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A16241	Theatrum mundi the theatre or rule of the world, wherein may be sene the running race and course of euerye mans life, as touching miserie and felicity, wherin be contained wonderfull examples, learned deuises, to the ouerthrowe of vice, and exalting of vertue. wherevnto is added a learned, and maruellous worke of the excellencie of mankinde. Written in the Frenche & Latin tongues by Peter Boaystuau, and translated into English by Iohn Alday.; Theatre du monde. English	Boaistuau, Pierre, d. 1566.; Alday, John.	1566 (1566)	STC 3168; ESTC S102736	106,769	288

that bought it and yet they had this consideration to make them sweare that they shoulde not vse therof in their Prouince nor agaynst their friendes but only againste straungers But good God the Diuell hath so entred into men at this daye and hath made them so cunning apt in euill and mischiefe that by the smell therof men are poysoned as the experience was at Sienne Another Florentine knight after that he had pulled of his helmet for to take ayre and to refresh him an enimie of his rubbed him with a certaine poyson which was the occasion that he died sodenly Also in flames of torches they can so wel corrupt them that their smell smoke shal poyson men in such sort that many dare not light torches a nights for to cōduct thē if y t they stand in feare of their enimie As cōcerning meats drinks empoysoned that is a common practise and as they saye the reuenge of kitchen maides but I am ashamed for that I nedes must tell that which I haue red in a famous Author that they haue founde the meanes in our age to empoyson the saddels of horses bootes and spurs also that which cannot be pronounced without griefe for in touching the hands one of another yea euen in letters and writings that are sent the which being vnclosed there is a little subtill vapor that riseth hie and ascēdeth by little into a mans braynes They knowe the practise whereof Theophrastus speaketh that the poyson is sometimes prepared after such a sort that it killeth not but at the murtherers intentiō for if he wil the party shal liue iij. moneths .vi. moneths a yere in such sort that death commeth at the time of y ● collectiō and gathering of the medicine or poyson prepared Furthermore as I haue vnderstoode of men worthy of faith and credence that they haue the subtiltie to make it after such a sorte that it shall not hurt but one mēber one arme or one leg The experience thereof hath bene séene in a fountaine empoysoned beside Rhine neare to the sea the water of the saide caused the téeth to fall out of all those that drunke thereof in the campe of Germanie Also things are come to such desolation that they haue foūd the meanes to mingle poyson with the Wafer or Communion bread as I haue writtē in other places Is not this a maruelous thing that Ierom Cardan writeth of a certaine inuention of Gray Friers that hath bene foūd in our yeares of a Coller or Carcan whiche if the Creditor put it on the Debtors necke it can not be taken awaye but of him that put it on and by such mischief one Zafarnus citizen of Millaine being ouercome by his Creditor died as Cardan witnesseth There resteth nowe to shewe howe that man is afflicted by the foure elements which are as witnesses and ministers of the vengeance and wrath of God against our sinnes What is there more necessarie for the life of man than water for there is neyther mā nor beast that can liue without the vse thereof there is neyther herbe nor plant that can bring forth either séede or fruite without water without putting in account the profit and cōmoditie that it bringeth in this worlde séeing also that it is the most aunciētest and mightiest element of all as Plinie and Isidorus writeth it ouerwhelmeth and decaieth mountains she gouerneth the earth quencheth the fier and conuerting into vapors surpasseth the Region of the ayre and afterwardes descendeth for to engender and bring forth al things that are hid in the earth And yet notwithstanding what chasticements hath the antiquitie or former age tasted of the rigor of this element when the great fall of waters was that couered all y e earth when that the vames of heauen were opened and that the water did surpasse or ouerwhelmed the most hyest mountaines the heigth of