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A67489	The wonders of the little world, or, A general history of man in six books : wherein by many thousands of examples is shewed what man hath been from the first ages of the world to these times, in respect of his body, senses, passions, affections, his virtues and perfections, his vices and defects, his quality, vocation and profession, and many other particulars not reducible to any of the former heads : collected from the writings of the most approved historians, philosophers, physicians, philologists and others / by Nath. Wanley ...	Wanley, Nathaniel, 1634-1680.	1673 (1673)	Wing W709; ESTC R8227	1,275,688	591

he advised men to marry their daughters when Virgins for age and women for wisdom thereby obscurely hinting that Virgins were to be instructed To do good to friends and enemies to oblige the one and reconcile the other that going forth we should ask what we are about to do and returning what we have done to be more ready to hear than speak not to dally nor quarrel with our Wives in the presence of others to overcome pleasure and not to be insolent in prosperity he died seventy years of age his saying was A Measure is the best Laert. lib. 1. p. 23 24. 7. Periander the Corinthian was the son of Cypselus he seised upon the Government and became the Tyrant of Corinth being the first that kept a Life-guard about him he said They that would Rule safely must be rather fenced with love and good will than arms that rest is desirable petulancy dangerous gain ●ilthy pleasures fading but honour is immortal He advised to keep promises reveal no secrets to be the same towards our friends fortunate or otherwise and to punish not only those that commit a fault but those also that are about to do it he held his Tyranny forty years and flourished in the thirty eighth Olympiad his saying was In meditation there is all Laert. lib. 1. p. 24 25. 8. Anacharsis the son of Gnurus and brother of Cadvides King of the Scythians came to Athens and was received by Solon as his friend he used to say That the Vine had three Clusters the first of pleasure the second of drunkenness and the third of sorrow and repentance that Sea-men are but four inches distant from death and that the Market-place is a spot of ground where men meet on purpose to deceive o●e another Being asked what Ships were the ●afest he replied Those in the Haven when reproached by one of Athens for being a Scythian My Country said he is a reproach to me but thou art so to thy Country When abused by a young man at a Feast Youngster said he if you cannot bear your Wine while young you will carry Water when you are old He is said to have found out the Anchor and the Potters Wheel returning into Scythia he highly commended the Laws of Greece and endeavouring to abolish those of his own Country he was shot dead at a hunting by the King his brother Laert. lib. 1. p. 26. 9. Epimenides the son of Phaestius a Cretans is said to have slept fifty seven years was illustrious amongst the Greeks and a friend of the gods he purged the City of Athens and thereby freed it of the pestilence Phlegon saith he lived one hundred fifty seven years he was contemporary with Solon Laert. lib. 1. p. 29. 10. Pherecydes the son of Badys was a Syrian strange things are reported of him as that walking upon the Shore and seeing a Ship sailing with a prosperous wind he said that Ship would be presently cast away as it was in their sight also having drank water out of a pit he foretold there would be an Earthquake within three daies which also came to pass coming to Messana he warned Perilaus his Host to depart thence with all that he had which he neglecting to do Messana was taken he is said to have died of the lowsie disease he lived in the fifty ninth Olympiad Laert. lib. 1. p. 31. 11. Anaximander the Milesian held Infinity● to be the beginning and element of all things not air or water which changed in its parts but immutable in the whole that the Earth is the Center and round that the Moon has no light of her own the Sun is bigger than the Earth and is the purest fire he found out the Gnomon upon Dials first described the compass of Sea and Land and made a Sphear he lived to sixty two years and died about the fifty eighth Olympiad Laert. lib. 2. p. 33. 12. Anaxagoras the son of Eu●ulus a Clazomenian was noble and rich but left all to his friends when one said he had no care of his Country Yes but I have said he pointing towards Heaven He said the Sun was a red hot iron bigger than Peloponnesus that the Moon was habitable and that there were Hills and Valleys therein that the Milky way was the reflex light of the Sun that the Origine of Winds is the extenuation of the air by the Sun Being asked what he was born for To contemplate said he the Sun Moon and Heavens he said the whole frame of Heaven consisted of Stone and that it was kept from falling by the swift turning of it He died at Lampsacum in the first year of the seventy eighth Olympiad Laert. lib. 2. p. 34. 