The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Compared Together, by That Grave Learned Philosopher & Historiographer Plutarch

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1676 The lives of the noble Grecians and Romans, compared together, by that grave learned philosopher & historiographer Plutarch of Chaeronea. Tr. out of the Greek into French, by James Amiot ... With the lives of Hannibal & Scipio, African ... into English, by Sir Thomas North. Hereunto are added The lives of Epaminodas, of Phillip of Macedon, ... collected out of Æmilius Probus, by S.G.s. ... The lives of twenty selected eminent persons tr. out of the work of that famous historiographer ... Andrew Thevet. Plutarch

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Compared together , by that Grave Learned l>HtLOSOPHE R &: HtSTORlOGR.APH£1\ • Of C H £ '1( 0 :J(_ E A. I . Ttanflated out of GK E E K into Fa. E N c ~, by f ..A M 8 S A M l 0 T .Abbot of 'Bello~ane, Bilhop of ' .A11xerre, one of the Kings Privy Counfel, and great Almner of FRANc l!.

With the L 1 v E s of HA:J.G:J(_I15AL & SCIPIO AF'R.l_CAS\(i· ~ranflatcd out of LA TIN into F.RE NCH, by [Hill{. L E S de 1' ESC LV S E, And out of F R E N c H. il1to E N G L I s H : By Sir T H 0 _A,f 11 s :1\( 0 1\. T H Knight.

Hereunto are added the Lives of EPA ~o~ 1 NoN o As, of PHi I L r P of M-~~edtn of ~ LIONYSIUstheEfder,TyrantofSici/ia,of AuGUSTUS C..£SAR,of PLUTARCH, and of SEN a c A: With the Live,; ofNineotherExcellent ChiefrainsofWar : Collected out of £ M y L 1 u' s P R o B u s, by S. q. S. And .Englilhed by the aforefaid T ranilator. 'To which are alfo added, The L 1 v E s of Twenty Selecred EMINENT PERSONS of Ancient and latter times ; Tranflated out of the Work of chat famous Hiftoriographet t9 the King of F R A N c E and Po L A N n; A . ~ V ~ E 1V r:r . H E f/ E T. To which , for clearer Explanation and f:me.ndatipp of the former Tranflacion ( in feveral places) are fubjoynei.t Nores and Exphcati'ons upon • P L u T a R c H s L r v E s ; ColleCl:ed Out of X Y L A N D l! R,C R. U S E ;a U S ,H E N R Y S T E P H A N U Sand Others With the S Y N C H R 0 N I S M 'Sand C 0 T E M P 0 :rt A R Y p E R. S 0 N s , with T ~ E M ; Shewing the feveral Ages in which They lived. ·· And now in this Edition are further added ,. The L t v E s of Several E ·M 1 r £ N T P £ R s o N s , Tranflated out of the aforefaid A N n R E w T H E v E -f.

CAMBRIDGE, :. Printed by 9oh1l H.t.ves , for Gw·J,e Sawbr.'dze , at the .Bib!c on Lr1 dgate~ Hill , Lmdon , - I .t ., .,. or Lvvyr A N N () D 0 !If . L> • ...... ""L • T· O THE Mofl: High and Mighty Prin~efs , ELIZABETH,• .l By the Grace of God, of England, France and Ireland

