it a long time as one which he had somewhat knowne to haue pulled out of the body of Noëmia demanded what arrowe it was And what hee should doo with it To whome it was answered that it was the same arrowe wherewith Noëmia was staine and that he should doo with it as the fencer dooth in the Sands Then cried he with a loude voyce to all the assistance if there were any that would challenge it against him But no man answered word Wherefore hee fastned it vnder his girdle and sayd Now my Lords let vs go when it pleaseth you séeing I haue mine armes I am ready to fight against this dragon and publique enemie and to reuenge the priuat iniurie of murther if the traytor may be found Then the Potentate sent foure trumpets through all the streats of the towne to crie and publish to the people that at noone a hardie and valiant champion should fight with the Dragon of the sands in hazard and perill of his lift for the publique wealth and expition of certaine manslaughter by him perpetrated and by his cause happened and for that cause who soeuer would should come and sée it At this crie all the Citizens prepared themselues to go sée this dilectable and profitable spectacle where were founde a greater number of people than euer were at the sands for out assemblie To which place Alector was conducted by 400. Souldiers deputed to guarde and esose the steld at this tumult Franc-Gal and the Archier who after dinner sat at the windowes of the great hall looking into the streat were moued to demand what it was and hauing vnderstood the cause determined to goe thether albeit the Archier was not after times found at such sports neuerthelesse he was enuites to goe in hope to see the reuelation come to passe which was showed to him of the publique health As for Franc-Gal he was come thether for none other cause but onely to finde his Sonne at the Sands of the Theatre according as the black Auguring bird had foretold him So went these two wisemen together to this new spectacle A description of the Citie of Orbe of the Basilique Hyppodrome Prytan Theatre Sands and other places CAP. XXIIII THe Citie of Orbe was so called for the round forme and fashion of the same scituated vpon a little high mountaine yet neuertheles verie large in halfe roundnes like to a demie Globe in such sort as the mids was the highest most prospectiue castilie descouering round abouts and descending not headlong but by little litttle pleasantly going downeward in such sort as neither mounting nor descending one could scarce apperceiue the eleuation of the mids nor vneuenes of the sids so easily descended it vnto the outwardmost walls wherewith it was enclosed in perfect circularitie founded and builded of the hard stones of the Rock of the hight of 30. fadomes and of the thicknes of thrée ramped with 19. grosse bulwarks with their knights and false loope holes and garnished with towers and places of sentinells and enuironed in stead of ditches with a great riner called Cloterre carrying great vessells charged and laden with all sorts of merchandise comming from al the parts of the world For they entred and went out of the Citie of Orbe by foure principall ports the one orientall called Port Physe another occidentall called Port Thane the third meridionall called Port Valentine and the last Septentrionall called Port Passante and looke how many gates it had so many bridges it had that is to say the little bridge the bridge without guarde the bruting bridge and the trembling bridge through and ouer which ports and bridge they entred and issued into the citie or stelds there abouts for they had no suburbs the territory of which fields conteined a great countrey in compasse deuided into foure regions according to the particion and ports of the Citie but of far different qualitie temperature For in the territorie appertaining to Port Physe the ayre was swéet by reason of Zephyrus comming from the west and tendring his last breath in this east wardly region the hearbs plants and trées were alwaies in flower gréennes the people were gracious and louing contented with a little not dooing much other thing but dance leap gamball run sing pipe and play vpon instruments court contract marriages or to aduance them or borrowe for the time to come to compose ballads songs sonnets rounds to search nouelties to chase beasts and sowles to fish and to cloth themselues in colours and to mainetaine theÌ„selues without care or thought for they were all of them either infants boyes or yong folke of the one and the other seye â—…nd when they had passed their youth they made their transmigration into the territory of Port Valentine which was meridionall of a hot ayre inspired with the southerne or Etesian winds And in the region of this gate grew aboundance of fruites of the trée as also grasse pasturing with wheate and other corne of all sorts In such