fiftene fadome as Moyses witnesseth in Genesis How oftentimes hath Egypt bene ouerflowen when that Nille deriued from his chanel how many thousands of men haue loste their liues and haue bene deuoured of fishes Gréeke lande hath felt the furie of the waters and can witnesse the same when the greate floud or deluge of waters did ouerrun the most part of Thessalie the people being afrayed all to be drowned What losse and harme receyued the Romaines in the yeare a thousand fiue hundreth thirtie by the swelling and ouerflowing of the floud of Tiber the which did rise after such a sorte that it ouerwhelmed houses and hie toures in their citie and beside the losse of Bridges that were broken the losse of goods golde siluer wine corne cloth of silke oyles woolles and other mouables to the value of thrée Msllions of golde there died more than thrée hundreth men beside women and children which were drowned by violence of the waters of the said floud as the Elders do write Iespar Contarenus in his boks of the foure elementes writeth that in our time Vallencia a Citie in Spaine with al the Citizens were almost drowned by a violent an vnknown water after such sorte that if the Citizens had not sodainlye giuen succor in rampairing and fencing there had bene no other hope of safegard Without making mention of an infinite of other harmes and domages that we haue receyued since this fiue or sixe thousande yeares that the worlde was created of raynes hayles frostes snowes and other lyke iniuries that depend of the rigor of this element What is there more wonderfull in nature than fier by the benefite wherof all our meates are seasoned the life of many things is Mettalles are mingled and made flexible iron is daunted made pliable and ouercōmed the lime stones that we vse for y e plastring trimming of our houses and edifices are burned and softned in the bellie or middest of the earth by his aide and help And notwithstanding how manye famous Cities haue bene fiered burned brought to ashes by the vertue of this element the moste auncientest witnesse is in the holie scripture of Sodome and Gomor on the which our Lorde God poured or rained downe fier and brimstone and the last scourge and destruction of the vniuersall world shalbe executed by the furie of this element as it is written by by the Prophets and Apostles If that I would set out at large and by order the proude Cities and Prouinces that haue bene burned in diuers places of the world by the incursiō and insurrection of the warre but onely in our time the Tragedie would be excessiue But those that are curious of such things let them read Strabo in his twelfth booke Ruffinus treating of Eusebius workes and Amianus Marcelinus where they shall finde also that the flames of fier proceading from the tops of hilles or mountaines and other bowels of the earth haue burned manye townes with their inhabitants In the time of Lucius Marcus Sextus Iulius the Consuls there procéeded

therfore that in few wordes we will make a generall conclusion of our worke if we wil consider man in the first estate that God created him it is y e chiefe principal of Gods worke to y ● end that in him he might be glorified as in the most noblest and excellētest of all his creatures But if we consider him in the estate of the generall corruption spred all ouer the posteritie of Adam we shall sée him nooseled in sinne monstruous fearfull deformed subiect to a thousande incommodities voide of beatitude vnable ignorant variable and hypocrite To be short in steade of being Lord of all creatures is become slaue to sinne in the which he is borne and conceyued But if we will consider afterwarde as being made all new by the immortall séede of Gods word ye shall sée him restored not only in al his first honors and goods but muche more greater for there where as sinne is poured out for to let and hinder him the grace of God is more abundātly poured out for to succor him making him a new creature as Sainct Ambrose sayth in the booke of the vocation calling of the Gentiles the. 3. chap. And S. Augustine in his booke of corruptiō and of grace cap. 10. And as concerning vs let vs doe as Plato knowing the goodnes that God hath done to vs let vs giue him thankes in that we are borne men not beastes and if that we finde anye thornes in this crooked