the Lawe at Bolognia the fat not finding a conuenient lodging to liue sparingly in they were aduertised that in the same streete where their Inne was there was a house left desert and abandoned by reason of certaine visions which appeered there the which they might haue to dwell in without anie rent as long as they should please to staie in it They accept of the condition fit them-selues with stuffe and passe the time merilie for a monethes space At the ende whereof AYOLAS two companions going to bedde earlie and hee late in his studie hearing a great noise as it had beene of manie iron chaines shaken togither hee went out of his studie with his sword and in his other hand his candle-light then hee planted him-selfe in the midest of the Hall without a waking his companions expecting what should beecome of this noise the which in his opynion came from beneath the staires answering to a great Court right beefore the Hall Beeing in this expectation hee descouers at the staires dore a verie greeuious and fearefull vision of a Carcasse that had nothing at all but bare boanes drawing about his feete and the middle of his bodie these chaines which made such a noyse This vision stayed and AYOLA resuming courrage beganne to coniure it that hee should let him vnderstand in some conuenient manner what hee would haue The vision beganne to crosse his armes to hold downe his head and to becken him with one hand to followe him downe the staires AYOLA answered goe before and I will followe thee where-vpon the vision begannne to go downe softly like vnto one that were â—…ettered beeing followed by AYOLA whose candell went out on the midest of the staires This renewed his feare yet incorraging him-selfe againe hee sayd vnto the vision thou seest that my candle is out I will goe and light it againe if thou wilt tarrie for mee heere in this same place I will returne presently vnto thee againe Hee ranne to the harth where the fire was and lighted his candell and came to the staires where he found the vision standing there and then hee followed it Hauing crost the Court of the lodging they enter into a great gardin in the midest whereof was a well the which made AYOLA thinke that this vision would doe him some harme and therefore hee stayed But the vision then made a signe vnto him to goe to another place in the Garden and as hee went thether the vision sodenly vanished away AYOLA being alone began to call him protesting that he would do any thing that was in his power and stayed there awhile But the vision appeared no more and the Spaniard returned to his Chamber and awaked his companions who seeing him so pale gaue him a little Wine and some comfitures inquiring of his aduenture the which hee reported vnto them Soone after this accident being bruted throughout all the Citty the Gouernor inquired carefully of the manner of it and vnderstanding all circumstances by the relation of AYOLA hee caused some to digge where-as the vision vanished away There they found a carcase in Chaines as AYOLA had seene it in a deepe Sepulchre from whence being drawne and interred in an other place with others all the noise which had beene before in this great lodging ceased The Spaniards returning into Spaine AYOLA was made a Iudge and had a Sonne who was a President in a Towne of Spaine in the time of TORQVEMADO who made this discourse in the third Iourney of his Hexameron The which agrees with the relation which PLINIVS SECVNDVS makes of the Philosopher ATHENODORVS in his Epistle to SVRE liber 7. THEODORE GAZA a learned man in our time had obtained a certaine Farme in gift from the Pope His Farmer digging on a time in a certaine place found a vessell in the which were bones Here-vpon a vision appeared vnto him commanded him to put that Vessell againe into the earth else his Sonne should dye And for that the Farmer made no accoumpt of it soone after his Sonne was slaine Some dayes after the vision returned threatning the Famer to kill his other Sonne if hee did not put the vessell and the boanes in the place where hee had found them The Farmer bethinkâ—…ng himself seeing his other Sonne fallen sicke reported all vnto THEODORE who going vnto his farme and in the same place where the Farmer had drawne out the vessell he caused a pit to be made where they did hide the vessell with the boanes the which beeing done the Farmers Sonne did presently recouer his helth MANLIVS in his common places LAVATER Booke 1. Chap. 11 of the apparition of Spirits MELANCHON in his treatise of the Soule writes that he himselfe had many apparitions and had knowne many credible persons which did affirme that they had talkt with spirits In his booke intitled ordinary examinations hee sayth that hee had an Aunte his Fathers Sister who being with-childe after her Husbands death being set nere the fite two men entred into her house one of theÌ„ was like vnto her deceased husbaÌ„d so carried himselfe the other of a very tall stature was attired like a Friar He that was like vnto her husband came neere vnto the