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A16282	The manners, lauues, and customes of all nations collected out of the best vvriters by Ioannes Boemus ... ; with many other things of the same argument, gathered out of the historie of Nicholas Damascen ; the like also out of the history of America, or Brasill, written by Iohn Lerius ; the faith, religion and manners of the Aethiopians, and the deploration of the people of Lappia, compiled by Damianus a ̀Goes ; with a short discourse of the Aethiopians, taken out of Ioseph Scaliger his seuenth booke de emendatione temporum ; written in Latin, and now newly translated into English, by Ed. Aston.; Omnium gentium mores, leges, et ritus. English. 1611	Boemus, Joannes, ca. 1485-1535.; Góis, Damião de, 1502-1574.; Nicolaus, of Damascus.; Léry, Jean de, 1534-1611. Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre du Brésil.; Scaliger, Joseph Juste, 1540-1609. De emendatione temporum.; Aston, Edward, b. 1573 or 4.	1611 (1611)	STC 3198.5; ESTC S102777	343,933	572

called Saturnalitia and by the Greekes they be called Apophoreta that is to say presents or things giuen to guests to bee carried away with them This custome and ceremonie of theirs was described by the Author of this booke in these verses following O Christ the Word of Father deare c. In honor of thy blessed birth we celebrate eight dayes All which we spend in holy hymnes and chanting forth thy prayse And following thy examples true we gifts do often send Fat Capons Hares or some such thing vnto each louing friend Fine wafers stampt with Images and Pictures rarely signd Or basket full of Oranges doth argue friendly mind Ten Oranges that plumde and topt be with greene boxen crest And spices rare of sundry sorts in honor of this Feast Vpon the Feast day of the Epiphany of our Lord commonly called Twelfte-day euery family maketh a cake of flower hony ginger and pepper and therewith they elect and choose them a King in this maner following the good-wife of the house kneadeth and maketh the cake and in the moulding shee putteth a penny into it without consideration into what place of the cake she putteth it but euen at aduentures then doth she rake away the fire and bake it vppon the harth and when it is baked shee breaketh it into as many peeces as there be men in the whole houshold and so distributeth vnto euery one apart assigning one part thereof vnto Christ another to our blessed Ladie and three portions more to the three Wisemen for and in the name of an almes And in whose part soeuer the penny is found him doe the rest set in a chaire and lifting him vp on high three times with great iollity and mirth they salute him as their king and all the while hee is lifted vppe hee hath in his right hand a peece of chalke with which he maketh a great many crosses vppon the roofes of their chambers and parlours and these crosses they haue in great estimation thinking that by them they escape many dangers And there is no house throughout the whole countrey of Franconia especially if it be a dwelling house but in some one of these twelue nights which bee betwixt the Natiuitie of our Lord and the Epiphany it is perfumed either with Frankinsence or some other sweet smelling perfume against the deceits and illusions of Diuels and Sorcerers It were in vaine to mention in particular in what manner of Epicurisme the Franconians spend the three daies next before Lent if you knew what generall and wilfull madnesse possessed all the rest of Germanie at that time wherein the Franconians do equall them and in what licentious manner all of them then liue for all those three dayes the Germaines practise nothing else but eating drinking and playing plying it so lustily as though they should neuer eate or drinke more or as if with the Epicure they should say I will take my pleasure I will eat and drinke my belly full to day for to morow I shall die Euery one will inuent some new deuice or other to delight their minds and senses withall and to hold them in admiration and to the end they should not blush nor be dashed out of countenance in acting their apish toyes and interludes they maske their faces and change their habites the men wearing womens apparell and the women mens some represent Satyres and some play the diuels part beeing made blacke with woade or inke and cloathed in loathsome apparell like Diuels indeed Some others go starke naked imitating the Priests of Pan of whome I thinke the Germanes haue learned that yearely custome of doting and vnnaturall madnesse This their manner of reuelling differeth not much from the Feastes called Lupercalia which the noble young Romane gallants were wont to celebrate in the moneth of Februarie in honor of the Licaean Pan. For as those Romane youths went round about the Cittie naked and their faces besmered with bloud lashing all