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A16281	The fardle of facions conteining the aunciente maners, customes, and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affrike and Asia.; Omnium gentium mores. Book 1-2. English	Joannes, ca. 1485-1535.; Josephus, Flavius. Antiquitates Judaicae.; Waterman, William, fl. 1555?	1555 (1555)	STC 3197; ESTC S102775	133,143	358

other mennes olde store but opened thee also the treasury of myne owne witte and bokes not euery where to be found and like a liberall feaster haue set before thee much of myne owne and many thynges newe Farewell and thankefully take that that with labour is brought thee ¶ The first Chapiter ¶ The true opinion of the deuine concernyng the beginnyng of man WHen God had in V. daies made perfecte the heauens and the earth and the furniture of bothe whiche the latines for the goodlinesse and beautie therof call Mundus and we I knowe not for what reason haue named the worlde the sixth daie to the entent there mighte be one to enioye and be Lorde ouer all he made the moste notable creature Man One that of all earthly creatures alone is endowed with a mynde and spirit from aboue And he gaue him to name Adam accordyng to the colour of the molde he was made of Then drowyng out of his side the woman whilest he slept to th ende he should not be alone knitte her vnto hym as an vnseparable compaignion and therwith placed them in the moste pleasaunt plot of the earth fostered to flourishe with the moisture of floudes on euery parte The place for the fresshe grienesse and merie shewe the Greques name Paradisos There lyued they a whyle a moste blessed life without bleamishe of wo the earth of the own accorde bringing forth all thing But when they ones had transgressed the precepte they ware banysshed that enhabitaunce of pleasure and driuen to shift the world And fro thenceforth the graciousnes of the earth was also abated the francke fertilitie therof so withdrawen that labour and swette now wan lesse a greate deale then ydle lokyng on before tyme had done Shortly crepte in sickenes and diseases and the broyling heate and the nipping cold began to assaile their bodyes Their first sonne was Layin and the seconde Abell and then many other And as the world grewe into yeares and the earth began to waxe thicke peopled loke as the nombre did encreace so vices grew on and their lyuing decaied euer into woors For giltelesse dealyng wrong came in place for deuoutenesse cōtempte of the Goddes and so farre outraged their wickednes that God skarcely fynding one iuste Noha on the earth whom he saued with his housholde to repayre the losse of mankind and replenysshe the worlde sente a floude vniuersall whiche couering all vnder water killed all fleshe that bare lyfe vppon earth excepte a fewe beastes birdes and wormes that ware preserued in the misticall arke In the ende of fiue Monethes aftre the floude began the Arque touched on the moūteines of Armenia And within foure Monethes aftre Noas and all his beyng restored to the earth with Goddes furtheraunce in shorte space repeopled the worlde And to th ende the same myghte euery wheare again be enhabited he dispersed his yssue and kyndredes into sondrie coastes After Berosus opynion he sent Cham otherwyse named Cameses and Chamesenuus with his ofspring into Egipte Into Lybia and Cirene Triton And into the whole residewe of Affrike the ancient Iapetus called Attalus Priscus Ganges he sent into Easte Asia with certeine of the sonnes of Comerus Gallus And into Arabia the fertile one Sabus sirnamed Thurifer Ouer Arabia the Waaste he made Arabus gouernour and Petreius ouer Petrea He gaue vnto Canaan all that lyeth fro Damasco to the outemost bordre of Palestine In Europe he made Tuisco king of Sarmat●a from the f●oude of Tanais vnto the Rhene And there were ioyned vnto him all the sonnes of Istrus and Mesa with their brethren fro the mounteyne of Adula to Mesemberia pontica Archadius and Emathius gouerned the Tirianes Comerus Gallus had Italie and Fraunce Samothes Briteigne and Normandie and Iubal Spayne That spiedie and vnripe puttyng forthe of the children from their progenitours before they had throughly learned and enured them selues with their facions and maners was the cause of all the diuersitie that after ensued For Cham by the reason of his naughty demeanour towarde his father beyng constrayned to departe with his wyfe and hys chyldren planted him selfe in that parte of Arabia that after was called by his name And lefte no trade of religion to his posteritie because he none had learned of his father Wher of it came to passe that when in processe of tyme they ware encreased to to many for that londe beyng sent out as it ware swarme aftre swarme into other habitations and skatered at length into sondry partes of the worlde for this banyished progeny grewe aboue measure some fel into errours wherout thei could neuer vnsnarle themselues The tongue gan to altre the knowledge of the true God and all godlie worshippe vanished out of mind Inso muche that some liued so wildely as aftre thou shalt here that it ware harde to discerne a difference betwixte