Unparalleld varieties: or, The matchless actions and passions of mankind.: Displayed in near four hundred notable instances and examples. Discovering the transcendent effects; I. Of love, friendship, and gratitude. II. Of magnanimity, courage, and fidelity. III. Of chastity, temperance, and humility. And on the contrary the tremendous consequences, IV. Of hatred, revenge, and ingratitude. V. Of cowardice, barbarity, treachery. VI. Of unchastity, intemperance, and ambition. : Imbellished with proper figures. / By R.B. ...

II. St. Jerome gives a relation of a young man of in∣vincible courage, who when by all sorts of threatnings, he was not to be frighted into Idolatry, and the Wor∣ship of the Heathen Gods, his Enemies resolved upon another course; they brought him into a Garden flow∣ing with all manner of sensual pleasures and delights, there they laid him in a Bed of Down, safely inwrapped in a Net of Silk amongst the Lilies and Roses, with the delicious murmur of the Rivulets, and the sweet whistling of the winds amongst the leaves, and then all departed, there was then immediately sent unto him a young, and most beautiful Strumpet, who used all the abominable tricks of her impure Art, and whorish Vil∣lanies to draw him to her desire; the Youth now fea∣ring that he should be conquered with Folly, who had triumphed over fury, resolutely bit off a piece of his own Tongue with his Teeth, spitting it in the face of the Whore, and so by the smart of his wound, extinguished the rebellion of his flesh. Burtons Melancholy. p. 451.