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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06140	The pilgrimage of princes, penned out of sundry Greeke and Latine aucthours, by Lodovvicke Lloid Gent	Lloyd, Lodowick, fl. 1573-1610.	1573 (1573)	STC 16624; ESTC S108781	286,699	458

Testament that Adam our first father liued nine hundred and thirtie yeres and Eua his wife as many Seth nine hundred and twelue yeres Seth his sonne called Enos nine hundred and fiue Cainan the sonne of Enos nine hundred and tenne Malalehell the sonne of Cainan right hundred fourscore and fiftéene So Enoch the son of Iared liued nine hundred théescore and fiue yeres Enoch his sonne named Mathusalem liued nine hundred thréescore and nine with diuers of the first age I meane vntill Noahs time which began the seconde world after the floode and liued as we reade nine hundred and fiue yeres His sonne Sem sixe hundred yeres and so lineally from father vnto son as from Sem vnto Arphaxad frō Arphaxad vnto Sala from Sala vnto Heber the least liued aboue thrée hundred yeres This I thought for better credite and greater proofe of olde age to drawe out of the olde testamēt that other prophane autorities might be beléeued as Tithonius whom the Poetes faine that he was so oulde that he desired to become a Grashopper But bicause age hath no pleasure in the worlde frequenteth no banquets abhorreth lust loueth no wantonnes which sayth Plato is the only bayte that deceyue young men so much the happier age is that age doth loath that in tyme which young men neyther with knowledge with wit nor yet with councell can auoyde What harme hath happened from time to time by young men ouer whom lust so ruled that euersion of common wealthes treason of Princes friends betrayed countries ouerthrowne kingdomes vanquished all y e world almost through pleasure perished Therfore Cicero sayth in his booke entituled of olde age at what time he was in the citie of Tar●ntū being a young man with F. Maximꝰ that hée bare one lesson from Tarentū vnto the youth of Rome where Architas the Tarentine saide that nature bestowed nothing vpon man so hurtfull vnto him selfe so dangerous vnto his countrie as luste or pleasure For when C. Fabritius was sent as an Embassador from Rome vnto Pirrhꝰ king of Epire being then the Gouerner of the citie Tarentum a certaine man named Cineas a Thessaliā borne being in disputation with Fabritius about pleasure saying that he heard a Philosopher of Athens affirming that all which we doe is to be referred vnto pleasure which when M. Curius and Titus Coruncanus hearde they desired Cineas to perswade the King Pirrhus in that to yéelde vnto pleasure and make the Samnits beléeue that pleasure ought to be estéemed whereby they knew if that King Pirrhus or the Samnites being then great enimies vnto the Romanes were adicted vnto lust or pleasure that then soone they myght be subdued and destroyed For that nothing hindereth magnanimitie or resisteth vertuous enterprises so much as pleasure as in the treatise of pleasure it shall at large more appeare Why then how happie is olde age to dispise and contemne that which youth by no meanes can auoyde yea to loath and abhor that which is most hurtfull vnto it selfe For Cecellius contemned Caesar with all his force saying vnto the Emperour that two thinges made him nothing to estéeme the power of the Emperour Age and witte Castritius wayed nothing at al the threatning of C. Carbo being then Consull at Rome which though hée sayd hée had many friendes at commaundement yet Castritius aunswered and sayde that he had likewise many yeres which his friendes might not feare Therfore a wiseman sometime wept for that man dieth within fewe yeres and hauing but little experience in his olde age he is then depriued thereof For the Crowe liueth thrise as long as the man doth The Harte liueth foure times longer than the Crow The Rauen thrise againe liueth longer than the Hart. The Phaenix nine times longer than the Rauen And therefore bicause birdes doe liue longer time than man doth in whome there is no vnderstanding of their yeres But man vnto whom reason is ioyned before he commeth vnto any grounde of experience when hée beginneth to haue knowledge in thinges hée dieth and thus endeth hée his toyling pilgrimages and trauayle in fewer yeres than diuers beastes or birdes doe ¶ Of the maners of sundrie people and of their strange life THe sundrie fashion and varitie of maners the straunge lyfe of people euerye where through the worlde dispersed are so depainted and set foorth amongst the writers that in shewing the same by naming eche countrey and the people therof orderly their custome their