mm I SURGEON GENERAL'S OFFICE LIBRARY Section.... )}*/*£. _Wj^4^*yytfcw-r'. No l&lfM T-? V* y «- c fo> z* y too much motion, Co (landing pooles do putti fie by no mo- tion. There i&afairc trsuftbetweene Scylf* 8c CbArybdis for wifdora to tra- Vers in : a happy orb betwixt Saturn andZutd, for phaeton to guide his, coach in,ib between all a&ion and al- tpgethei" contemplation, fot a ftudent toconverfein. for conferring, I doe psifleit over,as that whetco I feldome h«ive beene beholden, yet much affe-: &rngk, and knowing that it bringsa great accrument unto wifedoroc and ^ifpiag: as conqcripiflg my ftudy and: leading>k hath bin but meane, I muft naedsconfefle, and my writing very {2 penu- fhe Bfi/lk jtermriousin regard of theirs , whotl haVeinriched whole reames of p3per with-the Indian Mine , and golden < chaffrirc of their invention : yet for : ViU* that module of thefe haoiliments in rae,I haveever bent my judgement, fo far as in it lay, to limit all thefe unto theirpeculiar times,objc&s>& places, &haVetertdred my endeavor to have efpecralfyVwo'jthe one correfpondent unto theother, nek her to acT:Dem- erit-m nor Nicias \ but by intercourfe*' to mix my fweeter meditation, with bftter, yet profitable & better aclion. And as in other things of greater or lefTemoment,foihthisalft>,tbc abor-r i tive iflue of my wk , begot of that1 ai- boundance or love I owe unto yowr felfe5 whofe manifold kindftefTes if I mould bury in oblivion, I might won thily feem tngratef ull, if remembrkig I flibuld not in fome forr requite , I might feem odious & refpe&Ies bewft -**-. * I of Vedkdtory. of mine own good narqe,& your bet- ter defcre; the later wfierofisimich, yet the firft mueh more > a delicious fruit that grows from the tree of gr» tittlde. The £U**s therefore, fayth Jj|ufan-i* iPfyfdiia, did paint forth the three r' . Graces, holding thefe three things in their hands, —RtfamtMyrrhMm^ Ts- lum: to intifflate that from'thankeful- ,7 nes proceed 5 fruits. Fifffc,-the fwcet- r: nes of a good riime, fliadowed out by thefwect fmeHing Rofek a.4 Thepro- fitredounding from it', infJhuated by "tfceMyithe branch. And laftly,chief rCotrtfort and hilarity, fignifted by the cociraf bonej which efpeciaH^ is com- petent to-yong^gerwhich three eorri- ti&feXli Jrifltfl'ef threegobds* How- foover I may feem to aime at the firflr, as may beinferd by precedent fpeech, al way highly pricing a good fiame,as 'afprefious ointment, vapotfiig forth a ;irragrant fnlell, awl- deticfaffs f[ 3 odor ador in alt mcnsnoftrils : and at the Jift deftrous of myne/i^ni: Mighl- &xm tt once wikhin the Zodiack of my expe- ^atioa;ioAry fatisfying my felf with the foriner,Neither did I in the waine of my judgpaent attempt this,to draw in the perfuming breath of vaine- gLe- 4y,topuffe up my felf with felfe-con- •oek,like the cbam^li^yjhich is-■?-#/ MtttrfHlmones, nothing bwt lungs >• butonely thinking.to breakethe ice, haply to wade further,and to^mfdoy my felfin greater tasks, as fitter op- * pprmnky dial obje'4tK;tfelfunto ra#, ^f the prefined term & Jioiit of my U£e permmand withal in jiea of gr#ki*4e ",toprefcnt your felfe with thisjktjf, r^hichfcernesmuchi:mregard $hfliy rmm&l&QW? a;$jr^chfcen>sj1ittje ,,l Z]£ in Dedicatory. in r*fpe& o ryour ever kind favor. For this, as alfoyour other endowments^ my pen might worthily fil whole pa- ges: but your fplcndent venues cm eafily be their own Heraulds, to lim forth theirown armory rand to extoll iri^refenceis more glavering and po- etfcaf,thantrueloving and pathetical. This only my afleclioncanot conceal, yourgratious demeanour, generous carriage,curteons nature, ftudious en- deavor, and wifdomefo^mannagirig your felfe each where(whcn you hap- pily were a fkMjnflttng brancfr^tngraf- - ted in the fruitfull Olive tree of this cm Athens, that thrice famous X3ni- verfityof Cambridge) where firft the fympathizing adamants of my aflfe- &k)n£.your continuance afar in all ftudiousa#ions, conftancy in your iavorsand kind difpofition(for I muft needs fey as he ofcrfqg*/f Mr, — ltd* sext.Aurd ruttu '^dmldVCcifUnididmmtim/to*' •f> ([4 *d the Epiftk id rattendas verb eoafiantifsimm) thefe incited mee to caufe that which as a fparkelay fbrouded in embers in my breft,to exhibit it felf more appa^- rantly in this little flame. »:« Take this my endeavor,I.pray you, jnworth, cherifhand foftcr this de- formed brood of my braine,kithe:Iap (if I may forearm k)of yourgoodli- king.andin love efteem it fair, though badly penfild over,to wi(h as Dapbn® faidto^w, . Df.i. c-iv. v.;b flfaa. Eiw-----T$mK*UA*4pflWrK/t ft coirw \i 1 $6- j j .O 11 out nit :nii- i QntmimimfuHt fuhhra^ en ftlc&r* videnmrmanti. , ..>. „ yirh: ••.» • i.* • 'v: na iivl If the happy Dtrnwot vljffts* du xe& nor the wandering planet &€ my wit within the decent orb of w'tfdom, ,\% «k ,u*i &Y ftamm^ring penlccBSing far 6ver* fiVvigon with fiiperfluky, of vf>hrafcy. yet »* ;. U wanting Dedicatory. wanting matter, I anfwer with the Poet one only word inverted :f r/nul Qui non eft (iodic , era* t$agis aptw erat. Hee that is Homers Irus for faculty to day,may be a rich Crtfus for inventi- on to morrowras it is with cogitations fo with actions, the fecod reltfh more ofwifedom • Petfeclioti requires trad of time; %***& CafitfUwas not built thefirftday : nor was ZeuxithisHe- lena fuddenly limm'd forth with one pencil. Lookenot on thefe rapfodi- zed Jirjes,I|)ray you, with a pittying eiclhad rather far be envied than pit- tied. —'— xpHopur y*f otxlifiA&P fS^o$« find* Pith. Mtlior eH invidentia, commiferationcz Better )by much is a cafe hatefullthan wofiill. . The Epiftk wofull. Now will I humbly take my leave, committing you*o tie tuitidfl of that heavenly Tutor, whofe pupils We are all. ^ •* —\. ' ? £<«»*> From my Study in S, hhns, X* Calend, ■ l-i-. ...\'xrO r.. ..•£^d-y.■■::•, ■'.« ..:. dV- i'-vOt* j ,noi£>~" ■-»'» m ? e * -.. P*£Vglrmjpdevotedunt$yiu i]V K . 'lV/ inaifaitkfuinelfe. ? -;bo"lqui -ibrlt ?*. ^-- !ooJ ony| ■ pm\: .q fc rtaiw tu v (^TV W; *)S .:.-r.y rr.il! lit-; t' -;.m ; • *. •• \'»i»vi:r^i»8 ; t/br.r'I -j 6T ;'#fffff#fif#ffI" . To the Reader, '^;1 ^-. ,-w . rw.v ;• tfewledge concealed and not bro- ,cb#$• PHn.Nat. .&ondtn+sfy$fayy that ft hafit/y bugs and hift.lib.i& fe^^kfeyft** ?$*.&' tf>e Lapwing"-1*' J>W%4*t€ty<&&ck*dj4iru&as it were witjp \thcfheilm&$ fyady that I have (oared utgs of-a Wretz, in the highjfrrtng tyde^f^nwer-veeenivg-^iniopifhcmngu*- . to the Criticks eye, t{%d#$j&%fbbe of my vr^ " z 1b*lh» To the Reader. fallow judgment, thou may ft tearmeme an $pl.w C£f Homers Tnerfites, dftfaune., or as it wat %faid of Trajan the Emperoun%when hewaun* ted of hit Parthian trophee before the godsM be ffoyycumc. u«Mo» A Klyiw, mere refpEHnm a found of words jba a founder matter itfetm thou may ft condemn me for many an errorj*r efcape i» thefe my ruder liner':. I know right 1we/thou ufeft not to gape after gudgeon*-** Man. Praeda camim lepns ert,va(l65 ncn itnptet hi- atus. The Hares repaft for Hounds 9 the vaftri jawes <> . » // doth notfatiate.------ »«*$*•• Gentle Reader, calt this to mind —— p'efer to like, than tod* the like. "Bufhowfotvor thou do ft either uncivilly prejudtfiatemy la- bour witha finifterconceittmtfconflrui»g my Weaning, or uucurteonfty cenfuriof my tna- *btlity, impeaching my good name for fotUe^ 3 things that doe dip-aft e thy delieate pa/late, Jaela nobis eft alca, / havefet allot fix and feven, and J intend by the tMufes favour happily to go on }t hough unhappily I have be» To the Reader. fun, Notwithstanding imltajfoile my felft 'and make an/tver unto thy former, either fe- tret fxt wifes, or open cavils. For the fir/?,if I have imitated the Almond tree,it h to keep in ft ore a bitter almond for the prating par- fat that lie enttovfty thus fteaketh of me-j»ho —— Dicis mc Icarum efTe,baud belle, nam ^ufottt •{ummaKcappetam (fpcro) ut non decidam, Paul.Ep.x9 rkopejfitall not prove an afrirtng Icarus, nor another Thalc6 in Diogenes Laertius, who whtlft helookt high andwascontempla* ting on the ftars, fell groveling into a deepe ditch, for the third3 much appertaining to every brain-ficke Narciffus^ doe altogether diftlaim that9Jince it never fo much at inji- nuatedit fetfe into thebofom vfmj magma- tton% my Genius not defiring to bee perfumed withfmokie praifejr foon^vanifhing & vul- gar glory, chiefly ujbered by ft If-conceit.For