13. Socrates the son of Sophroniscus was an Athenian he was valiant patient constant and contented His food was so wholsom and he so temperate that though the Pestilence was often in Athens yet he alone was never sick seeing a multitude of things exposed to sale What a number of things said he have I no need of He took no notice of those that reproached or backbited him He was powerful in perswasion and disswading as he apprehended the occasion for either he said it was a strange thing that all men could tell what Goods they had but no man how many friends he hath so remiss are they in that matter that knowledge is the only good thing and ignorance the only evil that Riches and Nobility have nothing of worth in them that his Genius did presignifie future things to him that other men liv'd to eat but he did eat to live Being asked what was the principal vertue of youth He replyed Not to over-do and Whether it were best to marry or live single he answered In both you will repent He advised youth daily to contemplate themselves in a glass that if handsome they might make themselves worthy of it if deformed they might cover it with Learning By the Oracle of Apollo he was judged the wisest of men by which he fell into the envy and hatred of many was accused as the despiser of the old and a setter forth of new gods and thereupon being condemned he drank poyson the Athenians soon after bewailed the loss of him he died in the ninety fifth Olympiad aged seventy Lae●t lib. 2. p. 37 38. 14. Aristippus the Cyrenian moved with the glory of Socrates came to Athens and there professing himself a Sophist was the first of the Socraticks that exacted a reward he was a man that knew how to serve every place time and person and he himself aptly sustained what person he pleased upon which account he was more gracious with Dionysius than any other and by Diogenes called the Royal Dog Being asked what he had learned by Philosophy To use all men said he with confidence When one upbraided him that he lived sumptuously If that were evil said he we should not use it in the Festivals of the gods Dionysius asked him the reason Why Philosophers came to

impression was strong in him 3. The people of Rome when they saw that Appius Claudius the younger was chosen Consul by the Senate with Titus Quintus Capitolinus mov'd with that huge hatred they had ever born to the Appian Family and withal angry they departed out of the place of Assembly that they might not behold any of that Family to ascend unto honour 4. Who can declare sufficiently the mighty hatred which Pope Bonifac● the Eighth bare towards the Gibelline Faction It is the custom that upon Ashwednesday the Pope sprinkles some Ashes upon the heads of the chief Prelates in the Church and at the doing of it to use this saying Remember thou art Ashes and that into Ashes thou shalt return when therefore the fore-mentioned Pope came to perform this to Porchetus Spinola Archbishop of Genoa and suspected him to be a favourer of the Gib●llines he cast the Ashes not on his head but into his eyes perversly changing the usual form of words into these Remember thou art a Gibelline and that with the Gibellines thou shalt return to Ashes 5. When Sigismund Marquess of Brandenburgh had obtained the Kingdom of Hungary in right of his Wife it then appeared what a mortal hatred there was betwixt the Hungarians and Bohemians for when Sigismund commanded Stephanus Konth and with him twenty more Hungarian Knights to be taken and brought before him in Chains as persons that had declined the obedience they owed him not one of all these would name or honour him in the least as their King and before either they or their servants would change their minds they were desirous to lose their heads Amongst the servants was Chiotza the Page of Stephanus who sadly bewailed the death of his Master and whereas by reason of his tender age the King made him divers promises and to comfort him told him that he would make him as a servant about his own person Chiotza with a troubled countenance and in terms that testified at once both anger and hatred replyed that he would never subject himself to the service of a Bohemian Swine and in this obstinacy of mind he died 6. Cato the Censor bare such a hatred to the Female Sex that it was his common saying that if the world was without women the conversation of men would not be exempt from the company of the Gods 7. Melanion was a person of the same mind who in a perfect hatred to them all at once betook himself to solitude attended upon with his Dog only he followed the chase of wild Beasts over Mountains and through Woods nor could ever be perswaded to return home so long as he lived so that he gave occasion to the Proverb Chaster than Melanion 8. Hyppolitus was also of the same complexion as he expresses himself in Euripides and Seneca if you will have a taste of his language that in Seneca sounds to this purpose I hate flie curse detest them all Call 't