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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![inmy opinion : The leaf? haire hath bis (hadow.. Tobee fhort, the leaft thing in thé world can doe fomething : andthe imalleft fometimes ouerthrow the greateft; Wee read in the fragments of Terentius Varro, of which Plinie maketh mention, That Conies vnder-mined and ruined a citie of Spainé, and Moales anotherci- tieof Theffalia : that Frogs forced the inhabitants of acitieof the Gaulesto leauetheir place, and toget themfelues elfewhere : that Grafhoppers did the like to the citifens ofa citie in Africa;and Mifetothe dwellers in the Ifle of Cy- aca, one of the Cyclades ; and that the inhabitants of Amyclz,a citie of Italie, were deftroyed by Serpents. ——— M QuH- Aor «EX. Ill. Connfell prooues worst to bim that gineth i; aed fang throughout the citie a common fong, the foot whereof was M] this ; Zeaud counfell ruines bim that gineth it. Ac this it feemeyh the @2)| Poet Aufonius glaunceth , who in his Zrechaicksioyneth wi prouerbe in Terence(which faith, Tate hoc intrifti, quod tibi exedendu eff , and may bee expreffed thus ; what thou bafl brewed, that thy felfe mujt drinke.) another prouerbgiuing a gloffe to that;and faith; Vets verbum iubet compedes quas ipfe fecit ipfus vt oeflet faber : that is, The old law biddeth, that the Smith [bould bee tied by the feet with the yrons that bim[elfe hath wrought. This that wee hauealleaged of leaud counfell, is taken out of Hefiodws his Poeme,entituled The works,and dayes: and thereof we haue many proofs inexamples both ancient andmoderne. Tou- ching the moderne, I will not take in hand to bring them in , becaufe the allea- ging of them would be odious and offenfiue. That which Philip de Comminés re- porteth of the Cardinall Ba/ue is worth the remembring. This man was he that executed the cruellcounfels of king Lewis the x1. He inuented horrible prifons thatare yet to be feene in Paris namely certaine cages,partly of yron, partly of wood,couered with plates of yron , hauing eight feet in breadth,and fiue feet in height. Hee caufedalfo yron fetters to be made;very heauie,to chairie prifoners by the thighes, at which there hing an yron buckle for the fect,and at the enda bowlethat weighed certaine kintals. This good Prelat was himfelfe imprifo- ned inthe firftof thefe cages that was made, and there had leafure to learne to fing ; for hee continued in it full fourteene yeares. The king himfelfe hadnot much more roomth to remaine in; for,fo greata mafteras he was, yet(as if him- felfehad bin fettered by the necke,hands,and feet) he lined in greater feare than the prifoners did,that he before had kept in cruell captiuitie-He fhut himfelfe vp within a caftle, compaffed about with fo many guards ( faith Philip de Commines an eyc-witneffe ) that it was inipoffible to locke vp a prifonet more ftraightly than he had coffered vp himfelfe. ‘To fuch hiftories wee may adde that which Froiffart, andthe Lord of Halliag writ in the life of Charlesthe v1. of the poyfo- ned apple,prepared for the kings fonne, to whoin it was giuen in play, but eaten by his fonnethat had poyfonedit. Peter Pertiss Vintentin, a Captaine following the partie ofthe Emperor Charles,offring to fürprife by treafon ouer the French- men, ftrong place in Piedmont called Barges,loft in theattempt more than for- tie of his beft fouldiers, and was himfelfefo fore hurt, that he died in the place, S Di Wrong Ary.Fervon in| the 9 booke of his hiftorie of France. Ly](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30334913_0047.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