them and the beastes of the felde Thei that flieted into Egipt wonderyng at the beautie and course of the Sonne the Moone as though there had been in them a power deuine began to worship them as Goddes callyng the lesse Isis and the bigger Osiris To Iupiter also thei Sacrificed did honour as to the principall of life To Vulcan for fire to Pallas as Lady of the skie to Ceres as gouerneresse of the arth and to sondry other for other sondry considerations Neyther staied that darkenesse of iniquitie in Egipte alone but where so euer the progeny of Cham stepte in from the begynnyng there fell true godlines all oute of minde and abōdage to the deuell entred his place And there neuer was countrie mother of moe swarmes of people then that part of Arabia that he and his chase to be theirs So greate a mischief did the vntymely banishemente of one manne bring to the whole Cōtrarily the progenie of Iapheth and Sem brought vp to full yeres vndre their elders and rightly enstructed contentyng thē selues with a litle circuite straied not so wide as this brother had doen. Whereby it chaunced that the zeale of the truthe I meane of good liuyng and true worshippe of one onely God remained as hidden in one onely people vntill the tyme of Messias ¶ The seconde Chapitre ¶ The false opinion of the Philosophre concernyng the begynnyng of man BVt the aunciente Philosophers whiche without knowledge of God and his truthe many yeres ago wrate vpon the natures of thinges and thistories of times had another opinion of the originall of man For certain of them belieued the worlde euer to haue been and that euer it should be and man together with it to haue had no beginnyng Certaine did holde that it had a beginnyng and an ende it should haue and a time to haue been when man was not For saie thei the begynner of thynges visible wrapped vp bothe heauen and earth at one instant togither in one paterne and so a distinction growyng on betwixte these meynte bodies the worlde to haue begon in suche ordre as we

longe time haue bene offred to their goddes are kepte in the temple whose dores are by excellent workemanship garnished with golde siluer and yuorie The couche of their God is vi cubites longe and foure cubites brode all of golde gorgeous of worcke and goodly to beholde And by that is there sette a table of like sorte in euerie poincte for sise stuffe and gorgeousnes They haue but one temple all of white stone builte vpon pilours grauen and embossed thre hundred and. xxxviii taylours yardes square that is to saye euen of lengthe and bredthe euery waye so muche And somewhat acordinge to the syse of the temple it is sette full of highe ymages very precious coruen and grauen Rounde about the temple haue the priestes their habitacion And all the grounde aboute them xxv myle compasse is halowed to their goddes The yerely rente of that grounde is bestowed vpon sacrifice ¶ The. iij. Chapitre ¶ Of Assiria and Babilonia and the maners of those peoples AS saieth sainct Augustine the countrie called Assiria was so named of Assur the sōne of Sem. And at this dase to the ende that time might be founde an appairer of al thinges with the losse of a sillabe is becomen Siria Hauyng for his bounde on the East the countrie called Inde and part of Media On the West the floude Tygris on the Southe Susiana and on the Northe the maigne mounteigne Laucasus It is a deintie to haue in Assiria a showre of raine and therefore are thei constreined for the due moistyng of their lande to tolle in the riuers by pollicie of trenching and damming wherwith thei so plentisie their grounde that thei communely receiue two hundred busshelles for a busshell and in some speciall veine three hundred for one Their blades of their Wheate and Barlie are fowre fingers brode Their Sesamum and Milium Somer cornes are in groweth like vnto trees All the whiche thinges Herodotus the historien thoughe he knoweth thē as he writeth be to vndoubtedly true yet would he that men toke aduisemente in the reportyng of theim for that thei mighte steme vnto suche as neuer sawe the like incredible Thei haue a tree called Palma that beareth a kinde of small Dates This fruicte thei fiede muche vppon and out of the bodie of the tree thei draw at one time of the yere a liquour or sappe wherof thei make bothe wine and hon̄y In their fresh waters thei vse boates facioned round like a buckler which the Armenians that dwelle aboue them do make of salowe wikers wrought one within an other and couered with rawe leather The appareile of the Assyrians is a shirte downe to the foote and ouer that a short garment of wollen and last of al a faire white pleicted cassaque doun to the foote agayne Their shoes are not fastened on with lachettes but lyke a poumpe close about the foote Which also the The bans dydde vse and but they twayne no moe They suffre theyr heares to growe and couer them with prety forked cappes somwhat my trelyke And when they goe abroade they besprinkle them selues with fragraunt cyles to be swete at the smelle They haue euery man a rynge with a signet and also a sceptre finely wrought vppon whose toppe thei vse to sticke either an apple