Reason Nature Madness as you please In a true hatred of them there 's some ease First shall the water kindly dwell with fire Dread Syrtis be the Mariners desire Out of the West shall be the break of day And rabid Wolves with tender Lambkins play Before a woman gain my conquered mind To quit this hatred and to grow more kind 9. Timon the Athenian had the sirname of Man-hater he was once very rich but through his liberality and over-great bounty was reduced to extreme poverty in which condition he had large experience of the malice and ingratitude of such as he had formerly been helpful to he therefore fell into a vehement hatred of all mankind was glad of their misfortunes and promoted the ruine of all men as far as he might with his own safety When the people in honour of Alcibindes attended on him home as they us'd when he had obtain'd a cause Timon would not as he was wont to others turn aside out of the way but meet him on purpose and say Go on my Son and prosper for thou shalt one day plague all these with some signal calamity He built him a House in the Fields that he might shun the converse of men He admitted to him only one Apemantus a person much of his own humour and he saying to him Is not this a fine Supper It would said he be much better if thou wert absent This Timon gave order that his Sepulcher should be set behind a dunghil and this to be his Epitaph Hic sum post vitam miseramque inopemque sepultus Nomen non quaeras dii te Lector male perdant Here now I lye after my wretched fall Ask not my name the Gods destroy you all Mison was of like manners with Timon and had his name from the hatred he had to all men when ever he was conversant amongst men he was always sad but when he was in any solitude or place by himself he was then us'd to laugh and rejoyce being once ask'd why he laugh'd when no body was present for that very reason said he 11. Vatinius was sharply declaim'd against by M. Tullius Cicero and thereby such a discovery was made of his crimes that lodg'd him so deep in the hatred of the people of Rome that afterwards to express a deadly and vehement hatred indeed it became proverbial to say a Vatinian hatred 12. Alexander Severus the Emperour had such a hatred to unjust Judges that if he had casually m●t any such he was suddenly surpriz'd with a vomiting at the very sight of them 13. The Emperour Nerva did so abominate the shedding of blood that when the people desired him to yield up the murderers of Domitian to a just execution he was far affected with it that he was immediately taken with a vomiting and loosness 14. Vl●dislaus Locticus King of Polonia after a battle wherein his Army had made great slaughter of the adverse party went to view the dead as they lay in the Field He there saw Florianus Sharus a Knight lye weakned with many wounds with his face upward and with his hands keeping in his bowels lest they should issue out from his belly at his wound How great is the torment of this man said the King Sharus reply'd The torment of that man is greater who hath an ill neighbour that dwells in the same Village with him as I saith he can witness upon my own experience Well saith the King if thou recover of thy wound I will ease thee of thy ill neighbour as indeed he afterwards did for he turn'd out the person complain'd of and gave the whole Village to Sharus 15. Gualterus Earl of Brenne had marry'd the Eldest Daughter of T●ncred King of Sicily and as Heir of the Kingdom went with four hundred Horse by help of these and a marvellous felicity he had recovered a great part of it when at last he was overcame and taken by Thebaldus Germanus at the City Sarna Upon the

God to take care of heavenly things and not to cross him in his worldly actions He kept no promise further than for his advantage and took all occasions to satisfie his lust 18. Philomelus Onomarchus and Phaillus had spoil'd the Temple of Delphos and had their punishment divinely allotted to them For whereas the ordained punishment of sacrilegious persons is this That they shall die by being thrown head-long from some high place or by being choak'd in the water or burnt to ashes in the fire Not long after this plunder of theirs one of them was burnt alive another drowned and the third was thrown head-long from an high and steep place so that by these kinds of deaths they suffered according to that Law which amongst the Grecians was made against such as are found guilty of Sacriledge 19. Agathocles without any provocation came upon the Liparenses with a Fleet and exacted of them fifty Talents of Silver The Liparenses desired a further time for the payment of some part of the money saying they could not at present furnish so great a summ unless they should make bold with such gifts as had been devoted to the gods and which they had never used to abuse Agathocles forc'd them to pay all down forthwith though part of the money was inscribed with the names of Aeolus and Vulcan so having received it he set sail from them but a mighty