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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

Philip the fair afterwards seeing himself persecuted by Charles of Valois by an inexcusable temerity threw away his life For Charles sharply asking of him an account of the Treasures of the deceased King he freely answered It is to you Sir I have given a good part of them and the rest hath been employed in the Kings affairs Whereupon the Prince giving him the lie the other took the unseasonable boldness to reply By God Sir it is you your self this insolency sent him to the Gallows at Mountfaucon which he had caused to be built in his greatest authority 2. At Sir Henry Wotton's first going Embassadour into Italy as he passed through Germany he stayed some daies at Augusta where having been in his former Travels well known by many of the best note for learning and ingenuity with whom he passing an evening in merriment was requested by Christopher Flecamore to write some s●n●ence in his Albo a Book of white paper which for that purpose many of the German Gentry usually carry about them Sir Henry consenting to the motion took an occasion from some accidental discourse of the present company to write a pleasant definition of an Embassador in these words Legatus est vir bonus peregrè missus ad mentiendum Reipublicae causa which Sir Henry could have been contented should have been thus Englished An Embassadour is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his Country but the word for lie being the hinge upon which the conceit should turn was not so expressed in Latin as would admit of so fair a construction as Sir Henry thought of in English Yet as it was it slept quietly among other sentences in this Albo almost eight years till by accident it fell into the hands of Gasper Schioppius a Romanist a man of a restless spirit and malicious Pen who with Books against King Iames Prints this as a principle of that Religion professed by the King and his Embassadour Sir Henry Wotton then at Venice and in Venice it was presently after written in several glass windows and spitefully declared to be Sir Henry Wotton's This coming to the knowledge of King Iames he apprehended it to be such an over-sight such a weakness or worse in Sir Henry as caused the King to express much wrath against him and this caused Sir Henry to write two Apologie● one to Velserus one of the chie●s of Augusta in the universal language and another to King Iames which was so ingenuous clear and so choicely eloquent that His Majesty at the receipt thereof said Sir H●nry Wotton had commuted su●ficiently for a greater offence 3. Lewis the eleventh King of France one of the most Politick Princes that France ever had being at Wars with his own brother Charles Duke of Normandy Francis Duke of Britanny and Charles Duke of Burgundy and desiring greatly to separate the last from the other two that he might th● better be revenged on them solicited him by his Embassadours to come to con●erence with him which the Duke yielded unto so that the meeting might be in a Town of his own in the Frontiers of Flanders and France for his better security wherewith the King was well contented The meeting therefore being appointed at Peronne whither the Duke was come with his Army and safe-conduct sent to the King by a Letter of the Dukes own hand the King went thither without any forces or guard to shew the confidence he had in the Duke to oblige him the more and to gain his good will But the Duke seeing now his enemy in his power and understanding at the same time that Leige ws revolted from him by the solicitation of certain Embassadours o● the King took him prisoner and would not release him unt●l he h●d recovered the Town of Leige whither he forced him to accompany him with no small danger of his Person and in the end having made him grant to some hard conditions in favour of his Confederates against whom the King had especially plotted that Conference and Treaty he released him Now who sees not how grossly this Politician ●rred wherein it might be presumed that a man of any experience could not have been deceived First that having employ'd his Agents to stir up the Town of L●ige against the Duke he did not counte●mand it when he resolved to put himself into his hands and then that he would upon any security or safe-conduct put himself to the courtesie and mercy of his enemy without urgent and inevitable necessity 4. Thomas Ruthal was by King Henry the seventh ●or his great abilities preferred to be Bishop of Durham King Henry the eighth made him of his Privy Council notwithstanding the hatred which Cardinal Woolsey bare unto him It happened that King Henry employed him as a Politick person to draw up a Breviate of the State of the Land which he did and got it fairly transcribed but it fell out that instead thereof he deceived with the likeness of the cover and binding Presented the King with a Book containing the Inventory of his own Estate amounting to an invidious and almost an incredible summ of one hundred thousand pounds Woolsey glad of this mistake told the King he knew where a mass of money was in case he needed it This broke Ruthals heart who had paid the third part of the cost of making the Bridge of Newcastle over Tyne and intended many more Benefactions had not death on this unexpected occasion surprized him Anno Dom. 1523. 