stung him to death Iupiter for his vertue and valour translated him to the starres and at the entreaty of Diana did as much for the Scorpion who had auenged her of her enemie Aristom informeth vs That one Caâ—brisa a citisen of Thebes being issulesse desired the gods to foelicitate him with a sonne and to that purpose made vnto them many Diuine sacrifices To whom Iupiter Mercury and Neptune came and guested for whose entertainment he slew an Oxe humbly petitioning to them for a male issue whom they commiserating at the motion of Mercury the three gods pissed in the hide of the Oxe and commanded him to bury it in the earth Which after the space of forty weeks being opened there was found a male Infant whom they called Vrion ab Vrina Others thinke him to be Arion the Methimnaean so excellent vpon the Harpe who being affrighted by Pyrats cast himselfe into the sea and by the vertue of his Musicke was borne safe to the shore on the backe of a Dolphin But their opinions by the best Authors are altogether exploded Cum tetigit solis radios accenditur astaâ— Discernitque ortu longe fata vivida firmat At quibus artatae frondes an languida radix Examinat nullo gaâ—det maiâ—sve minusve Agricola sidus primo speculatur ab orta The chiefe Star of Canis major or Laelaps is called Alhavâ—r and that of Canis minor or Procion Algomeisa so saith Higinus But Aratus speaketh onely of that which he calleth Syrius Stella the Syrian star which is placed in the middle centre of the Heauens into which when the Sunne hath accesse the heate thereof is doubled by which mens bodies are afflicted with languishment and weakenesse It is called Syrius for the brightnesse of the flame The Latines call it Canicula whence they terme the Dog-dayes Dies Caniculares for so long as the Sunne hath power in it that time is thought to be pestiferous and obnoxious to many diseases and infirmities Some thinke it to be the same Dog which with the Dragon was giuen as a Keeper to Europa which was after bestowed vpon Procris and by her presented to her husband Cephalus who carried him to Thebes to the hunting of that Fox which had done so much hurt to the inhabitants thereof A like fate belonging both to the Dog and the Fox for neither of them could be slain Therefore Iupiter turned the Fox into a stone and placed the Dog in the centre of the Firmament Amphianus a writer of Tragedies relates That the Dog was sent vpon a message to Dolora of whom so soone as he beheld her hee grew greatly enamoured and still was more and more ardently inflamed towards her insomuch that he was enforced to invoke the gods to qualifie his extraordinarie feruor Who sent the North winde Boreas by his cold breath to giue some mitigation to his scorching flames Which hee accordingly did and those gusts are called Etesiae which are bleake North-East windes which blow onely at one time of the yeare Others will haue him to be Mera the Dog belonging to Icarus and his daughter Erigoneâ— of whom I haue before sufficiently spoken Haec micat in Coelo lateri non amplior actus Qua surgit malus qua debet reddere proram Intercepta perit nullae sub imagine formae Puppis demisso tantum stat lucida Coelo The chiefe star of note in the Ship is called Canopos and it is seated in the first oare and it hath place iust by the taile of the greater Dog Which it obtained at the request of Minerva who as they say was the first deuiser thereof making the Sea navigable to man which practise till then was vnknown but in it's scite it is onely visible from the rudder or stearne to the mast Some say that Danaus the sonne of Belus who by many wiues had fiftie daughters and his brother AEgyptus as many sonnes Who had plotted to murther Danaus and all his foeminine issue that hee might solely be possessed of his fathers Empire and therefore demanded his daughters to make them wiues vnto his sons But his malice and mischieuous purpose being discouered to his brother Danaus hee invoked Minerva to his aid who built him this Ship called Argo in which Danaus escaped out of Africa into Argos AEgyptus sent his sons to pursue their Vncle his daughters who arriuing in Argos began to make warre vpon him Whom seeing he was not able to withstand hee gaue his daughters vnto them but with this command That the first night of their marriage they should murther them in their beds Which was accordingly done sauing that the yongest Hipermnestra preserued the life of her husband Linus for which shee had after a Temple reared to her perpetuall honour The other Sisters are said to be tormented in Hell by filling a bottomlesse tub with leaking vessels But most are of opinion That was the Argo in which the greatest part of the prime Princes of Greece by the name of the Argonauts accompanied Iason to Colchos in the quest of the golden Fleece Of which Tiphis the son of Phorbantes and Hymane was said to be the Pilot who was of Boëtia and Argus the sonne of Polibus and Argia or as some will haue it the sonne of Danaus halfe brother to Perseus the Ship-Carpenter or builder who was by birth an Argiue After whose death Ancaâ—â— the sonne of Neptune gouerned the Decke or fore-Castle Lynceus the sonne of Aphareus famous for his quickenesse of sight was the prime Navigator The Boat-swaines were Zetes and Calais sonnes to Boreas and Orithâ—a who were said to haue feathers growing out of their heads and feet In the first ranke of the rowers were seated on the one banke Peleus and Telamon on the other Hercules and Hylas He that gaue the charge to the Rowers and Steersman was Orpheus the sonne of Oegrus but Hercules forsaking his seat in his room came Peleus the son of AEacus c. Oceanum occasu tangit tanto magis arte Thuribulo motae vim Coelo suscipit iam Praecipiti tactu vastis dimittitur vndis Ara is called Sacrarius and Pharumâ— a Signe alwaies opposite to Nauigation and it followeth the taile of the Scorpion therefore is thought to be honoured with a scite in the Firmament because the gods thereon made a solemne conjuration when Iupiter made war against his father Saturne and after left remarkable vnto men because in their Agonalia which were certaine Feasts in which were celebrated sundry sorts of actiuitie and so called because they were first practised in the mountaine Agon in their sports Qinquennalia so called because celebrated euery fift yeare in which they vsed Crownes as witnesses of diuers couenants Their Priests and Prophets also skilled in Diuinations gaue their answers in their Symposia or banquetting houses c. Inde per Ingentes costas per Crura per Harmos Nascitur intacta
her sonne Itis begot by her husband Tereus The Daiedes or Danaes daughters of Danaus for cutting the throats of their husbands and kinsmen the sonnes of AEgiptus The Lemniades or women of Lemnos who in the same Island most cruelly slew their sonnes and fathers Harpalice the daughter of Climenus who killed the childe which her incestuous father begot on her owne body Tullia the daughter of Servius King of the Romans who caused her chariot to be drawne ouer the body of her dead father for the horridnesse of which fact the street in the citie Rome where this was done was called Vicus sceleratus Of those abhorred for Incestuous congresse the most remarkable were Iocasta who had issue by her sonne Oëdipus and Pelopaea by her father Thiestes Harpalice with her Sire Climenus c. Some are to this day made infamous for killing their husbands As Clitemnestra the daughter of Thestius for conspiring with Egistus in the murder of her Lord Agamemnon the son of Atreus Iliona the daughter of Priam for killing her husband Polymnestor K. of Thrace Semyramis Queen of Babylon for the death of Ninus King of Assyria Helena after the death of Paris Deiphebus the sonne of Priam. Agave her husband Lycothersis in Illyria and Deianeira for sending the poysonous Shirt to her Lord Hercules of Lybia c. Others for killing their wiues As the same Hercules his wife Megara the daughter of Creon King of Thebes Theseus Antiopa the Amazon and daughter of Mars Cephalus the son of Deionis or of Mercury Procris the daughter of Pandion by his vaine jelousie c. Fathers for killing their daughters As Agamemnon the great General of the Grecian Army in their famous expedition against Troy who sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia to the goddesse Diana Climenus the sonne of Oeneus slew his daughter Harpalice because she killed her child and serued it in vnto him at a banquet Hyacinthus his daughter Spariantides vpon an answer returned from the Athenians Erichthaeus the sonne of Pandion his daughter Colophonia vpon the like occasion Cercyon the sonne of Vulcan his daughter Alopes for committing incest with Neptune AEolus his daughter Canace for the like done with her brother Mallaraeus c. Of mothers that most cruelly and vnnaturally haue murthered their owne children we reade That Medea the daughter of Oâ—tes King of Colchos slew her two sonnes Machareus Pherelus begot by Iason Progne the daughter of Pandion killed her son It is which she had by Tereus Ino the daughter of Cadmus yong Melicertes begat by Athamas the sonne of AEolus Althaea the daughter of Thestius Meleager by Oeneus the sonne of Parthaâ—n Themisto the daughter of Hypseus Plinthius and Orchomenes her two sonnes by Athamas Tyros the daughter of Salmoneus two sonnes begot by Sisiphus the sonne of Eolus Agave the daughter of Cadmus Penthaus the sonne of Echion at the imposition of Liber Pater c. So likewise of Selfe-murtherers Egeus the sonne of Neptune and father of Theseus cast himselfe headlong into the sea from whose death it still retaines the name of Mare Egeum i. the Egean sea Euhemus the sonne of Hercules precipitated himselfe into the riuer Lycorma which is now called Chrysorroas Aiax the sonne of Telamon slew himselfe for the losse of Achilles his armor Lycurgus the sonne of Briantus being strooke with madnesse by Liber Pater laid violent hands vpon himselfe Agrius the son of Parthaon being expulsed from his kingdome by Diomedes King of AEtolia slew himselfe So Ceneus the sonne of Elatus Menicus the father of Iocasta or as some call him Menaetis precipitated himselfe from the walls of Athens Nisus the son of Mars hauing lost his purple locke cast himselfe vpon his sword and so died As likewise Climenus the sonne of Coeneus King of Arcadia after he had committed incest with his daughter Cyniras the sonne of Paphus King of Assyria after hee had committed the like with his owne naturall childe Hercules cast himselfe into the fire and so perished Adrastus with his sonne Hipponous did the like Pyramus the Babylonian slew himselfe for the loue of Thisbe And Oedipus the sonne of Laius destroyed his owne life for hauing incestuous