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A07463	The foreste or Collection of histories no lesse profitable, then pleasant and necessarie, dooen out of Frenche into Englishe, by Thomas Fortescue.; Silva de varia lección. English	Mexía, Pedro, 1496?-1552?; Fortescue, Thomas, fl. 1571.	1571 (1571)	STC 17849; ESTC S112653	259,469	402

dombe shall speake and laude his name freely and againe somwhat before with fiue loaues and twoo fishes he shall fede fiue thousande menne in the deserte and that whiche shall remaine shall also refreashe the hungerie nede of others The seconde by report was borne in Libya of whom mention is made by Euripides in his Prologue of Lamia The thirde hight Themis and was surnamed Delphica for that she was borne in the Citée Delphos of whom remembreth Chrysippus in his booke of Diuination Vnto this woman the Romaines erected an Image whiche was as recordeth Plinie before the destruction of Troie so that Homere in his workes hath sundrie and diuers of her vearses as is euident Diodorus Siculus saith that this was Daphne the doughter of Tiresias whō when the Grekes had subdued Thebes thei sent her foorthe immediately and without staie to Delphos where she after became a prophetesse in the Oracle of Apollo so that she thence as he supposeth and not otherwise gatte the name of Delphica The fowerth had to name Cumea or Italienna and not Cumana Amaltea she was borne in Cimeria a toune of Campania adioinyng vnto Cumae whose prophesies are written as well by Neuyus in his bookes Punici as also by Pison in his annalies and briefly remembred by Lactantius by Virgil also in his Eglogue this beginning Scicilides musae The first was that famous Erythrea whiche by the especiall grace of God so plainly prophesied of the greateste misteries of our religion wherefore as hath Lactantius the Gentiles in the ages paste supposyng it impossible that a virgine should heare a childe as also other thynges supernaturall whiche thei in like sorte wrote remembred as well by old Poetes as also in aunciente histories accompted of these vearses none otherwise thē of light vain and fonde matters Apolodorus writeth of this Sibyll that she fore saied to the Grekes that thei assuredly should sacke and ouer runne Troie whence moste suppose she was before the destruction thereof How be it Eusebius contrariwise thinketh that she liued in the tyme of Romulus Strabo againe in the daies of Alexander Of this Erythrea were these woordes recited by Eusebius whiche in order translated sounde in Englishe this muche Iesus Christe the soonne of God and Sauiour Whiche was in deede no lesse straunge then meruailous Others also wrote she whiche Sainct Augustine gathereth in his eightenth De ciuitate dei which dooen by hym into Latine maie in our tongue saie this muche The yearth shall sweate an assured signe of iudgemente from heauen shall come a kyng whiche shal be kyng continually but cladde in mannes fleshe to the intente he maie iudge the worlde so shall the incredulous see aswell as shall the faithfull and with their iyes shall boholde God hymself aduaunced in the middle of his angelles and in the ende of this worlde the soules of men shall appeare with their owne proper bodies whiche all hym self shall iudge presente then in persone at whiche tyme the yearth shall bee brused and disordered Menne shall then destroie bothe Images and Idolles their iuels eke and treasures shall thei not accompte of he shall goe doune into helle and breake vp the infernall gates then to the iuste shall ioye and peace bee lotted and fire shall tormente still the reprobate and impious All secretes shall in this daie bee discouered euery man shall knowe the thoughtes of an other God then shall laie open the hartes and consciences of all fleshe there shall bee weepyng and gnashyng of teethe the Sunne and the Starres in that daie shall bee darkened the heauens them selues shall breake and the Moone shall lose her lighte the mountaines shall fall doune and the valies shall lie euen with the swellyng hilles nothyng in the whole worlde shall higher bee then other bothe mountaines and valaies shall be reduced into plaines eche thyng hauyng in that daie his endyng the yearth shall be skorchte vp and brought then to pouder bothe riuers and sprynges shall in that daie burne and with that fire also the yearth it self the sea and the aire shall be consumed a trumpette then from heauen moste terriblie shall sounde at which voice the yearth incontinentely shall open discoueryng the obscure and disordered face of helle the paines eke and the smartes of the damned soules therein By this Sibyll these and many others were written