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A03363	A contemplation of mysteries contayning the rare effectes and significations of certayne comets, and a briefe rehersall of sundrie hystoricall examples, as well diuine, as prophane, verie fruitfull to be reade in this our age: with matter delectable both for the sayler, and husbandman, yea and all traueylers by sea and lande, in knowing aforehande, howe daungerous a tempest will succeede by the sight of the clowd coming ouer the head, and other matters fruitful to be read as shal appere in the table next after the preface. Gathered and englished, by Thomas Hyll.	Hill, Thomas, b. ca. 1528.	1574 (1574)	STC 13484; ESTC S117617	58,354	156

setting are they all dead so that these by due proofe are knowne not to lyue aboue a day 37. The ryuer Matronas Celtas deuydeth it selfe from that riuer Belgas which for the straunge propertie greatly to be wondred at in that the common sort affirme that this riuer to be as a destinie or mighty hazarde of lyfe to manye for so much thys ryuer daylie purchaseth to it some pray as hath bene noted of a long tyme by those dwelling fast by 38. In the Mountaynes of Modena in Lumbardie in a place named Mount Zibbius is there a Well out of which runneth a lyuely and singuler water in thys doe men at this day gather a mightie quantitie of Oyle which is knowne of many to be of a miraculous vertue in that the same worketh so maruailous effects on mans bodye as in healing al aches the most griefes and diseases of the body and in the healing also of woundes and sores not inferiour to the artificiall Baulme this of most men named the true Oyle of Peter 39. In the Countrie of Burgony there is a certaine burning Lake in which if a flaming or burning fyrebrande be quenched the same immediately goeth out or is quenched through the moysture consisting in it and a fyrebrand readie quenched dipped in this doth immediatly kindle burne through the fierie Brimstonie heate consisting also in it which is found hote and dry in the fourth degrée 40. There be certaine waters knowne at this day which haue the taste of Wine in that they runne by some swéete iuyce in the earth As by a like in Paphlagonia is reported to be a Well of a wynie taste which causeth the persons drinking of the water to become soone after dronke The cause of which dronkennesse is that the same containeth much of the spirites of the Brimstonie passages which on such wise fill the braine of the creatures with sumes ▪ And a like to this is reported that the ryue● Lincestius to haue waters comming to it of such a propertie that they make persons dronke euen like Wine 41. In the Countrie of Boëmia is a Well of sharpe tast neare that Citie which they name Bilen the water of which the inhabiters thereabout vse in the morning in the stéede of burning Wyne or Aqua vitae 42. Aristotle also wryteth that in the Countrie of Sicilia to be a soower Well which the poore people vse in the stéede of Vinigar as others wytnesse of the same 43. In Scythia also some report that there to be a bitter Well the water of which running into the ryuer not farre distaunte causeth it to taste bitter 44. Certaine Welles and riuers there be excéeding hote especiallye those which issue and runne out by Brimstonie veynes of the earth and other hote places the waters of which are much pierceing and drying by reason of the propertie through which these profite vnto the drying vp of corrupt and rotten humours in diseased bodies And such hote or bathwaters are at certaine times dronke that they may supply euacuations and clensings of the body and reduce it vnto a suit temperatnesse Of certaine fyerie impressions and first of the same named of most men the foolish fyre THe light going before and folowing after men in the ayre especially in the night doe later wryters report to be the foolishe fyre in that the same often appéereth to saylers and men traueyling by lande as eyther going before or following them and maketh a man a foole by seducing him This light also is named Helena when it as one Candle is séene or appeareth alone which besids is reported to be the fyrebrand and pestilence of Saylers For as Helena brought destruction on Asia and Greece euen so hath it bene obserued that when this light hath bene séene alone to haue caused great daunger to saylers Yet such fyres oftentimes are but fantasticall sightes and méere illusions of spirites as the Author prooueth by sundry reasons And this is not named the foolishe fyre of the burning onely but for the longer continuing going before and folowing any person in the ayre For those two Candels or lightes are often tymes séene to go before or to follow men walking or ryding especially in the night and such trauayling on the Sea not without some terrour or feare The foolishe fyre is ingendred of a vapour conglutinated or compact togither in hys partes which then are kindled