Issue by his mother whose name was Iocasta c. Of Women that so dispairingly died these Hecuba the wife of Priam cast her selfe into the sea as Ino the daughter of Cadmus did the like with her sonne Melicertus Anticlia the mother of Vlysses and daughter of Antolychus strangled her selfe because she heard a false rumour of her sonnes death The like did Stoenobaea the daughter of Iobates and wife of King Praetus for the loue of Bellerephon Evadne the daughter of Philacus because her husband Capaneus was slaine at Thebes cast her selfe into the same funeral fire in which his body was burned AEthra the daughter of Pythaus for the death of her children Iliona for the death of her parents Themisto for her children Erigone for her father Phedra for the incestuous loue borne to her step-sonne Hyppolitus Phyllis for Demophoon Calypso daughter to Atlas for the loue of Vlysses Dido the daughter of Belus for AEneas c. Time would sooner faile me than Historie yet these I haue introduced to this purpose to shew That Atheisme and want of the true knowledge of God hath bin the cause of so many Murthers and Incests hath made so many Parracides and Fratricides and indeed hath beene the ground of all prodigious acts and inhumanities whatsoeuer Something is requisit to be spoken of Idolatry The word is deriued from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. Cultus and Colo The definition thereof is Cultus Deo debitus Creaturae exhibitus i. The worship that is due onely to God conferre vpon the Creature An Idol is when any Statue or Image in which either some Deitie or any other thing shall stand for a Power a Patron Protector or Sauiour is represented and worshipped Of which kind was the golden Calfe Basil saith vpon the third of Esay What thing can appeare more vain and ridiculous than for a man to professe himselfe to be the workeman of his God and Maker To shew how abhominable Idolatry was in the eyes of the Almighty I will only quote you one place out of many in the holy Text Take therefore good heed vnto your selues for you saw no Image in the day that the Lord spake to you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire that you corrupt not your selues nor make you a grauen Image or representation of any figure whether it be likenesse of male or female the likenesse of any beast that is on the earth or of any feathered fowle that flieth in the aire or of any thing that creepeth on the earth or of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth And lest thou lift vp thine eyes to heauen and when thou seest the Sunne the
to the farthest part of Greece So far remote from her owne habitation That almost it appear'd another nation We leaue her there The father hauing mist His Darling in whom chiefly did consist The solace of his age hauing most care Of her because she was so matchlesse faire At first some strange disaster gan to doubt And sent to seeke her all the Isle about At once hee 's troubled with a thousand feares As sometimes dreading that her vnripe yeares Might be seduc'd and that some sprightly Youth Had train'd her thence but far alas from truth Againe he doth imagin a wilde beast Might seise on her which more his griefe encreast But of such feare there was no certaine ground Because no part of her torne limbes was found If drencht by falling from a Riuers brim Her gall bee'ng burst she would be seene to swim But when no Hill no Valley Rocke nor Caue Least signe of her or of her garments gaue A strong suspition in his thoughts did breed Pyrats had stolne her thence as 't was indeed Thus confident he homeward backe returnes His breast with ardent inflammation burnes To trauell in her search none can dissuade him Nor in his quest may sonne or daughter aid him Himselfe he will commit to his owne fate So parts and leaues to them his whole estate With a strict vow he neuer more will tread Vpon that ground till finde her liue or dead Suppose him in his voyage and decreed That in his purpose he might better speed To saile to Delphos and that he may take Instruction thence in haste doth thither make His Offring past and all things done with grace Best suting with the custome of the place This answer from the Delphian Priest he had Thou carefull Father be no longer sad But from henceforth exhilerate thy minde One Daughter thou hast lost but two shalt finde This saying much perplext him he withdrew Long pondring with himselfe because he knew He lost but one he held that answer vaine And in that thought return'd to sea againe The elder sister seeing both so gone The house left desolate she now alone Saue with her Brother whom nought could persuade From sighes and sorrow by their absence made The place grew tedious to her since no cheare Did in him or the family appeare She therefore after some deliberation Purpos'd and did prouide for Nauigation A Barke she hyr'd disguis'd to sea she makes And vndergoes a strict vow for their sakes From which she neuer will her selfe vnbinde Till she her father or her sister finde By chance she lands at Delphos and bee'ng there Desires to know what she might hope or feare When all the ceremonious Rites bee'ng done The Oracle thus spake Thou that dost runne This desp'rat course if thou expect'st successe In this thy journey then thy selfe professe One of my Priests in comely greene attyre thee Get Bow and Shafts and note how I 'le inspire thee And those loose lockes that 'bout thy shoulders flow Winde vp in curles like yong Apollo go No more he spake she held his words for true Encourag'd her aduenture to pursue And search so shap'd all forrein seas and lands We left the yonger in the Pyrats hands Who after many a dangerous billow past By crossing sundry channels came at last To a safe Harbor with intent to stay Till they had made sale of so choice a Pray And for no other cause kept her from staine But that thereby to raise the greater gaine They brought her to the open market there Merchants from sev'rall coasts assembled were And in those dayes than Beauty much commended Nothing more soone bought or more dearely vended They set her in an eminent place for view When soone a great concourse about her grew Thronging to gaze The first thing they then did They tooke the vaile off which her face had hid At which the very aire seem'd to grow proud As when the Sunne new breakes out of a Cloud To shine with greater fulgence doth appeare Than had the Sky in ev'ry part been cleare No sooner was the vaile drawne from her face But her bright eyes illumin'd all the place At once they with such admiration gaze As what they onely thought to merit praise Doth now beget a wonder Some suppose That a new Goddesse is amongst them rose To be ador'd for most of them agree That of a mortall straine she cannot bee But they of better iudgement and more stayd Finding what change of face her feare had made Because the Rose and Lilly in her cheeke For mastry stroue they need no further seeke Since they perceiue sad griefe her minde perplex But that she is the wonder of her Sex Meerely humane as knowing To Diuinitie Passions and troubled lookes haue no affinitie And that she is no other they may ghesse Because a Pyrat after an O-Yes With a loud clam'rous voice and count'nance bold Proclaimes her for a Captiue to be sold. By which resolv'd the Merchants neerer grow And some demand of them her price to know Of whom the couetous Slaues set such a rate As would haue shooke a common mans estate Yet some there were most willing to haue payd The entyre summe to haue enjoy'd the Maid So it might with securitie be done But now a whisper is amongst them runne Which with it some suspitious feare did bring That she was onely â—itting for some King And being of so choice a jemme possest If such should heare her fame it might be ghest She might be forc'd from him For Tyrants make Their Will their Law And what for Beauties sake Will those leaue vnattempted that sit hye This was the cause few cheapned none did buy The Market ends and now begins her fame The brute of which vnto the Kings eare came Whose rarenesse had such generall confirmation With such additions too in the relation That he begins to loue before he see her And hath a purpose from the Slaues to free her He sends they come the Prince lookes and admires Within his amorous brest he feeles new fires His loue turnes almost into adoration And all the Beauties now of his owne nation He vilifies finding in her no want Of any grace to make her parauant Ten thousand Drachma's are her price 't is payd The Rouers thinke they good exchange haue made O but the King 's so with his bargaine pleas'd As if he had a second Empire seis'd No price could part him since he hop'd to finde The more she cost the more she would proue kinde She first was to a Princely chamber brought Hung with Attalicke Arâ—â—s richly wrought There she was seated in a chaire of state And Ladies readie at her call to wait A Queen-like robe was sent her from the King His chiefest Eunuch brought it with a ring Of exc'lent life and quicknesse both she tooke With such a modest and a gracefull looke As did amase the bringer These put