my taint with Thcrfite s and Tra}intfault,I wil only ufe for my defence that jpeech */Jo caftt"i£CQclee» —4tf To tlie Readers —----&1tin>fsi(A7tei$U . nought elft bnt this,in that I/dpragate ft oust. no mans due deftr.t-^nor feeke to traduce anfc unto t heir- fajft difjtaragement j,. v. * ytuj Blaft not wkh * Critick bwatb my-t«derbiid^ My vulgar Mufe tefpeds a common goedi, For thee my pen ft touts on this paper ftage* Though it do aftrwithoutert>au}uipSagfc i,t ^ Toquencfothykarned trhirft,! mean tacftaia The. Hippocrfaiw fountain of.toy brain. % My wife isgo'iixettv55,Tot Vulgar things uttered ajf* ter a new fort , <*»^ novelty after a vulgar fori) without ajfettatton : that J fbould bee a rich eloquent merchant of exoticl^ and new- found phrafes : that -Ifiiuld intraverfe and interlard my jpeeches with Itvely conceits 5 inrich thy learned ears with right Athenian jewels^ i luminate the eye of thy underftan^ ding with the luftre of 'Pjactericall colours : that the whole work,faould bee mixt with an -----Omnetulitpunftura. And fureljf§ far as each thing ts confonant and harmoni- ca// to judgment 9I willtender my deavor, to be futable to thy fc holler* like expectation : for if fo be wi]dome do not manage and tem- per all, the Mufes, which are pure chafte and unfpotted virginsjrilturn to meer curtefans. If judgment tread not on the heels of wit, And curb invention with his golden bit, 'Twill ne'r look back unto his proper want, Bat ftil his ftcps wil be exorbitant. / dare notprefstmejtor "wUl'r-aJ&ly engage my credit to thee(cut*teousceufurer) topro- *rife thee Amphorara, ne urceas exeat * A moun- x o ttie Keacicr. mountain, leflit bringforthshdt ridiculous1 iffut'iU the fable : to promifethee Ariftarne- tashls l,a\sj#how be tearmes foot nfoatoptov^ all face, for herfuper-eminent beauty & por- traiture,admirable fymmetrie of parts f mejk decent and eye-pie afing lineaments of her Whole body; left that I beget an Ethiopian^ ah*bulhtT*>bo was termed all mfe: like Mar- tials Tongilinniofwhomhe thus jpeakfthg Tongilianus habet nafum, {cio>non nego, fed ;am Nil prater nafum Tongilianus habetc Tongilian hds a goodly nofejwis, But nought be fides a nofe Tongilian is. And no doubt itwillbeeliker the later than the former :. Venus had her mole, Helena herftain, Cynthia herfpots, the Swan her jea/j feet,the clearest day feme cloud : nayy theteis nothingjbut if we otice eye it over* fo absolutely perfcEl, not the fmoetbeft writef of all, (at leafia Qritick* ferufmgof him); ferfome blemijh andimperfeclion, merits not either AwftaKfihus-.&J blacky-W*, or MomUS lmftonge„ 1 fin ike fair e$ things be finch de~ fttVn\iiy^>Vf m*yy ^oreftantnm^y theu bee -• o » found To the Reader. found in this off-ftring of my braine , which dare notfearccly make compare with the feu* left ? lool^for better and more generous wine of the old vine tree ^for as Winy faith, vetU- ftioribus Temper vitibus vinum melius, no- Vellis copiofius: would f could either arro- gate the former, or challenge the later unto myfelfe. 13 us I could not pojjibly pleafe all * for as the Poetjpeaksto one Lcdotus, Qui poflis rogo te placcre cunctis, Cum jam difpliccas tibi vel uni ? 'Tis jure f hat at leaft J jbould not pleafe my felf. I might better fit a many humorsjnfif- ting out jome more pleafing poetic all fubjeff, more correfpondent to their fancy and my fa- culty-^ intr eating merrily of Jems new dif- covered I fie with Lucian ; to invent with him fome finchhyperbolical/ lies as that o/Hercu- !es*»^ Bacchus , whofe foot fleps were found to be the bignes of an acre of ground: to tell of flies c£* pifmtres as big as iz Elephants. to f-aight fome pamphlet de lapfu Vulcani, who as Homer writes,was falling out ofhear ven into the Ifte Lemnos -aav yv OfSelfe- knowledge. CAP. i. S Hefiod'mhiS Iheogonie fayth, that the ougly night ------TtxeJ v7t\ov, erixre jfepyAorowfytty, begat two foul monfters, Somnum & S'omnium:Sq we may not unfitly fay. That the inveloped and deformed night or ignorance(for the want of that eclcftial Nofi cete-.pfum) begets two mif-fbapen Mon- fters (which as the Sepia's inky humour, dec make turbulent the chryftallineft fountain in man) Sqmatalgia and Pfychalgia, the one the difcrafie of thcbody,the other the mala- dic and diftemperaturc of the foule. For he that is incanoped & intrenched in thisdark- fome rtiifty cloud of ignorance, (becing like thq one-footed Indian people. tSciopodes^^^x. wliofc foot is fobig, that it (hades them fr6 c«fa A 4; the 2, imuiajjt of the rayes of the Sun; or rather like the Q^- clops,whcr\Vlyps had bereft him of his one eye) he hath no true lamp of difcrerion, as a pole-ftar todired the (fcipof hislifebp, cither in relpeel: of hismortall orimmortall part,from being hurt ied upon the (helves & ma(fy rocks of infelicity. Of what high c- fteem & pricelefle value this rare felf know- ledge is,and ever was,itis very coafpicuous §c apparent unto the dimmeft apprehendojq of all, if it do but julliy ballancc in the fcale pfcommon reafon,wifdom,who hath ever affeclionatly embraced it .arid to whom it is ftil indeared,the heavenly (ourcc or Spring- head from whence it was derived, as alfo the happy eff^s it alway hatli ingendred. * f&liaii. Divine Pyihagorast whom worthily the floud Neffw |4uted andcailed by his name, as one admired of it for his flood ^.elo- quence and jorrent of wifedom , his.^indq being thcirirlched Exchequer and Tie^tury of rarefl: qualities, not onely had tni^golr, denpoe'freever on his to; ;gucs end, as the (Jaintieft dclicy nee could prefent unto gjIO:- ning care^but alfo had'it emblem'd fortfrby ^w^w^gjying breath unto the filver flule^ fby which' n intimated Philautia ) wKfh ..^ pecaufewHh&aftirigitrwcldherch«cwACbc Humrn, 3 caftawayifom her. Yea,he had his cclefti; E calo def. allfcntcnce, yya>%t aiauTot^ which defccn- ee»ditt dedfrom the heavens, engraven on the fron- J^1 (re'" tifpeece ofhishcart, evtimerc in an appli- ttarTCV« cative pra&fe, efpecially for himfclre : Iuvev* which, hce .tear med, Thf wife phyfitians medicinary prefcript forjjhe double health and welfare of m n. Ycrientemious Me~ Mwdin nander, that rich vcirid Poet, feemes .at 7^™.#'- leaftto contradict this heavenly fawe : for pondering, with himfelfethedepraved de- meanor ofw.orthy men, the trothlefie jn- cemftancy andjperfjdioufneffe of our haired brain'd lafops : the inveigling and ada- mantizing focicty of forne^ who being pol- luted and infccled with the ranke leprofie of ill j would intangle others: The vaporpuf ind Vatinian deadly hate,_^ which is ujfualjy rnafqned and lies lurking under the fpeciotjs and faire habit of entire amity •* weighing with himiilfe many thing* fa|nione4 cutoi" £hc fame mould, he thus fpoke, av x*X%^n My'%WToyv^aiai?h%$&yW%i?'fy afo'&s: Wee thinkes,faith hee, that-js not fo well j>9ken, Know thy felfe, as this, Know others. :.ti .. : x , ■ Howfocver ne mcanf^ we muft not ima- gmcthathecfidittoii^peachrany wife,* this 4 Humors. fage and grave fentence which ( as that alfb of his) is an oracle in its proper ctbjeft, and Phtoin At- highly concerns the good both of the a<5Uvd cibiad. and paflivc part of man. Though Socrates ui Plato would have it only to be referred un- to the r>ul,to have no relation at all unto the body, though falfely. For if the foule by reafon of fympathifmg with the body,is ei-' ther made an a>xwr«s Kxikivt, era $f*M- itHc, oiSiuVz, either a nimble fwift footed^ Achilles,or a limping flow-paced Oedipui't~ as hereafter we intend to declare,good rea- fon the body fas the edifice and hand-maid ofmefc*ilc) mould be knowne as a part of Teipfum,fotthe^oodof thefoule. There- fore Julian the Apoftata.who had a flood of invention, although that whole flood could* not warn or riaTe away that on fpotof his Atheifme,he( though not knowing him a*1 right) could fay the body was the chariot4 of the foule, which while itwas well man- nag'd by difcretion the cunning coachman,* the drawing deeds, that in oar head-ftrong and untamed apperices, beeing checktin by thegoldenbit of temperance', fo long the foulfhould not bee tofledin craggy wayc$, by unequall and tottering motion , much lelte be in danger to bee hurl d downc the Humors. j fl*epy hils of perdition. If we do but try the wordsat theLydianor touch-ftoneof true wifdom, which dijudicates not according to external fcmblances,but internal crdftenccs, they wilfure go for currant,whetheryou re- fpect the fonlc as principal), or the body as fecondary, Ftrthefirft, we may finglc out matfpeechof Agapus : But wee, Omenciimxx- (faithhc) let usdifciple our felves, that cach/apeti ad me may throughly know hirofeifc : for he iufti" imp. Jtiat perfectly lcn©wcshimfelf,knows God, atiftc Cie- andhethatknoweshimfliallbec made JikeJ^.