THE Amazement of Future Ages: OR, THIS Swaggering WORLD turned Up-side down.  
By which means the Astonishing Curiosities, the Charming Varieties, the Pleasant Remarks, the Daring Adventures, the Bloody Wars, the Ingenious Devices, the Unspeakable Miracles, the Merry Journeys and Voyages, the Roaring Practices, the strange Prodigies, the Delightful Experiments, the Pretty Customs, Humours, Laws, Governments, Dwellings, Inhabitants of the World 

Under our Feet.  
Of the World on which we tread,  
And of the World in the Moon,   Are Faithfully Described, to the Satisfaction of every Curious Palate.  
Written by T. R. on purpose to make Delightful Sport and Pastime these Winter Nights.  
LONDON, Printed for John Dunton, at the Black Raven in the Poultry, over against the stock-market. 1684.   

TO THE READER.  
Kind Reader,  
IF the variety and greatness of Subjects are capable of affording Satisfaction to a Reader, you will have in this Piece I now present thee wherewith abundantly to satisfy thy Curiosity. In a word, you have in this Epitome what has been the Subjects of the most Ingenious Pens, which have filled many large volumes, and would require a great deal of time to red over.  
But to conclude, If thou givest this little Piece( which was written purely for thy Diversion in the Chimney-corner these Winter Nights) a favourable Reception, it will not only sufficiently compensate me for my pains in this, but it will encourage me to take more than ordinary care in composing the New-Years Gift, which I intend to present to the Merry Citizen, and country Bumpkin, &c. next Tuesday following, and for ever to subscribe  
Thy most Humble Servant, T. R.   

THE Amazement OF FUTURE AGES.  

Of Giants, their Nature, Habits, Manners, Food, clothing, with many other things relating to them, &c.  
AS the tallest Ears of Corn, are the lightest in the Head; and Houses built many stories high, have their uppermost rooms the worst furnished; so those human fabrics, which Nature hath raised to a Giant-like height, are observed not to have had so happy a composition of the brain as other men; so that like Pyramids of egypt, they are rather for ostentation than use, and are remembered in History not for any accomplishment of mind, but chiefly, if not only for the stature of their Bodies.  
There have been some Giants twenty eight foot long, they usually( as a learned Oracle observes) have no clothing but Beasts Skins that hang on them, and they usually eat no Bread, but raw Flesh; they drink abundance of Milk, they have no Houses, and they gladlier eat Mens flesh than other; there have been Giants( which is a greater wonder yet) of forty five, or fifty foot long, some fifty Cubits long, as the same Author reports.  
1. Artachaees, of the Family of the Achaemenidae, a person in great favour with Xerxes, was the tallest man of all the rest of the Persians, for he lacked but the breadth of four fingers of full five Cubits by the Royal Standard.  
2. There was a young Giant, whom Julius Scaliger saw at milan, who was so tall, that he could not stand but lye along, extending his Body the length of two Beds joined together.  
3. Walter Parsons born in Stafford-shire, was first Apprentice to a Smith, when he grew so tall, that a hole was made for him in the ground to stand therein up the knees, so to make him adequate with his fellow workmen; he afterwards was Porter to King Jamts; seeing as Gates generally are higher than the rest of the Building, so it was sightly that the Porter should be taller than other Persons. He was proportionable in all parts, and had strength equal to his height; valour to his strength, temper to his valour, so that he disdained to do any injury to any single person; he would make nothing to take two of the tallest Yeomen of the Guard( like the Gizzard and Liver) under his Arms at once, and order them as he pleased.  
4. Williams Evans was born in Monmouth-shire, and may justly be counted the Giant of our Age, for his stature being full two yards and a half in height, he was Porter to King Charles the First, succeeding Walter Parsons in his place, and exceeding him two inches in height; but far beneath him in equal proportion of Body, for he was not only what the Latins call compernis, knocking his knees together, and going out squalling wit● his feet, but also halted a little; ye● made he a shift to Dance in an Antimask at Court, where he drew littl● Jeffery the Dwarf out of his Pocket● first to the wonder, then to the laughte● of the beholders.  
5. The tallest man that hath been see● in our age, was one name Gabara, who in the days of Claudius the late Emperour, was brought out of Arabia; nine foot high was he, and as many inches.  
6. I saw a young girl in France, of eighteen years of age, who was of a Giant like stature and bigness; and though she descended of Parents of mean and small stature, yet was her hand such as might equal the hands of three men, if they were joined together.  
7. Jovianus the Emperour was of a pleasant Countenance, grey-ey'd, of a vast and huge stature; so that for a long time, there was no Royal rob that was found to answer the height of his Body.  
8. Maximinus the Emperour was eight foot and a half in height; he was a Thracian, barbarous, cruel and hated of all men; he used the Bracelet or Armlet of his Wife, as a Ring for his Thumb, ●nd it is said, that his shoe was longer by a foot, than the foot of another ●an.  
9. I saw a young man of Lunenburg, ●all'd Jacobus Damman, who for his ex●raordinary stature was carried throughout Germany to be seen, Anno 1613. he was brought to us at Basil; he was then ●wenty two years of age and a half, ●eardless as yet, strong of Body; and in ●l his Limbs, save that at that time he was somewhat sick and lean; he was eight foot high complete; the length of his hand was one foot and a third, he surpassed the common stature of man two foot.  
10. Anno 1572. Martinus Delrius( as himself tells us) saw a Giant, the height of whose body was full nine foot: And in the year 1600( saith Zacchias) I myself saw another not inferior to the former in stature.  
11. I saw( saith Wierus) a Maid, who for the gigantic proportion of her body, was carried from one City and country to another, on purpose to be seen, as a monstrous representation of human Figure. I diligently inquired into all things concerning her; and was informed both by the Mother and her mighty Daug●ter that both her Parents were but of lo● stature, nor were there any of her Anc●stors, who were remembered to excee● the common stature of men: This Mai● her self, to the twelfth year of her Age was of a short and mean stature; bu● being about that time seized with a Qua●tane Ague, after she had wrestled wit● it for some Months, it perfectly left her and then she began to grow to that wonderful greatness, all her limbs being proportionably answerable to the rest. Sh● was then when I beholded her about fiv● and twenty years of Age, to which time it had never been with her as is usua● to Women, yet was she in good Health of feature not handsome, her Complexion somewhat swarthy, of a stupid an● simplo wit, and slow as to her whole Body: For 
The greater Virtue oftenest lies  
In bodies of the middle size.   
12. Ferdinand Magellane( before he came to those Straits, which now bear his name) came to the country of the Patagons, which are Giants; some of these he enticed to come a Ship-board: they were of an huge stature; so that the Spaniards heads reached but to their waste: Two of them he made his Prisoners by Policy; who thereupon roared like Bulls: their feeding was answerable to their vast bulks, for one of them did eat at a meal, a whole basket of biscuits, and drank a great bowl of water at each draft.  
13. As I travelled by Dirnen, under the ●urisdiction of Basil, Anno 1565. I was shew'd a Girl of five years of Age, who was playing with the Children; she was of as vast a body, as if she had been a woman of many years of age: After I had looked more nearly upon her and measured, I found that her Thighs were thicker than the neck of my Horse, the calf of her Legs bare the proportion of the thigh of a lusty and strong man. Her Father and Mother being set together, might be compassed within the girdle, which she commonly wore about her middle: Her Parents  told me, that before she was a year old, she weighed as much as a sack of wheat that held eight modii. Anno 1566. I saw her again, for Count Henry of Fustenburgh, lodging at my House, she was brought to him, and ther● both of us admired at her wonderful bigness, but in a few years after she died.  
14. That is a memorable Example o● a Giant, reported by Thuanus, Anno 1575 where discoursing of an inroad made by the Tartarians upon the Polonian Territories, he there speaks of a Tartar o● a prodigious bigness, slain by a Polander; his words are thus translated: Amongst whom there was one found of a prodigious bulk, slain( saith Leonardus Gorecius) by James Niazabilovius; his ●orehead was twenty four fingers breadth, and the rest of his Body of that magnitude, that the carcase, as it lay upon the ground, would reach to the Navel of any ordinary person that stood by it.  
15. There were in the time of Augustus Caesar two Persons, called Idusio and Secundilla, each of them was ten foot high, and somewhat more; their bodies after their death were kept and preserved for a wonder in a Charnel house or sepulchre within the Salustian Gardens.  
16. In the 58th Olympiad, by the admonition of the Oracle, the Body of Orestes was found at Tegaea by the Spartans, and we understand that the just length of it was seven Cubits.  
17. The Son of Euthymenes of Salamina, in the space of three years, grew up to three Cubits in height; but he was slow of place, dull of sense, a strong voice, and an overhasty adolescency; soon after he was seized with manifold Diseases, and by immodeaate afflictions of sickness, made an over amends for the precipitate celerity of his growth.  
18. Anno 1584. In the Month of July being at Lucerne, I was there shew'd by the Senators the fragments of some bones of a prodigious greatness, kept in the Senate House: They were found in the Territories, not far from the Monastery of Reiden, in a Cave of the adjoining Mountain, under an old Oak which the wind had blown down: When I had considered them, and perceived most of the lesser sort, and such as are thinnest( as the bones of the Skull) to be wanting, whether neglected or consumed by Age, I know not: I then turned over the greater sort, as well such as were whole, as the remainders of such as were broken: Though they were wasted, spongy and light,( yet as far as I could discern) I observed, that they answered to the Body of a man; I wrote upon each of them what they were, and I the rather concluded them to be the bones of some Giant, because I found amongst them the lowest bone of the thumb, a cheek-tooth, the heel bone, the shoulder-blades, the Cannel-bone, which are only found in man of that form; also the long and thick bones of the Thighs, Legs, Shoulders and Arms,( the utmost ends of which with their Heads were found) and they differed in nothing from the bones of a human Body: Having afterwards all the bones sent me to Basil( by the command of the Magistrates) and looking diligently upon them, and comparing them with a Skeleton of mine own,( as well the whole as the broken) I was confirmed in my opinion, and caused an entire Skeleton to be drawn of such greatness, as all those bones would have made, if they had been whole and together; it amounted to full nineteen foot in height; and since no Beast is found of that stature, it is the more probable they were the bones of a Giant.  
19. We find it left in the Monuments and Writings of the Ancients, as a most received truth, That in the Cretan War the Rivers and Waters rose to an unusual height, and made sundry breaches in the earth; when the Floods were gone, in a great cleft and fall of the earth there was found the carcase of a man, of the length of thirty and three Cubits. Lucius Flaccus the then Legate, and Metellus himself alured with the novelty of the report, went on purpose to the place to take view of it, and there they saw with their eyes that which upon the hearsay they had refuted as a Fable.  
20. While I was writing of this Book,( that is, in December, 1671.) there came to the City of Coventry one Mr. Thomas Birtles, a Cheshire Man, living near unto Maxfield; he had been at London, where, and in his Journey homeward, he made public show of himself, for his extraordinary Stature; his just height, as himself  told me, was somewhat above seven foot, although upon Trial it appears to want something. His Father he said was a man of moderate stature, his Mother was near two yards high; and he himself hath a Daughter, who being about sixteen years of Age, is yet already arrived to the height of six foot complete.  
21. Antonius was born in Syria in the reign of Theodosius, he exceeded the measure of human stature, for he was five Cubits high, and an hands breadth; but his feet did not answer in proportion to the magnitude of his Body: He lived no longer than twenty five years, saith Nicephorus.  
22. Vitellius sent Darius the Son of Artabanus in hostage to Rome with divers presents, amongst which there was a man seven Cubits high, a Jew born, he was name Eleazar, and was called a Giant by reason of his greatness.  
But to proceed, we red of sundry Giants that inhabited this Isle of great Britain, many mighty men of Stature, especially in the North, where men most commonly are of greatest stature, as Harcator, Hartben, Angrin, Averrodo, of whom Sano, Joannis Magus, Olaus Magnus, make mention, whose bones do yet remain to be seen as rare Miracles of Nature: Some of these in their life-time were able to lift up a Vessel of liquour of 10000 weight, or an Horse, or an ox, and cast it on their shoulders: their very Women, some of them, have come somewhat near them in strength of body. Some of these lived in the time of Olaus, Anno 1500. We red of Caraneus and Gogmagot, whom some report to be King of this Isle, who fought a Combat hand to hand till one of them was slain. Hanuel in his Archetrenion, makes the latter to be 18 Foot high. Carraneus the Dane enjoyed cornwall upon the Conquest. Be pleased to look back, and reflect upon the Scripture, 1 Sam. 17.5. We find goliath the Philistine, whom David encountered, to be above nine Foot in height; whose Shirt of Male weighed 1250 Ounces of Brass, which is 104 pound; and of Ogg King of Bashan, Deut. 30. who was the last of the race of Giants that was left in the Land of Promise, to be overcome of the Israelites; whose Iron Bed was shewed for a wonder at Rabbah, a City of the Ammonites, containing nine Cubits. Although they were at the beginning of the World, yet we have those of latter times that Rome paralleled them. To come down to Christian Writers, if we will believe St. Austin, in Civitate Dei. lib. 15. ch. 9. how he saw the tooth of a Man as big as 100 of his own. And Johannes Bochate, in his 68. chap. 4. book, saith, that in the Cave of a Mountain, not far from Grepannum a Town of Sicily, called Erix, the body of an exceeding high Giant was discovered, three of whose teeth did weigh an hundred Ounces: He saith moreover, the fourth part of his Skull was able to contain many Bushels of Wheat; and by the proportion of his thigh, his Body was judged to be 200 Cubits high. This Miracle of Nature is yet to be seen in the Church of Drepanum in sicily, in perpetual memory of his greatness. His Body was found upon this occasion: As some were going to dig to lay the Foundation of an House, the Miners found a great Vault, they found a Body of a mighty man, sitting in a Cave, of whose greatness they were sore afraid; they run away, and made an out-cry in the City, how there sate a man in such a place, as great as an Hill: the people hearing this news, ran out with clubs and staves, as if to fight a battle; and 300 entering the Cave, they forthwith faw he was dead; and yet sate as if he had been alive, having a staff in his hand, compared by my Author to the Mast of a Ship; which being touched, fell to dust with his Body, saving three teeth, and part of his skull, and one of his thigh bones.  
There was a carcase laid bare in the year 1170, in England, upon the shore, where the beating of the waves had washed away the earth from the ston wherein it lay; and when it was taken up, it contained 15 Foot at length, as our Chronicles and Records affirm, and Johannes Leland Massieus, lib. 14. Minet.  
At Perth, at this day, in Scotland, the Skeleton of a man is to be seen, called John Per Antiphrasin, being 14 Foot in length, which divers affirm that have beholded the same; and as( Haector Boetius saith) he did put his whole arm into one of his haunch bones.  
Sir Thomas Eliott reports, a carcase was taken up at Ivy Church, near Salisbury, almost fourteen Foot long.  
Grafton reports of one whose Shin bone contained six Foot, his Skull so great, it contained five Pecks of Wheat; and by consequence, his Body must needs be twenty four Foot long.  
Goronius reports of a Giant in Brabant, whose bones were 17 or 18 Cubits in length.  
Gervassus Tilberiensis, head Marshal to the King Arles, reports in his Chronicle, that at Isoricum, in the Suburbs of Paris, he saw the Body of a Man, that was 20 Foot long, besides the Head and the Neck, which was missing, and not found: The owner perhaps might be beheaded for some notable trespass committed in times past.  
Leland in come. Brit. reports, that in Wilton Parish, not far from the chapel of the Moon, six Miles by East from Carlisle, a Coffin was found, and therein the bones of a m●n of incredible greatness.  
The Greek Writers make mention of Andronicus the Emperour, who lived 1183. and was 10 Foot in height; that is 3 Foot higher than the Kings great Porter.  
Thus have I deduced from the beginning of the World, as near as I can, those memorable Giants, or mighty tall men; and those no Fables, but proved from good Authority. Some will by no means believe that there were in former times any such things as Giants, but such their erroneous opinions may be apparently confuted by what I have now written.   

