vnto Forly where as hee past all that day in terrible discourses and agitations of the minde as euery one may coniecture Returning late and finding the doores shut he lay vpon a dunghill vntill daie-light In the morning hee enters goes and hides him-selfe in a Carpenters house where he continued sixe whole monethes Without any bookes or conference with any man He liued a good while after quite changed from what he was carelesse of the true or false religion and died miserably BARTHELM◅VVE of Bolognia in his life In the yeare 1552. ALDANA a Spaniard Lieutenant to King FERDINAND in the warre of Hongarie going to the seege of Segedin he committed FIGVEROA a Spanish Captaine to the gards of boates at the passage of a Riuer named Tisse who hauing newes of ALDANAS shamefull flight vpon a vaine feare did as his Commander and hauing left the passage he studied howe to make his retreat Soone afterwardes beeing in rage against himselfe for his error hee resolued to kill him-selfe the which his rider did hinder all hee could but FIGVEROA beeing determined to doe the deede hee intreated his ryder to staie for him vnder a tree whilest that hee went to vntrusse a pointe His man who had taken his armes from him obeyed him in the rest But beeing at his ease vnder the tree hee fell a sleepe attending his Maister FIGVEROA approching softly vnto him stoole awaie a pistoll where-with hee slue him-selfe vpon the place ASCANIVS CENTVRIVS Booke 4. of his Hi◅torie of the warre of Transiluania The Venetians hauing beene defeated at Guiaraddade by King LEVVIS the twelfth the foureteene daie of May 1509 and then spoyled of most of that which they held vpon the maine land being amazed at their Losses and fearing least the King should proceede with his victories their affaires in their owne opinions beeing reduced to the extremity the feare which they had conceiued was so violent as without any good consideration of them-selues or aduice their companies being retired to a place called Mestre lyuing at discretion without anie military discipline they resolued to quit the Seigneurie of the firme Lande that they might haue no more the Emperor King nor Pope for their enemies as before they had as also to take all occasion from the King of approching to Venise They feared some tumult also in the Cittie by the people or by the great multitude of Strangers that did inhabit there these for the desire of spoile and those because they would not endure seeing they were borne in the same C◅ttie and many of the same bloud and famely to see themselues depriued of honors and publicke charges and to be in a manner subiect to the Gentlemen in all things To increase their despaier and want of courrage this reason was yet alledged in the Senat that if they did willingly abandon and quit the Seigneury to flie the present dangers good fortune returning they should recouer it the more easily for that the people which had bin voluntarily seperated from them would make no so great resistance not to returne vnder the obedience of their ancient Lords as if they had beene deuided by a manifest rebellion By these reasons the Venetian generositie was layed vnder foote with the greatnesse of that glorious Common-weale beeing content to retaine onelie the salt Waters they sent Commissions to their Magistrates and officers that were in Padoua Verona and other Townes appointed by the atticles of the League to the Emperour MAXIMILIAN commanding them to depart presently and to leaue them in the peoples power Moreouer to the ende they might obtaine a peace of MAXIMILIAN at what price and with what conditions soeuer they sent vnto him with great speede ANTHONY IVSTINIAN for Ambassador who hauing a publicke audience hee made a pittifull oration and with great submission but it was in vaine for the Emperor refused to make any accord without the King with whome the Venetians would not by anie meanes treate This Oration you may reade at large in GVICIHARDIN the which doth shewe as appeeres by the Annotations in the margent the basenesse of man-kinde which aduersitie doth laie open and shewe what it is that is to say wretched in euery sort and that when as mans eloquence is amazed his discouses are Childish and full of importunate and insupportable fllaterie To conclude in all the Venetians submissions who yeelded themselues as it were with halters about their neckes to one that could not greatly releeue them wee see daiely the fruites of feare which subiects all polliticke States as well as priuate persons to base actions and the soueraig◅e Iudge abating the power of their seates and confounding the greatest and wisest wittes of this worlde FR. GVICHIARDIN Booke 8. Sect. 7. 8. 