Part 44

The Carriages, 19. are plundered. Impedimenta, 19. spoliantur.

CXLII.

The Sea-Fight. Pugna Navalis.

A Sea-fight is terrible, when huge Ships, like Castles, run one upon another Navale prœlium terribile est, quum ingentes Naves, veluti Arces, concurrunt with their Beaks, 1. or shatter one another with their Ordnance, 2. Rostris, 1. aut se invicem quassant Tormentis, 2. and so being bored thorow they drink in their own Destruction, and are sunk, 3. atque ita perforatæ, imbibunt perniciem suam & submerguntur, 3.

Or when they are set on fire and either by the firing of Gun-powder, 4. Aut quum igne corripiuntur, & vel ex incendio pulveris tormentarii, 4. men are blown up into the air, or are burnt in the midst of the waters, or else leaping into the Sea are drowned. homines ejiciuntur in ærem, vel exuruntur in mediis aquis, vel etiam desilientes in mare, suffocantur.

A Ship that flieth away, 5. is overtaken by those that pursue her, 6. and is taken. Navis fugitiva, 5. intercipitur ab insequentibus, 6. & capitur.

CXLIII.

The Besieging of a City. Obsidium Urbis.

A City that is like to endure a Siege, is first summoned by a Trumpeter, 1. and persuaded to yield. Urbs passura Obsidionem, primum provocatur per Tubicinem, 1. & invitatur ad Depitionem.

Which if it refuseth to do, it is assaulted by the Besiegers, and taken by storm. Quod si abnuat facere, oppugnatur ab Obsidentibus & occupatur.

Either by climbing over the walls with Scaling-ladders, 2. or breaking them down with Battering-engins, 3. Vel muros per Scalas, 2. transcendendo, aut diruendo Arietibus, 3. or demolishing them with great Guns, 4. or breaking through the Gates with a Petarr, 5. aut demoliendo Tormentis, 4. vel dirumpendo portas Exostra, 5. or casting Granadoes, 6. out of Mortar-pieces, 7. into the City, by Engineers, 8. vel ejaculando Globos Tormentarios, 6. e Mortariis (balistis), 7. in Urbem per Balistarios, 8. (who lye behind Leagure-baskets, 9.) or overthrowing it with Mines by Pioneers, 10. (qui latitant post Gerras, 9.) vel subvertendo Cuniculis per Fossores, 10,

They that are besieged defend themselves from the Walls, 11. with fire and stones, &c, or break out by force, 12. Obsessi defendunt se de Muris, 11. ignibus, lapidibus, &c. aut erumpunt, 12.

A City that is taken by Storm is plundered, destroyed, and sometimes laid even with the ground. Urbs vi expugnata, diriditur, exciditur, interdum equatur solo.

CXLIV.

Religion. Religio.

Godliness, 1. the Queen of Vertues, worshippeth God, 4. devoutly, Pietas, 1. Regina Virtutum colit Deum, 4. humiliter, the Knowledge of God being drawn either from the Book of Nature, 2. (for the work commendeth the Work-master) Notitiâ Dei, haustâ vel ex Libro Naturæ, 2. (nam opus commendat Artificem) or from the Book of Scripture, 3. she meditateth upon his Commandments contained in the Decalogue, 5. vel ex Libro Scripturæ, 3. recolit Mandata ejus comprehensa in Decalogo, 5. and treading Reason under foot, that Barking Dog, 6. she giveth Faith, 7. and assent to the Word of God, & conculcans Rationem, oblatrantem Canem, 6. præbet Fidem, 7. & assensum Verbo Dei, and calleth upon him, 8. as a Helper in adversity. eumque invocat, 8. ut Opitulatorem in adversis.

Divine Services are done in the Church, 9. in which are the Quire, 10. with the Altar, 11. Officia Divina fiunt in Templo, 9. in quo est Penetrale (Adytum, 10.) cum Altari, 11. the Vestry, 12. the Pulpit, 13. Seats, 14. Galleries, 15. and a Font, 16. Sacrarium, 12. Suggestus, 13. Subsellia, 14. Ambones, 15. & Baptisterium, 16.

All men perceive that there is a God, but all men do not rightly know God. Omnes homines sentiunt esse Deum, sed non omnes rectè nôrunt Deum.

Hence are divers Religions whereof IV. are reckoned yet as the chief. Hinc diversæ Religiones quarum IV. numerantur adhuc primariæ.

CXLV.

Gentilism. Gentilimus.

The Gentiles feigned to themselves near upon XIIM. Deities. Gentiles finxerunt sibi prope XIIM. Numina.

The chief of them were Jupiter, 1. President, and petty-God of Heaven; Eorum præcipua erant Jupiter, 1. Præses & Deaster cœli; Neptune, 2. of the Sea; Pluto, 3. of Hell; Mars, 4. of War; Apollo, 5. of Arts; Neptunus, 2. Maris; Pluto, 3. Inferni; Mars, 4. Belli; Apollo, 5. Artium; Mercury, 6. of Thieves, Merchants, and Eloquence; Vulcan, (Mulciber) of Fire and Smiths; Mercurius, 6. Furum, Mercatorum, & Eloquentiæ; Vulcanus (Mulciber), Ignis & Fabrorum; Æolus, of Winds: and the most obscene of all the rest, Priapus. Æolus, Ventorum; & obscænissimus, Priapus.

They had also Womanly Deities: such as were Venus, 7. the Goddess of Loves, and Pleasures, with her little son Cupid, 8. Habuerant etiam Muliebria Numina; qualia fuerunt Venus, 7. Dea Amorum, & Voluptatum, cum filiolo Cupidine, 8. Minerva (Pallas), with the nine Muses of Arts; Juno, of Riches and Weddings; Minerva (Pallas), cum novem Musis Artium; Juno, Divitiarum & Nuptiarum; Vesta, of Chastity; Ceres, of Corn; Diana, of Hunting, and Fortune; and besides these Morbona, and Febris her self. Vesta, Castitatis; Ceres, Frumentorum; Diana, Venationum; & Fortuna: quin & Morbona, ac Febris ipsa.

The Egyptians, instead of God worshipped all sorts of Beasts and Plants, and whatsoever they saw first in the morning. Ægyptii, pro Deo colebant omne genus Animalium & Plantarum, & quicquid conspiciebantur primum mane.

The Philistines offered to Moloch, 9. their Children to be burnt alive, Philistæi offerebant Molocho (Saturno), 9. Infantes cremandos vivos.

The Indians, 10. even to this day, worship the Devil, 11. Indi, 10. etiamnum venerantur Cacodæmona, 11.

CXLVI.