in his old age erecting a city O King said he what businesse is this which thou vndertakest now that thou art in the twelfe houre of thy day meaning he was then in the last part of his age To whom Deiotarus knowing the extreme couetousnesse of Crassus smilingly answered But thou ô Emperour when as it appeareth thou art not in the morning of thy time for hee was then threescore yeares old why dost thou make such haste to warre against the Parthians in hope to bring thence a rich and profitable bootie Plato to one who studied nothing but Gaine said O impious man take not such care to augment thy substance but rather how to lessen thy desire of getting Democritus was wont to say That amongst rich men there were more Procurators than Lords for the Couetous man doth not possesse but is possessed by his Riches of which he may deseruedly be called not the seruant only but the slaue A plaine Fellow came to the Emperour Vespasian who was much taxed of Auarice and desired to giue him that freedome which belonged vnto a Roman but because hee came empty handed being denied he boldly said vnto him aloud The Fox ô Caesar changeth his haiâ—es but not his nature In that reprouing the rapacitie of his gripple disposition who denied that gratis which hee would willingly haue bestowed vpon him for money AElianus in his booke De Varia Historia reporteth of the Poet Simonides That when one came to entreat him to write an Enconomium and in the stead of a reward offred him nothing but thanks he made answer vnto him That he had two coffers at home the one of Thankes the other of Coine the last when he needed he still found furnished the other when hee wanted was alwayes empty He in his old age being taxed of Couetousnesse made answer I had rather dying leaue my substance and riches to those that liue than in my life time being in want beg it of others and be denied But aboue all others the Emperour Caligula is most branded with this vice who after inimitable profusenesse for his riots and brutish intemperance exceeded all bounds of humanitie when he had wasted an infinit treasure vpon Concubines and Catamites gaue himselfe wholly to auaritious rapine insomuch that hee caused many of the richest men in Rome to make their Wills appointing him their Executor and Heire Who if they hapned to liue longer than he thought fit and that money began to faile he caused them either to be poysoned or put to some other priuat death alledging for his excuse That it were vnnaturall for men to liue long after they haue disposed of their goods by their last Will and Testament So Commodus the Emperour would for money pardon the life of any man who had committed murther though with the greatest inhumanitie and bargain with them before they enterprised the act All criminall and capitall crimes were to be bought out and judgement and Sentences in Court bought and sould as in the open market The Hierogliphycke of Auarice Pierius Valerius maketh The left hand grasped and clutcht thereby intimating tenacitie and holding fast because that hand is the more slow and dull and lesse capable of agilitie and dexteritie than the other and therefore the more apt for retention You may reade an Emblem in Alciatus to this purpose Septitius populos inter ditissimus omnes Arva senex nullus quo magis ampla tenet c. Than old Septitius for large grounds and fields Well stockt no one more rich the countrey yeelds Yet at a furnisht table will not eat But starues his belly to make roots his meat This man whom Plenty makes so poore and bare Wretched in wealth to what may I compare To what more proper than an Asse since hee Answers to him in all conformitie Laden with choicest Cates that the earth breeds Whilest he himselfe on grasse and thistles feeds And againe to the like purpose Emblem 89. Heu miser in medijs sitiens stat Tantalus vndis In midst of water Tantalus is dry Starv'd whilest ripe apples from his reaching fly The name but chang'd 't is thou ô couetous Sot Who hast thy goods so as thou hast them not Ioach. Camerarius lib. Fabul 1. in taxing some who for money will not be ashamed to take other mens griefs and calamities vpon them recites this fable A rich man hauing two daughters the one dying he hired diuers of his neighbours and friends of the same sex to mourn and lament after her herse and such the Latines call Praeficae Whose miserable cries and ejulations the suruiuing sister hearing shee spake vnto her mother and said O what an infelicitie it is that strangers and such as are no way allyed vnto vs can so loudly mourne and lament when wee whom so neerely it concernes scarce breathe a sigh or let fall one teare To whom the mother replied Wonder not my daughter that these should so weepe and howle since it is not for any loue they beare vnto her but for the money which they haue receiued to do this funerall office To giue the histories past the more credit as also those which follow concerning Witches Magitions Circulators juglers c. if we shall but cast our eyes backe vpon our selues and seeke no further than the late times and in them but examine our owne Nation we shall vndoubtedly finde accidents as prodigious horrid and euery way wonderfull as in the other Concerning which whosoeuer shall desire to be more fully satisfied I refer them to a Discourse published in English Anno 1593. containing sundry remarkable pieces of Witchcraft practised by Iohn Samuel the father Alice Samuel the wife and mother and Agnes Samuel the daughter commonly called The Witches of Warboys in the County of Huntingdon vpon the fiue danghters of Mr. Robert Throgmorton Esquire of the same towne and County with diuers others in the same house to the number of twelue as also the lady Cromwel by them bewitched to death The names of the Spirits they dealt with Plucke Catch and White The manner of their effacinations strange theit Confessions vpon their examinations wondrous their conuiction legall their execution iust and memorable Much more to the like purpose I might in this place alledge that not long since happened which by reason of the parties executed the Iurie who found them guilty and the reuerend Iudges who gaue them sentence of condemnation I hold not so fit to be here inserted And therefore conclude with that Pannurgist Sathan the great red Dragon or roaring Lion to whom not vnproperly may be giuen these following characters Fontem nosco boni bonus ipse creatus Factus at inde malus fons vocor ipse mali Of Goodnesse I the Fountaine am Bee'ng good at first created But since made Euill I the Well Of Ill am nominated Sic velut in muros mures in pectora daemon Iuvenit occultas aut facit ipse vias
Gardens and one of the Semones i. semi-homines That were halfe gods half men Against vaine Auguries Iliad 12. Aligeris auibus tu me parere iubes Dioph. Laced in Antiq. The history of Syrophanes Fulg. Mythol Sola medicina miseriarum obliuio Idolum ab 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i species doloris Petr. arbitr Primus in orbe deos secit timor Quid site Tonsor cum stricta nâ—nacula c. Martal lib. 11. Epigram Superstitio quasi superstitem facere Which was the Image Bel which in Daniels time was honored in the prouince Dura The originall of Idolatry Vnus reuera vnus est Deus qui fabricauit c. Aug. lib. 8. de Ciuit. Dei The Athiest Dixit Insipiens in corde suo non est Deus Arguments against Atheisme Finis certiâ—fim principij sigâ—uÌ„ Ex nihilo nihil The Elements a-against Atheisme Casus Fortunae quid Motus principium quies Nihil dat qd ' non habet An illustration against Atheisme A familiar demonstration from Plants From Animals The poets and Philosophers of God Diagoras The death of Lucian syrnamed Atheos A Paraphrase vpon the second Chap. of the Wisedome of Salomon Iob. 7.14 Chr. 1.19.15 Isay 22.13 56.12 Iob 7.7 Ephes. 5.13 Isay 53.3 Psal. 22.8 9. Mat. 27.43 Ier. 11.19 Gen. 1.27 Gen. 3.1.2 Cap. 5. vers 1. Cap. 3.2 Chr. 29.15 Cap. 2.5 Prov. 30.19 Iob. 8.9 Psa. 14. 143. Pro. 10.25 11.7 Iam. 1.10.12 What Atheism is Doctor Doue in his Confutation of Atheisme Cap. 1. Gal. 4. Euen then when yee knew not God you did seruice vnto them which by Nature are not Gods Rom. 1. They worship the Sun Moon Psal. 10. Who say God hath forgotten hee hideth his face and will not see Cor. 1.15 Iud. 6. Such was Pharaoh Exod. 5. and Rabshakey Reg. 2.18 Doctor Doue in his booke against Atheism 1 Article I beleeue in God the Father Against God the Sonne the second person God the holy Ghost the third person Mary the blessed Virgin Nature will teach men That there is Heauen and Hell A familiar but necessarie example Marke 1. The Diuell saith to our Sauiour I know thee that thou art euen that Holy one of God The like wee reade Iam. 2. Acts 19. Beasts Birds teach men gratitude toward God the giuer of all good thingâ— The Atheists confuted by their owne Oathes By Reason By Philosophy Psal. 104. Gen. 3. Mat. 14. Gen. 4. Prov. 28. Impius fugit nemine persequâ—nte Calv. Instit. Lib. 1. Arist. Metaph. Lib. 1. cap. 1. Omnes homines naturalitèr scire desideranâ— Cic. Offic. Lib. 1. Empedocl Deus est euius centruÌ„ est vbique Circumferentiae auteÌ„ nusquamâ— Arist. de Coelo Lib. 1. Cap. 9. Lib. 2. Cap. 3. Metaph. lib. 11. cap. 7. Laert. de Vita Aristot. * Mercur. Tresmegist Deus est immutabile â—onum Mundus factus est propter hominem Homo propter Deum Cic. de Nat. Deor lib. 1. Arnob. aduers. Gentil lib. 3. Niceph. Histor. Lib. 1. Cap. 17. Suidas Suet. in Octar ca. 94 70.29 Me Puer Hebraeus diuos de us ipse gubernat Cederâ— sede iubet tristemque redire sub orcum Aris ergo debiac tacitus abscedito nostris Ara primogeniti Dei Isay 9. Natus est nobis Puer Heb. 2. De Diuin lib. 2. Lucius Florus Lib. 4. Cap. 1. Virg. AEclog 4 Antiq. lib. 15. Cap. 23. This was Constantine syrnamed the great Ios. Bell. Iud. lib. 7. Cap. 12. Dio Rom. Hist. lib. 37. Ianuary 6. Oros. hist. lib. 6. cap. 2. Coloss. 2. Doctor Doue against Atheisme ca. 13. Th. Godwin in Moses and Aaron Genebr Chron. li. 2 an Ch. 69. Theod. lib. 30. cap. 11. Sozimen lib. 5. cap. 19 20 21. Against the Sadduces who deny the resurrection Mat. 22.31 Exod. 3.6 In Schola Perepaseticorum A ridiculous assertion of the Atheist A refutation of the former Argument Zenoph against Atheisme What Atheists are The Tenents of Atheists Ede bibe â—nde post mortem nulla voluptas Aristotle at his death Eus Entium vel vt alij causa causarum In Trinitate est Alius Alius non Aliud Aliud Aug. de Trin. Gods Infinity Lib. de Virtuâ— Vitijs A law in Athens against Atheisme Iuv. Satyr 3. Herod lib. 2. In Suidas Cap. de Atheismâ— Volat. in Antropolâ— The death of Lucian a profest Atheist The strange prodigious effects of Atheisme Plaut in Milite Lib. Fast. 1. Tibul. Eleg. lib. 2. Eleg. 1. Fast. lib. 2. Those famous for Chastitie Those famous for Piety Lib. 5. cap. 4. Those that haue built Temples Such as of mortall men haue bin immortalised Halfe gods halfe men Those that returned from Hell Of those branded for their Impietie Of the Incestuous Wiues that slew their husbands Men that slew their wiues Fathers that slew their daughters Mothers that slew their children Of men Selfe-murtherers Women that slew themselues Of Idolatry Exod. 37.4 Acts. 7 41. Deut. 4â—5 Vers. 25. Lib. 2. cap. 1. Deuin Instit. Idolls named in the Scrip. AEn lib. 2. The pietie of AEnean The subtilty of the Diuell De Civit. Dei lib. 10 cap. 6. Miracles wrought by the Image of AEscul Illusions of the Diuell Lib. 1â— By Gerion and Iolaus By Diana Persica Aristides Iuno Veientana Pan. Iuno Lib. 5. Cap. 13. Lib. 12. Capâ— 7. Lib. 8. Lib. 8. Lib de sacerd Romanis Of Famous Augures amongst the Grecians Romulus the first great Patron of Auguries The Ceremonies vsed Ov. Met. lib. 3. Fab. 1. Serv. An. li. 2. Aruspices Auspices Augures Trist. li. â— El. 9. Their number encreased Their prerogatiue The absurdity of Augury Lib. 7. cap. 2. A notable story concerning the vainnesse of Augury Augury much vsed amongst the Gentiles Cap. 9. vers 32. Cap. 18. vers 10. Silv. lib. 5 Cap. 44. vers 9. Cui peccare licet peccat minus Lib. 11. de Ord. De Sanct. Trin. Ov. lib. 2. Eleg. Quod licet ingratum est quod non licet acrius vrit Sen. in Octav. Iâ— facere laus est quod decet non quod licet Ov. 2. Fast. Brutus erat stulti sapiens imitator ve esser Tutus ab insidijs dire superbe tuis Whence the multiplicity of gods sprung Lict. lib. 2. Divin Inst. cap. 9. The first argument followed Philosophers and Orators touching this Vnitie Sympl in Arrian Epict. A confirmation of the former argument Cic. lib. 2. de Nat. Deor. * Meaning the Atheist Merc. Tresmeg Philolauâ— Arist. Metap 2. Metaph. â— Plato Orpheus Alpha Omega Orpheus again By Iupiter hee intendeth God Almighty A necessarie Obseruation Phocilides of this Vnion The Egyptians Maâ—il Astron. Lib. 1. Obser. The power operation of the Planets Notwithstanding which Sapiens dominabitur Astris Alibi Aurel. Pruden in Symach Paulo post The Sybels Apollo Delphicus doct Sâ—roz Lib. de Natur. Mag. The Diuels themselues confesse this sole God The Diuels ambition Deut. cap. 4. Psal. 85. Exod. 6.20 Lycurgus Stob. Ser. 42. Ioh. Billius in Antholog Sacr. Gods true