so that not of the clowde méeting it but of the vehement beating or smyting togyther of the partes in themselues And these two Castor and Pollux be ingendred in the lowest region of the ayre of a fatter fume vnctuous and inflammable which through the coldnesse of the night ayre is so dryuen togither thickned The place where the foolishe fyre doth appéere is knowne to be oftner by the report of wryters in hote places and Countries Yet some agrée that this light is oftner séene in moyst places and regions In that out of Marishe and fumous places or out of a clammy grounde the thick and fat exhalation is eleuated being soone kindled and according to the proportion of the heat doth it ascende eyther more or lesse Or thus out of a clammye earth as in Churchyardes Kitchines and low valleys the thicke and fatte substaunce is eleuated which may soone be kindled and according to the proportion of the heate doth this eyther more or lesse ascende The substaunce is kindled through the concourse of two contrarie qualities which contende in themselues for the vapour is hote and the night ayre colde The reason also why this light doth both folow and flie from men is through the motion of the ayre which by the walking or running is forced So that the faster the man runneth towarde it so much the faster both the same impression flie from him but if he runneth from it then doth it follow him in that the ayre moued doth force the same substaunce An Hystoricall example of this Meteorū may a man read in Plutarchus which he affirmeth in the life of Lysander The cause of Castor and Pollux and where these engendred THese two Castor and Pollux appéers like a double fyre in forme of two burning Candels caused of the exhalation or fatter vapour and vnctuous raysed vnto the lowest region of the ayre in the night which contending with the night colde is so kindled that cleaueth sometimes to the crosse yardes of shippēs and continuing so long burning through the thicknesse and fatnesse of it vntill the substaunce shall be spent And by a peculiar and vayne superstition the people in auncient time supposed and ascribed Castor and Pollux to be the brethren of Helena in that when the Saylers and Maryners had obserued these sitting on both the crosse yardes they supposed and hoped that a more happie course and fortunate successe of the ship to insue through the help as they thought of the two brethren which they beléeued to delyuer them from perill and hazard of perishing and for the same accompted

Well of such a nature of which when Théeues o● robbers had dronke they immediatly became blinde 11 In Idumea a region in Siria ioy●ning to Egypt was a Well in tyme past● of such a propertie that would for thrée Moneths togither appeare troubled other thrée Moneths founde bloudie other thrée Moneths séene gréene and other thrée Moneths knowne and tryed cléere 10. There was a Well knowne of such condition that for sixe howres the same was found full of water and running ouer and other sixe howres séene quite empty and dry the cause of which as Seneca wytnesseth is the proportion of the vapour eleuating the waters and the ebbing and flowing also of the Sea neare by 11. In the hill named Anthracius is a Well reported to be which is noted of such a propertie that when the same is found full of water to the brim that then it pronounceth a firtill yere to insue but when the same Well is séene verie lowe and in a maner emptie of water then foloweth a dearth the same yeare 12 In Hungarie is a certaine little riuer or brooke affirmed to be which is noted of such a propertie that who casteth yron into the same it will in short tyme after be chaunged into Copper 13. Seneca affirmeth that such a propertie to be in certaine ryuers which alter flockes of shéepe by drinking thereof within a short time in causing those which before bare a black woole to possesse a whyte and that those which came thither with a whyte woole departed after with a black woole on their backes 14. Theophrastus reporteth that in Macedonia to be a ryuer of such condition vnto which those which be minded to haue their shéepe beare a white woole bring them to that ryuer which by that reason the longer the shéepe drinke thereof none otherwise than as they were infected are they after chaunged 15. Capadocia is a aryuer of such a propertie that what beastes drinke sundrie times of the water the heares of their skirt become wholy whyte 16. In Archadia as Vitruuius reporteth is a water named Nonacris which is founde on the hilles sweating or distilling most colde humours out of the rocke stone this water gathered is named also Stygis hydor which as by experience the same is founde neyther a Siluer nor Copper nor yron vessell can retayne the same but that this leaketh and soketh through it so that for his straunge qualitie it is founde by triall that none other vessell will retaine or kéepe the same water