wind and storm arose whereby the ten Ships that carryed the money were all dasht in pieces Whereupon it was said that Aeolus who is said thereabouts to be the god of the Winds had taken immediate revenge upon him and that Vulcan remitted his to his death for Agathocles was afterwards burnt alive in his own Country 20. Cambyses sent fifty thousand Souldiers to pull down the Temple of Iupiter Ammon but all that number having taken their repast betwixt Oasis and the Ammonians before they came to the place perished under the vast heaps of sand that the wind blew upon them so that not so much as one of them escaped and the news of their calamity was only made known by the neighbouring Nations 21. When those bloody wars in France for matters of Religion saith Richard Dinoth were so violently pursued between the Hugonots and Papists there were divers found that laughed them all to scorn as being a sort of superstitious fools to lose their lives and fortunes upon such slender accounts accounting Faith Religion immortality of the Soul meer fopperies and illusions And as Mercennus thinks there are fifty thousand Atheists in Paris at this day 22. Bulco Opiliensis sometimes Duke of Silesia was a perfect Atheist he lived saith Aeneas Sylvius at Vratislavia and was so mad to satisfie his lust that he believed neither Heaven nor Hell or that the Soul was immortal but married Wives and sent them away as he thought good did murder and mischief and whatsoever he himself took pleasure to do 23. Frederick the Emperour saith Matthew Paris is reported to have said that there were three principal Impostors Moses Christ and Mahomet who that they might rule the world had seduced all those that liv'd in their times And Henry the Lantgrave of Hesse heard him speak it That if the Princes of the Empire would adhere to his institutions he would ordain and set forth another and better way both for Faith and Manners CHAP. II. Of such as were exceeding hopeful in Youth but afterwards improv'd to the worse THere is nothing saith Montaigne at this day more lovely to behold than the French Children but for the most part they deceive the hope that was fore-apprehended of them for when they once become men there is no excellency at all in them Thus as many a bright and fair morning has been followed with dark and black Clouds before Sun-set so not a few have out-liv'd their own vertues and utterly frustrated the good hopes that were conceived of them 1. Dionysius the younger the Tyrant of Sicily upon the death of his father shew'd himself exceeding merciful and of a Princely liberality he set at liberty three thousand persons that were under restraint for debt making satisfaction to the Creditors himself He remitted his ordinary Tributes for the space of three years and did several other things whereby he gain'd the favour and universal applause of the people But having once established himself in the Government he re-assumed that disposition which as it appears he had only laid aside for a time He caused his Uncles to be put to death whom he was aw'd by or stood in fear of he slew his own Brethren that he might have no Rival in the Soveraignty and soon after he raged against all sorts with a promiscuous cruelty in such manner that he deserved to be called not so much the Tyrant as Tyranny it self 2. Philip the last King of the Macedonians but one and who made war upon the Romans was as Polybius saith of him who saw and knew him a Prince adorned with most of the gifts and perfections both of body and mind he had a comely visage a straight and proper body a ready eloquence a strong memory comprehensive wit a facetious ingenuity in his speeches and replyes accompanyed with a Royal gravity and majesty he was well seen in matters of Peace and War he had a great spirit and a liberal mind and in a word he was a King of that promising and fair hope as scarcely had Macedon or Greece it self seen any other his like But behold in a moment all this noble building was overturn'd whether by the fault of Fortune that was adverse to him in his dispute with the Romans brake his spirit and courage and wheel'd him back from his determined course unto Glory or whether it was by the fault of Informers or his own who gave too easie and inconsiderate an ear to them however it came to pass he laid aside the better sort of men poysoned some and slew others not sparing his own blood at length for he put to death his own son Demetrius To conclude that Philip concerning whom there were such goodly hopes and in the beginning of whose Reign there had been such happy and auspicious discoveries declin'd unto all kind of evil prov'd a bad Prince hated and unfortunate 3. Herod King of Iudea in the six first years of his Reign was as gallant mild and magnificent a Prince as any other whatsoever but during the rest of his Rule which was one and thirty years he was fierce and cruel both to others and to his own friends and family to that degree that at one time he caused seventy Senators of the Royal blood to be put to death he slew his Wife and three of his own sons and at the last when he saw that he himself was at the point to die he sent for all the Nobles from every part of Iudea upon the pretence of some weighty occasion and when they were

