himselfe properlie Likewise neither he willeth and God loueth onlie his owne workes but he willeth and loueth himselfe much more therefore the word and spirite goe foorth or proceede out of him euerlastinglie and these twaine with God are one God Wée beleeue that God hath builded the world by the word of his wisedome and of his power and by the spirit of his good will he foreséeth and gouerneth and mooueth euery nature to good according to the order of euery nature and for this cause we beléeue that when God will conuert men by his onely mercy from the deceit of deuils and worshipping of Idoles because in a little place of the Iewes in the which he was worshipped and beleeued to be one God according to the Lawe of Moses the rest of the whole worlde worshipped the creatures wickedly and many Gods because that they are none in the place of one and him true and euery man liued according to their sensuall apitites and not according to God then God restored man by his worde and by his holie spirite and therfore the worde of God put vppon him the nature of man that as man he might be conuersaunt with men and as the word of God and wisedome should teache men to beléeue in one true God and to leade their life according to that Lawe which he hath giuen and againe as a man that he might giue a reason of his life and example of his doctrine Hee fyrst kept the Lawe which he gaue vnto men as the word of God and power he might restore the moste comelie goodnes which he woulde For it coulde not bée that by the power of one man the whole worlde should bee conuerted to God and thus the omnipotent and inuisible God hath sowen the trueth by hys worde in Ierusalem By his spirite hee illuminated and confirmed his Apostles that they should sowe the trueth throughout the whole worlde and that they shoulde contemne death through the loue of God who had sent them and by the loue of the saluation of the world according to the ensample of Iesus who dyed willingly according to that which was of man that the world might be saued Thus we beleeue one God in Trinitie the Father sonne and holy spirite as our Lord Iesus hath taught vs and we beleeue that he is true because he is the trueth it selfe and his Disciples hath taught vs more at large thus we doo vnderstande of the power of his wisedome Wée beléeue that the word of God and man whom the that word of God put on and the life of Christ in his flesh was the life of man most holie but the wisedome of the power and workes of him was the power of God Wée beleeue that as the soule and bodie is one man so the word of God of one part and of y e other part The soule and the body are two distinct natures perfectly in one maÌ„ so is the humanitie and deitye in Christ two distinct natures knitte together according to Hypostases and personally neither is the word of God chaunged into flesh or into the soule of Christ neither is the flesh of Christ or his soule conuerted into the word of God but the word of God was and is in Christ the word of God by a meruailous disputation humanity humanitie and that the humanitie haue not taken the deitie of the worde of Christe but the deitie of the worde of God hath taken mans nature which consisteth in that for as much as it was taken Whatsoeuer thing is in God and of God naturally is God because there is nothing accidentall in God and therefore we name and beleeue the intellectuall worde of God to be God and because this worde of GOD was in Christe for that cause wee confesse Christe to bee God and man man because he consisteth of soule and body God because of the word of God which is in him we beleeue that the word of God is in Christ and in the world and in heauen and in God and in the Father wherefore the word of God is infinite as God is infinite begetting him that is as much to say thinking and hath an infinite power But in God after one manner and in Christ after an other manner and in the world after another manner We beléeue that when God dooth communicate his goodnes and his grace to any creature neuerthelesse it goeth not from him but thereby he is more magnified because that the highnesse of God is made manifest by the vertue of his Creatures The more excellent that the Creatour is by greater communicating of his goodnesse so much the more the goodnesse of God and his loue towardes men and hys power is declared Wherefore the goodnes of God and his loue towardes men is more magnified in this point that God himselfe hath come into Iesus Christ with his omnipotentcie then that which he sent into his Prophets one of his graces or two and in some one Prophet a lesser grace and into some other a greater We beleeue that Christ was crucified and dyed of hys owne proper will for many and great profittes to the declaration whereof we should occupy many wordes and he hath suffered all these thinges according to that which was of man in him As for the word of God it is neither crucifyed neyther dyeth neither ryseth againe But he rayseth vp the deade as hee raiseth vp his owne fleshe which he bare We beleeue that Christ after his resurrection was assumpted vp into the heauens and shall come againe with glorye to iudge the quicke and the dead Wée beleeue that mens soules are immortall and that the bodyes of holy men shall ryse incorrupt cleere actiue neither shall they haue any neede of meate nor drinke nor apparrell nor any other corporall pleasures and that the soules and the bodies of them that haue beleeued and haue ledde theyr life vertuously shall goe into Paradise but the impenitent wicked and Infideles into punishment and that the Paradise of the Saintes and the fruicion