or a rose or a lillye or some lyke thynge For it is a dishonour to beare it bare Emongest all the lawes of that people I note this chiefly as worthie memorie Whē their maidens came to be mariage able thei ware frō yere to yere brought foorthe into the Marquette for suche as would buye them to be their wiues And because there ware some so hard fauoured that menne would not onely be loth to giue money for them but some menne also for a litle money to take theim the fairest ware first solde and with the prices of theim brought into the commune Treasourie ware the fowler bestowed Herodote writeth thet he heard by reaporte that the Heneti a people on the bordre of Italie towarde Illiria ware wonte to vse this maner Whervpon Sabellicus takyng an occasion writeth in this maner Whether there ware suche a maner vsed emong that people saieth he or not I haue litle more certaintie to laie for my self then Herodote had But thus muche am I able to saie that in Venice a citie of famous worthines and whose power is well knowen at this daie to be greate bothe by Sea and by lande suche maner as I shall saie was sometyme vsed There was in the Litie of Venice a place dedicate as ye would saie to our Ladie of Pietie Before whose doores it happened a child or twaine begotten by a skape whiche either for shame or necessitie could finde no mother or for the nombre of parteners no one propre father to bee laide And when by the good Litezeins suche tendrenes had been shewed to two or thre as the mothers loked for and manhode to saie the truthe doth require the dore of pitie became so fruict full a mother that she had not now one or twoo in a yere but three or fower in a quarter Whiche thyng when the gouernours of the citie perceiued their toke ordre by commune consente that frō thens foorthe suche women children onely as should fortune so to bee offred to Pietie should bee nourisshed at the commune charge of the citie none other And for those acordyngly thei ordeined a place wher thei ware brought vp hardly kepte in and diuersly enstructed acordyng to their giftes of witte and capacitie vntill thei ware mariage able At the whiche tyme she that had beautie and good qualities bothe found those a sufficient dowrie to purchase her choyse of husbandes And she that hadde but beautie alone thoughe her qualities ware not so excellēte yet for her honestie that beside forth was singuler in theim all founde that beautie and honestie could not be vnmaried These therfore ware not permitted to euery mannes choise but graunted to suche as ware thoughte menne worthir of suche women If there ware any that lacked the grace of beautie yet if she ware wittie and endewed with qualities together with her honestie a small dowrie purchased her a husbād in good time But if there ware any in whō there happened neither commendacion of beautie nor wit but onely bare honestie for her bestowyng was there a meane found by waie of deuotiō as we terme it whē we signifie a respecte of holines in the diede Menne vnmaried beyng in daungier vpon Sea or on Lande or bryng sore distressed with sickenes makyng a vowe for the recouerie of healthe where vnto thei holde them selues bounden in conscience if it fortuned theim at that tyme to be deliuered for satisfactiō of their vowe in that case not vprightly perfourmed vsed to take for their wiues suche of the simplest as other had left So that in processe thei alwaie fonnde husbandes and the commune wealthe a diminishyng of charge Another Lawe of the Babilonians there was more worthie of

brickes nor diggs no sande But either make them caues in the earthe or take suche as thei finde ready made in the sides of the mounteines and hilles Ther dwel thei with out feare of rage or ruine of weather or of winde He thineketh him self sanflter fenced frō showres with his caue then with a fewe tiles and yet hath by it a double commoditie A house while he liueth a graue ready made when he dyeth Ther is no glittering apparell no rattelinge in sulkes no rusteling in veluettes but a litie brieche of brawded russhes or rather a couering of honeste shamefacednesse The women are not sette oute to aliure ne pinched in to please ne garnisshed togase at No heare died no lockes outelated no face painted no skinne slicked no countrefeicte coūtenaunce nor mynsing of passe No poticary practise no ynckehorne termes nor pithlessepratlig Finally no colours of hipocrisie no meanes to set oute more beautie then nature hathe giuē them Thei ioyne not in engēdrure for likerous luste but for the loue of yssewe and succession Thei kepe no warres but mainteine peace not with force but with peaceable behauour and maners The father and the mother folowe not the childe to the bewrialle Thei builde no toumbes for the deade more like vnto chirches then graues Thei be wry not vp their asshes in pottes da●hed full of pearle and precious stone For why they estieme in these neither the honour of the quicke ne the pleasure of the deade but raither the trouble and paine of bothe Pestilence or other diseases as I haue sayd the Abrahmanes are not annoyed with for thei enfecte not the ayer with any filthye doinges