Chimney salutes his Wife and intreates her not to bee amazed saying that hee was come to charge her to doe some thing Here-vpon hee commaundes the Friar to retier into the Stoue And hauing discoursed long with his Wife talking of Preestes and Masses beein readie to depart hee sayd vnto her stretching forth his hand Touch here but for that she was amazed hee did assure her shee should haue no harme Where-vp on shee toucht it and although her hand grewe not impotent yet it was so petiously burnt as it was euer after blacke LAVATER Booke 1. Chapter 14. of the apparition of Spirits PETER MAMER writes that at Constant vpon Vienne there appeered aboue a 140. years since in the house of one named CAPLAND an euill spirit saying it was the soule of a woman that was dead the which did sigth and crie out complayning verie much admonishing them to make many praiers and pilgrymages and reuealing manie things that were true But some one saving vnto it if thou wilt haue vs beleeue thee say LORD remember mee according to thy great mercies His answere was I can not Then the assistants laught at him and hee fled with a noise The like happened to NICHOLAS AVBERY of Veruin whereof 〈◊〉 BARTLEMEVVE FAY a Councellor of the Parliament hath written the Historie where hee sayth that Sathan appeered vnto her praying vnto her Fathers graue as if hee had come out of it and sayd vnto her that shee must say manie masses and certaine pilgymages to drawe him out of Purgatorie yet after all this hee did still torment this poore woman and although in the beginning hee sayd hee was her grand-father yet in the ende hee sayd hee was Beelzebub There is a later Historie well knowne to the Parisiens but
not printed the which happened in Paris in Saint Honores streete at the signe of the redde Horse A Weauer of Lace had taken his Niece home to him beeing an Orphelin One a time the maide praying vpon her Fathers graue where hee was buried at Saint Geruais Sathan presented him-selfe vnto her in the shape of a tall blacke man taking her by the hand and saying my friend feare nothing thy Father and thy Mother are well But thou must saie certaine Masses and goe in pilgrymage to our Ladie of Vertus and they shall goestraight into Paradice The maide demandes of this spirit who was so carefull of mans helth what hee was Hee answered that hee was Sathan and that shee should not bee amazed The mayde did what was commanded her Which done hee sayd she must goe in pilgrymage to Saint Iames. Shee answered I cannot goe so farre After that Sathan did not cease to importune her talking famyiiarly to her beeing alone and doing her worke saying these wordes vnto her Thou art cruell thou wilt not put thy sizers in thy bosome for my sake the which shee did to content him and to bee ridde of him But this done hee demaunded some guifte of her yea some of her haire whereof shee gaue him a locke Some daies after hee perswaded her to cast her-selfe into the water and sometimes to hang her-selfe putting the rope of a well about her necke but shee cryed out in such sort as hee did no more vrge her And yet her Vncle seeking one daie to bee reuenged of him was so well beaten as hee continued aboue fiueteene daies sicke in his bedde An other time Sathan would haue forced her and knowne her carnally and for the resistance which shee made shee was beaten vntill shee bled Amongst many that did see this maide there was one called CHOININ Secretarie to the Bishoppe of Valence who tould her that there was no better meanes to driue awaie this euill spirit then in answering nothing to that which hee should say although hee should commande to praie vnto GOD the which he neuer did but in balspheming and ioyning him alwaies with his Creatures in derision Sathan seeing that the maide answered him nothing nor did anie thing for him tooke her and cast her against the grounde after which time shee see him no more Mounsier ANNOT Bishop of Auxerra nor the Curate where the Maiden dwelt could not helpe her I. BODIN lib. 3. Chap. 6. of his Demonomania ANTHONIE dela CVEVA a Spanish Knight for some reasons vnknowne to vs and by the permission of GOD was in his life time much troubled and tempted with visions so as through custome hee had in the end lost all feare and yet hee had euer light in his Chamber where he did lye One night being in his bed and reading in a Booke he heard a noyse vnder his bed as if it had beene a Man and not knowing what it might be hee see come forth of one side of the bed a naked arme as if it had beene of a Moore the which laying hold of the Candel threw it downe with the Candle-stick and put it out Then the Knight felt this Moore come vp and goe to bed to him hauing imbraced one another they began to wrestle with all their force making such a noyse as those of the house did awake and comming to see what it was they found none but the Knight who was in a great heat and was wet as if he had come out of a Bathe Hee told them his aduenture and that this Moore hearing them come had freed himselfe from him and