9. In that famous Battaile of Pauia in the yeare 1524. IOHN DIESPACH Colonell of the Suisses seeing his Battay lion charged and put to route by the Marquis of Guast generall of the Imperiall foote hauing made no fight and that neither with words nor with his sword he could make their enseignes turne againe hee was so opprest with greefe as hee resolued to haue no share in this infamous retreate Where-vpon hee runnes desperatlie among the enemies and their fighting valiantly dyed like a worthie Commaunder in the Warre P. IOVIVS in the life of the Marquis of Pescara liber 16. POMPERANT a French Gentleman seeing Auerse taken by the troupes of the Emperor CHARLES the 5. being amazed at this inconuenience lifting vp his eyes to Heauen and oppressed with extreame sorrowe he fell downe to the Earth and so died with his eyes open notwithstanding any remedies that could bee applied vnto him P. IOVIVS lib 26. of his Histories ZEANGER Sonne to SVLTAN SOLYMAN seeing vpon the ground the body of his Brother MVSTAPHA who had beene strangled with a bowe-string by the Fathers commandement in the presence of this Parricide ◅ee pulled out his poynard and after some reproches slue himselfe ASCANIVS CENTORIVS Booke 6. of the warres of Transiluania ALPHONSO ALBVGVERGVE Lieutenant for the King of Portugal at the East-Indies hauing about the yeare 1514. setled Gouernors in Malaca to administer Iustice to merchants being two noblemen of the Country the one called NINACHETVEN the other VTERIMVTA◅AIA a while after he changed his opinion and intreated NINACHETVEN to resigne his dignity to giue it to an other Noble-man that was King of Campar which is a little kingdom in those Coūtries towards the South NINACHETVEN vnderstanding that they were gone tofetch this petty King to install him in his place resolued with himselfe not to endure to bee so degraded Hee therefore caused a high Scaffold to be built supported by certaine Pillers hung with Tapistry and beautified with Flowers and store of Persumes This done hee put on a roabe of cloth of gold all couered with precious Stones being thus appointed he came into the streete and went vp the staires vnto the Scaffold There was belowe a pile of sweete Wood orderly laide and kindled
make her complaintes to almightie GOD the world she would force him to the execution of his promise seeing that hee would not willingly performe it The Knight grewe more amazed then before and made her answere that hee vnderstood nothing of her Language and that she mistooke herself for that hee had neuer had any secret conference with her had promised her nothing neither could shee demande any thing at his hands The Gentlewoman mad with this answere in replying sayd Do you not remember that you did this and this with mee repeating euery thing that had happened vnto her with the Imposter in the Knights shape adding withall you cannot auoide it to bee my husband and I your wife The Knight beeing much amazed beganne to protest that shee was much deceiued to thinke it to be true and contending thereon the Gentlewoman did note vnto him the day of the promise which was vpon a sollemne feast daie Then the Knight sware vnto her that vpon that daie nor three weekes before nor three weekes after he had not beene in the Towne neither in his house nor in hers the which I will prooue vnto you so plainely as you shall rest satisfied and if any one hath deceiued you in my name I am not to bee blamed But to the ende you should not doubt of the truth of my saying I will presently verefie it Then not departing from her hee caused seauen or eight of his house-hold seruants and others to come who vnacquainted with the cause did sweare that the Knight had spoken the truth and that all that time hee had beene aboue fiftie Leagues from thence The Gentlewoman much troubled with this deposition beganne to remember some particularities and to apprehend that no mortall man could haue done them but that they were Imposturs of Satan so as soone after the retreate of the true Knight shee beganne to finde the cause of this abuse and detesting her foolish concupiscence humbling her-selfe shee resolued not to thinke anie more of marriage but ended the remainder of her daies in a Monasterie In the same Booke A bloudie sweat THE Plague beeing in the Towne of Misnia in Saxony there died a great nuÌ„ber of people in the yeare 1542. in the moneth of Iuly It happened that an honest woman 〈◊〉 AGATHE ATERMAN fell sicke and for the space of foure daies swete great droppes of bloud at her for-head so as as soone as euer they had wipt her others came presently shee died aboute the twenteth of September GEORGE le FEVRE in the Annales of Misnia Booke 3. A Miserable Rashnesse CLAVDE Bastard Daughter to SINEBALD FIESQVE Earle of Lauagne being married to a Gentleman of Chiauari neere vnto Genoa called RAVASCHIER was much courted to her dishonour by a Gentleman of the same place named IHON de la TOVR who abusing the loue RAVASCHIER did beare him did seeke to robbe him of