Death The Heresies of the Priscillians and Manicheâ—â— Fiue Elements according to the Manichees Wherein Blessednes consists according to the Manichees Of Truth Li. 44 pag. 430. Titus Pomp. Idor-Abies Lib. 9. Cap. 19. Epaminondas Papias King Aglesiaus Thales AEschines Demosthenes Democratus Ambrose Bernard Lib. de Virtut vitijs ca. 8. Religion and the Truth thereof Three opinions concerning Christ. The first Holy beginners The second Wicked Contemners The third Fearful Time-seruers Iosephus de Antiq. lib 2. Which was 40 yeres after his Passion Pilat a witnes of Christ. Plin. lib. 1. De Antiq. li. 2. Of Cublay Emperour of Tartarie The Oratian of Cubley to the Christians Psal. 8. ver 8. Valer. Maxim Lib de Civit. Dei 21. Lib. 11. de Civ Dei Ca. 11. Hom. 29. Wonders in Nature Of Miracles Ser. 143. of the Blessed Virgin Mary Serm. 148. Cap. 1. Hom. 1. Lib. 18. Moral In Iob Cap. 35. Homil. de Ioan. Bapt. Aug. de incarnat Domin Serm. 3. in Vigil Natiuit Three Wonders The first The second The third Sup. Mat. 2. Sup. Ioane Ser. Sup. Epiph. Homil. Sup. Mat. 10. Ser. de Appar Sup. Cant. Serm. 15. Twelue grieuous sufferings of Christ. Cap. 27. ver 41. Of the great Eclipse at the death of our Sauiour The first Difficulty The second Difficulty The third Difficulty Dionysius Areopag Phlegon Lucianus Martyr Leo. serm 10. Isay. 60. ver 2. The life of Mahomet Psal. 58. Catsius lib. 3. Embl. 2. Psal. 33.2.3 Praise the Lord with Harpe sing vnto him with Viol and Instrument of ten strings Sing cheerfully with a loud voice c. Prope est Dominus omnibus inuocantibus cum in veritat Psal. 144. Seneca in Hippol Percontatorem fuge nam garrulus Idem est A discourse of the Heart of Man The Inconstancy of mans thoughts A Simile How many wayes the Heart is Insidiated How the heart may be reconciled to the Creator Sundry opinions concerning the Creation of Angels Gen. 2.2 Gen. 1. S. Aug. Sup. Gen. Daniel 3. ver 57.58.59 Psal. 48.2 Iob 58.7 Daniel 10. Tobit 12. Dr. Strozza lib. de Spirit Incant Ezechiel 28. vâ—r 12. Ver. 17. The Creation of Man The Soule of Man The Bodie of Man What Man is The Incarnation of Christ reuealed vnto the Angels Epist. 1. to Tim. Lucifers first Rebellion Isay. 14.13 The Battel betwixt Michael and the Diuel Reuel 12.7 The Fall of Angels Epinic a Song of praise and thanksgiuing Reuel 15.3 Reuel 12.10 The weapons vsed in this Battell of the Angels Aver Met. 12 7.4â— Arist. de Anim. 3.48 How long Lucifer remain'd in glory Note A necessary obseruation The Fall of Adam Mark 3.23 A necessary obseruation Iohn 1.2 15. Pannurg a deceiuer or subtil person Tibull lib. 2. Eleg. 3. At scelerata iacet sedes in nocte profunda c. Virg. AEneid 6 Ergo exercentur poeniâ— veterumque malorum supplicia expeâ—dunt c Senec. in Herc. Fur. Quod quisque facit patitur Authorem scalus repetit c. Val. Flaâ— Argoâ—ant 3. Quippe nec inulioâ— nec in vltima soluimur ossa Ira manet c. Lucret. li. 3. de nat deor Post mortem denique nostraÌ„ numquid ibi horribile apparet Senec. in Here. Turent verane est tam inferis c. Of Hell according to the Scriptures and Fathers S. Aug. How Hell is called Iob 10.21.22 Gehenna The torments of Hell The torments of the Sences Tartarus Of the particle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. not to see Avernus Infernus Abiss Tophet Poena sensus Poena Damni This dialogue is called Necyomantia viz. a answer from the Dead Menippus Philonides Men. Phil. Men. Phil. Men. Phil. Men. Phil. Men. Phil. Men. Phil. Men. Phil. Men. Phil. Men. Phâ—l Men. Phil. Men. Phil. Men. * The Historiographer Phil. Men. Phil. Men. Phil. Men. The Decree Of the Heart of Man The Ambition of the Heart Gen. 1.3 Psal. 33.6 Aug. sup Gen. lib. 7. cap. 21. Rupert de operib sacr spir cap. 2. Eccles. 18.1 Pet. Lumb li. 2. distinc 2. Aug. sup Gen. Eccles. 1.4 Dionys. Rihell lib. de Great Mundi ca. 2. Philo lib. de Operib Dei Wisdom 11.17 Eccles. 1.2 Heb. 12. Mat. 3. Angels immutable Euery Soule hath his Angell to attend it What best pleaseth the Angels Angâ—ls gouerneth Nations Angella name of Office not of Nature Of the forming fashioning of man The three dignities of the Soule The end why Man was created Why God made man vpright Three gifts bestowed vpon Man in his Creation Ecerp lib. â— cap. 2 3 4â— Three opposite Evils Necessity absolute conditionall Theoricke Practicke Mechanicke The iust measure of mans Body Three sorts of liuing Spirits created by God Of the Soule of Man The Philosophers concerning the soule Note The Poets concerning the Soule Of Man in generall An excellent Argument against such as deny the Resurrection The Liues of Beasts Men and Angels Of the Birth of Man The Ethnicks concerning Man Silenus Phavorinus Alphonsus Aristotle Hom. of Man with other Poets Adages Emblem Hierogliphick Of Hell The Ethnicks concerning Hell The Locall place of Hell The Rabbius of Hell Prov. 9. Prov. 15.24 The Figure of a Moloch The Argument of Sir Thomas Moore vpon this Dialogue The Battell of Cannas Greenwood vpon Tophet Quest. Mat. 25.41 Lukes 16.24 Hugo In fiue properties the Fire of Hell differeth from our Fire Elementary Mat. 3. Three reasons to proue the perpetuite of the Torments of the damned Dodonia quercus The Deuâ—lls two maine Enginâ— Comfort against Desperation Against the sinne of Presumption Presumption bred from Pride Eccles. cap. 3. vers 29.30 Eccles. 42.15 Iob 4.4 Isay. 29.15 Ecclesiast Cap. 43.1 The Sun Genes 1.16 The Moone Exod 12.2 The Stars Gen. 9 13 14. The Rainbow Esay 40.12 The Snow The Lightning The Haile The Mountaines The Wind. The Thunders The Rayne The Frost The Ice The Seas The Whales Psal. 96.4 Iohn 1.15 Psal. 106.2 The quality and condition of the malignant Spirits The Diuels still retaine their first Natural Faculties Dionys. Areopag de Coelest Hierar The degrees among Divels Lucifer prince of Diuels Lucifer quasi lucem ferens Lucif Figure Priority among the Diuels A necessary obseruation A second obseruation The Diuell striues to imitate God in his workes to the perdition of Mankind An excellent History wherin to the life is exprest the instability of Fortune LustruÌ„ according to Livy the space of fiue yeares She was call'd Dea Spannigena because orta salo i. borne of the Sea The youngest Sister stoln by Pyrats The Fatherâ— feare for the losse of his Daughter His trauell to finde her His answer from the Oracle A passage of the elder sister Her answer from the Oracle The younger sister offred to sale The Effects of her beauty Passions cannot truly be said to be in the Deities The entrance into her Fortune The King inamored So cal'd from King Aâ—talas tht first who was known to vse rich Arras hangings and brought them to
wise man bestoweth vpon Diuine worship is no losse but a gaine vnto him And Ouid speaking of their holy-daies Postera lux oritur linguisque animisque fauete Nunc dicenda bono sunt bona verba die c. The Feast is come your tongues and mindes compell To speake good words this day becomes them well Keepe your eares free from vaine and mad contention Workmen cease worke be free from reprehension And Tibullus vpon the like occasion and argument Luce sacra requiescat humus requiescat Arator c. Vpon the sacred day let the ground rest Nor let it be with the rude Plow opprest Your yokes vnloose of labour there 's no need Let your crown'd Oxen at the manger feed All Holy-daies a priuiledge should win In which let not the handmaid card or spin How people ought to come prepared to their sacrifices and offerings is thus liuely expressed in Ouid Innocui veniant procul hinc procul impius esto Frater in partus Mater c. ¶ Thus interpreted Th' Innocuous hither come Brothers prophane And impious Mothers from this place abstaine He that shall thinke his father liues too long Or that his mothers life may his state wrong The moth'r in law that hates her step-sonnes life And the Tantalidan brothers still in strife Be banisht hence Medea come not here Nor Progne nor her sister let appeare In that choise place where we the gods applaud Nor any that hath gain'd his wealth by fraud So carefull were the Poets to commend Vertue to posteritie and to lay a blacke aspersion on Vice to all perpetuitie that such as were pious and addicted to goodnesse they striued to memorise if not immortalise and those of the contrary that were irreligious and despisers of the gods they laboured in all their Records to expose their liues and actions to aspersion and obloquie For example For their chastitie these were made remarkeable Penelope the daughter of Icarius and wife to Vlysses Evadne daughter to Philax and wife to Capanaeus Laodamia daughter to Acastus wife to Protesilaus Hecuba daughter of Cissaeus wife to King Priamus Theone daughter of Thestor wife to King Admetus And amongst the Romans Lucretia daughter of Lucretius wife to Collatyne c. For their Pietie these Antigona the daughter of Oedipus who gaue sepulture to her brother Polynices Electra daughter of Agamemnon for her loue to her brother Orestes Iliona daughter of Priam for her goodnesse extended toward her brother Polidore and her parents Pelopaea daughter of Thiestes for reuenging the injuries done vnto her father Hypsipilae daughter of Thoas for preseruing the life of her Parent Calciope for not forsaking her father in his miserie after the losse of his kingdome Harpalice daughter of Harpalicus for interposing her selfe in battell preseruing her Father and chasing his enemies Agave the daughter of Cadmus who in Illyria slew the King Lycotherses by which she restored her Father to his kingdome Xantippe who when her father Myconus or as it is read in Valerius Cimonus was shut vp in close prison there to be famished preserued his life with the milke from her brests Tyro the daughter of Salmoneus who to saue her father sacrificed the liues of her owne children c. And of men Damon who snatcht his mother from the fire AEneas for bearing his father on his shoulders through