life that with ease we cānot disgest if we féele anye fight in our soule the which is hid in this body as in a graue let vs endeuor our selues to go into the holie Citie of Ierusalem whereas we shall be exempt of hunger colde heate and thirst and generally from all infirmities and teares to the which this poore bodie the which is but the Chariot wherevnto the Soule is The Author doth intraduct the Citie of GOD in our language Drunkēnesse of Alexāder Plinie Aristo Plinie Aristo Loriot Arist 22. ca● the. 9. boke tr●ting of beastes Polidorus of the in●ention of things Industrie of Svvallovves Aristo Plinie Aelian of the crovv Plutarch Musicke in beastes P. Belan in his Historie of Birdes Prouer. 13. Arist lib. 2. cap. 30. Plinie A maruelous diligence of the Romanes The Polipus vvill eat hirself if she wāt fode Aelian Prudency of the Cuckow The excellencie noblenesse of the horse A storie vvorthie of memorye of a dogge Against the Epicurians Psal 139. The Author beginneth to discouer more profoūdly the humaine miseries Hippo. in his booke of infantments Praise of the brains Hippoc. N. Dehāpas in the contemplation of nature 7. booke The violence that a chile doth to nature vvhen his nine monethes are accomplished Diuerse appetites of vvomē vvith childe The miserie of pore mothers in their childings Mōstrous childings The miserie of man that is nourished by another than his mother Misery of man in his nouriture The Apes An example for fathers and mothers The vncredible crueltie of Caligula Cardan in his booke De subtilitate Roland Peter in the traduction of bookes of the nature of man Esay ix Iere. xx Iob. xiii A complaint of Theophrastus for that the life of beastes is longer than the life of man A complaint of fathers that commit their children to ignorant and vicious tutors An ill example of fathers tovvardes their children Many mothers make the ropes vvherevvith their children are hanged A notable sentence of Marcus Aurelius vpon humain miseries The miserie of those that saile on the sea A praise of husbādrie for the better shevving of the miseries that follovv Plato Giue peace O Lorde in our dayes bicause ther is no other that fighteth for vs but onely thou O God Miserie of merchantes vvith a plaine discourse of their fraudes deceites Corruption of the estate of Merchants The miserie of men of vvar I haue treated of this more at large in a treatise the last yeare of peace and vvar The harmes that come by vvarre The christian philosophie of a heathen A notable discourse The crueltie of souldiers Gaudentius Meruleus murthered in the Churche A comparison of the vvarre of men and the vvar of beastes Execrable vices of the Court Princes seeme to be voyde of miseries A cruell and an abhominable act The true office of a Prince Thre plages from the which a Prince ought to bevvare of The Elders made most dreadfull prayers for vvicked Princes Kings depraued by deliciousnesse Marcus Aurelius The miserie of Popes Pope Florentine in his bookes of the infelicitie of Princes A notable sentence of Pope Adrian on the miserie of Popes The miserie of the Ecclesiastical estate Clicthoreus The estate of the heathen Priestes A comparison of heathen Priestes vvith ours Ezechiel Cap. 3. Micheas Cap. 34. Esa ca. 56. S. Bernard sermon 33 of cāticles S. Bernardes words against the Ecclesiasticals at the coūsel of Reimes The miserie of those that administer iustice Against Iudges that are corrupted Math. 20. Ieremie S. Iames Cap. 5. ● A praise of mariage to shevv the miseries that follovv Lawes for to recōcile the man and the vvife Miseries and thornes in mariage Beautie maketh a vvoman suspected deformitie hated riches proud A notable sentence of Marcus Aurelius Anthonius Pius The misery of man for the diuersitie of Religion Iere. 12. Ezech. 