thereof is in heauen the punishment of the wicked in the earth and that the fruition of the Saints is no thing els then that such soules shalbe persit in knowledge and shall beholde the misteries of God which they knowe not nowe but by faith onelie Wherefore it was necessarie that the word of God and God to be incarnate many other thinges are necessarie when necessity requireth we are ready to render a reason thereof after these reasons the seuen certifie vs of our Faith Moreouer the Prophets of the Iewes haue shewed before whom we receyue of this Iesus what soeuer hee hath doone or whatsoeuer haue béene doone and whatsoeuer his disciples haue doone by his power The like the Oracles of the Greekes haue foreshewed by the gift of God and the like did the Astronomers of the Persians and of the Grecians with the preaching of Iesus For all these of the which we haue made mention doo agrée and are consonant to the scripture in all thinges because that they which haue written them haue had alone Doctor or teacher euen the grace of God vnlesse it were so in something they would haue disagréed and haue béene dissonant Because they haue receiued such a fayth and relygion although newe and miraculous men with great diligence in eu 〈…〉 and with manifolde daungers as well pri 〈…〉 〈…〉 dent and wise and by this meanes the malicious deceite of deuils was ouerthrowne This faith and religion conteineth nothing impossible neither any thing that is dissonant with it selfe neither any corporall thing but all spirituall and it is the way which leadeth mens soules vnto the loue of God and of euerlasting life So many as haue receiued this faith and haue lyued bertuously according to the Lawe of Christ haue obtayned great gifts of God and haue doone many miracles which thin â—es could neuer haue come to passe if this faith had beene false and vntrue The Kinges which made war against this faith with great slaughter and punishment throughout the worlde many hundred yeeres notwithstanding that they had many Gods profited nothing but the faith had the victory and continueth vnto this day when the Lord shall come he shall finde it and vnlesse that this faith had beene by the will of God then had it beene easily ouerthrowne To the same Iesus our Lorde the true God be glory Amen Thus we affirme breefly as concerning our Faith These were translated into the Arabrik tongue by Achomad Kadde a Barrâ—â—n whose father was Mah 〈…〉 Tzelepe the Scribe FINIS Amurathes A 〈…〉 on 〈…〉 Tur 〈…〉 The great Turke hath the faling sicknesse The Turke feareful and a cowarde Mehemet The great Turke drinking no wine Sians Beglerbegus of Greece Ochialus Euery Gallie had sixe Ores Agalamizaâ—oram Georgians Media Hiâ—â—â—ell ◠〈◊〉 Mehemetes Othomannus Media called Zerua Maeotis is in the hye Tartaria bordering vpon Persia â—inan Bassa Ezerum Trapezus It deuideth Europe froÌ„ Asia Beglerbeg Mustapha Mustapha Truce betweene the Spanyardes and the Turkes King Phillip Mahumet Christians denying their faith Sinan Basse A Cittie in Asia against Constantinople Muscouia Tarters tributaries to the Turke Tanaiis it deuideth Asia from Europe runneth through this wylde wildernes Tarters Casanenses Duke of Muscouia false of his promise Russians and Tarters subdued Mursi These Tarters serue the Emperour of Muscouia The Cittie Moscho burnt 1571 Soules immortall
soundes Last of all marched on the Scholers which of a truth you would not haue iudged to haue béen such but rather you would haue taken them for Pilgrimes and begging Friers for a man could not haue presumed any otherwise of them séeing them wrapped in such couerings with white hattes tyed about the myddle with stringes bare footed with fowle dyrtie handes and a most filthy and yrksome countenaunce to beholde they presented vnto Amurathe certaine bookes and painted papers of theyr owne inuention The Monkes followed after them with a company of poore Pilgrimes which goe in pilgrimage to Mecque as they call it which is the Sepulchre of Mahomet they are counted verie holie men in Turkie cloathed lyke Scholers which doo nothing but labour and trotte vp and downe with theyr bodies making themselues leane as in the ende they loose all theyr witte and vnderstanding and because they rested nor stayed not in any one place at any time but alwayes were skipping and dauncing about a man might verie well compare them vnto Curetes and Corybantes the auncient Priests of Cybele the graund mother of the two Paganes vnto them it was among all other that Amurathe caused many small presentes to be made They were presentlie followed of Players more in number then flies or gnattes one sort masking wise other some hauing Myters lyke Popes and crowned balde and halfe shauen theyr visages of all most straunge with Goates beardes theyr mouthes wide open as if they would haue swallowed vp as many as looked vppon them some of them hauing theyr garmentes all to broken and as it were fleade ouer theyr eares other some halfe naked and halfe couered and other some altogether naked and shamelesse without measure Now these proper youthes and naughtie packes being once come into the Parke they beganne to crie out to snort and to laye on loade vppon the pales and vppon the kettelles pottes and pannes platters and basons stryking vppon lyttle belles chyldrens rattles and cymballes with a moste straunge and confused noyse entermixte with daunces and theyr most horrible and dissolute behauiours for they made mockes and mowes and gyrned at as many as laughed at theyr follies and they neuer ceased to turne and tumble vppon both hand and foote There was amongste them one Spaniarde who being