maners their kinde of liuing something to signifie howe diuers the maners of men bée Therefore I thought briefely to touch and to note euery countrey in their due order of liuing and to beginne with the Egyptians people most auncient and most expert in all sciences that Macrobius the writer calleth the countrey of Egypt the nourse and mother of all Artes for all the learned Gréekes haue had their beginning from Egypt euen as Rome had from Gréece This people obserue their dayes by accoūt of houres from midnight vnto midnight They honour the Sunne and the moone for theyr Goddes for they name the Sunne Osiris and the Moone Isis Their féeding was of fishe broyled in the heate of the Sunne with hearbes and with certaine foules of the ayre They lyue a thousande yeares but it is to be vnderstanded that they number their yeares by the Moone The men beare burthens vppon theyr heades and the women vpon their breastes and shoulders The men make water sitting the women standing The Crocodill is that beast which they moste estéeme that being deade they burie him A Sowe is that beast which they most detest that if anye part of their clothes touche a Sowe they straight will pull of their clothes and washe them ouer They are blacke people most commonly slender and very hastie Curtius call them sedicious vaine very subtill in inuention of thinges and much giuen to wine The Aethiopians people that liue without lawes and reason seruauntes and slaues vnto al men selling their children vnto merchauntes for corne their héere long with knottes and curled The Indians people of two muche libertie as Herodot sayth accompanying their women in open sight neyther sowe they nor builde neyther kill they any liuing beast but féede of barly breade and hearbes They hange at their eares small pearles and they decke their armes wrestes and neckes with golde Kinges of India are much honoured when they come abroade their wayes set and deckt with fresh flowers swéete odours and men in armes folowing their Chariots made of Margarits stones and men méeting with frankinsence And when their king goeth to bed their harlottes bring them with songues and mirth making their prayers vnto their Goddes of darckenesse for the good rising of their King Againe the children kill theyr parentes when they waxe olde Their maydes and young damoselles of India are brought abroade amongst the young men to choose them their husbandes When any man dieth his wife wil dresse hir selfe most brauest for

Priscus wife when she saw the flames playing about Seruius Tullius head she affirmed thereby that he shoulde be king in Rome The thirde is Aeromancy which vseth to prognosticate things by the ayre as by flying fowles and tempest of weather as when it rayned Iron in Lucania it did praesage sayde they the death of Marcus Crassus amongst the Parthians or as Liui writeth when it rained stones in Picen at the seconde warres of Carthage it was to shewe the slaughter and murther that Hanibal shoulde do in Italy The .4 is Hydromancy to iudge things to come by sight of water as Varro doth report of a boy that sawe y e picture or image of Mercury in the water pronouncyng and recityng all the warres of Mithridates King of Pontꝰ that shoulde folowe in verses There are two other kindes of Magick the one named Giomancy to declare and expounde thinges by the openyng gapyng and moouyng of earth the other Chiromancy to iudge by lines of handes cauled Paulmestry These are they that Cicero maketh mention of in his first booke of diuinations where he saith Cum non sibi sapiunt semitam alijs tamen monstrant viam they wyll teach others that way that they know not them selues They wyll teach others howe to haue money and substaunce and yet they are them selues poore beggers alwayes in the house of Codrus hangyng at the sléeue of Irus There is againe a kinde of Soothsaying whiche was first practized in the lande of Hetruria where a certen husbandman plowed In the fielde called Tarquimen a certen man appeared in ●ight which sprang vp from the grounde which then was plowed named Tages in face and countenaunce much lyke a young childe but in wisedome and discretion farre surmountyng any sage Philosopher This taught all the lande of Hetruria Plini saith that one Delphos first enuented Soothsaying and Amphiraus enuented first Soothsaying by fire Polidorus describeth another sort of Soothsayers which were woont to coniecture and foreshowe by beastes slaine to bée sacrificed whether the heart the lyuer or such lyke did perish as Caesar which when he sacrificed an Oxe vnto Iupiter which had no hart wherby y e Soothsayers prognosticated the infelicity mishap of Caesar. Afterwarde likewise