable of understanding the first rudiments and elements of learning CHAP. V. Of undutiful and unnatural Children to their Parents SOlon would never establish any Law against Parricides or Parent-killers saying The gods forbid that a Monster should ever come into our Common-Wealth and certain it is that six hundred years from the building of Rome were over-past before so much as the name of that crime was known amongst them The first that killed his Father and stained his hands in the blood of him that gave him life was Lucius Ostius a person afterwards detested throughout all Ages P. Malleolus was the first saith Livy amongst the Romans who was known to have killed his Mother and who underwent that punishment which was by the institution of the Ancients in that case They ordained that the Parricide should be first scourged to blood then sown up in a Sack together with a Dog a Cock a Viper and an Ape and so thrown head-long into the bottom of the Sea But notwithstanding the severity of this Law and those of other Nations against a crime of this nature there are too many Instances of unnatural children as in part will appear by what follows 1. Antiochus a Jew accus'd his own Father and some other Jews then living at Antioch that

dead more than twenty two years before The Emperor Rudolphus at that time laid Siege to Colmaria but not a little moved that this Impostour had got together a great Force and that divers of the Nobles and Cities in the Lower Germany took part with him he desisted from his Siege came down the Rhine as one that made hast to pay his obeysance to the old Emperour but having once seized upon him and demanded Who Whence and for what reason he had done such things he caused him to be burnt in the Town of Witzlar 9. In the same Germany Anno 1348. there was a notable Impostour about Voldemarus Marquess of Brandenburgh the Marquess had been abroad and missing whether lost or dead for thirty one years when Rudolphus Duke of Saxony considered which way he might deprive Ludovicus Bavarus of his Marquisate of Brandenburgh To this purpose he kept privately about him a Miller whom he instructed with all requisite art and subtilty and gave out that he was the Marquess divers Castles and Towns were hereupon yielded up to him the Bavarians and their Assistants were overthrown by him in one great Battel wherein Rudolphus Count Palatine of the Rhine with seventy nine Knights were taken Prisoners three years did this Miller bear up till at last he was taken and adjudged to the ●lames to the Infamy of his Abettours 10. Balwine the eighth was Earl of Flanders and Hannonia afterwards Emperour of Constantinople slain in a Battel against the Bulgarians Twenty years after his death Bernardus Rainsus a Campanian gave himself out to be the Emperour long imprisoned but now at liberty the gravity of his Countenance the remembrance of former men and things the exact knowledge of his Pedegree deceived even the most cautious and circumspect much trouble he created till at last cited before Lewis the eighth King of France and not able to answer such questions as were by him propounded he was reputed and sent away as an Impostour after which taken in Burgundy he was sent to I●anna Countess of Flanders and by her order strangled 11. The like to this fell out in Spain when Alphonsus was King of Arragon a youth of about eleven years of age and under the Government of his mother there rose up one who gave out of himself That he was that old Alphonsus twenty eight years past reported to be slain at Fraga to colour his absence all that while he said How that out of a weariness of humane affairs he went into Asia and the Holy Land where he had fought in the Wars for God and Religion that having now expiated his sins he was returned to his Subjects The matter took with many and he had undoubtedly raised some considerable stirs there but that being taken at Augusta he there hang'd himself CHAP. XXXV Of the huge Ambition of some men and their thirst after Soveraignty HEliogabalus sometimes took his Courtiers and commanded them to be ty'd and trussed fast to a great Wheel and then turned and rolled them up and down in the water taking infinite pleasure to see them sometimes aloft sometime below sometime to tast the sweetness of the air and sometime to be deeply plunged in the water where of necessity they drank more than enough Ambitious men daily act the same play but they personate it tragically and therefore it was well advised by one of the Kings of France when his Chancellour shewed him his own lively Effigies upon a piece of Arras standing upon the uppermost part of Fortunes Wheel You would do well said he to pin it fast lest it should turn again Yet all considerations of this kind are two little to rebate the keenness of some mens soaring minds who are in continual Fevors to be great though for never so little a time and at what rate soever 1. At the Election of the Pope the great Ambition of Cardinal William Rhotomagensis was visible even in the scrutiny for being timerous and fearful things would not happen as he expected seeing Cardinal Aeneas going towards the Schedule he said to him with an humble and submissive voice Aeneas I recommend my self to thee remember me I beseech