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A05335	Of the interchangeable course, or variety of things in the whole world and the concurrence of armes and learning, thorough the first and famousest nations: from the beginning of ciuility, and memory of man, to this present. Moreouer, whether it be true or no, that there can be nothing sayd, which hath not bin said heretofore: and that we ought by our owne inuentions to augment the doctrine of the auncients; not contenting our selues with translations, expositions, corrections, and abridgments of their writings. Written in French by Loys le Roy called Regius: and translated into English by R.A.; De la vicissitude ou variete des choses en l'univers. English	Leroy, Louis, d. 1577.; Ashley, Robert, 1565-1641.	1594 (1594)	STC 15488; ESTC S113483	275,844	270

extremitie conioyned and knit togither Moreouer it is certaine that Nature hath not created any thing vnto which she hath not giuen a contrarie to withhold it and keepe it backe where hence proceede the Antipathies or contrarie affections in all things aswell animate as inanimate lyuing as without life In beasts as betweene the Cocke and the Foxe in fishes betweene the Mullet and the fish called Lupus which some take it to be the Pike in birdes betwixt the Crow and the Kite Amongst trees the Chestnut and Oliue amongst stones the Adamant and the Diamant What then shall we say of men which are so passionate and inconstant Truely that al in all ages and all kinds of life publike priuate solitarie contemplatiue actiue are inclined to contentions and partialities euen so farre as euery one to be at variance in him selfe hauing in his bodie and soule a perpetuall combate betweene reason and concupiscence And in this maner is the strife amongst children which yet haue no knowledge and amongst the Sauages which haue nothing proper or peculier There are Sectes in the schooles of Law Physicke Diuinitie Philosophie and in the conuents and monasteries amongst the Reclus and Recluses No maruaile is it therefore if there be seditions in Cities and Countries which make people of diuers estates euen to run hedlong as was sometimes in Rome that of the common people and the Nobility Yf there be warres betweene Lordship and Lordship kingdom and kingdom which respectiuely keeps them both in feare So were aunciently in Greece the Lacedemonians to the Athenians so to the Romaines the Carthaginians and afterward the Parthians So are at this day opposed the Scots to the English the English to the French the French to the Italians The Almaines to the Suitzers the Africans to the Spaniards the Turkes to the Christians the Persians to the Turkes the Zagathaines to the Persians being deuided amongst themselues by colours redd and greene and of that are called Caselbas and Cuselbas the Moscouites to the Polonians the Tartarians to them both In the Indies Cochim to Calecut in high Africk the Moores to the Abissins thorough out the countrey of the Arabians the inhabitants of the Mountaines to those that dwel in the Plaines The Black-moores amongst themselues And in Brasil the Sauluages euen to the eating of one another when they are taken in warre And it might seeme that these diuisions were in some sort necessarie thoroughout the world and such contrarieties as God hath giuen to euery estate almost to euery person profitable to keepe them in feare and humility for men will soone waxe proud and are easily puft vp with prosperity and riches and especially when they misconceaue from whence such grace proceedeth God is wont to send them aduersities for their chastisment Wheresore it is ordinarily seene that euery mighty estate hauing no forrain enemy findeth some within it selfe and when it is come to such greatnesse that it cannot be brought vnder or kept downe by any strange or foraine force then is it afflicted with partialities and oftentimes distroied or translated into some other nation with alteration both of Iustice and politike gouernment Moreouer when the Countries are to full of inhabitants and that the malice and subtilty of man is come to the highest then are they purged and empted by famines and pestilence to the end that the people which are in it being reduced to a lesse number and chastised may liue better But if herewith they amend not but waxe worse and worse then either are they exterminated by fire and water or by Earthquakes ouerwhelmed God vsing alwaies such rigours against those which perseuer in their wickednes as he is alwaies readie to receiue to mercie such as are truely penitent which turne to him and pray to him with their harts OF THE VARIETY AND INTER course of Shadowes Daies and seasons of the yeare and diuersitie of habitations on the Earth HItherto hath bin declared how the world is not onely conserned by the intercourse of the Heauens and Elements but also tempered by contraries Now to the end we may the better consider the difference which is found in respect of the diuersitie of places and aspectes of heauen aswell in plants trees fruits mettals sauours colours and tastes as in beasts fishes birds and euen in men themselues and all their affaires we will briefly touch as far foorth as shall belong to our present purpose the fiue Zones of the habitable earth the seauen Climats fower limits East West North and South the two sides or hemisphers longitude and latitude the three