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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

how they have been rewarded 119 Chap. 17. Of the envious Nature and Disposition of some men 120 Chap. 18. Of Modesty and the Shame-faced Nature of some men and women 122 Chap. 19. Of Impudence and the shameless Behaviour of divers persons 124 Chap. 20. Of Iealousie and how strangely some have been affected with it 125 Chap. 21. Of the Commiseration Pity and Compassion of some men to others in time of their Adversity 127 Chap. 22. Of the deep Dissimulation and Hypocrisie of some men 128 The THIRD BOOK CHap. 1. Of the early appearance of Virtue Learning Greatness of Spirit and Subtlety in some Young Persons 130 Chap. 2. Of such as having been extream Wild and Prodigal or Debauched in their Youth have afterwards proved excellent Persons 132 Chap. 3. Of Punctual Observations in Matters of Religion and the great regard some men have had to it 134 Chap. 4. Of the Veracity of some Persons and their great Love to Truth and hatred of Flattery and Falshood 137 Chap. 5. Of such as have been great Lovers and Promoters of Peace 139 Chap. 6. Of the signal Love that some men have shewed to their Country 140 Chap. 7. Of the singular Love of some Husbands to their Wives 142 Chap. 8. Of the singular Love of some Wives to their Husbands 144 Chap. 9. Of the Indulgence and great Love of some Parents to their Children 147 Chap. 10. Of the Reverence and Piety of some Children to their Parents 149 Chap. 11. Of the singular Love of some Brethren to each other 152 Chap. 12. Of the singular Love of some Servants to their Masters 154 Chap. 13. Of the Faithfulness of some men to their Engagement and Trust reposed in them 157 Chap. 14. Of the exact Obedience which some have yielded to their Superiours 159 Chap. 15. Of the Generosity of some Persons and the Noble Actions by them performed 161 Chap. 16. Of the Frugality and Thriftiness of some men in their Apparel Furniture and other things 164 Chap. 17. Of the Hospitality of some men and their free Entertainment of Strangers 165 Chap. 18. Of the blameless and innocent Life of some Persons 167 Chap. 19. Of the choicest Instances of the most intire Friendship 168 Chap. 20. Of the Grateful Disposition of some Persons and what returns they have made of Benefits received 171 Chap. 21. Of the Meekness Humanity Clemency and Mercy of some men 174 Chap. 22. Of the light and gentle Revenges some have taken upon others 177 Chap 23. Of the Sobriety and Temperance of some men in their Meat and Drink and other things 179 Chap. 24. Of the Affability and Humility of divers Great Persons 181 Chap. 25. Of Counsel and the Wisdom of some men therein 182 Chap. 26 Of the Subtilty and Prudence of some men in the Investigation and discovery of things and their Determinations about them 184 Chap. 27. Of the Liberal and Bountiful Disposition of divers Great Persons 186 Chap. 28. Of the Pious Works and Charitable Gifts of some men 189 Chap. 28. Of such as were Lovers of Iustice and Impartial Administrators of it 192 Chap. 30. Of such Persons as were Illustrious for their singular Chastity both Men and Women 195 Chap. 31. Of Patience and what power some men have had over their Passions 199 Chap. 32. Of such as have well deported themselves in their Adversity or been improved thereby 200 Chap. 33. Of the willingness of some men to forgive Injuries received 201 Chap. 34. Of such as have patiently taken free Speeches and Reprehensions from their Inferiors 203 Chap. 35. Of the incredible strength of Mind wherewith some Persons have supported themselves in the midst of Torments and other Hardship 205 Chap. 36. Of the Fortitude and Personal Valour of some famous Men. 207 Chap. 37. Of the fearless Boldness of some Men and their desperate Resolutions 210 Chap. 38. Of the immoveable Constancy of some Persons 213 Chap. 39. Of the great Confidence of some Men in themselves 214 Chap. 40. Of the great reverence shewed to Learning and Learned Men. 216 Chap. 41. Of the exceeding intentness of some Men upon their Meditations and Studies 218 Chap. 42. Of such Persons as were of choice Learning and singular Skill in the Tongues Chap. 43. Of the first Authors of divers famous Inventions 222 Chap. 44. Of the admirable Works of some curious Artists 224. Chap. 45. Of the Industry and Pains of some Men and their hatred of Idleness 229 Chap. 46. Of the Dexterity of some men in the instruction of several Cr●atures 230 Chap. 47. Of the Taciturnity and Secrecy of some men instrusted with privacies 232 Chap. 48. Of such who in their raised Fortunes have been mindful of their low beginnings 233 Chap. 49. Of such as have despised Riches and of the laudable poverty of some illustrious persons 234 Chap. 50. Of such Persons as have preferred Death before the loss of th●ir Liberty and what some have endured in the preservation of it 237 Chap. 51. Of such as in highest Fortunes have been mindful of humane frailty 238 Chap. 52. Of such as were of unusual Fortune and Felicity 239 Chap. 53. Of the Gallantry wherewith some Persons have received death or the message of it 241 The FOURTH BOOK CHap. 1. Of Atheists and such as have made no account of Religion with their Sacrilegious actions and the punishments thereof 361 Chap. 2. Of such as were exceeding hopeful in youth but afterwards improved to the worse 363 Chap. 3. Of the rigorous Severity of some Parents to their Children and how unnatural others have shewed themselves towards them 364 Chap. 4. Of the degenerate Sons of illustrious Parents 366 Chap. 5. Of undutiful and unnatural Children to their Parents 368 Chap. 6. Of the Affectation of divine Honours and the desire of some men te be reputed Gods 370 Chap. 7. Of unnatural Husbands to their