Of Pigmies and Dwarfs, with an Account of their Stature, Habit, Building, their Age, time of Marriage, Knowledge, Industry, Government, &c.  
IN the former Chapter we had some of the works of Nature written in Text Letters; here we are presented with some of her Writing in Short-hand; wherein many times she hath been so happy to comprise much in a little compass. The Elephant, though so vast of Bulk, is not yet so great a marvel as the smaller sort of infects, where we behold with equal pleasure and wonder how the Soul acts in those narrow and straight confinements, as regularly, as where it hath much larger room.  
Many of these little People called Pigmies, are but of three spans long, and they are very fair, both Men and Women, though they be little, and they are married when they are half a year old, and they live but eight years, for he that liveth eight years is holden very old: These small men are the best Workmen of Silk and cotton, and all manne● of things that are in the World; bu● these men travail very little, for they have among them great men as we are, to travail for them, and have that scor● of those great men, as we would have of Giants if they were among us. A● to their Habit, they are usually attire● with particoloured Silk, with Turban● on their Heads of linen, covered ove● with Cloath of Gold, and adorned with divers splendent Jewels about their back; and the Dandiprat Gallants among them cast a Mantle of blew Sarsenet over their Shoulders when they walk, which is gathered upon the right Arm with a Golden Button, over which they wear a small Chain of Silver, whereon they hang a rich Sword of about five Inches long; their Legs are always covered with fine linen, and on their Feet they wea● Sandals of Sheeps-leather: When they stir abroad, they bestride a lusty Ram that hath guilded Horns and Trappings, bese● with sparkling Diamonds: These little People are very great Wits, and extremely courteous and civil to strangers, and there is nothing seemingly absent in them, which might make them complete Men; about their Necks in Summer-time they wear pleasant Chains of odiferous Flowers; their Nails serve them as Weapons against the strongest wild Beast: Their Houses and Dwellings are about two hundred foot square, yet not above sixty foot high, made all of well Carved wood, which abounds in their country, called Geranophorum, a Wood that contrary to the nature of all other wood, dyes when it is in the Earth, and when it hath grown twenty years, if it is sell'd it proves stronger than before. They have many Castles in their country, which are very large and strong, some of which will hold two hundred thousand of these Pigmies. As to their Lives and Conversations they are very irregular, thô they are naturally well inclined to Hospitality, and a sense of Religion, yet being destitute of a sufficient Law-giver, they live among themselves more like brutes than rational Creatures. The Commonalty amongst them are for the most part Husband-men, Gardeners, and Keepers of Cattle; only 200000 of them are in especial employed in digging of Mines, which abound there, and in Coining Gold and Silver: They are all most excellent at making Tapestry, and quilted Works. As to their Knowledge it is very great, though they themselve are but little: There's many great scholars and Philosophers amongst them, whic● are highly honoured above all the rest o● the Pigmies. As to their Government, it i● both delightful and profitable; Oppression they abhor, and every one amongst them enjoy his own, and no body is in want. They have a noble Militia amongst them, which the King of the country( who is a man of great understanding) sends every Spring to the Sea-side, to break the Eggs of the young Cranes, and kill the old ones as many as they can; thus every one is helpful to each other in their whole Government; one sort manures the ground, another defends the country, another order of them clothes the rest, another feeds them, another helps them to barter for what they lack, and all help to enrich each others Coffers, so that every one being content with his Profession, and every Profession being sufficiently gainful, those that have much, have but enough, and those that have little, want nothing. They are a People that sleep very little, two hours sleep in thirty two being all they ever take, or as much as their natures crave: But I proceed in the next place ● some remarkable passages and relations concerning these Pigmies and Dwarfs, &c.  
1. Julia the Niece of Augustus had a little dwarfish ●ellow called Conopas, whom she set great store by, ●nd made much of; he was not above two foot and ● hands breadth in height; and Andromeda a freed ●aid of Julia, was of the same height.  
2. Marcus Varro reporteth, that Marius Maximus, and Marcus Tullius were but two Cubits high; and yet were they both Gentlemen and Knights of Rome: and in truth we ourselves have seen their bodies as they lye embalmed, which testify the same thing.  
3. In the time of Teeodosius, there was seen in egypt a Pigmy, so small of body, that he resembled a Partridge, yet did he exercise all the functions of a man, and could sing tuneably: he lived to the twentieth year of his age.  
4. I have seen some men of a very small stature, not by reason of any crookedness in the spin of the Back, or Legs; but such as were so from their Birth, though streight in all their bones: of this number was John de Estrix of Mechlen, whom I saw when he was brought through Basil to the Duke of Parma, then in Flanders, Anno 1592. he was aged 35. he had a long beard, and was no more than three foot high; he could not go up stairs, much less could he get upon a form, but was always lift up by a servant: he was skilled in three tongues, ingenious and industrious; with whom a while I played at Tables.  
5. There was about forty years ago a dwarf whom I saw at the court of Wirtenberg, at the Nuptials of the Duke of Bavaria: the little Gentleman armed cap-a-pee, gird with a short Sword, and with the like Spear in his hand, was put into a Pie, that he might not be seen, and the Pie set upon the Table● at last raising the Lid, and breaking loose thence he stepped out, drew his sword, and after the ma●ner of a Fencer, traversed his ground upon the Table, to the equal wonder and laughter of them tha● were present.  
6. M. Antonius is said to have had sisyphus a Dwar● who was not of the full height of two foot, and y● of a vivid wit.  
7. Anno 1610. I saw John Dutker an Englishma● whom some of his own countrymen carried u● and down to get money by the sight of him. I hav● his Picture by me, drawn at full length; he was about forty five years of age, as far as might be discer●ed by his face, which now began to be wrinkled; h● had a long beard, and was only two foot and a ha● high; otherwise of streight and thick Limbs, an● well proportioned. A less than he I have never see●  
8. Augustus Caesar exhibited in his plays one Luci● a young man, born of honest Parents: he was n● full two foot high, saith Ravisius; he weighed b● seventeen pounds, yet had he a great and stro● voice.  
9. Marcus Tullius Cicero had Quintus his own Br●ther, and Lentulus his Son-in-law, who were bo● of them men of a very low and small stature, an● he put a jest upon each of them for it; when ● came into the Province where his Brother had be● perfect, and there beholded a Statue representing h● Brother, done only to the waste, but huge, and ● Shield in the arm of it; My half Brother, said he, ● much bigger than my whole. And seeing anoth● time Lentulus gird with a long Sword, Who, sa● he, has tied my Brother to his Sword?  
10. In the time of Iamblicus lived Alypius of Ale●andria, a most excellent Logician, and a famous Ph●losopher, but of so small and little a body, that he ●le exceeded the stature of those Pigmies who are ●d to be but a Cubit high: Such as beholded him ●ould think he was scarce any thing but spirit and ●l; so little grew that part of him which was liable ● Corruption, that it seemed to be consumed into a ●nd of divine nature.  
11. Characus was a man of exceeding small sta●ure, yet was he the wisest counselor that was about ●aladine that great conqueror of the East.  
12. Anno Dom. 1306. Vladislaus Cubitalis, that ●igmy King of Poland reigned, and fought more ●ttles, and obtained more glorious victories there● than any of his long-shanked Predecessors. Nul●m v●rtus respuit staturam: Virtue refuseth no stature. ●ut commonly vast Bodies, and extraordinary Sta●ures have sottish, dull, and leaden spirits.  
13. Cardan saith, that he saw a man at full age ● Italy, not above a Cubit high, carried about in ● Parrots Cage. This would have passed my belief, ●ad I not been  told by a Gentleman of a clear repu●ation, how he saw a man at Siena, about two years ●ince, not exceeding the same stature. A French man he was, of the country of Limosin, with a formal beard, who was also shown in a Cage for money, at the end whereof was a liitle hutch, into which he retired; and when the assembly was full, came forth, and played on an Instrument.  
14. Licinius Calvus was an Orator of that reputation, that he a long time contended with Cicero himself, which of them two should bear away the prise, and chiefest praise of Eloquence; yet was this man of a very small and low stature. One time he had pleaded in an action against Cato; and when he saw that Asinius Pollio, who was the accuser, was compassed about with the Clients of Cato, in Caesar's Market-place, he required them about him to set him up● some turfs thereby; being got upon these, he ope●ly swore, that in case Cato should do any injury un● Assinius Pollio, who was his accuser, that then ● himself would swear positively to that whereof ● had been accused. And after this time Assinius Pol● was never hurt, either in word or dead, either ● Cato, or any of his Advocates.  
15. There were two of the Molones, who we● remarkable for the noted brevity and shortness ● their stature; the one of them was an Actor in Pl● and Interludes, the other was a famous Robber ● the high way; borh of them were so little, that t● name of them passed into a Proverb, men using ● say of a little man, that he was as very a Dwarf● Molon.  
Cardan writes, that one may make Dwarfs ● Pigmies, even is we make little dogs for women ● play with; for they will be engendered of a little ●ther, and Mother, then let them be gird in w● Swaith-bands very strictly, and bread up with a sp● Diet; and would to God, aith he, this invention were ● profitable as facile. Aristotle inquiring the reason w● men become of a●●warfish stature, he says, the● may be a double cause rendered thereof; for eit● the place, or the aliment does it, if it be small, whi● some after the birth endeavour to do, as they w● bring up little Whelps in small boxes. De subtle. ● 11. Problem. Sect. 5.   

Remarkable passages of some persons that of Women have become Men, &c.  
NAture seems to be so in love with change, that she will have nothing here in this World to rest in a continued and constant state: hence it is that Rivers seek out new Channels for themselves; new Cities arise out of the ruins and Rubbish of the Old. The tops of Olympus, Aetna and Parnassus do not appear so high to us as they did to our Fore-fathers: and the very Heavens themselves look almost daily upon us with different faces. But whether there have been such changes in human bodys, as those whereof this Chapter treats, that must rest upon the credit of such Authors as have been the Relaters of the following Histories.  
1. It is no lie or fable that Females may be turned into Males, for we have found it recorded in the Annals, that in the year when Publicus Licinius, Crassius, and Cajus Cassius Longinus, were Consuls of Rome, there was in Cassinum a Maid Child under the hand and tuition of he● Parents, who became a Boy, and by the appointment of the Auruspices was confined to a certain desert iceland, an● thither conveyed.  
2. Lucinius Mulianus reports tha● himself saw at Argos one name Agischon, who before time had to nam● Arischusa, and was a Maid; but afterwards in process of time, came to hav● a Beard, and also the parts testifying a man, and thereupon married a Wife.  
3. There was in Smirna a Virgin called Philotis, but in the same night wherein in she was married to a young man, those parts which were inverted and concealed, began to appear, and she arose in the morning of a contrary Sex.  
4. A marvelous thing also happened in our Age, saith Fulyosus, when Ferdinand the First was King of Naples, Ludovicus Guarna, a Citizen of Selerne, had five Daughters, of which the two oldest were called Francisca and Cacola, both which at fifteen years of age, found such alteration in themselves, that they changed their Feminine habit and names also, the one being called Franciscu● and the other Cacolus.  
5. In the Town of Erguila, distant ●me nine Miles from Contulia, there ●ed a Noble man who had a daughter ●med Maria Pacheca, who by a like ●ccident with the former, proving to be young man, changed her habit, and ●lled her self manual Payrca; who after ●ade a Voyage into the Indies, became ● valiant soldier, attained to much wealth and honour; and returning, married a Lady of a Noble Family, but never attained to have issue, and his countenance continued effeminate to the day of his death.  
6. Strange is that which is related by Antoninus Torquemado, not far from the City of Beneventum in Spain; a Country man of a mean fortune, married a Wife, who because she was barren, used her very roughly, insomuch that she lead with him a very discontented life, whereupon one day putting on one of her husbands Suits to disguise her self from knowledge, she stolen out of the house to seek a more peaceable fortune elsewhere, and having been in divers Services, whether the conceit of her mans Habit, or whether nature strangely wrought in her, but she found a notable alteration in her self, insomuch that she who had been Wife, desired to perform the office of Husband, she married a woman in tha● place where she had retired her self long she kept these things close, till i● the end, one of her familiar acquaintance traveling by chance that way, an● seeing her to be like that woman he before knew, he demanded if she wer● not Brother to such a mans Wife, an● had forsaken her Husbands house so many years since? to whom, upon promise of secrecy, she revealed all that you have heard, with the circumstances before rehearsed.  
7. I myself am an eye-witness, saith Pliny, that in Africa one Cocicius a Citizen of Tisdrita, turned from a woman to be a man upon her very Weddingday, and was alive at that time that I wrote this Book.  
8. A Woman of Cajeta that was married to a Fisherman, as Antoninus related it to us, saith, Pontanus, after fourteen years acquaintance with her Husbands Bed, was changed from a woman to a man; upon which being ashamed of her self, as one exposed to the derisions of Men and Women, she altered also her course of life, and entred into a Mo●astry, where he continued the rest of his life; he was butted in the Church of St. Mary.  
9. But that almost surpasses all credit which is  told by Pontanus of a woman, who after she had been delivered of a Son, became a man, which yet he confirms by the testimony of Antonius Colotius the Umbrian, and saith he, this fell out in the year 1496.  
10. Some years since, saith Pareus, when I was in the Retinue of Charles the Ninth at Versails in France, there was shewed me a man called Kerinanus Jar●ierus, by some Germans Maria, who before having been a Roman was called Maria; he was of an indifferent stature, ● square habit of body, with a thick and read Beard. He was taken for a Virgin unto the fifteenth year of his age, at which time running after the Hogs he kept, which had gotten into the Corn, ●nd leaping over a Ditch with great vio●ence, it came to pass that the Membranes ●eing broken, the hidden evidences of a ●an discovered themselves; returning ●o their Cottage, with Tears, she com●lained to her mother, that her bowels fell out; at which Spectacle her Moth● astonished, and being informed by Phys●cians, that her Daughter was become a man. The whole matter being represented to the Cardinal, he called a● Assembly, where she received the Nam● and Habit of a Man.  
11. Empedocles of Agrigentum sait● thus of himself in Epholostratus, Et Puer ipse fui, nec non quandoqu● Puella.  
I was both Boy and girl at severa● times.  
12. Ausonius tells of a Boy at Beneventum, who suddenly became a girl and he hath it in these words, 

Nec satis antiquum, quod campano i● Benevento,  
Unus Ephelorum virgo repent fuit.   

At Benevent( nor is it long ago)  
A Youngster did unto a Virgin grow    
13. Antonius Diunna, a learned pe●son propounds the Question, whethe● a Nun being turned into a Man, is obliged to become a Monk, and take upon him some religious Order? resolves it in the Negative in such words as these: There was a Nun of St. Dominicks in the City of Ubeda, she was born in a Town called Sabeoff; her name was Magdalenna Mugnors; the memory of her is yet fresh amongst us. This Woman in the 7th. year after she had taken upon her the Profession of a Nun, was from a Woman turned into a Man: being hereupon expelled the Nunnery, she put on Mans Clothes; a Beard grew upon her Chin, and she was called Franciscus Megnoz. This very Francis was afterwards my Client, and I pleaded for him in a case of Rape; for a certain Woman accused him, That she was known by him by violence, and got with Child: so that adds he, if the like case shall fall out, seeing the aforesaid Nun turn to a Man, was turned out of the Nunnery, such person without scruple may mary, or take Orders, as he please.   

Strange Passages of some Cheats and Pick-pockets.  
THE Emperor Aurelius Alexander, saith Lampidius, was so perfect a hater of all Thieves, that if he chanced but to see any of them, he had his finger ready to pull out one of their eyes, and not only so, but it seems so great was his Antipathy towards all that laboured under that kind of Infamy, that at the casual sight of any such, with the very commotion of his mind he would vomit up Choler, and such a sudden burning would come into his face, that he could not speak for the present so much as one single word. Great, sure, is that filthiness which excited a loathing in so gallant and great a man. But the Histories of these bold and subtle Practitioners will not( I hope) seem altogether so nauseous.  
1. Maccus, a famous Cheat, came into the Shop of a Shoemaker at Leiden, and saluted him, casting his Eye upon a pair of Boots that hung up: the Shoemaker asked him if he would buy them? the other seemed willing, they were taken down, drawn on, and fitted him very well. Now, saith he, how well would a pair of double-soal'd Shoes fit these Boots, they were found and fitted to his feet upon the Boots. Now, saith Maccus, Tell me true, Doth it never so fall out, that such as you have so fitted for a Race, as you have now done me, run away without paying? Never, said the other, but said, if it should be so, what would you then do? I would follow him, said the Shoemaker: well, said Maccus, I will try, and thereupon began to run, the Shoemaker immediately followed, crying, Stop Thief, stop Thief; at which the Citizens came out of their houses, but Maccus laughing, Let no man, said he hinder our Race, for we run for a Cup of Ale; whereupon all set themselves quiet Spectators of the Course, till Maccus had run quiter away, and the poor Shoemaker return'd swearing, and out of breath, and declared how he had been dealt with.  
2. The Emperor charles the 5th. commanding a remove, while every man mas busied in putting up his stuff, there entred a good fellow into the Hall, where the Emperour was, being meanly accompanied, and ready to take horse. This Thief, for so he was, having made great Reverence, presently went about taking down of the Hangings, making great hast, as if he had much business to do, and though it was not his profession, yet he went about it so nimbly, that he whose charge it was to take them down coming to do it, found that some body had easied him of that labour, and which was worse, of carrying them away too.  
3. Great was the boldness of an Italian Thief, who in the time of Pope Paul the third, pla'd this Prank. A certain Cardinal having made a great Feast in his house, and the silver Vessels being locked up in a Trunk that stood in the parlour next the Hall, where the Feast had been, while many were sitting and waiting in this Room for their Masters, there came a man in with a Torch carried before him, bearing the countenance of Steward, and having a Jacket on, who prayed those that sate on the Trunk, to rise up from it, because he was to use the same: which they having done, he made it to be taken up by certain Porters that followed him in, and went clean away with it. And this was done while the Steward, and all the Servants of the house were at Supper.  
4. The Emperor Charles the 5th. had a little Watch of admirable and rare Workmanship, in a great crowd he was robbed of it by a Courtier that attended upon him; but the Watch itself betrayed the Thief, for it struck the hour of the day in his Pocket; at the sound of which the poor man surprised and affrighted, cast himself on his knees before the Emperor, imploring his Pardon, which the Emperor easily granted.  
5. At Antwerp not long since, there was a Priest, who had received a pretty round Sum in Silver, which he had put into a great Purse that hung upon his girdle: a certain Cheat had observed it, who came, and saluting of him civilly, tells him, that he was appointed by the Parish where he lived, to buy a new Surplice; he humbly begs therefore, that he would please to go with him to the place where they were sold, that he might be the better fitted, in as much as he was of the very same pitch and habit of body with the Priest of their Parish. He prevailed, and together they went. A Surplice was brought forth, and put upon him; the Seller said, it fitted exactly. The Cheat, when he had surveyed the Priest, now before, then behind, said it was too short before; that's not the fault of the Surplice, said the Shop-keeper, but is occasioned by the d●stension of the Purse. The Priest therefore laid down his Purse, that they might view it again; but no sooner had he turned his back, but the Cheat catched up the Purse, and away he run with it, the Priest followed in the Surplice, as he was: the Shop-keeper pursued the Priest, the Cheat said, stop the Priest, for he is mad; the people easily believed no less, when they saw him running in public, and so habited, so that while one was a hindrance to the other, the Cheat got off clear with the Purse and Money of the poor Priest.  
But many more passages of this note I could here recite, but I will not be too tedious upon a Head.   

An account of a Nation, who have Ears hanging down to the Ground.  
ANcient writers speak of some Indians, whose Ears did reach unto and Ground. Pomponius speaking of these, ● some like them, says they call them ●nesios, or Stamalos; the Greeks, as ●rabo writes, call them, {αβγδ}, bemuse they use their Ears for a Couch to ●ep on.  
Megasthenes an ancient Author, and ●linus cap. 21. say there are Islands and Nation called Fanesii whose Ears are ●ated to so effuse a magnitude, that ●ey cover the rest of their bodies with ●em, and have no other clothing, ●en as they cloath their members with and members of their Ears. Pliny also lib. 4. cap. 13.) makes report of such ●ations. About Pontus( saith he) there and scythian Islands where there is a ●ation of Fanesions, who being other●se naked, have Ears so large, that ●ey invelope their whole bodies with ●em. And in his seventh Book,( cap. 2.) ● proves that in the borders of India, not far from Taprobana, there are m who cover themselves all over with the ears. The testimonies of these men a● very ancient, but there are not wanti● later witnesses. For besides that whic● Isidor( lib. 11. cap. 3) affirms of the● Maximilianus Transilvanus( apud Ram● Tom. 1.) reports that there is an Islan● near the Molucca's where the peop● have such vast Ears. And Pigafetta ● sures us; that in Arucetto which is ● iceland reckoned among the Motucca● there are such people as before mentio●ed, whose Ears have so spacious a● prodigious dimensions. purchase( Pil● 1. lib. 2.). says that in this iceland Aruce● are men and women not past a Cubit ● height, having ears of such bigne● that they lie upon one, and cover th● with the other. So that although th● things have been reported in Fables, ● you may find Authors whom it wo● not displease one to follow. Strabo indeed accounts these relations Fabulou● and he scoffs at Megasthenes writing ● such king of Ears. Yet Mela saith he h● Authors for it that were not to be co●temned. And as Kornmannus thinks, ● is not disagreeable to truth, if you we● and number and authority of those ●riters, which will appear more credi●e by the modern relations of some ●cular witnesses mentioned in this present ●ene.   

●here Block-heads and Logger-heads are most in request.  
BLock-heads and Logger-heads are much in request at brazil, and Hel●ets are of little use, every one having ● artificialized natural Morian of his ●ead; for, the Brasilians heads some of ●em, are as hard as the wood that grows ● their Country, for they cannot be ●oken, and they have them so hard, ●at ours in comparison of theirs are ●ke a Pompion; and when they will ●jure any white man, they call him ●ft-head; so that Hard-Head and Block-●ad, terms of reproach with us, attri●ted to them, would be taken for terms ● honour and Gentleman-like qualfica●ons. This property they purchased by ●rt, with going bare-headed, which is ● certain way to attain unto the quality ● a Brasilian Chevalier, and to harden the tender head of any Priscion, beyond the fear of breaking, or needing th● impertinent plaster of pedantiqu● Mountebanks.   