dead more than twenty two years before The Emperor Rudolphus at that time laid Siege to Colmaria but not a little moved that this Impostour had got together a great Force and that divers of the Nobles and Cities in the Lower Germany took part with him he desisted from his Siege came down the Rhine as one that made hast to pay his obeysance to the old Emperour but having once seized upon him and demanded Who Whence and for what reason he had done such things he caused him to be burnt in the Town of Witzlar 9. In the same Germany Anno 1348. there was a notable Impostour about Voldemarus Marquess of Brandenburgh the Marquess had been abroad and missing whether lost or dead for thirty one years when Rudolphus Duke of Saxony considered which way he might deprive Ludovicus Bavarus of his Marquisate of Brandenburgh To this purpose he kept privately about him a Miller whom he instructed with all requisite art and subtilty and gave out that he was the Marquess divers Castles and Towns were hereupon yielded up to him the Bavarians and their Assistants were overthrown by him in one great Battel wherein Rudolphus Count Palatine of the Rhine with seventy nine Knights were taken Prisoners three years did this Miller bear up till at last he was taken and adjudged to the ●lames to the Infamy of his Abettours 10. Balwine the eighth was Earl of Flanders and Hannonia afterwards Emperour of Constantinople slain in a Battel against the Bulgarians Twenty years after his death Bernardus Rainsus a Campanian gave himself out to be the Emperour long imprisoned but now at liberty the gravity of his Countenance the remembrance of former men and things the exact knowledge of his Pedegree deceived even the most cautious and circumspect much trouble he created till at last cited before Lewis the eighth King of France and not able to answer such questions as were by him propounded he was reputed and sent away as an Impostour after which taken in Burgundy he was sent to I●anna Countess of Flanders and by her order strangled 11. The like to this fell out in Spain when Alphonsus was King of Arragon a youth of about eleven years of age and under the Government of his mother there rose up one who gave out of himself That he was that old Alphonsus twenty eight years past reported to be slain at Fraga to colour his absence all that while he said How that out of a weariness of humane affairs he went into Asia and the Holy Land where he had fought in the Wars for God and Religion that having now expiated his sins he was returned to his Subjects The matter took with many and he had undoubtedly raised some considerable stirs there but that being taken at Augusta he there hang'd himself CHAP. XXXV Of the huge Ambition of some men and their thirst after Soveraignty HEliogabalus sometimes took his Courtiers and commanded them to be ty'd and trussed fast to a great Wheel and then turned and rolled them up and down in the water taking infinite pleasure to see them sometimes aloft sometime below sometime to tast the sweetness of the air and sometime to be deeply plunged in the water where of necessity they drank more than enough Ambitious men daily act the same play but they personate it tragically and therefore it was well advised by one of the Kings of France when his Chancellour shewed him his own lively Effigies upon a piece of Arras standing upon the uppermost part of Fortunes Wheel You would do well said he to pin it fast lest it should turn again Yet all considerations of this kind are two little to rebate the keenness of some mens soaring minds who are in continual Fevors to be great though for never so little a time and at what rate soever 1. At the Election of the Pope the great Ambition of Cardinal William Rhotomagensis was visible even in the scrutiny for being timerous and fearful things would not happen as he expected seeing Cardinal Aeneas going towards the Schedule he said to him with an humble and submissive voice Aeneas I recommend my self to thee remember me I beseech thee and have compassion on me Aeneas answered him only thus Poor Worm thou mistakest in recommending thy self to me His Ambition was moreover conspicuous in the prayers he went mumbling about yet so as his Neighbours might understand him lifting up his eyes and his voice to Heaven and joining his hands he cried out Deus propitius esto mihi peccatori God be merciful unto me a sinner The scrutiny being published it appeared that Aeneas had three voices more than Rotomagensis and by the accession of Cardinal Prosper Colonna was then made Pope 2. When Stephen that good and great King of Poland was dead and that the usual Assembly was called for the Election of a new King the Great Cham of Tartary was also there by his