The feventh Booke of 



are to inniimerabie, that Vherecydes of the Ifland Syros, died of a great qiiantitk of ^ creepers G 

 that came crawling out of his bodie»Some are knowneto be never free of the 2gv\c^^sC,OHec(s- 

 »4j.The fame man for three yeeres togetherjbefore he diedpever laid his cies together for fleep ' 

 the minute of an houre. i^ntipaur Stdonim the poet, once a yecre during his liiej had an ague- 

 fit upon his birth day onely. He lived for all that to be an old man^and upon the day of his nati- 

 vitiediedinfuchafit. 



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^ Of[ttch as were carried ferth upon the biers to he buried ^md 

 revived agairje^ 



Ar/<?/<i>onc that had been Confull, camcagaine tohimfelfewhenhe wascaftorput into 

 the funerall fire to be burnt: but becaufe the flame was fo ftrong that no man could come 

 ncere to recover him^burnt he was quick.The like accident(as it is reported)befell to Z». 

 Z4wi45Pretour lately before^As for C.yE//^T«^fr^73 that he was brought alive againe from the 

 likefirCjafter he had been Pretour of Rome^both Mejjala if^/^jand many befides^doe conftant* 

 !y affirme.See how it goeth with mortall men : fee,I fay^our uncertaine ftate and condition, and 

 how wee are borne 5expofed3andfubje£l: tothefeandfuchlikeoccafions offoituneiinfomuch^ 

 as in the cafe of man^there is not any alTurance at all^no not in his death. We read in C hroni- 

 cleSj that the ghoft of Hermotimus claz,omenius was woont ufually to abandon his bodie for a 

 timcj and wandering up and downe into farre countries, ufed to bring him ncwes from remote I 

 places^of fuch things ascould not poflibly beeknownCjUnleflc it had been prcfent ihere;and all 

 the while his bodie layjas it were,halfe dead in a traunce. This manner it continued fblongjUn- 

 till the Cantharidae, who were his mortall enemieSjtookc his bodie upon a time in that cxcafie^ 

 and burnt it to afbes : and by that meanes difappointed his poor foule when it came back again, 

 of that fheath, as it werCjOr cafe jwherefliee meant to beftow herfelfe. Moreover^weefindin re- 

 cords. That the fpirit or ghoft of ^;'//?^4j inthelflandProconnefus, was feene evidently to flic 

 out at his mouth in forme of a ravenjand many a like talefolloweth therupon.For furely i take it 

 to be no better than a fable^which is in like manner reported of Epmmdes the Gnofian 5 name- 

 ly^ihat when he was a boy5he being for heat and travell in his journey all weariejaid him downe 

 in a certaine cave^and there flept 57 yeeres. At length he wakened as it were upon the next mor- li 

 row^and wondered at fiich afuddaine chaunge of every thing that hee faw in the worldj as if hee 

 had taken but one nights fleepe. Hereupon forfoothjin as many daies afterjas hee flept yeeres. 

 hec waxed old . Howbeit hee lived in ail 1 75 yeeres. But to returne unto our former dilcourle, 

 women of all others by reafon of their feXjarefubjedtothisdaungerjto bee reputed for dead, 

 when there is life within them ; and namely ^by occafion of the dileafe of the Matricej called the 

 rifing of the Mother : which^if it be brought againc and fettled ftreight in the place, they foonc 

 recover and take breath again.Not impertinent to this treatife.is that notable and elegant book 

 among the GreekcSjCompiled by Heraclides^yNhQxz he writeth ofa woman^that for afeven-nighc 

 lay for dead,and fetched not her breath fenfibly,who in the end was raifed againe to life.Moreo- ^ 

 ver/'/irrtf reporteth,That upon a time when the twentie deputed commiflioners were deviding ^ 

 lands in the territorie of Capuajthere was one there carried forth in his bier to be burnt^& came 

 home againe upon his feet. Alfo,that the like happened at AquinunLLikewiftathat in Rom e one 

 Corjidm who had married his owne aunt by the mothers fide,after he had taken order for his fu- 

 nerals^and let out a certaine allowance therefore,ieemed toyeeld up hisghof^ and die : howbeit 

 he revived againejand it was his chaunce to carie him forth indeed to burialljwho had provided 

 the furniture before for his funerall. This Vmo writeth befides^ of other miraculous matters, 

 which verily are worth the rchearfall at large. Oneof them is this. Two brethren there were, by 

 birth and calling gentlemen of Rome: whereof theeIclcrnamcdCtfr////^3happened(in allap^ 

 parance)to die : and when his laft will and teftament was once opened and publifhedjthe youn- 

 ger brother,who was his heire,was verie bufie and readie to fetforward hisfuneralLIn the mcanc M 

 while the man that feemed dead/ell to clap one hand againft the other,and therewith raifed the 

 fervantsin thehoufe:when they were come about him, hee recounted unto them, that hee was 

 come from his younger brother,who had recommended his daughter to his tuition and guarde- 

 nage : and moreover had fhewcd and declared unto him in what place hee had hidden certaine 



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