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,$i~~~~l der hope of your Highnefs Gracious and accuil:o~ n.; med Favour, I have prefumed to prefent here un- ~~~~1~11 to your. Majefl:y , Plutarchs Lives Tranflated , as a Book fit to be protected by. your Highnefs , .±.~'"'-,.,"... ~.... and meet to be fet forth in Englifb. For who is .... -.....UI. fitter to give countenance to fo many gteat States, ~~~~.S!!!I then fucli an High a~d Mighty Princefs ? who is _ fitter to revive the clead memory of their Fame , then ihe that beareth the lively image of their Venues ? who is fitter to Authorize a work of fo great. Learning artd Wifdom , then lhe whom all do honour as th.e Mufe of the world ? Therefore I hum bly befeech your Majefl:y , to fuffer 'the fimplenefs of·my ~ranfla tion, to .be covered under the amplenefs of your Highnefs ·proteCti on. For , Mofl: Gracious Soveraign , though t~is ·Book. pe no Book for your Majefl:ies felf, who are meeter to be the chief Story·, then a Student therein , and can better •underftand it in·· Greek ; then any man can make it Englifh : yet I hope t~e common fort dfy?ur Subjects . fhall not only profit t~emfelves he~eby , but alfo be amt11~ted t9 the better fervice of your Ma jefly. For among all .the .piophane Books that are in reputation at this day, there is none ( your Highnefs be.ffi knows ) that teacheth fo much Honour , Love, Obedience, Reverence, Zeal , and Devotion to Princes , as thefe Lives of Pluiarth do. How many ex~mples fhall your Subjects read here, of feveral perfons and whole Armies, of Noble and Bafe, ofYoung and Old, that both by Sea. and Land, at home and abroad, have fhained their wits, not regar· ding their flates, ventured their perfons, yea cafl: away t~eir ~ives, not onely for hon9ur and fafety , but alfo for the plea.Ii1re of their Prince ? Then well may the Readers think, ift~ey have done this for Heathen King$, what fbould we do for Chrifl:ian Princes? If they have done this for Glory, what fhould we do for Religion? If they have done this A 2 without A TO

HE reading of books which bring but a vain a~d unprofitable pleafU.~~ to}h~., Reader, is juftly mifliked Df wife and grave men. Again, the reading of 1udi as do but oncly b~ing profit , a_nd make the Reader to be in love therewith, ;m~ . do not cafe the pam of the readmg by fome pleafantnefs in the fame : do ~em · fomewhat harfh to divers delicate wits , that cannot tarry long upon th,m •• But fuch Books as yeeld pleafure and profit, and do both delight and tea~h .. have aU that a man can deHre why they lhould be univerfally liked and allowed of all forts of men "according to the common faying {)f the Poet Ho,ra'e : ;. .

That he which mat,heth profit with J.elight, - .1 • • •1 Doth wi• t~e pri:u in every point aright. , • r Either of there yeeld his effed: the better , by reafon the one runl)eth with the othet" .. proAting the more becaufe of the delight,and delighting the more becaufe of the profit. This commendation (in my, opinion) is moft proper to the ~eading ~f f!:ori~s , .to have. pleafure and . profit matched together. which kind of delight and teachmg,meeung m th1s w1fcArm mArmtha~h more allowance then any other kind of writing or invention of man .In rcfped: whereof it may be reafonably avowcd~that men arc more: beholding to fuch good wits,as by their grave and wife writing have defervcd the name of Hiftoriogra~ phers, then mey are to aRy other kind ofwriters :-. becaufe an Hiftory is an orderly Regifttr of notable thing5 faid,done ,or happened in times paft,to maintain the continual remembrance of them, and ro fcrvc ror the inftruCl:ion of them to come. ' · And like as memory is as a ftorc-houfc of mens conceits and devices;wirhoot the wbich the aCl:ions of the other two parts thould be unperfect,and well-near unpro.fitablc : fo may it alfo be faid 1 that an Hi~ fiory is the very treafury of mans life, whereby the notable doings and fayings of men,and the wonder· ful adv(ntures and ftrange cafes (which the long continuance of time bringeth forth ) are preferved from the death offorgetfulnefs. Hereupon it rifeth that Plato the wife faith, that the name of Hiftory was given to the recording of matters, to ftay the fleeting of our memory, which otherwife would be foon Ioft,and retain little. And we may well perceive hQW greatly we be beholding unto it,if we do no more but confider in how horrible darkncfs, and in how beaftly and peftilent a quagmire of ignorance we thould be plunged : if the remembrance of all things that have been done, and have happened before; we were born, were utterly drowned and forgotten. Now therefore I will over·pafs the excellency and worthinefs of the thing it felf,forafm1,1ch as it is not onely of more antiquity then any other kind of wri ting that ever was in the world, but alfo was ufed amongmen,before there was any ufe ofletters at all: becaufe t_hat men in t~ofe days delivere~ in t~eir life time~ the remembrance of things paft t~ their fuc ceffours,m fongs,wh1ch they caufed thei_r chtldrento leatn by heart; from hand ro hand, as ts to be feeri