Embassadours who in his name told them That he was a Potent Prince able of his own Subjects to lead many Myriads of Horse into the Field for either the defence or inlargement of Poland That he was also frugal and temperate and setting aside all delicate dishes his manner was to asswage his hunger with only Horses flesh In the next place as to matters of Religion concerning which he heard they were in dispute their Pope should be his Pope and their Luther his Luther No marvel if this Embassy was received with laughter when they beheld a man ready to part at once with Religion and all things Sacred for the very desire he had after Rule 3. After the Noble exploits of Sertorius in Spain had put those on his part almost in equal hopes with their enemies Perpenna too much rerelying upon the Nobility of his Descent ambitiously aspired to the power of Sertorius to that purpose he sowed the seeds of dissention in the Army and amongst the Captains and the Conspiracy being ripe he invited Sertorius with other his Officers Confederate with him to supper and there caused him to be murdered Immediately the Spaniards revolted from Perpenna and by their Embassadours yielded themselves to Pompey and Metellus Perpenna soon shewed he was a man that knew neither how to command nor to obey he was speedily broken and taken by Pompey nor did he bear his last misfortune in such manner as became a General for having the Papers of Sertorius in his hands he promised to Pompey to shew him Letters from consular persons and under the hands of the chiefest men in the City whereby Sertorius was invited into Italy Pompey burnt the Letters and all Sertorius his Papers not looking upon any of them himself nor suffering any other and then caused Perpenna to be dispatched that he might free the City of a mighty fear and this was the end of the foolish Ambition of Perpenna 4. Alexander was at the Siege of Tyrus when a second time there came to him

That the Scythians did yield themselves together with the Earth and Water upon this reason That the Mouse is bred in the Earth and seeds upon the same food with man the Frog lives in the Water the Bird might represent the Horse and that by sending Arrows they seemed to deliver up themselves But Gobryas one of the seven Princes that had ejected the Magi was of opinion That those Presents intimated thus much O ye Persians unless as Birds ye fly in the Air or as Mice ye retreat under the Earth or as Froggs ye swim in the Water ye shall not return whence ye came but shall be slain by these Arrows The Persians interpreted it according to his opinion and had it not been by very accident neither Darius nor any of his Army had ever seen Persia more being glad to fly and happy that he found a way of escape for the Scythians though in pursuit missed of him as thinking he had taken another way 3. Alexander the Great was vehemently incensed against the Lampsacenians who sent Anaximenes as their Embassadour to appease him Alexander at the first sight of him that he might cut off all occasion of being prevailed with as to any favour in their behalf solemnly swore That although Anaximenes was his Master yet he would not either grant or do any of those things that he should desire of him Then said the other I desire of thee O King that thou wouldest utterly destroy the Country of Anaximenes thy Master Alexander for his Oaths sake was thus constrained though otherwise much against his mind to pardon the Lampsacenians 4. Nicholaus de Book a Knight was sent by Valdemarus the Marquess of Brandenburg as his Embassadour to Franckfurt in his Princes name about the Election of a King of the Romans The Competitors were Philippus Pulcher Duke of Austria and Lewis Duke of Bavaria the Marquess had sent his Letters in favour of Frederick that he might be King but his Embassadour expecting to receive nothing from Fredederick and perceiving that most mens minds were inclinable to Lewis he scraped out the name of Frederick out of all his Princes Parchments and contrary to his mind instead thereof put in the name of Lewis for which In●idelity the Marquess upon his return kept him in Prison and suffered him there to dye of Famine 5. The people of Florence sent one Franciscus a Lawyer but indeed an unlearned Person as their Embassadour to Ioan Queen of Naples At his coming he was informed by a Courtier That it was her Majesties pleasure that he should return on the morrow In the mean time he had heard that the Queen had no aversion to a handsom man and therefore upon his return having had his Audience and discoursed with her about many things at last he told her That he had something to deliver to her in private The Queen withdrew with him into a Privy Chamber supposing that he had something to impart to her which was not fit to communicate with others here it was that the fool prepossessed with an opinion of his own handsomness desired the Queen that he might be admitted to her bed the Queen without alteration of her Countenance looking him