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A18903	A true and admirable historie, of a mayden of Confolens, in the prouince of Poictiers that for the space of three yeeres and more hath liued, and yet doth, vvithout receiuing either meate or drinke. Of whom, his Maiestie in person hath had the view, and, (by his commaund) his best and chiefest phisitians, haue tryed all meanes, to find, whether this fast & abstinence be by deceit or no. In this historie is also discoursed, whether a man may liue many dayes, moneths or yeeres, without receiuing any sustenance. Published by the Kings especiall priuiledge.; Abstinens Confolentanea. English	Citois, François, 1572-1652.; Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633.; Coeffeteau, Nicolas, 1574-1623, attributed name.	1603 (1603)	STC 5326; ESTC S118585	35,171	122

of wood to be burned among others Lib. 11. Cap. 54. he was found aliue As for Plinie he is not perswaded that thorowe lack of eating a man should be compeld to yeeld too death at the seauenth dayes end Diogenes Laertius reciteth by the testemonie of Dicearchus that Pytha●or as the cheefe maister of abstinence continued fortie dayes together without drinking by whose doctrine also Apollonius Thyaneus learned by a long vse and custome to endure fasting for many dayes Lib. 7. Cap. 18. Plinie assures vs that drought or thirst may be surmounted by a constant perseuerance and that the Romaine noble Knight Iulius Viator hauing had warning by Phisitians in his younger yeares not to drinke any water at all by reason of a certaine indisposition in him leaning to the dropsie he turned the custome of nature in such sort as he passed his age without drinking Fresh yet in our memory and all Fraunce hath seene the same in the person of my Lord Marquesse of Pisani who is a man of such merit as the King himselfe imployes his seruice in matters of great importaunce There are many bookes of deuoute enstructions which doo recounte meruailes of diuers frequent and voluntarie abstinences as of P. Alcantara a Monke in Spayne and that for eight dayes and more in euerie moneth But beyond all others there is an historie very famous of a certaine Maiden named Catharine being in the soyle of Colherberg who hath bin knowne to liue seauen yeares together without drinking or eating any thing whatsoeuer She was carefully tended by Henry Smetius at this present Professour in Heildeberge and Ioh● Iac. Theod. Phisitians The 24. of Nouember 1584. by the commandement of Iohn Casimir Counte Palatine and since also to the same effect foure Matrones were appointed to keepe her companie as well by night as by day who with the Phisitians haue also acknowledged this abstinence to be most true Three yeares after this historie was traduced into French Printed at Francford by Iohn VVechel in the yeare 1587. with an aduertisement in the end that the Maiden as yet then liued in that manner without drinking eating sleeping or deliuering any excrements Besides all these Ioubert concerning this argument hath set downe such pregnant necessary reasons as I cannot thinke that any one needs to make doubt thereof Neuerthelesse being my selfe afterward to discourse on the same subiect I happened being in a Booke-sellers shop letting mine eyes wander ouer the bookes to be presented at my very entrance with a litle book bearing in the fore-head this title Fieri non posse vt quis sine cibo et pot● plures dies et annos transigat At the same instant I tooke the Booke which in regard it was written by I. Haruet a Doctour of Phisick and of the same condition with vs and as we are I read it very seriouslie frō one end to the other But comming to the place where he argues on the negligence of the Authours of so Pag. 74 many notable examples who he saith haue bin somewhat deceiued by the inueterate beleefe of this extraordinarie fasting I thought it good that he should be satisfied in this poynt and passed my promise thereon in the name of our Maide of Confolans albeit during so many moneths yeares I could not giue my selfe to consider all het actions and motions neuerthelesse it is very likelie by that which is sayd in all places of her concerning the three yeares fast now in question And yet such as haue seene her naked as vve haue done haue thought no otherwise if she be not changed since the last time I saw her which was in the month of Iuly last 1602. Some say that she is now a little more full of flesh yet she hath neuer receiued any foode at all that could possibly be knowne Beside this truth ought to receiue credit generally by the faithfull report of so many persons of honour and good qualitie who for trials sake haue kept her in their houses among their Maides children some for three others for foure months and more If any one be further desirous and would willingly see her hee hath free libertie the Maiden herselfe will not contradict what other proofes hee or any can make of her But in my mind Ioubert would haue receiued no meane contentment by the sight of an accident so strange for if to so many pertinent reasons hee could