Wives 372 Chap. 8. Of such Wives as were unnatural to their Husbands or evil deported towards them 373 Chap. 9. Of the deep hatred some have conceived against their own Brethren and the unnatural actions of Brothers and Sisters 374 Chap. 10. Of the Barbarous and Savage Cruelty of some men 376 Chap. 11. Of the bitter Revenges that some men have taken upon their enemies 379 Chap. 12. Of the great and grievous oppressions and unmercifulness of some men and their punishments 382 Chap. 13. Of the bloody and cruel Massacres in several places and their occasions 384 Chap. 13. Of the excessive Prodigality of some Persons 385 Chap. 14. Of the Prodigious Luxury of some men in their Feasting 387 Chap. 15. Of the Voraciousness of some great Eaters and the Swallowers of Stones c. 390 Chap. 16. Of great Drinkers and what great quantities they have swallowed 391 Chap. 17. Of Drunkenness and what hath befallen some men in theirs 393 Chap. 18. Of the Luxury and Expence of some Persons in Apparel and their Variety therein and in their other Furniture 395 Chap. 19. Of Gaming

his head struck off at the Bastille in Paris This man as he was a person of a most invincible spirit would not suffer his hands to be bound he bade the Executioner not come near him till he called otherwise he would strangle him with his hands While he was upon his Knees praying the Headsman severed his Head from his Shoulders and it was observ'd that the face looked fiercely the tongue moved and a thick and blewish vapour like a smoak went out together with his blood all tokens of a vehement anger and passion which he at that time was in 21. Pyrrho was so exceedingly prone to anger and extreme passion that one time when the Cook had provoked him he followed him with the Spit and Meat upon it as far as the Market place to beat him therewith Another time being at Elis and his Scholars having incensed him by asking him over many questions he threw off his Gown and swam over the River Alpheus that being on the other side he might be free from that disturbance which their importunity had given him 22. Philagrus a Cilician the Scholar of Lollianus and a Sophist was of that angry and passionate temper that he gave one of his Scholars a blow upon the ●ace when he was asleep So untractable was the disposition of this man when one asked him why he would not marry that he might have children Because said he I am never pleased no not with my self 23. Marcius Sabinus came to live at Rome at such time as Numa Pompilius was elected King thereof when Numa was dead he hoped to be chosen by the people to succeed him but finding that Hostilius was preferred before him he resented the matter with that passion and indignation that his life growing irksome unto him he laid violent hands upon himself and so went discontented out of the world Of what a strange fury was this man possessed What flames what ruines what slaughter and bloodshed of the Roman people can we imagine could satisfie the anger and revenge of this man who when he was able to do nothing against the people of Rome proceeded so sharply and so bitterly against himself as to resolve not to live at all because according to his mind he might not live a King CHAP. XII Of such as have been seised with an extraordinary Ioy and what hath followed thereupon THe Aegyptian Temples they say were wonderful beautiful and fair in the Frontispiece but foul and filthy in the more inward Apartments of them So this affection of Joy which seems outwardly so pleasant upon us in the marks of it and which furnishes our hearts with so much of pleasure and delight proves fatal to us in the excesses of it and serves us much after the manner of Ivy which seemeth to adorn the Tree whereunto it cleaveth but indeed sucketh out and stealeth away the sap thereof 1. About the three and thirtieth year of King Henry the Eighth Arthur Plantagenet Viscount Lisle base Son to King Edward the Fourth having been imprisoned upon suspicion of a practise for betraying of Calice to the French whilest he was the King's Lieutenant there was now found innocent of the fact and thereupon the King to make him some reparation for his disgrace sent him a Ring and a very gracious message by Sir Thomas Wriothesly his Secretary whereat the said Viscount took so great joy that the night following of that very joy he died So deadly a thing is any passion even Joy it self if it be extreme 2. Pope Iulius the Second receiving a message of Auxiliary Forces that were coming to him from the King of Spain to make an end of the Ferrarian war was so exceedingly rejoyced at it that he was presently left by a Fever that had held him for some time 3. Some years since I speak it to my grief I knew Franciscus Casalinus who was my dear and learned Scholar in Logick who through an immoderate laughter not able to contain himself in it fell into a spitting of blood the Veins of his Breast being opened from thence into a consumption whereof he died 4. In our time anno 1544 Sinam C●●●utus Iudaeus a notable Pirate being at Arsinoe a Port upon the Red Sea preparing to war upon the Portugal by order of Solyman Emperour o● the Turks he there had a message to inform him that his Son Selechus at the taking of Tunis was made a Slave redeem'd by Haradienus Barbarossa made the Admiral of seven Vessels and with them was put into Alexandria purposing ere long to be with him The old man was seis'd with so sudden and great a joy at the news of the unexpected liberty and preferment of his Son at once that he immediately fainted and at the arrival of his Son died in his embraces 5. Galeacius de Rubeis a Citizen of Bononia and a Blacksmith when as he supposed that he had first found out the screw which was long before invented by A●chimedes out of an excess