they met with cords and whips in rude and barbarous manner most loathsom to behold euen so the Germaines strike those they meete with bags stuft full of sand or ashes There is a strange custome vsed in many places of Germany vppon Ash-wednesday for then the young youth get all the maides together which haue practised dauncing all the yeare before and carrying them in a cart or tumbrell which they draw themselues in stead of horses and a minstrell standing a top of it playing all the way they draw them into some lake or riuer and there wash them well fauouredly What the reason of this ceremonie is I cannot perceiue but as I coniecture they imagine the doing of this to be a purgation and satisfaction to God for practising such light and wanton behauiour vppon Sundayes and Holy-dayes directly against the Canons and precepts of the Church In the middle of Lent at which time they be commanded by the Church to reioyce the youth of Germany where the Authour of this present Worke was borne make an Image of straw resembling the picture of Death and hanging it vppon aspeare carry it vp and downe the streetes with great showting and exclamations and many giue them good intertainment offering them such things as they vsually eate as peason milke and mellow peares and when they be wel refreshed they returne home again but some others on the contrarie part giue them Iohn Drums intertainment reuiling and beating them away frō their houses deeming the picture of death to bee ominous and a foretelling of their deaths indeed The like custome to this is vsed by the Franconians and at the same time for there the young men take an old cart wheele and couer it all ouer with straw and then being a great troupe of them together they cary it to the top of a high hil where after they haue sported themselues most part of the day vnlesse the cold driue them soone home in the euening they set it on fire and set it going downe the hil burning beeing a sight able to astonish the beholders that know not what it meanes for it tumbleth into the valley all of a flaming fire with such a pudder as if the Sunne or Moon should tumble downe from heauen Vppon Easter day some one of the wealthiest amongst them causeth certaine cakes to be made and giueth one or two of them to the young men and as many to the maydes and when they be all mette together a little before night in a plaine medow in the presence of an infinit number of spectators those which bee most nimble of footmanship runne for those cakes the yong men against yong men and the maides against maides Then haue they their solemne ceremonies at the dedication of their parish Churches which by the Institutions of the Church ought to be solemnized by all the parishioners once euery yeare with great ioy and banqueting to which solemnization come many yong men out of other parishes not for any deuotion they beare vnto the Churches

soules were incorruptible that onely the soules of the good did flitte and remoue into other bodies vntill the resurrection and last iudgement and that the soules of the wicked were detained and imprisoned in euerlasting dungeons and these were called Pharises because in their habits and liuings they differed from the common disposition of other men The Saduces denied fortune and destiny saying that God saw all thinges and that it was in the will of man to do either good or euill they denied that the soules after this life suffered eyther punishment or pleasure they denied also the resurrection of the dead supposing their soules and bodies to perish together nor did they hold that there were any Angels and yet they receiued the fiue bookes of Moses they were seuere without measure and nothing sociable amongst themselues for which seuerity they named themselues Saduces that is to say iust But the Esseians liued altogether a monasticall life vtterly despising wedlocke and the company of all women not because they thought it fitte by forbidding carnall copulation to destroy the succession of mankind but that they should beware of womens intemperance suppo sing no womā to be faithfull true to her husband They had all thinges in common oyntments and bathes they accounted a reproach and esteemed a deformity in their trimming to bee an ornament vnto them so as they were alwayes arrayed in white garments they had no certaine citty but dwellings in euery place They spake no prophane words before the sunne rising but praied for his rising and after that workt vnto the fift houre then washing their bodies in water they eate together with few words They accounted an oath as periury and allowed none to be of their sect vnder a yeares probation and after the first yeares tryall when they were admitted they tryed their manners other two yeares also in which time if they were found in any sinne they would driue them away from them that eating