haue had but an eye-experience he should not haue had now perhaps Haruet for his aduersarie VVho being in the humor to combat against both sence and reason it may be it would then be the harder for him to vndergoe the demonstrations of Ioubert for they are vnderpropped with principles soundly assured and drawn from the oracles euen of the great Dictatour of Nature Lib de vita et mor. et resp Aristotle instructs vs that all kinds of creatures haue in them a certaine naturall heat which is combined to the soule with so strict a bond as the one cannot be without the other and that those creatures while they liue haue this hea● but death comming they are cold immediatly And Lib. ● de gen an Cap. 3. in another place there is saith hee in the seed of all creatures the thing that causeth facunditie and that is it which we call heat And further he saith in the earth and in the waters the creatures and plants doe ingender because in the earth there is a moisture in the moisture is a spirit and in this great substance is the animall heat to the end that all things should be somewhat full of soule Thus dooth he hold that all things are made by heat and that all functions are performed thereby Lib. ● ad Glauc Lib. ● de vsu par Galen is also of the same oppinion and saith that heat is either the substance of the faculties or at least the chiefe and most necessarie instrument of them It is no maruell then if Haruet thinks it to be strange that Ioubert saith according to Aristotle that life dependeth vpon heat only For that it must needes be so life is nothing els but an abiding or attendance of the soule with the heat according to the same Aristotles iudgment Lib. de resp and we cannot in this obscuritie of things find any more assured instance of this present life then by the functions thereof of all vvhich heat as the especiall instrument and without other meanes is the authour the cause motiue and effecter And Ioubert to no small purpose hath defined life by heat in that Aristotle hath consigned death by the extinctiō of the same heat for Ioubert groundeth on this axiome that of two contraries the consequents are contraries And Galen himselfe 1. De san tu who holdeth death to arriue then when heat being weakned and broken by frequent action becomes faint and that the temper of the elementary qualities which are in vs being out of square

De venae sect ●duer Eras in those places where beside that alreadie said the ayre which encōpasseth vs is cold and the body heauie benumbde not stirring because the little troughes openings in the skinne are mouthes and yet little or nothing at all passeth out at them And this he giues vs to vnderstand by the example of saluage beastes which all winter together will not leaue their dennes and cauernes and hereupon he calles them Phooleuonta Zooa such as are Beares Battes or 〈◊〉 Serpen●s Lizardes and diuers other All which hauing at spring time by warmth heate the conuoyes of their bodie released and opened when they knowe that inwarde warmth resolues them makes them to waxe hungrie they come foorth by their owne proper motion out of their prisons and guided by nature only seeke in all parts the feeding which is aptest for them Hence hee gathereth that continuall breathing which is occasioned by respiration procures this defect this also prouokes the appetite and desire of eatting For nature hath giuen this propertie to the emptie part which thus requireth to be filled So that if the cause ceassed for which the body hath need of nouriture it would ensue as necessarilie that the selfe same penurie and his vnderstanding which is hunger by little and little would decay and therefore by this reason the creatures which are so hidden in the caues of the earth may liue without the vse of foode S. August lib. 21. deciuit Chap. 6 So likewise by the report of notable men and wel worthie credence that in the Lanternes and hollowe places of olde Sepulchers burning Lampes haue bin found which the inscriptions on the said Tombes haue witnessed that they were put in there almost infinite yeares before their finding as that whereof Lodouicus Viues speaketh discouered about the yeare 1500. which Hermolaus Barbarus saith was found in the territories of Pauia without date of day or of Consull in very deed but yet notwithstanding it had bin there inclosed aboue eight hundred yeares before as by the written discourse P. Appianus gathered Such Lampes then were preserued so long a time with little maintenance because the moisture there doth strongly support them and they perish but little whether it be by the humiditie which the Alchymistes tearme radicall of the gold which alone among all naturall bodies is belieued to suffer no diminution at all of his substance or any other thing therto belonging but so it appeares by the testification engrauen vppon a vessell of earth which Barbarus before mentioned deliuered written in these wordes Plutoni sacrum munus ne attingite fures Ignotum est vobis hoc quod in orbe latet Namque elementa graui clausit digesta labore Vase sub hoc modico maximus Olybius