of Joy fell mad I have seen him saith Cardan busying himself about that Engine and a while after deserted of his reason 6. Philemon a Comick Poet being grown old and beholding an Ass eating up some Figs that a Boy had laid down when the Boy return'd Go now said he and fetch the Ass some drink the old man was so tickled with the fancy of that jest that he died laughing In the same manner and much upon the same occasion died Chrysippus 7. A certain Musician together with his Daughter Stratonica sang at a Feast before Mithridates King of Asia and Pontus the King en●●amed with the love of Stratonica led her out immediately to his Bed The old man taking it heavily that the King had not so much as taken notice of him But when he awaked in the morning and saw the Tables in his house covered with Vessels of Silver and Gold a number of Servants Boys and E●nuchs attending upon him that offered him rich Garments and a Horse gallantly trapped standing at the door as 't was usual for the King's Friends he would fain have sled out of his House supposing that all this was but in mockery of him The servants retain'd him told him that the large inheritance of a rich man lately dead was conferred upon him by the King that these were but as the first-fruits of his rising fortune Being at last hardly won to give any credit to them he put on the Purple Robe mounted the Horse and as he was carried through the City cryed out All these are mine and to as many as derided him This is no wonder said he but that not able to digest so great a joy I do not throw stones at all that I meet 8. Marcus Crassus the Grandfather of him that was slain in Parthia when he once saw an Ass eating of Thistles was so delighted with that sight that he is reported that once to have laughed whereas

what was commanded whence came that scornful Proverb in Italy when putting one of their fingers betwixt two others they cry Eccolasico behold the fig. 19. There are no greater instances of revenge saith Sabellicus than in the factious Cities of Italy where the Chiefs of the one faction falling into the hands of the other it was a great favour to be beheaded or strangled Pontanus adds that he has heard his Grandmother tell how in certain mortal differences betwixt some families one of the opposite faction being taken he was immediately cut into small gobbets his liver was thrown upon the hot coals broiled and divided into little morsels and distributed amongst their friends invited to breakfast for that purpose after which execrable feeding there were brought cups not without the sprinklings of some of the gathered blood then followed congratulations amongst themselves laughter jests and witty passages to season their viands and to conclude they drank to God himself as being the favourer of their so remarkable a revenge 20. A certain Italian having his enemy in his power told him there was no possible way for him to save his life unless he would immediately deny and renounce his Saviour the overtimerous wretch in hope of mercy did it when the other forthwith stabbed him to the heart saying that now he had a full and noble revenge fo● he had killed him at once both body and soul. 21. George Villiers Duke of Buckingham was stabbed at Portsmouth Saturday August 23. 1628. by Iohn Felton it is said the Villain did it partly in revenge for that the Duke had denyed him some Office he made sute for nor is it improbable for I find him thus characterised he was a person of a little stature of a stout and revengeful spirit who having once received an injury from a Gentleman he cut off a piece of his little finger and sent it with a challenge to the Gentleman to fight with him thereby to let him know that he valued not the exposing of his whole body to hazzard so he might but have an opportunity to be revenged 22. Anno 1500. at such time as Tamas Shaw ruled Persia the City Spahawn the metropolis of all Persia surfeiting with luxury refused not only to contribute reasonably to the Kings occasions at that time molested with the Turks and Tartars but audaciously withstood his desired entrance A rebellion so insufferable as made him swear a revenge scarce to be parallell'd With fury he assaults in a rage enters it firing a great part and in all hostile severity pillaging each house and to conclude regarding neither the outcries of Old Men weak Women nor innocent Children in two dayes he made headless three hundred thousand of those late Spahawnians and from Tamerlains rigid example at Damascus erects a Trophy a Pillar of their Heads as a memorial of their disloyalty and his bitter revenge CHAP. XII Of the great and grievous Oppressions and unmercifulness of some men and their punishments IN Scotland in a place called Kile there is a Rock about twelve foot high and as much in breadth It is called the Deaf Craig for though a man call never so loud or shoot off a Gun on the one side yet his fellow on the other side cannot hear the noise Oppressours may be resembled to this stone their hearts are as hard and their ears are as deaf to the cryes of the poor they are so too to the denunciation of the just judgements of God against them otherwise so many of them had not come to the like lamentable ends 1. Iohn Cameron was Bishop of Glasgow a man given to violence and oppression who committing many deeds full of cruelty and covetousness especially upon his own Tenants and Vassals made as the fame goeth a fearful and unhappy end For in the year 1446. the night before Christmas-day as he lay asleep in his house of Lockwood some seven miles from the City of Glasgow he seemed to hear a voice summoning him to appear before the Tribunal of Christ and give an account of his doings thereupon he awaked and being greatly terrified did call his