sauing the hoofe of a Mule. 17. In the Countrie of Sclauonie is a Well knowne to be of such a propertie that clothes spreade ouer the Well being as some report most colde are burned 18. In the Iland named Andro and in the temple of Liberi patris is a Well of such a propertie that out of the same in the Nonis of Ianuary runneth water lyke to Wine in taste 19. In the hill named Berosus Taurorum be thrée Welles of such condition which are without remedie and without paine of deadly griefe 20. Isydore affirmeth in his .xiij. Booke that in Italie is the Well of Cycero being of such a propertie that it healeth the clefts and chaps or other hurts of the eyes 21. In the Iland named Chio is there a Well of such condition that the persons drinking of the water of the same become soone after dull of memorie And the Well of Circus is noted to be of such a propertie that such drinking thereof are after bereft of the desire of the veneriall act as certaine wryte 22. In Aethiopia there is a Well red the propertie of which is that who drinketh of the same shall soone after become madde 23. In Archadia there is a Well named Lechnus the propertie of which is knowne to be that what person o● woman with childe shall drinke of the same shall not after be delyuered before hir tyme. 24. In the Countrie of Sicilia are two Welles of which the one by propertie doth make fruitfull the barraine and the other causeth the fruitfull barraine and these by sundry times drinking of eyther 25. In the Iland named Sardinia are hote Welles of that propertie which perfitely helpe the eyes yet doe those trie out Théeues in that their faces be bewrayed through a blindnesse caused by them 26. It is manifest sayth Seneca in his booke of the properties of things that common Welles there be of such propertie which chaunge péeces of woode into a ston● substaunce and of such stones by report● are the best whetstones made 27. In the ryuer of the Countrye of Thrace and in the Lake Velino it is reported that wood throwne into eyther is soone after couered with a stonie barck 28. Plynie wryteth that in the ryuer of Silarus being a ryuer of Lucania not only the braunches of trées but the leaues also throwne into it are chaunged into stones but otherwise is the water wholesome to be drunke 29. In the Iland named Pontus there is a riuer that watereth the fertill groundes in which the shéepe féeding doe yéelde and féede the people there with a black milke 30. In Aethiopia is a Lake in which bodyes rubbed ouer with it shine as they were done with Oyle 31. Of Clitorio being a Lake in Italie is such a propertie knowne that what persons drinke of the water of the Lake abhorre wine after by report 32. In Cappadocia as reporteth Vitruuius there is a Lake into which if part of a réede shall be put and the next day taken forth shall be founde so harde as a stone but the other part remayning without the water of the Lake contynuing in his proper estate and condition 33. Seneca in his seauenth booke wryteth that there be certaine Lakes of such condition which are able to beare vp men not skilfull in swymming 34. In Syria also is there a standing water into which if Tyles be throwne they doe not sinke but rather swim aboue although they be heauier 35. The Rhene Belgas deuideth it selfe from the Germaines and marueylous is the same which is reported to be wrytten of this ryuer for they affirme of the due proofe made that the Infants of the French women named Celtoe dwelling fast by this ryuer throwne into it if so be those yonglings were vnlawfully gotten thys ryuer then would swalowe and let them sincke as a due reuengement for the polluting of the chaste bed but such Infantes in wedlock gotten and by lawfull order thys bare to shore in safetie to the wonder of the beholders This is reported to be written in a certaine Epistle of Politianus vnto Iacobe Cardynall 36. There is a ryuer in Seythia running from a great Maryse which bringeth forth certaine huskes greater than anye common kernell out of which doe byrdes with foure féete issue or he hatched which increasing and waxing strong doe flie about vntill the after noone for after the sunne declyning lowe into the West these byrdes then Waxe leane and féeble and after the Sunne