hee knew not what was become of him The same Author Wonderfull Visions in the ayre IN the yeare 1532. neere vnto Inspruke these Images were seene in the ayre An Eagle vpon the side of an hill very wilde against the which came three other Images as it were to teare it in peeces The first was a Camell stretching forth his necke and enuironed about with fire The second was a Wolse casting fire out at his throate and aboute him a circle of fire The third was a Lion whose haire a man armed at all partes and standing vp right at the entrie of the mountaines did gently handle and it seemed that this Lion reioyced at the man holding forth his pawe to him in signe of salutation GASPAR PEVCER Booke 15. Chap. 5. of his Diuinations Alittle before the death of IOHN Elector Duke of Saxony there was seene in the aire ouer Isenac these visions following first an old drie Tree ouerthrowne Secondly a man on hors-back which carried the tree but all the boughs puld of thirdly there was seene a hound Forthly a great blacke Crosse in a thicke Cloude Fiftly the lightning was seene comming out of this Cloud with so horrible and violent a cracke of thunder and so full of sparkes of fire as they thought it would haue consumed a Village ouer which it was likely to fall and there was a maide so terrefied as with a violent crie to her Mother for helpe shee intreated that shee might bee couered Although I will not enter into the exposition of this vision yet I gather by that which hath since followed that such Images haue represented the changes which haue happened in the house of Saxony togither with the calamities and ruines of Churches The same Author At the same time when as the League in Germanie was made called of SCHMALCAIDE therewere seene shyning in the aire Images which did seeme to fore-tell the issue of all that assosiation First were seene certaine horse-men followed by peasantes that were armed with battes and leuers then there appeered a heigh Tower neere vnto a riuer and not farre from that Tower a man which digged for water after whome came a great dragon The two first figures vanished presently but the two others continued a good long time The same Author In the yeare 1534. the third of Iuly after Noone the skie beeing cleere and bright the Inhabitantes of a little Towne called Scheswitz did see in the aire Lyons running from diuers parts to fight and by them a man on horse-backe armed shaking of a Iauelin Not farre from this man laie a mans head without a bodie wearing an Imperiall diademe Neere vnto it there was a wilde boares head with his tuskes and two Dragons vomyting forth fire Then there appeered an Image of a good bigge Towne alone neere vnto a Lake beseeged by Water and Lande and ouer it a Crosse of the collour of bloud the which by little and little grewe blacke An other horse-man all flaming and carrying on his head an Emperors Crowne presented him-selfe presently beeing followed by a horse without a guide then in the midest of a spacious plaine there appeered two Castles on fire neere vnto a heigh Mountaine vpon the which was a great Eagle hyding halfe his bodie beehinde the Mountaine and there appeered also certaine little Eagles hauing white fethers and verie bright and with all a Lyons
into Bourdeaux and beeing possest of all without blowe stroken tooke from the Citizens by vertue of his commission all there tittles recordes and documents of their rightes and priuiledges depriued them of all their honours burnt all their priueleges caused the Court Parliament to cease disarmed all the Inhabitantes tooke downe their Belles depriued them of all their Immunities and Freedomes constrayning the principalls of the Towne to the number of a hundred and fortie to goe seeke the Bodie of the Lord of Monneins at the Carmelites and to remooue it with mourning to Saint Andrewes where it is Interred hauing first with a wax Candle lighted in their handes asked mercie of almightie GOD the King and Iustice before the lodging of the Constable L'ESTONNAC the two Brothers of SAVLX and others had their heads cut off The Marshalles Prouost with a stronge troupe ranne through the Country of Burdelois BAZADOIS and AGENOIS executing them that had caused the larum Bell to bee rung In the ende the two Colonells of the commons called TAILEMAIGNE and GALAFFRE were taken who were broken vpon the wheele beeing first crowned with a Crowne of burning Iron as a punnishment of the souerainty they had vsurpt Certaine monethes after Burdeaux was established in her former estate and after the leauying some summes of money the exactiōs that were cause of these troubles were abolished History and Annales of France vnder HENRY the second Diuers remarkable commotions happened with in this hundred yeares in diuers parts of the world you shall read GOD willing in the following volumes for this time wee present you with the precedent History as an essay of the rest Prodigious spirits IT is not long since there died one CONSTANTIA who counterfeited most sorts of voices some-times hee