ver Bowl, will vibrate of it self, and tell ex-
adly against the sides of the divining Cup,
the same thing with, Time is, Time was, etc.
Or like fome Indian Sculls, so tough,
That Authors say th' are Mufquet

proof.
American Indians, among whom (the same Au,

thors affirm) that there are others, whose
Sculls are so soft, to use their own words,
Ut Digito perforari poffunt.

Or Oracle from Heart of Oak.
Jupiter's Oracle in Epirus, near the City of Do-

dona, Ubi Nemus erat Jovi Sacrum, Querne-
um totum, in quo Jovis

Dodonai Templum fu-
ile narratur.

Semiramis of Babylon.
Semiramis, Queen of Allyria, is faid to be the

first that invented Eunucbs. Semiramis tene-
ros mares castravit omnium prima. Am. Mar-
cel. L. 14. p. 22.

Which is something
strange in a Lady of her Constitution, who

is said to have receiv'd Horses into her Em
• braces (as another Queen did a Bull :) but

that perhaps may be the reason why she af-
ter thought Men not worth the while.

For

For fome Philosophers of lete here.

S, K. D. in his Book of Bodies; who has this

Story of the German-Boy, which he endeavours to make good, by several Natural Reafons ; By which those who have the Dexterity to believe what they please, may be fully satisfied of the probability of it.

A Persian Emp'ror whip'd bis Grandum.
Xerxes, who-us'd to whip the Seas and Wind.

In Corum,atque Eurum folitus sevire Flagellis.
Juven. Sat. io.

So th' ancient Stoicks in the Porcb.
'n Porticu (Stoicornm Scholá Athenis) Discipu-

lorum seditionibus, mille Quadringenti iriginta Cives interfe&ti funt. Diog. Laert. in vita Zenonis. p. 383. Those old Virtuofo's were better Proficients in those Exercises, than Modern, who seldom, improve higher than Cuffing and Kicking,

That Bonum is an Animal.

Bonum is such a kind of Animai, as our Mo

dern Virtuofi from Don Quixot, will have Windmills under Sail to be. The fame Authors are of Opinion, That all Ships are

Fishes while they are afloat, but when they
are run on ground, or laid up in the Dock,
become Ships again.

In a Town
There liv'd a Cobler, and but one:

The History of the Cobler has been attested

by Persons of good Credit, who were upon the place when it was done.

Have been exchang’d for Tubs of Ale. The Knight was kept Prisoner in Exeter, and

after several Exchanges propos'd, but none accepted of, was at last releas'd for a Barrel of Ale, as he often us’d upon all occasions to declare.

Bore a Slave with bim in bis Chariot.

Et fibi Conful,
Ne placeat, curru fervus portatur eodem.

Juven. Sat. 10.
Hung out their Mantles Della-Guerre.
Tunica Coccinea folebat pridie quam dimican-

dum esset, fupra Prætorium poni, quafi admonitio, & indicium futura pugne. Lipfius in Tacit. p. 56,

Next

Next Links and Torches, &c.
That the Roman Emperors were wont to have

Torches born before them (by day) in pub-
lick, appears by Herodian in Pertinace. Lip.
in Tacit. p. 16.

Vespasian being daub'd with Dirt.

C: Cæfar succensens, propter curam verrendis

viis non adhibitam, Luto jufit oppleri, congefto per milites in prætextæ finum, Sueton. in Vespaf. C. 5.

Has not this present Parliament

A Ledger to the Devil sent?
The Witch-finder in Suffolk, who in the Pref-

byterian times had a Commislion to disco-
ver Witches, of whom (right or wrong)
he caus'd 60 to be hang’d within the com-
pass of one Year, and among the rest, the
old Minister, who had been a painful Prea-
cher for many Years.
Did he not help the Dutch 80 purge

At Antwerp their Cathedral Church?
In the beginning of the Civil Wars of Flan-

ders, the common People of Antwerpin a tu-
mult broke open the Cathedral Church, to

demolish

demolish Images and Shrines; and did so much mifchief in a small time, that Strada writes, there were several Devils seen very busy among them, otherwise it had been impossible.

Sing Catches to the Saints at Malcon. This Devil at Mafcon deliver'd all his Oracles,

like his Forefathers, in Verse, which he sung to Tunes: He made several Lampoon's upon the Hugonots, and foretold them many things which afterwards came to pass; as may be seen in his Memoirs, written in French. Appear in divers shapes to Kelly,

And Speak i' th' Nun at Loudon's Belly. The History of Dr. Dee and the Devil, pub

lifh'd by Mer. Caufabon, Isác. Fil.Prebendary of Canterbury, has a large account of all those Pallages; in which the Style of the true and false Angels appears to be penn’d by one and the same Person. The Nun of Loudoni in France and all her Tricks, liave heen seen by many Persons of Quality of this Nation yet living, who have made very good ObTervations upon the French Book, written upon that occasion.

Marit