king Zerxes in his wars against the Gréekes a Mare being a stoute warlike beast brought forth a Hare a timorous and fearefull thing whereby they declared the ouerthrowe of Zerxes and his huge armie the flight and cowardnesse thereof Againe there is a kinde of southsaying by lightning thunders and tempestes The follye of men were such that they thought nothing to be in the world but had hidden knowledge concerning m●n They woulde take nothing in hande without some Oracles of Iupiter or Apollo They reposed more trust in flying fowles in theyr chirping notes concerning anye attemptes which they tooke in hand then in their owne force and strength They had more confidence in beastes of the fielde they trusted I say more in elementarie sightes In fine there was nothing almost but they had more respect eyther vnto the colour the voyce the proportion and such like toyes than they had in them selues as before mencioned in the worshipping of their Goddes and institution of Religion These foolishe toyes were first obserued amongst y e Chaldeans from Chaldea vnto Greece from Greece vnto Hetruria from Hetruria vnto Rome from Rome vnto all Europe they were scattered Wherefore Moyses that wise Hebrue and the singuler instrument of God for his people commaunded that no man shoulde consult with these wicked and abhominable faculties saying vnto his people You shall not beléeue southsayers neyther shall you trust vnto dreames The Iewes were so aduced to obserue these augurations that they woulde not vnto warre at any time without some warnings and coniectures had by some birde or beast insomuch that one Mossolanus a Iewe borne a wiseman noted in his countrie and making his voyage vnto warres as Iosephus in his first booke of Antiquitie doth write was commaunded and all his hoste to staye vntill a certaine southsayer woulde go to consult and knowe the successe of the warres which then they hadde in hande with a birde harde by the armie which when this wiseman Mossolanus perceyued howe they were enclined and wholy bent to be instructed by diuination he tooke his bowe and an arrowe and slue this birde whereat the souldiours were so amazed and the southsayers so angrie that had not Massolanus perswaded with the people wisely he had bene lyke though he was theyr Capitaine to haue bene by his owne souldiours slaine which after long tumult made and great anger threatened Mosolanus spake after this sort vnto his souldiours Do you thinke that birdes beastes and such like dumbe things can forshew thinges by you which know nothing of them selues for beholde the birde which you trusted most vnto and likewise your southsayers coulde not sée nor knowe to auoyde my purpose when I slue him Do you trust that thing for your liues which is ignoraunt of his owne death O blindenesse of people which yet remaineth in this age And hauing briefly past the inuentors of Sciences in sundrie countries men were much giuen to finde other necessaries for to liue by studious to make thinges profitable for theyr countries carefull to augement the state and life of man vnto such perfections that the Cyclopians were the first workers of Iron worke The Lacedemonians the first inuentors of harnesse speares swordes and bucklers for warres people thereby most renowmed The Atheniaus taught first to plant trées and Uineyardes The Phrigians made first the Chariotes and wagons The Lydians vsed first to dresse woolles And so the people of Caria practised first Bowes arrowes And the Phenitians the Crossebowe Then other perticuler matters were likewise sought out by diuers speciall men in speciall countries for the vse of man as Oyle and honye by Aristeus Keyes by Theodorus the Samian Ships to sayle by Iason Ericthonius Siluer Cadmus Goulde Thus then euery where eche man in his pilgrimage did some thing● worthie of memorie Thrason renowmed for his loftie walles and hye towers Danaus for his welles and digging water Cinira for finding out Copper brasse leade and suche other mettell Ceres for sowing of Corne And Baccus for planting the Uine that the worlde in time waxed not so populus one waye but it grewe skilfull in thinges and plentifull of lawes for the redresse and safegarde of man ¶ Of Patience PAtience is such a vertue saith Cato the wise in all aduersities the best medicine to a sickeman or the surest plaister to any sore is pacience it comforteth the heauie it reioyceth the sadde it contenteth the poore it healeth the sicke it easeth the painefull it hurteth no man it helpeth all men therefore sayde the wiseman Byon that the greatest harme can happen vnto man is not to be able to sustaine and absteine For this was Tiberius Caesar much commended of