5. The Duke of Ossuna a little man but of great fame and fortune was revoked from being Vice-Roy of Naples the best employment the King of Spain hath for a subject upon some disgust and being come to this Court where he was brought to give an account of his Government being troubled with the Gout he carried his sword in his hand instead of his staff the King misliking the manner of his posture turned his back to him and so went away Thereupon he was over-heard to mutter Esto es para servir muchachos This it is to serve Boyes This coming to the Kings oa● he was apprehended and committed Prisoner to a Monastery not far off where he continued some years until his Beard came to his girdle then growing very ill he was permitted to come to his house in Madrid being carried in a bed upon mens shoulders where he died about the year 1622. 6. When Pope Iulius the second attempted to deliver Italy from the Vltra Montani he sent an Italian Embassadour to the King of England to perswade him to take Arms in his behalf against the King of France and the Embassadour having delivered all that he had in charge to say answer was given in the behalf of the King That he was most ready and willing to defend the Pope but that an Army was not so soon to be made ready for that the English by reason of their long Peace had in a manner lost the use

being once all together one of them stole from his Fellows and finding this Staff at the Door accused his Sister to his Father of adultery whereof by discovery of the truth she was cleared 9. Bassianus Caracalla the Emperour after he had slain the Son of Iulia his Mother-in-law did also take her to his Wife upon this occasion Iulia was a most beautiful woman and she one day as if through negligence or accident having discovered a great part of her body naked to the eyes of her Son Bassianus sighing said thereupon I would if I might Iulia replyed If you please you may know you not that you are Emperour and that it is your part to give and not to receive Laws Hearing this he publickly marryed her and kept her as his Wife Not long after being slain by the hand of Martialis Macrinus having burnt his body sent the reliques thereof in an Vrn to Iulia his Wife and Mother then at Antioch in Syria who casting her self upon the Urn slew her self and this was the end of this incestuous copulation 10. Artaxerxes Mnemon King of Persia fell in love with his own Daughter a beautiful Virgin called Atossa which his own Mother Parysatis perceiving perswaded him to marry her and so to take her for his Wife and though the Persian Laws forbad such incestuous Marriages yet by the counsel of his wicked Mother and his own lust he had her for his Wife after which time he never prospered in any thing he took in hand 11. Lucretia the Daughter of Pope Alexander the sixth not only lay with the Pope her Father but also with her Bother the Duke of Candy which Duke was also slain by Caesar Borgia for being his Rival in his Sisters Bed Of this Lucretia is this Epitaph extant Hic jacet in tumulo Lucretia nomine sed re Thais Alexandri Filia Sponsa Nurus Here Lucrece lies a Thais in her life Pope Sixtus Daughter Daughter-in-law and Wife 12. When we came to the Court of the King of Queda we found that with a great deal of Pomp excellent Musick Dancing and largess to the poor he was solemnizing the Funerals of his Father whom he himself had stabbed on purpose to marry his own Mother after he had already gotten her with Child As a remedy in these evils he made proclamation that on pain of a most rigorous death no person whatsoever should be so daring as to speak a word of that which had passed and it was told us how for that cause he had already put to death divers principal personages of his Kingdom and a number of Merchants CHAP. LII Of such as have been warned of their approaching death who yet were not able to avoid it WHen Alexander the Great then in India had been told by an Oracle that he should dye by Poyson at Babylon and that within the compass of the next eight months he was importunate to know further who was the person that should give him that Poyson But he had no other answer than this That the Fates cannot be deceived So it seems for when the appointed time is come 't is easie to observe how some push on themselves by a wilful and presumptuous foolhardiness and to others their very caution and circumspection hath proved as fatal to them as any other thing 1. Adv●rtisements were come from all parts both within and without the Realm from Spain Rome Lorrain and Savoy to give notice to Henry of Lorrain Duke of Guise in the reign of Henry the third of France that a bloody catastrophe would dissolve that assembly he had then occasioned of the Estates The Almanacks had well observed it it was generally bruited in the Estates that the execution should be on St. Thomas day the very Eve before the Dukes death the Duke himself sitting down to Dinner found a scrole under his Napkin advertising him of a secret ambush of the King and his but he writ underneath with his own hand They dare not and threw it under the Tab●e seeing therefore that no warning would abate his confidence nor awake his security his murder was performed on this manner Upon December 23. 