An account where Maids keep themselves like crammed Capons to ge● Husbands.  
AMong the Venetians, the Maid when they are to be coulped i● marriage, they are kept very daintily to the end they may become more fat well-liking, and in good plight; they use Disht wheat with milk, they slee● longer in the day-time, they live very idly close cooped up, that at length they may grow fat as crammed Capons; therefore they feed upon unctuous and swee● meats, that they more daintily an● with a more trim grace be dedicated to their Bridegrooms.  
This artifice is used to accommodate the fancy of the men of that Nation; for the Italians desire to have their women thick well set, and plump. The contrary to whic● is practised by the Spanish women; for th● Spaniard loves a Wench that is lean; The German prefers one that is strong; The ●rench one that is soft, delicate and ten●er; The Indians a black one. We com●only judge that woman to be beautiful, ●hich is of a white complexion, and soft ●nd tender; clean contrary to the judgement ●f Galen, who says that those are the signs ●f a false and counterfeit beauty, and that ●ue and native beauty consists in the just ●mposure and symmetry of the parts of the ●dy, a due proportion of flesh, and the good●ess of the Colour.   

An account of a sort of People that have Heads like Dogs.  
MAny have held opinion, that Pliny and Aulus Gellius were loud ●ers, when they wrote and published, that there lived a certain kind of people in Scythia, which had Dogs heads, ●nd that they howled like Dogs, instead ●f speaking as other men do. What these too worthy men have written is true in ●art, but not in all. I say in part, because some people that have been discovered within the space of these fourscore ●ears and somewhat more, have a form or figure near in resemblance to t● head and shape of a Dogs head; ● wit, of those little pretty flat-nose Do which Ladies keep for pleasure in the Chambers; yet not Naturally, but A●tificially. For these people, from t● tune of all antiquity, did always ho● it for a singular beauty to them, to ha● their Noses flatted or fallen down. A● this is the reason, that when their ch●dren are newly born, and have the bones very tender, the Fathers and M●thers never fail to quash, or flat dow● that part of the face which is between the eyes and the mouth, as the like hat● been done to little Dogs. And to spea● truly, being thus dealt withall, they diffe● very little in their looks from the r●semblance of Dogs. But they meddle n● with their Ears, to make them poin●ed or hanging down, as commonly ● used to those Creatures. Yet true it i● that when they are grown to man ● stature, they bore or pierce holes through their ears( even as is done here amon● us) to hang therein fine-colour'd stone● or else the bones of certain fleshes. O● the other side, in part they have a repor●ed Fable, when they say, that the● Cynocephali or Cynocephales, that is to ●y, men having heads like unto Dogs, ●o dwell in a part of Scythia, because ●l those Countries have been discover●d, and do declare no deformity on and peoples bodies: But they of whom and make mention, are placed between ●he Equinoctial, and Tropic of Capri●orn, on that side which is called Ame●ica, in part whereof these Cynotephales ●re contained.   

Of such Persons as have return'd to life after they have been believed to be dead.  
WHen a bide hath once broken from her Cage, and has tasted ●he sweetness of the air, and which is more, of the pleasure of society and liberty, it's not an easy thing to 'allure ●er back to the place of her former re●traint. And it is as hard to conceive, that a Soul which has once found itself ●n a state of enlargement, should wil●ingly return any more into the straight and uneasy prison of the Body. But it seems( by what follows) that there are certain laws on the other side of deat● to which it must obey, by virtue o● which we red of so many morsels ca● up again which death seemed to hav● swallowed quiter down.  
1. That is wonderful which befell t● two Brother Knights of Rome, the elde● of them was named Corfidius, who being in the repute of all men dead, th● tables of his last will and testament wer● receited, in which he had made his Brother the Heir of all he had: But in th● midst of the Funeral preparations, h● rose with great cheerfulness upon hi● Legs, and said, That he had been with his Brother, who had recommended the care of his Daughter unto him, and had also shewed him where he had hide a great quantity of Gold under ground, wherewith he should defray his Funeral expenses. While he was speaking in this manner to the admiration of all that were present, there came a messenger with the news of his Brother's death; and the Gold was also found in the very place as he had said.  
2. Plutarch in his Book de anima, writes of one Enarchus, who being accounted, and left for dead by the Physicians, not long after return'd to life, ●ffirming, that those spirits who had ●ithdrawn him from this life, were se●erely reproved by their Chief; for ●at through their mistake they had ●rought him instead of Nicauda the ●anner, who the same day and hour being sick of a Fever) died in his Bed. ●esides this, as a testimony of his re●rn to life, he  told Plutarch( who was ●en sick) that he should speedily reco●er of that disease, as indeed he did.  
3. A like case with the former is set ●own by Gregorius thus: There was, ●ith he, one Reparatus a Roman, who ●eing stiff and could was given over by ●s Relations, as one who was undoubt●dly dead, when soon after he return'd ● life, and sent to the Shrine of S. Lau●nce in Rome, such as should inquire ●ncerning Tiburtius the Priest there, if ●ny thing had newly befallen him. In the ●ean time while the messenger was ●ne, he  told them that were with him, ●at he had seen that Tiburtius tormen●d in Hell with terrible flames. The ●essenger he had sent return'd with this ●ews, that Triburtius was that very hour ●eparted this life, and soon after Repara●s himself died.  
4. Stephanus a Roman, a person ● great virtue, and very wealthy, we● to Canstantinople about the dispatch ● some Affairs he had there, where ● died. And for as much as the day w● far spent, and inclining towards Eve●ing, so that preparation for his Funer● could not be conveniently made in th● short time, he was therefore laid o● and kept in the house till the morro● at which time he arose from the dea● and said, that he was brought before certain Judge, where he heard the loudly reprehended and ranted, by who● he was thither brought; for that t● Judge had given them order not ● bring him, but one Stephanus a Blac●smith, who was one of his Neighbou● they sent therefore to that Blacksmit● and it was found that he died in th● very hour. And this, saith Gregorius, have heard related by the month of St●phanus himself.  
5. Near unto this is that which S. A●gustine saith was seen by himself in t● person of one Curina: this man lived ● a Village near unto Hippo in Afric● where S. Augustine was Bishop, falli● into a grievous sickness, he was rep● ● by almost all persons as dead, hav●g lost all his senses, and receiving no ●nd of nourishment, when he had lain me days in this posture, that which ●tain'd his Friends from the burial of ●n was, that some of them thought and little breath was yet in his No●ls: but when these also were now of and mind that he was departed, on the ●den he opened his eyes, and bad ●em sand speedily to Curina a Smith ●d his Neighbour to see how he did, ●d when word was brought back that ● was newly dead, he  told them that ● was brought before a Judge who ●rply rebuked the spirits that had ●ought him instead of the other Curi●; that thereupon he was restored to and, that in this ecstasy he had seen Pa●dise, and many other things he rela●, amongst others, that he was ad●onished to be baptized by S. Augustine ● Hippo, being therefore restored to ● health, he did as he was advised.   

Of such who after death have concerned themselves with the affairs ● their Friends and Relations.  
THe Platonists speak of some Soul that after they are departed fro● their bodies, they have yet a strang● hankering after them: whereupon it ● that they haunt the dormitories of th● dead, and keep about the places wher● their bodies lie interred, and are therefore called by the Philosophers Body lovers. I know not under what restrain souls are, when once separate from the● bodies, nor what privileges some ● them have above others; but if the fo●lowing relations are true, some of the● here spoken of, have been as mindf● of their Friends and Families, as other were affencted to the bodies, they ha● before deserted.  
Ludovicus Adolisius, Lord of Immol● sent a Secretary of his upon earnest b●siness to Ferrara; in which journey, l● was met by one on Horse-back, atirr'● like an Hunts-man, with an Hawk u●on his fist, who saluted him by h● name, and desired him, to entreat h● Son Lodowick, to meet him in that ve● place the next day, at the same hour, to whom he would discover certain things of no mean con●equence, which much concerned him and his Estate. The Secretary returning, and revealing his to his Lord, at first he would scarce give credit to his Report, and jealous withal, that it might be some train laid to entrap his Life, he ●ent another in his stead; to whom the same Spirit appeared in the shape aforesaid, and seemed much to lament his Sons diffidence; to whom if and had come in Person, he would have related ●trange things, which threatened his Estate, and ●he means how to prevent them: Yet desired him ●o recommend him to his Son, and tell him, that ●fter twenty two Years, one Month, and one Day prefixed, he should lose the Government of that City, which he then possessed, and so he ●anished. It happened just at the same time ●he Spirit had Predicted( notwithstanding his ●reat care and Providence) that Philip Duke of ●●●ain, the same Night Besieged the City, and ●y the help of the Ice( it being then a great ●rost) past the Moat, and with scaling Ladders ●caled the Wall, surprised the City, and took Lodowick Prisoner. He was in League with Phi●p, and therefore feared no harm from him.  
2. Two wealthy Merchants, travel●ing through the Taurine Hills into ●rance, upon the way met with a man ●f more than human stature; who ●hus said to him, Salute my Brother ●ewis Sforza, and deliver him this Let●er from me: They were amazed, and ●king who he was? he  told them, that he was Galeaceus Sforza, and imm●diately vanished out of sight. The● made hast to milan, and delivered th● Duke's Letter, wherein was thus wri●ten: O, O, O, Lewis, take heed to t● self, for the Venetians and French will ●nite to thy ruin, and to deprive thy posterity of their Estate. But if thou wi● deliver me 3000 Guilders, I will ende●vour that the Spirits being reconciled thy unhappy Fate may be averted; an● this I hope to perform, if thou shalt not r●fuse what I have requested: farewell. Th● Subscription was: The Soul of Galeace● thy Brother. This was laughed at b● most as a Fiction, but not long after, th● Duke was dispossessed of his government and taken Prisoner by Lewis the Twelfth King of France. Thus far Arulnus, i● first Section of the History of milan who also was an eye-witness of wha● hath passed.  
3. Caesar Baronius tells that there w● an entire friendship betwixt Micael Me●catus the Elder, and Marsilius Ficinus and this friendship was the stronger betwixt them, by reason of a mutual agreement in their studies, and an addictedness to the Doctrines of Plato. I fell out that these two discoursed together( as ●ey used) of the state of Man after Death, ac●ding to Plato's Opinions,( and there is ex●t a Learned Epistle of Marsilius to Michael ●ercatus, upon the same Subject) but when ●eir Disputation and Discourse was drawn out ●mewhat long, they shut it up with this firm ●greement, That which soever of them two ●ould first depart out of this Life( if it might ●) should ascertain the survivor of the state ● the other Life, and whether the Soul be ●mortal or not. This Agreement being made, ●d mutually sworn unto, they departed. In a ●ort time it fell out, that while Michael Mer●tus was one Morning early at his Study, upon and su●den he heard the noise of a Horse upon and gallop; and then stoping at his door, withal and heard the voice of Marsilius his Friend, cry●g to him, O Michael, O Michael, those things and true, they are true. Michael wondering to hear ●is Friends voice, rose up, and opening the ●asement, he saw the backside of him whom he ●ad heard, in white, and galloping away upon ● white Horse: He called after him, Marsilius, Marsilius; and followed him with his Eye. But and soon vanished out of sight. He amazed at this ●xtraordinary Accident, very solicitously en●uired, if any thing had happened to Marsilius( who then lived at Florence, where he also breathed his last) and he found upon strict enquiry, that he dyed at that very time wherein he was thus heard and seen by him.  
4. We red in the Life of John Chrysostom of Basiliscus, the Bishop of the City Comana,( the same who with Lucianus a Priest of Antioch, suffered Martyrdom under Maximia●●s the Emperour) that he appeared to St. Chrysostom in ● Exile, and said, Brother John, be of good hea● and courage, for to morrow we shall be together Also that before this, he had appeared to t● Priest of that Church, and said, Prepare a pl● for our Brother John, for he is to come presently And that these things were true, was afterwar● confirmed by the event.   

A strange Discovery of a New World tha● is above us: Or, A Discourse provin● that there is an Habitable World in th● Moon.  
SInce this Discourse may be suspected of singularity, I shall therefore first confirm it by sufficient Authority of divers Authors both Ancient and Modern, that so I may the better clear, it from the prejudice either of an upstart Fancy, or an absolete Error. This is by some attributed to Orpheus, one of the most Ancient Greek Poets, who speaking of the Moon, says thus; That it hath many Mountains, and Cities, and Houses, and Dwellings in it: To him assented Anaxagoras, Democritus, and Heraclides, all who thought it to have firm solid Ground, and large Fields, like to our Earth, containing likewise many large Pastures, Closes, Champion Grounds, and an innumerable company of gallant Inhabitants. Of this Opinion likewise was Zenophanes, as he is cited for it by Lactantius, though that Father( perhaps) did mistake his meaning whilst he relates it thus, Dixit Zenophanes intra ●ncauuum Lunae esse aliam terram& ibi aliud genus ●ominum simili modo vivere sicut nos in hac terra, &c. ●s if he had conceived the Moon to be a New ●orld, or great hollow Body, in the midst of ●hose Concavity there should be another Globe ●f Sea and Land Inhabited by Men, Women, ●nd Children, as our Earth is. The Pythagoreans ● general did affirm, that the Moon also was ●errestrial, and that she was Inhabited as this ●ower World is; that those living Creatures and ●ants which are in her, exceed any of the like ●nd with us in the same proportion, and that their ●ays are longer than ours by fifteen times; and ●his Pythagoras, saith Dr. Wilkins, was esteemed a ●an of a most Divine wit. To this Opinion of Pythagoras did the great Plato assent. Thus Lu●an, in his Jocular Discourse of a Journey to ●he Moon; in the beginning of it he doth in a ●rious manner intimate that there is a real World ● the Moon, and that there is an excellent government there, and that all Creatures there live ●ost happily. The Cardinal Cusanus held a par●cular World in every Star. Keplar likewise ●as wholly of this Opinion, that there is a World ● the Moon, and he professes that he did not ●ublish this Opinion either out of a humour of ●ontradiction, or a desire of vain-glory, or in a ●sting way to make himself or others merry, ●ut after a considerate and solemn manner for and discovery of the Truth.   

That there are high Mountains, deep Valleys, spacious Plains in the Moon.  
AND here, kind Reader, if some Rabbi, Chynick were to handle the point, th● would first prove it out of Scripture, from t● place in Moses his Blessing, where he speaks the Ancient Mountains and lasting Hills, Deut. ● For having immediately before mentioned th● Blessings which should befall unto Joseph by t● Influence of the Moon, he does presently e●getically iterate them in Blessing him with ● chief things of the Ancient Mountains and l●ing Hills: You may also see the same express● used in Jacob's Blessing of Joseph. But farth● as to human Testimony, I might add that Diodorus, who thought the Moon to be full huge Hills, vast Mountains, and delightful Plai● Democritus held likewise, that the Moon was full Champion Grounds, Mountains, and Valle● Keplar saith, that there are very tall Mounta● in the Moon, and that their Inhabitants are m bigger and taller than ours, and that they are Naturally of a very dry Constitution, and t● therefore they are fain to dig great and rou● hollows in those Mountains, where they may b● procure Water for their Thirst, and get places shelter themselves. As to the Government that there ( says another Author) it is as good as e● was exercised, all things being performed af● a calm and gentle manner; there is no Hea● Strife, or Contention, and never any there go● Law, but every one there strive who shall most Friendly, and perform the greatest Acts Love.   

Of the Seasons, Meteors, Inhabitants, &c. that there are in the World in the Moon.  

1. Of the Seasons.  
AND if there be such a World in the Moon, 'tis requisite then that their Seasons should be some way correspondent unto ours, that they should have Winter and Summer, Night and Day, as we have: Their Days and Years are always of one and the same length. Plutarch says, that those who live there may discern our World as the dregs and sediment of all other Creatures, appearing to them through Clouds and foggy Mists, and that altogether devoid of Light, and that the Climate is very hot, so that the Inhabitants there might well imagine the dark place of Damnation to be here Situate, and that they only were the Inhabitants of the World, as being in the midst between Heaven and Hell.   

2. Of their Meteors.  
And now, kind Reader, since it is clear that they in this New World have all things alike with us, as Sea and Land, and Vaporous Air encompassing both, I am verily persuaded that Nature there doth use the same way of producing Meteors as it doth here; and why may not the Planet; there have the like Qualities as ours hath? And if so, then 'tis more probable that they are made by the ordinary way of Nature, as they are with us, and consist of such Exhalations from the Bodies of the Planets as be very muc● rarefied, may be drawn up through the Orb o● gross Vapours, as Air, that encompasses them▪ And then may they probably have all sorts o● Meteors, as we have here.   

3. Of the Inhabitants of this other World.  
I have already handled the Seasons and Meteors belonging to this New World, 'tis requisite that in the next place that I say something of the Inhabitants thereof; concerning whom there might be many difficult Questions raised: As, whether that place be more inconvenient for Habitation than our World; whether they are the Seed of Adam, whether they are there in a Blessed state, or else what means there may be for their Salvation, with many other such uncertain Queries, which I shall wholly omit, leaving it to their examination who have more leisure and Learning for the search of such particulars.  
Yet however we may guess in the general that there are some Inhabitants in that Planet, for why else did Providence furnish that place with all such conveniencies of Habitation, as hath been declared? Cardinal de Cusa is of Opinion, that this place is Inhabited by Men, and Beasts, and Plants. To him assented Campenella, but he cannot determine whether they are Men, or rather some other kind of Creatures; if they were Men, then he thinks that they could not be infected with Adam's sin; yet perhaps, says he, they might have some of their own, which might make them Subject to Misery. Others there are, that are of Opinion, that there are abundance of Inhabitants in this New World, but that they are of a quiter different Nature from us here below. Others again say, there are much People in this New World, and that they are of strange Humours and Conceits, some desiring to live in the ●ower parts of the Moon, where they might look ●ownwards upon us, with Taunts, Jeers, and Derision: And that others are desirous to be mounted aloft above those, and that all of them ●hine like the Rays of the Sun, and as being Victo●ious, are crwoned with Garlands made with the Wings of Eustathia, or Constancy.    