But nature alwaye with them keapeth accorde with the season and euery elemente his tourne with oute stoppe or barre Their Phisicque is abstinence which is able not only to cure the maladie already crepte in but also to holde oute suche as otherwise mighte entre Thei couette no sightes nor shewes of misrule no disguisinges nor entreludes But when thei be disposed to haue the pleasure of the stage thei entre into the regestre of their stories what thei finde there moste fit to be laughed at that do thei lamence bewaile Thei delighte not as many do to heare olde wiues tales and fantasies of Robin hoode but in studious consideracion of the wondreful workemanship of the world the perfect disposinge of thinges in suche ordre of course and degree Thei crosse no sease for merchaundise ne learne no colours of Rethoricque Thei haue one kinde of plaine eloquence commune to them all tongue harte agreinge in truthe Thei haue neither moote halles ne vniuersities whose disagreable doctrine more leaning to apisshe arte then natural reason and experience neuer bringeth anye staye or certeintie of thinges One part of this people iudgeth mānes perfeteste blessednes to stande in honestie And another in pleasure Not in the tickelinges of the taile or painperinges of the bealy more hittre then pleasaūte as thou maye vse them but to lacke nothing that perfecte nature desireth ne nothing to do that perfecte nature misliketh Thei thincke it no honour to God to slea for him an innocēte beast yea thei say he accepteth not the sacrifice of men polluted with bloode ▪ but rather loueth a worship voide of all bloodsheade That is to saye the humble entreatie of woorde because that proprety only to be entreated with woordes is commune to God and to manne With this therefore saye they he is pleased because we somewhat resemble him self therin And this was the life of the vnchristened Brahmanes wher with we christianes are so farre out of loue that we are afraied leaste any man should beleue it to be true The Yndians called Catheis haue eche man many wiues And assone as anyone husbande fortuneth to die his whole nōber of wiues assemble before the chiefest iudges of the citie and there eche for her self sheweth and alledgeth her welle deseruinges towarde her housebande how derely she loued him howe muche she tendered honoured him And she that is by them iudged to haue borne her self beste in that behaulfe and to haue bene dierest to her husbonde she in the beste maner and moste gorgeous that she can deuise triumphing and reioyfinge getteth her vp vpon the funeralle pyle wher her housebandes corps lieth ready to be brente and ther kissinge and enbrasinge the deade body is burned together with her housebāde So gladde is she to haue the victorie in the contencion of wiuely chastitie and honeste behautour toward her husbande And the other that lyue thincke them selues dishonoured and escape not without spotte of reproche as longe as thei liue Their childrē in their infancie are not nourisshed vp at the libertie and will of the parentes but certeinether are appointed to viewe the children whiche yf thei spie vntowardnes in the infante deformitie or lacke of lymmes commaunde it to be slayne Thei ioyne not mariages for nobilitie of birthe or aboundaunce of substaunce but for beaultie ▪ and rather vpō regarde of frute then of luste Certaine also amonge the Yndians haue this custome that yf thei be of suche pouertie that thei be not able to marye oute their doughters euen in the floure of her age thei bringe her or them furthe into the marcate with trompet drōme or suche other their noyses of warre And their aftre the multitude is comen together the maiden first vncouereth her self wholie vp to the harde shoulders on the backe haulfe to be sene starke naked and aftre that likewise on the bealy Yf the multitude finde no faulte but allowe her as worthye to please for her bodye then marieth she to some one ther whome she beste liketh Megasthenes writeth that vpon diuerse mounteines in Ynde are people with dogges heades and lōge clawes cladde in hydes of beastes speakinge with us voyce like vnto manne but barking onlye muche like vnto dogges with mouthes roughe like a grater Thei that dwelle aboute the heade of Ganges haue no nede of anye kinde of meate for their liue by the sauour of their frutes And yf thei fortune to iorney so that thei thincke to fayle of the sauour when thei would haue it they cary with theim to smell to at times as thei fainte But if it fortune those to smelle any horrible stincke it is as present deathe vnto theim as poyson to vs. It is recorded in writyng that certaine of those ware in Alexandres campe We rede also that there are in Inde mē with one eye and no mo And certein so notably eared that thei hange downe to their hieles with suche a largenesse that thei may lye in either of them as vpon a pallet and so harde that thei maye rende vp trees with them Some other also hauing but one legge but vpon the same such a foote that when the sonne is hote and he lacketh shadowe lyenge downe vpon his backe and holdinge vp his fote he largely shadoweth his whole bodie It is redde