seperated a lyttle a sunder from the rest beganne to leape and daunce both his compasse and measure with such a ryght remoouing of his féete and as orderlie wauing and shaking of his handes and with so braue a turning rounde of all his whole bodie together so fyne and artificiallie that hee dyd moste properlie showe and set foorth in a manner all the braue iestures and moouinges of the body prescribed and foretolde of by Plato bothe backewarde and forewardes to the ryght hande and to the lefte high lowe and rounde whereof and whereby all the beholders conceyued a woonderfull great delyght and pleasure Moreouer these aforenamed players had among themselues as it were a chéefe Captaine which was an olde man the most villaine and arrantest knaue of all the whole company and he forsoothe was set vpon an Asse the which thrée young merchaunt men vppon croutches and gyrded about with a lynnen cloath and halfe naked went before holding him vp vppon staues This sight aboue all the rest terrified me verie sore and then for the tyme my spéeche was quite taken from me and my tongue was as if it had béene fast tyed to the roofe of my mouth Nowe some of that company made pastime all daye long with Apes Catles and Dogges with young Goates and lyttle Mules with Hartes and small byrds vppon which theyr sportes and pastimes Amurathe him selfe being giuen altogether to vanities was more attentiue then vnto any other yea then all the rest for there was nothing with them but gamboldes friskes and daunces morisques singing cryinges out and such lyke vaine exercises some of them in this theyr sporting and playing were bytten of Serpents and venemous beasts and presentlie then againe they were healed and made whole of the same byting and then loe they made many most shamefull countenaunces and faces most vnwoorthy to be set downe in writing Hytherto I haue spoken altogether of the forenoone 〈…〉 tes let vs therefore now consider of the afternoone which were no lesse sauced spiced and peppered with pompe and pride then the other although there was not in them in all pointes so great store of ritches and magnificencie as in the first Was it thinke you a leane or thinne sport to sée so many Souldiors fighting as in battayle raye and so many Footemen assayling and forbidding the Turke as it were from his Castles and Holdes with wrastling men a number and dauncers martching altogether and with a number of others making proofe of all theyr prowesse and manhood There was not one man to be founde which tooke not great pleasure and delyght to shewe all his valiancie as well for him selfe as for all those as behelde and looked on But I will first beginne with the Combat of the wrastlers an exercise very much sette by among the Auncients and such a one as did verye much delight as many as behelde the same For the Herauld had no sooner ended his proclamation and crye but straight wayes came foorth in to the same place xv couple of wrastlers all naked and oyled after the olde fashion to catch holde the one by the other euery one by his companion one amongst the rest pricked and praunced on and sette out himselfe in the middest of the place showing his broade shoulders shaking his armes and as Dares did whereof Virgil maketh mention challenge and prouoking the reste to wrastle and suddainly a young man came in before him which was to sight no lesse stronge nor stoute then the other and he beganne luste lie to cast vppe his legges and his fistes into the ayre then hauing made a prayer with a lowde vayce and marching a little vp and downe to make himselfe somewhat nimble and plyant hee layes me fast holde vpon him as had so defyed him by and by they came vnto handy gripes and to graple themselues together laying eache other vpon the grounde flatt vpon their noses then rysing vppe againe they fell to it lustily sometime thrusting and pushing and sometime clypping and colling eache other very straightlie sometime shifting of places and lifting one another vp aloft into the ayre The one of them went about to catch the other fast by the legge wherby he should leese his offered blowes and breath and all together but he there with vnfolded and vntwined his legges and sette vpon the other as earnestlie for to make him loose all that laboure nowe they hauing béene at their prises for the space of three 〈…〉 es they were bothe so weary so soultry whot and so out of breath and yet so fleshed one against an other with choller and shame to sée all the whole Courte standing and watching all y e while vpon
rowled awaye and yet he made but a mocke and laughing stocke of that his loade And yet beholde a thing more meruailous then all these fowre men dyd cleaue long péeces of wood vppon his bellie Moreouer with his téeth and his handes he dyd bruse and breake in péeces a horsenayle of yron and with such force that the one halfe stucke fast in his téeth and of the rest he made two péeces in eche hand one and with thrée blowes with his fyst vpon the Coulter of a Plough he brake it quite in sunder and with his barâ— tongue he lycked the same Coulter put into the fyre all redde hotte the same man also with his téeth alone dyd saddle bridle and harnesse a horse and dyd diuerse and many other most meruailous thinges by reason whereof he gotte to himselfe great gaines and was very much praised and coÌ„mended of all men because of his strength and force altogether so extraordinarie and straunge But before I make an ende of the discourse of the afternoone sportes I haue considered with my selfe that it shall not be any thing at all hurtfull to the Reader if I speake a worde or two of the dauncers