)let in our days by the example of the barbarous people that inhabit the r.ew-found Land in the Weft 7 who without any records of writings, have had th~ knowledg~ of things paft , \Yell !lear eight hundred years afore ; Likewife I leave to difcourfe; that it is the fureft , fafeft , and durableft monument tha£ men can leave of their doings in this world , to 'onfecrate their names to immortality. For there ii neither Picture, · ~ nor Image of Marble, nor Arch of Tr~~mph .1 nor pi [Jar • nor fumpmous Sar. pulchrc, that can match the durablenefs of an eloquent Hiftory, furnithed with the propcrtiei which it <>ught to have. Again, I mind not to ftand much upon this, that it hath a certain troth in it, in that a\ways it profdfeth to fpeak trUth , and for that the proper ground• thereof is to treat of the greateft and higheft things that are done in the world : infomuch that ( to my feeming) the greateft profit thereo( is, as Htmue faith; th~t it is commonly called t~e mothe~ of troth and uprightnefs ; which commendeth it fo greatly ;as it needeth not ellewhere to feek ~ny ~uthority,9r ornament of dignity, but of her veiyfelf. For it is a e,enain rule and inft'rud:ion ,-which by examples paft, teacbeth us to judge of things prefent, and to forefee things co come: fo as we may know what to like of, and what to follow: what to mifiike,and what to efchew. It is a Pid:u~e, \Y.hich ( a5 it were iri a- A ~ t~bl~) , The T A B L E of the Noble qrecians and 'R.omans, Compared by PLuTA Rca of [httronea. · ·

THefeus. Pt~g. I'}c d 1 r Nicias. Pag.450J Romulus. IS· ompare • 3 • Marcus Craffus. 466. Compare~. 483~ Lycurgus. Sertorius. sp.33'} Compare d• 63. 486} Numa Pompilius. Eumene!i, 498. Compared• . 508. Solon. 66}. Compare d• 92.. Agefilaus. 509}c d . Publicola. 82 Pompeius. 526. ompare . 557 : Themiftodcs. 9S· Alexander. 559}c1. Qmpt~re d, . 6x6. Furius Camillus. ll3. Julius Crefar. 59 Pericles. 132}c . el 163. Phocion. 623. Fabius Maximus. IS o. ompart • Cato Utican. 637· Alcibiades. 202. Coriolanus. ~~~:}compared. Agis & Cleomenes. 662} Tiberius &CaiusGracthi.682. Compared. 697: Paulus .£mylius. 205'}compared. 237· Timoleon·. 22:Z.. Demofthenes. 699·} Cicero. 71 I._ Compared. 730. Pelopidas. - 270. ~ i~:}Compared. Demetrius. :Marcellus. 732}c. o mpare d• 785. Ariftides. Antonius. 7 54 272}C<. omp;~re d. 302. Marcus Cato. 288 Artanrxes. 787. Philopccmen. 3°~·}compared. 328. Dion. T. Q_ Flarninius. 31 . Marcus Brutus, ~~~}compared. 8)7 ~ Pyrrus. 330, Aratus. 859· Caius Marius. 349· Galba. 867. lyfander. ; pared. 400· Otho. 869. Sylla. ~~:}com Hannibal. 8n}c. ompare d. 909., Grnon. 4°9 ·}compared. 448. Scipi~ African~ 896 Lucullus. 421. Lives added.

Pag~ 9I7. Thrafybulu5. Pag. 1020. Epaminondas. 1021 . 1 9·32. Conon. l hilip of Macedon. 1023. Dionyiiusthe cider. 944· Iphicrates. 959· Chabrias. 1024. OCtavius Crefar. 1025. Piutarch. 979· Timotheus. 997. Datames. 1026. Seneca. 1030. Miltiades. IOI). Hamilcar. Paufanias. 1018. Lives added on the lmprefsion, 1657·