parts thereof Europe Asia and Africke vnto which is also added America the varietie of shadowes daies and seasons with the diuers maners of inhabiting because that all these considerations serue to the knowledge of the world and the chaunges which in times past haue happened therein and do euery day come to passe The Auncients diuided the Heauen consequently the earth into fiue Zones thinking that those two that are vttermost about the two Poles North and South did make those two parts of the earth which are subiect to them vnhabitable by their extreme continual cold Also that that part of the heauen which beholdeth the middle of the earth vnder the Equinoctiall made it likewise vnhabitable by reason that the Sunne hauing there his continuall course burneth with his beames beating on it so neere and perpendicularly all the countrie lying vnder that Zone That the two others which are betweene the burning Zone and the Poles were temperate as also those parts of the earth which are answerable vnto them But that one could not passe verie well from the one to the other because of the burning Zone being in the midst But by the latter voyages and nauigations the whole earth is found to be inhabited yea euen vnder the Poles themselues beeing both in the midst and in the vtmost parts frequented with men and with singuler commodities the heat of the middle-most accounted burning hoat being lesse vnder the Equinoctiall then the Tropicke not a whit hindering the passage from one of the temperate vnto the other For although that vnder the Equinoctiall the sunne-beames are perpendicular twice in a yeare yet do they but little harme by reason that they stay not long there the Zodiake being streight and not oblique or crooked in that place Then the nightes being there continually equall in length vnto the daies doe mitigate with their colde the heat of the dayes But vnder and neere vnto the Tropickes the Zodiacke beeing crooked the Sunne stayeth longer there and discendeth not so swiftlle vnder the Horizon makinge the dayes longer and the sunne hotter yet sufferable notwithstanding as wee see by innumerable people dwelling vnder the Equinoctial and betweene the Tropickes In the vttermost part of the North dwell the Liuonians Noruegians Lithuanians Swedens Moscouites Lapians and Brarmians last of all hauing in their depth of winter the aire full of foggs and great clouds

aboue the earth and the six other vnderneath Againe the inhabitants of the earth compared one to the other are called Periecians Antecians and Antipodes Periecians may be called collateral and are they which dwell vnder the selfe same climate paralelle and Meridian drawen through the Poles They haue this common with vs First that they inhabite the same temperate Zone secondly that at the same time they haue winter and summer and the other seasons the increasing of daies and nights but differ in this that they haue not the same East and West and that when it is high noone with vs it is midnight with them Such are the inhabitants of the Canaries with the people of China Antecians are they which inhabit thother temperate zone towards the South turning their backes towards vs distant equally from the Equinoctial on their side as we are on ours Hauing then a contrarie latitude they haue also the seasons of the yere contrarie The Autumne in Aries when the Spring is with vs The winter in Cancer when we haue summer the spring in Libra when haruest is here the summer in capricorn which to vs is winter But because they are in the same longitude they haue at the same instant with vs midday and midnight Such are the Egiptians with the farthest Africans The Antipodes so called because they go with their feet opposite to ours hauing the Horizon Hemisphers opposed vnto whom al things are cōtrary winter sommer day and night East west OF THE VARIETY OF THINGS AC cording to the difference of places HEnceforward following our purposed order we will speake of the diuersitie of thinges according to the difference of places Where then the heat is neither to extreme and feruent nor the cold to excessiue and sharpe where there are neither vnmeasurable raines nor too violent windes but the seasons of the yere continue in moderate disposition there is found a conuenient temperature of the aire holsomnes of waters and fertility of groundes by meanes whereof the Countrey is made pleasant healthsome apt to bring forth corne and pulse to norishe all kinde of plants as well others as wilde bearing fruite abundantly in their seasons The beastes birdes and fishes are better formed more fruitfull and of better tast then elswhere But where as hot or cold drie or moist doe exceede they hurt euery thing and make it worse The Ethiopians being neere vnto the Sunne which burneth them with his beames are blacke hauing their heare and beard frisled or curled On the contrary they which inhabite the colde and ycie countries haue their skinne white and soft their heare yellow and vnited both the one and the other being naturally cruell by reason of their excessiue cold and heat They are in both countries of high stature which proceedeth of the abundance of heat in respect of the Ethiopians and of the abundant moisture in regard of those which inhabite the cold countries But the regions of the meane temperature are very good and fertile the people which inhabite there of meane