Adsit foecundo custos sibi copia corn● Ne pretium tanti depereat laticis And this which followeth was written or carued vppon an other vessell of earth and enclosed within the former bearing these words ABITE HINC PESSVMI FVRES VOS QVID VOLTIS CVM VOSTRIS OCVLIS EMISSITIIS ABITE HINC VOSTRO CVM MERCVRIO PETASATO CADVCEATOQVE MAXVMVS MAXVMVM DONVM PLVTONI HOC SACRVM FACIT Now in this vessell of earth wa● and had bin kept this Lampe placed betweene two Flagons or Bottles the one of gold the other of siluer full of the most pure liquor of gold which was imagined to haue giuen nutriment to the Lampe that continued burning for so many ages The same Barbarus called this liquor heauenly water or rather the diuine water of the Alchimists which also he noteth to haue beene called by Democritus and Mercurius Trismegistus sometimes diuine water sometime the Scithian drinke sometime spirituall that is to say a spirit drawn Or Quintessence from the celestiall nature ❀ fift essence of things whereof is composed Aurum Potabile and the Philosophers stone or dust in the search whereof so many people haue vainly consumed themselues To this diuine licquor of golde I knowe not whether I may attribute or no the 〈◊〉 of a Lampe continuallie burning wherof Cedrenus speaketh In the abridgemet of his Historie which from the time of the Emperour Iustinian was found in the cittie of * A Cittie of Syria beyond Euphrates Edessa with an Image of our Sauiour Iesus Christ It had been inclosed or hidden ouer a certaine gate immediately after the passion of Christ and yet neuerthelesse it had also remained there fiue hundred yeeres without extinguishing Moreouer some of the oyle which was found therein beeing cast into the neerest fire to that place it burned intirely all the troupes of warriours of Chosroes King of the Persians who was an enemy to the Christians VVhatsoeuer it were in consideration of the reasons before alleaged I find it not so strange as an example now to be made of a thing very rare almost incredible happening within our owne quarters of Poict● to wit the fast or abstinence of a maiden of Confolans or Conflans who for the space of 3. yeres and euen till this day hath liued doth without any bodily foode or sustenaunce This Maiden is about 14. yeeres of age and is named Iane Balan her Father Iohn Balan a Locksmith and her Mother Laurencia Chambella her ●●ture is answerable to her age some what Country-like of behauiour anatiue of the Towne of Confolans vpon the Riuer of Vienna in the confines of Limosin and also of Poictu In the eleuenth yeere of her age being seazed on by a continuall Feauer the 16. day of Februarie 1599. shee hath since then been assailed with the accesse of diuers other sicknesses and beyond all the rest with a continuall casting or vomiting for the space of 20. dayes together The Feauer hauing somewhat left her she grew to be speech lesse and continued so 28. dayes without the deliuerie of any one word at the end of which time she came to her selfe againe and spake as she had done before sauing that her words were full of feare and voide of good sence Nowe came vppon her a weakenes and benumming of all her sences and bodilie moouings from beneath the head in such sort that Oesophagus it selfe beeing that part of the stomack which serues as conduct for passage of meate and drink into that which we terme the little belly being dissolu'd it lost the force attractiue Since which time coulde not any one perswade this Mayden in any manner to eate albeit they made trial to haue her but suck or lick meats delicate fruits and sweet things agreeable to such yo●ig yeeres Notwithstanding the vse motion of her members came to her againe about sixe months after except in one hippe on which side yet she goes with some difficultie One onely impotencie remaineth to her that she cannot swallow or let down any thing for she altogether loathes and abhors mightily both meates drinks In this time a thing most strange the inferiour part of the belly by little

sleepe without any nouriture so saith Plinie Arist lib. 4. cap. 5. de part anim Aboue all other kind of creatures the Grashopper dooth fast the longest for the moisture which is superaboundant in their bodies doth sufficiently furnish them with store of nourishment VVormes growing to be old their skin doth outwardly wex very hard and because that skin then lookes of yellow or gold culler the Greeks were wont to call them Chrisalides the Latines named them Aurelia After they haue once taken this forme they will receiue nothing more into their bodies neither doe they voyd or cast any thing forth Among these the Silke-worme sheweth a miracle in nature about the midst of Summer closed vp fast within her huske of silk she liues at the least for forty daies together not onely without eating but imployes beside very much of her substance in making of silk and cōming forth of her shell or couerture she becoms a Butterflie yet this liberty makes her not to seek any nourishment Arist lib. 8. cap. 17. Plin. lib. 8. cap. 57. The Bar or Dormouse remaines hidden