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A08802	Nine sermons vpon sun[drie] texts of scripture first, The allegeance of the cleargie, The supper of the Lord, secondly, The Cape of Good Hope deliuered in fiue sermons, for the vse and b[ene]fite of marchants and marriners, thirdly, The remedie of d[r]ought, A thankes-giuing for raine / by Samuel Page ...	Page, Samuel, 1574-1630.	1616 (1616)	STC 19088.3; ESTC S4403	1,504,402	175

with a little swelling with a knife or lancet so breaking and opening a way for them notwithstanding that a little fluxe of blood will follow by the tension of the gummes of which kind of remedy I have with prosperous and happy successe made tryall in some of mine owne children in the presence of Feureus Altinus and Cortinus Doctors of Physick and Guillemeau the Kings Chirurgian which is much better and more safe than to doe as some nurses doe who taught onely by the instinct of nature with their nailes and scratching breake and teare or rent the childrens gummes The Duke of Nevers had a sonne of eight moneths old which died of late and when wee with the Physitians that were present diligently sought for the cause of his death we could impute it unto nothing else than to the contumacious hardnesse of the gums which was greater than was convenient for a childe of that age for therefore the teeth could not breake forth nor make a passage for themselves to come forth of which our judgement this was the tryall that when we cut his gummes with a knife we found all his teeth appearing as it were in an array ready to come forth which if it had bin done when he lived doubtlesse he might have beene preserved The End of the twenty fourth Booke OF MONSTERS AND PRODIGIES THE TWENTY FIFTH BOOK THE PREFACE WEe call Monsters what things soever are brought forth contrary to the common decree and order of nature So wee terme that infant monstrous which is borne with one arme alone or with two heads But we define Prodigies those things which happen contrary to the whole course of nature that is altogether differing and dissenting from nature as if a woman should bee delivered of a Snake or a Dogge Of the first sort are thought all those in which any of those things which ought and are accustomed to bee according to nature is wanting or doth abound is changed worne covered or defended hurt or not put in his right place for somtimes some are born with more fingers than they should other some but with one finger some with those parts devided which should be joyned others with those parts joyned which should bee devided some are borne with the privityes of both sexes male and female And Aristotle saw a Goate with a horne upon her knee No living creature was ever borne which wanted the Heart but some have beene seene wanting the Spleene others with two Spleenes and some wanting one of the Reines And none have bin known to have wanted the whole Liver although some have bin found that had it not perfect and whole and there have beene those which wanted the Gall when by nature they should have had it and besides it hath beene seene that the Liver contrary to his naturall site hath lien on the left side and the Spleene on the right Some women also have had their privities closed and not perforated the membranous obstacle which they call the Hymen hindering And men are sometimes borne with their fundaments eares noses and the rest of the passages shut and are accounted monstrous nature erring from its entended scope But to conclude those Monsters are thought to portend some ill which are much differing from their nature CHAP. I. Of the cause of Monsters and first of those Monsters which appeare for the glory of God and the punishent of mens wickednesse THere are reckoned up many causes of monsters the first whereof is the glory of God that his immense power may be manifested to those which are ignorant of it by the sending of those things which happen contrary to nature for thus our Saviour Christ answered the Disciples asking whether he or his parents had offended who being born blind received his sight from him that neither he nor his parents had committed any fault so great but this to have happened onely that the glory and majesty of God should be divulged by that miracle and such great workes Another cause is that God may either punish mens wickednesse or shew signes of punishment at hand because parents sometimes lye and joine themselves together without law and measure or luxuriously and beastly or at such times as they ought to forbeare by the command of God and the Church such monstrous horrid and unnaturall births doe happen At Verona Anno Dom. 1254. a mare foaled a colt with the perfect face of a man but all the rest of the body like an horse a little after that the warre betweene the Florentines and Pisans began by which all Italy was in a combustion The figure of a Colt with a mans face About the time that Pope Julius the second raised up all Italy and the greatest part of Christendome against Lewis the twelfth the King of France in the yeere of our Lord 1512. in which yeere upon Easter day neere Ravenna was fought that mortall battell in which the Popes forces were overthrowne a monster was borne in Ravenna having a horne upon the crowne of his head and besides two wings and one foot alone most like to the feet of birds of prey and in the knee thereof an eye the privities of male and female the rest of the body like a man as you may see by the following figure The figure of awinged Monster The third cause is an abundance of seed overflowing matter The fourth the same in too little quantity and deficient The fift the force and efficacy of imagination The sixt the straightnesse of the wombe The seaventh the disorderly site of the party with childe and the position of the parts of the body The eighth a fall straine or stroake especially upon the belly of a woman with child The ninth hereditary diseases or affects by any other accident The tenth the confusion and mingling together of the seed The eleventh the craft and wickednesse of the divell There are some others which are accounted for monsters because they have their originall or essence full of admiration or doe assume a certaine prodigious forme by the craft of some begging companions therefore we will speak briefly of them in their place in this our treatise of monsters CHAP. II. Of monsters caused by too great abundance of seed SEeing wee have already handled the two former and truely finall causes of monsters we must now come to those which are the matereall corporeall and efficient causes taking our beginning from that we call the too great abundance of the matter of seed It is the opinion of those Philosophers which have written of monsters that if at any time a creature bearing one at once as man shall cast forth more seed in copulation than is necessary to the generation of one body it cannot be that onely one should bee begot of all that therefore from thence either two or more must arise whereby it commeth to passe that these are rather judged wonders because they happen seldome and contrary to common custome Superfluous parts