would singe like an Nightingale who cold not chant diuision better then hee some-time brey like an Asse some-times grumble and barke like three or foure Dogges fighting togither counterfecting him that beeing bitten by the other went crying away with a Combe in his mouth hee would counterfeit the winding of a Cornet all these things hee did so excellent well as neither the Asse nor the Dogges nor the Man that winded the Cornet had any aduantage of him I haue seene and spoken with such a one oftentimes at my owne house but aboue all that which is most admirable is that hee would speake somtimes with a voice as it were inclosed in his stomacke without opening his lippes or very little at all in such manner as if hee were neere you and called you would haue thought the voice had come from a farre and so as diuers of my friends haue beene often deceiued by him Maister PASQVIER in the fift booke of his Recherches of France There is also there recited two other examples of prodigeous Spirits which I will adde to the other The first is of one MOVLINET an ancient French Poet who reports that hee hath seene a man that sunge both the note and ditty of a songe very readily at one time The other is of a young man that came to Paris in the yeare 1445. Not aboue twentie yeares olde who knewe these are the wordes of a Notary of that time all the seauen liberall Artes by the Testimonie of all the learned Clerkes of the Vniuersitie of Paris and could play on all kinde of Instrumentes singe and sett better then any other exceeding all in Paris and there abouts in painting and limming a very expert Souldiar playing with a two hand sworde so wonderfully as none might compare with him for when hee perceiued his enemie comming hee would leape twentie or foure and twentie footes vpon him Hee was also a Maister in Artes a Doctor in Phisick a Doctor of the Ciuill and Cannon Lawe a Doctor in Diuinity And for certaine hee hath disputed with vs of the Colledge of Nauar beeing fiftie in number of the best Schollers in Paris and with more then three thousand other Schollers to all which questions asked him hee hath answered so boldly as it is a wonder for them that haue not seene him to beleeue it Hee spake Latin Greeke Hebrewe Caldey Arabique and many other tongues Hee was a Knight at armes and verily if it were possible for a man to liue an hundreth yeares without eating drinking or sleeping and continually studying yet should he not attaine to that knowledge that he had done certainlie it was a great astonishment to vs for hee knew more then in humaine reason might be comprehended Hee vnderstood the foure Doctors of the Church and to conclude not to bee parareld in the world for wisedome Behold then this prodigious spirit with some others that we haue seene in our Time amongst whom was IOHN PICVS and IOHN FRANCIS PICVS his Nephew Princes of Mirandola IVLIVS CAESAR SCALIGER and others for the most part dead some other yet liuing whom I will forbeare to name Sparkles of Fire IT hath happened in my time to a Carmelite Friar that alwayes and as oft as hee put back his hood one might see certaine sparkles of fire come from the haire of his head which continued in him for the space of thirteene yeares together Madam of Caumont if she combed her haire in the darke seemed to cast forth certaine sparkles of fire from her head SCALIGER in his excersitations against CARDAN It happened vpon a time to a certaine Preacher in Spaine that from the crowne of his head downe to his shoulders one might see a flame of fire issue which was held for a great miracle HERMOLAVS BAREARVS in the fourth Booke of his Phisickes Chap. 5. Fantastiques THere are some Nations that when they are eating they couer themselues I know a Lady yea one of the greatest who is of opinion that to chew is an vnseemly thing which much impaireth their grace and beautie and therefore by her will she neuer comes abroad with an appetite And a man that cannot endure one should see him eate and shunneth all company more when he filleth then when he emptieth In the Turkish Empire there are many who to excell the rest will not be seene when they are a feeding and who make but one meale in a weeke who mangle their faces and cutt their limmes and who neuer speake to any body who thinke to honour their nature by disnaturing themselues O fanaticall people that prize them selues by their contempt mend by their empayring what monstrous beast is this that makes himselfe a horror to himselfe whom his delights displease who tyes himselfe vnto misfortune MONTAIGNE in his third booke of Essayes Chap. 5. I cannot keepe any Register of my actions Fortune hath set them so lowe I keepe them in my fantasie I haue seene a Gentleman that did not communicate his life but by the operation of his belly One might see by him at his rising a roe of close stooles to serue for seuen or eight dayes The same MONTAIGNE Women that haue become Men. IN a place called Esquirie nine leagues