That 'tis possible to find out a conveyance to this other World, and if there be Inhabitants there, to have Commerce with them.  
ALL that hath been said concerning the People of the New World is but conjectural and full of uncertainties, nor can we look for any more probable Discoveries, unless there be some hopes of inventing means for our conveyance thither.  
Yea, but you will say, there can be no Sailing thither, unless that were true which the Poets do but feign: And we have now no Drake or Columbus to undertake this Voyage, or any Dedalus to invent a conveyance through the Air.  
I Answer, Though we have not yet, why may not succeeding Times raise some Spirits as eminent for new Attempts and strange Inventions as any that were before them? And 'tis the Opinion of Keplar, that Men will at last find out the Art of Flying, by which they may in a days time transport themselves into this World of the 〈◇〉.  
But here's an Objection.  
Suppose now the Art of Mens Flying we found out, and that he could fly as fast and lo● as the swiftest bide, yet, say you, it cannot p●sibly be conceived how he should ever be a● to pass through so vast a distance as there is betwixt the Moon and our Earth, which space ● about 179712 Miles: So that though a Man co● constantly keep on his Journey thither by ● strait Line, though he could fly a Thousan● Miles in a day, yet he could not arrive thithe● in 180 days, or half a Year.  
1. For Diet, I suppose there could be ● trusting to that Fancy of Philo the Jew( me●tioned before) who thinks that the music ● the spheres should supply the strength of Foo●  
Nor can we well perceive, how a Man shoul● be able to carry so much Luggage with him, ● might serve for his Viaticum in so tedious a Journey.  
2. But if he could, yet he must have som●time to rest and sleep in; no Inns to Entertai● Passengers, nor any Castles in the Air( unle● they be enchanted ones) to Receive poor Pilgrims or errand Knights; and so consequently h● cannot have any possible hopes of reaching thither.  
Notwithstanding all which draughts, I shal● lay down this Position. That supposing a Ma● could fly, or by any other means raise himself Twenty Miles upwards, or thereabouts, it were possible for him to come unto the Moon.  
But here if it be inquired what means there may be used for our ascending up into this New World, in order to have Commerce and Correspondence with it?  
I Answer,  
1. It is not perhaps impossible, that a Man ●ight be able to fly, by the application of Wings ●o his own Body; as Angels are Pictured, as Mer●ry and Daedalus are feigned, and hath been at●empted by divers, particularly by a Turk in ●onstantinople, as Busbequius relates.  
2. If there be such a great Ruck in Madagas●ar, as Marcus Polus the Venetian mentions, the ●eathers in those Wings are twelve Foot long, which can soop up a Horse and his Rider, or an ●lephant, as our Kites do a Mouse; why then it ●s but teaching one of these to carry a Man, and and may Ride up thither, as ganymed does upon ●n Eagle.  
3. Or if neither of these ways will serve, yet ● do seriously and upon good grounds affirm it ●ossible to make a flying Chariot, in which a Man may sit, and give such a motion to it, as shall convey him through the Air: And this perhaps might be made large enough to carry divers Men ●t the same time, together with Food for their Viaticum, and Commodities for traffic. It is not the bigness of any thing in this kind, that can hinder its motion, if the motive Faculty be answerable thereunto. We see a great Ship swims as well as a small Cork, and an Eagle flies ●n the Air as well as a Gnat.  
This Engine may be continued from the same Principles by which Archytas made a Wooden Dove, and Regiomontanus a Wooden Eagle.  
I conceive it were no difficult matter( if a Man had leisure) to show more particularly the means of composing it.  
The perfecting of such an Invention would be of such excellent Use, that it were enough, not only to make a Man Famous, but the Age al● wherein he lives: For besides the strange Di●coveries that it might occasion in this oth● World, it would be also of inconceivable A●vantage for traveling, above any other Co●venience that is now in Use.  
So that notwithstanding all these seeming impossibilities, 'tis likely enough, that there ma● be means invented of Journeying to the Moon and how happy shall they be that are first successful in this Attempt?  
— Faelices queen ainae, quas nubila supra,  
Et turpes fumos, plenumque vaporibus orbem,  
Inservit Coelo Sancti scintilla Promether.  
Having thus finished this Discourse, I chance● upon a late Fancy to this purpose under th● feigned Name of Domingo Gonsales, written by ● Learned and Reverend Bishop: In which( besides sundry particulars, wherein this latter Chapter did unwittingly agree with it) there is delivered a pleasant and well contrived Fancy concerning a Voyage to this other World.  
He supposeth there is a Natural and usual Passage for many Creatures betwixt our Earth and this Planet. Thus he says, those great multitudes of Locusts, wherewith divers Countreys have been destroyed, do proceed from thence: And if we peruse the Authors who treat of them, we shall find that many times they fly in numberless Troops or Swarms, and for sundry days together before they fall, are seen over those places in great high Clouds, such as coming nearer, are of extension enough to obscure the day, and hinder the light of the Sun. From which, together with divers other such relations, he con●ludes, that 'tis not altogether improbable they ●ould proceed from the Moon. Thus likewise and supposeth the Swallows, cuckoos, Nighting●ales, with divers other Fowl, which are with us ●nly half a year, to fly up thither when they go ●rom us; amongst which kind, there is a wild ●wan in the East-Indies, which at certain seasons of the year, do constantly take their flight thi●hither. Now this bide being of a great strength, ●ble to continue for a long flight, as also usually ●n flocks like our wilk goose, he supposeth, that many of them together might be thought to car●y the weight of a man, especially if an Engine were so contrived( as he thinks it might) that each of them should bear an equal share in the burden. So that by this means 'tis easily conceivable, how once every year a man might finish such a Voyage going along with these Birds in the middle of Winter, and again returning with them at the Spring.  
And here, a one that had a strong fancy, were better able to set forth the benefit and pleasure of such a Journey. And that when you consider the strangeness of the persons Language, Art, Policy, Religion of those Inhabitants, together with the new traffic that might be brought from thence. In brief, do but consider the pleasure and profit of those later Discoveries in America, and we must needs conclude this to be inconceivable beyond it. But such Imaginations as these I shall leave to the fancy of the Reader.  
— sic itur and aftra  
Re●●et humi, quicunque ●●lit—  
C●●lo restat iter, coelo tentabimus ire.—   

Men before Adam.  
THE false suggester who asserts, that there were men before Adam, doth insinuate his Poison to deceive unthinking people in the following manner( and I'll recite his own words verbatim that their Erroneousness may the better appear) viz. Nor do I much wonder( says he) that Interpreters, handling these Verses of the Apostle have not been successful in the explaining of them, for they were every way straightened in the expounding of these words, until the Law, for that Law was either to be understood of the Law given to Moses, or of the Law given to Adam: If that Law were understood of the Law given to Moses, it must needs be affirmed, that sin was in the World before Moses, and until Moses; but that sin was not imputed before Moses, if that Law were understood of the Law given to Adam, it must be held, that sin was in the World before Adam, and until Adam; but that sin was not imputed before therefore other men were to be allowed before, Adam, who indeed had sinned, but without imputation; because before the Law sins were not imputed. The Interpreters being between two such inconveniences, were at a stand, nor did know which way to turn themselves, but because it seemed less prejudicial to affirm, that sins were not imputed before Moses, and until Moses, than to affirm, that there were any other men either created or begotten before Adam, therefore they preferred the first inconvenience before the second. The Interpreters rejected those fabulous men, which were to be believed to have gone before Adam. But if my Teachers will give me leave, I'll try whether the Exposition of these words to the Law be not rather to be understood of the Law given to Adam: I do not deny, but to the first view to affirm, that there were Men before Adam, seems to trouble some mens Consciences, not to ease them, for people who are given to venerable Antiquity will fear and startle at the very mention, nay, at the very Thought of such a strange thing. And I know very well how dearly he suffered, who proved, that there were A●tipodes, and Hermisphere; opposite to the Diameters of our World. But it is not now, as it was then, being born in a better Age, and with better Fortune; I pray God to prevent such hatred. And therefore what I have studied upon this Argument, That there were men before Adam, I shall offer to you in the following Essay.  
First then, I say, that so much the rather I gave myself to the finding out Men before Adam, because I thought there could from hence arise no inconvenience which is by the Gospel; for I thought the same would be the Fate of this Tenet among Divines, as is of that of the motion of the Earth to Astronomers, for whether we think the Heavens turn round, or the Earth turn over, yet the Day and Night perpetually take their turns, and all the seasons of the year return at their just times, Corn flourishes in the Spring, which ripens in the Summer: Wines are prest in the autumn, which are cleared in the Winter. Likewise whether we think that Adam was created alone, and that he was first of all men, or believe that there were men before him, all your Religion keeps its own place, for the ground of our Redemption consists in this, That we believe all men to have been c● 〈…〉 ●dam.  
But now that the Antitype betwixt our Saviour& Adam, may more perfectly relate, it will certainly be more convenient to affirm, that there were men before Adam for that same Reason that Christ was not the last of all men: I say it will be more convenient to affirm, that that imputation from the sin of Adam was returned upon those men which were before Adam, according to that Reason by which the imputation of Christ( by which we are freed from the sin of Adam, was returned upon those men which were before Christ. And we have reason to believe that Adam) was not the first man that was made, for Holy Writ ( says this Author) never affirms it, nor ever intends it, nay, whence the contrary is gathered ou● of it, whence we may easily conjecture, that there were men before Adam.  
Moreover from this Tenet, which asserts men to have been before Adam, the History of Genesis appears in my opinion much clearer, and agrees better with itself, and further, this really agrees with all profane Records, whether Ancient or New, to wit, those of the Chaldeans, Egyptians, Scythians and Chinesians. And lastly, that men were created before Adam, may be gathered both from the Northern and Southern Nations, all whom as likewise those of the first, and most ancient Creation were created with the Earth itself in all its parts thereof, and not propagated from Adam. And now I think it doth clearly appear by what hath been said( says this erroneous Author) That there were men before Adam.   

Concerning Fire Drakes.  
FLying Dragons, or as English men call them, fire Drakes, because on this manner, when a certain quanity of vapours gathered together on a heap, being very near compact; and as it were hand tempered together, this Lump of vapours ascending to the Region of could, is forci●ly beaten back, which violence of moving is sufficient to kindle it, although some men will have ●t to be caused between two clouds, a hot, and ● could; then the highest part which was clim●ng upward, being by reason subtle and thin, appeareth as the Dragons neck smoking; for that ●t was lately in the repulse, bowed or made crooked, to represent the Dragons Belly, the last part by the same repulse turned upward, maketh the tail appearing smaller, for that it is both further off, and also for that the could bindeth it. This Dragon, thus being caused, flieth a long in the Air; and sometimes turneth to and fro if it meet with ● cloud to beat it back, to the great terror of ●hem that behold it, of whom some call it a Fire-Drake: some say it is the Devil himself; and so make report to others.   

Of Will with the Whisp, or Ignus Fatuus.  
THere is also a kind of Light that is seen in the Night season, and seemeth to go before Men, or to follow them, leading them out of their way into Waters; and other dangerous places. It is very often seen in the Night, of them that Sail on the Sea, and sometime will cleave to the Mast of the Ship, or other high parts sometimes slide round about the Ship, and either rest in one part till it go out, or else be quenched in the Water. This impression seen on the Land, is called in Latin Ignis Fatuus, foolish Fire, that hurteth not; but only feareth souls: that which is seen on the Sea, if it be but one, is na●ed Helena, if it be two, it is called Castor and Pollux.   

Of many Suns.  
IT is strange and marvelous to behold the likelihood of that which Alexander the great, sending word to Datius; said to be impossible, that two Suns should rule the World. But oftentimes men have seen as they thought, in the Firmament not only two Suns, but oftener three Suns, and many other in number tho not so often appearing. These how wonderful soever they appear proceed of a natural cause, which we will endeavour to express: they are nothing else but Idols or Images of the Sun, representing in an equal Smooth, and watery clouds, placed on the sides of the Sun, and sometimes on both side; into which the Sun beams, being received as in a glass, express the likeness of fashion and light that is in the Sun, appearing tho there were many Suns, whereas indeed there is but one and all the rest are Images.   

Of many Moons.  
AFter the treaty of many Suns, it were not hard for any man without farther instruction, to know the natural cause of many Moons; for they are likewise Images of the Moon, represented in an equal cloud, which is a watery Smooth, and polished even like a Glass: some call them( as Plinius saith) night Suns, because they joined with the Light of the true Moon, give a great shining Light to drive away the shadow and darkness of the Night, it were superfluous to writ more of their causes or effects, which are all one with those that have been declared of the Suns. It may be doubted why other stars do not likewise express their Image in watery clouds, and so the number of them as to our sight should be multiplied? It may be answered that their light or beams are too feeble and week, to express any such similitude or likeness in the watery clouds, for altho they have Garlands or Circles about them, that are caused in no power that is under them, yet it is manifest that this apparition hath not need of so strong a light, as is required to print the Images of them in the clouds. Again, the Garlands are direct under, and therefore apt to receive such apparition.   

Of being drunk once a Month.  
THat it is good to be drunk once a month is a common flattery of sensuality, supporting itself upon physic the healthful effects of inebriation, this indeed seems plainly affirmed by Avicenna a physician, of great authority, and whose religion prohibtiting him could least extenuate ebriety, but Averroes a man restraining his ebriety unto Ailurity and in effect, making no more thereof then Seneca commendeth, and was allowable in Cato, that is a sober incalescence and a regulated Aestuation from Wine, or what may be conceived between Joseph and his Brethren; when the text expresseth they were merry or drank largely, and whereby indeed the commodities set down by Avicenna, that is alleviation of Spirits, resolution of superfluities, provocation of sweat and uri●●, may also ensue, but as for Dementation sopicion of reason and the diviner particle from drink; though American religion approve, and Pagan piety of old, hath practised even at their Hilarity Christian morality, and the Doctrine of Christ will not allow, and surely that Religion which excuseth the fact of Noah, in the aged surprisal of 600 years, and unexpected in ebriation from the unknown effects of Wine, till nether acquit ebriosity nor ebriety in their known and intended perversions.   

Rem●rkable Passages concerning Monsters, &c.  
IT is the constant design of provident Nature to produce that which is perfect and complete in its kind: But though Man is the noblest part of her operation, and that she is busied about the framing of him, with singular curiosity and industry; yet are there sundry variations in her mintage, and some even human medals, come out thence with different erratas in their Impressions. The best of Archers do not always bore the white; the working brains of the ablest Politicians, have sometimes suffered an abortion, nor are we willing to bury their accidental misses, in the memory of their former skilful performances. If therefore Nature( through a penury, or superfluity of matreials, or other couses) hath been so unfortunate as at sometimes to miscarry; her Dexterity and Artifice, in the composition of many, ought to procure her a pardon for such oversights as she hath committed in a few. Besides there is oftentimes so much of ingenuity in her very disorders, an they are disposed with such a kind of happy unhappiness, that if her more perfect works beget in us much delight; the other may affect us with equal wonder.  
1. That is strange which is related by Buchanan; It had saith he beneath the Navel one body; but above it two distinct ones; when hurt beneath the Navel both bodies felt the pain; if above, that body only felt, that was hurt. These two would sometimes differ in opinions and quarrel, the one dying before the other, the surviving pined away by degrees. It lived 28 years, could speak divers Languages, and was by the King's command taught music. Sandy's on Ovid Metam. lib. 9. p. 173.  
2. Anno 1538. There was one born who grew up to the stature of a Man, he was double as to the Head and Shoulders, in such manner as that one face stood opposite to the other; both were of a likeness, and resembled each other in the beard and eyes, both had the same appetite, and both hungered alike, the voice of both was almost the same, and both loved the same Wife.  
3. I saw( saith Bartholinus) Lazarus Colloredo the Genoan, first at Hafnia, after at Basil, when he was 28 years of Age; but in both places with amazement. This Lazarus had a little Brother growing out at his Breast, who was in that posture born with him. If I mistake not, the bone called Xyphoides in both of them grew together, his left foot along hung downward, he had two arms, only three fingers upon each hand: some appearance there was of the secret parts; he moved his hands, ears, and lips, and had a little beating in the breast. This little Brother voided no excrements, but by the mouth, nose, and ears, and is nourished by that which the greater takes: he has distinct animal and vital parts from the greater; since he sleeps, sweats, and moves, when the other wakes, rests, and sweats not. Both received their Names at the Font, the greater that of Lazarus, and the other that of Johannes Baptista. The natural Bowels, as the Liver, Spleen, &c. are the same in both. Johannes Baptista hath his eyes for the most part shut; his breath small, so that holding a Feather at his mouth, it scarce moves; but holding the hand there, we find a small and warm breath; his mouth is usually open, and always wet with spittle; his head is bigger than that of Lazarus, but deformed; his hair hanging down while his face is in an upward posture. Both have beards, Baptista's neglected, but that of Lazarus very ●eat. Lazarus is of a just stature, a decent body, courteous deportment, and gallantly attired; he covers the body of his Brother with his Cloak; nor could you think a Monster lay within, at your first discourse with him. He seemed always of a constant mind, unless that now and then he was solicitous as to this end, for he feared the death of his Brother; as presaging that when that came to pass he should also expire, with the stink and putrefaction of his body; and thereupon he took greater care of his Brother than of himself.  
4. Lemnius tells of a Monster, that certain Woman was delivered of( to which Woman he himself was Physician, and present at the sight) which at the appearing of the day filled all the Chamber with roaring and crying, running all about, to find some hole to creep into: but the Women at the length stisted and smothered it with pillows.  
5. Johannes Naborowsky a noble Polonian, and my great friend,  told me at Basil, that he had seen in his country, two little Fishes without Scales, which were brought forth by a Woman, and as soon as they came out of her Womb, did swim in the Water as other Fish.  
6. Not many years ago, there lived a Woman of good quality at Elsingorn, who being satisfied in her count, prepared all things for child-birth; hired a Mid-wife, bought a Cradle, &c. but her big belly in the last Month seemed to be much fallen, which yet( not to lessen the report that went of her) she kept up to the former height by the advantage of clothes which she wore upon it. Her time of Travail being come, and the usual pains of labour going before; she was delivered of a creature, very like unto a dormouse of the greater size, which( to the amazement of the Women who were present) with marvelous celerity sought out and found a hole in the Chamber, into which it crept, and was never seen after. I will not render the credit of these Women suspected, seeing divers persons have made us Relation of very strange and monstrous Births, from their own experience.   

Of some such Persons as have renewed their Age, and grown young again.  
IT is the fiction of the Poets, that Medae a was a Witch, that she boiled men in a Cauldron, with I know not what powerful ingredients, till such time as she had restored the Aged unto Youth again. The truth was, that being a Prudent Woman, by continued Exercise and hard Labours in hot places; she restored those to health, who were soft and effeminate, and had corrupted their bodies by idleness and sloth. Much may be done this way to preserve the body in its useful vigour and firmness; and to prevent those Dilapidations and Mines; which an unactive life usually brings upon a man.  
1. That worthy person, D, Pieruccius, a Lawer of Padua, and Host to the great Scioppus, did assure me, that a certain German, then living in Italy, had at sixty years of age recovered to himself, both new Teeth and black Hair, and had extended his life to a great many years, with the only use of an extract of black Hellebore, with Wine and Roses.  
2. Alexander Benedictus tells of Victoria Fabrianensis, a Woman of fourscore years of Age, that then her Teeth came anew, and that though the Hair of her Head was fallen off, yet it also came afresh.  
3. Torquemada assures us, that being at Rome about the year 1531. it was bruited throughout Italy; that at Tarentum there lived an old man, who at the age of an hundred years, was grown young again; he had changed his skin like unto the Snake, and had recovered a new being, withall he was become so young and fresh, that those who had seen him before could then scarce believe their own eyes, and having continued above fifty year in this Estate, he grew at length to be so old, as he seemed to be made of Barks of Trees; whereunto he further adds, another story of the like Nature.  
4. Ferdinand Lopez of Castegnede, Historiographer to the King of Portugal, in the eighth Book of his Chronicle relateth, that Nonnio de Cugne, being Viceroy at the Indies. In the year 1536. there was a man brought unto him, as a thing worthy of admiration; for thae it was avered by good proofs, and sufficient Testimony, that he was three hundred and forty years old. He remembered that he had seen that City, wherein he dwelled unpeopled, being then when he spake it one of the chiefest Cities in all the East Indies. He had grown young again four times, changing his white Hair, and recovering his new Teeth; when the Viceroy did see him, he then had the Hair of his Head and Beard black; although he had not much: and there being by chance a Physician, at the time present; the Viceroy willed him to feel the old mans Pulse, which he found as good and as strong, as a young man in the prime of his age. This man was born in the Realm of Bengala, and did affirm, that he hadat times near seven hundred Wives, whereof some were dead, and some were put away. The King of Portugal being advertised of this wonder, did often inquire, and had yearly news of him by the Fleet, which came from thence; he lived above three hundred and seventy years.  
7. An old Abbatess, being decrepit, suddenly became young, her monthly courses return'd, her rugged and wrinkled skin grew smooth, her hoary hairs became black, and new teeth in her head, and papps swelled after the manner, as is usual with Virgins.  
8. The flesh of a Viper prepared and eaten, clarifies the eye-sight, strengtheners the sinews, corroberates the whole body; and according to Dioscorides, procures a long and healthful age, in so much, as they are proverbially said to have eaten a snake, who look younger than accustomend; nor is the Wine of Vipers less sovereign. I have heard it credibly reported, by those who were eye-witnesses, how a Gentleman, long desperately sick, was restored by these means to health with more than accustomend vigour; his grey hairs, whereof he had many, falling all from his head; and so continuing for seven years after.   

