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A06736	Fuga sæculi. Or The holy hatred of the world Conteyning the liues of 17. holy confessours of Christ, selected out of sundry authors. Written in Italian by the R. Fa. Iohn-Peter Maffæus of the Society of Iesus. And translated into English by H.H.; Vite di XVII confessori di Christo. English	Maffei, Giovanni Pietro, 1536?-1603.; Hawkins, Henry, 1571?-1646.; Baes, Martin, engraver.	1632 (1632)	STC 17181; ESTC S111891	465,460	588

as we insinuated aboue there came controuersyes delegated to him of no light importance He was wonderfully beloued and reuerenced by his Chanons though for their sakes he would not swarue from righteousnes and with his prudence and sweetnes he knew how to manage them so as he neuer pretended any thing from the Chapter which he obtayned not at last he had likewise very admirable successe in the highest affaires of the Kingdome and among other his actions was remarkeable that peace which he concluded betweene King Philip of France and Iohn King of England being the immediate successour of his brother Richard who in punishment of the troubles brought vnto Ecclefiasticall persons within a few yeares of his Crowne was miserably slaine in battaile And to the purpose of this pacification of his it seemes not good to passe ouer in silence how S. Hugh returning from Normandy with the accord established happened by the way to lodge in a Monastery of his Carthusians called Arneria and some of those Fathers familiarly crauing he would make some particuler relation of the sayd expedition and quality of the articles Saint Hugh mortifying such a will in them sayd These secular businesses may well be declared by Bishops indeed but should not be curiously enquired into by Monks So tenacious was he at all times of Monasticall discipline of cha●…t silence This also was a matter of much edification in this great Prelate that hauing lost as we haue sayd through excessiue abstinence all appetite was vexed with most bitter gripes of the cholike yet fayled he not for all that to employ himselfe when need was with a most exact diligence in consecrating or rehallowing of Churches and administring the Sacraments especially of Confirmation of Order obseruing euer the Catholike rites in al things beginning sometimes before day perseuering therin some houres of the night following without any refection at all He spared not to bestow a good part of his tyme in informing himselfe of the behauiours of the people and Clergy of the necessiryes of the poore to relieue them in visiting and louingly comforting the sicke But though he shewed himselfe most pittyfull and beneficiall to all yet felt he a singular tendernes of affect towardes the infected with leaprosy he would goe into their Hospitalls in person and after that in common he had giuen benigne consolations and fatherly aduises to that wretched people he would approach to ech one in particular and humbly inclining himselfe vnto them he abhorred not to kisse their loathsome vlcers and lastly refreshed them with conuenient almes The Chauncellour of Lincolne called VVilliam one day was present at such a spectacle who being first astonished at so great humility and afterwards doubting some vaine glory in the Bishop began to tempt him with saying S. Martin with a kisse only cured the leaprous but you me thinks doe not so Towhich iest of his S. Hugh made answere S. Martins kisse eured the leaprous in flesh but the kisse of the leaprous euen cures my soule He was wont also most ordinarily to wash secretly the feet of thirteen poore folkes and to serue them at table And finally his workes of piety were so notable and famous as he was universally called the Father of Mercyes and euen sucking Babes as it were through naurall instinct would stretch forth their little armes to call and imbrace him How S. Hugh addicts himselfe to bury the dead with a strange prognosticate of his owne death Chap. 10. VVHat meruayle is it that S. Hugh should shew such clemency and compassion to the liuing who vsed such Charity and sollicitude towards the dead and that not only to their soules but euen likewise to their corps he no sooner vnderstood that there lay heere or there any body vnburyed but setting as a new Tobyas all other businesses aside he would goe thither in hast and with due exequyes according to the condition of ech one he would commit them to the earth And he was so giuen to this holy occupation as that being sometymes inuited by the King himselfe vnto dynner he would let him expect some whole howers together vntill his worke were finished and while the messengers came in one after another to sollicite him with saying the King yet