his Wife But this vertuous Gentle-woman hauing often-times reiected him hee was so blinde as to imagine that her denials were but allurements and setling this vnworthy conceit in his braine finding his friend to be one day absent hee went and lay vnder the Gentle-womans bed hoping that night being come and she lying alone he might easily inioy her Being retyred and layd to her rest before her Chamber-maide went away into a neere Closet shee commanded her to looke about if there were not any thing that might disquiet her rest in the night The 〈◊〉 auing searcht euery where in the end she cast downe her eyes and spyed vnder her Mistresse bed a black thing She cryed out and both fled out of that Chamber into another ouer it where-as the Gentle-womans Father in lawe was LA TOVR seeing him-selfe discouered opens the Chamber windowes speedily and casts himselfe into the streete where hee was pittifully broken and bruized and by the helpe of a friend of his that came by chance hee was carryed home to his owne house Some houres after this Tragedie is knowne for that Chiauary is but a small place The Father in lawe sends letters to RAVASCHIER and to LEVVIS of Fiesque Brother to the Gentlewoman who sent CORNELIVS their Brother with RAVASCHIER and some Soldiars who come secretly in boates being strong and well garded by the Geneuois they presently force IOHN de la TOVRS house and finding him very lame in his bedde of his fall they cut his throate hewe him in peeces and then flie Such was the ende of his rashnesse History of Italie Treasors found spoiled lost sought for againe vainely and dangerously ABout the yeare 1550. neere vnto Deue a Towne in Transiluania the raine and ruines of water hauing beene very great and the weâ—…her growne faire some peasants going forth to worke descouer by the reuerberation of the Sun a great Treasor which did shine vnder a rotten tree which lookt red through age There was first of a la serpent all of gold the which after the death of a Monke called GEORGE who had seized thereon and was slaine came to the hands of the Emperor FERDINAND There was also found a great number of Medailles of gold of the waight of three Crownes a peece hauing the figure of LYSIMACHVS King of Thrace of the one side and on the other side a victory The peasants had the value of twenty thousand Crownes for their shares The rest was sent to FERDINAND then King of Bohemia by IOHN BAPTISTA CASTALDE his Lieutenant with two Medailles of gold of NINVS and SEMIRAMIS giuen to the Emperor CHARLES the 5. This treasor was valued at aboue a hundred thousand Crownes ACS. CENTORIVS Booke 4. of the war of Transiluania A poore fisherman remayning at Bresse called BARTLEMEVVE Grandfather to ANTHONY CODRE VRCE a learned Gramarien in our time digging in the ground found a great vessell full of siluer with the which he purchased lande sufficient to entertaine his family which was great honestly and moreouer he did set vp a goodly shoppe of spices and became one of the richest men in the Country BARTHE LMEVVE of Bologne in the life of ANTHONY CODRE VRCE The Marquis of Pescara hauing taken Tunis from BAREAROVSSE and being brought into the Cittadel by the ChristiaÌ„â—… that were prisoners there one of theÌ„ being a Geneuois borne descouered vnto him a treasor that was put into sackes and cast into a Cisterne where they found aboue thirty thousand ducats in gold the which the Emperor CHARLES the 5. gaue vnto the Marquis P. IOVIVS Booke 34. of his Histories of our time The treasor of CHARLES Duke of Bourgondy wonne by the Suisses in the battailes which they gaue him neere to Gransoa Morest amounted to great sums of gold and siluer both coined and vncoyned the true value whereof was not iustly known for that at that time the Suisses did more esteeme the heads of their pikes halberds and their swords then the gold or siluer of forren Princes About the yeare 1520. a yong man simple in all his behauior called
in Daulphine He desiring to do some seruice to the King of Nauarre as also to auoide the charge that ALLARD and his put him to aduertised the King that beside the quality of Embassador ALLARD maintayned he had assured meanes to come by fiue millions of gold and vpward ALLARD beeing come beefore the King of Nauarre and hauing presented him with letters from the Lord of Dediguieres and confirmed the contents therof by word of mouth he was reasonable wel accouÌ„ted of for a time In the meane whyle the King of Nauarre going to Rochell and ALLARD in his trayne certaine shippes of Sweath land chanced to arriue in the Hauen at Rochell The Capitaines merchants and Maisters whereof hearing of ALLARD with whom they had spoken told some of their acquaintance that ALLARD was a CoÌ„nicatching knaue which had seduced the king of Sweath-laÌ„d with a companion of his a Gascoigne borne was cause of the deuision