Varieties: or, A surveigh of rare and excellent matters necessary and delectable for all sorts of persons. Wherein the principall heads of diverse sciences are illustrated, rare secrets of naturall things unfoulded, &c. Digested into five bookes, whose severall chapters with their contents are to be seene in the table after the epistle dedicatory. By David Person, of Loghlands in Scotland, Gentleman.
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Varieties: or, A surveigh of rare and excellent matters necessary and delectable for all sorts of persons. Wherein the principall heads of diverse sciences are illustrated, rare secrets of naturall things unfoulded, &c. Digested into five bookes, whose severall chapters with their contents are to be seene in the table after the epistle dedicatory. By David Person, of Loghlands in Scotland, Gentleman.
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Person, David.
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London :: Printed by Richard Badger [and Thomas Cotes], for Thomas Alchorn, and are to be sold at his shop, in Pauls Church-yard, at the signe of the green-Dragon,
1635.
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"Varieties: or, A surveigh of rare and excellent matters necessary and delectable for all sorts of persons. Wherein the principall heads of diverse sciences are illustrated, rare secrets of naturall things unfoulded, &c. Digested into five bookes, whose severall chapters with their contents are to be seene in the table after the epistle dedicatory. By David Person, of Loghlands in Scotland, Gentleman." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A09500.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 2, 2024.
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Sect. 5.
Cajetans reason for referring the event of Battels to Mo∣nomachie:
Where also is inserted the story of the Hora∣tii
and Curiatii.
AS for the first condition admitted by Cajetan
for Duells; which is, when two armies are
ready to joyne, for preventing of greater
bloud-shed, he averreth that it is better to referre the
event of a battell to a Monomachy of two, then other∣wise
to hazard all:
There is nothing more memorable in all the Ro∣man
History then the experience of this,* 1.1 in that no∣table
not so much Monomachy as Polymachy of three
brethren, Romans, called Horatii, against other three
brethren of the Alban side called Curiatii, and those
partly of kinne and alliance, to which the decision of
the victory of either of the armies, by the Roman and
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Alban Kings with their whole armies consent was
concredited.
Those sixe in the middle of both Armies valou∣rously
fighting for their owne private lives and credit,
their countreys fame and liberty, having so glorious
a Theatre to act so important and tragicall a combat
upon,* 1.2 did so bravely on both sides, that the panting
armies were in no lesse anxiety for the event of their
tryalls, then the perplexed combatants themselves:
at length the victory, which seemed dubiously dispo∣sed
in favours of either side begun to incline to the Al∣bans
first, and that by the death of two of the Roman
brethren; whereupon the Roman Survaior counter∣feits
to fly, and so was pursued by the other three; but
turning to the formost of his pursuers he set so furi∣ously
upon him that hee forthwith killed him; then
turning to the second with like fury rewarded him af∣ter
the same manner: Now the Survaiour of the Cu∣riatii
being brother in Law to this victorious Roman,
received the same lot that his brothers had from his
valorous hands, which afterwards caused the death
of his owne Sister, the last killed Albans Spouse, as in
the Roman Historie may be read at large.
Notes
* 1.1
A Notable Combat of 3. Brethren Romans a∣gainst so many Albans.