sort that on that side the port one could sée nothing but mowers hay-makers reapers haruest folk fruicterers merchants trauellers trafficquers men of armes running at tilt Philosophers disputing and vsurers lending vpon reuenew of the fruites to come there might one behold store of cattell in the stelds aboundance of bées butter flyes and emmits and albeit the region was very hot and drie yet the people so much the more refreshed themselues with the fayre flaggons cooled in the cléere and niueall fountaines From thence they passed to the Septentrionall Port Passant where the ayre was diuers vnconstant cloudie cold moyst and troubled with contrarie winds for the rest a good countrey verie cultine yelding peaches grapes nuts filberds where one could sée nothing but gathering of grapes pressing of wines tunning them laying theÌ„ into the cartes neuerthelesse the people of this countrey were almost al grey The other region of Port Thane subiect to the cutting westerne winds was very sterile and barraine sauing that there was great store of fat cattaile wildfoule and venison this was the territorie where the greatest there was kept neuerthelesse commonly in close houses where they kept their banquets marriages and mummeries There killed they continually store of hogs and shotes making therof sauciges chitterlings and puddings whereof as also of other things they sent presents newyeares gifts one to another for their entertainement in mutuall loue and friendship and in this soils ordinarily dwelt the old men who after they had serued God in the morning passed the rest of the day in drinking warming talking playing at cards at glit primero and flux or els with the tables at checker dames lourch and tictat Such were the foure ports and foure finages of the Citie of Orbe where the inhabitants by the ordinance of the Magistrates of the towne passed all the yeare and made their transmigration from one port and region to another for if they were wearie of
magnificence was these foure noble buildings at the foure corners of the market place where the foure great streates met in the highest of the Citie and where the most Emperiall Temple of Ioue was placed the exuberant fountaine and the fayre and holy lodging of the Archier and his Ministers together with the house called Vaniah which is as much to say as the nourishment of our Lord for therein were nourished the poore olde sick lame impotent and fraile pedple together with the poore Widowes and Orphanes with the goods offered to God in his temple Besides all this there was diuerse other publique places as porches and walking places aswell in raynie weather as in fayre the foure markets viz. the wheate market the wine market the flesh market and the fish market and the fift market of fruites eggs and white meats Moreouer there was yet another great and large porch full of seats and desks entermingled with walking places and galleries and a high pulpet of whole stone cut and carued which was the place of reading and disputation of all sorts of artes and sciences and all at the publique charge of the Citie Furthermore at the foure gates were foure fayre keys vpon the riuer side of Cloterre which went round about the Towne at which keys ordinarilie ariued great boats charged with all forts of Merchandize comming from all parts and not onelie by riuer but by land with Waggons Mules Cammells and other horses For the receite and bestowing of the which were appointed round about the keys great ware houses and at euerie keye a great porch wherein the Merchants of all Countreys and Nations assembled together and kept generall exchange of Golde Siluer and Money with writings letters answeres bills of exchange and recariage and all sorts of negotiation Thus you see and behold the discription of the renowmed Citie of Orbe which hath beene set downe here by way of digression after which extrauagance we must returne againe to our matter which was of the combat betweene Alector and the serpent of the Sands Of the Combat and Victorie of Alector against the Serpent Of the arrowe throwne vp into the ayre with imprecation of the fall thereof in flaming wise vpon Coracton and of his horrible death CAP. XXV THe people of Orbe the same day assembled themselues in greater numbers than euer had béen séene before not onelie for the meruaile of the Combat but also to expect the hope of the publique weale according to the reuelation with the Archier had showne them in the moruing whereby there was so great a multitude of people aswell Citizens as strangers that all the degrees were full all the windowes arches and galleries yea all the pinacles and tops of the walls were charged with people Amongst the rest came also the two wise men Franc-Gal and the Archier Croniel for whome by reason of his Bishoplike dignitie was reserued the most honorable seate in the Orches