A mirrour or looking-glasse both for saints and sinners held forth in about two thousand examples wherein is presented as Gods wonderful mercies to the one, so his severe judgments against the other collected out of the most classique authors both ancient and modern with some late examples observed by my self : whereunto are added the wonders of nature and the rare ... / by Sa. Clark ...

The City of Naples described.

Naples the Metropolis of that Kingdome stands [ 9] upon the shore of the Mediterranean Sea: It's reckoned the third City in Italy, and so great are the delights that nature hath allotted to this place, that it's still frequented by persons of great quality. The streets of it are generally well paved of free stone, large, and even: The Houses are very uni∣form, built flat on the top to walk on; a notable convenience in those hot Countreys. Another like accommodation which this City hath against the heat, is the Mole, which is an Artificial street cast∣ing it self into the Sea, whither all the Gentry at the evenings resort to take the Fresco. Amongst the Palaces that of the Vice-Kings is the fairest: It hath three Castles; and the Churches generally are very curious, and costly filled with Marble Statues. This City is exceeding populous, and consequently vicious: He that desires to live a chaste life must

not set up there: For as their Gardens are well filled with Oranges, so their houses want not Lem∣mons; there are usually thirty thousand Courte∣sans Registred that pay taxes for their plea∣sure.

Near unto Naples is Virgil's Tomb upon an High Rock: And the Crypta Neapolitana in the rocky Mountain Pausylippus, cut thorow, very high, spa∣cious, and well paved, so that for the space of a mile two Coaches may go on Front under the earth: In the middest is a Madonna with a Lamp perpetually burning. Not far off is the hill of Brimstone on which neither grasse nor any Herb growes; but 'tis all white with ashes, and ever casts out of several holes a contin••••l smoke, with Flames making the very earth to boyl. The ground is hollow underneath, and makes an hideous noise if struck upon with an hammer. On the other side Naples is the Mountain of Vesuvius, brother to AEtna, upon the top whereof is a terrifying spe∣ctacle, viz. a Vorago, or hole about three miles in compasse, and half as much in depth, and in the middest is a new hill that still vomits thick smoke which the fire within hath raised within these few years, and it still daily encreaseth. Pliny the Na∣turalist being too inquisitive after the cause of this fire, changed life for death upon this Mountain. Idem.