The feventh Booie of 



a man and halfe a horfc : but it died ihc very fame day. And verily^afEer he was come to wear the G 

 diademCjWee our felves Taw the hke montterjlent unto him out of ^gypt^embaulmcd and pre- 

 ferved in honie. Among many ftrange examples appearing upon record in Chronicles, we read 

 of a child in Saguntjthat very yccrc that it was forced andraied by ^^wwA^/^which/bfoone as it 

 was come forth of the mothers wombe^prefently returned into it againe* 



Chap, iiii, 



^ of the chmvge from one fx to another : and of^ imm borne, 



IT is no lie nor fable^that females may turnc tobemalos.For we have found it recordcdin the 

 yeercly Chronicles called AnnaleSjthat in the yeere when ?ubMcimm Crajfm^ and C,Cafsim H 

 Longwm were Confuls of Rome, there was in C aflinum a maid childjUnder the very hand & 

 tuition of her parents^ without fufpition of being a changeling, became a boy: and by an ordi- 

 nance of the Souihfaiers called Arufpices, was confined to a certaine defertlflandj and thither 

 conveighed. Lmnius UUutUnm reporteth, Thathimlelfe fawat Argosone named Arefcon^ 

 who beforetime had to name Arefmfa^ and a married wife : but afterwards in procelTe of time, 

 came to have a beard ^and the genetall parts teftifying a mari^and therupon wedded a wife, ilfter 

 thefameibrthefaw(ashefaith)at Smyrna, a boy changed into a girle. I my felfeam an eie-wit- 

 iieile. That in Affricke one UCopcm^z citizen of Tifdritajturned from a woman to bee a man, 

 upon the very mariage day: and lived at the time that I wrote this booke.Moreover,this is obfer- 

 ved^that if a woman bring twins,it is great good hap if they all live, but either the mother dieth I 

 in child bedjOr one of the babes,if not both. But if it fortune that the twins be of both fexes/hc 

 one male,thc other femalsjit is ten to one if both of them efcape.Moreoverjthisis well known, 

 that as women age fooner than men,and feeme old : fo they grow to their maturitie more timely 

 than mcn,and are apt for procreation before them. Laft of ail^when a woman goeth with chM^ i 

 if it be a man chiid,it flirreth oftener in the wombe,and lieth commonly more to the right fide: 

 whereas the female moveth morefeldomc,and beareth to the left. 



Chap. v. ' 



of the generation of man : the time ef child birth from fiven months to eleven^ 



tejiijied bj many notable examples out of hf ones, K 



ALL other livingcreatures have a fet time limitted by Nature, both of going with their 

 young.and aifo of bringing it forthjCach one according to their kind.Man onely is borne 

 at all times of the yeere : and there is no certain time of his abode in the wombe,after con- 

 ception. For one commeth into the world at the feventh months endjanotheratthe eight,and 

 fo £0 the beginning of the ninth and tenth. But before the feventh month.,thereis noinfantever 

 borne that iivcth. And none arc borne atfeven months endjunleffe they were conceived either 

 in the very chaunge of the moonCjOrwidiin a day of it under or over.An ordinarie thing it is in 

 ^gypt for women to goe with youngeight months^and then to be delivered.And even in italic 

 al(o now adaies.children (b bornejlive and doc well : but this is againil: thecommon received o- £ 

 pinion of all old writers. But there is no certainetie for to ground upon in all thefe Gafes,for they 

 alter divers waies. Dame f/V////^ (the widdow of CMcrdmu-s^mk afterwards of Pompofim, and 

 jaft of all,maried to OrfitU'S 5 all right worfhipfull cittizcns, and of moft noble houfes) had foure 

 ehildrei} by her three Iwsh'mds fomtjSemproniu^jV^hom fhebare atthc feventh monthySuillim 

 Rufm at the eleventhjwith Corhlo likewife iliec went feven months, yet they lived all .* and thefe 

 two laft^came both to be ConfuIs.Afterall thefe fonnes.fhe brought forth a daughter, namely, 

 Cdtfoma^m'k to the Emperour CAm{CdiguU)2X the eight months end.They that are borne thus 

 inthismonthjhavemuchadoetolive, andare in great daungerforfortiedaiesfpacs. Yea,and 

 their mothers arc very fickly , and fubjccl to fall into untimely travel! all the fourth moneth and 

 the eight : and if they fall to labour, and come before their time, they die for if. UMafsurim wri- M 

 teth jThat L.Papjrim the Pretour or lord cheefe juff ice, when a fecond heire in remainder made 

 claime, and putin-pleaforhisinl^eritanceof the goods, made an award, and gave judgement 

 againft him.in th^' behalfe of aninfant the right heire,borne after the deceafe of his father.upon 

 jhis.thaE the mother came in and tcf^ified how ilice was delivered of that child,within thirteenc 



months 



