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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

Corvinus attained to the fulfilling of an hundred years betwixt whose first and sixth Consulship there was the distance of forty seven years yet was he sufficient in respect of the entireness of his bodily strength not only for the most important matters of the Commonwealth but also for the exactest culture of his fields a memorable example both of a Citizen and Master of a Family 6. Metellus equall'd the length of his life and in extream age was created Pontiffe for twenty two years he had the ordering of the Ceremonies in all which time his tongue never faultred in solemn prayers nor did his hand tremble in the offering of the sacrifices 7. Nicholaus Leonicenus famous in the Age he lived and an Illustrator of Dioscorides He was in the ninety sixth year of his age when Langius heard him at Ferrara where he had taught more than seventy years He used to say that he enjoyed a green and vegete age because he had delivered up his youth chaste unto his man's estate 8. Massanissa was the King of Numidia for sixty years together and excell'd all other men in respect of the strength of an admirable old age appears by the relation of Cicero that for no rain or cold he could be iuduc'd to cover his head they say of him that for some hours together he would continue standing in one and the same place not moving a foot till he had tired young men who endeavour'd to do the like when he was to transact any affair sitting he would in his Throne persist oftentimes the whole day without turning his body on this or the otherside for a more easeful posture when he was on Horseback he would lead his Army for the most part both a complete day and the whole night also nor would he in extreme age remit any thing of that which he had accustomed to do when he was young He was also ever so able in the matter of Venus that after the eighty sixth year of his age he begat a Son whose name was Methymnatus and whereas his Land was waste and desart he left it fruitful by his continual endeavours in the cultivation of it he liv'd till he was above ninety years of age 9. Appius Claudius Caecus was blind for the space of very many years yet notwithstanding he was burden'd with this mischance he govern'd four Sons five Daughters very many dependants upon him yea and the Common-wealth it self with abundance of Prudence and Magnanimity The same person having liv'd so long that he was even tired with living caus'd himself to be carry'd in his Sedan to the Senate for no other purpose than to perswade them from making a dishonourable peace with King Pyrrhus 10. Gorgias Leontinus the Master of Isocrates and divers other excellent persons was in his own opinion a very fortunate man For when he was in the hundred and seventh year of his age being ask'd why he would tarry so long in this life Because saith he I have nothing whereof I can accuse my old age being entred upon another age he neither found cause of complaint in this nor left any in that which he had pass'd 11. Xenophilus the Pythagorean Philosopher was two years younger than the former but not a whit inferiour in respect of his good fortune for as Aristoxenus the Musician saith he dy'd free of all those incommodities that attended upon humane Life he enjoy'd a very perfect health and left the world when he was in the highest splendor and reputation for a person of the most perfect and exact Learning 12. Lemnius tells of one at Stockholm in Sweden in the Reign of Gustavus Father of Ericus who at the age of one hundred marry'd a Wife of thirty years and begat Children of her and saith moreover that this man as there are many others in that Country was of so fresh and green old age that he scarce seem'd to have reach'd more than ●ifty years 13. Isocrates in the ninety fourth year of his age put forth that Book of his which he intitles Panathena●tus he liv'd fifteen years after it and in that extreme age of his he was sufficient for any work he undertook both in Strength and Judgement and Memory 14. Agesilaus King of Sparta though he had attained to a very great age yet was often seen to walk without Shooes on his Feet or Coat on his Back in Frost and Snow and this for no other cause than that being now an old man he might give those that were young an example of patience and tolerance 15. Asclepiades the Prusian gave it out publickly that no man should esteem of him as a Physician if ever he should be sick of any Disease whatsoever and indeed he credited his Art for having liv'd to old age without alteration in his health he at last fell headlong down a pair of Stairs and dy'd of the fall 16. Mithridates King of Pontus who for forty years managed a War against the Romans enjoy'd a prosperous health and to the last of his life us'd to ride to throw Javelins and on Horses dispos'd at several Stages rode one thousand furlongs in one day and also could drive a Chariot that was drawn with sixteen Horses CHAP. XXXII Of some such Persons as have renew'd their Age and grown young again IT is the fiction of the Poets that Medaea was a Witch that she boyled men in a Cauldron with I know not what powerful ingredients till such time as she had restored the Aged unto Youth again The truth was that being a Prudent Woman by continued Exercise and hard Labours in hot places she restored t●ose to health who were soft and effeminate and had corrupted their bodies by idleness and sloth Much may be done this way to preserve the body in its useful vigor and firmness and to prevent those Dilapidations and mines which an unactive life usually brings upon a man but what is this to the following wonderful relation 1. Concerning Machel Vivan Dr. Fuller hath set down a Letter sent him from Alderman Atkins his Son thus There is an acquaintance of mine and a friend of yours who certifi'd me of your desire of being satisfi'd of the Truth of that Relation I made concerning the old Minister in the North. It fortun'd in my Iourney to Scotland I lay at Alnwick in Northumberland one Sunday by the way and understanding from the Host of the House where I lodg'd that this Minister liv'd within three miles of that place I took my Horse after dinner and rode thither to hear him preach for my own satisfaction I found him in the Desk where he read unto us some part of the Common Prayer some of holy David's Psalms and two Chapters one out of the Old and the other out of the New Testament without the use of S●●ctacles The Bible out of which he read the 〈◊〉 was a very small printed Bible He w●nt afterwards into the