swords and flames Cleops and Bitias or according to Herodotus Cleobis and Biton the sonnes of Cidippe Priest vnto Iuno Argiua for drawing their mother in her Chariot vnto the Temple when her Oxen were absent and the penaltie of her not being there was no lesse than the losse of her life c. Some they haue eternised for erecting of Temples as Pelasgus the sonne of Triopa who was the first that built a Church consecrate to Iupiter Olympius in Arcadia Thessalus reared another to Iupiter Dodonaeus in Macedonia scituate in Molossus Eleuther was the first that erected an image vnto Liber pater and taught how it should be honored Phronaeus the sonne of Inacus was the first that built a Temple to Argiue Iuno Otrira the Amazon and wife of Mars laid the foundation of that in Ephesus and dedicated it vnto Diana Lycaon the son of Pelasgus erected another to Mercury Cillenius in Arcadia c. Some for diuers vettues knowne to be in them they haue immortalised and of men made gods to encourage others by their example As Hercules the sonne of Iupiter and Alcmena for his justice in supplanting Tyrants and Vsurpers Liber Pater or Bacchus the sonne of Iupiter and Semele for being supposed to be the first that planted the Vine Castor and Pollux the sonnes of Iupiter and Laeda and brothers to Helena for their valour and vertue Perseus the sonne of Iupiter and Danaë was for the like translated into a star So was Arcas the sonne of Iupiter and Calisto who first gaue that prouince the denomination of Arcadia related into one of the Septentriones and Cynosura the Nurse of Iuno into another The like we reade of Asclepius the sonne of Apollo Erodine and Ariadne the daughter of Minos and Pasiphae who being forsaken by Theseus in the Isle Naxos and found by Liber Pater was placed amongst the stars by the name of Libera Pan the son of Mercury and Penelope was for his care ouer the herds and flocks made one of those gods called Semones i. Semi homines So Croton the son of Pan Euphemes who was said in his infancie to haue suckt with the Muses was transferred into the star called Sagittary So were Icarus with his daughter Erigone he changed into Arcturus and she into the coelestial Signe Virgo As Ganimed the son of Assaracus into Aquarius c. Others for other causes haue had free ingresse and regresse in and from Hell As Ceres when in her maternall piety she sought her daughter Proserpina and found her in the armes of Pluto Liber Pater when in his filiall duty he made descent to visit his mother Semele Hercules when he brought thence Cerberus Protesilaus to re-visit his wife Laodamia Alceste for her husband Admetus Theseus in search of his deare and entired friend Perithous Orpheus the sonne of Oeagrus to fetch thence his best beloued wife Euridice Castor and Pollux Vlysses and AEneas the one the son of Laertes the other of Anchises to visit their fathers Hippolitus the son of Theseus who was after called Virbius Adonis the sonne of Cymizes and Smirna by the intercession of the goddesse Venus whose Paramour he was Glaucus the sonne of Minos restored to life by Polyidus the sonne of Caranus c. Now of the contrary such whose barbarous cruelties and strange impieties were related vnto vs were Sylla the daughter of Nysus who by cutting off his purple locke betrayed vnto the Enemie his life and kingdome Ariadne the daughter of Minos who slew her brother and sonnes Progne the daughter of Pandion who murdered
she will place him 'mongst the Stars The Charioter Boötes who his Car Driues 'bout the Poles in compasse circular About whom Authors are diuided thus Some thinke him Arcas others Icarus The Crowne Septentrionall as most haue said Inamour'd Bacchus fitted first and made For Ariadnes browes being first his Bride And by the god soone after stellifi'de Eugonasin whom Hercules we call And from the Articke Circle seemes to fall Yet stedfast in his course conspicuous in His Club the Hydra and the Lions skin Lyra the Harpe in by-corn'd fashion made Some thinke the selfe same on which Orpheus plaid Who for his Musicks skill was so aduanc't That Beasts and Trees and Stones about him danc't Next him the Swan with wings displaid and spred Stucke full of Stars one fulgent in her head And therefore in th' Heauens thought to be plac't Because Iove Laeda in that shape embrac't Next whom Cepheus hath place King of the blacke And Sun-burnt Moores in whom is now no lacke Of Diuine splendor him the Authors say To be the Father of Andromeda His wife Cassiopeia durst compare With the Nereides therefore in a chaire Sits with her armes fast bound not mouing thence A iust infliction for her proud offence Andromeda the sequent place doth claime Daughter to these to whom we last gaue name Who for her loue to Perseus was so grac't Her 'mongst the Spheres Coelestiall Pallas plac't Perseus shines next who in his right hand beares A crooked Harpee in his left appeares The Gorgons head his burnisht helme of steele And plumes like wings fastned to either heele Auriga mounted in a Chariot bright Else styl'd Heniochus receiues his light In th' aestiue Circle in that station nam'd Because he was the first who Coursers tam'd And in a foure-wheel'd Wagon taught them run To imitate the Chariot of the Sun The Serpentarius Ophincus who Is also call'd the Astrologians show To be a yong man rounded with a Snake Stucke full of starry lights and him they take For AEsculapius who a Dragon slew And was the first who Physicke taught and knew The Arrow plac't in Heauen still to remaine Alcides shot by it the Egle slaine Who then did on Prometheus intrals tyre Because from Iove he stole Coelestiall fire Which being risen you shall finde it fixt Th' AEstiue and AEquinoctiall line betwixt Next shines the Princely Egle who is sed To ' haue snatcht from earth the Trojan Ganimed And beare him vp to Heav'n for Ioves delight Both his Cup-bearer now and Catamite The Dolphine figur'd with his crooked traine Is therefore said his glorious Orbe to gaine Because when good Arion play'd and sung He listned to his voice and Harpe well strung And from the ship whence he was dropt before Swam with him safe to the Tenarian shore The Horse amongst the other Stars inroll'd The Articke Line directly doth behold And is that Pegasus the winged Steed Which Perseus backt when from the Whale hee freed Andromeda he in mount Helicon Strooke with his hoofe cleare water from a stone From him call'd Hippocrene the Muses Well Whence all high Raptures may be said to swell Deltoton we a meere Triangle call 'Twixt th' AEstiue Line and th' AEquinoctiall Like the Greek letter Delta It sends light From foure coruscant Stars and as some write Therein is figur'd the World Tripartite Others because that Delta doth emply Dios the word that God doth signifie It had it's place Next it appeares the Whale By Perseus slaine i' th Circle Hyemal For it 's great strength and bignesse so transpos'd And Pistrix call'd Eridanus inclos'd As in a bed of Stars is seene to shine The face in obiect of th' Antarticke Line Some Writers call 't Oceanus and those Not of meane iudgement others Canopos Of the bright splendor Canopos an Isle Whose bounds are washt still by th' AEgyptian Nile The Hare was said to make Orion sport In hunting and was stellified for 't Plac't in the Winters Circle Next shines He The Sonne of Neptune and Euriale Who in his course was said to be so fleet To run o're Riuers and not drench his feet Or on the land through well-growne Medowes passe Yet with his weight not once to bend the grasse Slaine by an Arrow from Diana sent After translated to the Firmament Arm'd with a Club and Sword in hostile guise And in his Course doth still with Cancer rise The greater Dog by Iupiter was set To watch when he with faire Europa met After bestow'd on Procris and by her On Cephalus her husband Some auer It was Orions Dog who tooke delight In hunting much which Star doth shine so bright It for the flame can scarce be lookt vpon And therefore by the Greeks call'd Syrion The lesse Dog did to Icarus pertaine Who 'cause he mourn'd his Master being slaine And was the cause the Murd'rers were descry'd Thought therefore worthy to be stellifi'de Him in the Milky Circle you may spy Fixt betweene Cancer and the Gemini The Ship call'd Argo for it's speed was such Doth almost the Antarticke Circle touch In this the antient Heroes launcht from Greece To Colchos and brought thence the Golden-Fleece Chiron from Saturne and Philiris bred You may perceiue to lift his star-crown'd head Betwixt th' Antarticke and the Hyemal Lines And for his justice shew'd on earth there shines He AEsculapius and Achilles tought And for his great sinceritie 't was thought The gods would suffer him to liue for euer But by a Shaft drawne from Alcides Quiuer The head thereof in Hydra's bloud being dipt Vpon his foot it through his fingers slipt A small wound it appear'd but searcht and try'd Fester'd Gangren'd and of that hurt he dy'd The Altar to it 's Sphere coelestiall borne With Aries sets riseth with Capricorne On which the gods their Coniuration made When Tytans Issue did the Heav'ns inuade And men since them who great things enterprise Before th' attempt on Altars sacrifice Hydra is figur'd with a Cup and Crow The reasons why would be too long to show This ougly many-headed Monster bred In Laerna was by Hercules strooke dead To take the length of three whole Signes 't is said Cancer the Lion and the Heauenly Maid The Stars of Piscis whom we Notius call Are twelue in number and Meridionall It with a yawning mouth seemes to deuoure Water Aquarius from aboue doth poure Who for a curtesie to Isis done A constant place amongst the Stars hath won Since whose translation to that glorious Seat Of diuers Fish the Syrians will not eat But keepe their shapes and figures cast in gold And these to be their houshold gods they hold The reason why one Circle in the night When all the rest 's blacke doth alone shine bright And therefore Lacteus call'd some hold to be Iuno vn'wares