vsuall answere was that GOD did chastice him and that his mercy knew what issue his afflictions should haue which nothing hindered the assurance that he had of his eternal saluation through IESVS CHRIST At 7. yeares end he died peaceably full of the spirit of repentance faith and hope in the grace of his Sauiour on the eleuenth day of September in the yeare a thousand fiue hundreth fifty and two Not long ago sayth M. ANDREVVE HONDSDORFE we sawe an Almaigne very poore and sickly and as wretched and miserable as might be by reason of the imprecations which his Father had made against him a little before his death wyshing that all kinde of misfortune might accompany him as long as he liued A Mother hauing a very disobedient Sonne fell downe on her knees and prayed GOD that her wicked Childe might bee burnt with a secret fire This imprecation fell not to the ground for the Sonne beeing suddainly seized with that fire ouer all his body beganne to cry Mother Mother your praiers are heard and languished three dayes in vnspeakeable torments hee was consumed therewith A disobedient Sonne in the Cittie of Milan mocked his mother and made mouthes at her The Mother iustly ince◅sed with so vyllanous a pranke sayd would thou mightst make such mouthes at the gallowes It fell out not long after that this rogue beeing apprehended for theeuing was condemned to bee hanged and being on the ladder at the place of execution ready to be turned of by the hangman euery one sawe him make such mouthes as hee had made before to his Mother These Histories and infinite others such like warne Parents to shun such speeches and to reclaime their Children with good admonitions or conuenient corrections They likewise exhort Children to shew themselues humble tractable and obedient to the end they bee not confounded by the iust iudgement of GOD maintayning the rights of those which are his liuely images vpō earth In Silesia happened two memorable Histories which shew the dangerous fruite of imprecations the fauour of GOD assisting vs by the ministery of his Holy Angells against the fury of euil spirits A gentleman hauing inuyted certa◅ne of his friends prepared a sumptuous feast seeing his expectation frustrated by their excuses entred into some cholor sayd since none of them will vouchsafe to come would al the Diuills in hell were here Thervpon hee got him forth of dores and went to Church where the minister was preaching vnto whō he gaue very dilligent eare and continuing so behold certaine men came riding into his yard of tall stature and all in black which willed the gentlemans man to go and tell his maister that his guests were come They fellow exceedingly affraied ran to Church aduertised his Mr of it who very much dismayd asked Coūsell of the minister what he shold do He hauing finished his sermon willed that euery body shold voide the house It was no sooner cōmanded then performed but with hast that they made to get out they left a little Child behinde them sleeping in the Cradle Those guesse that is to say the Diuils beganne to fling the tables other things about the house to roare to looke out at the windowes in the likenes of Beares Wolues Cats terrible men holding glasses of wine dishes of meate in their pawes As the gentleman to gither with the minister and neighbors were in great feare beholding such a sight the poore Father began to cry alas where is my Child Scarce was the word out of his mouth when one of those black guests brought the Child to the windowe in his armes and shewed it to all that were in the streete The gentleman almost beside himselfe sayd to one of his men whom he made most account of alack what shal I do Sir answered his seruant I wil cōmend my life vnto GOD in whose name I wil enter the house through his fauor assistance bring you your Child Wilt thou sayd his Mr GOD be with thee strengthen thee The fellow hauing receiued the Ministers blessing went into the house cōming to the Stoue where those dreadfull guests were he fell downe on his knees commended himselfe to GOD then opened the dore sawe the Diuills in horrible formes some sitting some standing others walking some ramping against the walles but al of thē assoone as they beheld him ran vnto him crying Hoh Hoh what makest thou here The seruant sweating with feare and yet strengthned by GOD went to the fiend that held the Child and sayd vnto him Come giue me this Child No marry wil I not answered the other he is mine Go bid thy Maister come and fetch him The fellow insisting sayd I will execute the charge which GOD hath cōmitted vnto me for I know that all that I doe according there-vnto is acceptable vnto him Therfore in regard of mine office and in the name assistance vertue of IESVS CHRIST I will take this Child from thee and carry it to the father Saying so he caught hold on the Child and held it fast in his armes The black guests returned no answere but roared and cryed out Hoh sirra let alone the Child or we will teare thee all to peeces But he not respecting their menaces went safely away and presently restored the Child to the gentleman his Maister