such a cyrcle about the Sunne foreshewed battayles hunger fyres and pittifull landfloodes A like cyrcle to Halo appéered before the battayle with the Turks in the yere 1532. by which is manifest that such sightes are foreshewers of euils to come In the yeare of our Lorde 1559. with the great tempest risen at Fryburge certaine fyrie Globes fell out of the clowds not farre from the Citie much or often lightnings with thunder which lamentably burnt the grasse hops herbes and leaues of trées the tempest increased a hande was séene stretched in the aire for an hower in a maner which at length by drawing and folding the fingers togither in grinding it selfe was turned into powder which powder falling to the earth vanished away In the yeare 1560. waters brake in and ouer ranne much grounde in sundrie places to the great hurt and losses of manye men in that their closes and Medowes were much harmed with the clamminesse of the waters bursting in The same yeare dyed that singular learned and godly man worthy memorie Philip Melanchtone who lefte behinde hym these comfortable verses that he made a little before the agonie of death which he still repeated vntill life left him Cur mortem metuā mors non est mortis imago est Sed merito vitor Christe benigne tuo Vermis adhuc spiro moriturus forte sub horam Mors etenim certa est funeris hora later Ergo Gnate Dei iam me tibi porrigo totum Viuam seu moriar sanguine viuo tuo In the yeare of mans redemption 1561. manye Gunnes through Germanie were séene in the ayre shooting of pellets into the Sunne In the .xvij. daye of December fower sunnes were séene in the East casting forth gréene roddes on euerie side to the great feare and amazement of the beholders Heauen séemed to burne a fyrie Globe shyned from the North part with a mighty light in heauen In the kingdome of Naples were fiue Castels and a Byshoprick suncke with an Earthquake and a water nauigable vanished the whole in such maner that no monument or part at all is left to be séene yea a whole citie so sunck into the earth that no perseuerance of it at all remayning at this day From the .xvj. vnto the .xviij. day of Nouember the riuer Tyber cast vp a mighty number of dead fishes In the yeare of our Lorde 1562. Heauen séemed to burne to the sight of much people in many places of Germany And a celestiall fyrehrande stretched from the North into the South shyned by night in heauen A mightie company of armed men or souldiours were séene in the ayre which as some affirme séemed in the ayre to shed downe much bloude from heauen And the Sunne in the Moneth of Aprill séene marueylous bloudy as well at the rysing as at the setting for thrée dayes togither The ymage also of our Redéemer crucified was séene sprinckled all ouer with bloud in the Moneth of Aprill Whilst the mightie Emperour Ferdinandus kept his royall Court at Prage the chiefe citie in Bohemia it hapned that Peason were miraculously chaunged into stones after this manner A certaine husbandman had brought certaine sackes of Peason to the citie to be solde to whom a Citizen for the penurie of victuals came and required him to sell better cheape then he had accustomed to doe who that was a cruell and couetous man prayed to God that his Peason rather might be chaunged into stones then he woulde sell them one mite better cheape incontinent after the Citizen departing from him the Peason were al miraculously chaunged into stones a marueylous spectacle in déede of Gods wrath and due punishment for his canckred and wicked stomack To conclude we may by these fearefull wonderous and straunge sightes as well on earth as in the ayre learne that God by them doth marueylously foreshewe his blessed will and condigne punishment for the sinnes of the people and that in such sort to declare the calamities to come vpon vs by shewing aforehande such straunge sightes and fearefull threatnings in the ayre vnto the admonishment of vs for the correcting of sinne if by these and such lyke we wyll be warned at all Of the maruellous nature of Welles Riuers Lakes and waters to which the Phisitions denie a reason to be assigned DIuers are the natures and miracles of Welles Ryuers Lakes and waters the cause of which is eyther hid wholy from vs or in search verie harde to be vnderstanded as by Examples here vnder shall plainer appéere 1. First there is a swéete running ryuer in the Countrie of Italie which by his propertie causeth the Oxen drinking thereof to become through whyte of heare all the body ouer Propert. lib. 3. 2. In Boetia there is a ryuer named Melas being of such a propertie that shéepe drinking of the water of that ryuer chaunge and beare after black woole 3. Seneca wryteth of a Well of such a propertie that what person drinketh thereof the heare of the head shall after become yealow of colour 4. In Libia there is a Well which at the rysing and setting of the Sunne is founde hote but at noone this Well is tried most colde and at midnight verie hote 5. Seneca wryteth of certayne Welles being of straunge properties of which the one and first is a Well of such a propertie that who drinketh of the same doth dye through the mightie poysoning thereof The other is a Well of such a propertie that throwing péeces of woode into the same Well they after were turned into stones He wryteth of an other Well being of such a propertie that what persons drink of the water of the same shall after become starke mad An other Well there is of suche a propertie that what parsons drinke thereof it giueth them memorie He witnesseth also of an other Well of such a condition