tree from whence he might best beholde and most openly discouer all the sauds and Theatre He who knew his place went to sit downe leading and ioyning with him Macrobius Franc-Gal vpon whom vniuersally al the Theatre cast their eyes and all those before whom he passed arose and enclined their heads in signe of reuerence to him brought singular admiration of the reuerend dignitie of his face full of probable maiestie which they saw him in his visage and in the more than royall comlines forme fashion streightnes height greatnes and giantly ioynture of this so fayre and soheroical an olde man that their worshipfull Arch Priest Croniel with so great honor led with him specially so armed for hee carried his armour with him and clothed with so rich a cloake of purple and with his precious and illustrate shield of azure with the Sonne of Gold To be briefe the whole assistance of the Theatre through great admiracion of him had their ententife regard vpon Franc-Gal Hereupon the trmupets sounded and Alector was set into the Sands clothed only with his purple hat on his head and his iagged Gallican coate of armes with his Iasseran fringed with Gold and armed with his good sword with the Lyberian scabbard and with his gréen shield with the Cocke of Golde together with the slaughterous arrowe for the rest so fayre that he séemed to be made and formed to be beholden of all young vigorous membrous well set great tall and of a hardy and assured countenance in such sort as there was none specially of the young Ladies and Maidens but pittifully beholding him lamented that so fayre a young gentleman should bée set into so mortall a danger whereout as they thought it was impossible that hee should escape neuerthelesse hee walked brauely attending his enemie Now was it the day and houre that the dragon was accustomed to receiue his ordinarie foode whereupon smelling presently he fresh humaine flesh be issued out of his Cloaque behinde the Sepulchre of Caliste lifting vp his dragonlie head with flaming and piercing eyes with his great and open throate full of venemus téeth set in triple order and casting out a horrible hissing with thrée viberant tongues which gaue a mortall feare vnto all the assistants of the Theatre sauing vnto the hardie Alector against whome the serpent with great turnings and windings came to deuoure thinking verilie at the first mouch full to haue swallowed him vp which all the beholders thought likewise Amongst whome Franc-Gal beholding this fayre yong youth so cloathed armed and put into so mortall a perill incontinently knew that it was his sonne and therewithall through hideous feare hee became so white and pale as an image of plaister stiffe like a statue of stone cold like vnto a piller of brasse for the which he had presently Aqua Vitae cast into his visage into his mouth whereby recouering againe his spirits hee cast forth a most high dolorous cry saying ah fayre Son Alector Alector my déere child Who is hée that hath vniustly condemned thée being an innocent child vnto so horrible péereles a combat Is this the fore sage of the funestriall bird which showed mée that at the Sands I should finde thée Alas In déede I haue found thée but by and by I shall sée the lost whereby I shall finde the foresaying ouertrue and cursed which tolde me that I should finde thée but neuer after sée thée as in trueth I shal for the Oraconicall belly shall be thy Sepulcher yea so shall it be mine for with thée will I dye or else saue thée from so strange a death This saying he cast off his Cloake drew out his great and large sword embraced his fayre Celestiall shield with the Sunne of Gold and would with al his force haue descended into the Sands to succor his sonne but the 400. men of armes who enclosed the field with slood him through whom neuerthelesse he had by his vallour passed had not the Archier béen who with instant praiers and tokens hild him
him vntill the head corps entrailes flesh bones and sinewes were cleane consumed into stinking ashes together with the murthering arrow Such was the diuine vengeance that fell vpon the traitor and enuious paricide Coracton wherewithall the people were astonished in feare and terror of the great vertue and more than humaine puissance supernaturally giuen to this young Esquire who forthwith was taken by the Potentate Diocles accompanied with all the Assessours Magistrats and Lords of the towne and led into the chiefest place of the Theatre wher with Croniel the pontifical Archier was Franc-Gal so rauished with ioy for the health victorie of his sonne Alector that he was beyond himself not knowing whether hee were man or spirit quick or dead sensible or vnsensible And neuertheles his son Alector came before al the multitude saluted him with humble reuerence childly cherefulnes saying vnto him My most honorable Lord father thanks be vnto the