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Mysia (Turkey) (search for this): book 15, card 252
drowght, becommeth standing lakes. Heere nature sendeth new springs out, and there the old in takes. Full many rivers in the world through earthquakes heretofore Have eyther chaundgd theyr former course, or dryde and ronne no more. Soo Lycus beeing swallowed up by gaping of the ground, A greatway off fro thence is in another channell found. Even so the river Erasine among the feeldes of Arge Sinkes one whyle, and another whyle ronnes greate ageine at large. Caycus also of the land of Mysia (as men say) Misliking of his former head, ronnes now another way. In Sicill also Amasene ronnes sumtyme full and hye, And sumtyme stopping up his spring, he makes his chanell drye. Men drank the waters of the brooke Anigrus heretofore, Which now is such that men abhorre to towche them any more. Which commes to passe, (onlesse wee will discredit Poets quyght) Bycause the Centaures vanquisshed by Hercules in fyght Did wash theyr woundes in that same brooke. But dooth not Hypani
Sybaris (search for this): book 15, card 252
r in his shapes chaunge straungely to and fro? The well of horned Hammon is at noonetyde passing cold. At morne and even it wexeth warme. At midnyght none can hold His hand therin for passing heate. The well of Athamane, Is sayd to kindle woode what tyme the moone is in the wane. The Cicons have a certeine streame which beeing droonk dooth bring Mennes bowwelles into Marble hard: and whatsoever thing Is towcht therwith, it turnes to stone. And by your bounds behold The rivers Crathe and Sybaris make yellow heare like gold And Amber. There are also springs (which thing is farre more straunge) Which not the bodye only, but the mynd doo also chaunge. Whoo hath not heard of Salmacis, that fowle and filthye sink? Or of the lake of Aethyop, which if a man doo drink, He eyther ronneth mad, or else with woondrous drowzinesse Forgoeth quyght his memorie? Whoo ever dooth represse His thirst with drawght of Clitor well, hates wyne, and dooth delyght In only water: eyther for bycause th
Italy (Italy) (search for this): book 15, card 252
at same brooke. But dooth not Hypanis That springeth in the Scythian hilles, which at his fountaine is Ryght pleasant, afterward becomme of brackish bitter taste? Antissa, and Phenycian Tyre, and Pharos in tyme past Were compast all about with waves: but none of all theis three Is now an Ile. Ageine the towne of Lewcas once was free From sea, and in the auncient tyme was joyned to the land. But now environd round about with water it dooth stand. Men say that Sicill also hath beene joynd to Italy Untill the sea consumde the bounds beetweene, and did supply The roome with water. If yee go to seeke for Helicee And Burye which were Cities of Achaia, you shall see Them hidden under water, and the shipmen yit doo showe The walles and steeples of the townes drownd under as they rowe. Not farre from Pitthey Troyzen is a certeine high ground found All voyd of trees, which heeretofore was playne and levell ground, But now a mountayne. For the wyndes (a woondrous thing to say) Inclosed
Antissa (search for this): book 15, card 252
And sumtyme stopping up his spring, he makes his chanell drye. Men drank the waters of the brooke Anigrus heretofore, Which now is such that men abhorre to towche them any more. Which commes to passe, (onlesse wee will discredit Poets quyght) Bycause the Centaures vanquisshed by Hercules in fyght Did wash theyr woundes in that same brooke. But dooth not Hypanis That springeth in the Scythian hilles, which at his fountaine is Ryght pleasant, afterward becomme of brackish bitter taste? Antissa, and Phenycian Tyre, and Pharos in tyme past Were compast all about with waves: but none of all theis three Is now an Ile. Ageine the towne of Lewcas once was free From sea, and in the auncient tyme was joyned to the land. But now environd round about with water it dooth stand. Men say that Sicill also hath beene joynd to Italy Untill the sea consumde the bounds beetweene, and did supply The roome with water. If yee go to seeke for Helicee And Burye which were Cities of Achaia, you sha
Achaia (Greece) (search for this): book 15, card 252
r taste? Antissa, and Phenycian Tyre, and Pharos in tyme past Were compast all about with waves: but none of all theis three Is now an Ile. Ageine the towne of Lewcas once was free From sea, and in the auncient tyme was joyned to the land. But now environd round about with water it dooth stand. Men say that Sicill also hath beene joynd to Italy Untill the sea consumde the bounds beetweene, and did supply The roome with water. If yee go to seeke for Helicee And Burye which were Cities of Achaia, you shall see Them hidden under water, and the shipmen yit doo showe The walles and steeples of the townes drownd under as they rowe. Not farre from Pitthey Troyzen is a certeine high ground found All voyd of trees, which heeretofore was playne and levell ground, But now a mountayne. For the wyndes (a woondrous thing to say) Inclosed in the hollow caves of ground, and seeking way To passe therefro, in struggling long to get the open skye In vayne, (bycause in all the cave there was no v