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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06471	Emblems of rarities: or Choyce observations out of worthy histories of many remarkable passages, and renowned actions of divers princes and severall nations With exquisite variety, and speciall collections of the natures of most sorts of creatures: delightfull and profitable to the minde. Collected by D.L.	Lupton, Donald, d. 1676.	1636 (1636)	STC 16942; ESTC S108945	119,960	508

roots of the Reeds except the field bee dunged in May month will hardly come up to any profit This kinde of Reed is full of knots in the stalk as our common Reeds be but yet not so empty within as they are for it is full of spungeous matter like unto a Bulrush it hath a thinne barke and is full of sweet juyce which is pressed out in this manner They cut the body and stocke of it into many smal parts and then put it in the presse and the juyce that is pressed thereout they powre into a very cleane Caldron and set it up in earthen pots and so when it is waxen cold it is congealed into a very commendable Sugar The mountaine called Aetna in Sicily Aetna is a marvellous hill for continuall burning with flames of fire because it is full of Brimstone matter It hath beene often times set on fire with terrible flames as Munster maketh mention the flames of it are in the night time horrible to be seene because it shineth not as other fires doe In the day time it burneth obscurely much like to the flame of Brimstone whereof the Hill hath great store The ancient writers have uttered many strange things of this and especially Strabo who saith that hee was in the top of the hill and there marked all things diligently In the very top they ●ffirme to be marvellous muta●●ons and changes for sometime 〈◊〉 casteth forth great store of 〈◊〉 and sometimes great flames ●nd obscure smoke And it is to ●e wondred at the heate of the 〈◊〉 because it cannot bee tem●ered with any cold nor could ●e dissolved through that heat The higher part of the moun●aine is full of ashes which in winter are covered with Snow ●he very top of the hill is plaine ●nd is in compasse about 20 fur●ongs In the night time fire may plainly bee seene in the ●ill top and in the day time a certaine obscure smoke riseth up Many times continuall thundring is heard being a terrour to ●he people and black and burnt ashes are dispersed into divers places the aire is made noysome with a most terrible smok The Philosophers assigne a reason hereof because this Isle is in his inferiour parts full of caverns and Brimstone of Allum fire and water and such like that are able to feede and nourish fire And fire cannot be without some vent or respiracle but it will lift up it selfe and therefore many hot bathes be found in Sicily The ayre also entring into the pores and caverns of the earth stirreth up a flame which seeking for issue and eruption vomiteth and casteth forth smoke and fire and in many places searcheth for venting holes and respiracles Sometimes in the inward parts of the earth such i● the violence of the fire that it expelleth and casteth forth with flames burnt stones and sand and the heate which is in●luded doth marvellously shake ●nd move every side of the pri●y holes and caverns Election of a King THere bee that writeth the Gothes to have made this decree and caution that none ●hould bee chosen a King amongst them except he were grosse and fat of body Contrariwise the Saracens would not chuse any to be their King except he were of a tall and leane body The Carthaginians alwayes in the election of their King did attend onely his vertue and magnanimity and not his Nobility nor propernesse of body Feare and care hindereth the growth FOr to be voide of feare and care it is a great helpe to maintaine the stature it doth corroborate the strength and confirmeth the sinews For feare and unquietnesse of minde in youth doth much enervate and weaken the strength of the body and a sad and heavy spirit dryeth the bones too much so that such a body cannot take his just encrease The Rare Art and Mystery of Printing first found out amongst the Maguntines FIrst this noble Art to Print with Letters of Tinne Lead ●nd other mixt mettall was in●ented and found out almost in ●ur age not above 200 yeares ●gone a divine and heavenly in●ention truely and a thing me●orable and worthy to bee re●embred and no lesse worthy ●f grat admiration but truely it ●ould have beene a great deale ●ore marvellous if it had not ●hanced to be so common It 〈◊〉 strange and scarcely credible 〈◊〉 be spoken but yet more true ●●en truth it selfe that one Prin●er may print so many Letters in ●ne day that the swiftest Scri●ener or Writer is not able to ●oe so much in two yeares This is an Almaine invention which was at the beginning in ●reat admiration and of no lesse ●cre and profit The inventor ●nd first deviser of this was Iohn ●utenbergius a man of worship equall with a Knight and at Magunce The thing was first taken in hand with more boldnesse and confidence then hope about 16 yeares before it began to bee common in Italy The first beginning was at Magunce the Germans being the authors with small and little principles and foundations but shortly by the industry of mans wit it grew to that perfection that now in our time it hath Truely it had gone ill with all good discipline in these latter dayes if it were now to have his beginning seeing that all are given to their bellies almost and to unsatiable covetousnesse for now they will scantly take up very good bookes in the high-wayes which in times past they could scantly buy for great summes of money And of a truth before the invention of this Art when they beganne to abject and neglect good Authours all good Discipline might have perished with the Authours thereof if this Art had not beene found out in convenient and happy time By this all kinde of Learning hath encreas'd and the noble Acts of all Nations are manifest to all the world In like manner the memory and remembrance of ancient antiquity is restored hereby and the divine Wisedome of the Philosophers and whatsoever hath laine hidden in few written Copies these many ages in a few places is now by this set forth to all immortality The Inventor of great Gunnes THe great Gunnes came first in use in the yeare of our Lord 354 and the first authour and inventor thereof was one Bertholdus Schwartus a Monke Surely this man found out a marvellous worke and that so many sharpe Wits could not finde out before in so many hundred yeares the which divine and necessary invention many have thought and judged it to be a devillish and most pernicious device the Arguments on both sides be these It is evident that for covetousnesse malice and want of charity in the end of the world the evill people cānot be kept down by Lawes nor that a man may safely travaile whithout some danger of injurious people for before the invention of Guns the seditious tumults and factions of wicked and mischievous men did spoyle and destroy the labours of good men in many places and no man was able to assault and batter the