Conftantinethe Great. ]Jttg. 1. Ta!ll~erlain Emperonrofthe Tartars. 42 ; Archimedes a Philr{opher of Greece. 5. Pnfmn th~ C::rfarean GrammariaH. 49. Diogenesthe Grecian Philrfop her. 7· Artemifia the wife of Maufolus King of} Conftantine Palcologus. 10. Caria, or Halicarna!fes in Greece. 48. C:dar Flavius Juft ;nianus. I 3. Marcus Teremius Varro. 5 1 • Ariftotle the Sragiririan Philofopher. 17. Hifrnael Sophi King of Perfia. 53. Homer the Grecian PQet. 22. George ~aftriot, calledScanderbeg,Prince } Sappho the Lesbian Poetefs. Z5 . of Eptre, 57· Saladin the Sulttm of .£gypr. 27. Tamornbeus the !aft Sold~t n of .£gypt. 64. Edward Princeof Wales. 30. Atabalipa King of Peru. 66. Charlemain or Charles the Great, King of } John Guttemberg 1t Moguntian,Inventer of} 6 France, and EmperoHr of Rome. 34· the .Art of Printing. . 9· • Lives added on rhis Imprefsion, 't676. 86. Ferdinand Cortez 11. Spaniard. Pag.75·1Qeoniarnbec · · 88. Baftl Du~ of Mufcovy. 79· Chriftopher (;olurnbus 11 Genoefe. Scbaftian 1. King of Portugal. 8 .z. . • . THE

I I 7( 0 MV LV s. I) Cimon in the Admiral~gally. The ~ T H~ NIAN s received them withgreat joy~ with ptoceffions a;ld ~oodly Sacrifices, a~ If Thefeus. himfelf _had been ali~e, and had returned into the City again. At this day all thefe ~ehcks lye yet m the. mtdft o[ the City, near to the place where the young men do Thefius Tomb, ufe all their exewfes of bGdy._ T~ere Is free liberty of accefs for all llaves and poor men (that are .. afflicted. and p~rfued by any mighner than themfelves) to ~ray and facrifice in !emembrance of Thefeus: who whtle he hved was prot_ector ?f the oppreffed, and dtd courteoully receive their requefts and Pe titions that prayed to have a~d ofl~tm. The greateft and moft folemn Sacrifice they do unto him, is on the eighth day of OEl:fJber, m whtch he returned from CRETA with the other young Children of A THENS. Howbeittheydo not leavetohonour him every eighth day of all other moneths either becaufe ~e arrived from TRoE zEN at ATHENs the eighth day of Jtme,. as Diodor;u the Cofmogra pher wmeth :·or for that they thought that number to be meeteft tor hun, becaufe the bruit ran he -was .begotten of '1\{Jptune. They do facrifice alfo to Nepttme the eighth day of every moneth, be- ·Caufe the number ot e_ight is t~e firft cube made of even nu_mber, and the do~ble of the firft fquare: which ~eptune ~hy_ doth repre[em a ftedtaftnt!fs 11nmoveable, properly atmbmed t9 the might of Neptune whom for l: lled .AdrjGpha_ _ r r. 'fhh t· d G . h l . h b . . d h c ' ms an ~to- this cawe we 1urname A1r a ms, an £toe Hs,•W 11c y Interpretation or ngnifie the fafe keeper and elms, the ftayer of the earth. ~ The end of Tl:lE'SEUS Life. . ,

THE LIFE OF ' . 08v.LVLV s.

eAnn. ~und, ~nt. Chri.ft, 3 I 9 8. 75 o. ~~~=;~;=:~~=- HE Hiftoriographers do not agree in their writings, by whom, nor for Divers opini- what caufe the great N arne of. the City of RoME ( the glory whereof is ~15 abo~t~he blown abroad through all the world) was firft given umo it. For fome ame 0 ome think that the Pelafgians, after they had overcome the greateft part of the world, and had inhabited and [ubdued many N arions, in the end did ftay themfdves in that place where it was new builded : and for their great ftrength and power in arms, they gave the Name of RoME unto the City, as ftgnifying power in the Greek tongue. Or he! fay, tharafter the taking and deftruti:ion of TRoiA, there were certain TRoiA Ns, which. faving themfelves from the fword, took fuch veffels as they found at ad- ven:ure in the Haven; and were by windes put to the THus cANE Ulore, where they arrckered near unto the River ofTyber. There their Wives being fo fore fea-lick, that poffibly they could not any Tybrir ;i · more endure the boifterous furges of the feas, it happened one of them among the reft (the Nobleft and wifeft of the company) called Roma, to counfel the other Women of her compani-ons, to fer their Ships afire ; which they did accordingly. Wherewith their Husb"imds at the firft were marvelloully offended. But afr:erwards, being compelled of neceillty to plant themfelves near unto rhe City of PALLA NT IUM, they were appeafed .when they faw things profper better rhe1t they hoped for, finding the foil there . fertile, and the people their neighbours civil and gentle in entertaining them. Wherefore among other T~e beginning honours they did to requite this Lady Roma,they called their City after her Name,as from whom came o~ Kiffing their the original caufe of the building and foundation thereof. They fay, that from thence carne this cuftom Klllsf~lk on th ~ continuing yet co this day at RoME, that the Women faluting their Kinsfolks and Husbands, do kifs f~~~t the'~~~: · C 2. them jan v.:omcn, ' 93~