him it being for his owne good And in like manner he getts into the Whales mouth and there lodging himselfe sleepes when he sleepes and leaves him not either by day or night Of Cranes CRanes when they are to take a long journey into some Countrey crosse the seas put their company in so good order that no Captaine can put his soldiers in better For before they stir out of any place they have as it were their trumpets to call them together and encourage them to fly They come together and then fly up on high that they may see a far off choosing a Captaine whom they are to follow They have their Serjants to take care of their rankes and keepe their nightly watches by turnes Plutarch tells us that the Crane which is appointed to stand Sentinell for all the rest holds a stone in her foote to the end that if she chance to give way to nature and sleepe she may be waked by the noise of the falling stone The leader lifting up his head and stretching out his long necke lookes about him farre and wide and gives warning to the rest of any danger that may befall them The strongest leade the way that they may the better with the flapping of their wings breake the force of the aire and this they doe by turnes And that they may the easilier prevaile against the force and opposition of the winds they dispose their company into a wedge in the forme of the Greeke letter Δ or a triangle and being skilfull in the starres they foresee when tempests are comming and fly downe to the ground to keepe themselves from the injury of the approaching storme Of Geese THe Geese of Sicilie doe with great warinesse take care that by their ceeking and their noyse they doe not expose themselves to the rapacity of Birds of prey for Plutarch sayth that when they are to fly over the hill Taurus for feare of the Eagles that are there they hold stones in their mouthes to keepe themselves from gaggling untill that they come unto a place where they may be secure Of Dragons NEither are the Dragons lesse crafty for thus doe they overcome those vaste and otherwise invincible beasts the Elephants They lye in ambush and suddainly set upon the Elephants where they feare no such matter and involve their leggs with the twines of their taile in such sort that they are not able to goe forward and stop their nosthrils with their heads so that they cannot fetch their breath they pull out their eyes and wheresoever they find the skin most tender there they bite and sucke the blood untill they make them fall downe dead Pliny sayth that there are Dragons found in Aethiopia of ten Cubits long but that in India there are Dragons of an 100. foot long that fly so high that they fetch Birds and take their prey even from the midst of the cloudes Of the Fish called the Fisherman THis Fish is called the Fisherman because he hunts and takes other Fishes which he doth almost by the same cunning which the Cuttell uses for he hath hanging at his throat a certaine bagge like the Wattells of a Turckycocke This when hee listeth he casteth out and layeth before the little fishes for a baite and then by litle and litle drawes it up againe untill he catch for food the litle fishes seazing upon it as a prey Of the Cuttell Fish VVOnderfull is the craft of the Cuttell Fishes for they carry a bladder at their necke full of a blacke juice or Inke which they poure forth as soone as they feele themselves taken that so they may blinde the eyes of the Fishermen as Plutarch saith and as Aristotle witnesseth they with their long fangs doe not onely hunt and take little Fishes but oftentimes also Mullets Of the Armes or weapons of brute beasts BRute beasts are naturally so furnished with armes that they have no neede to get make or borrow in any other place And some of them neverthelesse are so furnished with such armes that they captivate those which hold them prisoners an example of this is the Torpedo which doth not onely hurt by touch but also by the net being betweene he breathes such a quality from him as stupifies the hands of the Fishermen so that they are forced to let goe their nets and so let him goe moreover if it touch a ship it makes it stay Thevet writes that the Persian bay towards Arabia nourishes a Fish equall in length and thicknesse to a Carpe on every side encompassed with sharpe and strong pricks like our Porcupine with which hee fights against all kinds of fish If a man chance but to be lightly hurt either with these or his teeth he will dye within 24. houres Of the fish Vtelif HEe saith moreover that as he was carryed by force of tempest through the Atlanticke Ocean he saw this fish having as it were a Saw in his forehead of three foot long and foure fingers broad armed on each side with sharpe spikes They call it Vtelif in their Country speech Of the fish Caspilly THere is another fish to be seene in the Arabian Gulfe which the Arabians call Caspilly it s two foot long and as many broad it hath a skin not much unlike a Dogfish but armed with spikes one whereof he carryes in his forehead a foot and halfe broad in sharpenesse and force of cutting not much short of a graver or chissell with this weapon when she is opprest with hunger she assailes the first fish shee meets neither doth she give over before she carry her as a prey whither she please as Thevet saith he hath seene Of Crabs CRabs and Lobsters though in the quantity of their body they be but small yet they use their forked clawes before not onely in feeding but also in defending themselves and assailing others Of the Docility of Beasts and first of the Dog BEasts are apt to learne those things which men desire whereby they shew themselves not wholy void of reason For Dogges Apes and Horses learne to creepe thorough the Iuglers hoopes and rise on their hinder feet as though they would dance Plutarch tells that a Iugler had a Dog which would represent many things upon the stage befitting the occasion and argument of the play amongst the rest hee exceeded all admiration in that that taking a soporificke medicine hee excellently feigned himselfe dead for first as taken with a giddinesse in his head he begun to tremble then presently fell down and lying on the ground as it were contracted his dying members and lastly as if truely dead he waxt stiffe and moreover suffered himselfe diversly to be fitted according to divers parts of the Theater the fable so requiring But when he by those things that were said and done knew it was time to rise he first begun to move his legs by litle and litle as if hee had been wakened from