grasse like beasts they might repent till their deaths When ten of them sat together no one would speake if nine of them were vnwilling they would not spit in the middle nor on the right side They obserued their sabboth so religiously that vpon that day they would not so much as purge their bellyes They carryed with them a wodden Pickax where-with they digged a hoale in the earth in some secret place to ease them-selues in and couered themselues diligently with their long garments least they should doe iniury to the diuine lights for which cause also they filled the hole againe presently They were long of life by reason of the simplenesse of their dyet for they liued for the most part with Dates they had no vse of money and they adiudged that death the best which happened to a man for Iustice sake They hold that all soules were created from the beginning and incorporated for a time in mens bodies and that the good soules after they departed from the bodyes liued beyond the Ocean where ioy is reserued for them and that the euill soules are assigned boystrous and stormie places towards the East Some of them could foretell things to come and some vsed the company of wiues but very moderatly for they supposed that if they should altogether abstaine from women the whole stocke of humaine kinde would perish There dwell in Syria at this day Greekes which bee called Gryphoni Iacobites Nestorians and Sarasins and two people of the Christian Religion which bee the Syriani and the Marouini the Syrians sacrifice as the Greekes doe and were some times obedient to the Church of Rome but the Marouini agree with the Iacobites and vse the same language and writing the Arabians doe These sundry sorts of holy men inhabite the hill Libanus the Sarrasins dwell about Ierusalem they be valiant in warre and expert in husbandry The Syrians bee vnprofitable people and the Marouines most valiant men though they be few in number Of Media and of the manners of the Medes CHAP. 5. MEDIA a region in Asia is so called as Solinus reporteth of Medus the sonne of Medea and Aegeus King of Athens and the people thereof be called Medi But Iosephus is of opinion that they be called Medes of Medeus the sonne of Iaphet This Region according to Ptolomeus is bounded vpon the North with the Hyrcan sea vpon the West with the great Armenia and Assyria with Persia vpon the South and on the East with Hircania and Parthia Their chiefest exercise and which is almost peculiar to that nation is shooting and riding Their Kings in ancient time were of great authority their head attires their round caps and their garments with sleeues remooued with the Empire and gouernment vnto the Persians It was proper to the Median Kings to haue many wiues which custome was shortly put in practise amongst priuate men in so much as it was not lawfull to haue lesse then seuen wiues In like manner it was thought fitting for women to haue many husbands and to haue lesse then fiue they deemed a miserie The Medes make leagues and confirme friendship after the maner of the Greekes and also by striking their armes about the shoulder blade and then to lick vp each others bloud That part of Media which is towards the North is barren and therefore they make them a kinde of paste of Apples dryed and brused in morters bread of rosted Almonds and wine of the rootes of hearbes and liue for the most part vpon the flesh of wilde beasts Of Parthia and the manner of liuing of the Parthians CAP. 6. THe Parthians which were banished out of Scythia and obtained this country by deceit called it after their names Parthia It hath vpon the South Carmania on the North Hyrcania on the West Media and Aria on the East The countrie is full of woods and hills and very barren of fruites The people during the time the Medes and Assyrians possessed the Empire were accounted base and of no credit nor estimation but when the kindome of Media was translated to the Persians this people also as a barbarous nation without name was a prey vnto the vanquishers and lastly became subiect to the Macedonians but in tract of time they grew of such vertue and valour and were so prosperous and successfull in their designements that they gouerned not onely the countries neere adioyning but making warre against the Romaines which then were conquerors of all Countries ouerthrew them with great destruction and slaughter of their men Plinie reckoneth foureteene kingdomes vnder the gouernment of the Parthians Trogus attributeth vnto them the Empire of the East as if they had made diuision of the whole world with the Romaines This people after their reuolting from the Macedonian Empire were gouerned by Kings which were all called Arsaces of Arsax their first King next vnto the Maiestie of their Kings was the order and gouernment of the people out of which were elected both Captaines for