differred his dynner for his sake and remayned still fasting S. Hugh freely would answere Why doth he expect me For better it were an earthly King should eate without me then for me to consent that the commaundement of the King of Heauen should be contemned My food is to fullfill the will of the eternall Father It happened one day that he buryed a most stincking corrupt corps of a drunken and dissolute sinner to which none durst approach without stopping the nose and yet S. Hugh went about to handle him without any auersion at all vntill he had layd him and couered him with earth the standers by being amazed therat demanded of him whether he felt not any noysomnes or loathing from the corrupt corps and he answering that he felt no offensiuenes thereat and how they were deceaued with their owne imagination being full with new wonder they ceased not to glotify the diuine Goodnes in his Seruant Newes being brought him one day of the death of a bitter persecutour of his he suddenly puts himselfe in order to goe vnto that house of mourning and to be present at the hearse and being told for certaine there were traynes layd for him on the way and therefore by no meanes he should go thither I deserue well indeed answered he to haue fetters at my feet and bolts on my legges if I should once but neglect such a visit And so causing the rest of his trayne to stay behind he went thither but with two only familiars of his and there arriued without any stop or hinderance at all and procuring a decent funerall for him that hated him so much and placing the body in a vault be returned home agayne replete with ioy and merits How acceptable these and the like exercises of S. Hugh were in the sight of God was euen manifested also in this present life with the precious guifts of healing infirmityes and expelling the wicked spirits and quenching flames In the meane while from his indispositions from his trauailes and yeares S. Hugh continually feeling himselfe to decay attended with more feruour the●… euer to prepare himselfe for that passage whereto in this short vncertaine course of mortality all the cares and studyes of men should be most intent and fixed A notable presage of the end of this Saint approaching were the actions of a certaine Swan of an extraordinary greatnes which on the selfe same day whereon S. Hugh being created Bishop entred into Lincolne was now likewise come from parts farre remote vnto a certaine Castle whither the Bishop afterwards resorted sometymes for honest recreation and when he arriued at any tyme that white bird would immediately fly to receiue him and where to others it

shewed it selfe very shye and coy to the Bishop only it would be most domestike and giue forth infinite shewes of welcome it would take meate from his hand it would thrust as in a poole the head and neck within those large and ample sleeues of his and not contented therewith leauing the fresh waters and its accustomed haunts would stand all night a watching and keeping centinell at his chamber doore Moreouer it had taken vp a custome as often as the Bishop was to retyre thither to be very iocund to cry out and flap with the wings in so much as the keepers of the castle as they had been aduertized by some harbinger would be accited thereby to prepare the chambers and to put all things in order against his coming Now the last tyme that S. Hugh came thither the amourous Swan leauing its accustomed dauances would so hide it selfe with the head drooping and with other signes of sadnes and frowardly sequestring it selfe from his sight which it was neuer to behold more as the seruants were fayne to take it and bring it in by force And thus much of this new prognosticate The death and funeralls of the Venerable Bishop not without some miracles accompanying the same Chap. 11. IN those dayes was assembled at Lincolne a most famous nationall Councell and S. Hugh being then in the Citty of London vpon vrgent occasion with purpose to hye himselfe as soone as possibly he could to the sayd Assembly being there ouertaken by a suden vehement feuer was forced to keep his bed and yet in despite of the disease re-enforcing his prayers vnto God and to the most blessed Virgin and deuout colloquyes with his Angell Guardian and with the Citizens of Heauen he ceased not withall to afford gratefull audience with holsome admonitions to as many as came to visit him Being admonished to make his will It greiues mee said he for this custome of making wils introduced into the clergy I neuer had nor haue at this present any thing that is not wholy of my Church and yet that the Fiscall may not lay hand thereon let all be distributed to the poore as soone as may be whatsoeuer may