in the face demanded if the Florentines had made that part of his Commission And while the Embassadour remained silent and covered with blushes she bad him return and caused it to be entred with the rest of his instructions and dismissed him without any other sign of her Anger 6. Arnald Whitfeild Chancellour of the Realm of Denmark with Christian Barmkan his Assistant came Embassadour from the King of Denmark to Queen Elizabeth His request was That the King his Master might make a motion of Peace betwixt her Majesty and the King of Spain and proceed farther therein if he found both Parties addicted thereto he also desired open Traffick with Spain and that Goods might not be stayed on the Narrow Seas as it had been heretofore And having Audience upon the day that her Majesty was born he took occasion to say That since it had pleased God on that day which he was informed was her Majesties birth-day to glorifie the World with so gracious a Creature who had brought so great happiness to the Realm and the Neighbour Kingdoms he doubted not but that the King his Master should in that happy day have an happy Answer of his request c. I blame you not said the Queen to expect a reasonable and sufficient Answer but you may think it a great Miracle that a Child born at four a clock this morning should be able to Answer so wise and learned a man as you are sent from so great a Prince as you be about so great and weighty Affairs you speak of and in an unknown Tongue by three of the clock in the afternoon and with like prudent and gracious words she gave him leave to depart 7. There was a Treaty on the part of Spain for a Marriage with our Prince Henry wherein Salisbury then Secretary a little man but a great Statesman instantly discovered the jugling before any other did think of any For although it went forward cunningly yet did Salisbury so put the Duke of Lerma unto it that either it must be so or they must confess their jugling The Duke of Lerma denied that there ever had been any treaty or any intention from that State Salisbury sent for the Embassadour to a ●ull Council told him how he had abused the King and State about a Treaty for Marriage which he had no Commission for that therefore he was liable to the Laws of our Kingdom for when any Embassadour doth abuse a State by their Masters Commission then the servant was freed but without Commission was culpable and liable to be punished by the Laws of that State as being disavowed to be Servant to the King his Master The Embassadour answered gravely He did not understand the cause of his coming therefore was then unprepared to give any answer but on Munday he would come again this being Saturday and give his Answer On Munday he comes begins with these words My Soul is my God's my Life my Master's my Reputation my own I will not forfeit the first and last to preserve the second then laies down his Commission and Letters of Instruction under the Kings own hand he acquitted himself honestly to this State but was lost to his own being instantly sent ●or home where he lived and died in disgrace 8. The Spartans sent their Embassadours to Athens who declared in the open Senate That they came from their State with full power to comprimise all matters of difference betwixt them and to put an end to all Controversie Alcibiades that in emulation to Nicias had a desire to continue the rupture was terrified with this Declaration of theirs and thereupon made means for a private conference with the Embassadours when he came What mean you my Lords said he have

out of devotion send some relief to them Some of these do voluntarily impose upon themselves such long times of fasting that they will not give it over till Nature is not only decayed but almost spent CHAP. XV. Of such as refused all drink or to taste of any liquid thing or else found no need thereof LYsimachus King of Thrace was shut up in a streight by King Dromichetes in such manner that for very extreme thirst he was driven to yield himself and all his Army to the mercy of his Enemy After he had drunk being now a Prisoner Gods said he for how little a pleasure am I become a Slave who but a while since was a King Had his constitution been like unto that of some of these which follow he had saved his Kingdom and Army so might he also if he had rested contentedly at home with the enjoyment of his own but his ambitions thirst after Soveraignty made him set upon a Prince who had given him no provocation so his own thirst was appare●●●● punished in that of another kind But let us turn to such as had little or no acquaintance with thirst 1. Pontanus writes that in his time there was a Woman who in all her life time did never drink either wine or water and that being once inforced to drink wine by the command of Ladislaus King of Naples she received much hurt thereby 2. Iulius Viator a Gentleman of Rome descended from the Race of the Voconians our Allies being fallen into a kind of Dropsie between the skin and flesh during his minority