all VVinter in a perpetuall sleep during all this time she hath no other nouriture then sleepe Arist lib. 8. cap. 17. The Rats of the Mountaines like vnto Dormise doesleepe hidden all the winter and for six months continuaunce they are busied in such a profound sleep as being cast vp out of the ground by digging or otherwise they will not awake at all vntill such time as they be brought into the Sun or layd before the fire they begin to feele heat They cary hay chaffe such other like things into their caue●nes to keep them frō the cold but yet al this hinders them not from sleeping soundly The Tortuise of the earth all winter lies within the earth there passeth that season as the other And I ib. de A●phib Rondeletus witnesseth that not onely in winter but like wise at al times she can liue longest without any foode yea although shee haue her head cle●t or cut off and this is by the power of the cold moisture within herselfe Arist lib. 9. Cap. 29. ●●● lib. 10. Cap. 24. The Loriot a kind of Bird hauing this nature that if a man see her when he is sick of the laundise the man shall wex whole the bird shall die immediatly all the winter she lies hidden in the earth shews not herselfe till about the Solstice of Summer Arist lib. 8. Cap. 16. Your Swallowes as well those of houses as they that are wild to shun the sharpnes of winter whē it draweth Pl●● lib. 10 Cap. 24. neer they retire themselues to secret places in the neighbouring Mountaines where you shall find them naked and without any feathers and you may see them almost in the like condition euen at the Spring-time As for them vvhich are called Swallowes of the Sea-coasts they withdraw themselues to the sides of Riuers Lakes Marishes and of the Seas where the Rocks doe serue them for a retirement There shall you see them in multitudes together as newly assembled to chase one another In such sort that as Agricola saith the Fisher men many times take them out of the waters so fast ioynd tied together as our new Philosophers may ceasse henceforward to forge their new Colonies in Affrick and other places beyond the Seas Arist lib. 8. cap. 10. hist Turtle-dooues they begin to hide themselues when they are fat although that they leaue their feathers in their holes yet notwithstanding they keepe their fatnes Some one peraduenture beeing a more diligent searcher into naturall things may discouer a great number of other birdes which might bee thought to be straungers because in winter time they hide themselues thus yet neuerthelesse are of our own coūtry as Kites Stock-dooues Black-birds Stares Houpes Backs Gripes Owles and others which are sustained and fed by the fat within themselues in all which time the Gal. 4. vsu part et Com. 2. de rat vict acut course office of the belly ceasseth For Galen holds that when hunger is not thorowlie contented the fat marrow and fleame giue nourishment to the naturall heat VVhence Hip. lib. de carn we may also relieue a doubt which may arise from that which Hippocrates hath written maintaineth that a man can hardly liue out the seauenth day without eating which although hee happen to ouerpasse yet notwithstanding hee will die soone after For albeit it may be true and that which he saith might haue been manifested in this Maiden of Confolans the intestine receiuing no foode at all it shut vp it selfe in such sort during this time that it could not afterward admit the receite of any yet notwithstanding it is not altogether so constrained that by this restriction of the entrailes death should follow theron so readilie For it is recorded of the Scithians that if by any occasion happening them they are to endure long fasting they will binde vp their bellies strictly with large bands to the ende that hunger may not charge them so soone because they haue left little or no space at all for the bellies conuoye And ●oreouer the Maiden of Spire of whom ranne such great report that she had bin three yeares without eating yet after the superabounding humour was consumed she returned according as they say which wrote thereof euen as one from banishment to her first right course and vse of eating beginning as it ●s verie likelie with potages and licquid things by little and little if this be true which those authours haue sayd Or rather if the mother of the maide did not impose it on those good people as the rumour ran therefore there hath bin some occasion of remaining in doubte by their owne proper writing for it might be noated that her nose voided much her eares wanted no part of their ordure and that she deliuered aboundaunce of teares foorth at her eyes which sheweth that the languishing powers haue bin often relieued with some foode albeit not solide whereby these excrements by a secret strength in nature were sent into their proper organes And nothing at all against this makes the Paradoxe which M. Ioubert hath in the second booke of his first decade where among many notable examples of a long fast or abstinence he produceth as an Hypothesis or argument disputed that historie of the Maiden of Spire For besides a great number of obseruations of the same qualitie which hee placeth before and that haue bin approoued by the auouching of many graue Authours we haue also notable confirmations as well by experience of elder ages as of newer and later Plato makes report in his Common VVealth of a certaine man named Herus Pamphilius who remained ten dayes together among the dead bodies of them which had bin slaine in a battaile two dayes after that he was brought thence as one was laying him on the pyle