tooke Hermes on her knee Danc't him sung to him and vpon him smil'd And vow'd she neuer saw so sweet a child To take him as her owne she then decreed And call'd for milke the pretty Babe to feed But when him to be Maia's Son she knew By Iupiter the Lad from her she threw And call'd him Bastard and began to frowne And in her rising cast the Pitcher downe Spilt was the Milke and wheresoe're it lyte The place appeares than all the rest more white The golden Ramme styl'd Prince of all the Signes Rising his Crest he tow'ards the East inclines In th' AEquinoctiall Circle with his head Reacheth Deltoton with his feet doth tread Vpon the Pistrix Thus his story was Phrixus and Helles bred from Athamas And Nebula were at domesticke strife With their proud Step-dame and pursu'd her life But thence cast out into the Woods they came Where wandring long their Mother brought a Ramme Who mounting on his backe she bids them fly They take the sea but soone the winde growes high And the waues troubled Helles is afraid Le ts go her hold and then downe slides the Maid The angry billowes her of life bereaue She forc't her name vnto that Sea to leaue But Phrixus to the Isle of Colchos steeres And when arriv'd before the King appeares Who for he had so past and scap'd the Brine There offered vp the Beast at Mars his Shrine But the rich Fleece whose euery haire was gold Which did amase King Octa to behold He left to him which with such care he kept That to a monstrous Dragon that ne're slept He gaue the charge thereof till Iafon landed Who the swift Argo at that time commanded But by Medea's aid as most auer He bore from Colchos both the Fleece and her Some thinke the Ramme therefore immortalis'd By reason that when Bacchus enterpris'd An expedition into Africa And was distrest for water by the way A Ram was seene out of the Sands to make Whom they pursu'd but could not ouertake Till he had brought them vnto Fountaines cleare Which hauing done he did no more appeare Bacchus who thought him as Diuinely sent Because his Army was nigh tyr'd and spent With heate and thirst and by that means preserv'd Who else in that wilde Desart had been starv'd To Iupiter call'd Ammon there erected A stately Temple and withall directed His Statue rear'd that for the Beasts more grace They on his forehead two Rams hornes should place For so we finde him figur'd Why the Bull Hath place aboue Some thinke because Ioves Trull Europa he from Sidon into Creet Transwafted whilest the waue ne're toucht her feet Some hold him rather for that Beast of note On whom Pasiphae did so madly dote Others for Iö in an Heifers shape By Iove transform'd Queene Iuno's rage to scape The reason is because the head 's sole seene The hinder parts as hid behinde a Skreene He lookes vpon the East and in his face The Hyades fiue Sisters haue their place They Nurses vnto Bacchus haue been thought Call'd the Dodonean Nymphs and thither brought By his great Power Nor are they seen in vain Who neuer rise but they portend some raine They were call'd Atlas Daughters and tooke name From their sole brother Hyas who to tame A Lion striuing was depriv'd of breath For whom the Sisters wept themselues to death The Pleiades they be in number seuen Deare Sisters and together shine in heauen Six only seen at once The reason why Six with the gods congrest but one did ly With Sisiphus a Mortall for which reason She hides her face as had she done some treason The Gemini who louingly embrace Take on the right hand of Auriga place Aboue Orion who his rise begins In the mid place betwixt the Bull and Twinnes Such as deepe knowledge in the Stars professe Castor and Pollux call them Others ghesse Them to be Zeâ—us and Amphion who Were most kinde Brothers To which some say no But that Triptolimus and Iasion claime Scite in that Orbe and in the Heauens the name But of the first th' opinion best doth please And that they are the two Tindarides Brothers to Hellen two the most entire That e're could yet boast of Coelestiall Fire They in their life the Seas from Pyrats freed And after death it was by Iove decreed To set them so that from their glorious Sphere They may behold what euer is done there To curle or calme the Ocean they haue power To cleare the Aire or dampe it with a shower To tosse the Robbers ships on shelues and sands And steere the Merchants safe to forrein lands In Wracks they can preserue in stormes appease No stars haue more dominion on the Seas O're which th' are knowne to beare such watchfull eies That when one sets the other 's seene to rise The AEstiue Circle Cancer doth diuide Iust in the middle but a little wide From Hydra yet aboue his eyes reflect Directly on the Lions sterne aspect But why the Crab should be allow'd his Sphere It may be askt I 'le tell you what I heare When mighty Hercules did vndertake To combat Hydra neere the Lernian Lake As with his club he made the Monster reele This crept behinde and pincht him by the heele At which the Prince more angry for bee'ng stayd In his hot sight lookt backe to see what aid Hydra had got and when the Câ—ab he spy'd A Worme so base his fury was supply'd Then with a looke of anger mixt with scorne He stamp'd vpon 't vntill he saw it torne And shatter'd all to pieces with one spurne Halfe burying it in th' earth Then did he turne Againe vpon the Monster nor withdrew Till Hydra with her numerous heads he slew This seene by Iuno who the Crab had sent To vex the Heroë she incontinent The limbes disperst did suddenly combine And plac'd it one amongst the Twelue to shine Who beares vpon him Stars that shine but dull Call'd Asini yet make his number full The cause of their translation thus we read When all the gods assembled and made head Against the Gyants in that glorious war Where hills and rockes were tost and throwne from far It is remembred how amongst the rest To take the gods part Liber Pater prest Satyres and Sylvâ—nes Shepheards he from Pan And Neatheards tooke not sparing god nor man That neere to him were knowne to haue abode Not his owne Priests and they on Asses rode Now when the battell was to ioyne the cry On both sides 'gan to mount vp to the Sky At which the poore beasts much affrighted they Aboue the rest were loudly heard to bray The Gyants hearing it not knowing whence That noise should come began to hatch suspence How Iove had made of such strange Monsters choice Whose strengths perhaps might match that horrid voice Which made
firmament Hee is called for his loue to Musicke the Musical Signe and is beautified with nine bright stars according to the number of the Muses Andromedae vero radiat quae stella sub ipsa Albo fulget AEquus tres Hormo sed latera AEquus Distingunt spatijs The Horse is called Equus dimidius because his fore-parts are onely seene and the rest concealed Aratus saith that he was made a Star Because that in the top of the Heliconian mountaine striking a rocke with his right hoofe he brought forth water which after grew to a Well dedicated to the Muses and the liquor thereof called Hypocrene But Euripides would confer this honour vpon Menalippe the daughter of Chiron who according to the Centaure her fathers shape was halfe Mare halfe Maid She being stuprated and growing great as ready to be deliuered fled into the Mount Pelion to secure her selfe from the displeasure of her father and being pittied by the gods was lifted vp amongst the Signes bearing an Equinall shape but her hinder parts for modesties sake are altogether obscured and concealed Est etiam propriore deum cognoscere signo Deltoton si quis donum hoc spectabile Nili Divitibus veneratum vndis in sede notarit Aboue the head of the Ram not far from the feet of Andromeda bordereth that Signe which the Greekes for the resemblance that it hath to the letter Delta call Deltoton but the Latines in regard of the propernesse of the forme name it Triangulum a Triangle Some say it is the figure of AEgypt proportioned out in Stars in Trigono or three angles The channell also of Nilus as some say disposeth it selfe after the same forme It was placed where it now shines by Mercury at the command of Iupiter Diverso posita Boreae vicina legenti Auster Pistrix agit Vnder Aries and Pisces and aboue the Floud Padus or Eridanus is Pistrix or the Whale placed in the region of the starry Heauen This is said to be the Sea Monster sent to Cepheus by the enuy of the Nereides because Cassiopeia and Andromeda preferred their owne beauties before theirs who was slaine by Perseus Planxere ignotes Asiae Phaetondides vndis Eridanus medius liquidis interjacet Astris The Floud placed beneath the Whale in the region of the heauen to which the right foot of Orion is extended of Aratus and Pherecides is called Eridanus Padus and therefore there seated because it directeth his channell and course towards the parts Meridionall But Hesiod giueth his reason and saith It was so honoured for Phaeton the sonne of Phoebus and Climene who ascending the Chariot of his father and being lifted so exceeding high from the earth through feare fell from his seat being also strook with a bolt by Iupiter into the floud Padus or Eridanus when by that meanes all things were set on fire and began to burne all the springs and riuers of the earth were let loose to extinguish the same Which made such a deluge that it ouerflowed the whole face of the earth by which means all mankind was said to perish sauing Deucalion and Pyrrha The sisters of Phaeton after extreme weeping and lamenting for their brother were changed into Poplar trees and their teares hardned into Amber They were called Heliades and their names Merope Helie AEgle AEgiale Petre Phoebe Cherie Diosippe Cignus also K. of Liguria a neere kinsman of theirs in his depth of lamentation for Phaeton was metamorphised into a Swan from whom al Swans borrow their sad mournfull notes Some thinke this floud to be Nilus which is also Gyon and therefore stellified because it directeth his course from the Meridian It consisteth of many stars and lieth iust beneath the star called Canopus or Ptolomaea and toucheth some part of the Argoe or Ship It appeareth very low insomuch that it seemeth almost to touch the earth for which cause it is stiled Stella terrestris c. Sic vtrumque oritur sic occidit in freta sidus Tu parvum Leporem perpende sub Orione Lepus the Hare hath place beneath the feet of Orion and his Dog for those that feigned him to be an Huntsman so fashioned it that the Hare lieth beneath his feet Some deny that so great and noble a Hunter as Orion should spend his time in the chase of so fearefull and wretched a beast as the Hare Callimachus in speaking of the praise of Diana accuseth him for taking too much delight in killing Hares Some affirme she was translated into the Heauens by Mercury as Aratus in his Phenom for her extraordinarie velocitie and swiftnesse or else for her fruitfulnesse bringing forth some young and hauing others still immature in her belly for so Aristotle reporteth of her It is said also That in the antient times in the Island called Hiera there were no Hares at all but that a yong man of that City got a yong Liueret from a forreine countrey and brought it vp being a female till it was deliuered of young ones By whose example others making him their president fell into the like care of breeding them who in short time increased into a great multitude but the city being distressed by a narrow streight siege they were inforced to deuoure them all whom before they had so indulgently cherished Yet was the figure of the Hare after placed in the Firmament to put men in minde That no man ought to take too much pleasure in any thing least the losse of it after might breed their greater sorrow Tela caput magnisque humeris sic baltheus ardet Sic vagina ensis pernici sic pede fulget Orion who is also called Incola shineth before the Bull and deriueth his name ab Vrina or the inundation of waters He riseth in the Winter season disturbing both earth and sea with shoures and tempests The Romans call him Iugula because he is armed with a sword and sheweth bright and terrible in the splendor of his stars who if he appeare portendeth faire weather if hee be obscured stormes and tempest Hesiod maketh him the sonne of Neptune and Euriale to whom his father gaue that vertue to walk as stedfastly vpon the sea as the land Who comming to Chios comprest Merope the daughter of Oenopion for which iniurie Oenopion surprised him and put out his eyes banishing him from his confines Hee after comming to Lemnos by Apollo was restored to his sight and returning to Chios to auenge himselfe vpon his enemie the father of Merope who by the people of his Citie was hid in the earth him Orion not finding trauelled ouer into Creet where hunting and making hauocke of the Game was reprehended by Diana To whom he made answer That ere he departed from that Island he would not leaue one beast liuing vpon the mountains For which arrogant language Tellus or the Earth being much displeased sent a Scorpion of an vnmeasurable greatnesse which