ouer the lyne many of them there shewed foorth braue proofes of theyr skylles but there was one among all the rest which gained and gotte the garland from them all and I knowe no man that was not wholie rauished to sée them runne so suddainlie with so good a grace without stinting and with so valiaunt a boldnesse A certayne Poet reporteth in one of his Commedies and Stories that the simple and common people were in a muse at the beholding of one named Quidam which walked vp and downe vppon a Corde or Lyne But if so be that this Poet had séene that as I speake off he would without doubt haue béene driuen out of countenaunce for this fellowe went vp vpon the Lines which were fast tyed to the rafters and beames of the house as high as a man might well discerne and with such swiftnesse and nimblenesse that a man would haue sayd that they had béene Ladders or Stayres and then he came downe againe verie boldlie both backewardes and arsewardes as they saye and also foreward not hauing any other staye or proppe but a lyttle small staffe or sticke wherof he made him a counterpeise one whyle he daunced vpon the Cordes with both féeâ—e and another whyle with one alone sometime with the lefte and sometime with the right now starke naked and straight waies his hose on now clasping his legges about the cordes with his head hanging downeward and so turned himselfe round about and then loosed his legges caught holde againe with his hands and skipt vp vpon it he slidde also meruailous right and boldly from the top of all 〈◊〉 the verie bottome of all and that as I esteeme the cheefest and principallest sport and pastime of all is at night forsooth he tyed fast to eche of his féete siâ—e naked drawne swords and continued his sport with such playing and passing away of the tyme and with such clapping of handes on all partes so that if by chaunce any one of the lookers on ought him any mallice or grudge or would haue wrought him any mischeefe in his sleepe he himselfe by his agillitie and nimblenesse would presently haue awaked out of his sleepe by meanes whereof by the common voice and crie of both great and small at that solemne assemblie he was called and named the cheefe and principall maister of that craft or occupation You haue now already seene good gentle Reader the royalty and great woorthinesse of the sports and pastimes of both before and after dinner verie grosely giuen set downe before you but in few wordes of a verie trueth Let vs nowe then conclude if it please you and let us describe vnto you the sightes which they made and were to be seene in the night and although that they were not much vnlyke vnto the day sportes yet I will in bréefe declare them vnto you Presentlie and immediatlie after Sunne set they lighted theyr Lampes which were hanged vp in the Tabernacle and in the wheele made of Cordes whereof I haue spoken heeretofore the which Lampes turned verie round by art cunning and burned verie cleare and lyght all the whole night Moreouer there were euery night lighted in the sayd Parke to the number of thyrtie Lynks or Torches from the which all the whole Theatre receiued a most famous and cleare lyght and brightnesse Now these thinges being in this order disposed they shotte off squibbes full of pouder which made a meruailous noyse and sounde and as they fell vpon the ground they spette out six or seuen sparkles lyke vnto Starres and verie pleasaunt to beholde Then after all this they brought in euerie day day by day into this Cloister sixe eight and at the most ten Fortresses Towers or Shippes made of boords couered properlie with Paper or with fine linnen cloath gylded and verie ritch and sumptuous made with diuerse paintings and collours and then they gaue fyre vnto them they were made strong both within and without and of all sides with short péeces lyke vnto Mortiers which are a kinde of Artillerie of yron short and hauing many ringes or cyrcles onely vsed in Shippes for nayle shotte being well appointed with squibbes and with pouder for the Cannons without any lacke or want therof And as soone as they put too fyre there presentlie followes a noyse lyke lyghtning and straunge thunder These squibbes dyd flée about in the likenesse of Serpenâ—es and were powred out round about the Theatre and to make an ende of this brute or noyse they had in theyr company the sounds of Trumpettes and Tabors These so fearefull noyses were nothing at all pleasaunt but rather shewed and betokened the assault and taking of Constantinople Furthermore you should haue séene the shapes and figures of men cloathed after the Persian Italian and Allemaigne fashion also the shapes and figures of Elephantes Camelles Dogges Horsses Asses Wildesowle and other lyke creatures all full of Cannon shoâ—te and powder vnto the which they put fyre and then they were all brought to nothing These sportes lasted and continued vntyll two of the clocke and sometime at the commaundement of Amurathe vntyll thrée of the clocke after midnight The Turke me thinkes heerein went about to followe and iâ—itate the proude King Solmonee which striued to worke against the lyghtening and thundering of the Gods as the Poets make report But as they â—eigned that Iupiter knew well how to correct and chasten the intollerable pride of Salmoneâ— so in mine opinion this man héere being more arrogaunt and much worse and wickedder then Salmonee now stryketh vppon the true lyghtening of the true God and being cast downe into hell with his supporters and maintainers receyueth the chastisementes there prepared and made ready for him and due vnto him of so long time Moreouer because that the