thee and have compassion on me Aeneas answered him only thus Poor Worm thou mistakest in recommending thy self to me His Ambition was moreover conspicuous in the prayers he went mumbling about yet so as his Neighbours might understand him lifting up his eyes and his voice to Heaven and joining his hands he cried out Deus propitius esto mihi peccatori God be merciful unto me a sinner The scrutiny being published it appeared that Aeneas had three voices more than Rotomagensis and by the accession of Cardinal Prosper Colonna was then made Pope 2. When Stephen that good and great King of Poland was dead and that the usual Assembly was called for the Election of a new King the Great Cham of Tartary was also there by his Embassadours who in his name told them That he was a Potent Prince able of his own Subjects to lead many Myriads of Horse into the Field for either the defence or inlargement of Poland That he was also frugal and temperate and setting aside all delicate dishes his manner was to asswage his hunger with only Horses flesh In the next place as to matters of Religion concerning which he heard they were in dispute their Pope should be his Pope and their Luther his Luther No marvel if this Embassy was received with laughter when they beheld a man ready to part at once with Religion and all things Sacred for the very desire he had after Rule 3. After the Noble exploits of Sertorius in Spain had put those on his part almost in equal hopes with their enemies Perpenna too much rerelying upon the Nobility of his Descent ambitiously aspired to the power of Sertorius to that purpose he sowed the seeds of dissention in the Army and amongst the Captains and the Conspiracy being ripe he invited Sertorius with other his Officers Confederate with him to supper and there caused him to be murdered Immediately the Spaniards revolted from Perpenna and by their Embassadours yielded themselves to Pompey and Metellus Perpenna soon shewed he was a man that knew neither how to command nor to obey he was speedily broken and taken by Pompey nor did he bear his last misfortune in such manner as became a General for having the Papers of Sertorius in his hands he promised to Pompey to shew him Letters from consular persons and under the hands of the chiefest men in the City whereby Sertorius was invited into Italy Pompey burnt the Letters and all Sertorius his Papers not looking upon any of them himself nor suffering any other and then caused Perpenna to be dispatched that he might free the City of a mighty fear and this was the end of the foolish Ambition of Perpenna 4. Alexander was at the Siege of Tyrus when a second time there came to him

should be the foremost leaving the rich and wealthy spoil of the Camp to the Enemy 25. Iohannes Capistranus was appointed Judge by King Ladislaus and by his command to examine a certain Earl accused of Treason by tortures having convicted him he condemn'd him to lose his head as also the Son of the Earl by the Kings order had the same sentence but yet with this purpose only that stricken with fear he should betray some of his Fathers counsels if possibly he had been partaker of them but if he was found innocent that then he should be spared They were therefore both lead to the place of Execution where when the Son had seen his Father beheaded and verily believ'd he was destin'd to the same punishment seis'd with an extraordinary fear he fell down dead with whose unexpected fate the Judge was so vehemently affected that according to the superstition of that age leaving a secular life he betook himself to a Monastery 26. I will close up this Chapter with a pleasant History yet such as will serve well to inform us how dreadful the Lords of the Inquisition are to the poor Spaniards One of these Inquisitors desiring to eat some Pears that grew in a poor mans Orchard not far from him sent for the man to come and speak with him This message put the poor man in such a fright that he fell sick immediately upon it and kept his bed But being inform'd that his Pears were the only cause of his sending for he caus'd his Tree to be presently cut down and carry'd with all the Pears on it to the Inquisitors House and being afterwards demanded the reason of that his unhusbandly action he protested that he would not keep that thing about him which should give an occasion for any of their Lordships to send for him any more CHAP. XI Of the Passion of Anger and the strange effects of it in some Men. THis headstrong and impetuous Affection of the mind is well describ'd by some of the Ancients to be a short madness for whereas other passions do impel this doth use to precipitate us others though we cannot resist yet we may stand under them but this as a mighty and irresistible torrent bears all the powers of our minds before it A disease it is that wheresoever it prevails is no less dangerous than deforming to us not only doth it swell the sace in●lame the blood and as the Poet hath it a bloody fierceness makes The eyes to glow like a Gorgonian Snakes But withal like the mischievous evil Spirit in the Gospel that threw the possessed now into the fire and then into the Water it casts us into all kind of dangers and frequently hurries us into to the Chambers of