and nonage and forbidden by the Physicians to drink so accustomed himself to observe their direction that naturally he could abide it insomuch that all his old age even to his dying day he forbore to drink 3. There was in the City of Naples one of the Family of Tomacelli who never drank saith Coelius 4. Aristotle in his Book of Drunkenness writes of some that familiarly eat of salt meats and yet were never troubled with thirst in such manner as to have need to drink as Archon the Argive 5. Mago the Carthaginian did three times travel over the vast and sandy Desarts of Africa where no water is to be met with and yet all that time fed upon dry Brans without taking any thing that was liquid 6. Lasyrtas Lasionius did not stand in need of any drink as the rest of mankind do nevertheless he voided urine frequently as other men many there were who would not believe this till they had made tryal thereof by curious observation they staid with him thirty days in the heat of Summer they saw he abstained from no kind of salt meats and yet drank not It is true that this man drank at some times but he never had any need to do it 7. A Noble-man of Piedmont being sick of that kind of Dropsie which is called Ascites sent for Dr. Albertus Roscius who finding the Dropsie confirmed and the Patient averse from all kind of remedies he said thus to him Noble Sir if you will be cured and perfectly freed of this mighty swelling that is if you desire to live there is an absolute necessity that you determine with your self to dye of that thirst wherewith you are so tormented if you will do this I hope to cure you in a short time The Noble-man at the hearing of this did so far command himself that for a month he refrained not only all kind of drink but not so much as tasted of any thing that was liquid by which means he was restored to his former health 8. Abraames Bishop of Carras saith Theodoret lived with that rigorous abstinence that bread and water bed and fire seemed superfluous to him It is said of this great man that he drank not nor made use of water wherein to boil his herbs or any other thing but his manner was to feed upon Endive and Lettice and Fruits and such other things as were to him both meat and drink and from these also he used to abstain till the evening Yet was he a person of great liberality to such as were his Guests these he entertained with the best bread the most generous wines the better sort of fishes and all such other things as a generous mind and a real love could produce and himself would take upon him to be the Carver and to distribute to every man his portion 9. That is also wonderful which Theophrastus thought fit to insert into his Writings that there was one Philinus who throughout the whole course of his life never made use of any manner of drink no nor of food neither excepting only milk CHAP. XVI Of such men as have used to walk and perform other strange things in their Sleep THey tell of a Tree in Iapan that flourisheth and is fruitful if kept in a dry earth but with moisture which causeth other Trees to flourish withereth Whereas sleep binds up the senses and obstructs the motion of the rest of mortal men there are some who have been found not only to walk but to perform divers other kind of actions in their sleep with as much dexterity and exactness as others could have done when awake and which all their own courage would not perhaps have permitted themselves to attempt with their eyes open 1. A young man of a cholerick constitution lying asleep upon his bed rose up thence on the sudden took a Sword opened the doors and muttering much to himself went into the street where he quarrelled alone and fancying that he was in fight with his enemies he made divers passes till at length he fell down and through an unhappy slip of his Sword he gave himself such a wound upon the breast that little wanted but he had thence received his death Hereupon being awaked and affrighted and dreading lest such his night-walkings might at some time or other create him as great dangers he sent for me to be his Physician and was accordingly cured 2. Iohn Poultney born in little Sheepy in Leicestershire was herein remarkable that in his sleep he did usually rise out of his bed dress him open the doors walk round about the fields and return to his bed not wakened sometimes he would rise in his sleep take a staff fork or any other weapon that was next his hand and therewith lay about him now striking now defending himself as if he were then encountred or charged with an adversary not knowing being awaked what had passed He afterwards went to Sea with that famous but unfortunate Sir Hugh Willoughby Knight and was together with all the Fleet frozen to death in the North-East passage about Nova Zembla 3 I knew a man saith Henricus ab Heere 's who when he was young professed Poetry in a famous University when in the day time he used to bend his mind how he might yet better turn such Verses as he had often before corrected not