^" untohim,andheethatisthis, mallbemade - l*'c'1 worthy ofhim : moreover, he that is made worthy ofhim . (hall do nothing unworthy Of God, 'AMcippofS/r T& fidp ivry, AetXav M &fforei,irQiuy it A x<*x«, but mail meditate upon things pleafant unto him, fpeakitlg what hemeditateth, and praftifing what he (pcaketh. For the laft, that oncly of TfUy, fa °fc.1* valetudo fuftentaturnoticiafiuicorp. &c, the perfect and found eftare of the body (as wee may conftantly afliver of the foule) is maintained by the knowledge of a mans owne body, and that chiefly by the ducobfervation of fiich things as may ei- ther bee obnoxious, or an adjument to nature, may bee cither the cordiall and precious 6 Humors. pretious1 balbni thcrof, or els its bale full a*d deadly Aconitum. For he that in the infan- cie of his knowledge thinks that Hyofciamus and £/V*r*,henilock and henbancare fit ali,| mentto his body.becaufe they be nutriment to birds, may haply at length cure the Dog* ftar of his own indifcrction,for inflaming bit lctfe diftemperd brain with his unhappy dif- aftrous influcnce»For it is vulgarly faid, than PJyofciumKs &. CtCMta homines perimunt, avibus alimemum pr&bcnt ; they tWOlre Seduxen, poifon to menitfjoU foufon to birds; as Sea* *4*. liger-relates alfa* * ... I grant that themod direct aim of wife^ dom in this N/offe. teipfum, looks chiefely on the mind,as thefaireft markjyet often eica 8c aimes at this other needfary ob;e&, which cunningly to his itxountcd equal sktl,th©ugh the one far furmount the othetittf pecial care is tobe" had as weli of the chriftali glaife, to Cave it from cracking,as of the aqua coel&fiit inroVdfrom putrifying. \ I ; C Btit.primarily it concerns the foule, as for them who are tainted with ihcPr.etophtftsl f&f (ove and love of glory jwhbbeing lififl^ up with the bandoffortuncto die top often taresprcheminence, as petty gods d©diroc% their imaginations farre beyond the levebai hnmi- TbeCIaJJeof 7 humility , being fwolne with tympaniztng pride too much; admiring thcmfclves with Narcijfus,who wasinamored with hisown beauty,of whom the poet thus fpcaks, Dnm^fitimfedarccupitfitit alteracrevit, o^ Whiles at the fountaine hee his thirft *gan ~. ft^ >\tAn Ocean of felfe-love did him ore- '' takf. Prcud tsfrachne, who wil needs contend with more cunning 'JhUncrva for fpinning, like Marfyas and Thamiras , who ilrovc the one with Apollo for mufickes skill, the other with the Mufcs for melodious (inging. Too common a ufc among al f elf- forgetter s; for as Julian faith, each man is wontto ad- mire his ownc actions, but to abate the value and derogate from the efteem of others.For thofe again who with Cjlaucus prefer %«X*. xfa^po(rff«f, the regard of the body, be- fore the welfare of the fupcr-elementary foul,which chiefly ftiould be in rcqueft: for as the Stoick faith, It is a figne of an abject Epiff.ca,6} minde to beate our braines about necefTaries for o«4 vile corps, a fpcciattcarc ihould ra- ther 8 Ike yictjjeof ther;bchad over the fo:ile, as miftris over her handmaid , thefe want that ywSt ere- tXWfOV. Now for the body,it ae well levels at it :; forthofewhodiftempcrand mifdiet them-; felves with untimely and unwonted furfeN ting, who make their bodies the noyfomei fepulchrCsofthcirfoules, not confidering the ftatc of their enfeebled body, what wiM be accordant to it, nor weighing their com-, plcxion, contrary perchance far to the Difli they feed upon : nor forefceing by true knowledge of themfelves, what will cn- dammagcand impaire their healths, infect the conduit pipes of their limpid fpiritsj what will dull and ftupific their quicker intelligence,nay,difableall the faculties both i of foule and body, as inftancc might bee gi- J venof many, to them that have had but a mcere glimpfe into the hiftories and anti^ cnt records of many difli mongers, win running into exceflc of ryot, have like fatall Mach.on. P areas cut intwo the lines of their own lives poDeip. tePhiloxenus the Dythirambick* Poet (of Mhtn, i. whom tAtheri&us fpcakcsj Deipnof.%.)whq devoured at Syracufaz whole Polypus of two cubits longiavconcly the head of the fiii, at one meaic> whom (being deadly fick ..:. of The Glaffe of 9 of the crudity )tbc phifitian told that he could • not poflibly live above (even hourcs: whofe wolvifh appetite notwithftaoding would notitintit felfe even in that extremity , but hee uttered thefe words (the more to inti- mate his vulture-like and mfatiate paunch) Since that Charon and eAiropos arc com*d to call me away from my delicics, Ithinkc it beft to leave nothing behind me, where- fore let me cat the r endue of the Polypus ; who having eaten it cxpir'd. Who had the mmc of 6*relatcs,which he fee in Egypt, fame of whofe tails weighed eighty pound, and fome an hundred and fifty pound, by w! lie ■ 1 weight their bodies were immovea- bk.unleffe their tailes like traines were car. ri?d in whecUbarrowcSi Or like the fatned Scd.tit.i99 hogs Sca/iger mentionsjhat could not move j rbrfat, and Were fo fenfclefte, that mycel made nefts in their buttockes they not once | feeling them. Butthofe which I whilome named, and millions befides, never eome*to the full pe* riod of their day es, dying foori,bccaufe 3$ Stnincont. Sen-eca faith, they know not that they live by deaths, and are ignorant whatreccit of food into thte body (whofe ednftitutitii theyatcas'ignot-antof t\fo) wiH bring cn- dammage- Humors] 1 t darnagemcnt bo;htoit and to the heavenly infufed foule. Forthebody,that y\ufoV7tif t\&iov r« Ay«v i3f#-8 »«&| record i» &c. when God doth water and drench tnera his •. book vvich an immoderate fhoure, they neither 7)e{K "r (h oot ou- nght,nor hardly have any blowne who?*' bioffomes, but when the earth doth drinke ' fo.nuch as is competent for their incrcafe,, then they fpring upright,and flourifhing do yeeld their fruit in their accuftomcd time : fofarcthit with the bodies, and by fequcll with the foulesof men,ifthcy pourc in with theundifcreet hand of appetite, they will bothreeleto and fro, and fcarfe can wee breath, atlcft we cannot utter the leaft thing thatrelifheth of wifcdome, our minds mult needs follow thetempers,or rather the dif- temperatures of our earthly bodies. P/ato , in whofe mouth the Bees as in their hives make their hony combs, as. fore- intimating his fweet flowing elocjuence, he weighing with himfelfe that thraldome the foule was in being in the body, andhow it wasaff.cted,and as it wereinfcctcdwith the contagion thereof, in his Phardrus, as 1 remember, difputingoTthe idaa's of the mind, faid, that our bodies were the prifow and Humors. t\ & bridcwels of our fouls, wherin they lay so lulUn In as manacled and fettered in gyves. Yea fur- a« Epifile to therhe could avouch in his Cratylus,and al- E1t^m^Jth fo in his Gorgias. Socrates having brought^^^ forth a fpeech to Cd^es, out of Euripides, o.