about yawning Tertullian hath auouched as much in his Lib. De Mant. he nourisheth himselfe ●aith hee speaking of the Cameleon in yasking and yawning he chawes and blowes vp himselfe like a foot-ball 2. Hist ani Chap. 13. ● Hist nat Chap. 25. the winde is all his foode The Crocodile by the testemonie of Aristotle and Plinie after him passeth alwayes six monethes of winter in her Caue without eating Aelianus ●aith that she remaineth three score dayes onely so hidden during which time shee ●areth nothing Symmachus a man of good qualitie an Oratour among the auncient Romaines caused Crocodiles to be brought into the Theatre before the people after that he had made them to fast fiftie dayes Long time afterward he kept two of them without giuing them any foode reseruing them to haue them seene at Symmach lib. 8. Epist 44. 8. Hist an Ch●p 2. the arriuall of certaine frends of his Although saith hee they made shewe not to liue long time without eating As for that which Harue● alleageth from Aristotle that the Crocodile beeing out of the water cannot liue any long time this receiueth his interpretation by the same place also where he writes that albeit the Crocodile delights herselfe in the water in such sorte as she cannot liue beeing enclosed out of watrie places neuerthelesse she dies if she receiue not ayre as she is wunt to doo and in nourishing her young-ones out of the water For so much then as she is a creature partly waterie and partly earthie he holdes that shee is to bee rancked among those creatures called That liue as wel on land as on water Lib. 2. Cap. 20. * Amphibii and which are of a nature not stayed whom he calleth Epamphoterizonta Other-wise hee should contrarie himselfe hauing written before that she spends the day on the land and the night in the water both the one and the other by reasō of the heat she loueth And this he would haue vnderstood of the time wherin she doth not hide herselfe at all by reason that colde is so contrarie to her as when it is faire seasonable weather she must needes bee on the land in the day time in the water all the night I might auouch heere the Indian birde without feete which the sacrifisers to Mahomet did some time make the King of the Moluques to beleeue that it dropte downe out Paradise because she is not found but in vnknowne places seperate from the troupes of the world by reason whereof they of that countrie call it the Birde of Paradise She liues euermore in the ayre neuer at any time toucheth the earth till after she be dead wheron she lyeth and preserueth herselfe a long time without corrupting This Bird doth not nourish herselfe on Mushromes or other semblable insect things as Sparrowes Swallowes doe for she liueth in the middle region of the ayre where are no creatures knowne vnto men whereon she may feede but vppon the ayre onely or on the vapour arising from the Iles of the Moluques which doe send foorth on all sides a very sweet and Aromaticall sauour Cardanus holds that she cannot liue of the ayre alone and perfectly because it is very subtile in those countries But he that hath giuen her the ayre for foode hath also power so to thicken that ayre as to render it selfe apt enough for her nourishment And no lesse admirable is the bird In vita Ar●oxer which Plutarch calleth Rhintaces very common in Persia which hath nothing emptie in her body but is within all full of fat as are the Bennarics in Languedoc and yet notwithstanding this Author saith that she liues not but of the ayre and of the dew therein ●ib 5. hist ●ni cap. 19. ●lin lib. 11. Cap. 36. Aristotle the Prince of truth writes that in the Furnases where the Melters casters of Copper are in Cypres they haue a little creature of the bignes of a great Fly which they call Pyrausta the which hath wings soure feet So long as there is fire in the Furnace this worme or Fly liueth but let it be neuer so little off from it it presently dies and yet notwithstanding this creature is most cold hauing no other maintenaunce then the heat of the fire onelie But why should I dwell on these examples whereof Haruet in euerie place holds that wee can draw no consequent by them to men Peraduenture then some examples deduced from men themselues may make him to acknowledge a truth And therefore I will produce one which is out of all scruple whereof Princes worthy of beleefe made recitall to King Henry the third being in Poland Hee had there many great Lords of Fraunce Councellours c. He had also diuers Phisitians in his Court among others Monsieur Piduxius our Deane skilfull not onely in Phisicke but likewise in whatsoeuer