soueraigne that beyond al my hope in spight of the rauishing trāsport of the wicked spirits we are againe assembled vnited together and so shal continue if God please who hath vouchsafed to grant me a sight of you after so long a depart you to finde me after so long vncertain a search which I verily beleeue you haue made Franc-Gal vnderstāding his sonn answered him thus Alector my most dere child the soueraigae God Ioua increase thee with vertue hardines honor Then beholding his shield and eleuating his eyes to heauen began againe his speach saying Thanks be vnto the Soueraigne and to thée most high sonne for that before my departure out of this mortall life which shal be very soone wherein I haue liued nine ages more I sée before me my most déere Sonne Alector borne of my Lady Priscaraxe Quéene of Tartary and haue seen his first prowesse promises of farre greater in tune to come with his first honors done vnto him in a strange countrey yea that amongst his enemies such as had vowed his mortall destruction my child I pray the soueraign Ioue that the order of knighthood may bee giuen thee by some valiant and magnificall man for of me thou hast fayled the receining therof when as thou shalthaue receiued it perseuer to honour Soueraigne Ioue and to giue him praises euerie houre both day and night Lift vp thy spirit and eyes towards heauen from whence thou hast taken original and thy courage to high enterprises hardines prowesse honour alwaies accompanie thee vertue freedom and liberalitie neuer abandon thee be freend to the good an enemie reuenger to the wicked My Sonne the hand of the most puissant most great and most good God blesse thee and my fatherly blessing take thou in a good houre Saying this he put his hand vpon the head of his sonne and then adressing his speach to the Croniell Archier hee said thus I likewise thanke thee most vertuous Archier for thy faithfull conduct honest company and of thy good and veritable foretellings which haue consolated me and giuen me to vnderstand that the end of my perigrination is at hand and that shortly the vaticination of Proteus shall bee accomplished I haue liued and perfected the course which nature hath giuen me To be briefe my great Image shall goe vnder the earth and the flame of my Cierge remount vp to Heauen from whence it came cause my departure to be signified to my faith full companions who are at the next port with my Hippopotame but aboue al send word into Tartary to the Queene Priscaraxe to let her vnderstand of my departure to the end she stay no longer for mee Croniell promised him to accomplish his request if the mortal thing should chance to happen which seemed to him neither to bee ready nor nere at hand considering at that present hee was both in perfect health and bigor In the meane while the Magistrates lords multitude with great silence beheld these two persons strangers the father and the sonne in great admiratiō of their heroycal comelines and equall and like beautie according to the difference of their ages together with their excellent magnanimities valiant facts and aduenturous déedes and of their fortunate encountrie and mutuall knowledge the one of the other in that place of the Theatre in such sort that either without speach or mouing vniuersally they held their immutable eyes vpon Franc-Gal and Alector Then Croniel the Archier sayd Yee men of Orbe who vpon these 2. strange men doo cast your view in great admiration know yee that our Soueraigne God Ioua hath sent them into these regions frō far Septentrional countries for the publique health of our citie and destruction of our domestical and internall enemie whom you your selues and in your presence haue séene slaine and discomfited by the sonne of this wise man who likewise before hath deliuered the woods and fields round about vs from the danger of the terrible Centaure whom he slew and deliuered the fayre Noëmia from his hands which afterwards was the occasion of the scandale that now hath turned to our great common good for therewith we are bound to him and owe the greatest and chiefest honor and praise next vnto God To whome first of all let vs goe and render thanks in his temple where we wil deuise further with what prise of honor wee shall acknowledge the merit of this young man Al the people general answered hereto So be it Of the thanks giuing in the Temple the publique praise the prize of honour assigned with the ciuill crowne giuen to Alector Of the death of Franc-Gal the lamentation for him his elenation and translation of the losse of Hippopotame and of the bird sent away as a messenger CAP. Vlt. AT these words the Archier betwéene the Father and the Sonne went right to the temple whereto hée was followed of the Potentate Magistrats Lords and the greater part of the people And being come thether there were set on the highest degree before