death it self as appears by some of the following Examples 1. Being call'd in November 1604. to the House of a certain Prefect saith Platerus to couch a Cataract that was grown in the eye of his Wife the Prefect was informed that his Maid had that night lain with a Miller causing her therefore to be fetch'd home and catching her by the hair of the head he threw her to the ground kick'd her and fell into so great passion that being presently seised with difficulty of breathing and a trembling there was more need to look after him than his Wife Before any Medicine was administred he was advis'd by a Chirurgeon to open a Vein but to no purpose his want of breath trembling and prostration of the spirits continuing he dyed within two days after 2. Charles the Sixth King of France being highly displeas'd with the Duke of Britain upon some sinister suspicions was so bent upon revenge that unmindful of all other things his passion suffered him not to eat or sleep He would not hear the Dukes Embassadors that came to declare his innocency But upon the fifth of the Kalends of Iune anno 1392. he set forth with his forces out of a City of the Caenomans contrary to the advice of his Commanders and Physicians about high noon in a hot sultry day with a light hat upon his head He leap'd upon his Horse and bad them follow him that lov'd him He had scarce gone a mile from the City when his mind was unseated and he in a fu●y drew his Sword slew some and wounded others that attended him till such time as wearied and spent with thus laying about him he fell from his Horse he was taken up and carryed back in the arms of men into the City for dead where after many days when at first he neither knew himself nor any about him he began by degrees to recover but his mind was not so well restored but that ever and anon he had symptoms of a relapse and at several intervals betray'd his distemper so that the Government of the Kingdom was committed to his Uncles 3. Malachus a Poet in Syracuse had such fits of immoderate choler and anger as took away the use of his Reason yet was he then most able in the composure of Verses when he was thus made frantick by his passion 4. Lucius Sylla burning with anger at Puteoli because Granius the chief of that Colony delay'd to send in for the repairs of the Capitol that Money which was promised by the Decurions by an over great concitation of the Mind and the impetuousness of an immoderate Voice he was taken with a convulsion in the breast and so vomited up his soul mixed with blood and threats being at that time entring upon the sixtieth year of his age yet not consum'd by that but perishing by a madness that was nourish'd by the miseries of Rome 5. Into what extremes some men have been transported by passion the example of Pope Iulius the Third is too Illustrious he at dinner time had commanded a roasted Peacock to be set by for him till supper as being much delighted with that sort of meat Being at supper he call'd for it once and again but it being before eaten up by the Cooks could not be set on the Table Whereupon he fell into so violent a passion for this delay that at length he brake out into this blasphemous 〈◊〉 that he would have that Peacock Al 〈◊〉 Iddio that is in despite of God And when those of his attendants that stood about him entreated he would not be so far moved for so slight a thing as a Peacock he to defend his former blasphemy by a greater in a mighty passion demanded why he who was so great a Lord upon Earth might not be angry for a Peacock when God himself was in such a fury for one only inconsiderable Apple eaten in Paradise that he would the whole Posterity of the first man should suffer so deeply for it 6. Theodosius the Elder though otherwise a most pious Prince was yet very subject to the transports of anger nor was he able to bridle his passion So that at Thessalonica upon a seditious tumult in the

Theatre he gave order to his Soldiers and they kill'd no less than seven thousand of the Citizens Upon which St. Ambrose the Bishop of Milain would not suffer him to enter the Church till he had shewed the manifest signs of an unfeigned repentance 7. The Emperour Nerva who was otherwise of a weak stomach and often cast up his meat which he had newly eaten fell into a huge passion with one whose name was Regulus and while he was in a high tone thundring against him was taken with sweats fell into a fever and so dyed in the sixty eighth year of his age 7. The Sarmatian Embassadors cast themselves at the feet of the Emperour Valentinian the First imploring peace he observing the meanness of their apparel demanded if all their Nation were such as they who reply'd It was their custom to send to him such as were the most noble and best accoutred amongst them When he in a rage cry'd out It was his misfortune that while he Reign'd such a sordid Nation as theirs could not be content with their own limits and then as one struck with a dart he lost both his voice and strength and in a deadly sweat fell down to the Earth he was taken up and carryed into his Chamber where seis'd with a violent Hick-up and gnashing of Teeth he dyed December anno 375. in the fifty fifth year of his age and the twelfth of his Empire 9. Victor Pisanus the Venetian