The living librarie, or meditations and observations historical, natural, moral, political, and poetical / Written in Latin by P. Camerarius. And done into English by John Molle.
- Philipp Camerarius
- Date:
- 1621
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The living librarie, or meditations and observations historical, natural, moral, political, and poetical / Written in Latin by P. Camerarius. And done into English by John Molle. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![lat M ——— ranza, which is bounded with the South Ocean (mightie princes before fuch time as the Portugals difcouered the countrey ) had refpectto the fame thing, bearing for badges of their maieftie royall (faith Zerogimus 0 (vrius) a littlefpade with a fhaft of yuorie,and two fhort jauclins. By the fpade they encourage their fubie&s to husband the ground,for feare left by idleneffethey fhouldletitgrow fallow, and through famine become theeuesand robbers.. One of the jauelins fignifieth, That they meane to do iuftice to their fübiects within their kingdom: and the other (heweth; T hat they refolue to repell their enemies with arms,that fhould offer to inuade the fame. The Turkes, who till this time haue carefully maintained the order and dif- cipline of warre, (the humane prudence, which hath been their furtherance and bulwarkeagainft the Chriftians,amongft whomall policie is welneere perifhed, as may be feene by that learned T reatife written by Hubert Folietta, of the en- larging and increafing of the empire of the Turkes, ZacZatius placing this dif- order of warfaring men among the fignes that fhould precede and fhew them- felues a little before the latter day) thefe Turkes fay when their armie, whichis commonly very great,marcheth in their countries,they vic firft ofall to take or- der,that it doe no hurt orannoyance to gardens and fieldsthat are fowne ; After that, they punifh feuerely the fouldiers,which either by carelefneffe , or of ar- rogancie make neuer fo little wafte. Heereof wee haue a memorable example in the difcourfe of Bartholomew Georgeuitz , who (as an eye-witneffe) writeth thefe words : Their difcipline in warre ts [a feuereyas if amy fouldior dae but offer to fteale, hee ts punifbed without all remifSion. For there are among them certaine ordinarie guards,to looke that the fouldiers gine no occafion of mi{contentment to little boyes of cight or ten yeares old, that they meet vponthe wayes, bringing bread,egs. fruit hauer, dv [uch other proutfions to fell. Thefeguards and their Captaines are charged likewife to fee that nofouldier gae into any gar- den or orchyard by which thetroups are to paffesand they tbemfelues dare not (for their liues) take any of the fruit without leaue of the owner. When I was (faith he) in the Turkifb ar- mie that marched againft the Perfians, Lfaw a bor[eman and bis [eruant had both their heads cut off, and after that,the horfeshead was firicken off too, becaufe the mater and the fermant had fuffered the borfe goe unbrideled into a busbandmans field. The like doth Melchior Séidlitz report ,abraue gentleman;and a good Warriour : faying, That while he was indurance vnder the Turke, from whence by the mediation of the French Embaffadour hee was deliuered with his fellow prifoners , he faw inthe Turkith armie (which extended it felfe far ouer the countrey, taking vp a great many villages) fo goodly an order, fo great temperance, fo much fafetie, that in thofe villages the fouldiers did not once touch the fruits,nor the hennes,nor any poultrie, nor any of the victuals or mooueables that belonged to the countrey people. Vpon occafion whereof, this gentleman giuetha graue and conuenient cenfure againft the diffolution,rapine,and indifcreet difcretion of our fouldiors, who call themfelues Catholikes and Chriftians. Heere may oneinfert, and that fitly ( not to,wrong the German nation, which yceldeth to none in valour and experience of warlike affaires;but to lay open fo much the more the barba- rous and outragious infolencie of the Turkes) that which Jobs Auentine, a wife Hiftorian hath left in writing : Thofe of Rbedes(faith he)wrote one day tothe Empe- rour Frederick the third,and to the princes Electors , That the Tur ke being counfelled by his Captaines and other his afsiftants, not to take warre in hand againf? the Chriftians,namely avain/t the Germans: he made them this anfwere , That the weapons of the Chriflians did no whit terrifie him,much lefethofe of the Germans,and that for faure reafons ; the fiv], That C x. HR e In the 4 booke, of the hiftorie of Portugall, ftél.19. In theEpitome of diuine Infti- tut.cap.s. Of the difci. pline of the Turkes.: Inhis voyage | to Tuikie, In hisdifcourfe ofthe affaires of the Turke,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30334913_0033.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