servants to bring lights and sit by him he himself took a book in his hand and began to read but the voice being again heard struck all the servants with amazement the same voice calling the third time far lowder and more fearfully the Bishop after a heavy groan was found dead in the bed his tongue hanging out of his mouth this reported by Buchanan almost in the same words I thought good to remember as a notable example of Gods judgement against the crying sin of Oppression 2. The magnificent Mosque or Temple in Cairo of Egypt was thus built Assan Bassa a man of a crafty and covetous disposition desiring to gain himself a name in the world by some famous structure which yet should be of little expences to himself took this course He caused it to be proclaimed all abroad that his purpose was to build a Glorious Temple to the Honour of God and that he might have the more happy success in this enterprise of his he was determined to bestow a liberal Almes upon all comers of what place or country soever appointing at the same time both the day and place for the distribution of this his largess The fame of this brought an innumerable company of people not only from all the parts of Egypt but also from other Kingdoms to Cairo Assan against their coming had provided a mighty number of Shirts and Coats now as many as came to partake of his bounty he caused to be received in a large and ample Court which one by one and no otherwise were ordered to pass from thence by several little doors into another Court of equal extent in their passage every man was stript of his own Cloaths and instead of them forced to receive a Shirt and Coat of his providing The subtilty of the business was this that whatsoever so many thousands of persons had brought along with them to defray their expences might be deposited in one certain place appointed by himself for he well knew the manner of men in those Countrys was to sow up in their Shirts or Caps all the mony they carried with them At last a doleful and lamentable cry arose amongst the spoiled people imploring Assan to restore them their own cloaths he deriding at once both their clamours and tears caused all their garments to be cast into a mighty fire prepared for the purpose from whence after they were burnt was taken up such a quantity of Silver and Gold as sufficed to begin and finish that noble structure he had resolved upon But observe after what manner the insolent oppression of this man was punished The Turkish Emperour being informed of the wickedness of Assan sent Ibraim Bassa with his letters to him wrapt up as the manner is in black silk the tenour of which was this Assoon as this our

four Rabbets which number would have sufficed an hundred threescore and eight men allowing to each half a Rabbet he suddenly devoured eighteen yards of black pudding London measure and when at once he had eat threescore pound weight of Cherries he said they were but wash-meat He made an end of a whole Hogg at once and after it for fruit swallowed three pecks of Damsons after he had broken his fast having as he said eaten one pottle of Milk one pottle of Pottage with Bread Butter and Cheese He eat in my presence saith Taylour six penny wheaten Loaves three six-penny Veal Pies one pound of sweet Butter one good dish of Thorne-back and a shiver of a peck houshold loaf of an inch thick and all this in the space of an hour the house yielded no more and so he departed unsatisfied One Iohn Dale was too hard for him at a place called Lenham he laid a wager he would fill Woods belly with good wholsom victuals for two shillings and a Gentleman that laid the contrary wag'd that when he had eaten out Dales two shillings he should then forthwith eat up a good Sirloin of Beef Dale bought six pots of mighty Ale and twelve new penny white loaves which he sopp'd in the Ale the powerful fume whereof conquered this conqueror and laid him in a sleep to the preservation of the roast Beef and unexpected winning of the wager He spent all his Estate to provide provant for his belly and though a Landed man and a true labourer dy'd very poor about the year 1630. 14. Cornelius Gemma speaks of a woman in his time who for one moments space was not able to forbear eating or drinking if she did it would be with her as if she were strangling This distemper which she had almost from her childhood encreased upon her with her age Being dead her belly was opened and thence almost twenty pounds of sat taken her Liver was found turgid with blood and spirits intensely red and of an incredible bigness 15. Tobias Fisher an eminent Physician saith he knew a man of fifty years of age who from his youth was wont with a strange kind of greediness to take in all sorts of food and as speedily to eject them He adds that this kind of hunger did seise him at stated times that his strong appetite lasted not above twenty daies that for so many daies after he had a loathing of all things and that the rest of the year he eat sparingly and lived in good health 16. Anno 1606. there was at Prague a certain Silesian who for a small reward in money did in the presence of many persons swallow down white stones to the number of forty six they weighed well near three pounds the least of them was of the bigness of a Pidgeons egge so that I could scarce hold them all in my hand at four times this rash adventure he divers years made for gain and was sensible of no injury to his health thereby 17. Not long ago there was here in England a private Souldier who for ought I know is yet alive very famous for digesting of stones and a very inquisitive man that gave me the accuratest account I have met with concerning him assures me that he knew him familiarly and had the curiosity to keep in his company for