Certaine daies after all those guests vanished away and the gentleman become wiser and a better Christian returned to his house IOHN GEORGE GODELMAN Doctor of Lawe at Rostoch in his treatise of Witches and Witchcraft booke 1. Chap. 1. Another gentleman vsing to giue himselfe vnto the Diuell trauelling by night but with one man was set vpon by a companie of fiendes which would haue carryed him away The seruant beeing desirous to saue his Maister held him fast about the middle The Diuills beganne to crie Sirra let goe your hold but the fellowe persisting in his determination his Maister escaped The same In Saxony a young maid that was very riche promised mariage to a proper young man but poore He foreseeing that wealth and inconstancie of sexe might easily alter this maidens resolution freely opened his minde vnto her about it Wherevpon she made a thou◅and imprecations to the contrary and amongst others this which ensueth If euer I marry any other let the Diuill take me and carry me away on the wedding day What followed there-vpon A certaine time after the fickle wenche was betrothed to another hauing vtterly forgot the former who gently admonished her more then once of her promise and horrible imprecation She nothing regarding him made her ready to be marryed to the second but the wedding day come when euery body else was merry the bride being wakened by her conscience seemed sadder then shee vsed to bee Where-vpon two men on Horse back came and lighted at the house where the feast was kept who were presently caried vp and after dinner when they fell to dancing one of them as
the Common-wealth of Genâ—…way pag. 787. 788. Nature changed IT chanced in our time at Breslaw in Silesia that a certaine young Maide hauing beene present with many others at the execution of a Theefe which was beheaded shee was so troubled there-with as shee fell to haue the falling sicknesse They applyed many remedies which did her no good A certaine Gossip according to the vsuall custome gaue her aduise saying If they gaue this Maide Cattes bloud to drinke the paine would cease Those which gouerned her following this foolish councell made her to swallow some But soone after the poore Mayde changed her naturall disposition and some-times tooke vpon her the nature of a Catte wauling leaping and running as those Beasts doe and watching softlie for Rattes and Mise in euery corner of the house trying by all meanes to catch them Shee continued in these Cattish exercises vntill the vehemencie of her fitte was past Maister MARTIN VEINRICH in his Commentarie of the beginning of Monsters Wonderfull Natures THere was a certaine Gentle man that could not endure an olde woman should looke vpon him and as it happened once that at a banquet there were certaine that had beene inuited vnknowne to him the which could not but looke vpon him his apprehension was so great as hee dyed sodenly In the same Commentarie of Monsters Cattes offend many with looking on them so as some hearing or seeing a Catte tremble and are much afraide the which I beleeue doth not proceed alone from the venome of Cattes but also from their disposition that doe see or heare them for they haue by Nature this influence from Heauen the which is neuer moued to doe her proper action vnlesse the contrarie obiect present it selfe I haue seene many of this minde and disposition in Germanie and some remaining in Goritzia If this proceeds onely of a naturall quallitie which is in fewe they that are subiect vnto it shewe it plainlie For beeing in Germanie and supping in the Winter time in a Stoue with very good company one of the troupe was much subiect vnto that humour The Hostesse knowing the disposition of the Man shutte a little Kitlin which shee had bred vp into a Cofer with-in the Stoue least this man seeing it should be offended But although hee did neither see it nor heare it yet a while after hauing smelt the ayre of a Catte his disposition enemie vnto Cats beeing stirred hee began to sweate growe pale and trembling to crye out not without amazement to all the companie that there was a Catte hidden in some corner of the Stoue MATHIOLVS vpon the 6. Booke of DIOSCORIDES Chap. 25. I haue knowne a Princesse adorned with all vertues of the minde and body that could not endure the sight of a Catte beeing other-wise of an actiue spirit and armed against all the difficulties of the world Shee imputed the cause of this feare to that which happened to her Mother beeing with Childe with her for on a time a Catte did so terrifie her as shee sounded and was long sicke of this accident Cattes did not feare her before that time when as shee did see them but this falling sodenly as it were in her lappe shee was much amazed THOMAS ERASTVS in his Disputations HIPPOLITVS LANZON a Mantouan Gentleman did so abhorre to see a Hedge-hog as if hee were not sodenly drawne away hee would sweate and faint MARCELLVS Dâ—…NATVS in his Admirall Physicall Histories lib. 6. Chap. 4. I haue knowne a Peasant in Normandie that had neuer eate Bread Flesh Fishe nor Cheese Egges were his onely foode and cheefest nourishment BRVGEMIN in his first Booke of Meate Chapt. 