stature quicke witted and well tempered of colour They are delicate in their maner of liuing and haue a good sharpe and quick witt readie to comprehend any thing And cōmonly the great Empires and famous monarchies are in their hands which are not foūd amongst people remoued from this temperature by reason of their beastly sauagenes and brutish immanity Likewise the beasts which are bred in the cold coūtries are lumpish and heauy And on the contrary they are light that are in the hoate regions the one sort very much differing from the other both in forme shape colours and properties The fishes from sea to sea the birds from countrey to countrey do differ much one frō thother as may be knowen by the sight of thē vnderstood by the books which are writtē of thē There is no lesse differēce amongst herbs trees according to the place where they are brought forth For they which grow in the hāgings of hils cold dry exposed to the wind are of greater vertu thē the others on the cōtrary such as grow on plains and shadowed places and waterie being hid from the wind are not of such efficacy Also the soile and season maketh them oft times to shoot forward or to be backward We see better trees fuller of leaues and better stored with fruit in one territory then in another because they like the place better Those trees which loue the hils are very great and faire as Cedars Firre trees pynetrees boxetrees and plaintrees In the Forests the okes beeches corketrees lotetrees elmes ashes and haseltrees do grow The alders poplars willowes and reedes on the riuers sides and in watrie places Some come not any where but in the South Countries as the orange tree the citron or lemmon tree palme or date tree and the sicamore Others in the cold Countries as appletrees and pearetrees The same difference is found both in herbes and lesser plants th one not growing but in hot countries the other in cold others in those that are meanely temperate Some grow in marishes others in standing waters There are some which are found ordinarily in moist places and some in drie others loue the fieldes others the vines and others the meadowes Some do better in the vallies then on the sides of hils others loue the high places exposed to the winde There are that finde norishment along the walles of Townes and Castels and betwixt the closures and ruines of houses Corne coms better in one place the vine in another and cattel in an other The aire is so temperate in Calecut that there is neuer any plague but continuall greenenes in the herbes and trees and there are euery moneth new fruits differing altogether from ours yet good neuerthelesse and maruelous pleasant The countrie of Syria chiefely about Damasco aboundeth with all sort of corne flesh and fruit especially with newe grapes all the yere long Also pomgranats quinces almonds oliues and roses of diuers colours very faire and odoriferous But their apples peares and peaches are of an euil tast In the west Indies as well throughout the Islands as in the Maine there are wilde vines that beare good grapes without industry or care of man But the kernels of the peaches plums cherries sowen in diuers places there do take no roote Oliue trees being planted there bring nothing but leaues without fruit The countrey of Babilon is most fertile in corne but the vine and figg-tree wil not grow there In Moscouia there is great abundance of hony and waxe riche skinnes and exquisite furres but not any fruit worth the reckoning The Tartarians and Arabians haue nothing but cattell The Moluccaes yeeld the aromaticall druggs of spicery and in all thinges else are barren In one place are the Emerauds Rubies Turkoises and Pearles In another is Corrall Ambor and Christall in one place there is gold found in another lead tinne and siluer Plinie esteeming the wheate of

plenty of all good things without pain or trauaile aud were driuen from thence for their disobedience and that of them two ioyned in mariage haue proceeded all men dispersed ouer all the habitable earth But Saint Augustine considering that of the fiue zones set downe by the auncient Astrologers and Cosmographers there were but two esteemed temperate and inhabited and that from the one it was thought they could not passe to the other by reason of the heate which was in the midst called the burning zone and that if it were so it must follow necessarily that the Antipodes came not of Adam he chose rather to deny that there were any Antipodes then to fall into any absurd impietie or to gainesay learned antiquity in this point But it is certaine both by the auncient and modern nauigations that there are Antipodes as those of Taprobana are to the Spanyards which is knowen by the aspect of heauen appearance of the starres hyding of our pole and eleuation of theirs hauing as hath bin said euery thing contrary vnto vs Sommer and Winter day and night East and West THE GREEKS in their fables said that Vulcan being amorous of Minerua shed his seed on the land of Athens from whence spong the Athenians who therefore vaunted themselues that they were borne of their owne land without taking any original elswhere vnderstanding by the earth al matter and by Vulcan the fire which moueth the earth and quickeneth it and that Ceres after the rauishment of her daughter Proserpina hauing wandered long throughout the world came into their Countrey where she showed