1588. the King assembles his Council having before prepared seven of his Gentlemen that were near his person to execute his will The Duke of Guise came and attending the beginning of the Council sends for an Handkerchief Pericart his Secretary not daring to commit this new advertisement to any mans report tyes a note to one of the corners thereof saying Come forth and save your self else you are but a dead man But Larchant the Captain of the Kings Guard staid the Page that carried it and caused another to be given to him by St. Prix the chief Groom of the Kings Chamber The spirit of man doth often prophesie the mischief that doth pursue him the Duke in the Council feels strange alterations and extraordinary distemperatures and amidst his distrust a great fainting of his heart St. Prix presents unto him some Prunes of Brignolles and Raysins of the Sun he eats and thereupon the King calls him into his Cabinet by Revol one of the Secretaries of State as it were to confer with him about some secret of importance the Duke leaves the Council to pass into the Cabinet and as he lift up the Tapestry with one hand to enter they charge him with Swords Daggers and Partisanes and so he was slain 2. Certain it is that some good while before the Duke of Buckinghams death by the Knife of Felton Sir Clement Throckmorton a Gentleman then living advised him to wear a privy Coat wh●se Council the Duke received very kindly but gave him this answer That against any popular fury a Shirt of Male would be but a silly defence and as for any single mans assault he took hi●self to be in no danger so dark is destiny 3. The night before King William the second was killed a certain Monk dreamed that he saw the King gnaw the Image of Christ cruci●ied with his teeth and that as he was about to bite away the legs of the same Image Christ with his feet spurned him down to the ground and that as he lay on the earth there came out of his mouth a flame of fire with abundance of smoak this being related to the King by Robert Fitz Mammon he made a jest of it saying This Monk would sain have something for his dream go give him an hundred Shillings but bid him look that he dream more auspicious dreams hereafter Also the same night the King himself dreamed that the veins of his arms were broken and that the blood issued out in great abundance and many other like passages there were by which it seems he had Friends somewhere as well as Iulius Caesar that did all they could to give him warning but that as Caesars to his malus Genius would not suffer him to take it for King William notwithstanding forewarned by many signs

That the Scythians did yield themselves together with the Earth and Water upon this reason That the Mouse is bred in the Earth and seeds upon the same food with man the Frog lives in the Water the Bird might represent the Horse and that by sending Arrows they seemed to deliver up themselves But Gobryas one of the seven Princes that had ejected the Magi was of opinion That those Presents intimated thus much O ye Persians unless as Birds ye fly in the Air or as Mice ye retreat under the Earth or as Froggs ye swim in the Water ye shall not return whence ye came but shall be slain by these Arrows The Persians interpreted it according to his opinion and had it not been by very accident neither Darius nor any of his Army had ever seen Persia more being glad to fly and happy that he found a way of escape for the Scythians though in pursuit missed of him as thinking he had taken another way 3. Alexander the Great was vehemently incensed against the Lampsacenians who sent Anaximenes as their Embassadour to appease him Alexander at the first sight of him that he might cut off all occasion of being prevailed with as to any favour in their behalf solemnly swore That although Anaximenes was his Master yet he would not either grant or do any of those things that he should desire of him Then said the other I desire of thee O King that thou wouldest utterly destroy the Country of Anaximenes thy Master Alexander for his Oaths sake was thus constrained though otherwise much against his mind to pardon the Lampsacenians 4. Nicholaus de Book a Knight was sent by Valdemarus the Marquess of Brandenburg as his Embassadour to Franckfurt in his