24. Wee haue also seene IHON de la CHESMAYE a Parrisien Secretarie to King FRANCIS the first who did so detest and abhorre the smell of fruit or Apples as hee was forced to rise from the Table when any one was brought And if they came but neere vnto his nose hee presently bled If hee did see any by chance and could not retire himselfe he sodenly stopt his nostrils with peeces of bread Wee haue heard that many issued out of the noble familie of CANDALES in Guienne haue bin of that disposition not to endure the smell of Apples The same Author IAMES of FARLI an excellent Phisition in his time doth testifie of him-selfe that it troubled him as much the eating of Garlike as if he had drunke poyson and he added that the same fittes which appeared in them that had drunke poyson came vnto him hauing eating Garlike Some learned men hold that this hatred proceeds of an opinion which wee haue conceiued that those things which we detest are bad eyther to all in generall or to vs in particular The same There was at Chauny in Picardie a Maide of an honest house about sixteene yeares olde the which vnto that age had neuer fed of any thing but of Milke She could not endure the sent of bread and if they had cast neuer so little of the crumme into her Milke shee smelt it a farre off the which I haue seene with mine eyes and carefully obserued The same BRVGERIN lib. 2. chap. 6. I haue knowne a man hating Cheese so much as if they did put neuer so little in his meate hee presently smelt it and did cast vp his gorge after a strange manner MARCELLVS DONATVS liâ—…er 4. of his Physicall obseruations There was an Italian Earle had a foote-man who if hee had eaten an Egge his lippes began presently to swell his face lookt of a purple hew markt with blacke spottes in diuers places foming at the mouth as if he had taken poyson The same Author An Italian Lady faire and vertuous named FRANCISQVINE wife to Count MATHEVV FRANGEPAN a Noble-man of great power and worth was foureteene yeares old before she could euer be drawne to eate any flesh A certaine Cardinall did abhorre the smell of Roses Late Physitions say that there was a whole familie at Milan to whom the vse of Cassia was so contrary as if any one of them tooke it hee dyed The number of those that cannot taste nor drinke any kinde of Wine with-out offence is infinite I haue a Sonne which doth abhorre Colewortes I my selfe if I see Pourslaine I lothe it Euery man hath some particular affection SCALIGER in the 153. Exercitation against Cardan Sect. 10. I haue knowne an olde woman that did flye the vse of Melons in a whote Countrie hosding that meate very agreeable to others of the same place but for them of her age the worst in the world My Father could neuer swallow any parte of a Hare nor of any Fowle Not long since a Noble-man of accoumpt dyed who could neuer eate nor swallow any meate if it were not some-what Salted MARANTA lib. 3. of the Methode to know Simples The youngest Daughter to FREDERIKE King of Naples a worthy Princesse whome I had some-times in cure for that cause that shee could not eate any flesh no not taste it If shee did but put
night all the baggage of his foote-men stayed by a wood side in the Reere of his Men at Armes where the Gun-carts and seruants made all things ready thinking they should haue camped there making aboue 4000 Fyres not seeing the Prince retyre by reason of the night Some of the Duke of Anious Army set to incounter the Prince seeing this great number of fires thought certainely that it was the Princes Army and that they should haue battle the next day which made them the more carefull to fortefie their Campe Captaine GARIES offered to go and descouer what it was but they wold not hazard any thing against these braue souldiers who talked song and made great cheare about their Fires without any apprehension at all they left feare to the others who imagined that which was not History of our Time About six and twenty yeares since there was a false brute of the comming of the Turkes Armie to inuade Austria so as both Cittizens and Country men without knowing the Author tooke a strange alarum saying one vnto another that the Turke approched with so many thousand men and had no more to doe but to enter into the Country The feare was so great as all abandoning their Houses Villages and Townes began to dislodge in great troupes with their Wiues and childrē some on horse-backe others in Cartes and the most part on foote running as fast as the could to Townes and places of strength in such great hast as many children falling to the ground were there miserably slaine vnder the Horse feete and the Cart-wheeles running with all speed The Barronesse of Rosestin an honourable Lady and of singular piety hath tolde mee that her husband beeing then at Lints the Captaine of the Castle of Schallenbourg seated vpon the side of a rocke where as shee then was aduertised her that