^jt/0tTO; {#»§2? xaT9«y«», to xatT9ccveiif ef£ £>Jv, to live is MafX(pt to die, and to die is to live : he fayth there, &>c.gor- that our body is the very grave of the foule, iias. Xj to [At* (Tupa (faith he)£2rv »juS» bdnd ct,becaufe the learned fay, that it is thobeginning and ending of mans life:fot when wee begin to live, wee are faid to in- fpire,when we die ,to expire. As the priva- tionof the aire deprives vs of our being,and the aire being purged and clenfed from his peftilent qualities,caufeth our well-being; to C the 2 8 IheGlaffeof the infection of the aire, as in the cxtingui* (bingof fome blazing comet,the eructation of noyfome vapors from the bofomc of the earth, the difaftrous conftcilationorbad a- fpect of fome malevolent planeMhcdamp- ( ing fumes that the Sun elevates from bogges and fennifti grounds,the inflammation of the aire by the intenfe heat of the Sun (as when in Homers Iliad, Phoebus is feigned to fend forth his direful arrowes among the (jreci- they drew in the venomous ; noyfome aire,fel down dead. No doubt but the corrupted aire would have had his ope1 ration upon other more excellent creatures than were thole little birds, if they durft have attempted the entrance in- But to a queftion,Whatrca{bncan be alledgcd, that thofc Humors. ip thofc who dwell under the pole, neere the frozen Zone, and in the Scptentrionall cli- mate,fhould have fuch gyanrly bodies,&yct fuch dwarfifti wits,as many authors doe re- portofthem ? and we fee by experience in travcll, the rudencflc and fimplicity of the people that are feated far North, which no doubt is intimated by a vulgar fpecch,when we fay fuch a mart hath a borrell wit, as if We faidjboreale ingenium; wherof that old EngHfh Prophet of famous mcmory(whonj one fondly tearmed Albions ballad- maker, the cunnicatcher of time,and the fecond difti for fools to feed their fpleen upon)C?. Chau- cer took notice,when in his prologue to the Frankleins tale he fayes, But firs, becaufe Jama borrel man^ BonU tyit my beginning frit J you befeech, Have me excu'sdofmy rude fpeech. The philofophcrs to this queftioh have excogitated this anfwef; to wit, the excee- ding chilneflc of the aire y which doth pof- feffe the animall fpirits(thc chief attendants of the foule to execute the fnnclion of the agent undemanding) with contrary quali- ties, the firft being cold and dry, the laft hot Ca and jo The Glajfe of and moyft,though this rcafon moft availc for our purpofe, fpeaking how the mind can be affected with the aire, yet 1 muft needs fay 1 thinke they are befidc the cufhion: others affirm, and with more rcafon, that they are dul witted,efpecially by the vehement heate which is included in their bodies, which doth inflame their fpirits,thickcn their bloud,and thereby is a caufe of a new grofle,more than airy fubftance,conjoyned with the fpirits: for extreame heat doth generate a groflca- duft choler,which comes to be mixt with the bloud in the veines, and that it brings a con- denfation and a coagulation to the bloud. For their extraordinary heat, it is apparent by their fpeedy concoction and by the exter- nall frigidity of the aire, that dams up the pores of the body fo greatly, that hardly any heat can evaporate. Thisaifo,by deep wels, I which in winter time be lukc-warm, and in fummer feafon exceeding cold. Now to prove,that where the bloud is thickncd,and ; the fpirits inflamed , there ufually is a want of wit,thc great Peripatec'tan himfelfe af- firmethittobeatruthjwherehe fayth that Bulls, and fuch creatures as have this humor thjck,are commonly devoidof wit.yct have great ftrengthjand fuch living things as have attc- Humm. 31 attenuated bloud and very fluid, doe cxell in wit and policie.as inftance is given in Ari~ ftotle of Bees. We muft note here,that this is fpoken ot the remoter parts ,neer unto the pole , left we derogate any thing from the praifc of this our happy Iflandfanother blif- full Eden for pleafure ) all which by a true division oftheclimes,isfcituatedinthe Sep- tentrional part of the world, wherein there arcand ever have bin as pregnant wirs, as furpafting politicians.as judicious underftan- dings, as any clime ever yet afforded under the cope of heaven. But I do here paflfe the limits oflaconifm, wheras I mould in wifdome imitate the E- gy ptian dogs in this whole tractate, who do drink at the river NUhs Kct/p*dAfycas x* xXo- 5ripa>$, in haft and by ftealth, left the Croco- dile mould prey on them, and who doth fit- ly carry the name and conditions of the cro- codilc,no writer is ignorant of. I will end end therfore with the iteration of the thefts, that the foul follows the temper of the bo- dy ,and that while it is inherent in the body, it can never partake fo pure a light of under- ftanding, as when it is fegregatedand made a free denizen in the heavenly city and free- hold of the faints. C 9 (ferpo* ?i The giaffeof Corporis in gremio dumpiritus,&c, fThen our imprifon'd foule once more beeing ■fre*i Cms fcale the turret ofeternttic, From -whence it once was brought,& captive ■ tane JSy this ufurping tyrant corps far bane, Which fubjugates her unto fottifh will, %^ndfchooU her underpaffions want ofskil % ThenJhaH our foule, now choakt with finny care, With Angels ftolickjn a purer aire: This low NADIR of darkpes muft it fiend, Till it aloft to tb radiant ZENITH #««f ■ioi-v. •:, ,\ ■uv '><* ■'■■ >: Cap, Humors. }J CAP. ill. Whether the intertiaU faculty may be kpowne by the externa//phyfiognomy. SOcrates, that was tearmed the Ath nian Eaglcjbccaufe h -. could looke fteadfaft- ly upon the Sunn , or thf rather for his quicke infight of undemanding , when a cerraine youth beeing highly commended unto him for his rare patts , and admirable endowments*, though he had the piercing i yes of lynceus, and could have more than conjectured his qualities, beeing presented unto him, hee did not looke untoliis out- ward feature and exrernall hew, fo de- murring to have rendered his approbation ofhim , but he accofted him with thefe Words, Loquere puer,ut te videam,\e^S hear thee reafon, youth, that I may fee what sin thee: (to which Lipfius eluding in a certaine Epiftle of his, viderc & non e~ loqui,non videre eft; to fee one and not con- ferrewitbhim,isnottofee.> Socrates in- finuated thus much unto us , that a man may be a Nirem in outward femblance, 7 ' C4 and 34 the giaffeof and yet a Therfites in his inward eftence,like the Emperours table, whofecurtaine was drawn over with Lions & Egles, but on the table were pourtraied Apes,owls & wrens. Or like the golden box that kept 2S[eroes ,■ beard, perchance the eye of his underftan- Pctrrmer,& con- ceived the later. But v as not cunning Zo' phyrus judgemen alfo tainted concerning Socrates himfelfe? who feeing his deformed countenance • called him an ideotand a diz- zard, and an effeminate perfon ; and was + laught to fcorn of tilem that flood by for his pains:but So-rates faid,l augh not>Zophyrus is not in a wrong box, for luch a natural was I framed by nature, though I have by the ftudy of wifiome and philof ;>phy corrected that which was defective in nature. 7 he philofopher faith, Vultus eft tn^tx ammt, the eye- is the ofement of the f ule, through Which we may plainely fee it, better than Antifthenet Humors. ?J tAntifthenes his pride through rhe chinks of hiscloake. Butourufuallfayingis, thatthc tongue is thchc-rauld of the mindthetouch- ftoneof the heart, could a man difcern wife VlyffesonXy by his countenance:Hear what Homer [ayes of him, // 3. — *AU' ore 'Oux&t faaT'Oiuosii y tyi m (3porcs £Mo$» When that difcreet Vlyffes up did (land, tAndfwaydthe golden fcepter tn his hand, Immovable both he and it were found, fixing a bafbjullvifage on the ground: Aioft like an Ideot rofe heftohUftool, (fool; Thou might jJ-have deemed utm angry, or a But when hee Jpoke, his plenteous, words did flow Like to thick,fa/ling flakes of winter fuew. Ne any couth his wits fo hig hly firainf y€j -wife Viyffes in his flowing vain. Which 36 Tk Giaffi of Which alfo Tryphiodorus the Egyptian] Poet that writ of the facking of Troy, fcts, down elegantly to the fame effect of Vlyf- i -----'oSvo3M7i*fi<;*.ro?±£fi$AQM tSgy'ti 'Av Jf U Gnyiitoo. ujtixfoi Hxt*ji f »*» " 4» P«er. TIpSTa ofy/ Mx« xewffoyi «*«$>* goix Qon^ Parrcn.-a putrifiednutmeg gilded over: Dio- filiar-p. \ o i medes his brazen armor ihine like gold: <^£- fops larva (O quale caput,& cerebrum mn habet) a rare head, but no brains : Many a gaudy out(ide,and a baudy deformed infide; i'wooden leg in a filken Mocking : fo a faire and 38 TheGlaffeof andbeautifullcorps,buta foule ugly mind Wc fee a beautiful Paris, of whom Colu. this the Thcban fayes,when HeUena carries him to her chamber, nop?