34. In a treatise of peace and vvar The miserie of mā by contagion as vvell in times past as in our age Thucydides in his second booke of the vvars of the Peloponiensis Marcus Aurelius The aire corrupted that proceded out of a coffer perished the third part of humaine kinde A plage in the French campe at Naples A plage in Bullen A contagion in Almaine A maruelous contagion in England Contagiō in Aix A maruelous act The misery of man by famine Leui. 26. Math. 24. The mothers eate their children A famine almost vncredible A butcherie vvhere mās fleshe vvas sold 4. Regū 6. Ioseph the. 7. booke 3. chapter of the vvarres of the Iewes A historie of Iosephus The miserie of our age The meruellous contagion of our time A famine the yere 1528. The diuersitie of diseases vvherevvith mā is afflicted Thoughe that abusedly the common state thinketh that this proceedeth of of some other thing A lousie sicknes●e Diuers inuentions of venims poysōs The poysons and venims inuented by men Ierome Cardan in his booke of subtilitate Exclamation against the poisoners A subtill inuention of poysoning An Emperor empoysoned vvith a vvafer cake Man afflicted by vvater The deluge Genesis 7. The foure elementes executors of Gods vvrath Man afflicted by fier Gen. ca. 9. Plinie The miserie of man by thunders lightninges and tempests Men afflicted by the ayre Man afflicted by the earth Man afflicted by earthquakes The little beasts war vpon mā and encreaseth his miseries Exod. 8. 9. Cap. Esay 4. Psal 49. Man afflicted by the maladies of the spirite Esay 2. Against couetousnesse Esay 5. The mōstrous couetousnes of a Prelate Eccle. Baruch 3. Enuy a maladie of the spirite Ambition a maladie of the spirite Loue is counted among the most grieuous maladies of the spirite Gestes and countenances ridiculous of Louers Sisiphus that turned his rochet Tantalus that died for thirst neare the vvaters Titius of vvhome the famished Rauen deuoured his heart They that haue vvritten the remedies of Loue could not helpe themselues An example of a furious Loue. The furious loue of Faustine vvyfe to the Emperor Marcus Aurelius the childe had the like qualities Entropeus in the life of Comodus The powre of Loue. There is no martyrdome that may compare to Loue as Apolonus Thianeus vvitnesseth Loue the corruption of youth in our time Discourse of the miserie of the aged Great mutations in age The miseries of death August Soli loquicrum the first booke cha 2. A straunge spectacle to see man at the point of death Violent temptatìons in death 2. Kings 28. cha The miserie of humaine cretures vvh that God shal appe in iudgement Esay 13. Ioel. 2. cha Dan. 7. cha ●phraim ●nd his ●rayers The terror of Gods iudgement the vvhich S. Ierome feared so much that he thought alvvays to vnderstand this voyce arise ye dead and come to your iudgement Apoc. 1. Exodus 20. Esay 1. cha Ezech. 5. Osee 13. The prayse of man by the vvise men of Egypt A prayse of Homer An error of the Philosophers in that that concerneth the creatiō of man Descriptiō of the beautie of mans head A prayse of the excellencie of the eyes A prayse of the brovves A prayse of the nose Lactantius Firmian in his booke of the praise of God A prayse of the tongue Praise and vsage of the teeth Praise of the chin and of the bearde Praise of the eares A praise of beautie as vvell of men as of vvomen Beautie hath moued many to vvrite Ier. Cardan Most learnedly translated by Monsieur du Prean my friend of vvhome I follovv the traduction as faithfull The Author prayseth man by force of armes The noble heart of Alexander in his youth Alexander caused the earth to be digged to vvarre against the Antipodes A prayse o Caesar and Pompei A prayse Sergius al most vnc● dible The excelencie of man in ●ainting The maruellous cunning of a man in facioning a brasen horse Cardanus A vvonderfull Image Deuinitie of the spirit of certaine men Straunge glasses A prayse of the inuention of men of our time Cardan Man vvasheth his face vvith melted mettell Alexander ab Alexandro Man aquitall The Art of flying like the Birds inuented by man The maruellous beautie of the soule if it might be sene openly Alexander in his anger seemed to be all on fier 〈…〉 The maruellous die of man Rondelet in his historie of fishes and many Elders An vncredible abstinencie lithrida●s could ●●t die by ●●yson A maruell of man that resisted poyson The Psiles and Marcians did vaunt that they coulde not be hurt vvith Serpents the vvhich the Romaines caused to be tried in an Ambassador of theirs A maruell of the sight of an Emperour There is no part of man but that there is some fruite dravvne out to the vse of phisicke Edoardus Plinie An aunsvvere to the obiections of humaine miseries Baptist Gelo traducted by Pare The cause of humaine miseries Theodoret bishop of Siria in his ●ookes of ●●e nature of man Conclusion