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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68037	A world of vvonders: or An introduction to a treatise touching the conformitie of ancient and moderne wonders or a preparatiue treatise to the Apologie for Herodotus. The argument whereof is taken from the Apologie for Herodotus written in Latine by Henrie Stephen, and continued here by the author himselfe. Translated out of the best corrected French copie.; Apologia pro Herodoto. English	Estienne, Henri, 1531-1598.; Carew, Richard, 1555-1620, attributed name.; R. C., fl. 1607.	1607 (1607)	STC 10553; ESTC S121359	476,675	374

then in any time of the yeare besides and therefore we ought to eate vse and learne more heauenly admonitions at that time c. Cha. 17. The seruitors which should serue vs at the table in Lent are the examples of the holy Martyrs which haue suffered great affliction and mysery in aspiring to glory all which serue vs in their course and place Saint Laurence serueth in fish and herrings broyled on the gredyron Saint Iohn the Euangelist boyled sea fish Saint Dennys and Saint Cosme baked pasties out of the ouen for they were cast into fornaces Sundry others there be which serue● in fryed fish they are such as were boyled in great coppers and caldrons for the name of Christ. Chap. 18. In Lent all the vessell is scoured and made cleane pots glasses and caldrons The table is also couered with a fayre white cloth and cleane napkins laid thereon which duty belongs to young girles women seruants and waiting maids therefore in imitation of the Virgins of heauen we ought to cleanse our vessels as pots glasses and caldrons that is our hearts For doubtlesse we seeth carnall desires in our flesh Wherefore chastity and cleanlinesse ought to bring in the white table cloth and couer the table Chap. 19. When a man hath fed well of all these dishes I suppose he hath had a competent refection so that there remains nothing but to say grace But in stead of giuing thanks they make the dice trowle vpon the tables one desires to play at dice or cards another takes a lute and playes wanton lasciuious songs toūds and horne pypes And so in stead of saying grace and giuing thanks to God they honor ●erue the diuell the inuentor of all those games and sports Do you know what the tables signifie whereat you play By the tables which you open after you are well refreshed with bodily food not with spirituall is vnderstood hell which shall be set wide open for you when you are satiate with your sinnes and then shall the tablemen be turned tumbled and tossed one vpon another that is the soules shal be tormented with diuers and sundry torments specifyed by the sundry points of the tables and the often remouing of the tablemen from one point to another Transibunt ab aquis niuium ad calorem nimium For the paines of hell are diuerse c. Chap. 20. And as for those which play vpon the Lute and sing ribaldry and baudy songs in stead of saying grace doubtlesse they much forget themselues seeing we are all bound to giue God thanks for the benefites we receiue at our repast from his liberall and bountifull hand And here I will shew those that loue to play vpon the Lute and other instruments vpon what Lute they ought to play Marke then as a Lute hath seuen strings so it is hollow By the seuen strings are meant the seuē petitions of the Pater noster with which we must giue God thanks For the Pater noster is the best forme of prayer that euer was seene for therein is contained whatsoeuer is necessary for vs. Likewise the seuen strings signifie these seuen vertues Prudence Temperance Fortitude Iustice Faith Hope and Charity which we ought to haue and to pray that God wold giue vs or they signifie the 7. vertues opposite to the seauen deadly sinnes viz. Humilitie Charity Abstinence Diligence Liberality Chastity and Patience These are the seuen strings which we ought to strike and play vpon before God rendring him thankes and praise all the Lent long The hollownesse of the Lute signifieth that our hearts should be emptyed of all things saue onely of the resounding of godly thoughts and heauenly prayses The Lute is hollow hauing nothing in it but the sounding of the strings when they are striken so ought our hearts to be emptyed of al earthly things and to haue no other resonance but of good thoughts and such heauenly meditations as are formerly mentioned The melody of the strings of the Lute c. Chap. 21. As I was about to take my pen from the paper purposing to shut my booke one of my nephewes said vnto me ô vncle you haue spoken of all saue sweet meates and banquetting dishes which you haue forgotten Indeed quoth I thou saist true my boy Whereupon I tooke my pen againe and writ as followeth None can be ignorant that sweete meates are eaten at night vpon fasting dayes in stead of a supper we ought in the time of fasting to be spiritually excercised and therfore I think it good when we are disposed to fast to eate sweet meates at night which I will here giue you By spirituall confects I vnderstand perseuerance in a good course He cannot be ●aid to fast all Lent that breaketh off his fast for two or three dayes but he must fast full fortie dayes that is it is not enough for him to abstaine from sinne certaine dayes onely but he must continue and perseuere in well doing Qui perseuerauerit vsque ad finem 〈◊〉 erit qui verò non condemnabitur And because perseuerance in obedience is so necessary I may in my poore opinion not vnfitly compare it to the round confect for roundnes signifieth perseuerance seeing that a round figure hath neither beginning nor end as this letter O made in forme of a confect 6 But leauing the rest of these Lenten subtilties to curious heads which desire to vnderstand more of this trim science seeing I haue shewed them the place where they may find them I will come in the next place to the subtilties contained in the rules as well of the religious beggars wallet cariers and rogue● as of the rest of that rable Howbeit my purpose is not to discourse of the subtilties of euery order particularly it shall suffice to speake a word or two generally of them all and after to intreate of some of them in special Here then let vs note that when we see either white blacke or gray Frier be he besmeared or smoaked mytred or cleane brushed yet is there not so small a rag in all his array vnder which there lieth not hidden some great mystery But how is it possible may some say but that if they be contrary one to another in their attire there should also be a contrariety in the mysteries themselues For example if girding with a cord note perfection then doubtles a large broade thong with braue buckles garnished with gallant tongues must needs signifie imperfection as those which the Augustines weare And how should these subtilties agree in such contrarietie of colours Besides all this wherein is it almost that one disagreeth not from another For one goeth barefoot another weareth half a paire of breeches another a whole paire one weareth laticed shoes another cleane couered one hath shoes of the plaine hide like Irish brogs another hath woodden shoes properly called sabots or clogs some ride some go on foot Some haue their cowles pointed others haue them round some long others