at large in vearse plainly declaryng Christe hym selfe incarnate with the resurrection of the dedde and the finall iudgemente But these thynges before thei came to passe in déede of fewe might or could in any wise bee vnderstode reputed for meare follie of the Panimes and the Gentiles Notwithstandyng Erithrea well knowyng what was to come lefte not this muche to saie in like sorte of her self vaine shall thei accoumpte me a light and liyng dame But when these thynges shall bee accomplished then shall thei remember me againe not as a detyng or as a senslis wight but as a true southsaier or prophetisse of the higheste From this Sibyl Erithrea the Romaines at tymes receiued many vearses whiche Fenestella with silence passeth not in his fiftene Forces saiyng that by ordinaunce of the Senate thei sente Ambassadours vnto her onely to haue if it so might please her of her prophesies whiche frō her brought backe papers in greate number whiche were bothe carefully and curiously reserued in the Capitoll emongste others some whiche thei also had receiued before This womā was of Erithrea a toune of Ionyum in the Prouince of the lesse Asia adioinyng vnto Caria whiche I would the reader should certainlie vnderstande for that many other tounes are also of this name as one in Libia an other in Boecia the third in Locris the fowerth in Cyprus but to assure vs that she was of this Erithrea in Ionyū Strabo maie onely in this place suffice The sixt Sibyll was of Phytō a toune in the Isle of Samos inuironed with the sea Egeum borderyng on Thrace or as others some suppose in that other Isle of Samos cōpassed with the saied sea right against Ephesus for which cause she had to name Silia Samia of which remembreth E●atosthenes The seuenth was Cumana otherwise Amaltea how bee it some others gaue her to name Demophila Suidas termeth her Hierophila neuer the lesse Cumana was she called for that she bothe dwelt and prophesied in the toune of Cumas in Italie not farre of from Baias Of this woman writeth Dyonisius Halicarnasleus Solinus Aulus Gellius Seruius she brought to be sold to Tarquine the proude kyng of the Romaines nine bookes though Suidas otherwise suppose that it was to Tarquimus Priscus for whiche she demaunded three hundred Crounes or other peeces of golde suche as might be or was in Rome at that tyme moste currante but for that the kyng thought her therein vnreasonable he refused vtterly these her offered marchaundises by meanes whereof incontinently she did three of theim in his presence to be burned not leauyng therefore to aske

Notwithstanding it appeareth moste euidently that the yéeres mentioned in the Holy Scriptures were none others then these of our time that if there were any kinde of difference sutche it was as was not almoste sensible Which thinge is very well proued by Iosephus as also by Lactantius Firmianus but yet more perfectly and more plainely by S. Augustine by whose authoritie and reasons easily may be confounded who so leaneth to the contrarye Touchinge the firste that eche Moone in that Age gaue them one full yéere accoumptinge euermore from the one Coniunction vnto the other it resteth an eroour moste open and euidente for that wée wel know that that conteineth not thirtie dayes full so that one hundred yéeres folowing this our accoumpte would mounte vnto aboue one thousand and twoo hundred of theirs of that time Whence it woulde folowe contrarye to the opinion of all that men in our Age nowe presently lyue longer then they did immediately after the Creation of the world for that neuer was there any man that liued one thousande and twoo hundred yéeres whiche nothinge surmounteth this Age of ours It also is apparente that somme emonge vs liue an hundred yéeres somme also thoughe rare it chaunce an hundred and twelue whiche woulde rise to more then a thousande and thrée hundred yéeres accoumpting them accordinge to the course of the Moone Like errour to this was not also theirs which affirmed tenne yéeres of the firste Age paste to be iuste one and no more of this our time For had that their opinion bene true then should men haue benne able in the acte of Generation at the Age of seuen eighte and tenne yéeres which squareth with no rule or parte of Philosophie For proofe whereof wée reade in Genesis that Seth the sonne of Adam begatte Enoch beinge then olde an hundred and fiue yéeres If then ten yéeres of that Age had answeared by iust proportion but vnto one of these oures it then shoulde followe that these of the firste Age at the Age of tenne yéeres and a halfe of this time present shoulde be stronge and able in the acte of Generation Cain also hauinge issue at thréescoare