Certaine secrete wonders of nature, containing a descriptiõ of sundry strange things, seming monstrous in our eyes and iudgement, bicause we are not priuie to the reasons of them. Gathered out of diuers learned authors as well Greeke as Latine, sacred as prophane / [By Pierre Boaistuau. Translated] By E. Fenton.

  • Pierre Boaistuau
Date:
1569
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Credit: Certaine secrete wonders of nature, containing a descriptiõ of sundry strange things, seming monstrous in our eyes and iudgement, bicause we are not priuie to the reasons of them. Gathered out of diuers learned authors as well Greeke as Latine, sacred as prophane / [By Pierre Boaistuau. Translated] By E. Fenton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    neofoneHatoabc^r]c:t;,0rxl)btftopof Magtnce, aftobaf time there tuas a crucli famine in the land,this UBilhop rauentng lUoulfe,fetng the paw people furp^efled tnptb the gnatuing rage of famine (and cfpcciallp tbofc of bps pjouinee)determined(3cannottellbpU)bat inlfmcte of the Diuel) to gather together a great number of them into a graunge,Inhere in fieoe of reitefe in this their great and miferable dearth and hunger, he committeo them to the mercieof the furious and raging flames of fp?e, tuberbp? on be being afked,tubp he bad fljetued fo bile ano erecrable tirannie on tbefe iniferable ano innocent creafurcs,be an? ftuered : Chat he burned them, fo^ that tbep differed title 0; nothing from Matts,b)bicb ferued fo^ no other bfe than fo confume co^ne. Albeit 0cd(as tuitneffetb tbel^opbef* hauing care of the litle fparotu) toolD not fuffer this great fpjannte bnpunifbed,fo2 imme&iatelp be If irreo bp an in* finite numbje of Matts fo the btterdelfruction and ruine of this bile murderer, lobo fleeing fo^ bio mo^e fafegarde tntoafotu?ebuilteinaiuater,tuasbp the erp^efle com? maundement of dDoo eaten bp tbefe ratfs 10 the berp bo?» nes, tobicb remaine at this dap, enferred in the monaffe* rie of S.Albyn, in Magence,and the Coto;e inhere this ab* hominable pallor ended bio dapes, is pet in bring, and is called Matts fobw. OTherof Munfter^amougfi manp o? there, mabes mention in hie bitiuerfali Cofmographte, fo be the place Inhere be tuas bo^ne. Cbts necoes not feme lfratmge f0 thofe tuhich bauc red hiffo^iesifo^ slice (tuhtch be much lefle than Matts) couldenotbe pecucnfcd bp no fipnde of phpflke o; medicine, from oeuounng and confu* ming the (Emperor Arnoull,leaning him nothing but fp? netues and bones. B3n litre foef, the greate sponarxbe An- tiochus,tuillmgtoblotout of memojie the name of Cod fostb of the Anagoge, and b^ing in the tuojlhppppng of ÿ dois, fatoeifiiie cut of btmfelf a great number of tuosms, and fherbp not onlp plunged in groat dolour, but alfo his C.j. tuhofe