Of the Imegination or Phantasle.  
IMagination the work of Fancy, saith Dr. Fuller, oftentimes produces real effects, and this he confirms by a pleasanter instance than some of these that follow.  
1. A Gentleman had led a company of children into the Fields beyond their wonted walk, and they being now weary, cried to him to carry them. The Gentleman not able to carry them ●all, relieved himself with this device, he said he would provide them Horses to ride home with, and furnished himself and them with Geldings out of the next Hedge: the success was( saith my Author) that mounted fancy put metal into their Legs, and they came cheerfully home.  
2. There was one who fell into a vain imagination that he was perpetually frozen; and therefore in the very Dog-days continually sate near the Fire, crying out that he should never be warm, unless his whole body should be set on fire: and whereas by stealth he would cast himself into the fire, he was bound in chains in a seat near the fire, where he sat night and day, not able to sleep by reason of this foolish fancy: when all the counsels of his Friends were in vain, I took this course for his cure, I wrapped him in Sheepskins from head to foot, the wool was upon them, which I had well wetted with Aqua Vitae; and thus dressed, I set him at once all on fire; he burnt thus for half an hour, when dancing and leaping, he cried out he was now well, and rather too hot: by this means his former f●ncy vanished, and he in a few days was perfectly well.  
3. A Noble Person in Portugal fell into this melancholy imagination, that he continually cried out, God would never pardon his sins. In this agony he continued pensive, and wasted away, various prescriptions in physic were used to no purpose, as also all kinds of Divertisements and other means. At last we made use of this Artifice, his Chamber door being locked, about midnight at the Roof of his Chamber( we had stripped off the tile for that purpose) there appeared an artificial Angel, having a drawn Sword in his right, and a lighted torch in his left hand, who called him by his name, he strait rose from his Bed, and adored the Angel, which he saw clothed in white, and of a beautiful aspect he listened attentively to the Angel, who  told him all his sins were forgiven, and so extinguished his Torch and said no more. The poor Man overjoyed, knocked with great violence at the door, raises the House, tells them all that had passed; and as soon as it was day, sent for his Physicians, and relates all to them, who congratulated his felicity, calling him a righteous person. He soon after fell to his meat, slept quietly, performed all the offices of a sound man, and from thence forth never felt any thing of his former indisposition.  
Anno Dom. 1610. attending upon my Prince at Prague, as his Physician, it fell out, that upon the eighteen of July there was born a boy, whose Liver, Intestines, Stomach, Spleen, with great part of the Mesentery, hung out all naked below his Navel. He lived but a few hours, and then with misery enough exchanged that life for death which he had newly begun. If any demand the reason of so monstrous a deformity, he shall find no other than the imagination of the Mother, who being asked by Doctor mayor and myself, whether happily she had not given some occasion to such a Birth, she answered with tears, that three Months before her delivery, she was constrained by some Souldiers to be present at the killing of a Calf, at the opening of it she felt an extraordinary motion in her self, when she saw how the bowels came tumbling down from the Belly.  
5. In the same City of Prague, much about the same time there was the like, if not a greater miracle of nature: a woman was delivered of a Son, who was born with his foreskin cut and inverted; and this came to pass through the vehement imagination of the Mother, who three weeks before she fell in travail, had listened very attentively to a Guest in her House, who discoursed, and exactly described the manner of the Jewish Circumcision, at one of which he had that morning been present. I may be an eye-witness of this, for I was brought by Kepler the great Mathematician, to behold that Boy who was then two years of age.  
6. Gulielmus Fabricius relates a notable History to this purpose; thus, Anno 1600, an honest Matron in Rol near the Lemane Lake, at the beginning of the second month from her conception, chanced to pass by the Image of a Crucifix, and looking over curiously and intentively upon the broken and distorted Legs of the Thief that hung on the left side, she was therewith so moved and affencted, that at the end of her time she was delivered of a Girl who was deformed in her right Leg, after the same manner as she had beholded in the Thief.   

Of such as having been extreme Wild and Prodigal, or Debauched in their Youth, have afterwards proved excellent Persons.  
THose Bodies are usually the most healthful that break out in their youth; and many times the Souls of some men prove the sounder, for having vented themselves in their younger days. Commonly none are greater enemies to 'vice, than such as formerly have been the slaves of it, and have been so fortunate as to break their Chain, and recover their liberty. A certain blackness in the Cradle has been observed to give beginning and rise unto the most perfect Beauties; and there are no sort of men that have shined with greater Glory in the World, than such whose first days have been sullied and a little overcast.  
1. Themistocles, by reason of the Luxury and Debauchery of his life, was cast off, and disowned by his Father: his Mother overgrieved with the villainies he frequently committed, finished her life with an Halter: notwithstanding all which, this man proved afterwards the most noble person of all the graecian Blood, and was the interposed pledge of hope or despair to all Europe and Asia. Patrit. lib. de Reipub. instit. 4 Tit. 6. p. 208.  
2. C. Valerius Flaccus ( in the time of the second punic War) began his youth in a most profuse kind of luxury: afterwards he was created Flamine by P. Licinius the chief Pontiff, that in that employment he might find an easier recess from such Vices as he was infected with; addressing his mind therefore to the care of Ceremonies and sacred things, he made Religion his Guide to Frugality: and in process of time shewed himself as great an example of Sanctity and Modesty; as before he had been of Luxury and Prodigality.  
3. Nicholas West was born at Putney in Surrey, bread first at eton, then at Kings College in Cambridge, where when a youth he was a rakehell in grain; for something crossing him in the College, he could find no other way to work his revenge, than by secret setting on fire the Master's Lodgings, part whereof he burnt to the ground. Immediately after this little Herostratus left the College, lived for a time in the Country, debauched enough for his conversation. But he seasonably retrenched his wildness, turned hard Student, became an excellent Scholar, and most able Statesman, and after smaller promotions was at last made Bishop of Ely, and often employed in foreign Embassies. Now if it had been possible, he would have quenched the fire he had kindled in the College with his own tears, and in expression of his penitence, became a worthy Benefactor to the House, and rebuilt the Master's Lodgings firm and fair from the ground. No Bishop in England was better attended with Menial Servants, or kept a more bountiful House, which made his death so lamented. Anno 1533.   

Of Dreams, and what hath been revealed to some persons therein.  
ALthough it is too great a vanity to give over-much credit to our Dreams, and to distress and distracted ourselves about the Significations and successses of them; yet they are not altogether unuseful to us. Zeno Eleates was wont to say, that any of his Scholars might judge of their proficiency in Philosophy by their Dreams; for if they neither did nor suffered any thing therein but what was virtuous, they had made some good progress in Philosophy. By the same way we may discover much of our own natural inclinations and the constitution we are of. Besides this, there hath been so much of highest concernment revealed to some in their sleep, that is enough to make us believe there is not altogether so much vanity in Dreams, as some men are of opinion.  
1. Astyages the last King of the Medes saw in his dream a Vine to spring forth from the Womb of his only daughter, and at last so to flourish, and spread out itself, that it seemed to overshadow all Asia with its very fruitful branches. He consults with the Soothsayers upon this dream, who answer him, that of his Daughter should be born a Son that should seize on the Empire of Asia, and divest him of his; terrified with this prediction, he forthwith bestowed his daughter upon Cambyses, a Foreigner, and then an obscure person: when his daughter drew near the time of delivery, he sends for her to himself, that whatsoever should be born of her should perish by his own command. The Infant therefore is delivered to Harpagus to be slain; a man of known fidelity, and with whom he had long communicated his greatest secrets. But he fearing that upon Astyages his death, Mandane his daughter would succeed in the Empire, since the King had no issue Male, and that then he should be sure to be paid home for his obedience, doth not kill the Royal Babe, but delivers it to the Kings chief Herdsman to be exposed to the wide world. It fell out that the wife of this man was newly brought to bed, and having heard of the whole affair, she earnestly importunes her Husband to bring the child home to her, that she might see him: the Husband is overcome, goes to the Wood where he had left him; he finds there a Bitch, that at once saved the Babe, and kept off the birds and beasts from it; and also suckled it her self. affencted with this Miracle, and thus instructed by a brute in humanity, he takes up the child, carries it to his wife, she sees, and loves it, breeds him up till he grew first to a man, and then to a King: he overcomes Astyages his Grandfather, and translates the sceptre from the Medes to the Persians.  
2. Alexander the Great in the long and difficult Siege of Tyrus, bordering upon Judea, sent to the Jews for assistances, but was by them rejected, as having a more ancient League with Darius. When therefore he had taken the City, full of indignation, he leads his Army against the Jews, resolved upon revenge, and devoting all to slaughter and spoil. But Jaddus the then High-Priest, admonished by God in a dream, meets him upon the way, accompanied with a number both of Priests and People, himself with his Priestly attire, with his Mitre upon his head, and upon that the Name of God: whom as soon as Alexander saw, with all mildness and submission he approaches him, salutes him, and adores that wonderful Name. Those who accompanied him were some of them amazed, others displeased; amongst these was Parmenio, who asks the King wherefore he adored a man, himself being now almost every where reputed as a God? To whom Alexander replied, that he worshipped not the man, but God in him, who heretofore( in that form) had appeared to him in Dio, a City of Macedonia, in his dream, encouraging him to a speedy Expedition against Asia, which through his divine power and assistance he would subject to him. And therefore he not only pardonned, but honoured and enriched the City and Nation of the Jews, pronounced them at liberty to live after their own Laws, and made choice of some of them to serve him in his own Troops.  
3. Ertucules having slept after dinner, when he awaked was confounded with the thoughts of what he had seemed to see in his dream; and therefore according to the Religion of the Turkish Nation, he first baths his body in water to purify himself, and then goes to Edebales, a person in great reputatation amongst them, as well for his wisdom as sanctity; and thus he speaks: I dreamed( venerable Sir) that the brightness of the Moon did proceed from your bosom, and thence afterwards did pass into mine: when it was thither come there sprung up a three from my navel, which overshadowed at once many Nations, Mountains, and Valleys. From the roots of this three there issued waters sufficient to irrigate Vines and Gardens; and there both my dream and my sleep forsook me. Edebales when he had heard him( after some pause) thus bespoke him: There will be born unto you( my good Friend) a Son whose name shall be Osman, he shall wage many Wars, shall acquire to himself Victory and Glory, and your posterity shall be Lords and Kings of many Nations. But my Daughter must mary to your Son Osman, and she is that brightness which you saw come from my bosom into yours, and from both sprung up the three. A strange prediction and the more remarkable for that of the Moon, seeing we know that the Crescent is the prime and most remarkable Ensign of the Turkish Nation.   

Of the secret ways of dispatch, and the delivery of Messages by Letters, ciphers, and other ways.  
SEcrecy and celerity are of special importance for the right conduct and management of all sorts of affairs▪ but in military matters they are of that absolute necessity, that scarce any thing of moment can be effected without them. Various ways have the Ancients and others invented, whereby they might convey their intelligences and advice with both these; a taste whereof we have in the following Examples.  
1. Aleppo is so called of Alep, which signifies Milk, of which there is great abundance thereabouts; there are here also Pigeons brought up after an incredible manner, who will fly between Babylon and Aleppo( being thirty days Journey distant) in forty eight hours space, carrying Letters and News( which are fastened about their Necks) to Merchants of both Towns, and from one to another These are only employed in the time of hasty and needful intendments: their education to this tractable expedition is admirable, the flights and arrivals of which I have often seen in the time of my wintering in Aleppo, which was the second winter after my departure from Christendom.  
2. The City of Ptolemais in Syria was besieged by the French and Venetians, and it was ready to fall into their hands, when the Souldiers beholded a Pigeon flying over them, with Letters to the City, who thereupon set up so sudden and so great a Shout, that down fell the poor airy Post with her Letter; being red, it was found that the Sultan had therein sent them word, that he would be with them with an Army sufficient to raise the Siege, and that they should expect his arrival in three days. The Christians having learnt this, sent away the Pigeon with others instead of the former, which were to this purpose: That they should see to their own safety, for that the Sultan had such other affairs, as rendered it impossible for him to come to their succour. These Letters being received, the City was immediately surrendered, the Sultan performed, his promise upon the third day; but perceiving how matters went, returned to his other employments.  
3. Histaeus the Milesian being kept by Darius at Susa, under an honourable pretence, and despairing of his returning home unless he could find out some way that he might be sent to Sea; he purposed to sand to Aristagoras, who was his Substitute at Miletum to persuade his Revolt from Darius; but knowing that all passages were stopped and studiously watched, he took his course: He got a trusty Servant of his, the hair of whose head he caused to be shaved off, and then upon his bald pate he wrote his mind to Aristagoras, kept him privately about him till his hair was somewhat grown, and then bad him hast to Aristagoras, and bid him cause him to be shaved again, and then upon his head he should find what his Lord had wrote unto him.  
4. Harpagus was a great Friend to Cyrus and had in Media prepared all things in as good forwardness as he could; being therefore to sand his Letter to Cyrus to hasten his Invasion upon that country, he thought it the safest way to thrust it into the belly of a Hare, so by this unsuspected means his Letters went safe to Cyrus in Persia, who came with an Army, and made himself Master of the Empire of the Medes.  
5. The ancient Lacedemonians when they had a purpose to dissemble and conceal their Letters, which they sent to their Generals abroad, that the Contents of them might not be understood, though they should be intercepted by the Enemy, ihey took this course: They choose two round sticks of the same thickness and length, wrought and planed after the same manner. One of these was given to their General when he was about to march; the other was kept at home by the Magistrates. When occasion of secrecy was, they wound about this stick a long scroll and narrow only once about, and in such manner that the isdes of each round should lye close together, then wrote they their Letters upon the traverse junctures of the scroll from the top to the bottom. This scroll they took off from the stick, and sent it to the General, who knew well how to fit it to that stick he kept by him; the unrolling of it did disjoin the Letters, confounded and intermix them in such manner, that although the scroll was taken by the Enemy, they knew not what to make of it; if it ●assed safe, their own General could red it at pleasure. This kind of Letter the Lacede●onians called Scytale.  
6. I have red in the punic History, that an illustrious person amongst them( whether it was Asdrubal or some other, I do not now remember) who on this manner used to conceal such Letters as he sent about matters of secrecy. He took new Tables, which were not yet covered with wax, and cut out his letter upon the wood, then( as the manner was) he drew them over with wax, these Tables, as if nothing was writ upon them, he sent to such as before-hand he had acquainted with the use of them, who upon the receipt of them took off the wax, and red the Letter as it was engraven upon the wood. Demaratus used this way of writing.  
7. The way by Pigeons to give intelligence afar off with wonderful celerity, is this, They take them when they sit on their nests, transporting them in open cages, and return them with Letters bound about their legs like Jesses, who will never give rest to their wings until they come to their young ones. So Taurosthenes by a Pigeon, stained with Purple, gave notice of his Victory at the olympic Games the self same day to his Father in Aegina.   

Of the Field Acheldemack which was Bought with the Thirty Pieces.  
ON the other ride of Mount Sion, toward the South, a stones cast, is the Field that they Bought with those Thirty Pieces for the which Christ was Sold, that Men call Acheldemack, that is, the Field of Blood: In that Field are many Tombs of Christian-men, for there be many Pilgrims butted. And also in jerusalem, toward the West, is a fair Church, where the three grew, of which ●he across was made: and thereby is the Church where our Lady met with Elizabeth, when they were both with Child, and St. John stirred in his Mothers Womb, and did Worship to our Lord his Maker: and under the Altar of this Church is the place where St. John was Born, and thereby is the Castle of Enaux.  
On Mount Sion was King David Bu●ied, and Solomon, and many other Kings ●f jerusalem, and there is the place where St. Peter wept full bitterly, when he had denied our Lord: and a stones cast from that, is another place where our Lord was Judged, for at that time was Caiaphas House there, and between the Temple of Solomon and Mount Sion is the place where Christ raised the Maiden from Death to Life. Under Mount Sion in the Vale of Josaphat, is a Well called Notatory Silo, there was our Lord washed after he was Baptized. And thereby is the three on the which Judas hanged himself for despair, when he had Sol● and Betrayed Christ.  
And thereby is the Synagogue where the Bishops of the Jews and Pharisees came to hold their council, and there Judas cast Thirty Pieces before them, and said, Peccavi, tradens Sanguinem justum; that is, I have sinned, in Betraying the Innocent Blood.   

Of a great Country called Lamory, where the People go Naked: And of other things.  
THis is an excessive Hot Country, and it is the custom there, that Men and Women go Naked, and they scorn all them that are Clad; for they say▪ that God made Adam and Eve all Naked, and that Men should have no shane of that which God made: and they believe in the same God that made Adam and Eve, and all the World. And there is no Woman Married, but Women are all common there, and they refuse no Man. And they say, that God commanded Adam and Eve, and all that come of them, saying, Crescite& multiplicamini& replete terram. increase and Multiply, and fill the Earth. No Man there may say, This is my Wife; nor no Woman may say, This is my Husband; and when they have Children, they give them to whom they will of them that have meddled with them.  
Also the Land is all common, for every Man taketh what he will; for that one Man hath now this Year, another Man hath the next Year. And all the Goods, as Corn, Beasts, and all manner of things in that Country are common. For there is nothing under Lock, and as Rich is one Man as another; but they have an Evil Custom to Eating of Flesh, for they Eat Mans Flesh more gladly than other. Nevertheless, in that Land is abundance of Corn, of Flesh, of Gold, of Silver, and of all manner of good. And thither do Marchants bring Children for to Sell, and those that are Fat they Eat, but those that be Lean they keep till they be Fat, and then are they Eaten. And besides this Isle of Lemory, is another called Somober, the which is a good Isse; and there both Men and Women that are of the Nobility, are marked in the Visage with a Hot Iron, that they may be known from other, for they think themselves the Worthiest of the World, and they have evermore War with those Men that are Naked, of whom I spake before. And there are many other Isles and People; of the which it were overmuch for to speak here.   