and tenne yéeres should haue also benne Father followinge our accompt at the ende of his first seuen yéeres yea and that whiche more is at a farre yonger Age if one of our yéeres had counterpeased twelue of the firste Age as diuerse haue not leafte lightly to surmise But wée shall more plainly yet vnfolde this their fowle faulte and by this reason weaken their inexcusable errour If their yéere were but the tenth or tweluth parte of oures then consequently must it follow that their yéere had not twelue Moneths or at least that their Moneth had but three daies whiche is false for that the sayde texte of the Scripture saithe that the generall Floudde began the seuentiene daye of the seconde Moneth whence wee euidenily learne that the moneths of that time where none other then are oures Concerninge the others whose opinion was that a yeere in the firste Age was but the fourth parte of one in this their yéere beinge the space of thrée moneths only is proued by the saide péece of Scripture to be in like manner false For in the same place is it readde that the Arke of Noë flottinge on the waters arrested it self the seuen and twentie daie of the seuenth Moneth whiche the waters fallen first staide it selfe in the Mountaines of Armenia Againe after is it written that the waters dayly diminished vntill the tenth Moneth and that in the firste daie of the saide moneth the toppes of highe Hilles and Mountaines eche where discouered them selues Whence nowe lie euident the errours of those whiche measured for their yéere the onely space of thrée Moneths for that mention is here made bothe of the seuenth and tenth Then may wée well learne that the auncient yéere had also twelue Moneths as haue in this laste Age semblably oures for that remembringe the tenth it mindeth lesse nothing then the ende or the last And as ill also may that be saide that their Moneth had but thrée daies onely for of the seuen and twentie daye of the Moneth plaine and expresse mention lieth open in the Texte But least of all may it be supposed that their daies had of length but twoo or thrée howers for that the same Texte againe reporteth that it raigned and the windowes of Heauen were opened by the full space of fourtie daies and fourtie nightes So now then is it euident that the daies were naturall of foure and twentie howres the Moneths and yéeres none other then are oures or at least very small and insensible was the difference Whiche thinge to that ende I onely haue spoken for that all men accompted the course of the Heauens as wée doo so that this order amonge the learned the Hebrewes I meane as well as the Egyptians hath benne reuerently eche where and alwaies obserued among whom Moyses the Historiographer was brought vp Author of those holy Bookes where these longe liues are recorded Now if wée would subscribe to the opinion of many who affirme the Hebrewes to haue measured their Moneths by the course of the Moone geuinge forth their yéere complete by the twelue Moneths Lunaries eche Moneth hauinge onely niene and twentie daies fouretene howres or at the least very litle more or lesse by meanes whereof the yéere might ende aboute twelue daies shorter then that whiche wée measure by the passage of the Sunne whiche is thrée hundreth thirty and fiue daies and sixe howres This difference notwithstandinge ne yet leaueth doubtfull or of any parte vncertaine the longe and great Age of our forepassed Fathers for a smal matter is it in niene hundred or a thousande yéeres to exempte twentie or thirtie for that the Monethes Lunaryes were not full thirtie dayes Hence then conclude wée by this authoritie certaine that the nine hundred and thirtie yéeres whiche Adam liued the nine hundred also of the others were sutch as were the hundred thrée scoare and fiuetiene of Abraham and sutch also as are the thrée scoare and tenne and foure scoare of of our time for the moste parte the extreame tearme ende of our lyues There is also one other and semblable consideration to be noted to this pourpose alleaged by S. Augustine Admitte saithe he that in the Scriptures no mention be made that Adam and his Posteritie had any other Children before these that are in the saide Scriptures remembred yet is it for a veritie assuredly to be mainteined that bothe before and after they had diuers and sundrye yea and that in theire tenderer Age also then is any where in holy Write in any wise specified Wherof to yéelde more sufficient proufe when it is saide that Caine had builte to him a Cittie the first of all others that euer was in this worlde of whiche Iosephus reporteth sayinge That it was bewtified with diuers Towers enuironed compast with