that happened betweene the King of Sweathland his brother which had set al the realme on an vproare The impostor perceiuing hee was discouered got him presently away with his followers to the late King HENRY the 3 to the Queene mother vnto whom he declared at large what meanes hee had to serue them by putting them in possession of those fiue millions of gold before mentioned and a farre greater summe As also how hauing beene very much vrged by the King of Nauarre to shewe him the place where such great treasures lay and the meanes to come by them because hee would not be constrained so to do he had retired him-selfe as it were euen out of the closet of the Court and seruice of the sayd King of Nauarre The King and his Mother glad of such newes gaue good entertainmeÌ„t to ALLARD whose comming being published in the Court amongest many others he insinuated himselfe into the company of Monsieur de CLERVAN gaue him to vnderstaÌ„d that he had papers of great importance at Rome which hee could not well come by but by meanes of the Suissers who if they would but write vnto the Pope about them he should be sure to haue them restored againe for their sakes Wherfore he promised if they wold procure him those papers to giue theÌ„ 60000. Dollers which the towne of Nuremberg ought him with the interest of it for twelues yeares after 5. in the hundreth by the yeare so that in all it amouÌ„ted to the sum of 96. thousand Dollars CLERVAN thervpon went to his Baronny of Coppet where hauing taken order for certaine priuate affaires of his owne he rode to Berne some two daies iourney and an halfe from thence there he acquainted diuers Lords of that Canton with the whole matter desiring theÌ„ that they would take vpoÌ„ them to write vnto the Pope for to haue those papers againe and draw that profit into their Cofers They answered it was to be feared least ALLARD were some Cunnicatcher and that hauing accesse vnto the Queene Mother who was greatly fauoured of the Pope that loued not them he needed not to employ any other but her in the matter Or if ALLARD desired any other course that he should repaire to the fiue small Cantons their allyes Here-with CLERVAN returned to Coppet which was fast by Geneua where hee talked with a great Merchant called IOHN TERNAVLT about the matter requested him to communicate it to Coronell PSIFFER of Lucerne AMMAN LVCY of Vnderwald and other Lords of the 5 Cantons being at that instant in those quarters which was executed they harkned vnto it reseruing the conclusion vntill such time as they bad conferred in person with ALLARD and CLERVAN who being aduertised that these Switzer Lords were come into France which was about Nouember and December 1582. they went vnto them to Paris where hauing made some entry into the matter it was resolued they should meet at St. Iames his Hospitall to conclude this affaire All was agreed on condition that ALLARD should forth-with assigne ouer the lords of Nurembergs specialties touching thâ—… principall interest aâ—…ore said amouÌ„ting to the sum of 96000. Dollors whereof the Lords of the fiue Cantons should haue three fift parts amounting to 57600. And CLERVAN TERNAVLT the rest equally deuided betwixt theÌ„ which was 19200. Dollars to each of them Besides ALLARD was to furnish 6500. Crownes in ready money for the voyage to Rome wherin TERNAVLT was to be emploied In these agreements PSIFFER a man of â—…ound iudgement stood stiffe in his first opinion that ALLARD was a notorious Impostor Neuertheles he so oiled his toÌ„gue hauing the French Dutch and Italian naturally that in a new assembly with these Lords he declared vnto theÌ„ after a demure and graue manner as his custome was that he was about to contract with the King vnto whom hee was to lend 2. millions of gold 15. daies after the agreement made that is to say 160000. crownes in ready money and 400000 crownes to be raised on the late Lord Constables goods whose Bill he said he had had promised to deliuer it vnto the King who was there withall well pleased as ALLARD affirmed Only he had stood vpon securitie for so notable a summe of money that therefore the Councel promised to assure him the Salt pits of Brouage and the reuene wâ—…thereof where with ALLARD said he was contented onely he feared lest such assurance would be reuoked Wherfore he intreated the Embassadors of the Canton of Lucern that they would deale in such sort with their Lords that he might be receiued into the nuÌ„ber of their Burgesses offering in 〈◊〉 compence of such fauour the summe of 20000. crownes to the Seignorie of Lucern to each of those Embassadors 2500. crowns a piece Therupon he posted to Lucerne tooke his oath returned into France with 12. Switzers for his guard neuer furnishing a penny all this while but lâ—…lling the world asleep with his golden promises and plucking round sums of money