the altar thrée chayres In the middlemost the Archier tooke his place in the two others Franc-Gal and Alector were placed and the Potentate with the other Lords counsellors and other Magistrates betooke them to their accustomed seats This done all of them following the example of their Bishop bowed their knées and enclined their heads in silent prayer and thanks giuing and afterwards rising vp at the suite and imitation of their Priest Croniell and his ministers with the founds of all forts of instruments according with the voyce in harmenious Musick they sung this song following Thanks be to Ioue our great and Soueraigne Lord Who hath vs brought out of these mortall dangers Honor and praise we people him afford That hath vs saued by the hands of strangers O blessed spirits and sacred Angels bright Vouchsafe now to present before his throne Our gratefull psalme and song of sweet delight Acknowledging that through his grace alone The worthie child and Sonne of vertuous syre
people whom he had all deceiued and desrauded one by another These by conference had together knew and discouered the hidden lies falsenesse and wickednesse whereby they had béen by him abused deceiued and defrauded some accused him and others brought witnes against him with the aide of olde Cron who reuealed the greatest part of his most secrete hidden and shamefull villanies which he least hoped should euer haue come to light Whereof being attaint and conuinced albeit no torture nor torments could make him confesse or acknowledge it he was notwithstanding declared a publique enemie and condemned to loose his head and that all his goods should be confiscate to the Prince of Orbe His Master Pseudomanthanon féeling the winde thereof sodainly vanished gained with his héeles taking his flight from thence and hiding himselfe in diuers secrete places whereas yet hee maketh profession of his clandestinall lectures As for his father Mammon he was banished and sent backe into Turquy and passing through Italy and Venice and remaining there a while left behind him some of his séed whereof afterwards sprong vp manie children of his generation as Vliespiegle the inuenter of subtilties the gentle knight Imbauld of Solier and such like exquisite workmen After that the capitall sentence was pronounced vpon Desalethes he was deliuered into the hands of the executioner who led him to the place of Iustice showing by the way so small repentance of his wickednes that he said with loud voyce he had not mericed a common death but rather a publique enterteinment of him and his in the pallaice of the Citie and a statue of gold vpon a Marble pillar in the common place for his great vertues and good deedes doubting not but that after his death they would deifie him and put him in the catalogue of worthy and heroycall men in the heauen of Mercurie with the Duke Vlysses and Autolie and that there should bee composed a new Odyssee of his high and worthie praises But on the contrarie all the world yea those of his owne faction reclaymed against him in execration crying with aloud voyce Take him away take him away kill kill the wicked man Neuerthelesse he marched brauelie to Must-dy for so was the scarfoll of red blacke Marble in the market place called where the offenders doo play their last prize walking with a loftie gate a visage so constant and ioyfull as though oue had led him to a wedding or some ioyfull feast and that because hee helde himselfe certaine of his sort and destinie and that hée had as yet neuer failed to lye whereby he assured himselfe not to die and therefore the feare of death made him neyther tremble nor looke pale With this assurance he marched and mounted vp into the place of punishment and when he was vpon the scarfoll Must-dy the executioner would haue bound and blinded him No no quoth hee in lying according to his naturall disposition I will neuer runne away haue thou no feare for I haue enough for vs both In saying thus he knéeled downe before the Marble stone and whiles the Executioner prepared his sharpe cutting sword he turned his viewe openlie to all the people to whom that hee might make his last lye hee sayd with a lowd voyce Farewell yee people of Orbe I goe now to die This sayd hee enclined his bodie and the hangman who had alreadie prepared his sword in auayling it with a rude stroke cut off his head Of the flying head and abymed bodie with their returne and reuelations of the things by them seene of their death and buriall and of the reclosed depth CAP. 11. HIs sort then deceiued him quoth Franc-Gall when his head was stroke of for thereby faileth all miracles No no quoth the Archier but contrariwise thereby came great wonders for after the stroke giuen no bloud issued either out of bodie or head but presently no sooner thā the sword was withdrawen the bodie without head rose vppon his féete and