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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![| Lil.7.2p.27. reedie and ambitious doe. If we could lightvpon this way,and keepe it, our life would be more peaceable, and we fhould enioy health, with leffe trouble. Toknow the ftrange vanitie of our life,let vs confider, T hat fo foone as any one, whofoeuer he be, hath his mouth fhut,all prefently forfake him, and abhor his carcaffe : inthe meane while the foule is carried elfewhere , beforea Throne which it cannot fhun. Let euery man then (according to the holy admonition of Lacfantius)make more account of his foule,than of thefe deceiuable goods, whofe poffeffion is tranfitorie and vncertaine : For away they goe,and diflodge agreat deale fafter than they came to their lodging. Andif the enioying of them, fhould be allowed vs vntill our laft figh, yet then muft we leaue them to | rrerodot,lib.5. | Vpon the pro- uerb. Optimum | nonnafci.inthe | 2 bookeof his | Geography. | Inhishift. of | the famous | Ciuilians of Padua.lb,2. claf3. our neighbours,and our felues. He that fhall goe accompained with continen- cie,with mercie, with patience, with faith, with charitie, fhall arriue rich and wealthie at Gods euerlafting pallace. This is our heritage,which can neuerbe taken from vs,nor tranfported to any other. | It was not then without caufe,that the 'Traufians (neighbours to the Thra- cians)the day that their children were borne; reckoned vp,with warme teares, how many miferies they wereto füffer in this world : Contrariwife,they bu- were freed from : As Erafmus both elegantly and largely fheweth in his com- mentarie vpon the Greeke and Latin prouerbs. Pomponius Mela writeth alfo of the Getes, That they were once reputed religious aboueall other people, becaufe they bad a very good and hely opinion of the euerlafting God:and held for certaine,That moft part of the foules among them died not,but after they were gone out of their bodies,they paff into a more happy life. Therefore they thought it better to die than to liue : by occafion whereof,they alfo wept at child-bearings, but celebrated their burials with fongs and joy full folemaities. The fame is alfo attributed to another fort of people called Caufians,Who bewaile the children new-borne, and laugh ouer the dead, holding thems for happy. Lewis Cortufius a Ciuilian of Padua, very famous in his time, pretended (as I thinke ) by his laft will and teftament,to ftirre vp the remembrance of this doctrine, for the in- ftruction of pofteritie : For,as Jerom Scardeon reporteth,a little before his death, doing quite contrarie tothe cuftomethen vfed, he expreffely forbad his kinf- folkes and allies to weepe, and mourne for him, according to the practife in other funerals, Bat that they fhould banifh all hanging ¢ mourning cloatbs with the impofi- tion of a great forfeiture upon him that was bis heire,if be did not execute from point to point this his laf will. Contrariwife,he ordained that in the place of mourners, they fbould haue Singers, Muficians,and Players upon all forts of Inftruments,who with Flutes, Hautboyes, Trumpets,Coruets, Sackbuts, Viols, Lutes and Harpes,fbould march among the prieffs be- fore the corps ; and that another troupe fhould follow after both troupes confifting of the num- ber of fifiie muficians and minftrills, te enerie of which he bequeathed balfe a duccat for their paines, His will was befides, that twelue young girles apparelled in greene, fhould carrie the coffimfrom the place where the corps fhould be hin to the church where he meant to be buried : permitting them to fing aloud fongs of mirth, giuing them therefore a certaine (um of money towards their aduancement in marriage, He was buried at Saint Sophia,and at his funerall there were a bundred wax-candles,and twentie torches borne by the priefts, who were followed by the parifhes, and all the couents of monkes, except thofe that were clothed or garded with black, which be excluded from his burial, for feare leaft by that colour they (bould abate the pleafantne][eof the funerall. He died an.14.18. the bun th](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30334913_0060.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
