The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, Volume 3Browne, Thomas, Sir
Religion
The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, Volume 3
Browne, Thomas, Sir
Christianity; Ethics; Religion and medicine
23. An exquisite Piece properly delineating the first course of
_Metellus_ his Pontificial Supper, according to the description of
_Macrobius_; together with a Dish of _Pisces Fossiles_, garnished about
with the little Eels taken out of the backs of Cods and Perches; as also
with the Shell Fishes found in Stones about _Ancona_.
24. A Picture of the noble Entertain and Feast of the Duke of _Chausue_
at the Treaty of _Collen_, 1673, when in a very large Room, with all the
Windows open, and at a very large Table he sate himself, with many great
persons and Ladies; next about the Table stood a row of Waiters, then a
row of Musicians, then a row of Musketiers.
25. _Miltiades_, who overthrew the Persians at the Battel of _Marathon_
and delivered _Greece_, looking out of a Prison Grate in _Athens_,
wherein he died, with this Inscription,
_Non hoc terribiles Cymbri non Britones unquam,
Sauromatæve truces aut immanes Agathyrsi._
26. A fair English Lady drawn _Al Negro_, or in the Æthiopian hue
excelling the original White and Red Beauty, with this Subscription,
_Sed quondam volo nocte Nigriorem._
27. Pieces and Draughts in _Caricatura_, of Princes, Cardinals and
famous men; wherein, among others, the Painter hath singularly hit the
signatures of a Lion and a Fox in the face of Pope _Leo_ the Tenth.
28. Some Pieces _A la ventura_, or Rare Chance Pieces, either drawn at
random, and happening to be like some person, or drawn for some and
happening to be more like another; while the Face, mistaken by the
Painter, proves a tolerable Picture of one he never saw.
29. A Draught of famous Dwarfs with this Inscription,
_Nos facimus Bruti puerum nos Lagona vivum._
30. An exact and proper delineation of all sorts of Dogs upon occasion
of the practice of _Sultan Achmet_; who in a great Plague at
_Constantinople_ transported all the Dogs therein unto _Pera_, and from
thence into a little Island, where they perished at last by Famine: as
also the manner of the Priests curing of mad Dogs by burning them in the
forehead with Saint _Bellin's Key_.
31. A noble Picture of _Thorismund_ King of the Goths as he was killed
in his Palace at _Tholouze_, who being let bloud by a Surgeon, while he
was bleeding, a stander by took the advantage to stab him.
32. A Picture of rare Fruits with this Inscription,
_Credere quæ possis surrepta sororibus Afris._
33. An handsome Piece of Deformity expressed in a notable hard Face,
with this Inscription,
----_Ora
Julius in Satyris qualia Rufus habet._
34. A noble Picture of the famous Duel between _Paul Manessi_ and
_Caragusa_ the Turk in the time of _Amurath_ the Second; the Turkish
Army and that of _Scanderbeg_ looking on; wherein _Manessi_ slew the
Turk, cut off his Head and carried away the Spoils of his Body.
3. Antiquities and Rarities of several sorts.
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