leaped downe on the ground amongst all the assistants and beholders sore abashed to sée a headlesse body to runne the which impetuously passing through the prease who gaue way retyred themselues at the strange spectacle of so monstrous a hideur vntill it came to an obscure dungeon and profound goulph which a little before happened by reason of a terrible earthquake and had swallowed vp the great tower of the clock and watch of the citie into such a profound depth that no cord with the sound of a plummet could finde the bottome thereof whereinto this headlesse bodie cast it selfe And at the same instaunt the head striken off abone the necke sprong vp from the scarfold thrée or foure times alwaies mounting higher higher and in this order mounting the carthalages and gristles of the eares sprong out with sharpe pinnes in such sort that they became wings without feathers like a fimdermouse flying and carrying vp the head into the aier so high that right soone the sight thereof was lost the whole multitude of people remaining so much astonished as the meruaile thereof merited some looking into the déepe pitt where they could see nothing and others lifting vp their eyes into the aire to see when the head should fall from the heauens But after they had long mused on the one and the other they might heare a sound like a winde vehemently comming from farre and the voyce of a spirite therewithall saying You men of Orbe tarrie not for the quick departed from hence to viewe the height of heauen and depth of earth but retire your selues and returne againe hether three dayes hence about this hower so il all you see the end of that you looke for This said sodainly a great thunderclap brake out of an obscure cloud and after that a mightie shower which caused euerie one to retire to his house attending the third day after according to the premonition of the vnknowen voyce At which day and hower a farre greater number of people assembled thether than before of all kindes of ages attending some miraculous sigue which failed not to happen For as they wer beholding some vp into the aire and others into the bottomlesse gulph behold out of the same they might perceiue the headlesse bodie comming out and mounting vpon the foresaid scarfold there kneeled downe before the stone and the vaines where the head was cut off opened and began to shed foorth bloud whereof the bodie tooke part in his hand and with his finger writ vpon the stone certaine verses which afterward were read And at the same instant they might perceiue from the height of the aier the flying head to discend with membrane and serpentine wings diminishing by little and little vntill they came againe into their naturall forme of mans eares and rested on the pillar vpon an yron pike where the heads of the executed were accustomed to be set Thus as euerie one was attentiuelie beholding these mysteries with great silence the head with a
Shall be condemned to the Diuell Vpon the bird Phoenix One onely of himselfe hath beene Whom neuer man as yet hath seene Vpon the Dolphin carrying Arion on the Seas The friend of man is God whose grace Doth him defend in euerie place Vpon the figure of the Nightingale Each spirit in earth and heauen aboue Singeth to Ioue praises of loue Vpon the Palme tree The lower fortune dooth thee abace The higher to heauen lift vp thy face Vpon the flower de Lis. Whom vertue hath endued With honour is renued Vpon the Rose A pure soule as I suppose To God is like a fragrant Rose Vpon the Marygold Towards the Sonne diuine Turne thou both spirit and eyne Thus with such images statues and simulachres of men birds beasts serpents fishes trées plants and other things naturally and liuely portrayed grauen erected cut diuersely figured with painting colouring guilding siluering and gemining the interior part of the temple was so illustrately decorated and enriched and séemed so light some fayre delectable and honorable to behold and so instructiue in the inscriptions with the contemplation of these fayre things outwardly showing and declaring the glory of God and by the windowes of the eyes entring into the vnderstanding to illuminate the same that they rauished the interior spirites with an ineffable admiration of the bountie greatnes and puissance of God yelding the temple so deuout religious reuerent adorable and Emperiall that those who entred therein found themselues transumed and diuinely rauished as it had beene in a trance Such was the interior ornament of the Temple in the middest whereof was the place of Sacristee eleuated vpon thirtéene stayres of Marble and porphirie of all coulors and aboue that was the Altar erected builded and wrought after the rusticall fashion with all kinde of rude stones in the propertie and naturall fashion without cut worke or pollishing of mans hand And vpon that was laid euen and leuell a