both from great small in euery place wherby he maintained himself in his practises All of theÌ„ were cousened by him except the Caronel Psâ—…ffer who beeing rich regarded no promises laughed at their credulity As affaires past in this manner my Lady had intelligence of the speech ALLARD had vsed touching the late L. Constables Bill whereupon shee wrote that they should take heede of this pratler affirming her Lord was not so bad an husband as to be indebted in such a summe to a stranger who at length would proue to be a Cunny-catching kâ—…aue There came a Rocheller also that warned diuers to beware of ALLARD which moued TARNAVLT to write by a trusty messenger to Monsieur GARGOVILAR the Mayor of Rochell who returned answer that ALLARD was a notable deceiuer The Suizter Embassadors hauing sworne the league with the King left TERNAVLT in the Court for the expedition of certaine affaires they had there going to take horse ALLARD accompanied with honourable personages participants in the businesse promised
the Iudges did not punish him He was often put in prison but the Iudges durst not exceed the lawe the which did forbid them to condemne any one accused before he had confessed the fact And this MORTAC was so constant in denying the trueth as it was impossible to draw any thing from his owne mouth whether it were that he felt no torments or that hee did contemne them for he apprehended no more to be strained with a corde then to dance If they gaue him a sharpe strapadoe hee seemed to endure much and would crye out Let mee downe and I will tell the trueth Being let downe and vntied he would say vnto the Gouernors what will you haue mee say There-vpon they asked him who hath done this or that and he mocking them would repeate this question saying Doest thou know who hath done this or that and then he would adde in scoffing manner giue me once more the Strappadoe for the loue of the Ladies so as they were forced to let him alone He committed infinite thefts after the manner before mentioned but hee dyed not so shamefully as he deserued yet most cruelly for the plague hauing so seized vpon his throate as he could not speake his Mother who tended him fearing he would scape and be hanged afterwards buried him aliue And so liued and dyed MORTAC Extracted out of the Annales of Geneua Liberalitie THE Emperor MAXIMILIAN the first committed the managing of a great summe of mony to a Gentleman that was exceeding prodigall and a very bad husband whereof being aduertised he called for him and demanded an account of a remainder amounting to 2000. crownes and vpward The other required some respite to make perfect his account which was granted him Hauing considered throughly of the matter the next day hee went and presented himselfe vnto the Emperour who wondring at his sodaine returne referred him to the time prefixed the day before Sacred Maiestie then said the Gentleman I will briefly shew you the trueth of the case to the end you may not be troubled long about it You are good to all men I confesse I haue imployed the most part of your money in the entertainment of whores buying of Horses gaming and bankets and without farther excusing of my selfe I haue done ill I haue deserued to bee punished by the lawe But I besecch you to beare with my youth and for my friends sake to pardon me if it may please your Maiestie to vse me I will be wiser here after The Emperor hearing this free and open confession began to smile presently commanded his Barber to be sent for to whom he said cut me this Gentlemans hayre and with thy Rasor make him a faire large crowne on the top of his head for I will presently make an Abbot of him At the same instant the Emperor was aduertised of the vacancie of an Abbey by the death of the Abbot they were deuising in MAXIMILIANS presence vpon whom it should be conferred marry vpon him yonder quoth the Emperor pointing to the Gentleman that was in the Barbars hands Then calling him vnto him he sayd I giue thee such an Abbey If thou continuest as thou hast begun thou wilt consume both Monkes and Couent The Gentleman vnto whom good fortune came sleeping like vnto a Câ—…anoine of LEVVIS the 11. hauing accepted this Collation with great reuerence and thankes hee tooke possession of the Abbey became a good husband and gouerned his Monkes to their content I. le GAST of Frissac Tom. 2. of his Table-talke GEORGE of Amboise Cardinall a chiefe Councellor to the good King LEVVIS the twelfth did enioye Gaillion depending of his Arche-bishopricke of Rouan the which hee did in-large and beautifie all hee could as a house of pleasure to delight him after his serious occupations There was a gentleman a neighbor of his some-what distressed who to free himselfe spake to one of the Cardinalls followers to be a meanes vnto his Maister to buy his land the which laie very conueniently for