lAnn• VJINnJi. ~nt. ChriJf~ . 3j8~. . - ~60. r Philip i thAt ~lfeJom hDoteth not~ All; ~hicbfoorning jHflice, hopei to c-/im~ on- high: Let Princes , thAt behold thy [t~dden fait, Lw' right 11nd meek..,nefs, left lik.! th~e they. die:

l"§~a;~~~~~e.:YyntM, the Second of that Name ~'tnd feventeemh King of MAcEDoN; Pbiiip11'ed~ : grec. of the Race of Temenides or C11ranides ,defcended from IIercNles,and that 1 reigned four hundred and ninety ~ight years '; reckoning from (ariUINI unto Antipater , in wbom began another Race : he had three Sons by ...._.....__.""' ...., .. hisfirfl:W.ife called EurJdice, bornin lLtYRIA: to wit, Alexa'!der, Perdict~t~, and Philip . .Alexander having fucceeded his Father,reJgned, but one year, during which time he made War with his bafe Brother Ptolomtt.Hs .Alorites. But to appeafe the ftrife betwixt · them, they fent for Pelopidll4 , who was at that time in THE s sAL 1E . He took up all their . quarrels , reftored thofe that were banilhed unto their houfes , and ( be- Philip an caufe this Peace fhould be ll}Ore furely kept) he took of them for hoftages, Philip,and thirty oth~r hoflage of' of the noblefl: mens Sons in MAc £noN, and brought' them all away with him to THEn E s. Now Peace with ~ki_! ty ~ther~; during the time t~at PerdiccM reigned, which was the fpace of five years, Philip kept at Pam"_'enu houfe, with whom 1!p11minondM was very great: and hereof it came, that fome thought Phil1pwa5 a hearer of Lrfls EpAminond,u School-mafter, and that they conferred together in PhiloiOphy. Howbeit EpaminondM was then much older then be, and furely i~ can hardly be that they were Scholars together: except they will fay tba~ EpaminondM continuing all his life time to ~rQfit by the fi~dy of wifedom , made Philip defirous to hear him fometime , and to follo.w htm alfo. ·And 1t may be well enough alfo that he had learned of Epaminond111 to be fo qmck and fud dain of execution in the Wars, as he was: which was but one of the leafl: parts of £paminondM Ycrtues. But as for his continency, jufl:ice , magnaflimity , and clemency , which were the parts t~at In truth made him great: Philip, neither by Nature, nor by Education, nor by Smdy, ever anam cd. u~1to ~t : for all this,he wanted not great Gift& of body and mind, as lhall appear in the difcourfe of bts ltfe: and a& Theophrttftus teftifieth, he was greater then any other of the Kings of MAc E.. noN, not. onely in profperity of Fortune, but alfo in wifed om , bounty, and moderation of man ne~s. So ltc~me to pafs that eA/exttnder, notwithftanding the accord PelopidM had ma~e, ~as traueroufly kille~ . by P,Dlqm] firnamed Alqrires, who ufurped the J(ingdome, and ~as flam htm· --- - - felf 't ._, 97~ ' THE LIFEUOF . / p L v q- A . '1{_ c Ji,_