them the vse of wheate wherehence afterward it was manifested to all men that their City hath not onely communicated such meanes of liuing to the indigent but also was the first that established lawes and set downe gouernment and that in part it inuented the arts seruing for necessity and pleasure and in part hath approued them or made them better and more exquisite obtaining the honour of Philosophy by which all theis things haue bin either inuented or amended and of eloquence which first tooke beginning in Athens and hath there bin brought to perfection that City hauing gotten by wisedome and eloquence such excellency and reputation that her Scholers were Maisters of others and that the name of Greeks was no more a name of a people or nation but of reason and vnderstanding and that the partakers of their learning were more esteemed Greekes then those which participated of the same nature with them At this day the wandring ARABIANS boast themselues to be the first of the world hauing neuer bin mingled with other nations and hauing kept entier as they say the nobility of their bloud BVT OMITTING all these disputings and boastings of nations all fantasies and humaine reasons of Philosophers we will rest our selues on the certainty of holy scripture touching the creation of the world and of mankinde And concerning the discourse of armes and of letters which are here in question we wil begin it by the Egyptians who being ingenious and valiant seeme to haue bin the first that haue excelled in wisedome and power from whom the Greekes drew almost all their knowledge which we vse at this day hauing not onely in estimation but also in admiration both Egypt and the Egyptians OF THE POWER LEARNING AND other excellency of the Egyptians AMongst others Isocrates that most excellent oratour praysing Busiris who made choise of that Countrey to raigne in as the most commodious of all the world writeth thus for considering other places not to be conueniently situated in respect of the nature of the whole world but that some are too much subiect to raine and others otherwaies molested and that region to be in the fairest seat of the earth and most abounding in all sorts of good things and enuironed with the riuer Nilus as with a naturall wall which not onely keepeth but fatneth it being inexpugnable to straungers that assaile it and much profitable to those which dwell neere it by the waterings and other commodities which they receiue of it whose industry also he hath made almost diuine in matter of tillage For by his meanes they haue both raines and drouthes in their disposition which are bestowed by Iupiter elswhere Their felicity is so great that if one consider the excellency and goodnes of the Countrey and their spacious fields he will thinke they inhabite the maine land if the commodities wherewith it aboundeth which are caryed out and those which not growing there are brought in thither from other places he will think that they dwell in an Island For the riuer running here there and watering it thoroughly doth furnish them with two meruailous commodities Busiris then began where wise men ought to begin choosing a faire place which supplied all things needfull for the inhabitants aboundantly Then diuiding them by orders and estates he appointed some for sacrifices others for handy crafts and others for warfare thinking that ordinary necessities and commodities ought to be furnished by tillage and by trades but that the protection of them was most assured by the exercise of armes and deuotion towards the Gods Accomplishing then all the perfection required in a good law maker he ordained that euery of them should alwaies exercise one trade knowing that they which change oft cannot vnderstand any thing well nor do any thing perfectly but those which are alwaies conuersant about the same things do commonly excell Whence it is come to passe that the Egyptians in euery art do excell so much all other Artisans as good workmen are wont to excel the vnskilful and ignorant Moreouer they obserue so good order in administration of their kingdome and al other publicke gouernment that the most famous philosophers disputing of such affaires prefer the gouernment of Egypt aboue all theirs Also to him we must refer as to the principal authour the study and exercise of wisedom for he so aduantaged the priestes first that they might maintaine themselues in chiefe place with the holy reuenues that afterwards great holynes being by their lawes required of them they might liue temperatly and being exempted from warfare and other charges they might rest in quiet THEY enioying then this commoditie haue inuented Physicke to helpe the body not that which vseth dangerous medicamēts but those which may as safely be taken as the daily meates and neuerthelesse are so profitable that they which vse them are seene to be lusty and able of body and to liue long And for medicine of the minde they haue proposed the exercise of Phylosophy which can make lawes and search out the nature of thinges Hee committed to the auncienter sort the best charges and perswaded the yonger leauing pleasures to giue themselues to Astrologye Arithmetick and Geometry which faculties are thought by some to be profitable in many things The others indeuour to show that they follow vertue earnestly Their piety and deuotion towards the Gods is worthy of great