Gaillion As the disposition of all Courtiars is readie for such negotiations he presently aduertised his Maister perswading him that he might buie this Land good cheape To whom the Cardinall answered with a smyling and cheere-full countenance that he desired nothing more then to conferre with the gentleman about that purchase commanding him to inuite him to dinner This commandement was presently put in practise by the Courtiar Some fewe daies after the gentleman hauing dyned with the Cardinall the table being taken vp and euery one retired to giue them place for their priuate talke The Cardinal began to fall into discourse vpon this Land aduising him as a neighbour a friend not to sell that place which was his ancient inheritance the other insisted to the Contrary alledging for his reasons that hee did hope to reape three commodities by this sale the one was in getting his fauor by this meanes the other was that with a part of the money hee should marry a Daughter of his and the last that he should imploy the rest of his money in rentes which should profit him as much as the reuenewes of his whole Lands And therefore my Lord sayd he for that it lies more conueniently for you then any other I haue addrest my selfe vnto you to make you what price you please But neighbour answered the Cardinall if you might borrowe money to marrie your Daughter well would you not be much better pleased to keepe your Lande whervnto the gentleman replyed that it would bee an other difficultie to pay the money at the prefixed day But if you might haue such a time giuen you sayd the Lord as without strayning of your selfe you might free your debt what would you say O my Lord replyed the other you say well but where are such lenders And so being fallen into a still discourse of selling and lending in the ende this good Legat sayd truelie I wil be the Man and no other that will performe what I haue said The which hee did for hee lent him money for so long a Terme as this gentleman married his Daughter to his owne minde and yet saued his Lande As all Courtiers are carefull of their Maisters profit though it be to an others hurt comming from their secret conference this Mediator comes who demandes in priuate of his Maister if hee had agreed vpon the price I sayd hee and I thinke I haue gayned more then you will beleeue For insteede of the Lordshippe whereof you did speake I haue purchased a friend desiring rather to haue a good neighbour then all the Lands in the world The poore Courtier being confounded did no more dreame of any such bargaines I would to GOD that all Noblemen would consider well of this Historie And yet this Cardinall dying did Lament with teares the time which hee had spent rather in following of a Kings Court then in teaching of his flock M. E. PASQVIER liber 5. de ses recerches Chapter 5.
off Beeing examined how they could gette out off a strong and close prison Why they haue returned and how they could passe ouer Riuers that were large and deepe They answered that no Yrons walles nor doores could hinder their getting out that they returned by constraint and that they did flye ouer Riuers and runne by land Hetherto I haue set downe the wordes of Doctor PEVCER the which shew that this transformation of Licanthropes nor that of Sorcerers mentioned by BODIN haue no affinitie with the transmutation of the King of Babilon nor with that of LOTS wife and that in this Licanthropia there are manifest illusions of Sathan the which ought not to bee confounded with apparent testimonies of GODS visitation vpon some persons as the Diuines which haue expounded these Histories doe shewe more at large Moreouer IOHN WIER is of a contrary opinion vnto BODIN touching the Licanthropes whereof wee speake and disputes at large thereof in the sixt Booke of Diuelish Deuises Chapter thirteenth and foureteenth where hee manifestlie denyes BODINS reall transformation and doth maintayne that it is onely in the fantasie troubled by the indisposition of the person and by the illâ—…sion of Sathan But wee will leaue their controuersie to such as will looke into it and will propound some examples touching mad-men There are two kindes Some growe so by the poyson of the melancholike humour as well throughout all the bodie as principally in the braine the which beeing not redrest in time simple melancholie becomes frenzie that fuâ—…y and in the end rage which is fearefull and not to bee cured whereof M. PHTER SALIVS and MARCELLVS DONATVS learned Physitions do intreate and propound some histories Let vs speake after them and serue them as an Interpreter to our French-men It is a question if the venimous humor called Rage the which breeds in so many sortes of creatures which impart it vnto man as we knowe may beginne by man himselfe and haue inward beginnings without any accidentall contagion without Reason