512 EVIL OMENS. 



LIB. vii. jj-g owne miseries, and without any feeling. But to the end 

 thou maiest the better see him,, take the sfcaffe of perfumes 

 hee holdes burning in his hand, and put it to his face ; thou 

 shalt then find him without feeling.&quot; The poore laborer 

 durst not approach neere him, nor doe as he was com- 

 maunded, for the great feare they all hadde of this king. 

 But the voyce saide, &quot; Have no feare, for I am without 

 comparison greater than this King, I can destroy him, and 

 defend him, doe therefore what Icomrnaund thee.&quot; Where- 

 vpon the laborer took the staffe of perfumes out of the 

 king s hand, and put it burning to his nose, but he mooved 

 not, nor showed any feeling. 



This done, the voice said viito him, that seeing he had 

 found the king so sleepy, he should go awake him, and tell 

 him what he had seene. Then the Eagle, by the same 

 commandment, tooke the man in his talents, and set him 

 in the same place where he found him, and for accomplish 

 ment of that which it had spoken, hee came to advertise 

 him. They say, that MonteQuma looking on his face, found 

 that he was burnt, the which he had not felt till then, 

 wherewith he continued exceedingly heavy and troubled. 

 It may be, that what the laborer reported, had happened 

 vnto him by imaginary vision. And it is not incredible, 

 that God appointed by the meanes of a good Angell, or 

 suffered by a bad, that this advertisement should be given 

 to the labourer for the king s chasticement, although an 

 infidell, seeing that we read in the Holy Scriptures, that 

 infidells and sinners have had the like apparitions and 

 revelations, as Nabucadonosor, Balaam, and the Pithoness 

 Dan. ii. of Saul. And if some of these apparitions did not so ex- 

 Num. xxii. p res ]y happen, yet, without doubt, MonteQuma had many 

 xxvifi. great afflictions and discontentments, by reason of sundry 

 and divers revelations which he had, that his kingdom 

 and law should soon end. 