of and know them that stood by him and also used then to read Books as Photius in his Bibliothica witnesses of him 13. The Illustrious Count Gaspar Scioppius the honour of his age assured me for a certain truth that Io. Mich. Pierruccius a person of known abilities in Padua when he was young used in the night time to compose very elegant Verses and write them down exactly by that light which issued out of his own eyes 14. An excellent and very discreet person was relating to me that some time since whilst she was talking with some other Ladies upon a sudden all the objects she look upon appear'd to her dy'd with unsual colours some of one kind and some of another but all so bright and vivid that she should have been as much delighted as surprized with them but that finding the Apparition to continue she feared it portended some very great alteration as to her health as indeed the day after she was assaulted with such violence by Hysterical and Hypochondriacal distempers as both made her rave for some days and gave her during that time a bastard palsie 15. Being a while since in a Town where the Plague had made great havock and enquiring of an ingenious man that was so bold as without scruple to visit those that were sick of it about the odd symptoms of a disease that had swept away so many there He told me that he was able to tell divers patients to whom he was called before they took their beds or had any evident symptoms of the Plague that they were indeed infected upon peculiar observations that being asked they would tell him that the neighbouring objects and particularly his cloaths appeared to them beauti●i'd with most glorious colours like those of the Rain bow oftentimes succeeding one another And this he affirm'd to be one of the usual as well as early symptoms by which this odd Pestilence disclosed it self and when I ask'd how long the Patients were wonted to be thus affected he answer'd that it was most commonly for about a day 16. I know a Lady of unquestionable veracity who having lately by a desperate fall received several hurts and particularly a considerable one upon a part of her face near her eye had her sight so troubled and disorder'd that as she hath more than once related to me not only when the next Morning one of her servants came to her bedside to ask how she did his clothes appear'd adorn'd with such variety of colours that she was sain presently to command him to withdraw but the Images in her Hangings did for many days after appear to her if the room were not extraordinarily darkned embelished with several offensively vivid colours which no body else could see in them And when I enquired whether or no white objects did not appear to her adorn'd with more luminous colours than others and whether she saw not some which she could not now describe to any whose eyes had never been distemper'd She answer'd me That sometimes she thought she saw colours so new and glorious that they were of a peculiar kind and such as she could not describe by their likeness to any she had beheld before or since and that white did so disorder her sight that if several days after her fall she look'd upon the inside of a Book she fancy'd she there saw colours like those of the Rain-bow and even when she thought her self pretty well recover'd and made bold to leave her Chamber the coming into a place where Walls and Cieling were whited over made those objects appear to her with such glorious and dazling colours as much offended her sight and made her repent her venturousness and she added that the dis●emper of her eyes lasted no less than five or six weeks though since that she hath been able to read and write much without finding the least inconvenience in so doing CHAP. IV. Of the Sense of Hearing and the quickness or dulness of it in divers men MR. Peacham speaks of a great Lady here in England whose cheek would rise up in a blister at the tenderest touch of a Rose It is no easie matter to assign the true reason of so strange an Antipathy nor can I tell whether it was the exquisiteness of the Sense or some peculiarity in the contexture of the Ear or otherwise that occasioned some sort of sounds to be so unpleasant and even intolerable to some more than others 1. Wenceslaus the Third King of Bohemia was not able to endure the noise of Bells when they were rung so that at the first sound of them he used to stop both his Ears with his Hands by reason of which when he came to Prague they were constrain'd to abstain from ringing especially the bigger Bells 2. Petrus Carrera a Spaniard and Governour of Guleta in Affrica could not bear the smell of Gun-powder nor indure the report of great Guns so that as oft as they were to be discharg'd upon the enemy he ran into subterranean caverns and vaulted places under the ground stopping up both his ears with pieces of silk by which means the taking of the City was made the more easie to Sinan Bassa which fell out Anno 1574. 3. When Sybeni in Italy was destroy'd the noise of that Battle was heard by them upon the same day that it was fought who then were spectators of the Olympick Games in Greece 4. Those who live near unto the place where Nilus hath its fall and where that impetuous River rushes headlong from the high and steep Rocks have their ears so beaten upon with continual noise that they utterly loose their hearing or rather hereby they are brought to that pass that without any trouble they are able to bear those sounds which are intolerable to other men nor can they hear unless they are call'd upon with extreme loudness and vehemency The same thing we may daily observe doth befal Millers and such men as continually live within the noise of a Water-Mill 5. Histiaeus the Milesian Tyrant with his men was left by Darius to defend a Bridge upon Ister against the Scythians in his absence for he was gone upward into the Country Histiaeus had cut off some part of it to secure himself and his party against the Darts of the Scythians and so lay off from it with his Ships when therefore Darius return'd and found him nor his Ships there he commanded an Egyptian with a loud voice to call Histiaeus who was the first of all others that heard the call and that at the first sound of his name whether it was that he was more watchful and intentive than others or that he was more sharp and acute in his hearing than the rest but so it was that he immediately return'd at the summons and joyning his Ships to the Bridge where it was broken he thereby delivered Darius out of the hands of the Scythians who were in