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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16241	Theatrum mundi the theatre or rule of the world, wherein may be sene the running race and course of euerye mans life, as touching miserie and felicity, wherin be contained wonderfull examples, learned deuises, to the ouerthrowe of vice, and exalting of vertue. wherevnto is added a learned, and maruellous worke of the excellencie of mankinde. Written in the Frenche & Latin tongues by Peter Boaystuau, and translated into English by Iohn Alday.; Theatre du monde. English	Boaistuau, Pierre, d. 1566.; Alday, John.	1566 (1566)	STC 3168; ESTC S102736	106,769	288

a town of Babilonia entred into the great Temple of Apollo whereas they found a Coffer the which they opened thinking that there had ben some great treasure but the ayre that proceded out therof was so infectious that it first infected all the Region of Babilonia and then proceded into Grecia and from Gréece to Rome whereas it moued so many pestilēces that it caused to perish almost the third part of humaine kinde Let vs leaue the auncient histories and treate of those that haue passed vnder our age to the end that we being Christians may learne by the great miseries and afflictions that God hath sent vs the great fragilitie and miserie of oure humaine condition For when that hys wrath is kindled against our sinnes he maketh vs to féele the darts of his rigorous Iustice there is no kinde of paine nor torment but that therwith he afflicteth and persecuteth his creatures what experience had we in the yeare a thousand fiue hundreth twentie eight when that the plague was so grieuous in the French Camp whilst the siege was at Naples whereas the violence of the paine was so prompt and sodaine that they were sooner dead thā they did think to die And this wicked and vnluckie disease did not only afflict the vulgar sort which were almost al consumed but also the great Lordes felt it the Lorde of Lautr●● of Vaudemont de la Vall de Moleac the Chastynery grand Mont and other notable personages the memorie therof can not be renued without teares The lyke chaunced to English men in Bullen whereas the plage was so greate that there was not grounde inough in the towne to burie the deade so that the King of England coulde not finde men in Englande that would goe thither till that they were forced of violence to go for the more there went thither the more there died in such sorte that the foure corners of the town were putrified and corrupted with the smell and vapor that proceded from the deade bodies The yeare before that the deceased King Frauncis of good memorie espoused the Quéene Elinor Almaine was assailed with a new kinde of sickenesse wyth the which the parties that were taken died within xxiiij houres with a sweate and this sicknesse hauing taken his originall in the Occean spred in a moment all ouer Almaine as an embracing that consumeth al for before that a remedie was founde there died so many thousandes of men that manye Prouinces remained desert and forsakē bicause of the putrifaction of the ayre that consumed all that it touched also there where the aire was so infected the dwellers remained marked with a red crosse Ioachim Scilerus writeth that when the pestilence tormented so furiously and by so lōg space of time Englande the powre of the venim was so great that the reasonable creatures did not onelye die but that the birdes left their nests egges and yong ones the beasts left their caues dennes the serpents mowles appered aboue groūd by heaps and left their places for feare of the venemous vapor that was vnder the earth in such sorte that there were found deade vnder the trées and in the fieldes with pushes and botches on their poore members The yere 1546. the last day of Maye there did rise a plage that lasted nine Monethes so great and dreadfull at Aix a Citie in Prouincia whereas the people of all ages died in eating and drinking in such sort that the Churchyardes were so full of deade bodies that there was founde no more place to burie them and the most parte of the diseased fell into a fransie the second day and would cast themselues into Welles others fell oute of their windowes into y e streetes Some other were vexed with a bloudie Flir by the nose the which did runne day and night violently and with the losse of their bloude they lost their liues and it came to such extremitie desolation that womē with childe brought forth the fruite of their wombe out of time they and their fruit dying the which afterward were chaūged to a violet or blewish colour as if the bloud had ben spred al ouer their bodies And to be short the desolation was so great that the father kept no count of his childe nor the husbande of his wife yea with monie in their handes oftentimes they died for default of a glasse of water or if by fortune they had for to eate the sicknesse was so cruel and short that they died many times with meat in their mouthes and the furie of this contagion was so inflamed and al the town so infected that with their looke that they wold cast vpon some they woulde infect them and their winde and breath was so venemous that there would rise botches and sores on the parties that therewith were attainted It is a fearful and pitiful thing in nature the which a Phisition left vs in writing the which was ordeined of the chiefe of the Citie to visite the sicke that the euill was so cruell that no remedie might be found so that they that were taken therewith had no hope of health but by the assault of death And they were so acquainted therewith that when they felt them selues taken they themselues woulde take a shéete and lie downe aliue thereon looking for no other thing than the violent departing that the soule hath for to depart from the bodie his mortall habitacle the whiche he sayeth to haue séene in many and specially in a womā whome he called by a window for to ordeine hir some remedie and ease of hir paine whome also he perceiued by the window how she lay downe hirselfe in hir winding shéete so y ● they that buried y ● infected being entred into hir house shortly after found hir dead and lien in the middest of hir house with hir shéete half sowed There resteth now nothing but to treate of famine which is one of the scourges of Gods iustice as he himselfe hath witnessed to vs by his Prophetes and Apostles sometimes threatning sinners to giue them a heauen of brasse and a earth of fier that is to saye barren that shall not bring forth fruite and for this cause our Lord God declaring to his disciples the plagues that should come shewing before that Nation shal rise against Natiō kingdome against kingdome he addeth euen after that as thoughe one did depende on an other And there shall be pestilence and hunger in certain quarters of the earth For war pestilence and famine are the iij. darts that he is wont to shoote against the earth when that he is angrie with his creatures Let vs nowe sée whether that we haue not ben grieued with this dart aswel as with the others I wil not here shew the cōmon famines that haue raigned diuers times in Asia Europa Affrica but I wyll only make mention of them of most memorie aswell Prophanes as of those in holie scripture