The feventh Rooke of 



and how vsellfoever he chieved in fome rcfpe^lsshec was much pained with the golttjahd'palied G 

 all his youth and many a day after in bloudie warres^and in dannger of a thoiirand deaths . And 

 when he h^dclcaped all thefeharmeful perils^unfortunate he was in all his chiidren^and e(peci- 

 ally in his two daughters the Agrifpin^ both:who brought forth thofe unhappie impes To perni- 

 cious to the whole earth, namely jC.C^/z^i^Ai and i)<?f»///^«A't'r<7^two EniperourSjthat is to fay_, 

 two fierie flames for to confume and waft allmankind.Overand befides^hisinfelicitie herein ap- 

 peared ,that he lived fo fmall a time^dying as he did a ftrong and luftie maujin the one and fiftie 

 ycere of his agCj tormented and vexed with the adulteries of hisowncwife :opprefled with the 

 hcavie & intollerable fervitude that he was in under his wives father.In which regards itfeemeth 

 he paid full decre for the praefage of his untoward birth and nativitie.Moreover hath 

 left in writing. That her fonne Nero alfo^ late Emperour, who all the time of his reigne was a H 

 vcrie cnemie to all mankind, was bofne with his feet forward. And in truth by the right order t 

 andcourfc of Nature,a man is brought into the world with his head firft, but it carried forth 

 with his feet formoft. 



Chap, ix. 

 Births cut out of the wsmhe* 



B Vt more fortunate are they a great deale, whofc birth cofteth their mothers life, andparc 

 from their mothers by meanes of incifion : like as Scipio Afr 'mnU'S the former, who came 

 into the world in that wife : and the firft that ever was furnam.ed C&fnr^ fo called becaufe hee I 

 was ript out ofhis mothers bellie* And hereof commeihthe fore-name alfoofthe CafomsXxi 

 like manner alfo was that Manlm borne, who entred Carthage wit li an armie. 



Chap, x, 



' ^ Who are Vcpifci, 



THe Latines were wont to call him Vopifcus, who being one of two tv\innes happened to 

 ftay behind in the wombe the full tearme, when the other mifcarricd before by abortive 

 and untimely birth. And in this cafe there chauncc right Itraunge and wonderfull acci- 

 dents, although they fall out but very feldome. • K 



Chap. xi. 

 ^ Bxaffjples of mafiy infants at one birth. 



FEw creatures there be but women again,th3t fceke after the male and can skill of their com- 

 panie,after they be once conceived wichyoung : one kind verily or two at the moft there is, 

 knowne to conceive double one upon the other. We find in bookes written by Phyficians, 

 and in their records who have ftudied liich matters and gathered obfervatiGns,that there have 

 palled or been caft away from a Woman at one onely flip,l 2 diflina children : but when it f alleth ^ 

 out that there is fome prettie time beiweene two conceptions, both of them may tarrie their 

 complete time,and be borne with life : as it appeared 1:1 HcrcaUs and his brother IphiEtm : as al- 

 fo in that harlot who was delivered of two infants, rhe one like her owne husband, the other re- 

 lembling the adulterer: likewife in a Proconnefian bond-fervant, who was in one day gotten 

 withchild,towit,by hermafter,andhisbailyor procurator rand being afterwards delivered of 

 two children, they bewraied plainly who were their fathers. Moreover, there was another who 

 tventhcr full time, even nine moncths for one child, bur was delivered of another at the five 

 monethsend.Furthermore in one other, who having dropped downe one childat the end of 

 fevcn monethsjbytheend of the ninth came with two twinnes more. Over and befides it is 

 commonly feene,that children be not alwaies anfwerable to the parents in every refpe6t : for of 

 perfeafathers and mothers who haveall their limmes, there are begotten children unpenea M 

 and wanting fome members : and contrariwife,parents there arc maimed and defeaive m fome 

 part, who ncvertheles ingenderchildren that are found and entire,and with all that they fnould 

 have. It is feene alfo, that infants are at a default of fuch parts as their parents miffe : yea and they 

 carrieoften-timescertainemarkes^molcs^bkmifhcsjandskarres^oftheirfadiersand mothers, 



as 