that by drinking therof it procureth forgetfulnesse 6. There is another Well of such a nature that what persons drinke thereof become soone after frantick 7. An other Well there is of a maruelous propertie that what persons drinke of the water it sodainely moueth and stirreth forward the lust of the body of which condition the Well of Salmacis in Caria is misreported to be the causes of which are the Herbes Stones and Mynes by which these passe in which such a hid propertie procured of so marueylous effects consisteth 8. In Egypt there is a Well of such a propertie that quencheth light fyrebrands in the same as reporteth Augustus they forthwith are put forth and those quenched are by the water of the same well kindled 9. With the black Moores named Garamantes is a Well of suche condition which in the daye time is knowne to bée so colde that no person can drinke therof and in the night time it is founde so hot that no creature is able to beare or abide the heat o● the same 10. In a certaine learned worke of Cos●mographye is reported that in the Countrie of Sicilia was in time past a

matter when it is sent downe striketh and entreth into the thinner bodyes and smyting into solyde bodyes forthwith dissolueth destroyeth and wasteth whose force for troth is to be marueyled at Otherwise is the same reported to be cléere and flaming This lightning is diuersly caused For the matter otherwise of the lightning hath verie much of the earthly and viscous matter For which cause it burneth the resistaunt matters especially if of the same substaunce which may be burned they consist and imprinteth or sheweth the notes of burning yet the matter sometimes of the lightning consisteth of the vapours verie subtill and impure Hereof the bodyes thinne and hauing poores this entereth without any note or shewe of hurte and corrupteth the inner members and the solyde bodyes resisting doth it part into péeces consumeth them So that this slayeth a man or anye lyuing beast wythout any wounde appearing or note of hurt And this also melteth the golde or siluer in mens purses the purses remayning vnperished Albertus magnus applyeth vnto the lightnings of this kinde the depriuing of sight and the swelling of the face For so much as we often sée men beholding the lightnings become blynde yea and the face by that meanes so swollen that a man can hardly knowe after the person The same is caused through the thinnesse and porositie of our skinne and eyes which lightly receiue the subtil vapour so that this corrupteth the radicall moysture of the face and swelleth the face and dryeth also the radicall moysture of the eyes through which dryed blindnesse of necessitie must insue In what time of the yere the lightnings oftner happen is here vttered For the sightnings in Winter sildome appeare to vs and the reason as Plynie reporteth is in that the materiall cause is not so copious as in other times the same is woont to be for in the Winter tyme the exhalation is onely moyst and colde which gathered into the clowdes receyueth a verie hote force and although the same shall not be perceyued yet is it sodainely extinguished through the force of the colde Further euery vapour of the earth is stiffe and verie colde For which cause in Scythia and in the Countries farther North it is to be supposed that it sildome lightneth And in Sommer in the hotter Countries fewe lightnings are cau●sed for that in the Sommer the exhalatio● is onely hote and dry which in no maner o● verie hardly can be gathered and thickne● into a clowde Whereof in Aethiopia ●●gypt and in the Countries vnder the Tr●●pick of Cancer for the excéeding heat ligh●●ning doe sildome happen But with vs i● the Sommer time dwelling Northward● lightnings are oftner caused in that the heate of sommer is not so great that it can consume all the matter or substaunce of the clowdes Euen so in the meane seasons of the yere as in the spring time and haruest lightnings are oftner caused in that the constitution of these seasons ministreth to the ayre much matter as wel dry as moyst The cause why man or beast is so slayne that no token of the hurt or wounde appeareth is for that the force and subtilnesse of the kindled vapour by which at a 〈◊〉 pierceth through the skinne and penetrable fleshe through out porouse and blasteth the vitall members with a pestilent poyson and wyth the venymous qualitie and vertue which all lightnings are named to haue it slayeth The same may verie well be applyed vnto the foote hurt and the shooe not perished and to the sap of trées corrupted the trée remayning whole without any corruption of the woode The cause why money is so molten with the lightning the purse or money bagge remayning whole and the sworde in like maner the sheath abyding vnperished is for that these bodies are porouse which lightly yéelde to the mighty spirite and subtill lightning vapour in which if such a mighty force