-hyu*cke there is a time with diet for preparation, a time for operation, another for evacuation, and a time for reftauration : thefe cannotpn a fud- den be all per formed without>gru?ac hazaid of the patients life, and the agents credit But as it is a point of wifedome not to ap- prove of fome, fo it is a fondling* paft to difaUow all ;jchiefcly fo to Hand in fcarc of all,as be did in Agrtppa, who never faw the diyfitianbut he purged : and it is mcera folly at an exigent, either not to crave the helpe ofthe Artift, or not to ufc a phyficall diet, if it he prclribcd by wifedome ; wee muft not imagine that any man in an c%trc« mity,if ne live medic*, that hee lives mifere* ForPhyficke m time of need, and a gal- dendict, is the only means under heaven to prolong the dayes of man Which othcrwifc would mnm. 45 Would be abbreviated: I do hot $cake a* gainft the divine limitatfbn. Wbat faith the Khooieofdiet. tone guU met as i utfit tibi iongiorktai, EJfe cupis Janus ffit nbiparca manus-. Let meager appetite be reafou's page, Let hunger *8 on diets golden ft age: Let ftarmg bits go dorr ne With merriment; Long Jive thou theu in th' Eden 6f content. Thus the veffes are to bee Undefftoed^ though the covetous Incubos ofthe world Who live like Tantalus,inter nndns fiticuie- ^ have appropriated the fenfe to their owri fcfe,aftera jetting manner; faying it fhould )Botbc^*/«,but#»«r«jrefcrriDgalib/4rr* ma- HUstdavaritiu; Pone aurd met at utfit, &C; He alhfibn to Martial j With iron lafies fconrge thi raddt.jr void, »here *« .. TheM„ftrrcv>vesWbLgo!dr ^^ And wtit thou live in health & mery eheure^fi^gUis. Then live in wealthy and give not a deneere. oper. So they will undcrftand p*rcamanw% Dj &ut 4* The Gidfji of but this by the Way* Temperance and a dyctmouldbee ufe*in all things, left that wee leaving the golden mcane , and withr corrupted judgements embracing the lea- den, cxtrcamitic (kiffingwidi JxionzQifr dow for die fubftance, a mecre cloud for Juno) fwimmingasitwcrc with the eddy and current of our bafe humours, wee doe pcrifli on the fcaof volupmcHjfnefle, long beiore wee come to our wifhed port. But Julian the Apoftata fayes in bis Mifop^ tio- ^ctcrttf pocrwiyj dx&©jLUV uovoy,tfyn cit% if utfyj, Tl3r6r*il?j»5C6t/qai». We all arc fuch Dul- lards , that we onely heareof the name of temperance, but what value ft is of, what happy effect it hath,wc are altogether igno* rant,at lead: we ne v cr ufc it. W e be like it) rhe Athenians, of whom asfnaximaudet fayd, that they had good lawtrs,but ufed ill j we ncurifhferpcntsinourownbofom, out vi'e affections, following rheir fwinge fb long, till they King us to death. A diet confifts properly in a temperate nfe of meats and drinker, fecondarily of ftr«pc, Venus, vcfture* mkth, andcxer- rife. Eirft wee muft obferve a dice in out feeding, to cat no more than will fuffice nature, though at one time mote than ano- *hcr< Humors. a\7 rher, as the proverbe runncs t A little in the morning is enough, enough ae dinner is but little , a little at night is too much : we muft not at any time' or occafion cram our mawes with Perfian delkates, and glut ourfelycs iike Epicures with delicious vi* ands: not eate Ifye the t^grigentines , of .whom Plato (ayes, of A'xf Ay&rmt bticaSo- fc£r«i tfyu be, <&* £WcJMfvo(, t*?n§*i &\&e,&w MAnty/jutc i So iAElia* alfo teftifics ofchemt Agrigent'miadificauteuidtm eyuafi fempor piituri, convivantur quafifemper merituriz Aey build as if they might ever live, and banquet as if they were always about to die. We muft call to mind.£pi8e*us his frying, timo) rJ o3jues wecmuft ofe fuch things as iervc our bodies, unto the ufe of our foule*, as meat, drinke, array,and the like • not to fetjsfie our beaftly appetite. Herein ia our defaultin this,when wc make out'Jtf i,?o- fethat is, our dym our furfet, as wee kc of fome before. For dtkikes, wc muft not like bouzers caroufc boulc after boule to Bacchus his dicty, like the Greci- ans,nor ufe faallcrcupsin Aefc^tofiing of out*aiKruet,inorc large and eap«ciOusb«i!s at the later end : we muft not like Lapithes Irinkc out fcfrcs horne-madde : wet ftfull D 3 net 4B The GUffi of not fo highly account wine as Brito did^ who made bis ftomackc the caske or wine? ifp.Vu.hcm, vc0cj 0fwhom Vulteius thus fpeaks : vnbuihen- Wy' Brito tam-pretiofa vina credit, Yt ventremfaciat eaduw amphoramaue. So the Comedy, £*afi tu fagenam dicas, ubi vinumfolet effe. C hum. P attorn tu calls the old wife a flagon or ftonc bottle for Atr^j. aft. wine. Wc wil, having Co good an occafion X ^Poetfaithf , ?t* B9& O LWfutJam, haj* giyen ftron| -e=. wine Humors. 49 Wines unto mortall men to difpell cloudy cares. Henry Stephane in the imitation of thatoldvcrfcin the Poet,thnsfpeaks: NuUafalus lymphls,vinu tepofcm*" omnes. Hen. Stepbk in parodijs A fig for Thalcs watery element, *UVi hyxaswinewe crave,w\ts adyum:nt% And for wine, efpccially for larger ciem.pt- draughts,C/f«r^K/(aycsa yongman in the dag.cap,%. hot meridian of his age ought to bee abflc- miousrand he wils fuch a one to dine fbmc- times with only dry things,and no moifture, much lefle diftcmperatly hot, that fothefu- pcrfluous humidity of hisftomack may bee vacuatcd. He (he wes alfo that it is better (if a man do drink)to take wine at fupper^han at dinner, yet a little modicum 'a^&fi i^J vbfit*', xfarifW, non adcontnme/ia crater as. And for old men they may ufc it more la- vifljly. by rcafon of their difcreet reafon and age, wherewith as he fpcakes.with a double anchorcaft into the quiet haven, they can more cafily abide the brunt of the tempeft ofdefircs, which is raifed by the floods of their ebriety. xOf all complexions, the mean of wnie D 4 i* )9 TheGltffiof U ioveraigne f©*t^ephlcgmatick,and Uf# the mcjancjjolicke.- for the otfcccrwo hot? ter, it iittje rather fcryes fox inflammation. than confervation, inboththefirft ithelpes CQacoilioiU, infufes a liycjy.heate into tfre bcnummed faculties, chceres up the dul and .drowpipg fpirits, puts tp iljght the fabje night of foiKlphantfss^puf^es out the fecty lent lees of melancholy, rehnes and purifies tja,e inward part^opens tfee ,Qbuxu£ttqns pf jhc ve)nes,like 4fcda4's-AtU%i, makes 005 yong aga4ne, it will make of ^puling Herat dittos , a laughing Democruus, anditwi|J Ipa^e of Q emocptus an Hfiraclttus. „ On weeping HaiclilCythwe'r doft fiow*f9 ?, flooufaiftthy paterrit laughing pemocrifej ,, fut whUe tlaou laugh ft the t earsfal trickjusg ?, Ttodrt thekhofd** unto tjeraclite (dow% „ Cod §a$chu$ fayes,tears he hathlcnf tp t\ye% , More tofet out thy mirth and jollity. fapsver, jpTwh fcc faytb Xeuephon(\\\ the place ber jcu,mm- f^e mentioned) Wine lulfs aflcepe thf S^r«. Wde«ofu?eu,andJikec^4*^er^ mi- Vocant. ^-W^fojrQwanrf*)gpiflif an4calmcs the rift, defomn. rougheft temped of whatfocver mote ve* &™iilWrbmv® iwijwfay , foyrge^b in *ny 1 ma,n$ Humors. 51 yuan, making him voyd pf all perturbati- |p,as Creta is free frominfecting uoyfon, tt# likethe Ifdfis Alcby*iichu*9thc Pbbf probers ftpnc, which jean convert a lea* (feu pafljow v$o any golden fwect content; whjchpaffton gocth chje/My handinhand JtUth inclauchpTy, they beeing cooabincd a*4 linckt tegetber like the ff never but ty violence ^ete 4if-/oyi|gd the one from the other; Wine js diyctfly tearrocd pf the Poets, The yikf pure mppocrcueV the very Heli* ttnjan ftrcanac> or Mufes fount, wherein (bey bathe their ^eautious liromci, as in taetranfparentand limpid dreames of Pa* Caiifc, or the Galaxie ot milky way itfelf, fiflberaceleftiall fwiromers • It is an ejfc. %iftc4Mfix4r,2 Balfawc*^^uuiteffeuce> the Res foils to recall the dujlcr fpiriu tjfW .arofallen as it were into a fwoune. Jnvenr tion and fmpoffc utterance doe follow Batr *kut, as the J^eliotropium, or (Jattka is W£O0? to wove with the Sppne : for if ff$wfr bepjanaclcd in the brainc, as pent pM4 her fpeech fecming as #ajd to encounter with the hearer* flNKfbfBfc** WJW -^iJji make the ©ih? 5i The g/affi of as nimble footed as Heraclttm was , wh* could runne upon the toppcs of cares of come without bending their blades : and the other as fwift as winged Pegafssty words flowing with (b extemporary a ftreame?that they will even aftond the hea- rer. Wlrieisanother Mercuries Caduccu*, tocaufc a i weet confent and harmony in the actions ofthe foule, if it chance there bee a mutiny,tQcharmc (beeing oFthe nature of the Torpedo)2u\d caft all moleftation and dtf- union intoa dead fleepe-.as: the Fife is wont 'tor Afrip rophyfickc the vipers ftingjor as Orpheus his hyrnne did once allay the Argonauticks ftorme. It is called of the Hebrewes, ln Jaiin, fayes. one, »*»,therighrhand ofthe minde, becaufe it! makes any conceit dextericall, one of the two things for which a pregnant Poet fas irnagineoF Homer, 7{afo% or any other^o* Arid.Rar* fpcc;atly is tobc admiredjas AriflopbSztik% oQ^.C* *. wnobrings in ^Efihilus asking oiEurtpH des, why a Poet ought to be had in fo higfc efteeme?Wrtoanfwered,----A«f«ww ftt>u%]*.Y rtfivttets, t ThatWortosdeite* ritie of wit, and his taxing and difciplinirtf ihewoiid w«fchis all-daring ftryricall pern Humors. Jj * makeshift! rigbtcloquent, and fpeak with ihvely grace 5 0 an ah turn debts dulcifacundia Baecho ? Fred. Mill* IffevelepotoNeUare N eft or ero. *****> How much to wit dot hDUhyrambus owe, Since after vine the ebbing*ft me doth flow t It makes a Poet have ahigh (traine of in- vention in his works, farre beyond the iqlgar veine of *Aaua potores, water dran- MrUp.li. tt ker5.ThisinTeftcd//o»^rwitha ----Jam- ' iibusarguitnr, &c. The Mufesare eom- [ mended for a -----■ vina oluerunt, &c+ fato had his -— Sape mero incaluit vhr- | w, This made the Caftaliaraft or Poet tfC'r-lJ*. yore,tobe eftcemed and tearmed the —A Jj "?