fayre great and large table of artificiall emerauld in forme foure square hauing thirtéene foot in euerie square and set iust right vnder the clere window or lauterne of the temple whereon neuertheles miraculously neuer raine fell neuer wind perceiued nor neuer any tempest touched About the altar were set nine chaires guilded conered and garnished with silke veluet which were the seats of the Ministers seruing at the altar and on the East side right opposit to the great doore which was Westward there was thrée pillers of Iasper nine foote high set triangle wise in such sort that one was before towards the altar and two behind vpon which pillers was set a tabernacle of sweete wood wrought carued and guilded with fine beaten Golde and open behinde and within the same a very fayre chaire of Iuorie This tabernacle was the pulpet whereas the propheticall word was showne vnto the people by the Archier such was the Dome and Temple of Ioue in the Citie of Orbe which hereafter we wil describe After then that the Archier being chiefe Priest his nine Ministers together with Franc-Gal and the people were entred into the Temple they prostrated themselues on their faces and from time to time held vp their eyes and hands to heauen so continued their adorations and mental prayers about one houre in great silence the Archier and chiefe Priest arose and after hee had turned to the people and vniuersally saluted and blessed them he was by thrée of his ministers mounted into the pulpit vpon the foresaide thrée Iasper pillers where after hee had a while lifted vp his eyes to Heauen in high conception of thought he addressed himselfe to the people with a cleere and intelligible voyce after this manner You people of Orbe who are here gathered together to heare of mee who am but a voyce crying in the temple the great magnificences of God that you may vnderstand them and comprehend them in your soules that you may praise them heare them and thanke him for them his infused grace for the accomplishing hereof forthwith be giuen you with his benediction The Soueraigne God Ioua which Was Is and Shal be a name which is aboue all names and which appertaineth to none other but him first hath made you of nothing which is an especiall gift of his marueilous puissance that you aboue all other things know that of him you hold your being and first essence And after that he hath created you not ignoble bodies as stones and mettals not insensible plants as hearbes or trees not brutal deformed cruel or monsterous beasts as if it had pleased him he might haue formed you but Asses ill shapen pottage pots villanous Todes cruell rauishing wolues or monsterous imaginations but he hath created you men fayre right loking vp to heauen whereby you hold the roote of reason which he hath giuen you by whō you are made like to himself by him formed to his own image Besides this he hath made al other creatures the elements yea the celestiall bodies themselues and heauens for you and for your vse and seruice the earth to sustaine nourish you quick and receiue you when you be dead the ayre to keepe your soule in life the waters for your vsage cleansing and nauigation the fire to reuiue your heate and for your light the Starres for tokens and influences and the heauens to receiue your soules which hee hath giuen you immortall through spirituall priueledge aboue all other creatures who being once dead nothing remaine more of them All beasts he hath condemned with their heads enclining towards the earth in signe that they be subiect and seruiceable to you who are directly eleuated some for your help as horses oxen asses and cammels yea the great and strong Elephant dooth serue and obay you the others for meate and nourishment who by their deathes conserue your liues See you not the good fishes both of riuer and Sea swimming in your porrages brothes sauces and iuce Doo you not see the flesh fat and entrailes of beasts aswell sauage as tame to enter into your kitchins and the foules of the ayre to fall into your dishes and all trées hearbs plants cornes séeds fruites and rootes to bee giuen you for nourishment and medicine And all this of the grace of God and to his glory as the workemanship figures and statues of this temple doo show you for visible examples whose architecture building is made to the paterne and imitation of the vniuersall world which is the true temple of soueraigne Ioue whose bounty and glory all these things doo witnes and set forth Consider then ye Orbitans and acknowledge how many and how large benefits the most great and most good blessing of God hath enlarged you with to whome you can restore nothing for what thing can you offer him that is none of his whose throane is heauen and earth his footestoole what then would this most great and good Lord aske you which is your owne and in your power to giue him for such