Sed, Num Hac Et Similia Exempla Quempiam Eo Insania Adigent, Vt Dicat Hanc Vel Illam Nationem, Liberos In Escam Propriam Mactare *Consuettisse, Turcis Libenter Vendere, Aut Aquis Submergere Et Suffocare Solitam Esse?

Non opinor.

Sic neque, quod mendici apud Islandos, extrema vrgente necessitate, cuius durissimi sunt morsus, filios suos libenter amittant, toti genti, et quidem probri loco, communiter adscribendum est a quoquam, nisi apud eundem omnis pudor, candor, humanitas, veritas exulent.

Caterum optarim ego, parcius Islandis canum curam exprobrare illos populos, quorum matrona, et pracipue nobiles, canes in maximis delicijs habent, vt eos vel in plateis, ne dicam in sacris concionibus, sinum gestent, quem morem in peregrinis quibusdam, quos Roma catulos simiarum et canum in gremio circumferre Casar conspexit, hac quastione reprehendit, dum quareret: Numquid apud ipsos mulieres liberos non parerent? Monens errare eos, qui a natura inditos sibi affectus, quibus in amorem hominum ac pracipue sobolis incitarentur, in bestias transferunt, quarum deliciarum voluptas Islandorum gentem, nunquam cepit aut habuit. Quare iam Munstere et Krantzi, alias nobis Christianitatis, (vt sic dicam) legis natura, legis item Germanorum, et sancta simplicitatis notas qusente.

The same in English.

THE SEVENTH SECTION.

They make all one reckoning of their whelpes, and of their children: except that of the poorer sort you shall easier obtaine their sonne then their shalke.

Although in the beginning of this Treatise I thought that Munster and other men of great name in those things which they haue left written concerning Islande, were not to bee charged with slander, yet whether that fauour may here be shewed by any man whatsoeuer (be he neuer so fauourable, and neuer so sincere) I doe not sufficiently conceiue.

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