•«« per fc A of allArti(b,the/*i»ww* total* •f^i/r/oo^ wit: thefecorjddiftj,thcmarmalad andfuc- *£*?* | kct of the Mufes : the gods Nepenthe ©f $>/*»*. afoulehalfe dead with meianchoiy : the i -leaven mouth'd &Vm , or feven flowing | furipusjof faculric >. the load-floneotTivc- | )y conceit: the paragon darling, and one eye of Minerva, as Lapfius termes htm. Yet moderation isprefuppofed, tor there is no Aug» whofe eminence may not have an 54 Tfe QUfli 0/ saconvenjence, as the Urn hath a quicke eye, butadull memory , fathe Polypus « fuavisadguftum, but difficilis adfomnum: and much more in things is their mconvenb* ence, whofe emineiKC is made inconve- nience .• fo,much wine ravifheth the raft, butbewttchoth and ftupificihallthe other renfcs,andthcfoule it fcUe. Take it Ip* ringly,anditraptsone up into an Elyfium of ihriner contemplation, not inthralting the miiidc (as exceffe is wont) but endem* zing it into an happy freedome and ample liberty. -••- An Apoftroph.tothc Poctwanflaterf. V. . v.i the sjusneb thy thirft in $'** HektouiuffriSf^ Vu'oofe the fetters of thy prtfouedbrajne >. \ To let invention taper once aloft; v; Jnalevolto* imitation, i«..':. q With Sxiofaftmmbte genius, Meyomi a vulgar txpetlatsom.: STben utcunt to th kigbeftnegsen of conoeii* Andthere* appeare t+th\ gaseamg multitude, A fiery meteon^QP a hlazStgfkarva, ^ ^tchhapMAfcaMfcapenuryafimt, 1 Tckthafotkarhapiily do earn* - Ntthing elaborates our comeftion most * than Humsru 55 (fan fleep*.c*creife,antf winery the Phi lo- oters* but the wine muft ba generojum^ not vappa , it muft not have loft his head. C Color, «o Three thhlg9note in the % Odor*, & g»dhetfeo£wihe: e> frpe^ $ Si hac triahabeat turn ^JCos~\dicitur, ex Heidelfel* pHerttm Uteris harum pracesknttum vo^dwinhis ' cum; Then is it pure, and th* whetftonc offfifP13** ! a maos wit, when it hath a irem colour, a ]^\^r ■ sweet fuming odour, and a goodrelifhing q^ mpfd tafte* Thatthe*e^sagrcatheipinitagainftctf/ijc. xou' melancholy, it may appear by Zetto the crab «M«w4 fcced StoickjWho was &Pir+ hcr(ieep,havingflcpt a whole,winter. We tempore, fu fnu^ not ^ce? ^iQ Solomons foole, who wil out m nil ne vet have enough till bccometobis.totiy nififomnut deep. Rather muft wee take the Delphmat rit- to be our p^tterne, who doth in fleepingafc watyes move from the upper brim me of the waters .to the bottom. # Like the Lion^which alwayes moves his taile in fleeping. An fto- tle,^ y^tr/>«amVmcs,«sothers,'both Alex* an Jet the great, and alfo fultan the Apofti* ta, were wonttoflecp with a brafen Ball in their fiftsjthcrr aims ftrctchtoutof bed,. un- der which there wa* placed a brafen Vefr fell, to the end that when through drowli* ncs they Ugvuo faU afle ep the ball of braflif falling oat of their hands on t"hc fame met': Humeri* ft blithe noife might kecpe them from fleepe immodcratly taken: which men of renown and fame do fo greatly dereft, as being an ut- ter enemy to all good exploits, and to the foule it felfei The Poet JulJStaliger thus fpeakes of fleepe in the difpraifc of it: Promptas hebetatjomuiculofa vita mentes, Jul.Sal J t fdvutu ftptitt uam% hominem hac mortis E^dorpidu4 . Sleep duls the (hatpeft conceit,this image of death buries a man quick.How wc ought to demean our felves for fleepe * w hat beds aremoftrit torepofe our limbs upon, what quantity of repaft we muft receive, as alfo the inconvenience that redounds unto out bodies by immodcrat ficcp t excellent is that chapter of(Xemeusjm-thc i ofhisPedagog. Eirlt, he zdvibtbustofhunitrfySur* ^ £(tm-,2,p€- AttKCT^a*, beds ibfter than flecp it fcJ£ aifir- dSj^ap.^. ming that it 11 dangerous and hurtful to lie on beds of Down, our bodies for the fortnes thereof xaflaT* p ki to Ax«fij *.oa, buti a remiflion, and as hee faith; -—* **W«■" x&i«irsv«5eta rky, we mtlftfo fleepe, that wo • may eafily be awaked: which may cafily bd effected, if we doe not overhallffc our fto-ji macks with fuperfluity, and too delicious Viands. ' •- The manner alio of fleepe muft bee duel^ regarded, to fleepe rather open raouth'd than fhut, which is a great help againft inter- nal!; obftructions ,-Wnich morcchfweetcn- eththebfcathjVecrcatethdie fpirits, com- forted! the brainc, and more cooleth thV Vehement heate of ohe he^rt. Sleeping on oLir&atke' is vefy: datigerous and unwhofc* fane,- as all L'hytitians afftrmc, becaufe 9btgcttcth a tbpetaboundance of bad hu* mows, generates the ftone, isthecaufcof? atathaigie in the back© past of the bead* proBunethtAKTuttmrigof the reraes f efpeci< aWywf a mah lie hot, as upon feather* whfth greatly trnpaires mansftrctigth, and affects him witfcra virions* kindc of foakiog heare ; it is alfo the meaws to bring the Ofthtt- SpMaltes, which the vulgar fort tcatme the mil ^^fe-^arc,ctHkig c4fe but adiftnfe procee* dingf Humors.' }p Sing of grofle phlegme in the orifice of the ftomacke , by long furfet* which fends up cold vapours to the hinder eels of the moyftned braine , and thereby his groffc- nefle hinders thepaflageof the fpirits de- scending, which alfo caiifes him that is af- fected* to imagine.hee fees fomething op- preflc him and he heavily Upon him, when indeed the fault is in his braine, in the hin- der part onely, for if it were and bad pof- feffion ofthe middle part, the fancie fhould be hindrcd from imagining : which alio fecmes to be tainted with dark fome fumes* becaufe it formes and fcigncs to it fclfe divers virions of things which have no cxi- ftenee in verity, yet it is altogether obfeu- fed : and it may bee proved fpccially to lodge in that part, I meane in the head, becaufe of the want of motion in that part chiefcly. thisdifcafc never takes any but while they lie upon their backes. 1 here is another diet for Venus, wee muft not tpend our fclvesuppli Common Curtczans: Wc muft not be like Sparrowcs,whichas the Philofopher fayes, goe to it eight times in anhourc ; nor hke Pigeons, whkhtwain are feigned of the Poets to draw the Chariot of Cj/ktraa, fa their fidacitic j B but 66 The Glaffe of But rather like the fJock-dove/who is caUc$ palttm^es,quondam parcitlumbu 5 as contfa- ri\Qi(tc3lumbat& follow1 i\vcr. Mix, Xeuocrates cxamplc,whoas Frid.Millcmn. S?//c« f"- nits rcports,was caufed tolic with a curtefan ;; all night for the triall of hr$ chaftity: whom die curtefansmrmedin the morning,****** konunem fed.mftip'item frop'e dormtfle , not ro have laydby h:r as a man, but as a frocks Foroiir e^ercife,wherein adietalfois to be refpected, it muft neither bee too vehc- ment,nor too 'remi(k,adruborem,nou ad/us (iovfm, rohcat, nUfwcat. 'There be two orher^thc one of nutrjmentjthc other of at- ryfe, which are In phy ftckc to bee had in ac- count, whidh for brevity I pafle over , mat- /em aiim&shc faith,/« nimtmo peccare,auhk non peccarc■in maxlmo. But note hereithat the Hrft diet is wot onely in avoiding fuper- nuity of meatttand furfet of-drinkes,but alfo in efchcwihs* fuchas arc moft obnoxious^and lea ft agreed'e wirh our happy remperate ftatc: asfcVa^dioleriek mans© abflain" frOffi aft falt,fcoVcrred dry mcats,from muftard^nd fuch Hkethi^f, as wil aggravate his malig- naftclui'uour.afl htxdrrriKs'aud criflarrtirig " wines 2 tJumori. &i Wines: for a fanguine.ro refraine from all" wines, becaufe'rhey ifigenc?er fuperfluous f)Ioud,whicb, without evacuation wil breed "tither the frcnfie,the hemoroids,j^*^"»/ flexion to obferve a diet, that thereby the 'foule, thisheavenly created form'e,feeing ic "hath a fympsthy withthebody .may execute ^functionsfreely,being notmoleficd by thisterreftrfall mafle, wnkh ctherwifc will be a biirthcn ready to flipprcffe the foule. . - r -xl:- , ; r.; " E'i Chap. li'--'.. ■ '.;'■■ '. _ j.Ui jifl ». 