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spirit_n	abide_v	able_a	law_n	46	3	4.6744	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19712	A notable historie of the Saracens Briefly and faithfully descrybing the originall beginning, continuaunce and successe aswell of the Saracens, as also of Turkes, Souldans, Mamalukes, Assassines, Tartarians and Sophians. With a discourse of their affaires and actes from the byrthe of Mahomet their first péeuish prophet and founder for 700 yéeres space. VVhereunto is annexed a compendious chronycle of all their yeerely exploytes, from the sayde Mahomets time tyll this present yeere of grace. 1575. Drawn out of Augustine Curio and sundry other good authours by Thomas Newton.; Sarracenicae historiae libri tres. English	Curione, Celio Augustino, 1538-1567.; Newton, Thomas, 1542?-1607.	1575 (1575)	STC 6129; ESTC S109154	166,412	282

meane stature bigge headded somwhat broune complexioned chéerefully countenaunced and liuely coloured a long bearde and yet not hoare because alwayes as it beganne to waxe graye with oyntmentes he altered it his visage and looke was graue and portly pretending a kynde of Maiestie ioyned wyth gentlenesse and curtesie hys legges very well proportioned his bodie in goyng or mouyng pleasaunt and gentle and lyke as they terme it to the course of a styll runnyng Ryuer in talke verie curteous in mynde and body both stoute stronge and venturous quicke and prompte of witte but the same as Salust writeth of Catiline wicked and disposed to all mischiefe bolde hardie and suche a one that cared for no perilles 〈◊〉 Whereof hée gaue once a manyfest example for beyng mounted vppon a marueilous fierce and vntamed Horse in the presence and sight of sundrie his friendes he so spourred and galloped him that all the beholders seeyng him in suche great perill earnestly desyred him to alyght Vnto whom wyth very amiable countenance and pleasaunt language he aunswered that the Horse was lyke vnto the Sea dooyng them thereby to vnderstande that he tooke no lesse pleasure and delectation in that prauncing then if hée were in a Shippe vppon the Sea. Also hée was fickle mynded and double in all hys doynges as the infinite rable of Lawes one cleane contrarying an other by him made doe manyfestly witnesse whiche thyng caused great varietie and diuerse sortes of sectes in hys Religion hée was also a déepe counterfeytor and dissembler in euerye matter but by nature verie eloquent withall Hys ambicious and haultie mynde gaped wythout measure after promocion and authoritie In so muche that consydering in hys mynde this great varietie of Sectes hée was merueilously enflamed with a desyre to establishe and make one manner of religion and to take vnto him as well the Soueraigntie of Empyre as also of diuine honour Whereof he was put in greate hope by reason of the great sedicion and discorde of the Christians the corruption of manners and the want of warlicke discipline Moreouer hée was grealy anymated by the peruerse and Deuilyshe Counsell of one Sergius a Monke who béeyng exiled and expulsed oute of Constantinople for mayntainyng the Heresie of the Arrians fled into Arabie and vsed oftentimes to come to the house of Abdimoneples Mahomets maister and entirely loued Mahomet for the singular dexteritie that he conceyued to bée in his wit and towardnes Therefore assoone as his maister Abdimoneples was dead leauing behind him no Children his wife Hadigia beyng then wedow a woman of fyftie yéeres of age and lefte sole heyre of all her husbandes Landes Goods and Cattells tooke her seruaunt Mahomet to husband Now beyng in possession of the wedow and all her substance by meanes therof growen to great wealth he often fell grouelong on the ground foming and froathing at the mouth for he had the fallyng sicknes and laye in a horrible extasie or distraction of minde which his wife tooke very heauily and cursed her fortune in that shée had so lothsomely matched her selfe Hée therfore to appease her griefe and to make her from great agonie to leape to sodaine ioye tolde her that the same happened vnto him by the operation of the Spirite of God himselfe who appeared vnto him and reuealed certaine things which he should pronounce and shewe to the people touching the law of Moses and of Christ For quod he our mortall bodyes beyng subiect to corruption are not hable to sustaine and abyde the glorious and glittering sight of God whereby his bodie was in a manner at such times bereft and seperated from his mind Which wordes the olde trotte beléeuing as she that tenderly loued him for his lustie corage and beautifull age begann● now not to loue him as a husband but to worship and reuerence him as a holy man and a diuine Prophete highly in Gods fauour and to blaze his holines abroad among her Companions and Gossippes In so much that when she dyed she not onely left him wealthie in goods and possessions for she made him heyre of all but also in great veneration and credite among the common people for an opinion of sanctitie which was thought to be in him For which cause Buback the chiefest and in greatest authoritie among all of that parte of Arabie and of the same Tribe that Mahomet was gaue his daughter Aissa to him in mariage when he was but yet thirtie yéeres of age Puffed vp with pryde because of this new affinitie and for the great abundance of wealth left vnto him by his other wife he openly professed himselfe to be the messanger of God and a Prophete and to teach the people a new kind of religion patched and gathered together out of the erronious Schismes and hereticall dreames of all Sectes For he taught and commaunded Circumcision Baptisme and abstinence from Swines fleshe wyne He instituted a generall fast to bée kept one whole month in the yéere and that no meate for that space shoulde bée eaten in the day tyme but onely in the night He affirmed that there were but thrée Prophetes that is to wit himself Moses and Christ and that Christ was not God with an innumerable rable of most blasphemous opinions contained in his filthie Alcorane Which assertions and opinions were of many at the first deryded flouted at in so much that they accoūpted him no better thē lunatique and distraught of his right wittes But when that he had persuaded and allured all his Allyantes and the familie of Buback which bore great sway and authoritie yea and many of the common people also to credite and leane to his Secte the Magistrates of Mecca perceiuing that this new dotage and commotion would bréede a scab in the common wealth if the inconuenience like to ensue therby were not spéedily preuented and the impudencie of the man by rigour repressed for he slaunderously would inueigh and openly raile vpon Princes determined with them selues to lay handes vpon him and to put him to death Mahomet hauing vnderstanding of their intentes and mindes fled out of Mecca whom many of his Kinsfolkes Alies Friends and Clientes who were throughly persuaded that he was such a one in déede as he had professed and woulde séeme to bée folowed And from this yéere which was after the Natiuitie of our Lorde and Sauiour Christ 593. yéeres the Arabians do recken their yéeres calling this the yéere of Legira which is to say the yéere of flight or transmigration Mahomet therefore seeyng such a great multitude to fauour and sticke to him putting more trust in his power then he did before made vnto them an Oration in effect as foloweth How earnest I haue béene and what desire I haue alwayes had to proclaime aduance and publishe that law which hath béen vnto me reuealed by the Archangell and Messanger of Almightie God Gabriel with commaundement to teach the same to all mortall wyghtes both God himselfe knoweth and you