of striking be through the great violence it then parteth into small péeces the resistaunt and harde bodyes if such a force of burning it then melteth Such is the violence of this that it throweth downe pinnacles of stone yea Towers most stronglye wrought and other buyldings mightie stones also it parteth in péeces such matters which haue anye resistaunce and hardnesse in them this ouerthroweth The cause why lightnings often smyte most highe places as stéeples towers and among trées the high Oke in especiall and highe Mountaynes is for that such which be the higher are the more open to iniuries of the clowdes in the ayre and by the course running here and there these bodies in the waye resisting happen to be striken and spoyled And euerye agent mightier worketh néere hand then that which by a great space is distaunt The other cause deuine is in that euill spirits dwelling in the ayre doe often stirre vp and cause through Gods suffraunce cruell tempestes and spoyle lyke places by Gods due vengeaunce The cause why nettes lying in the water may be burned of the lightning is for that the flame of the same hath much of the Brimstonie and viscous matter so that fallen into water it may burne the same hauing attayned the due matter And the same doe our Artificers proue in Gunpowder of which the whole Arte insueth the celestiall lightnings And the lyke in a maner may a man sée in lyme which through the powring vpon of water waxeth hote and is kindled The cause why the lightning cutteth or parteth a vessell in péeces or is burnt with the lightning the Wyne remayning whole togither for a certaine space as if the same were coagulated is through the lightning which hath verye much of the Brimstonie substance and viscositie in it which by piercing into the whole substance of the Wine is sparsed hereof through the heate what soeuer is fast holding is forced and sent into the furthest extending of the Wine both dryed and boyled agayne through the fyrie spirite of the lightning that worketh a certaine skinne which stayeth the Wine from running forth for a certaine time and the same as it were with a skinne compassed about retayneth So that these miraculously are caused by one inforcement and as it were in a moment The same iudgement may be vttered of the others lyke What the lightning Dart is THe same is the stone of the lightning as the later wryters report which sometimes in wedge forine sometimes rounde and sometimes in piller forme falleth with a mightie force into the earth and both cleaueth scattreth destroyeth and burneth the resistaunt bodyes and matters The manner of the ingendring of the Stone THe vapour of the lightning is drye and sometimes somewhat clammy of a certayne Metallyne matter earthly and thick which through the much motion and diuers agitation falling into a moyst clowde is conglutynated euen like meale tempered with water and baked and in the ende hardned into a solyde yronnie or stonnie Masse euen lyke potters clay baked into a stone This exhalation aswell flashing forth of

clifts nor beating or shaking with the great floods of waters yet the sounder and faster any grounde of the earth is so much the more harmed at the shaking for so much it mightier shutteth in the exhalations and compelleth an inforcement in the cause The Ilands and the valleys are sildome molested with the Earthquake for so much as the partes of the earth in themselfe are pressed togither and are but a little porouse so that these cannot enter in An earthquake is sildome caused in moyst places for so much as the moysture hindreth or letteth the exhalation to come vnto strength of which the Philosopher reporteth that in the floodes of the Sea Pontus a lesse Earthquake to be caused for so much as the huge sea about cooleth the exhalations and on such wise letteth them In the sandie and grauily places as are the places Northerly farre sildomer is an Earthquake caused yea scarcely any Earthquake at all caused in those places for so much as the same grounde is a thinner earth and lesser solyde nor so thicke compact and that the fumes ascend by little and little without force How the ingendring is or of the maner of the ingendring of Earthquakes THe Earthquake is caused when the exhalations and vapours included in the caues and hollowe places or passages of the earth contende togither and by his nature séeke on highe to breake forth but through the earth close stopped not finding way by force shake the same and cause it to tremble and in the ende breake forth so that the earth oftentimes causeth eyther a gaping or déepe caue or goulfe or the same throwne vp on heigth after the maner of a hill or Mountayne of which great Mountayne● happen to be suncke and swallowed vp in a Goulfe as sundrie lyke we reade in the Hystories yea great waters and ryuers drunke vp and the course of waters chaunged and lande floodes caused in the mayne lande Or thus the