The Besieging of a City.

Obsidium Urbis.

A City that
is like to endure a Siege,
is first summoned
by a Trumpeter, 1.
and persuaded to yield.		Urbs
passura Obsidionem,
primum provocatur
per Tubicinem, 1.
& invitatur ad Depitionem.
Which if it refuseth to do,
it is assaulted by the Besiegers,
and taken by storm.		Quod si abnuat facere,
oppugnatur ab Obsidentibus
& occupatur.
Either by climbing over
the walls with
Scaling-ladders, 2.
or breaking them down
with Battering-engins, 3.
or demolishing them
with great Guns, 4.
or breaking through
the Gates with a Petarr, 5.
or casting Granadoes, 6.

out of Mortar-pieces, 7.
into the City,
by Engineers, 8.
(who lye behind
Leagure-baskets, 9.)
or overthrowing it with
Mines by Pioneers, 10.		Vel muros
per Scalas, 2.
transcendendo,
aut diruendo
Arietibus, 3.
aut demoliendo
Tormentis, 4.
vel dirumpendo
portas Exostra, 5.
vel ejaculando Globos
Tormentarios, 6.
e Mortariis (balistis), 7.
in Urbem
per Balistarios, 8.
(qui latitant post
Gerras, 9.)
vel subvertendo
Cuniculis per Fossores, 10,
They that are besieged
defend themselves
from the Walls, 11.
with fire and stones, &c,
or break out by force, 12.		Obsessi
defendunt se
de Muris, 11.
ignibus, lapidibus, &c.
aut erumpunt, 12.
A City
that is taken by Storm
is plundered,
destroyed,
and sometimes laid even
with the ground.		Urbs
vi expugnata,
diriditur,
exciditur,
interdum equatur
solo.

[ CXLIV.]

Religion.

Religio.

Godliness, 1.
the Queen of Vertues,
worshippeth God, 4. devoutly,
the Knowledge of God
being drawn either from
the Book of Nature, 2.
(for the work commendeth
the Work-master)
or from
the Book of Scripture, 3.
she meditateth upon
his Commandments contained
in the Decalogue, 5.
and treading Reason under foot,
that Barking Dog, 6.
she giveth Faith, 7.
and assent
to the Word of God,
and calleth upon him, 8.
as a Helper in adversity.		Pietas, 1.
Regina Virtutum
colit Deum, 4. humiliter,
Notitiâ Dei,
haustâ vel ex
Libro Naturæ, 2.
(nam opus commendat
Artificem)
vel ex
Libro Scripturæ, 3.
recolit
Mandata ejus comprehensa
in Decalogo, 5.
& conculcans Rationem,
oblatrantem Canem, 6.
præbet Fidem, 7.
& assensum
Verbo Dei,
eumque invocat, 8.
ut Opitulatorem in adversis.
Divine Services
are done in the Church, 9.
in which are the Quire, 10.
with the Altar, 11.
the Vestry, 12.
the Pulpit, 13.
Seats, 14.
Galleries, 15.
and a Font, 16.		Officia Divina
fiunt in Templo, 9.
in quo est Penetrale
(Adytum, 10.) cum Altari, 11.
Sacrarium, 12.
Suggestus, 13.
Subsellia, 14.
Ambones, 15.
& Baptisterium, 16.
All men perceive
that there is a God,
but all men do not
rightly know God.		Omnes homines sentiunt
esse Deum,
sed non omnes
rectè nôrunt Deum.
Hence are divers Religions
whereof IV. are reckoned
yet as the chief.		Hinc diversæ Religiones
quarum IV. numerantur
adhuc primariæ.

[ CXLV.]