makes vs to yeeld to this opinion seeing that by the consent of all men mortall poisons may be engendred within man that rage should not bee excluded out of this ranke man differing from a Serpent which spitts poyson no more then from other beastes which are subiect vnto madnesse But for that the Ancients for the most part haue held that no man could growe madde if hee had not beene toucht without by some other person or Beast that was madde it seemes wee should not lightly stray from their opinions notwithstanding seeing that experience may resolue this difficulty I will relate what mine eyes haue seene A woman sixe and thirty yeares old troubled with a continuall feuer called me to helpe her I found her seized of a pestilent ague I gaue her Physick so as eleauen daies after shee was cured Eleauen daies after that she was troubled with a greeuious flixe and an ague I was called and began to incounter this disease the which I surmounted within seauen daies after There remained yet some relikes of a feuer the which seeking to take away this woman fell so to abhorre all Liquors as not onelie shee lothed all Physicall potions and all drinkes for her refection but shee could not endure that anie one should drinke in her presence I knewe by this accident alone that shee was toucht with rage the which did so increase as shee could not endure they should bring any light into her Chamber in regard of her feeding detesting all drinkes and all liquid Physicke And for that her feuer and the tediousnesse of her disease would not suffer her to maintayne her selfe well with solide meates shee became exceeding feeble but shee languished seauen dayes after that shee had begunne to reiect all drinke and Liquide notrishment I found in her no other cause of defect but onelie this disdaine of drinking and taking that which was Liquid Neither did shee complaine of any thing but when they presented it vnto her then should you see her mooue her selfe after a strange manner Except this it was a verie quiet infirmitie and asking her if shee had euer beene toucht with the teeth of any madde Dogge her answere was that no Dogge had euer toucht her hauing had none in her house nor beene in companie where anie was Hauing enquired of her Mother if neuer Dogge had toucht her Daughter at anie time in all her life shee assured mee no. This made mee to doubt whether one by internall principles and of their owne corruption might not become madde For hauing in this infirmity no coniecture of Contagion without and this feare of drinke and liquide things beeing not conioyned with the accidents which are accustomed to accompanie them that are bitten with madde Beastes I did coniecture that this disease grewe from some internall cause which was not so violent comming not by the outwards partes through the byting of some enraged Beaste if wee will not say that the force therof was quenched by the counterpoysons that were giuen her in the cure of her pestilent feuer and by reason of her apparent and great euacuation of badde humours in the Dissenterie or fluxe Besides this experience I was confirmed by the authoritie of CAELIVS AVRELIANVS writing that some-times one growes madde with out anie apparent cause and by the Historie which SORANVS reports saying that hee had seene an Infant which did abhorre the Nurces brests without any precedent Contagion PETRVS SALIVS in his Booke of particuler diseases It happened in the yeare 1573. In September that GABRIEL NOVARE a man of fiftie yeares of age and a widower lyuing in the Duke of Mantouas Countrie beeing at dinner hee felt some-thing hee knewe not what to grate his winde-pipe Hee beganne to take the glasse to â—…ase him of this paine but hee coulde by no meanes possible swallowe that which troubled him within Beeing angrie with him-selfe hee runnes to a paile of Water to drinke with his hande but approching to it with his mouth hee fell back-ward hee riseth speedely goes his way and doth not suppe that night The next daie both at dinner and at supper hee feeles the like accident The third daie hee came to mee on horse backe and by the waie as hee rode hee did eate some store of grapes at his pleasure Hauing vnderstood all from him to knowe his greefe exactly I offer to his mouth at two or three seuerall times a glasse full of Water I call my friendes to see and beholde this spectacle at euery time his heart pantes and swells hee trembles hee faintes and seemes like one that were strangled When I drawe backe the glasse hee recouers his spirrites vnderstands and discourseth shewes himselfe vigorous hath no feuer is without paine all his functions are whole and perfect onelie hee cannot drinke I prescribed him counterpoysons but within three daies hee dies I serche I sound I consider all yet finde no apparent cause of this Accident MARCELLVS DONATVS lib. 6. Chap.