concerned the knowledge of the naturall historie Hee was then Phisitian to my Lord the Duke of Neuers and called to councell with the Kings owne Phisitians From him was it that wee verbally heard this Historie which also is written by Alexander Guaguinus of Verona Captaine of the footmen in the Cittadell of Vitebcka on the limits of Moscouia and in his description of the said Country Hee saith that there are certaine people in Lucomoria which is a Region in the vtmost confines of the Sarmates towards the North which dye or rather remaine entraunced like your Frogges and Swallowes euery yeare the 27. of the moneth Nouember by reason of the extreame colde in that part of the countrie Afterward at the returne of Spring-time the 24. of Aprill they come to life againe These people make their commerces with the Grustintzians and Sperponomptzians their neighbours after this manner VVhen they feele the time of their entrauncing to draw neere they then lock vp their merchandises in certaine places and the Grustintzians and Sperponomptzians there take them and leaue other in their sted of answerable value The time being come of their reui●ing they take the merchandises which were left in exchaunge of theirs if they perceiue they haue profit by them if not they demaund back their owne againe whereby ariseth oftentimes quarrels and warres betweene them By this sleepie traunce the natural heate in these bodies which otherwise are accustomed to this ayre and boyled againe as sayth Albertus Cr●●tzius by the freezing is no whit extinct because that al the places por●s passages and conuoys being lockt vp and stopte it gathers it selfe about the entrailes and by this Antiperistasis or repulsion of euery part she encreaseth herselfe and makes her power the more vigorous for the Spring-time ensuing Aboue all other partes of the bodie the daunger is principallie of the braine which hath great store of large openings and among others the nostrilles were it not that whē they beginne to wexe stiffe with colde a tarte rheume or moisture distilleth from the nostrilles which by report of the said Lord Piduxius Their eyes ●ares nostrilles and mouthes are softlye frozen vp be●ore they fall into their ●●ance euen as it flowes congeales it selfe no lesse then the spettle it selfe doth and so it wexeth hard before they fall to the grounde according as Sigismond de Herbestein describeth in the Historie of Moseouis By meanes whereof the nostrilles and other parts being lockt vp the mallice of the ayre cannot so easilie pierce vp vnto the braine And if any one of them to shunne this colde vnfreendlines of the ayre thinkes by couering himselfe with skinnes and other things to forestall the Isicles hanging at the nostrilles and mouth c immediatly the ayre being excessiuely cold steps vp into the braine and there extinguisheth the naturall heate so that these Lucomorians in sted of a temporall entrauncing do then fall into a perpetuall and endlesse But the time being come that the Sunne getteth rule ouer the colde and brings in agayne the sweetnes of the Spring season the ycie moisture at the parts before named melting it selfe the heate by little little insinuates into the bones the feeling and vigour creepes againe into all the mēbers and then hath the bodie the same O●conomie which it had before Haruet concludes his whole discourse by the fasting of holy personages Moyses Elias our blessed Sauiour the which saith hee should be held for no miracle at all if according to nature so long an abstinence may be made Ioubert hath answered that in sick persons and such as are much subiect to sicknesse a long fast or abstinence is naturall but supernaturall in such persons who otherwise are perfectly well and of good temperature Harnet obiecteth the place of Auice● cited by Ioubert That the same might also happen to healthful men For our owne selues we will embrace the oppinion of Io●bert in such sort as we doo holde concerning the accident heere happening among vs to whom this abstinence is yet so easie that it hath bin occasioned by a sicknesse against nature albeit some others in like manner diseased haue afterward bin healthfull againe But as for persons of such rare sanctitie we thinke not their fast to haue bin by any sicknesse but only by the speciall will of God and that naturall appetite then returned at the time limitted by his prouidence Last of all where he exhorteth euerie one to imitate a certaine Gentleman who by care and dilligence discouered the imposture of an Hermite in Sauoy that by feigned fastings had long time dece●ued the peoples oppinion As for our selues not knowing how to goe against the authoritie of so many rare and cleare sighted Phisitians nor yet how to steale into our eyes the credence of what they haue seene we loue rather to leaue it euen to the most curious reseacher into the causes of the extraordinari● workes of nature then like the companions to Vlisses charmed with the fruite of the * A●●ee in Affrick called the Lot ●●● Alyfier or fatall tree to serue or know no other Gods then Edusa and Potina FINIS