Admiral famous for his exploits understanding that his Vice-Admiral through cowardise had suffered ten Ships of the Genoeses to escape out of the Sipontine Haven fell into such a passion as put him immediatly into a Fever whereof he dyed 10. Clitus was a person whom Alexander held very dear as being the Son of his Nurse and one who had been educated together with himself He had sav'd the life of Alexander at the battle near the River Granicus and was by him made the Prefect of a Province but he could not flatter and detesting the effeminacy of the Persians at a Feast with the King he spake with the liberty of a Macedonian Alexander transported with anger slew him with his own hands though when the heat was over he was difficultly restrain'd from killing himself for that fault which his sudden fury had incited him to commit 11. Caelius the Orator was certainly the most passionate person of all other Mortals for having ask'd his Client divers questions and he agreeing with him in all things he questioned about in a great heat he cry'd out in open Court Say something contrary to me that so we may be two A man of a harsh temper how could he possibly endure an injury who was not able to bear obsequiousness it self 12. The Emperour Commodus in a heat of passion caus'd the Keeper of his Bath to be thrown into a burning Furnace ●or no other reason but that entring into the Bath he found it somewhat too warm for him 13. Matthias Corvinus King of Hungary being spent with the pains of the Gout and taken with a Palsey in both his Legs lay at Vienna and one Palm Sunday enquiring for some fresh Figs of Italy for the second course finding that they were already eaten up by the Courtiers he fell into such a rage as brought him into an Apoplexy whereof he died the day following in the forty seventh year o● his age and the year of our Lord 1490. 14. Anno 1418 W●nceslaus King of Bohemia being highly incensed against his Cup-bearer for that knowing of a tumult raised by the Hussites in Prague under Zis●a their Leader he had concealed it drew his Dagger with intention to stab him The Nobles attending laid hold on the King took away his Dagger that he might not pollute his Royal Hands with the blood of his servant While he was thus in their hands the King through extreme anger fell into an Apoplexy whereof he died in a ●ew days 15. Muccius Fortia had from his birth an impediment in his speech such as that not without great di●●iculty he could deliver his mind till one time being in an extreme passion he was so mov'd and laboured with that earnestness to speak that f●om thenceforth he spake with far greater freedom 16. In that War which the Goths waged with Belisarius there was one of the Soldiers in the Regiment of Constantine a military Tribune who had forcibly taken a Sword of great value from a Roman Youth Belisarius sharply reprov'd Constantine that he suffered things to be done with that insolence by the Soldiers under his command threatening him withal in case the Sword was not speedily found out and restored Constantine resented this in so heynous a manner that in the greatness of his rage not considering either the Dignity of his General or the hazard of his own life he drew out his Dagger intending to sheath it in the Breast of Belisarius but he was immediately laid hold upon and presently hanged 17. It is the custom in Rome that upon Ashwednesday the Pope sprinkle ashes upon the heads of the Prelates saying Remember thou art but Ashes and into Ashes thou shalt return Pope Boniface the Eighth who was an utter enemy to the Gibelline Faction being to do this and coming to Porchetus Spinola the Archbishop of Genoa who was supposed to be of that party instead of casting the Ashes upon his head in great anger he threw them into his eyes and thus inverted the usual words Remember that thou art a Gibelline and that with the Gibellines thou shalt return to Ashes 18. Valerius Publicola upon the expulsion of the Tarquines from Rome expected that he should have been elected Colleague with Brutus in the Consulship but when he found that Lucretius Collatinus was preferred before him he conceived such an indignation thereat that he made resignation of all the honours which he had before that time receiv'd he quitted the dignity of a Senator gave over patronizing any causes and renounced all sorts of Clients nor thenceforth would he exercise any publick office in the Common-wealth 19. This one strange thing is reported of Scanderbeg the King of Epirus that whensoever he he was upon the point ready to charge the Enemy and likewise in the heat and ●ury of the Fight besides other unusual changes and appearances of change and alteration in his countenance his neather lip would commonly cleave asunder and yield forth great abundance of blood A thing oftentimes marked and observed of him not only in his Martial Actions and Exploits but even in his civil A●●airs whensoever his choler did abound and that his anger did exceed its ordinary bounds 20. Carolus de Gontault Duke of Byron a Peer and Marshal of France and Governour of Burgundy was found the Chief of those that had conspired the death of the King Henry the Fourth and thereupon anno 1602 had sentence of death passed upon him to have