earth contayneth in it selfe a much exhalation which it heating conceaueth through the fierie efficacie and vertue of the Sunne the Planets and fixed starres This spirite for that the same is subtill is most apt to be inforced So that when by it this drie spirite runneth included within the earth séeking issue is so by his force lifted vp and driuen from one hollownesse into another Of which this when for the solyde nature of the earth and stopped passages of the earth can not issue or passe forth procureth lightly and soone a trembling in it selfe caused through the beating and driuing back so that retayned this strongly moueth and shaketh the earth or séeking his waye and the spirite driuen by a narrow body of the earth laboreth with a most strong contention For into the proper and naturall place this contendeth to flie which through the mightie stopping letted of the compact earth is the same driuen backe into the earth which at the length laboureth to issue causing the same to tremble and casteth vp the earth ▪ in the breaking forth like to a hill vntil it be issued yea this sometimes cleaueth the same and openeth it in the issuing forth at two sides Aristotle vttereth other notes for after the earth beaten vp he reporteth that great windes to breath and flie vp and that fyre and ashes to be cast forth So that water not to be the special cause of the earthquake for the water should otherwise be still if the same were not blowne and driuen Nor such a swiftnesse or hastinesse of the trembling coulde be caused if so much could be procured in the waters swelling and that the earth could very often breake But it often breaketh not in the tremblings shakings of the earth Yet doth this pronounce the great plentie of vapours included in the caues of the earth driuen like windes by their force and agitation sparsed by certain places which when the same is caused it instructeth that those places to tremble thorowe the might of the vapours forced For it is manifest that the earth to be full of vapours the thundring or rumbling which is heard in the shaking of the earth is a note of the flying vapours And for so much as the vapours open the passages of the earth a water sometimes is shed out of the earth of which no such plentie consisteth or is in the great Mountaynes that might like smite them Howe so great a heape of earth of so thinne and light a body as the winde may be cast vp doth the Philosopher Aristotle here vtter by a similitude as in our bodies spirites included are cause of the tremblings or shakings and beating of the pulses euen so hapneth in the same earth when a great force of the vapours gathered mooue and shake it wyth their force What the finall causes are THe finall cause of an Earthquake is the signification verie sad heauie of matters and haps to come as of battels landfloodes mutation of Emperies the dearth of victuals c. For the Earthquakes alwayes pronounce great calamities as Plynie witnesseth where he reporteth that the Citie of Rome neuer trembled but that the same was a foreshewe of some happe to come or insue so that the Romanes curiously obserued the Earthquakes as the same is manifest in their Hystories Of the earthquake Cardanus reporteth that the earth to be cleaued through a vapoure and not to be doubted but that the same to prognosticate great sedicions Yea the great earthquakes denounce eyther a Battayle or the Plague or a Tirannicall oppression these also cause a dearth of corne and famine Yet the earthquakes somtimes threaten no other euils than the ouerthow of proper Cities and Townes and destruction or mortalitie of those persons which dwell in them These hitherto Cardanus The holy Scriptures vtter the same that in these motions the Lorde God exerciseth and sheweth his most seuere ire punishing with these the peoples sinnes by a iust iudgment vnlesse they spéedily repent For it is written in the seconde booke of Kinges and xxij Chapter that the ire of God was mooued and the earth trembled for so much as the Lorde God was angrie with them Euen so before the Turckes tooke Gréece for thrée whole dayes togither the Earthquake shooke the borders néere bounding and many buildings fell downe Before the Peloponesian Battayle the countrie of Laconia was so fearefully shaken with an Earthquake that whole townes fell and much people destroyed and ouerwhelmed in the fall of them Eutropius writeth that in the next yeare after the death of Paule the Apostle Laodicoea and Colossa were suncke with an Earthquake in which example both a punishment of the wicked was séene which contemned Paules doctrine and a signyfication of calamities to come on Asia bordering néere by and of the crueltie which Domitianus exercysed in the same part of the worlde when he compelled S. Iohn the Apostle to liue in exile The like hapned an Earthquake before the death of Theodosius the second which endured for sixe monethes