Of the iceland called Raso, where People be hanged if they be Sick past hope of Recovery.  
THE Men of this Isle, when their Friends are sick, and that they believe surely that they shall die, they take them and hang them up quick on a three, and say, it is better that Birds that are Angels of God eat them, than Worms of the Earth. From thence Men go to an Isle where the Men are of an ill kind, for they nourish Hounds for to strangle Men. And when their Friends are sick that they think they shall die, then do those Hounds strangle them, for they will not that they die a kindly Death, for then should they suffer too great pain, as they say; and when they are thus dead, they eat their Flesh for Venison.  
From thence Men go by Sea through many Isls, into an Isle called Melk, and there be full ill People, for they have none other delight but for to fight and slay Men, for they drink gladly Mans Blood, which Blood they call good, and he that can slay most, is of most famed among them. And if there be two Men at strife, and after be made Friends, then must they Drink either others Blood, or else the accord is of no value.   

An Account of the Wilderness, and of what a strange place it is.  
THE Wilderness is a strange place, and in it, as Men say, are the Trees of the Sun, and the Moon, that spake to Alexander, and  told him of his Death: and Men say, that those that keep those Trees, and Eat of the Fruits of them, Live Four or Five Hundred Years, through the virtue of the Fruit; and we would gladly have gone thither; but I think that an Hundred Thousand Men of Arms could not pass that Wilderness for the plenty of Wild Beasts, as Dragons, and Serpents, that Slay Men when they pass that way. In this Land are many Elephants; both White and Blew, without number, and Unicorns, and lions of many Colours. Many other Isles are in the Land of P— J— that were too long to tell, and much Riches, and of precious Stones great Plenty. I have heard say, why this Emperour is called P— J—, and for these that know it not, I will declare, Sometime there was an Emperour, a Noble Prince, and a Doughty, and he had many Christian Knights with him, and the Emperour thought he would see the Service in Christian Churches, and then was Churches of Christendom in Turkey, Sury, and Tartary, jerusalem, Palestine, Araby, and Alapy, and in all the Land of egypt; and this Empeperour came with a Christian Knight into a Church of egypt, and it was on a Saturday after Whitsunday, when the Bishop gave Orders: and he beholded the Service, and asked of the Knight what Folk those should be that stood before the Bishop? And the Knight said, they should be Priests: and he said, he would no more be called King nor Emperour, but Priest, and he would have the Name of him that came first out of the Priests, and he was called J—, and so have all the Emperours since been called P— J—. In this Land are many Christian-men, of good Faith, and good Law, and they have Priests to sing Service, and they receive the Sacrament as Men of Greece do; and they say, not otherwise, but as the Apostle said, as St. Peter, and St. Thomas, and other Apostles, when they sung and said Pater Noster, and the words with the which the Communion is Sacred: we have many Additions of Popes that have been Ordained, of which Men of these Countries know not.   

Of the Isles, wherein are many Gold Mines.  
THere are more East-ward Two other Isles, as Travellers report, the one is called Oriel, and the other Argete: Of which, all the Land is full of Mines of Gold and Silver. In those Isles may Men see no Stars clear shining, but one Star that is called Canapos; and there Men see not the Moon, but in the last Quarter. In that Isle is a great Hill of Gold, that Pismires keep, and they part the fine Gold from other that is not fine, and the Pismires are as great as Hounds; so that no Man dare come there for dread of Pismires that would assay them; so that Men cannot dig for the Gold, nor get thereof, but by subtlety: and therefore when it is very hot, the Pismires hid themselves in the Earth from Morn to Noon of the Day; and then Men of the Country, take Camels and Dromedaries, and other Beasts, and go thither, and Load them with Gold, and go fast away ere the Pismires come out of the Earth; and other times when it is not so hot, that the Pismires hid them not, they take Mares that have Foals, and they lay upon those Mares Two long Vessels, as it were Two long Barrels, with the Mouth upwards, and drive them thither, and keep their Foals at home; and when the Pismires see these Vessels, they leap thereto, for by kind they leave no Hole nor Pit open, and anon they fill those Vessels with Gold; and when the Men think the Vessels be full, they take the Foals, and bring them as near as they dare, and then they whinny, and the Mares hear them, and anon they come to their Foals, and so they take the Gold. for those Pismires will suffer Beasts to come among them, but not Men.   

A pleasant Treatise of the Earthly Paradise.  
IN this Paradise Adam and Eve was set, but they were but a little while there, and it lies towards the East, at the beginning of the Earth; but that is not our East that we call, where the Sun riseth, for when their Sun riseth there, then it is Mid-night in our Country, by reason of the roundness of the Earth: for our Lord made the Earth all round in the midst of the Firmament. Of Paradise can I not speak properly, for I have not been there: but that I have heard, I shall tell you. Men say, that Paradise Terrestre is the highest Land of all the World, and it is so high that it touchest near to the circled of the Moon, for it is so high, that Noah's Flood might not come thereto, which covered all the Earth about.  
This Paradise Terrestre is enclosed all about with a Wall, and that Wall is all covered with Moss, as it seemeth, that Men may see no ston nor nothing else whereof it is; and in the highest place of Paradise in the midst of it is a Well, that casteth out the Four Floods that run through divers Lands. The first Flood is called Pison or Ganges, and that runneth through India; in that River are many precious Stones, and much Lignum Aloes, and Gravel of Gold. Another is called Nilus or Giron, and that runneth through Ethiopiah and egypt. The Third is called Tygree, and that runneth through Assyria and Armony the great. And the Fourth is called Euphrates, that runneth through Armony the less, and Persia: and Men say, that the sweet and fresh Waters of the World take their Springing of them. The first River is called Pison, that is to say, gathering of many Rivers together, and falling into one; and some call it Ganges, of a King that was in India, that Men call Gangeras, for it runneth through this Land: and this River is in some places clean, in some places troubled; in some places hot, in some places could. The Second River is called Nilus or Giron, for it is ever troubled; for Giron, is to say, trouble. The Third River is called Tygree, that is to say, fast running; for it runneth faster then any of the other, name so of a Beast that Men call tigris, for he runneth fast. The Fourth River is called Euphrates, that is to say, well bearing, for there groweth many good things upon that River. And ye shall understand that no Man living may go upon that Paradise, for by Land he may not go for wild Beasts that are in the Wilderness, and for Hills and Rocks which no Man may pass: Neither by those Rivers may any Man pass, for they come with so great a course, and so great Waves, that no Ship may Sail against them. Many great Lords have assayed many times to go by these Rivers into Paradise, but they might not speed in their way; for some Died for weariness in Rowing, some were Blind, and some Deaf with noise of the Wolves, so no Man may pass there, but through the special Grace of God.   

Remarkable things of Adam and Eve in Paradise.  
AND not far from that place is a Cave in a Rock, where Adam and Eve dwelled when they were driven out of Paradise, and there got their Children. And in that same place was Adam made, as some Men say, for Men called that place aforetime the Field of Damasce, for it was in the Worship of Damasce, and from thence he was Translated into Paradise, as they say; and afterward he was driven out of Paradise; and put there again: for the same Day that he was put into Paradise, the same Day he was driven out, as soon as he had sinned. And there beginneth the Isle of Ebron that lasteth near to Jerusalem, where the Angel bad Adam, that he should dwell with his Wife, and there they begot Seth, of which Kindred Jesus Christ was Born. And in that Vale is the Field where Men draw out of the Earth a thing which in that Country they call Camhall, and they Eat it instead of Spice, and bear it to Sell, and they say, Men cannot dig there so deep, nor so wide, but it is at the Years end full again up to the sides through the Grace of God. And Two Miles from Ebron is the Grave of Lot, that was Abraham's Brother.   

Of the Country where Job dwelled.  
ON the other side of the City of Carnaa, Men enter into the Land of Job, that is a good Land, furnished with plenty of all Fruits, and it is also called swear. In this Land is the City of Thomar, This Job was a paynim, and also he was Cofraas Son, and he held that Land as the Prince thereof, and he was so rich that he knew not the hundred part of his Goods; and after his Poverty God made him Richer than ever he was before, so that he was King of Idumea, after the death of King Esau, and when he was King he was called Joab, and in that Kingdom he lived an hundred threescore and ten Years, so that when he died he was two hundred forty and eight years old. And in the Land of Job is no want of any thing that is needful for Mans Body. There are Hills where Men find Manna, which Manna is called Angels Bread, it is of a white colour, and much sweeter than Sugar or Hony; and it cometh of the due of Heaven that falleth on the Herbs, and there it congealeth and waxeth white, and it is used in Medicines for rich Men.  
This Land boundeth on the Land of Chalde, which is a great Land, and there the Men are very fair, and well appareled, as with Cloth of Gold beset with costly Pearls, and many other precious Stones. The Women are but hard favoured and go bare-foot, and meanly clad, with a wide and coarse Coat, but so short that it scarce covers their Knees, their Sleeves are long, down to the foot; they have long black hair hanging about their shoulders, and are nothing lovely to look upon, but I had best say no more, for I am afraid I shall get small thanks for my praising of them. In this Land of Chalde aforesaid, is a City called Hur, and in that City was Abraham the Patriarch born.   

A strange Account of the World that is under our Feet where liveth a sort of People called Antipodes.  
THERE is, as Credible Authors say, a World under our Feet, ●nd the People that live there are ●alled Antipodes, their Feet are di●ectly against ours; and when tis Sum●er with them tis Winter with us, and ●hen tis Summer with us tis Winter with ●em, and all they do and perform is ●uite contrary to what we do and per●rm here, for there the Hog Judgeth and Butcher, the poor Man leadeth the ●erjeant to Prison, Women of an 100 ●ears Old fall in Love with Boys of 20: and Gipsies ask Serving-men their For●ortunes, Horses ride on their Masters ●acks, Black Thorn brings forth Sweet ●rapes, the Ladies draw the Coach and and Horses take their ease, here Woods ●nd Towns glide among the Clouds, ●easts led their Keeper to Pasture, Ships and Gallies Float on Hill tops, Wives go to War and Husbands stay at home by the Fire side, here heavy stones do swim, Mice hunt the Rat, and the sick Man gives council to the physician, Clowns ride on Horseback and Kings walk after them on Foot, here they hunt on the Water. Further, here Beasts of Chase pursue the Grayhounds, Fishes come out of the Air and Angle for Fowls in the Water, the Child Rocketh his Father i● the Cradle, here the Servant calls h● Master to an Account, the Churche● themselves ring the Bells, here Iron swim on the Water, and the soldier digs th● Water with a pickax.  
But to proceed, theres many goo● Men and true amongst them, and o● Godly Life after their Faith, and though they be not Christians, nevertheless o● kind they are full of good virtues, an● they fly Vices, and all Sin and Malice for they are not envious, proud, covetous, lecherous, nor gluttonous, an● they do unto another Man that the● would he did to them, and they ful● the Ten Commandements, and they tak● no force of Riches, nor of having; an● they swear not, but they say Yea an● Nay, for they say he that sweareth will deceive his Neighbour, and, as Authors say, generally all Men in this under-World are truer and wiser than in other Countries: In this Isle there are no Thieves, Murderers nor Beggars, nor no Oppressors. And forasmuch as they are so true, and so good, there is no Tempest nor Thunder, War, hunger, nor Tribulation: and they live so Temperately in Meat and Drink, that they live very long, and many of them die without Sickness, and their Life faileth them with Age. There is in this place a sort of Wild and Savage Men, who have Heads a Foot long, and they kill all that come near them, and they are such monstrous Creatures they would fright any Man out of his wits to behold them.   

Of the strange Kingdom called Amazony, where dwell none but Women.  
NEar the Land of Chalde is the Land of Amazony, wherein dwell no Men, but all Women, as Men say, for they will suffer no Man to Live among them, nor to have Rule over them. For aforetime there was a King, and Men dwelling in that Land, and they had Wives as in other Countries. Now it befell, that the King had great War with the Men of Seithy: this King was called Colopius, and he was Slain in battle, and all the Nobles of his Land. When the Queen and the other Ladies of the Land, heard that the King and the Lords were Slain, they gathered them together, and Killed all the Men that were left in their Land among them. And when they will have any Men to lye by them, they sand for them into a Country that is near their Land, and the Men come and stay there Eight Days, or as the Woman liketh, and then go they again: and if they have man-children, they sand them to their Fathers when they can eat and go; if they have Maid-Children they keep them: and if they be of Noble Blood, they Burn the left Pap away, for bearing of a Shield; and if they be of base Degree, they Burn the right Pap away, for Shooting. For the Women of that Country are ●ood warriors, and are often in pay with other Lords; and the Queen of that Land Governeth well the Land. This Land is environed with Water. Beside Amazony is the Land of Termagute, that is a good Land and profitable, and for the goodness of that Land King Alexander did make a City there, and called it Alexandria:   

A few New and marvelous Experiments lately found out, by one of the chief Wits of this Age, viz.  

How to walk on the Water.  
TO do this, take two little Timbrels and bind them under the Souls o● thy Feet, and at thy staves end faste● another, and with these you may wal● on the Water, unto the wonder of a● such as shall see the same; if so be you often exercise the same with a certa● Boldness, and lightness of the Body.   

How to make any Man or Woman tell y● all the Secrets of their Life, in the● Sleep, and they shall know nothing of ●  
Take the Tongue of a Water-Fro● and lay it on the Head of one that is sleep, and it causeth them to speak ● their sleep. Also the Heart of a Toa● or Night-Crow, or the Fat of a Hare p●●●on the breast of one that is sleepi● causeth them to tell whatsoever shall be demanded of them: whereby pretty sport may be raised to the demander and others, when the Party is awaked.   

How to prevent the London Tapsters from Frothing their Cans and Jugs, &c.  
Provide but in readiness the Skin of a read Herring, and at some time or other, when the Tapster is absent, do but rub a little on thy inside of his Pots, Cans, or Jugge●, and he shall not in any wise b● able to froth them for a long time after, although he would. This is a conceit to cousin the Tapster, when he would cousin you.   

How to find out certainly, whether a Man shall Win or Lose at Play?  
mark the Name of the Man, and one for the place on the one Party, and the number of the day, and the age of the Moon on the other party: Divide each number by Nine; and if the Mans number exceedeth the other, he winneth; or else not.   

How to find out, Whether or no a Man shall mary that Woman he Courts, or hath a Love for.  
Take the number of the Mans Name, and Three; and likewise of the Womans, and divide them asunder by Nine: if the Mans Name exceeds the Womans, they shall mary; otherwise not. Probatum est by me Justinian Pagett.   

An ingenious Device, How to catch all the pleas in one Night.  
Anoint a Pot with the grease of a Buck, and set the same on your Bed, and all the pleas will gather in one Night, or else the grease of a Gouple, and anoint the place of the house therewith where ye would have them come, and they will be drawn thither. Or else take Leaves of Dan, and lay them under your Coverlet, or where you will; and when they be among the Leaves, they cannot come away by any means.    

Of the Gallantry wherewith some Persons have received Death, or the Message of it.  
AS they who remember they are but Sojourners in their hired lodgings, depart thence without any affliction or trouble of Mind; so as many as consider that Nature hath sent them this Tabernacle of the Body but for a little time, are well contented to remove as soon as they receive a Summons.  
1. Theodorus being threatened with Death by Lysimachus, Speak on this manner, said he, to thy purpled Minions, for to Theodorus it is all one, whether he putrefy, under Ground, or on the across above it.  
2. Sophonisba, was the Queen of Syphax the Numidian, and he being made Prisoner to the Romans, she came and yielded her self to Massanissa, and vehemently besought him, that she might not be delivered into the Hands of the Romans. Her Youth and excellent Beauty so commended her svit, that he forthwith granted it, and to make good his promise, married her himself that very day, having been Contracted with her before her Marriage with Syphax. But Scipio the Roman General gave him to understand that the Romans had Title to her Head, and that she was a mischievous Enemy of theirs, and therefore advised him, not to commit a great offence upon little reason. Massanissa Blushed and Wept; and finally, having promised to be Governed by Scipio, he departed to his Tent; where after he had spent some time in Agony, he called to him a Servant; and tempering a Potion for Sophonisba, sent it her with this Message, That gladly he would have her to Live with him as his Wife, but since they who had Power to hinder him of his desire would not yield thereto, he sent her a Cup that should preserve her from falling Alive into the Hands of the Romans; Willing her to remember her Birth and Estate, and accordingly to take Order for her Self. At the Receipt of this Message and Present she only said, That if her Husband had no better Present for his new Wife, she must accept of this. Adding, that she might have Dyed more Honourably, if she had not Wedded so lately before her Funerals; and herewithal she boldly drank off the poison.  
3. Calanus the Indian, of great famed and Name for Philosophy, and held in great Reverence by Alexander the Great; when he had Lived seventy three years in perfect Health and was now seized upon by a Disease; accounting that he had Arrived at that term of Felicity, Which both Nature and Fortune had allotted him, determined to depart out of Life: and to that purpose desired of Alexander a Funeral pile should be erected, and that as soon as he had ascended to the top of it, he would appoint his Guard to put Fire to it. The King not able to divert him from his purpose, commanded the Pile to be erected: an innumerable Multitude of People flocked together to behold so unusual a Spectacle. Calanus, as he had said with a marvelous alacrity ascended the top of the Pile, and there laid him down, wherein he was consumed to Ashes.  
4. When the Tyrant sent his Messenger of Death to Canius to tell him that he must die that day, Canius was then playing at Chess, and therefore desired the Messenger not to interrupt his play till the Game was out; which he played in the same manner, and with as much concern as he did before the Messenger came. The Game done, he submitted to the Sentence that was passed upon him.  
5. Queen Anne the Wife of Henry the Eighth, when she was led to be Beheaded in the Tower, she called one of the Kings Privy Chamber to her, and said unto him; Commend me to the King, and tell him, he is constant in his course of advancing me; for from a private Gentlewoman he made me a marquis, from a marquis a Queen; and now that he hath left no higher degree of Worldly Honour for me, he hath made me a Martyr.  
6. Dr. Fecknam was sent to the Lady Jane Grey, that she must prepare her self to die the next day; which Message was so little displeasing to her, that she seemed rather to rejoice at it. The Doctor being earnest with her to leave her new Religion, and to embrace the old, she answered, that she had now no time to think of any thing, but of preparing her self to God by Prayer. Fecknam thinking she had spoken this, to the end she might have some longer time of Life, obtained of the Queen three days longer, and then came and  told so much to the Lady Jane. Whereat she smiling, said, You are much deceived if you think I had any desire of longer Life; for I assure you, since the time you went from me my Life hath been so odious to me, that I long for nothing so much as Death; and since it is the Queens pleasure, I am most willing to undergo it.   