6i The Glajfe of CAP. V. Horn man derogates from his exccUencie by furfet,and of his untimely death. AS Natures workemanfhip is not little in the greateft, fo it may bee great in the leaft things: there is not the ab/ecteft nor fmalleft creature under the-firmament, but would aftonifli and amaze the beholder, ifhceduelyconfidcr in it the divine finger of the univcrfall Creator: admirable aretbe! workes of art even in IclTcr things, Qtytf ds> atiy® no)hif there benotafymmetry and Juftmeafure ofthe one with rhe other, they will in a fhort time tbeone of them deftroy the other. For if the beat be too yehemenMnd the oiletoo link, tbelaterisfpccdily exhaufted-anci if the ojle be too-abouodant and the heate too remiflc, ftefireis quickly fuffbeated, Even fo it fares with thefe two in the body of man : man nau'tftriveagainft his appetite with rcafon, to ftun fuch things as do not Hand with rea- son j whatfocver will not karpc thefe injtiieif equality of domtaionmuftbe avoi- ded unlefle we wil bafely fub, eft an- felves to'foncfdefire, which is (as wee fay,} eyep with childe. To what end is reafon place d in the head-as in her tower, but diat fhc may frie over phearfections, which are fituated far under her : like ^£olus, whom Virgil feineth to fit in a high turret, holding the* fccpter, and appcafing the tutbuknt winds, wjucharc fub;ect uatohim.Thu« Mora dc- fcriEesJhim: rj i) loi, T" "••* celjafcdctj^olifyarffe. 66 The Gkfft of Sceptra tenens^moBitfy animos, dr temperit trot, Wc muft cfpecialty bridle our untamed ippetite in all luxury and furfet, which will fuddenly extinguifh our natural I flame, and fuck up the native oile of our lively lampe ere wee be aware, and die long before the pompleat age of man, as many moft excel- lent men wc read of .have brought a violent death uppn themfelves,long before the leaf of their life was e^pircdithougn not by that means: for death is of two forts,eithcr nata- rall or violent.VjoIent,as when by furfct,by mif-diet, by fword by any fudden accident,a man either dies by his own hand,or by the hand of another. This is that death Whereof fiomcr (^eaks; tfkt Si noffvow 3xvaro? x? [xrifA xpiTotfM. Cef'tt illu purpurea mors &violcntaparC*. tte died fuddenly by one forcible ftroke : fo purple death is to be undel-ftood, of Pur. purea or Mure*,thc purplGfi(h,whoyeelds her purple-dying humour, beeing but one* ftruckcas they that be learned know,f or this accidcntirydeatrlinftance Jnightbeglvcnof WW. yfui' Humors. 67 'jtnacree* died, beeing choaked with the kernell of a Rayfin : Smpedocles threw himfelfe into ^£t»a*s flakes, to ctemife bis mcftiortr. Euripides was devoured by Thractau Curres. ^Efchilus was kild witn a Tortoife (hell, or as fome write, with a peske that fell upon his head while hee was writing. Anaximander was famiftied to death by the Athenians. Jleraditm died of a dropfie, being wrapt in oxen dung before the Sun. Diogenes died by eating raw Po- lypus. Lucretia fheathed her knife in her ownebowets, torcnowric hcrchaftity. Re- gutus that worthy Roman mirronr, rather than he would ranfomehis own life by the death of many, fuftered himfelfe toberould todeathinahogfhead ful'ofiharpc nailes. Menander drownd intbePyra?an haven, as OvidinhisJbu witnefleth. Socrates was poyfoncd with chill Cicuta. Homer ftarved himfel f, for anger that he could not expound the riddle which the fifhers did propound unto him: when ne demanded what they had got,they anfwered, fpiw we have take* fre hdvt left behiud, What* ___________________________ 68 Tfogiaffeof What's not taken,about us thou may ft finds, Mupolis the Poet was drown'd,&c. Foij a naturali death, every man knowes , it is when by the courfe of nature a man is cora^ to the full period of his age fo that with al-* moft a miracle, a man can poflibly live no longer: as allthofe Dccrcpits.who™ Plaum tus ci\hfilicei»ij, capularifiptne* Acherun* **V/,all old men, that dying arc likened tQ appies, that beeing mellow, of their owne. accor/d fall from the trees. Such a one,as Nw ma Pomp'Uius was,theprcdcccfloro£Tu4-) 7)i&K}f.n<*- lus Boslilius in the kingdome,whom Dia- Ucarn.iib z>xyfiuf Halicarnaffi&tu highly praifed for his, anuq. Ko' vcrcUcSjat length comming to fpeake of his 'sTUbraoa. death, fays: but firit,hc lived long with per- exp.ravit f^ct (enfi^nevcrunfortunatCjanc} heeendejt m wine his dayes with an cafie deathtbcing withe-, bowjtTno red away with age : which end happened^ x kAnd v. mtts itp his oily crudities. Hence is%t thefolemn dolefuS cornet calls, "•''* . •'• * vrt.-V." l' [fiat j6 The Glaffi of CAP. VI. -Of Temperaments. WEE muft know thatall naturall bo- dies have their competition ofthe mixture of the Elements, fire, aire, wa- ter , earth : now they are either equally pois'd according to their weight, in their combination, as juftfo much of one element as there is of another, throughout the qua- ternio or whole number : as imagine a du# t>Ium,quadruplum,or decuplum of earth, fo: much juft of fire, as much of aire, and the like quantity of water, and no more, then they betruely ballancedonc againft another in our understanding : when there are as many degrees of heatc as of cold, of dri» nefle as of moifturcor they bee diftempe? rateorunequall, yet mcafured by worthi- neffe, where one hath dominion over ano- ther ? as in bcafts that live upon the center, earth and water do dominecre : in fowles commonly aire and fire are predominant : Or thus, where the true qualities arc inhe- rent and rightly given unto their proper fubje&i Humors] 77 (objects .* as in the heart Well tempered' heate confifts ; moifturc rules in thebrains tavinghistrue temper, cold in the fattc> drinefle in the bones. The firft is tearmed Eixpetaia or Temper amentum ad pondus, which is found in none, though they have lever fo excellent and furpafling a tempera- ture ; only imaginary, yet in fome fort held tobeextantby Femelius, The other is cal- led Temper amentum adjuftttiam^hich di* ftributes every thing to it own, according to the equity of parts. Ofthe predominion of any element,or rather the qualities ofthe c- lenient, the complexion hath his peculiar denomination •* as if the element of fire be chiefctaine, the body is fayd tobc choie- rkke: if aire bearc rule* to be {anguine : if water be in his vigour, the body is fayd to be phlegmatickc : if earth have his domini- on, to bee melancholicke. Forcholeria hot and dry, bloud hot andmoift • water cold ancU^ftkearth cold and dry. Thefe &ur corn pc compared to the foqt dements^HH Bo the four pkuietsrAf«r* fupiter, Saturn,Tkma, : then to the foure frinds;thento the four feafonsof theyeares fiftly unto the 12 Zodiacall fignes, in them Surctriplicirie$ : iaftly tothefbure Age* E %■ •" of 73 TheGhffeof of man: all which are deciphered and Unit \ medoutin their proper orbs. ', «• But to4*quare my words according to the ' vulgar eye, there be nine temperatures are ■ blazond out among the phy fitians: 4 fimpjef . according to the foure firft qualities, heate, , drinelTejmoifture, coldnefle:the other fou?# • be compound, as hot and dry,hot and moift, cold and moid -&c. the contrarieties bee in * nobody according to their eminencie and Valour, but only'e »mparatively: as hot and cold is agreeable to no nature, according-toL, their- predominancies,dry and raoift compe- '* cent to none , not in the height of their dt*[ grces: for as mpoliticall affaires, one king-1] dome or feat cannot brooketwo Monarch* or compeersvas Lucan faith , Omni fa pobii% ftas Impatiens tionfortis er t,&c. : '*" -No potentate admits an cq lall: yea tho-.' *ow civil garbcik and mutinies, their eager" ^onteiition'ruinates, and often diftolvcs the' $ncws of the com inonwgdeOSo happens; ftintheriaturallbody, wnefcjjie qualities ate equalizMin ftrengtb, there muft ncel*1 beactioriand re-action, a bufthng & ftruf^1 ling together fo }ong,til there be a corqudll' ofthe one,which no doubt wirfoon dil&W the parts,and rend afundcr the whole cof&: pound* Humors, 79 found r yet thefe twainc may. (I mean rki- neffe and moifture, or cold and'hotj^ssc pctentto the fame fubjcct,. by comparing •Item with others in other fubjccts : as man is both hot and cold ^ hot in regard of fuch bodies as are of a cold conftitution, as in re- jnrd ofthe female fex,which abounds wn^i moi lure. Hot in compare with an A-fle, Which is reported among the Philofophers to be of an exceeding cold conffitution : which may evidently appeare by his Qdltte