seene Or like Adonis fitted to the chase Whom Venus met and sweetly did embrace Had she had wings as she had Shafts and Bow Saue in her stature you could hardly know Her from the Loue-god Cupid Now her minde She fresh and suting with her shape doth finde Ceasing her former losses to bewaile Thus with a sprightly courage she fets saile At ev'ry Coast she landeth she enquires But findes no answer fram'd to her desires Twelue times the Moone had wain'd and fill'd her round And yet her sister no where to be found At length vpon the fortunat Isle she lands Where then her wretched father was in bands And the bright Damsell new instated Queene Not many dayes before the King had beene Inuited two great Princes to attone In whose forc'd absence she now reignes alone In which short int'rim newes is brought to Court Of a strange ship new landed in the Port But chiefely That one passenger therein Is of a choice aspect whose beardlesse chin No manhood shewes they tooke him at first sight To be no other than Ioves Catamite For such was Ganimed by all account What time he snatcht the Boy from Ida Mount. The Queene all spirit before is now growne fiery To know him better by more strict enquiry Answer 's retun'd his person is Diuine As one made sacred at Apollo's Shrine And there 's no greater sacriledge than wrong And that to Apollo shall belong A Lord is sent the yong Priest to inuite He comes and she affects him at first sight For Nature hath a secret working still And to her owne ends swayes the captiv'd will Nor is it wonder she so soone is woon Since such neere bloud in both their veines doth run The Delphian Idoll when he saw the state The Lady bore was much amas'd thereat Her princely habit and her numerous Traine The distance that she kept thereby to gaine The more obseruance seated in a Throne And marking with what gems her garments shone The Diamonds that were wouen in her haire And ev'ry thing about her then so rare For she in all respects so far surpast His fathers Daughter when he saw her last It neuer once could sinke into his minde Seeking a Captiue he a Queene should finde Besides her port her gesture garments strange Suting that Countrey bred in her such change The disguis'd Priest hath quite forgot her face And apprehends some goddesse is in place Againe The Delphians habit did so blinde The Princesse eyes she little dream'd to finde Though else he hardly could her knowledge scape A woman or a Sister in that shape And though they make a serious inter-view Looking both oft and long yet neither knew Though an alternate sympathie appear'd That one vnto the other was indear'd She feasts the Priest and with such sumptuous cheare As if Apollo's selfe had then been there Some short discourse they had the banquet ended But nothing to their owne affaires that tended All the choice fauors she can well affoord She freely giues night growes he hasts aboord But shee 'l not suffer him to lye so hard For in the Court his lodging is prepar'd And in that Island whilst he makes aboad He is to her as welcome as his god Now curteously compel'd Time calls to bed And they are both to sundry lodgings led His chamber rich and his Attendants great She now retyr'd begets a stronge conceit Which may in her the better be allow'd Since there 's no Faire-one but is somewhat proud Thinks she My beauty is of such rare note That all who looke on me from liking dote My royall husband Soueraigne of the land Swayes all his Subiects and I him command If any of my feature make relation His praise he soone turnes into admiration I am not seene in publique but they cry She is descended from some Deitie But what 's all this if onely these allow My Beauty such as neuer tooke strict Vow Here 's one that 's to the Votaries ally'd By a religious Oath from Venus ty'd Now were there in my face such vertue found To pierce his chaste brest with an vnseene wound Should it tempt him whom all lust doth abjure To gaine the Palme by merit I am sure But till of such a tryall I haue made To be still equal'd I am much afraid Shee 's now resolv'd to put her to the test And the next morning sends to see her guest Hee 's brought into her presence whom she spies No sooner but she courts him with her eyes Next change of blushes in her lookes appeare As if she would say something but did feare She then began to wooe him with her hand But that he would not seeme to vnderstand Then with her sighes but all the while was mute And she no whit the neerer in her suit But to breake silence she is now decreed Knowing Who spares to speake oft failes to speed To proue how far bright beauty can preuaile She to this purpose frames a passionate Tale. No Sex saith she no Age Degree or State But all are subiect to the will of Fate Their pow'r so strong I cannot say so just As what they bid we shall do that we must Our Wills are not our owne nor can we do But meerely that which they enforce vs to That their strict Lawes no Mortals can evade Ev'n I this day am an example made Who apprehend the best and would pursue it But 'gainst mine owne best nature must eschew it With that she blusht and turn'd her cheeke aside As if the loue she shew'd she faine would hide Proceeding thus I that am now a wife Did once resolue to leade a Vestall life And gladly would haue kept it to this hower But my chast Will they alter'd by their power After my Virgin girdle was vnty'de And that I was made both a Queene and Bride My best endeauors I did then imply To keepe vnbroken our conjugall Ty. But they haue brought thee from I know not whence To make me with my nuptiall Oath dispenceâ— They haue enforc'd my Lord to a faâ— Clime To sort to vs conuenient place and time If to do what Thou dost desire to heare Looke in my face and thou mayst reade it there And if I to my Lord proue thus ingrate What is it but our fortunes and his fate My loue-sicke thoughts are thus before thee layd And know she sues that must not be gain-sayd For vnresistable is my desire Pause but returne short answer I 'le retyre This spoke as much asham'd away she flings Now the yong Priest conceiues a thousand things What say or do he doth both feare or doubt Insnar'd he is and no way can get out Such a Dadalian Mase should Theseus try He ne're could finde the dore he entred by He apprehends what strange malicious spleenes Meane women loue-crost haue then what 's in queens By them he may coniecture as to swell More by how much in greatnesse they excell
that extracted out of Vrsinus Velius his words be these Capturus pisces hamata in littore seta Naâ—fraga fortè hominis calva prehensa fuit c. A Fisher angling in a Brooke With a strong line and baited hooke When he for his wisht prey did pull It happen'd he brought vp a skull Of one before drown'd Which imprest A pious motion in his brest Thinks he Since I such leisure haue Vpon it I 'le bestow a graue For what did vnto it befall May chance to any of vs all He takes it wraps it in his coat And beares it to a place remoat To bury it and then digs deepe Because the earth it safe should keepe But lo in digging he espies Where a great heape of treasure lies The gods do neuer proue ingrate To such as others shall commiserate These are Arguments so spacious that to handle them vnto the full would aske of themselues a voluminous Tractat and rather tyre and dull the Reader than otherwise But for mine owne part in all my discourses I study as far as I can to shun prolixity Omitting therefore all impertinent Circumstances I come to the maine subiect intended Now to proue that there are such Spirits as we call Incubi and Succubae there are histories both many and miraculous of which I will instance onely some few Henricus Institor and Iacob Sprangerus report That a yong Votaresse had entertained carnall congression with one of these Daemons which though at the first it seemed pleasing vnto her yet in continuance of time growing irksome and distastefull shee knew no meanes how to be rid of this loathsome and abhominable societie but long considering with her selfe she thought it the best course to reueale the secret to some one or other and long doubting to whom she might tel it and her reputation which she held deare still preserued she bethought her selfe of one of the same Sisterhood her choice and bosome companion whose name was Christiana and at a conuenient leisure sorted to the purpose told her of all the proceedings as they hapned from the beginning not leauing any particular circumstance intermitted The other being of a milde nature and gentle disposition gaue a courteous and friendly eare vnto whatsoeuer was related and withall bad her be of good comfort and not to dispaire for in this one thing shee would declare her long protested fidelitie not onely to conceale whatsoeuer she had deliuered vnto her but to ingage her owne person for her future content and safety and withall trusting in her owne innocence and integritie she offered to change lodgings and beds for the next succeeding night for shee would for her sake stand the danger at all aduentures This being betwixt them agreed and fully concluded vpon the time came and