Teeth and Stomach Exploits.  
WHereas we should Eat to Live, and to enable these frail Bodies of ours to a more cheerful attendance upon the Soul in her several Functions: many of these who are hereafter mentioned, may seem to have Lived for no other purpose than to Eat. Something may be said in favour of those whom Disease hath brought to a Dog-like appetite: but nothing in the behalf of those Gluttons, whose paunches have been so immeasurably extended, only by a bestial custom, and an inordinate desire to gratify their own sensuality.  
1. Aristus, an Arcadian, at one Supper usually Eat three Chenix of Bread, besides Flesh and other provisions, which would abundantly satisfy six ordinary Persons at a Meal.  
2. Astydamas, the Milesian, who had three times overcome in the olympic Games, being once Invited by Ariobarzanes, the Persian, to Supper, promised that he would Eat up all that which was provided for the whole Company, which he also performed, devouring all that was the appointed Provision for Nine Men.  
3. Herodotus, a Trumpeter of Maegara, usually Eat Six Loaves of half a strike a piece, and twenty pound of such Flesh as came to hand, Drinking therewith two congees of Wine.  
4. There was a Woman of Alexandria, saith Athenaeus, that used to Eat at once, twelve pounds of Flesh, and above four pounds of Bread, and together with it drank up ten pints of Wine.  
5. The Emperour Maximinus used, saith Capitolinus, to Eat in one day forty pounds of Flesh, sixty, saith Cordus, and to Drink with it an Amphora of Wine, Capital Measure, which is eight congees; I should fear to Speak this, saith Lipsius, but that it is affirmed by a good Author, and one most worthy of Credit.  
6. Clodius Albinus, the Emperour, would Eat so many apple, Quantum ratio humana non patitur, as no Man would believe: he would Eat for his Break-fast, five hundred of those figs the Greeks call Callistruthia; Cordus adds an hundred Peaches of Camphania, ten Melons of Ostia, twenty pound weight of the Grapes of Lovinium, one hundred Gnat-sappers, and four hundred Oysters. Out upon him, saith, Lipsius, God keep such a Plague from the Earth, at least from our Gardens, which he, together with the Herb-Market, would swallow up and devour at once.  
7. King Hardiknute, as Herold his Brother for his Swiftness was surnamed Harefoot, so he for his Intemperance in Diet, might have been surnamed Swinesmouth, for his Tables were spread every day four times, and furnished with all kinds of Curious Dishes, as delighting in nothing but Gormandizing and Swilling: but he had soon the reward of his Intemperance, for in a Solemn Assembly and Banquet at Lambeth, reveling and Carousing, he suddenly fell down without Speech or Breath, after he had Reigned only two years, and was butted at Winchester.  
8. Theagenes Thasius, a wrestler, was of that voracity, that in one only day, without any other assistance, he would devour a whole ox.  
9. Milo, the Crotonian, was also a notable devourer: he used to Eat twenty pounds of Flesh, and as many of Bread in a day, and drank three Chaos of Wine. In the olympic Games, when he had taken up an ox on his Shoulder and born him a Furlong; he alone the same day Eat him up.  
10. The Emperour Aurelianus was delighted exceedingly with one Phagon, who Eat so very much, that in one day at his Table he would devour a whole Boar, an hundred Loaves, a Sheep, and a pig, and Drink above an Orca; I know, saith Lipsius, it was a Wine Vessel, and bigger than the Amphora, but how much I know not.  
11. Will you have an example, saith Lipsius, little beyond the Memory of our Fathers? Uguccio Fagiolanus was one of the Tyrants of Italy, and his abode, for the most part, was at Lucca, till he was forced away: being therefore a Banished Man, and withal Aged; he boasted at the Table of Canis Scaliger in Verona, that when he was young, he could Eat four fat Capons, and as many partridges, the Roasted hind quarters of a Kid, a Breast of Veal stuffed, besides all kind of sauces at one Supper: this he did to lay his Hunger, what if he had Eat for a Wager?  
12. Anno 1511. the Emperour of Maximilian, being at Augusta, there was presented to him a Man of a Prodigious bigness, and Incredible Strength and Stomach, insomuch that at one Meal he would Eat a whole Sheep or Calf Raw, and when he had so done, professed he had not satisfied his Hunger. It is said he was Born in the Northern parts, where by reason of the could, Men use to have great Stomachs, although the edacity of this Man is almost incredible.  
13. Nicholas Wood of Harrisom, in the County of Kent, Yeoman, did with ea●e Eat a whole Sheep of sixteen Shillings price, and that Raw; at one Meal; another time he Eat thirty dozen of pigeons. At Sir William Sidleyes he Eat as much as would have sufficed thirty Men; at the Lord Wottons in Kent, he Eat at one Meal fourscore and four rabbits, which number would have sufficed an Hundred Threescore and Eight Men, allowing to each half a rabbit; he suddenly devoured Eighteen Yards of Black-Pudding, London Measure.   

How Strangely some have been able to Swim under the Water, and for their Lives.  
custom and long practise of any thing doth seem to divest Man of his own Nature, and to adopt another instead thereof, as we may perceive upon divers occasions: and particularly in respect of what follows.  
1. sponges are gathered from the sides of Rocks, fifteen Fathom under Water, about the bottom of the Streights of Gibraltar. The People that get them, are so Trained up in diving from their Childhood, that they can endure to remain under Water, such a continuance of time, as if it was their own proper Element.  
2. Amongst those remarkables which have been in our time, we knew of late a Man, not of any generous extraction, but of the meaner sort, who was a master at some times for a stipend; and at other times, got his living by Fishing. This Man was known in a sharp Season of the Year, and some times in a troubled Sea, in one day to have Swimmed from Aenaria, an iceland amongst the Pithecusae, over-against Naples, as far as to Prochytas, which is almost Fifty Furlongs, and at some times to have returned in one and the same day. When this seemed unto all men utterly incredible, he voluntarily made offer of himself to perform it, multitudes came to behold this sight, and when at Aenaria he had leaped into the Sea, a Boat that followed him on purpose, observed him Swimming at some distance before them that were in it, till such time as he came on shore at Prochyta in safety.  
3. Historians do much admire the valour and strength of Sertorius; his first Warfare was under Scipio, against the Cimbrians, who had passed over into gall: in this War, when a Party of the Romans had fought unfortunately, it happened that Sertorius was grievously wounded, and had lost his Horse: In this case, with his Breast-Plate upon him, and his Shield and Arms in his Hand, he threw himself into the Rhodanus, a swift River, and striving against the adverse Waves, he Swam over it, and not without great admiration of the Enemy, he got over in safety, to their own Army on the other side.  
4. Scaevola, a Man of admirable Valour, having alone defended a Rock all the day from the whole Forces of the Britains, when Night came on threw himself into the Sea, and Laden with a heavy Shield, and two Coats of Mail, by Swimming he got safe unto Caesar, who having publicly applauded him of a private soldier, made him a Centurion.  
5. Those few People that dwell in the Islands of Lar and Cailon, are almost transformed into the nature of Fishes: so excellent Swimmers are they, that seeing a Vessel on the Seas, though Stormy and Tempestuous, they will Swim to it though it be distance from them five or six Miles, and this only to beg an Alms, their own food being nothing but Fish, and they very poor.  
6. They Fish for Pearl in the South Sea near Panama, and in the North Sea in divers places, as in the Isle Margareta towards the cost of Paria, where the Oysters feed upon Cubuca. The pearls of greater price are called Quilates, or Carats: For this Fishing they choose the best winded Men, and such as can contain longest under Water. At Barlovento, Cula, and Hispaniola, I have seen them stay three quarters of an hour under Water, and I was  told they have had some who have continued the whole hour. The General of Margaita keeps many of these Men, who are Slaves to him called Bouze: one of these Pearls was brought to the King of Spain as bog as a pigeons egg, valued at 14000. Ducats, by some at 100000. and it was called a Peregrina.  
7. The Grecians did use to breed up their Children with Liberal Education: they were well instructed in wrestling, and also were taught to Swim well. This was the Reason that very few of Greeks perished in the Naval Fight with Xerxes at Salamine, for being well skilled in Swimming, when any of their Ships were broken, or in danger of Sinking, they quit them, and leaping into the Sea, Swam safely to Salamine; on the otherside, the Persians being generally unpractised herein, for the most part perished in the Sea.  
8. Henry the Third, the Emperour of the Romans, in Revenge of the Death of Peter, King of Hungary, Besieged Pisonium. It was here that a certain Hungarian, his Name was Zothmundus, an incomparable Swimmer, was sent in the dead of the Night by the governor, to get by Swimming privately under the Enemies Ships: This he did, and with a small Wimble or Piercer, he so bored them in the bottom of the Keel, that about two and three a Clock in the Morning divers of them began to Sink. By this Artifice, the Forces of the Germans were so broken and impaired, that they were constrained to break up the Siege and to depart.   

A Strange Account of several Bruit Creatures that would perform notable Exploits.  
MAN is seldom so unfortunate a Teacher, as when he hath himself for his Scholar; but should he Employ at home, that ingenuity and industry which he sometimes makes use of abroad; what a wonderful proficient would he be in all kind of Virtue? For there is scarce any thing that may seem so difficult; but his care and constancy hath overcome, as the following examples will be sufficient to Account for.  
1. The Count of Stolberge in Germany, had a dear which he bestowed on the Emperour Maximilian the Second, that would receive a Rider on his Back, and a Bridle in his Mouth, and would run a Race with the Fleetest Horse in the Field, and outstrip them too. marshal also mentions a dear used to the Bridle.  
Hic erat ille tuo domitus Cyparisse capistro,  
An magis ille tuus Sylvia cervus erat.  
2. At Prague the King of Bohemia's palace, Mr. Morrison saw two Tame Leopards, that would either of them at a call, leap behind the Huntsman when he went abroad a Hunting, and sit like a Dog, on the hinder parts of the Horse, and would soon dispatch a dear.  
3. Seneca speaks of a Tame Dragon, that took meat from the Hands of Tiberius; and elsewhere, Repentes inter pecula, sinusque innoxio lapsu dracones; Tame Dragons that crept up and down amongst their Cups, and in their bosoms, and did them no hurt.  
4. Scaliger saw a Crow in the French Kings Court, that was taught to fly at Partridges, or any other Fowl from the Falconers Fist.  
5. Elephants have been taught, not only to Dance upon the Earth, but in the Air also; Dancing upon the Rope. The manner of Teaching them to Dance is thus; they bring some young Elephant upon a Floor of Earth, that hath been Heated underneath, and they Play upon a Cittern or tabor, while the poor Beast lifts up his Stumps very often from the hot Flower, more by reason of the Heat, than any desire to Dance. And this they practise so often until the Beast hath got such a habit of it, that when ever he hears any music, he falls a Dancing. Busbequius saw a Dancing Elephant in Constantinople, and the same Elephant playing at Ball, tossing it to another man with his Trunk, and receiving it back again.  
6. Michael Neander saw in Germany a Bear brought from Poland that would play on the tabor; and Dance some Measures, yea Dance within the compass of a Large round Cup, which he would afterwards hold up in his Paw, to the Spectators to receive money or some other Boon for his pains.  
7. A Baboon was seen to play upon the Guitar, and a Monkey in the King of Spains Court was very skilful at Chesseplay, saith Belthazar Castilion, de aulico.  
8. Cardinal Ascanio had a Parrot, that was taught to repeat the Apostles Creed, verbatim in Latin.   

Of the Absurd and Strange Follies of divers Men.  
SOme little devitations of any of the lesser Lights, would scarce be headed by us, but should the Sun make but one false step, the Eyes of almost all the World would be suddenly directed that way: Thus the Follies of mean Persons are lightly passed over; whereas the impertinences of Princes, and the Dotages of great Persons, are as generally observed and censured, as those Foolish and Ridiculous customs, wherewith whole Nations at once have been tainted and infected.  
1. Amongst the Carribbians as soon as the Wife is delivered, the Husband goes to Bed to bemoan himself there, and act the part of the Woman in that condition; but what is most troublesone to the poor Caribbian who hath put himself into Bed instead of his new Delivered Wife is, that they oblige him to a certain Diet for ten or twelve days together, allowing him every day a little piece of Cassava, and a little Water, wherein there had been boiled a little of that Root-bread; afterwards his allowance is a little increased, yet still continued in that same Diet; but he breaks the Cassava, which is presented to him, only in the middle, for the space of about forty days, leaving the extremities entire, which he hangs up in his but, to serve at the entertainment he afterwards intends to make for all his Friends: nay, after all this he abstains, sometimes for the space of ten Months, or a whole Year, from several kinds of Meat, as Lamantin, Tortoises, Swines-Flesh, Hens, Fish, and delicious things; being so pitifully simplo, as to fear that those things might prejudice the Child: at the expiration of the Fast, the Shoulders of the poor Father, who hath a Child Born, are scarified and opened with the Tooth of an Agouty; and it is requisite that the besotted wretch should not only suffer himself to be so ordered, but he must also endure it, without expressing the least Sentiment of pain: Their persuasion is, that the more apparent the Fathers Patience shall be in these Trials, the more recommendable shall be the Valour of his Son. But this Noble Blood must not be suffered to fall to the Ground, since the effusion thereof contributes so much to future courage, it is therefore carefully saved to rub the Childs Face withal, out of an imagination, he will be the more generous.  
2. The Sinitae or the Sinenses, have in their Houses little Images, which they worship as their Gods; yet make they not so much of them, but in case any thing befall them contrary to their expectation, they will have them to suffer for it; so that after they have scourged them, they often cast them out into the Streets; when soon after moved with Repentance, they take them up again, adore them, seek to appease them, and offer them Wine and Incense.  
3. The King of Catona at his Coronation, Swears that it shall not Rain unseasonably, neither shall there be Famine or Pestilence within his Dominions during his Reign.  
4. In Sophala in the East-Indies, the King is called the Quiteve, and hath many that sing his praises, when he goes abroad, calling him Lord of the Sun and Moon, King of the Land and Rivers, conqueror of his Enemies; in every thing great, great Witch, great Thief, great Lion, and all other Names of greatness which they can invent, whether they signify good or bad, they attribute to him.  
5. Xerxes, having made a Bridge of Boats over the Hellespont, for the Transportation of his huge Army out of Asia into Europe, there arose a great Tempest which break his Bridge in sunder; wherewith he was so enraged, that he sent a Chartel of defiance to the Sea, and commanded his Servants to give it Three Hundred Stripes, and to throw Fetters into it, to bind it to its good behaviour; with hot Irons to burn Ignominious Brands in it; his Officers performing his commands were to say, O thou unruly Water, thy Lord hath appointed thee this punishment, for that thou hast wronged him that deserved it not from thee; but whether thou wilt or not, he is resolved to pass over thee, nor shall any man hereafter Sacrifice unto thee, as being a deceitful and bitter River.   

Of the Suns Dancing on Easter-day.  
WE shall not I hope disparaged the Resurrection of our Redeemer, if we say, the Sun doth not Dance on Easter-day, and though we would willingly assent unto any Sympathical exaltation, yet cannot conceive therein any more then a Topical expression; whether any such motion were in that day wherein Christ arised, Scripture hath not Revealed, which hath been punctual in other Records concerning Solary Miracles, and the Areopagite that was amazed at the Eclipse, took no notice of this, and if Metaphorical expressions go so far, we may be bold not only to affirm that one Sun Danced, but two arose that day, that Light appeared at his Nativity, and darkness at his Death, and yet a Light at both, for even that Darkness was a Light unto the Gentiles, illuminated by that obscurity, that twas the first time the Sun set about the Horrison, that altho there were Darkness above the Earth, there was Light beneath it; nor dare we say Hell was Dark, if he were in it.   

Of the Devils Cloven-Foot.  
A Conceit there is, that the Devil commonly appears with a Cloven-Foot, wherein although it seem excessively ridiculous, their may be something of Truth, and the general report thereof at first might be his frequent appearing in the Shape of a Goat, which answers that Description: This was the opinion of Ancient Christians concerning the apparitions of Panities, Fawns, and Satyrs, and in this form we red of one that appeared unto Anthony in the Wilderness; the same is also confirmed from expositions of Holy Scripture, for whereas it is said, thou shalt not offer unto Devils, the Original red it Seghnikim that is Rough and Hairy Coats, because in that Shape the Devil most often appears; as is expounded by the rabbis, as Tremelius hath also explained, and as the word Aschimah the God of Emach, is by some conceived, nor did he only assume this Shape in Elder times, but commonly in these latter days, especially in the place of his Worship. If there be any Truth in the confession of Witches and us in many Stories it stands confirmed by Bodinus, and therefore a Goat is not improperly made the hieroglyphic of the Devil, as Pierius hath expressed it, so might it be the Emblem of Sin, as it was in the Sin Offering: And so likewise of Wicked and Sinful Men, according to the expression of Scripture in the Method of the last distribution when our Saviour shall separate the Sheep from the Goats, that is, the Sons of the Lamb, from the Children of the Devil.   

Of the True-Lovers Knot.  
THE True-Lovers Knot is very much Magnified and still retained in presents of Love amongst us, which tho in all points it doth not make out, had perhaps its Original from Nodus Hercularius, or that which was called Hercules Knot, Resembling the Snaky complication in the Caduces, or Rod of Hermes, and in which form the Zone or Woollen-Girdle of the Bride was fastened as Turnelus observed in his Adversaria.   

Of the Army of Xerxes that Drank whole Rivers Dry.  
UNTO some it hath seemed Incredulous what Herodotus reporteth of the great Army of Xerxes, that Drank whole Rivers dry, and unto the Author himself, it appeared wondrous strange, that they exhausted not the Provision of the Country, rather then the Waters thereof; for as he maketh the account, and Pudeus de Aste correcting the miscompute of Valla, delivereth it; that if every Man of the Army had had a Chenix of Corn a day, that is a Sentary and half, or about two Pints a●d a quarter, the Army had daily expended Ten hundred thousand, and forty Medimna's or Measures, containing six Bushels, which rightly considered, the Abeierets had reason to Bless the Heavens that Xerxes Eat but one Meal a day: and Pitheus his Noble Host might with less charge and possible Provision, entertain both him and his Army, and yet may all be served, if we take it Hyperbolically; And as Wise Men receive that expression in Job, concerning Behemoth or the Elephant, behold he Drinketh up a River and Hasteth not, he trusteth that he can draw Jordon in his Mouth.   