twenty four hours together to watch him and not only observed that he eat nothing but stones in that time or fragments of them of a pretty bigness but also that his grosser excrement consisted chiefly of a sandy substance as if the devoured stones had been in his body dissolved and crumbled into sand 18. Crantzius tells of a certain Stage-player who commonly eat at once as much as would suffice ten men by which means he had attain'd to a mighty corpulency the King of Denmark being informed of him and that he could do no more than another man caused him to be taken and hanged up as a devourer of the labourers food and a publick annoyance 19. Firmius Seleucius the same through whose conduct Aegypt revolted from the Emperour Aurelianus did in one day eat up a whole Ostridge which is the greatest of all birds that fly he cat up several of those Horse-fishes that are found in the River Nilus and used to swim with safety amongst the Crocodiles having first his body all over anointed with the fat of them 20. Anno 1594. being called from Collen to Reinback to the care of a Noble person there who lay sick of a grievous disease continuing there for a Months space I was well acquainted with the Minister of the place a man of forty years of age very strong and of a good habit of body This man told me in good earnest and upon his faith that for seven years space he had been troubled with an intolerable hunger that was so insatiable that oftentimes he was constrain'd to go into the Field wanting food at home and thence cut up herbs and grass and devour them raw as they were he found no help from Physick in this his distemper but at last in the seventh year by a critical evacuation which then befell him he was delivered of it CHAP. XVI Of great Drinkers and what quantities they have swallowed THe infusion of too great a quantity of Oyl immediately extinguishes the Lamp the light of Reason yes and the Lamp of life it self are frequently suffocated and put out for ever by such immoderate potations as we shall hereafter read of If some have survived those infamous victories they have this way gain'd the greatest of their rewards were but mean compensations for their hazards nor is the valour of such men to be admired who have dared to out-live their own vertue 1. Firmius was Deputy of Aegypt under the Emperour Aurelianus he being challenged by Barbarus a famous Drinker though he used not to drink much Wine but most water yet took off two Buckets full of Wine and remained sober all the time of the Feast after 2. That of the Emperour Maximinus is almost incredible that he often drank in one day an Amphora of the Capitol which is nine Gallons our measure counting a Gallon and a pint to the Congius whereof the Amphora contained eight 3. In the Reign of Aurelianus there was one Phagon who drank out in one day plus Orcâ What measure this Orca held I cannot well determin saith Dr. Hackwell neither could Lipsius himself yet thus much confidently he affirms of it I know for certain saith he that it was a Vessel of Wine and that bigger than the Amphora but how much I know not 4. That was a right beast in this kind whose Epitaph was found at Rome without the gate of Capena saith Camerarius Heus hic situs est Offellius Buratius Bibulus qui dum vixit aut bibit aut minxit abi praeceps So hoe here lies Offellius Buratius Bibulus who while he lived

a visible form and resolve her of any doubtful matter especially concerning the life or death of persons lying sick and being asked what words she used when she called the Spirit she said her word was Holla Master and that he had learned her so to do that her Spirit had undertaken to make away the King but failing in the performance and challenged by her confessed it was not in his power speaking words she understood not but as she did take them the words were Il est Homme de dieu this was Anno 1591. 2. Wenceslaus son to the Emperour Charles the fourth marrying Sophia the Duke of Bavaria his daughter when the marriage was to be solemnized the Duke knowing that his Son-in-law delighted much in such ridiculous shews and conjuring tricks sent to Prague for a Waggon load of Conjurers While the skilfullest amongst them were studying for some rare and unusual illusion Wenceslaus his Magician called Zyto who had sneaked into the croud and looked on amongst the rest suddenly presents himself having his mouth as it seemed cloven on both sides and all open to his very ears and so coming amongst them he takes the Dukes chief Conjurer and swallows him up with all that he had about him saving his Sh●o●s because they seemed all dirty and therefore he spit them a great way from him which when he had done and being not able to digest so great a morsel he goes and empties himself in a great Fat that stood full of water voids the man downwards into it and brings him in again all wet and shews him to the company who laughed to purpose at this pleasant jest but the other companions would play no more This story my Author cites from the History of Bohemia written by Dubravius the Bishop of Olmutz but this Zyto the Impostor was at last alive body and soul carried away by the Devil which afterwards begat a care in Wenceslaus to bethink himself of more serious and religious matters It is also said of this Bohemian Conjurer That he appeared now with one face straight with another and in different stature sometimes he shewed himself to the King in purple and silks at others in a sordid and base attire when the King walked on the Land he sometimes seemed to swim on the water to him when the King was carryed in a Litter with Horses he seemed to follow him in another Litter born up with Cocks instead of Horses He played sundry pranks with such as sat at the table with the King