manie troupes of Men Women and Children came running thether ward Shee putting her head out at a windowe and seeing these poore people runne like scattered sheepe sent one of her seruants on horse-backe vnto them to knowe the cause of this amazement Beeing returned hee sayd that all these poore people did assure him that the Turkish squadrons were verie neere at their heeles Vpon this report the Baronesse receiued all them that fled so as the Castell the base Court and the ditches were all verie full with them This sodaine feare did runne from Vienna vnto Lints which is about some thirtie howers iorney The trumpet of Lints that stoode in a watch Tower which descouered a farre of gaue the Alarum as if the Turkes had beene hard euen at hand so as all they of the Towne ranne presently vnto their armes But beeing soone after knowne that it was a troupe of Hungarian Oxen which had raysed a great dust euery man retired and those that had fled beeing dispersed in diuers places recouering their spirits by little and little returned home to their houses M. IAMES HOST a Physition in his History of the golden tooth of a Child in Silesia In the yeare 1592. an other feare did shake all the Cittie of Labac the chee◅e Cittie of Carnia some one hauing reported that a mightie Turkish armie approched so neere as without anie worde speaking all both young and olde great and small beganne to take an alarume and to trusse vp their baggage making vp their packes and lading of Cartes with the best stuffe they had the poorer sort carried what they could vpon their shoulders and Women bare theyr yong children in theyr armes and the bigger they ledde in their handes The streetes did eccho againe with sighes lamentations and miserable cries mingled with a strange confused noyse through-out all the Cittye To conclude it was a pittifull spectacle So as the newes continuing and remayning still that the Turkes approched and drewe nere there was nothing to bee expected but a horrible flight of all in generall with such blinde disorder and tumultuous violence as in the presse of the people of Horses and Carts many Children and some Women lost their liues beeing smothered this feare continued 3. daies being impossible to assure and bring backe them that fled who in the end otherwise perswaded by diuers Aduertisements and Messages returned to their howses The same Author ALDANA a Spanish Captaine Lieutenant to King FERDINAND in Transiluania fearing least MAHOMET BASSA of BVDA should come and beseege him in Lippe was so surprised with this Feare as he resolued to ruine both the Towne and the Castle Two Men at Armes beeing sent to descouer hauing heard noe newes of the BASSA comming neere the place began to runne their Horses to g◅ue him notice that there was no cause of Feare They were followed by a great Troope of Cattle ALDANA imagining and thinking that it was the Turkish Armye before the which the two Men at Armes did flie hauing not the patience to attend and staye for theyr comming transported with great feare hee set fire to a trayne of Gun-powder which did ouerthrowe the Castle the Towers and brake the Cannon to the great griefe of his souldiars condemning his basenes which done hee fled into Transiluania The BASSA seazed presently vpon the ruines and of a Castle that was inexpugnable called Soliman abandoned by these amazed Christians whome hee followed with such speede as he ouertooke them and cut them in peeces Then hauing seised vpon Transiluania hee made it subiect to the yoake ALDANA beeing imprisoned and conuicted of base cowardise was condemned to loose his head but by the intercession of MARY Queene of Bohemia Daughter to CHARLES the 5. wife to MAXIMILIAN the 2. his life was saued ASCANIVS CENTORIVS lib. 5. 6. of his Commentary of the Warres of Transiluania SOLIMAN the Turke hauing beseeged Vienna in Austria the 26 day of September in the yeare 1529. the beseeged made a salley of 8000. Men the sixt of October with an intent to chase the Enemy out of the sub-urbes and to blowe vp their Mynes They chased awaye the Turkes that were towards the Castle-gate and cut many in peeces that were neere the Towre of Carinthia Beeing ready to proceed further aduancing couragiously one cryed with a loud voice that the should retire put them-selues in battle This crie did put the souldiers into such a sodaine feare as they beganne to leaue theyr rankes and to flye towardes the Citty in such disorder as some thrust violently by the rest fell into the Ditches and Trenches where-as many were hurt and slaine with their owne Armes Captaine WOLFGANG HAG seeking to rally his Souldiers againe together and put them in minde of the valour of the ancient Germaines was compassed in by the Turkes and abandoned by his owne men died fighting Historie of the siege of Vienna AVSVN a Gentleman of Gaseonie valiant and of great experience in Warre of whome they had made such esteeme in Piedmont as his prowesse was commended of all men being at the Battaile of Dreux in the first ciuill Warres in the