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A General Martyrology, containing a Collection of all the greatest Persecutions which have befallen the Church of Christ from the Creation to our pre●ent Times; wherein is given an exact Ac●ount of the Protestants Sufferings in Queen Maries Reign; whereunto is added the Lives of ●2 English Divines, famous in their Generations ●or Learning and Piety, and most of them Suf●erers in the Cause of Christ, &c. By Samuel ●larke, late Pastor of St. Bennet Fink, London.  
The Lives of sundry Eminent Persons in this latter-Age, in two Parts:( 1.) Of Divines.( 2.) Of Nobility and Gentry of both Sexes, by the above-mentioned Samuel clerk. To which is added his own Life, and the Lives of the Countess of Suffolk, Sir Nathanael Barnardiston, Mr. Richard Blackerby, and Mr. Samuel Fairclough, drawn up by other hands.  
A Large Dictionary in three Parts; performed by the great pains and many years Study of Doctor Thomas Holy-Oke.  
Mr. Wilson's complete Christian Dictionary, wherein the several significations and several acceptations of all the Words mentioned in the holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, are fully opened, expressed and explained.  
Mr. Baxter's Christian Directory, or Sum of Practical Theology and Cases of Conscience, in four Parts; Treating,( 1.) Of Christian ethics.( 2.) Christian economics.( 3.) Christian ecclesiastics, or Church-Duties.( 4.) Christian politics, or Duties to our Rulers and Neighbors.  
Peter Heylin's Cosmography, in four Books; containing the Chorography and History of the whole World, and all the principal Kingdoms, Provinces, Seas and the Isles thereof.  
Bishop Reinold's Works, containing( 1.) The Vanity of the Creature.( 2.) The Sinfulness of Sin,( 3.) The Life of Christ.( 4.) An Explication of Psalm CX.( 5.) Meditations on the Sacrament of the Lords Supper.( 6.) An Explication of the 14th. Chapter of Hosea.( 7.) A Treatise of the Passions and Faculties of the Soul, in a Collection of 30 Sermons, Preached on several Solemn Occasions.  
Dr. Horton's 100 Select Sermons upon s●veral Texts of Scripture, fifty upon the Old Testament, and fifty upon the New. A Book of singular use for Divines.  
Mr. Charnock's Discourses upon the Existence and Attributes of God.  
Mr. Richard Hookers Ecclesiastical Polity, in 8 Books; completed out of his own Manuscripts: with several other Treatises by the same Author, and an Account of his Life and Death.  
Esquire Felthams Resolves, Divine, Moral, Political, the 10th. Impression, with new Additions both in Prose and Verse, not extant in the former Impressions.  
Reinholds Triumphs of Gods Revenge against the crying and execrable Sin of Murder, expressed in 30 several Tragical Histories; the Sixth Edition, carefully corrected: To which is added Gods Revenge against the abominable Sin of Adultery: Illustrated with several Sculptures.  
Dr. Littletons Sermons, Preached mostly upon public Occasions, with a Table to them.  
The History of the Life, Reign and Death of Edward the Second, King of England, Lord of Ireland, with the Rise and Fall of his great favourites, Gaveston and the Spencers.  
Sanders Physiognomy, Chiromancy, Metoposcopy, with the Symmetrical Proportions and signal Moles of the Body.  
Richard Baxters catholic Theology, plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the Dogmatical Word warriors, in three Books; containing, 1. Pacifying Principles. 2. A Pacifying Praxis. 3. Pacifying Disputations.  
Opus Historicum& Chronologicum, per D. Robertum Baillium.  
The History of the execrable Irish Rebellion, trac'● from many preceding Acts, to the grand Eruption, October 23. 1641. and thence pursued to th● Act of Settlement, 1662.  
Dissertatio de Scientia media, tribus Libris absolut● Autore Gulielmo Twisse, S. Theolog. Doctore.  
Dr. Cudworths True Intellectual system of th● Universe, wherein all the Reason and Philosophy o● Atheism is confuted, and its impossibility demonstrated.  
Philips's New World of Words, or General English Dictionary, useful for the adornment of ou● English Tongue.  
Dr. Owens Exercitations on the Epistle to the Hebrews, concerning the Priesthood of Christ.  
Dr. Ingelo's Bentivolio and Urania, in six Books the fourth Edition, with large Amendments.  
Dr. Pagit's Christianography, or a Description o● the sundry sorts of Christians that are in the whole World.  
Caryls Exposition upon Job, in two Volumes, in large Folio.  
Bakers Chronicle of the Kings of England, to the Reign of King Charles the Second; with a Continuation of that Chronicle to these present Times.  
The Works of Isaac Ambrose, containing his Prima, Media& Ultima; with several other useful things, &c.  
Riverius his General practise of physic; a Book of singular Use to all that study physic.  
Clelia, A Romance,( comprehended in a thick Folio) A Book much esteemed by the Wits of this present Age-  
Pools Synopsis, in five Volumes, upon the Old and New Testament.  
Mr. Abraham Cowleys Works, Published out of his Original Copies.  
Causins Holy Court, in four Parts complete, in a large Folio.  
clerks Examples, being a Mirror or looking-Glass both for Saints and Sinners; wherein is represented, as Gods wonderful Mercies to the one, so his severe Judgments against the other: Collected out of Authors of good Credit, both ancient and modern; with some late Examples.  
Hammonds Paraphrase and Annotations on the New Testament, briefly explaining all the difficult places thereof.  
Medes Works, in one Volume.  
Taylors Ductor Dubitantium, or the Rule of Conscience in all her general Measures, serving as a great instrument for the determination of Cases of Conscience.  
Brownriggs Sermons, complete, 65. Published by Will. Martyn, M. A. sometimes Preacher at the Rolls.  
Sandersons 34 Sermons; 16. Ad Aulam. 4. Ad Clerum. 6. Ad Magistratum, and 8. Ad Populum; with a large Preface by the said Author: To which is added a Sermon Preached at St. Pauls across.  
Gurnals Christian armor; A Treatise of the Saints War against the Devil.  
Taylors Life of Christ, being an entire History of the Life and Death of the Holy Jesus; with Figures suitable to every Story.  
The House of Mourning, A Collection of Sermons, Furnished with Directions for, Preparation to, Meditations on, Consolations at, the hour of Death; Preached at the Funerals of several faithful Servants of Christ; By Dan. Featly, Martyn Day, John Preston, Tho. tailor, Richard Holdsworth, Richard Sibbs, J. Pearson, Chr. Shute, Tho. Fuller, edmond Barker, Josias Alsop, Doctors in Divinity, and other Eminent Divines; with some Additional Sermons.  
Cambridge Concordance, with the various Readings both of Text and Margin, in a more exact Method than hath hitherto been Extant. By S. N.  
own of the Spirit; A Discourse concerning the Holy Spirit; wherein an Account of his Name, Nature, Personality, Dispensation, Operations, and Effects, his whole work in the Old and New Creation is explained, the Doctrine concerning it vindicated from reproachs; the Nature also and Necessity of Gospel-Holiness, the difference between Grace and Morality, &c.  
Hutchenson on Job; the Sum of 316 Lectures Preached in the City of edinburgh.  
Bishop Pearson on the Creed.  
Cradocks Harmony of the Four Evangelists, and their Text, methodized according to the Order and Series of times; wherein the entire History of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ is methodically set forth: By Sam. Cradock.  
Ushers Body of Divinity, or the Sum and Substance of Christian Religion, Catechistically propounded and explained.  
Stillingfleets Sermons, with a Discourse annexed concerning the true reason of the Sufferings of Christ; wherein Crellius his Answer to Grotius is considered.  
Scriveners Body of Divinity, or an Introduction to the knowledge of the true catholic Religion, especially as professed by the Church of England in two Parts; the one containing the Doctrine of Faith, the other the form of Worship.   

quartos.  
☞ A Continuation of Morning Exercise, Questions and Cases of Conscience practically Resolving( by 31 Divines in the City of London) the one and thirty following Cases of Conscience, viz. 1. How is the adherent Vanity of every Condition most effectually abated by serious Godliness? 2. How may we Experience it in ourselves, and Evidence it to others, that serious Godliness is more than a Fancy? 3. How is God his Peoples great Reward? 4. What may most hopefully be attempted to alloy Animosities amongst Protestants, that our Divisions may not be our ruin? 5. How ought we to bewail the Sins of the Place where we live? 6. What must we do to keep ourselves in the Love of God? 7. What may Gracious Parents best do for the Conversion of those Children whose Wickedness is occasioned by their sinful Severity, or Indulgence? 8. How may we best cure the Love of being flattered? 9. By what means may Ministers best win Souls? 10 How is the Practical Love of Truth the best Preservative against Popery? 11. What are the best preservatives against Melancholy and overmuch Sorrow? 12. How may we grow in the Knowledge, Estimation and making use of Jesus Christ? 13. How may our Belief of Gods governing the World, support us in all worldly Distractions? 14. What are the hindrances of, and helps to a good Memory, in Spiritual things? 15. What are the Signs and Symptoms whereby we know we Love the Children of God? 16. What must we do to prevent and cure spiritual Pride? 17. Wherein is a middle worldly Condition most eligible? 18. How may we Graciously improve those Doctrines and Providences which transcend our Understandings? 19. How ought we to do our Duties towards others, though they do not do theirs towards us? 20. How may the well discharge of our present Duty give us an assurance of help from God for the well discharge of all Future Duties? 21. What distance ought we to keep in following the strange Fashions in Apparel which came up in the days wherein we live? 22. How may Child-bearing Women be most encouraged and supported against, in, and under th● hazard of their travail? 23. How may we best know the worth of the Soul? 24. How may we get experience what it is to be lead by the Spirit of God? 25. What Advantage may we expect from Christs prayer for Union with himself, and the Blessings relating to it? 26. How should we eye Eternity, that it may have its due influence upon us in all we do? 27. How may we most certainly get and maintain the most interrupted Communion with God? 28. What is the best way to prepare to meet God in the way of his Judgments or Mercies? 29. How may a Gracious person, from whom God hides his Face, trust in the Lord as his God? 30. How are the Religious of a Nation the strength of it? 31. Whether it be expedient, and how the Congregation may say Amen, in public Worship?  
A Supplement to the Morning Exercise at Cripplegate, being several more Cases of Conscience, practically resolved by sundry Ministers.  
Dr. Jacomb on the eight of the Romans, being Sermons preached on the 1, 2, 3, and 4 verses of of that Chapter.  
Flavels Fountain of life, or a display of Christ in his Essential and Mediatorial Glory, wherein the interpretation of our Redemption by Jesus Christ is unfolded, as it was begun, carried on, and finished by his mysterious Incarnation.  
Dr. Bates his Harmony of the Divine Attributes in the contrivance and Accomplishment of mans Redemption by the Lord Jesus Christ; or Discourses, wherein is shewed how the Wisdom, Mercy, Justice, Holiness, Power, and Truth of God are glorified in that great and blessed Work.  
Smiths Select Discourses, with a Sermon at the Authors Funeral: By S. Patrick, D. D. Also an Account of his Life.  
Ba●ters Life of Faith, in three parts: The first, a Sermon on Heb. 11.1. formerly preached before His Majesty; with another added for the fuller explication: The Second, Instructions for confirming Believers in the Christian Faith. The third, Directions how to live by Faith.  
Cradocks Knowledge and practise; being a plain Discourse of the chief things necessary to be known, believed and practised in order to Salvation.  
Durham on the Canticles; being an Exposition of the Song of Solomon; with a Preface by D. own.  
Cases Mount Pisgah; or a Prospect of Heaven; being an Exposition on the Fourth Chapter of the first Epistle to the Thessalonians, from Verse 13. to the End.  
A Practical Discourse of Gods Sovereignty, with other material Points deriving thence, viz. Election, Redemption, effectual Calling, Perseverance, their inseparable Connexion and absolute dependence upon the good Pleasure of God.  
Swinnocks Door of Salvation; being a Discourse ●bout Regeneration.  
Burroughs his Gospel-Remission.  
Dr. Littletons Dictionary, in four Parts; containing, 1. An English-Latin. 2. A Latin Classical. 3. A Latin Proper. 4. A Latin Barbarous.  
Dr. Tuckny's Praelectiones Theologicae, omnia fideliter ex Autoris Autographo descripta.  
Mr. Glanvill's Discourses, Sermons and Remains▪ Collected into one Volume, and Published by Dr. Horneck.  
Dr. own, Of Justification by Faith, through the Imputation of the Righteousness of Christ, Explained, Confirmed and Vindicated.  
Capt. Yarranton's Englands Improvement by Sea and Land, to out-do the Dutch without fighting, and to pay Debts without Moneys; in two Volumes.  
Bishop Barlow's Brutum Fulmen, or the Bull of Pope pus the Fifth.  
☞ Mr. Jaye's Sermon, Occasioned by the late Earl of Shaftsbury's Imprisonment, and miraculous Deliverance.  
☞ Mr. Shower's Sermon, preached upon the Death of a young Gentlewoman, Mrs. Ann● Barnardiston, Daughter of Nathanael Barnardiston Esquire, late of Hackney, who departed thi● Life at the Age of 17; with an Account of he● Life and Death.  
☞ Mr' Rogers's Sermon, preached upon th● Death of a young Gentleman( entitled, Earl● Religion, or the way for a young man to remember his Creator; with an impartial Account o● the young Gentlemans Life and Death.  
Burroughs on Contentment.  
Destruction of Troy.  
☞ Poems upon the Ministers Sons late Splendid Feast that they made at Merchant-Taylors Hall, Dec. 7.  
Dr. Manton's twenty Sermons, preached upon several Occasions.  
☞ Poems upon the Death of that great Minister of State, Anthony, Earl of Shaftsbury.  
Mr. Richard Baxter's Saints Everlasting Rest, in a thick Quarto.  
Mr. Flavell's Husbandry spiritualized; with many ●seful Meditations.  
Brooks his Cabinet of Jewels.  
Brooks his Londons Lamentation, being a serious Discourse upon the late fiery Dispensation; with Advice to them that escaped those consuming Flames.  
Culverwels Light of Nature.  
Firmins Real Christian; or a Treatise of effectual Calling, wherein the Work of God in drawing the Soul to Christ is opened, with a few words added concerning SOCINIANISM.  
Phelps his Needful Counsel; or Considerations of ●ome part of the Message sent to the Angel of the Church of Laodicea.  
Brook his Riches of Christ, being 22 Sermons upon Ephes. 3.8.  
Scanderets Antidote against Quakerism.  
Pools Apology for Religion.  
Humphrey of ELECTION and REDEMPTION; wherein is shewed the Indifferency between the ARMINIAN and CALVI●IST.  
own on the 130th. Psalm, wherein the nature of the forgiveness of Sin is declared, the truth and reality of it asserted, and the case of a Soul distressed, relieved by a Discovery of Forgiveness with God.  
Cockers Copy-Book.   

Funeral Sermons in Quarto.  
Dr. Annesley's Sermon at Mr. Whitaker's Funeral.  
Mr. Watson's Sermon at Mr. Wells's Funeral.  
Mr. Ryther's Sermon at Mr. Janeway's Funeral.  
Mr. Hurst's and Mr. Vincent's Sermons at Mr. Cawton's Funeral.  
Mr. Johnson's. Sermon at Mr. Charnock's Funeral.  
Mr. Reeve's Sermon at Mr. Brooke's Funeral.  
Dr. Dillingham's Sermon at Mr. Allston's Funeral.  
Mr. Jenny's Sermon at the Lady Pagets Funeral.  
Mr. Slater's Sermon at Mr. Gilson's Funeral.  
Mr. Bragg's Sermon at Mr. Venning's Funeral.  
Dr. Spurstow's Sermon at the Lady Viner's Funeral.  
Mr. Nathanael Vincent's Sermon at Mr. George Baker's Funeral.  
Mr. Smith's Sermon at Mr. Sorrell's Funeral.  
Mr. Slater's Sermon at Mr. Tho Vincent's Funeral.  
Mr. Baxter's Sermon at Alderman Ashhurst's Funeral.  
Mr. Baxter's Sermon at Mr. Corbet's Funeral.  
Mr. Vincent's Sermon at Mr. Janeway's Funeral.   

Large Octavo's.  
Dr. Jeremy Taylors Holy Living and Dying, complete.  
Winchester-Phrases, a Book useful for Young scholars.  
Mr. Allens Alarum to unconverted Sinners; in a serious Treatise, showing what Conversion is not, what it is, with marks of the unconverted, &c.  
— His whole Works in one Volume.  
Mr. Tho. Brooks's Discourses concerning a Well grounded Assurance.  
Mr. Janewaies Heaven upon Earth; or the best Friend in the Worst of Times.  
The Earl of Rochester's Life and Death. Written by Dr. Burnet, by his own direction on his Death-Bed.  
Mr. Meads Sermons, entitled The Good of Early Obedience, or the advantage of bearing the Yoke of Christ betimes.  
Galtruchius his Poetical History, being a complete Collection of all the Stories of the Poets.  
Nich. Culpeppers Pharmacopia Londinensis, or the London Dispensatory.  
— His English Physician enlarged, with 369 Medicines made of English Herbs.  
Mr. Vines Treatise of the Institution and right Administration of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper.  
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro, Translated and adorned with Sculptures.  
Mr. Joshua Pools English Parnassus, or help to English-Poesie.  
Vincent on Judgement. Brooks Remedies. Homers Iliads and Odisses.  
Dr. Mantons( 18) Sermons, Preached upon the Second Epistle of St. Paul to the Thessalonians. Very necessary in these Times.  
Mr. Alsops Answer to Dr. Goodman, entitled, Melius Inquirendum.  
All the Works of the Author of the Whole Duty of Man, in large octavo.  
Exercitationes Rhetoricae, Auctore Joanne Tesmaro.   

Small Octavo's and Twelves.  
☞ Directions and persuasions to a sound Conversion, for prevention of that deceit and damnation of Souls, and of those Scandals, Heresies, and desperate Apostasies, that are the Consequents of a counterfeit or superficial change. By Richard Baxter, Minister of the Gospel.  
☞ Englands Vanity, or the Voice of God against the monstrous Sin of Pride in Dress and Apparel, discovering naked Necks, Breasts and Shoulders, flaunting and fantastic Habits, long Periwigs, Towers, Bulls, Shades, black Patches, Painting, Crisping and Curlings, With an hundred more Fooleries of both Sexes, to be notoriously unlawful; Written by a compassionate Conformist, and Illustrated with a very large Copper-Plate.  
☞ The Arraignment, Trial and Condemnation of the Knavery and Cheats that are used in most Trades in the City of London: Illustrated with about 60 Cuts.  
☞ Mr. Howes Sermon at the Funeral of that Faithful and Laborious Servant of Christ, Mr. Richard Fairclough, who deceased July 4. 1682. in the 61st. year of his Age.  
The House of Weeping, or Mans last Progress to his long home, fully represented in several Funeral Discourses, By John Dunton, M. A. Late Minister of Aston Clinton near Aylesbury in the County of Bucks. Illustrated with a lively Emblem of a Funeral Solemnity, and recommended as the best Book extant for Funeral Occasions.  
☞ The Blessed Martyrs in Flames, with their dying Expressions, applied to the present Affairs in England: Illustrated with several Copper-Plat  
☞ Mr. Doolittle on the Sufferings of Christ from the Garden to the Grave; being a Second Part to a former Treatise on the Lords Supper.  
☞ The Devils Patriarch, or a Full and Impartial Account of the notorious Life of this present Pope of Rome, Innocent the 11th.  

The Life of Galeatius.  
Corbets Self-Employment in secret.  
Helvicus his colloquys.  
Senecaes Tragedies,  
War with the Devil.  
Solomons Proverbs.  
pierce of Death.  
Force, of Time.  
Mr. Doelittles First Part on the Sacrament.  
Flavells Saint indeed.  
Assemblies Confession of Faith.  
Herberts Poems.  
practise of Piety.  
Farnabyes marshal.  
Farnabyes Juvenal.  
Farnabyes Ovid.  
sallust.  
Supplication of Saints.  
Baxters Call.  
Duty of Man.    

Twenty Fours.  
☞ A very useful Book, entitled, A Necessary Companion for a serious Christian, directing him aright through the whole Course of his Life. Written for public Good: To which is added, The Death-Bed Counsel of a late Reverend Divine, to his Son an Apprentice in the City of London( which Directions are well worth the perusal of all London-Apprentices and other young persons) with many things besides of daily Use and practise.  

Crumbs of Comfort.  
Guide to Heaven.  
Ovids Works complete.  
geese Steps.  
Lucans Pharsalia.  
Kemps Imitation of Christ.  
Buchanans Poems.  
Caesars Commentaries.  
Clerks Companion.  
Crown and Glory of a Christian.  
Lucius Florus,  
Penkethmans Accounts.  
Latin Testament.  
Kents Manual.  
Mortons Prayers.  
Valentines Devotions.     

LIKEWISE, All sorts of Bibles and Bible-Cases, and all sorts of School-Books, &c. are there to be had.  
FINIS.