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Thy prenpts are A Crown of..pureft 'old To Trajan deem'dthe glory of man~nd. Jnh~tnds, andhums, if great menwouldtheehold; Vertue jhould rule, and Vir:e jhould go behind.

~~~-~~!!A ving undertaken to gather the Lives of •p IHtArch, and of Seneca; as they theoi~ felvcs are amply lhewed in their Works, the which in defpite of the fury of art infinite of fttange accidents have yet remain~d whole and in reputation untill this prefent time: Firft, thi!thought hath poffelfed me before~ tbiu fome ~en mar vel, how, and wherefore I do joyn Philofophers, quiet men, and friends of fo litarinefs; unto fo many Noble and Worthy Warriors. Wherein it feemeth I 'i~~~~~~~ wander too far off from the ptintipal intention of Plutarch, who was fo willing "" to honour the Mufe», joyning imo one body fo many members and parts of Hi ftories offered unto the pofterity, that in the mean time he hath accompanied, an4 as it were environ~ ed them . · With Darts, antlTt~rgets of Mars redoubtiibl~. . But I hope; that if thofe (which think ftrange of my doings) will btn at lei Cute, with a repofed eye ~ look upon the Lives before : they lhall find that I have not gone fo far from the right meaning, ~ s at the firft fight may be judged. For, befides that the Lives of fome Orators, efpecially of ])emoft- hene s and of Cicero, are feen amongft the others : you lhall find few Noblemen reprefen~ed by our Th . fc , Author, b~t that they have as carefully handled books, as the~r fwor?s. And if fome feem co be wh; ;g~ Tives fo much giVen to .Arms, that they have left the ftudy of learnmg behmd rhem, yet we may fee that offhilofopheri 1hey have loved Philofophets, and that they themfelves have earneftly and effeCtually realoned of are joyned Philofophy, in time ofWar and Peace. And whereas Plutarch bath mingled fome with verruous with tJH: Lives men, fome (I fay) which have done infinite hun to rhemfelves, and to all rhe world during th_eir ~;;'a;~wrs. f1 Lives, and whofe names are detefted at this day by thofe rhemfelves which follow their execrable do- wrfte t~:~~es ings: his inremion was not t6 place them in the Theatre of. Venue, as if they ba~ deferve,d i~ : of fome.vicious but as Learned Painters finely apply cloud Xand dark col~urs in th_eir table~, ro t~e ~nd th~t rh~ lively !ten among~ and frefh colours lhould appear more beauttfull, and as It WeU! 1mboffed ~ fo m mtermmglmg the t c vertuous. ftrange cxceffes of fome GREEKs and RoMANs amongft fo worthy ACts of others , .he hath fo fitly mingled the fweet and profitable together, that it is not pofilble to be better. But if my tWO Philofophers ( fince I have begun to qualifie them thus ) were contented to fhut up rhem- {'elves in !ome School or ~tudy, and to do nothingdfe bur declaim lnd fa!hion fome ~. ch o l ar s; . 0 0 00 2 it P 1( 0 S 0 1? 0 Cj 1(.. .11 P 1-1 I 11: OR, SOME SELECT pQ·UR TRAITURES, AND

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common Proverb~ They who promife Mountains of Goltl, propofe what ctm; not be accomplijhed, will be conrraditl:ed by the diligent fcarch of this ClceUcnt ~~~~~).~~~ Pilot, who having promifed the Kings of EnglAnd, PQrtHgiiU and SpAin ~ fuch Mountains , did indeed make it good to thofe who foUowed his wife Counfell. Upon hii name fome have more pleafantly then prudently dc- Colsmbu~ com· fcanted, comparing him to the Pigeon in 7'\!:ah's Ark, which after rhe flood p~red t ~ the brought tidings of the Earth. Becaufe Columbl!& failed fo far, that he difco· p ,geon m No- vered unknown Lands. But omitting thefe fubtilties, I will briefly relate his a/1's Ark. life, whofe pourtraiture with many others I got at Lubon in Portuf.all. Thepbce of He was bornatCuguero or (asfome fay) at.A.lbi:r..olo~ a poor fmall VillageonthcRiverqen?JU his Bi rth, near Savo 11 nlil. · He traffiqued into Portugall, and paffing by the Streights of gibraltar, obferved by longexpcri.;' ~h e obf~rva- ence, thar ar a certain feafon of the Year, there were {orne Sea-winds came from the Weft, which tlon d~cr blew equally one way, many days together without any variation, And confidering they could noc ~~~~ dif:ouv~; proceed but from the Eanh beyond the Sea ; he fo deeply fixed the Idea hereof in his Head ; that ac the new World I aft he refolved to find it our. · Hereupon being aged about fourty Years (as .J1. Vrban Chawveton relates in bis Hifrory of the . { n~