he changed th●ir hands sometimes into the feet of an Oxe at others into the hoofs of a Horse that they could not reach them to the Dishes to take any thing thence if they looked out of the Window he beautified their heads with Horns To shew that he could command money at any time for his use he caused of so many wisps of Hay thirty well fatted Swine to appear and sells them to a rich Baker at what price he pleased with this only condition He should not suffer them to enter into any water The Baker unmindful of the condition instead of his Hoggs found only so many wisps swimming upon the surface of the water whereupon in a great chase he sought out for Zyto and finding him sleeping all along upon a form he pulls him by the one legg to awake him and both the legg and thigh seemed to remain in his hand at which astonished he was glad to be content with his ill bargain 3. Apollonius Tyanaeus was a Pythagorean Philosopher and withal a great Magician being at Rome in the presence of the Emperour Domitian and by him commanded to be bound hand and foot he suddenly disappeared and vanished out of their sight that were present and was at the same time hurried as far as Puteoli to keep a former appointment with some whom he had promised to meet there He had the knowledge of things done at great distances in the very time of their performance The day and hour that Domitian was killed at Rome by Stephanus and other Conspiratours the Philosopher was reading a publick Lecture in the City of Ephesus to a very great number of Auditors suddenly as one amazed he made a stop in his discourse and continued some space without speaking a word and then cries out aloud Courage Stephanus strike the Villain thou hast stricken him thou hast wounded him thou hast slain him News after came that the murder was acted the same day and in that hour exactly 4. There was within the memory of our fathers saith Camerarius Iohn Faustus of Cundligen a German he had learned the Black Art at Cracovia in Poland he meeting one day at the Table with some who had heard much of his Magical tricks was earnestly entreated by the company to shew them some sport he overcome in the end by the importunity of his pot-companions who were also well armed in the head promised to shew them whatsoever they would have they with a general consent require him to bring into the place a Vine laden with ripe Grapes ready to be gathered for they thought because it was in the month of December Faustus could not shew them that which was not he condescended to them saying That forthwith before they stirred from the Table they should see the Vine they desired but upon this condition That they should not speak a word nor offer to rise from their places but should all tarry till he bad them cut the Grapes and that whosoever should do otherwise was in danger to lose his life They having all promised to obey him Faustus so charmed the eyes of these drunken Revellers that they saw as it seemed to them a marvellous goodly Vine and upon the same so many Bunches of ripe Grapes extraordinary great and long as there were men sitting at the Table Enflamed with the daintiness of so rare a thing and being very dry with much drinking every man takes his Knife in his hand looking when Faustus would give the word and bid them cut the Clusters But he having held them a while in suspence about this vain piece of Witchcraft behold all the Vine and the Bunches of Grapes were in the turn of a hand quite vanished away And every one of these drunken Companions thinking he had a Cluster of Grapes in his hand ready to cut off was seen to hold his own Nose with one hand and the sharp Knife with the other to lop that off so that if any of them had forgot the Conjurers lesson and had been never so little too forward instead of cutting a Bunch of Grapes he had whipt off his own Nose This Faustus saith I. Wierus was found dead by a Bedside in a certain Village within the Dutchy of Wirtenburg having his Neck broken and the House whe rein he was beaten down at midnight 5. Fazelus writes that a certain Sicilian called Lyodor a most famous Magician got himself a great name in the

no less than marvellous cure which at St. Madernes in Cor●wall was wrought upon a poor Creeple whereof besides the attestation of many hundreds of the neighbours I took a strict and impartial examination in my last Visitation This man for sixteen years together was fain to walk upon his hands by reason the sinews of his legs were so contracted And upon monitions in his dream to wash in that Well was suddenly so restored to his limbs that I saw him able both to walk and get his own maintenance I found here was neither Art nor collusion The name of this Creeple was Iohn Trelille 13. The night before Polycrates the Tyrant of Samos departed thence to go to Oraetes the Lieutenant of Cyrus in Sardis his Daughter dreamed that she saw her Father lifted up in the air where Iupiter washed him and the Sun anointed him which came to pass for assoon as he was in his Power Oraetes caused him to be hang'd upon a Gibbet where his body so remaining was washed of the rain and the Sun melted the fat of it 14. Alexander the Philosopher a man known to be free of superstition reporteth of himself that sleeping one night he saw his Mothers Funerals solemnized being then a days journey from thence whereupon he waking in great sorrow and many tears told the dream to divers of his acquaintance and friends The time being punctually observed certain word was brought him the next day after that at the same hour as his dream was his mother expired 15. Iovius reporteth that Anno 1523. in a morning slumber Sfortia dreamed that falling into a River he was in great danger of drowning and calling for succour to a man