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truth_n	divine_a	former_a	great_a	202	4	2.0670	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35221	The English acquisitions in Guinea & East-India containing first, the several forts and castles of the Royal African Company, from Sally in South Barbary, to the Cape of Good Hope in Africa ... secondly, the forts and factories of the Honourable East-India Company in Persia, India, Sumatra, China, &c. ... : with an account of the inhabitants of all these countries ... : also the birds, beasts, serpents and monsters and other strange creatures found there ... : likewise, a description of the Isle of St. Helena, where the English usually refresh in their Indian voyages by R.B.	R. B., 1632?-1725?	1700 (1700)	Wing C7318; ESTC R21090	118,185	190

be stung to Death by Serpents so one of those Mountebanks who keep them to shew tricks to the People brought two Serpents to do Execution upon this wretched man whom he found naked only a little covering before and trembling Then having angred these venemous Creatures he put one to his Thigh which presently twined it self about that part till it came near his Groin and there bit him till Blood followed The other was fastned to the outside of the other Thigh twisting it round and there bit him likewise the Wretch kept upon his Feet a quarter of an hour before which the Serpents were taken from him but complained extreamly of a Fire that tormented all his Limbs and his whole Body began to swell exceedingly like Nafidius bit by a Libyan Serpent called a Prester and about half an hour after the Soul of that unnatural Monster left his groaning Carcase It happened a few years before Sir Thomas Row was Ambassador in this Court in 1618. that a Jugler of Bengal a place famous for Witches brought an Ape before the Mogol who loved Novelties that did many strange feats the King to try his sk●…l pluckt a Ring off his Finger and gave it one of his Boys to hide whom the Ape presently discovered several other tryals he made wherein the Ape did his part to admiration At length this strange and unexpected fancy came into the Kings Head There are many disputes said he about that true Prophet which should come into the World we are for Mahomet The Persians magnifie Mortis Ally the Hindoos or Heathens extol Bramon Ram. and others the Iews are for Moses and the Christians for Christ adding several others to the number of twelve who have all their several Followers in that part of the World He then caused them twelve names to be written on twelve several Scrolls and put together to try if the Ape could draw out the name of the true Prophet this done the Ape put his paw amongst them and pull'd out the name of Christ The Mogol a second time caused these twelve names to be writ again in twelve other Scrolls and Characters and put together when the Ape again pluckt forth the name of Christ as before Mahomet Chan a great Favourite present said it was an Imposture of the Christians though none were then there and desired to make a third trial which granted he put but eleven of those names together reserving the name of Christ in his hand the Ape searching as before pluckt forth his empty paw and so twice or thrice together the King demanding the reason was answered that happily the thing he looked for was not there the Ape was bid search for it who putting out those eleven names one after the other in a seeming indignation rent them then running to Mahomet Chan caught him by the hand where the name of Christ was concealed which he opened and held up to the King but did not tear it as the former Upon which the Mogol took the Ape and gave his Keeper a good Pension to keep him near about him calling him the Divining Ape And this was all which followed upon this admrable event except the great wonder and amazement of the people the truth whereof saith my Author was confirmed to me by several Persons of different Religions who all agreed in the story and the several circumstances thereof I cannot but relate a remarkable example of a gross Flatterer but a great Favourite of this King noted to be a great neglecter of God believing it Religion enough to please the Mogol his Master though a Souldier of approved valour This man on a time sitting in dalliance with one of his Women she pluckt an hair from his breast about his Nipple in wantonness without designing any hurt This little inconsiderable wound by an unparallel'd fare became the occasion of his death beginning presently to fester and in a short time turned to an incurable Canker When he found he must needs dye he spake these notable words worthy to be recorded Who would not have thought but that I who have been so long a Souldier should have died in the face of an Enemy either by a Sword Lance Arrow Bullet or some such Instrument of death But now though too late I am forced to confess that there is a great God above whose Majesty I have ever despised who needs no bigger Lance than an hair to kill an Atheist or a despiser of his Divinity and so desiring these his last words might be told the King his Master he died The Great Mogol is a Prince of much Wealth and Power having multitudes of Souldiers in constant pay and in his ordinary removes which are not usually above ten mile at once hath such an infinite number of men and other Creatures attending him whose drink is water that in a little time as it was said of the mighty Host of Sennacherib they are able to drink up Rivers Aureng-zeb if he be alive is about 86 yeurs of Age and has lived in Tents several years the Son of Savagi being still in Rebellion against him In 1699. Sr. William Norris was sent Ambassador to the Great Mogol and received with all the Honour imaginable He will endeavour to satisfy the Mogol that the Pyrates as well English as others Nations who have done him very great damages are brought to Justice when taken several of them having been already executed in England The Travels of Mr Thomas Coryat I Shall conclude this Account of the Empire of the Great Mogol with the Travels of Mr. Thomas Coryat a Man in his time sufficiently known He formerly writ a Book Intituled Coriats Crudities hastily Globed up in Five Months Travels in France Savoy Italy Rhetia Helvetia or Switzerland some parts of High Germany and the Netherlands newly digested in the hungry Air of Odcomb in Somersetshire Printed in 1611. If Coryat had lived he designed to have Writ his last Travels to in and out of East-India for he resolved like another Ulysses to have rambled up and down the World at least ten years to see Tartary in all the vast parts thereof with as much as he could of China and after that to have visited the Court of Prester Iohn in Ethiopia who is there called by his own people Ho Biot The King with many other places which if he had lived to perform and publish might have been of good use since he was both a particular and faithful Relator of what he saw ever disclaiming that bold Liberty of Travellers in Speaking and Writing what they please of remote parts where they cannot be easily contradicted So believing him an honest Historian I shall give some Account of his Foot-steps and Flittings up and down who while he lived being like a perpetual motion tho' dead ought not to be forgotten In 1612. He shipt himself for Constantinople where he strictly observed all remarkables and found much respect from St. Paul Pindar then Ambassador there to whose