Princes name about the Election of a King of the Romans The Competitors were Philippus Pulcher Duke of Austria and Lewis Duke of Bavaria the Marquess had sent his Letters in favour of Frederick that he might be King but his Embassadour expecting to receive nothing from Fredederick and perceiving that most mens minds were inclinable to Lewis he scraped out the name of Frederick out of all his Princes Parchments and contrary to his mind instead thereof put in the name of Lewis for which In●idelity the Marquess upon his return kept him in Prison and suffered him there to dye of Famine 5. The people of Florence sent one Franciscus a Lawyer but indeed an unlearned Person as their Embassadour to Ioan Queen of Naples At his coming he was informed by a Courtier That it was her Majesties pleasure that he should return on the morrow In the mean time he had heard that the Queen had no aversion to a handsom man and therefore upon his return having had his Audience and discoursed with her about many things at last he told her That he had something to deliver to her in private The Queen withdrew with him into a Privy Chamber supposing that he had something to impart to her which was not fit to communicate with others here it was that the fool prepossessed with an opinion of his own handsomness desired the Queen that he might be admitted to her bed the Queen without alteration of her Countenance looking him in the face demanded if the Florentines had made that part of his Commission And while the Embassadour remained silent and covered with blushes she bad him return and caused it to be entred with the rest of his instructions and dismissed him without any other sign of her Anger 6. Arnald Whitfeild Chancellour of the Realm of Denmark with Christian Barmkan his Assistant came Embassadour from the King of Denmark to Queen Elizabeth His request was That the King his Master might make a motion of Peace betwixt her Majesty and the King of Spain and proceed farther therein if he found both Parties addicted thereto he also desired open Traffick with Spain and that Goods might not be stayed on the Narrow Seas as it had been heretofore And having Audience upon the day that her Majesty was born he took occasion to say That since it had pleased God on that day which he was informed was her Majesties birth-day to glorifie the World with so gracious a Creature who had brought so great happiness to the Realm and the Neighbour Kingdoms he doubted not but that the King his Master should in that happy day have an happy Answer of his request c. I blame you not said the Queen to expect a reasonable and sufficient Answer but you may think it a great Miracle that a Child born at four a clock this morning should be able to Answer so wise and learned a man as you are sent from so great a Prince as you be about so great and weighty Affairs you speak of and in an unknown Tongue by three of the clock in the afternoon and with like prudent and gracious words she gave him leave to depart 7. There was a Treaty on the part of Spain for a Marriage with our Prince Henry wherein Salisbury then Secretary a little man but a great Statesman instantly discovered the jugling before any other did think of any For although it went forward cunningly yet did Salisbury so put the Duke of Lerma unto it that either it must be so or they must confess their jugling The Duke of Lerma denied that there ever had been any treaty or any intention from that State Salisbury sent for the Embassadour to a ●ull Council told him how he had abused the King and State about a Treaty for Marriage which he had no Commission for that therefore he was liable to the Laws of our Kingdom for when any Embassadour doth abuse a State by their Masters Commission then the servant was freed but without Commission was culpable and liable to be punished by the Laws of that State as being disavowed to be Servant to the King his Master The Embassadour answered gravely He did not understand the cause of his coming therefore was then unprepared to give any answer but on Munday he would come again this being Saturday and give his Answer On Munday he comes begins with these words My Soul is my God's my Life my Master's my Reputation my own I will not forfeit the first and last to preserve the second then laies down his Commission and Letters of Instruction under the Kings own hand he acquitted himself honestly to this State but was lost to his own being instantly sent ●or home where he lived and died in disgrace 8. The Spartans sent their Embassadours to Athens who declared in the open Senate That they came from their State with full power to comprimise all matters of difference betwixt them and to put an end to all Controversie Alcibiades that in emulation to Nicias had a desire to continue the rupture was terrified with this Declaration of theirs and thereupon made means for a private conference with the Embassadours when he came What mean you my Lords said he have