of extraordinary stature and presence who was on the further side upon the shore he was by him slighted and neglected This dream he told to his Wife and Servants but no further regarded it The same day spying a child falling into the water near the Castle of Pescara he thinking to save the child leapt into the River but over-burdened with the weight of his Armour he was choak'd in the mud and so perished 16. The Mother of Scanderbeg dreamed she saw a Serpent that covered all Epiru● his head was stretched out into the Turks Dominions where he devoured them with bloody jaws his tail was amongst the Christians and in the Government of the Venetians all which very exactly prefigured her Son 17. A Citizen of Millain was demanded a debt as owing by his dead father and when he was in some trouble about it the image of his dead father appears to him in his sleep tells him the whole process of the business that the debt was by him paid in his life time and that if he looked in such a place he should ●ind a Writing under the hand of his Creditor wherein he did acknowledge himself satisfied Awaking therefore from his sleep and reflecting upon his dream he searched and found all things agreeable to what he had dreamed St. Austin saith that this very Writing was seen by him 18. When Galen had an inflammation about the Diaphragma he was admonished in his sleep that if he purposed to be freed from it he should forthwith open that vein which was most apparent betwixt the thumb and the forefinger and take a quantity of blood from thence he did as he was advised and was presently restored to his former health 19. I remember saith Coelius when I was two and twenty years of age being busied in the interpretation of Pliny and while as yet the learned emendations of Hermolaus Barbarus upon that excellent Author had not performed to him almost all that was requisite I light upon that place which we have in his seventh Book concerning such as grow up beyond the usual proportion which Nature hath assigned and they are called by the Greeks Ectrapeli That word was some trouble to me I knew I had read something concerning it but could neither recal to my memory the Author from whom nor the Book wherein Fearing the censure of unskilfulness I laid my self down to rest the best remedy for a perplexed mind where while my thoughts were still employing themselves about it methought I remembred the Book yea the page and place of the page wherein that was written I sought for When I awaked I recalled what was offered to me in my sleep but valued all as a mere illusion yet being stil haunted with the apprehensions of being reputed an Ignoramus that I might leave nothing unattempted I caught up the Book of which I had dreamed and there found it accordingly 20. When St. Bernards Mother was with child of him she dreamed she had a little white and barking Dog in her Womb which when she had communicated to a certain religious person he as by a Spirit of Prophecy reply'd Thou shalt be the mother of an excellent Dog indeed he shall be the Keeper of Gods House and shall incessantly bark against the Adversaries of it for he shall be a famous Preacher and shall cure many by the means of his medicinal tongue 21. Francis Petrarch had a Friend so desperately sick that he had no expectation of his life when therefore wearied with grief and tears he was fallen into a slumber he seemed to see his sick Friend to stand before him and to tell him that he could now stay no longer with him for there was one at the door that would interrupt their discourse to whom he desired that he would recommend his weak estate and that if he should undertake him he should be restored Presently enters into Petrarchs Chamber a Physician who came from the sick and had given him over as a dead man He came therefore to comfort him But Petrarch with tears recounts to him his dream and with great importunity prevails with him to return to the care of his Friend he did so and e're long the man was restored to his wonted health 22. Two Arcadians of intimate acquaintance travelled together to the City of Maegara where when they were arrived the one goes to lodge with a friend of his and the other betakes himself to an Inn. He that was at his friends house saw in his sleep his Companion beseeching him to assist him for he was circumvented by his Host and that by his speedy resort to him he might deliver him from a very imminent danger Awaked with what he had seen he leaps from his bed and intends to go to the Inn but by an unhappy Fate he desists from his compassionate purpose and believing that his dream had nothing in it he returns both to his bed and his sleep When the same person appears to him a second time all bloody and requested him earnestly that seeing he had neglected him as to the preservation of his life at least he would not be wanting to him in the revenge of his death That he was killed by his Host and that at this