seeme to others I possesse Heereupon the Feast of S. Mathew being come wherein he remembred he was consecrated Bishop he caused the celestiall Viatique and the Sacrament of Extreme vnction also to be ministred to him as thinking very probably that immediately he was to depart but it pleased our Lord to differre the same vntill the 17. day of the next moneth in which space he ceased not from deuotious for himselfe and exhortations for others and moreouer with the spirit of Prophecy very cleerely foretold the great disasters which soone after were to happen to that Kingdome and particulerly to the Clergy The foresayd terme being afterwards arriued the holy Bishop being interiourly certifyed of his departure caused besides his Chaplyns some Monks and Preists to be called to assist him and seeing them all to weep bitterly he sought with interrupted speeches but graue and affectuous withall to comfort them and laying his right hand vpon ech one he recommended them to the diuine custody And now his feeble voyce began quite to fayle when he willed that the flore being swept a crosse of hallowed ashes should be formed thereon and that a seruice should be sayd in manner of a Quier whereat being present with great attention as soone as he came to that verse of the 90. Psalme Clamabit ad me ego exaudiui cum cum ipso sum in tribulatione causing himselfe to be lifted from his bed he stretehed his withered and frozen members being mindfull of the Passion of Christ vpon the sayd Crosse and presently beginning the Canticle of Simeon very happily expired in the yeare of our Lord 1200. of his age 60. and of his Episcopall charge the 15. In this manner it pleased the Prince of Pastours to put an end to the trauailes of his most faythfull Coadiutour of whose passage into heauen some persons worthy of credit haue had vndoubted reuelation The body being spiced with Balme and other odours was in pontificall habit exposed in a Coffin ready to be carryed according to the order left by him vnto his Church but through the infinite concourse of people which pressed in to touch or at least to behold more neere that sacred Treasure there succeeding by turnes very Honourable personnages to carry the corps the way became to be so taken vp and stopt the while as it was there fayne to stay for no lesse then six dayes In approaching to Lincolne the two Kinges Iohn of England and VVilliam of Scotland who then were present came forth to meet them with a most noble trayne and both being desirous to submit their shoulders to the venerable Beer the Scottish King among others who loued him deerely powred forth a floud of teares After that in the Cathedrall were the solemne exequies celebrated with the pompe that became both the dignity of the deceased the quality of the standers by among which two crowned heads three Archbishops fourteene Bishops more then a hundred Abbots very many Earles and Barons drew the eyes of the people vpon them the diuine Prouidence so disposing that the promptnes and perseuerance of S. Hugh in taking so great care to bury the bodyes of others was thus recompenced with so magnificent and glorious a Sepulture To this were added for greater splendour new famous miracles which to recount throughout were a thing too long it may suffice for example only to add heere also that within few dayes at his monument were cured six Palsey men three blind receaued their sight and two dumbe men recouered their speach Moreouer the deposition customes and heroicall prowesse of the Saint were afterwards not only celebrated with a liuely voice by that age but by many Writers also registred with a faythfull pen to the glory of God the memory of him and the noble example incitement to posterity FINIS S. ANTONY OF PADVA THE ARGVMENT RIch LVSITANIA yields thee vitall ayre And first of others shines with such a gemme Thy countreyes Father thou dost her prepare Thou dost dispose her vnto Heaun's diademe By doctrine and example they declare How gratefull was such charity to them Thou Solons doctrine well dost ouerthrow Shewing the Countrey to her brood may owe. Padua adopts thee hers whose spacious Fanes Could not containe thy happy audience The larger fields and open spreading plaines Did seeme prepard for such a confluence Thy heauenly doctrine sweetly entertaines The hearers charm'd with golden eloquence A second Orpheus whose commanding Lyre Euen senselesse thinges do follow and admire THE LIFE OF S. ANTONY OF PADVA Taken forth of Laurence Surius Of the family and youthfull age of S. Antony and how he became be of the family of the Chanons-Regular Chap. 1. THE marueilous Mysteries of the diuine prouidence are discouered as it were through the whole pilgrimage of