Christiana was no sooner warme in her bed but the Spirit entred the chamber and opening the sheets began to tempt her with such importunitie and petulancie that she was forced to fly out of the bed and humbling her selfe vpon her knees deuoutly to betake her selfe to her prayers Notwithstanding which she was so vexed and beaten all the whole night after that meeting with her friend next morning she shewed her the marks of her stripes and vowed from thenceforth neuer to attempt so dangerous an vndertaking affirming that with much difficultie she auoided his temptation and with great perill of life We reade also in the Liues of the Fathers of a woman who for the space of six whole yeares together had nightly intercourse with a like vncleane Spirit from whom she vpon great repentance was after deliuered by the prayers of Saint Bernard Caesarius Colonensis writeth of a Priests daughter who was so incessantly importuned by one of these Incubi that her father was forced to send her beyond the Rhine thinking by that meanes to free her from his libidinous assaults But the Diuel missing her in her accustomed place fell violently vpon the Father and so beat and buffetted him that he died within thirty three dayes after Merlin the great Magition of Brittain is reported to be the sonne of an Incubus begot vpon a Kings daughter who had taken vpon her a sequestred life In which solitude he appeared vnto her like a faire yong man and neuer left her societie till he had made her a teeming woman Of these Incubi and Succubae are said to be borne those whom the Mahumetans call Neffe Soglij an impious and accursed generation to whom the Turkes attribute such honour that they hold it a blessednesse but to touch their garments They say their heires are of such vertue that they expell all infirmities and diseases therefore that barbarous people hold them as demy-gods and though their prestigious acts be the meere illusions of the Diuell yet do these miscreants hold them in great adoration and reuerence Iacobus Rufus writeth of a woman who had congresse with one of these Spirits and when her time of childing came after infinite pangs and throwes she was deliuered of nothing saue keyes chips pieces of iron and fragments of old leather Another thing much more admirable hapned saith he in the Diocesse of Cullein Diuers Princes and Noblemen being assembled in a beautifull and faire Pallace which was scituate vpon the Riuer Rhine they beheld a boat or small barge make toward the shore drawne by a Swan in a siluer chain the one end fastened about her necke the other to the Vessell and in it an vnknowne souldier a man of a comely personage and gracefull presence who stept vpon the shore which done the boat guided by the Swan left him and floted downe the Riuer This man fell afterward in league with a faire gentlewoman maried her and by her had many children After some yeares the same Swanne came with the same barge vnto the same place the souldier entring into it was caried thence the way he came after disappeared left wife children and family and was neuer seen amongst them after Now who can iudge this to be other than one of those Spirits that are named Incubi In Brasilia a barbarous woman by accompanying with one of these Daemons brought forth a Monster which in a few houres grew to be sixteen handfuls high whose backe was couered with the skin of a Lisard with big and swolne breasts his hands like the pawes of a Lyon with eyes staring and seeming to sparkle fire all his other members being deformed and horrible to behold Alexander remembreth vs of a woman called Alcippe who in the time of the Marsicke war by companying with an Incubus brought forth an Elephant Aumosius writeth That in Heluetia in the yeare 1278 a woman brought forth a Lion In Ficinum Anno 1370 a woman was deliuered of Cats And at Brixium another of a Dog Licosthenes writeth of one at Augusta who was first deliuered of a mans head wrapt vp in skinnes and parchment then of a Serpent with two feet last of an Hog and
all at one birth c. Hector Boethius writeth That in Scotland in the County of Marr a Maid of a noble Family of great beautie but altogether auerse from mariage was found with child At which the Parents much grieued were importunat to know by whom she was vitiated To whom she ingeniously confessed That a beautifull young man had nightly conuersation and company with her but from whence he was she was altogether ignorant They though they held this answer to be but an excuse and therefore gaue smal credit vnto it yet because she told them the third night after he had appointed to lodge with her kept the houre and with swords candles and torches brake open the dores of her chamber where they might espy an hideous Monster and beyond humane capacitie terrible in the close embraces of their daughter They stand stupified feare makes them almost without motion The clamor flies abroad the neighbours come in to be spectators of the wonderment and amongst them the Parson of the parish who was a Scholler and a man of vnblemisht life and conuersation who seeing this prodigious spectacle broke out into those words of Saint Iohn the Euangelist Et Verbum Caro factum est And the Word was made Flesh which was no sooner spoke but the Diuel arose and suddenly vanished in a terrible storme carrying with him the roofe of the chamber and setting fire on the bed wherein he had lien which was in a moment burned to ashes Shee was within three dayes after deliuered of a Monster such as the Father appeared vnto them of so odible an aspect that the Midwiues caus'd it instantly to be burnt lest the infamy of the daughter might too much reflect vpon the innocencie of the Noble Parents The same Author recordeth the like wonderment in a Ship of passengers who tooke in their lading at Fortha to land in the Low-Countries which being in the middest of Sommer there grew so sudden a storme that the main-mast was split the sailes rent the Tacles torne in pieces and nothing but imminent shipwracke was expected The Pilot cries out in regard the storme was intempestiue it being then the Summer Solstice when the Seas are for the most part temperat and calme that it must needs be the worke of the Diuell When suddenly was heard a lamentable complaint of a woman passenger below the Decke confessing that all this disaster was for her sake for hauing often carnal company with the diuel he at that time was tempting her to that abhominable act which a Priest a passenger then among them hearing persuaded her to repentance and not to despaire but to call vpon God for mercy which she did with many sighes and teares when presently they might espy a cloud or darke shadow in the shape of a man to ascend from the Hold of the ship with a great sound fire smoke and stench to vanish after which the tempest ceased and they in a calme sea arriued safe at their expected Harbor From the Incubi I come to the Succubae I haue read of a French man of a Noble Family who being giuen ouer to all voluptuousnesse and walking one night somwhat late in the streets of Paris at the corner of a Lane he espied a very handsome Creature whom presently he began to court and finding her tractable they agreed that she should passe that night with him in his Lodging To which he brought her priuatly for it was a chamber which he had tooke of purpose for such retyrements To bed they go and he when he had sated himselfe sufficiently grew wearie and fell fast asleepe But in the morning when hee put his arme ouer his louing bed-fellow he found her bodie to be as cold as lead and without motion When he perceiued her to be senselesse and quite dead for with no jogging nor pinching shee did either moue or stirre he instantly rose and calling his Host and Hostesse told them what a great disaster had hapned him to his vtter disgrace and ruine They were as much perplexed as not knowing how to dispose of the dead body all of them fearing to incurre the strict censure of the Law In this their general distraction the Hostesse looking aduisedly vpon the face of the dead Coarse she first began to thinke that she had seene her before and that her countenance had beene familiar vnto her then recollecting her selfe shee seemed perfectly to know her affirming her to be a Witch who had two dayes before suffered on the Gallowes This seemed first incredible yet the present necessity inforced them to make triall whether it were so or no and therefore making enquirie where the body of the Witch was buried and not being found there it was afterwards by all circumstance proued to be the same which a Succubus had entred By the which probabilitie the Gentleman and Host escaped the imputation of murther though not the disgrace of incontinencie and Brothelrie Bonfinius and Iordanus Gothus testate that the Nation of the Hunnes came from the Incubi For say they Filmerus King of the Goths banished all the Whores and Prostitutes out of his Army into solitarie and desart places lest they should effoeminate and weaken the bodies and mindes of his souldiers To these came Diuels and had carnall societie with them from whom came the cruell and barbarous nation of the Hunnes whose manners and conditions are not onely alienate from all humanity but euen their language degenerat from all other Tougues spoken by men Neither of the Heauens nor of the Starres haue the Diuels any power because for their Pride and impious imaginations they are confined to eternall torments neither can they work any thing vpon coelestiall Bodies which are meerely simple and thereforsubiect to no alteration Of this opinion was Saint Augustine in his book against the Manichees as also in that De Agone Christi writing thus These things I haue spoken that no man may thinke the euill Spirits can haue ought to do where God hath appointed the Sunne Moone and Starres to haue their aboad To the which he addeth Neither let vs thinke that the Diuell can haue any power there from whence hee and his cursed Angels were precipitate and fallen Therefore they haue no further dominion than within the compasse of the foure Elements but beyond them to the superior heauens they cannot extend their malice Yet the antient Writers hold That they namely the fiery Spirits haue a kind of operation in thunder lightning Of which Pliny giueth an example Before the death of Augustus a flash of lightning in Rome where his statue was set vp from CAESAR tooke away the first letter C and left the rest standing The Aruspices and Sooth-sayers consulted vpon this and concluded that within an hundred dayes Augustus should change this life for AEsar in the Hetrurian tongue signifieth Deus i. God and the letter C. among the Romans stands for an hundred