all the Rules of Art passed for miraculous One of the Souldiers of the Dukes Guards called Faure received a Cannon shot in his belly which passed quite through leaving an orifice bigger than a Hat-crown so that the Chirurgions could not imagine though it were possible the bowels should remain unoffended that Nature could have supplied so wide a breach which notwithstanding she did and to that perfection● that the party found himself as well as before Another of the same condition called Ramee and of the same place they being both Natives of St. Iean de Angely received a Musket-shot which entring at his mouth came out of the nape of his neck who was also perfectly cured Which two extravagant wounds being reported to the King his Majesty took them both into his own particular dependence saying Those were men that could not die though they afterwards both ended their days in his service 12. I was familiarly acquainted with a man of no mean condition who about sixteen years ago being accused of high matters was brought to Berne where he was several times put and tortured upon the Rack with great rigour notwithstanding he constantly affirmed in the midst of all his pain that he was innocent so that at last he was freed and restored to his dignity This person for many years past had been miserably tormented with the Gout but from the time of his tortur●s before-mentioned and his use of the Valesian Baths his health was so far confirmed that being alive at this day he never was sensible of the least pain of his Gout but although he is now old he is able to stand and walk in a much better manner than before he could 13. A young Woman married but without chi●dren had a disease about her Jaws and under her Che●k like unto Kernels and the disease so corrupted her face with stench that she could sca●c● without great shame speak unto any man T●is Woman was admonished in ●er sleep to go to King Edward and get him to wash her face with water and she should be whole To the Court she came and the King hearing of the matter disdained not to undertake it but having a Bason of water brought unto him he dipped his hand therein and washed the Womans face and touched the diseased part oftentimes sometimes also signing it with the sign of the Cross. When he had thus washed it the hard crust or skin was softned the tumours dissolved and drawing his hand by divers of the holes out thence came divers little Worms whereof and of corrupt matter and blood they were full The King still pressed it with his hand to bring forth the corruption and endured the stench of it until by such pressing he had brought forth all the corruption This done he commanded her a sufficient allowance every day for all things necessary until she had received perfect health which was within a week after and whereas she was ever before barren within one year she had a child by her Husband This disease hath since been called the Kings Evil and is frequently cured by the touch of the Kings of England 14. Sir Iohn Cheeke was once one of the Tutors to King Edward the Sixth afterwards Secretary of State much did the Kingdom value him but more the King for being once desperately sick the King carefully inquiring of him every day at last his Physician told him there was no hope of his life being given over by him for a dead man No said the King he will not die at this time for this morning I begged his life from God in my prayers and obtained it which accordingly came to pass and he soon after contrary to all expectation wonderfully recovered This saith Dr. Fuller was att●sted by the old Earl of Huntington bred up in his childhood with King Edward to Sir Thomas Cheeke who was alive Anno 1654. and eighty years of age 15. Duffe the threescore and eighteenth King of Scotland laboured with a new and unheard of disease no cause apparent all remedies bootless his body languishing in a continual sweat and his strength apparently decaying insomuch as he was suspected to be bewitched which was increased by a rumour that certain Witches of Forest in Murry practised his destruction arising from a word which a Girl let fall that the King should die shortly who being examined by Donald Captain of the Castle and Tortures shewed her confessed the truth and how her mother was one of the Assembly When certain Souldiers being sent in search surprized them roasting the waxen Image of the King before a soft fire to the end that as the Wax melted by degrees so should the King dissolve by little and little and his life consume with the consumption of the other the Image broken and the Witches executed the King recovered his wo●ted health in a moment 16. When Albertus Basa Physician to the King of Poland returned out of Italy he diverted to Paracelfus who then lived at the City of St. Vitus with him he went to visit a sick person of whom all who were there present said That he could not possibly live above an hour or two and by reason of an indisposition in his brest a defect in his pulse and failing of his spirits they pronounced of him that he would not live out a few hours Paracelsus said it would be so indeed in despite of all that skill in Physick which the Humourists have but that he might easily be restored by that true Art which God had shut up in Nature and thereupon he invited the sick man to dine with him the next day then he produced a certain distillation three drops of which he gave to the Patient in Wine which immediately ●o restored the man that he was well that night and the next day came to Paracelsus his Inn and dined with him in sound and perfect health to the admiration of all men CHAP. XXXVI Of Stratagems in War for the amusing and defeating of the Enemy and taking of Cities c. MArcellus was called the Roman Sword and Fabius their Shield or Buckler for as the one was a resolute and sharp A●saulter of the Enemy so the other was as cautious and circumspect a Preserver of his Army These two Qualities whensoever they are happily met together in one man they make an able Commander but to render a General compleat there ought to be a certain fineness of wit and invention and a quickness of apprehension and discerning by the one to intrap the Enemy and by the other to avoid the snares which the Enemy hath laid for him in these no man was perhaps a greater Master than he who is next mentioned 1. When the strength and power of the Carthaginians was broken Anibal betook himself to Antiochus the great King of Asia him he stirred up against the Romans and made him victo●ious in a naval fight by this subtil device of his He had caused a great