pace, by mooes made of hi. skin , by that chill water of the ArcaShau Nojiaexa, which for the ex.reame coldnciTe cannot be contained in any veflcii fa*ct»?e hoofc <£ *n Afle. Man is hot, in comparing him with the Salamanderf the Torfteito, andthe iPirauta, Gold in refpect of the Lion, the Struthio'CamUGt Ofiridge,Vi)hitk\ will con- led iron, or Leather, the Sparrow-Cod®, Pigeon,and t>og andtheffcarCTathcrtofcc termeddifternper amems. The ninth and laft is called Temper*- Centum adpond'H,of whkhwfc fpake erft, not in any but onely in conceit. But how every temperature is good or bad,andhow heir mixtures implye an excellent and taltkfullora difeafedeftate : as if in mans F 3 body 80 . Ibe Glajje of body the chicfc valour of fire concurre with the tenuity of water : or the grofleft fulj- ftance of water with the pureft tenuity of fire be conjoined; or the ftrength and quint-" eftenceof fire, with the thickeft part of hu- mour ruling in one; or the pureft and rareft parts of fire, 'with the thirmeft and cleareft j fubftancc of water : what temperature all thefe import, looke Hippoc.in his booke de* villus ratione, lib. I. fe#.4. A temper alfo i as it is ufually taken, maybe referred to the 2 equall proportion of radical heat,to in-brct* 1 jnoifturcwhenthey are like powerfull, to ; the excellencie and purity of the bloud, to' the fubtilty ofthe fpirits.to a fupple,foft and tender skin, to mollified and fmooth haires, to the amiable andbeautifull feature,to affa* • fcflity and gracious delivery of fpeech, to a; buxome, pliable, and refined wit, to a wife: moderation of anger, to the vailallizing 0/1 the rebellious affections ;all which when we fee to jump together in one, or the moft of them, we Cay that man or that body hath a moft happy temper, a rare compoiition , a fweet complexion. «n-u CAP, Humors. 3i cap. Vir, Ofdiverfitiesofwit, and moft according to tempers\ PLiny makes mention of King Pyrrhus, That he had a little prctious pearlc of diversrefplendant colours, commonly tcr- * J™^ medthc Achates,oi our skilful Lapidaries: xvi.fo'pel wherein were admirably coadunited the trarcb end nine Hellicoman Ladies,and Apollo holding £W<*». irisgilden harpe. Our foule, that princely tPyrrhus or jrwp^ p^«tM,that *£**** wVw,the quinteffence or vertue of heavens fire, as thePocts call it,hath this rare gem as an *Af* tbates daily to confort with it: wherein is not onlyabowrefor the Mufes to difport thcmfelvesin,butalfoan harbour for wife kfpolio to lodge in,to wit, our acute, plea- fant and active wit,which can apparel it felf with more variable colours,and fine it fclfc with more refcmblances than either the£>- tnelionot Polypus-, and like aninduftrious Bce,takinghcr flight into the fragrant helcjs of Minerva, can gather fuch hony-fuckle from thefweeteftflowers,as may feaft with «~ F 4 delicious 8i The Glaffe of deHcious dainties the hungry cars of attentive * auditors,if they (feign but to let their eares t (as once divine Plato's mouth was) bee the :( hives or cells wherein to (lore up their ho- ' ney combes : if they wilfurfcrthcmtobe : as veffels ready to receive and cntertaine J the Nectar-flowing words of wit. It k ' called among the Grecians, Elf via, and hee i that is poflcfTedof it is termed hpviis, excel- ■ ling in active nature, acute, having a quicke!; infight into a thing, a lively coteitof a thing; J that can invent with eafefuch witty policiWl I quirks and ftrat&gems, as he that is not of m fliarp a wit WouUl even admire, never cant compafte. It hath his feat in intelleelu ageuji te, in the active underftanding, which doth4! offer the ftecfrs and Idea's of objects to the: awfl|ve,therc to be difcerncd and judged ac-i cording to their reall efTence. As divers and the moft are indowed with wits, fo moft nine hj*d wits are divers in nature. There is a Stmt- efyeits uftii an or apifh wit,an ts4rcadiarive'\t,z. Rofciah all at this ^ix^fcurril wit, an tAEuigmmealJwftj at #• Obfcene wit,* an *Autehcanox entbezlec ? wit,a Chance-medley wit,and laftly thefe 13 afmirk quick and dextcrieftl Wit. They thai Ha^c the fkMoonly imitate, and doapiffl- Humors. 8} counterfeit and referable a poet or an Ora- tor , or any man of excellence m any thing, yet can they never climbe up to the top of Poetry, whither his wit afpifed whom they delimitate, and as it was once fayd, that it isimpoffible to get to the top of Pythagoras bis fetter,without Cr<*fa golden laddcr,in- intimating, that l'--.—- Haudfacile emergent 'V&uoru virtutibus obftat, res anguftadomi, 1 NoEagleproves he,but aftHy wrent 'Thatjoars without an Angers golden pen. That learning cannot cl mb without golden rftcps: fo they can never attain to hishighftrain *with their bale leaden inventions, but are conftraincd either fooliftily to goe on unto r the C atafirophe % or with difgrace and infa- my(bcing tired in the race of their own fan- cies) to make a full period long before tho yOataftrophe. Thus Accius Labeo was an a- pilh imitator of Homer: an Arcadian wit is j meant of him , cvmfino intempeftivorudtt or like one of Camus fwans, when indeed hee Proves no fwan, butrathera filly fwain. Ledaosfirepftanfer ut inter olores. Hee is like a loud fack-but, intermedlcd 84 Thz piaffe of with ftili muficke : he braycs like an Arca^ dian Afle, hee is conceited without reafon, , r as he was, who among the devout offerings iZmml.™ the Egyptian Oxe,^« or Scrap* off* red up a great bottle of hay. wr when a man is wittv like Plutarchs Affc, notconfix dcring theinfertunat event his wit wil have. Plutarch tells of a pretty jeaft ; an Oxe chanced to pafle through a frefb river laden with fait j which beeing deepe, the water melted much ofthe fait in the facks. W hich the AfTe percciving,that he was much light- uedof his burthen, the next time that hee came that way, the water not being fo high, the Afle wittily coucht downe to cafe him- felfe of his weight;whofc policy the maftcr efpying, afterward revenged on this rnaner; lading the Affe with wooll and fponges, who according to his wont did dip the facks as before in the water, but when hee came out, he found his load far more aggravated, infomuch it made him groan againe. W her* fore ever after hee was wary left his packe n^ight touch the water never fo little. This is alfo called mother wit, orfoolUhwit, or no wit : like that which was in a certainc Country Gentleman, whom the Qupene of Mfcf*** meer4ng,and knowing bjm to be a Humors. .8 J man of no greatwifedomc, demaunded of -him, when his wife fhould be brought to bed : who anfwcrcd,Evcn when your high- ncfTc fhall command. Such a wit was in the , ,, Ruftick,of whom we reade in the Courtier, nd that he meeting a herd of goats by the way, and efpyingone of them among the reft to have a longer beard than any of the reft, hee wondring at the gravity ofthe goat, as pre- fcntly amafcd,hc ftood ftocke ftd,and cried, loefirs, methinkesthis goatisas vvonder- full like Saint Paulas ever J faw- ARefci- 3 an wit is onely in gefture, when one can far more wittily exprelfea thing by dumbe ex- ternall action, than by a lively internall in- vention, more by geflturcs than jeafts. This was in that pantomtmicall Hofcius , who could vary a thing more by gefturcthan ei- ther Tutty could by phrafe,or he by his witty speeches. • The fourth wit belongs to Pautolabus, a . fcurrile wit, that jeafts upon any, howfoe- strephfiaJet ver, when and wherefoever, contrary to i\\inAri(t.bio urbanity: as he that j'eafted illiberally upon Hubes. the Chorus of goddeffes in Ariftephau. ft Was in Sex tus Navius, mentioned by Tally $ itwasalfoinP^/^the jefter, whofaidin ZcnophonfrzcAuk laughter b out of rcqueft, r? my S6 The g/affe of my art goes a begging, "«*■• y*p h» >* 9*^~ Sd o-of &t Sorouifx^y ixaUoiyhep &ir*,TOS ye t« bulTw-''£* : IcanbeasfoonimirK,rtalUsfp:akfc „bo, in earneft An ^ALmgmaticaH wit is when 5 one ft rives to fpeak obfcurely ,aod yet all the light of his own reafon or othcrs,canot illu- minate the dark fcufc : yet oftentimes by a wiry apprehenhon it rr.ay rellifh a filed and fmooth wit. This was in Testius CAbaUua, who coroming into Cicer*s fehoole, Semca being-then aif) nrc£enr,hc on a fudden brake out into thele fpecches, Si thrax ego ejjem Fufius ejfem, Si PantomivtW Batbiilus,fte- dWff rude quidpnrofit videoingenium\aJierdi ' us fie : -^i*w( n Altera pofcit ppemres & concur at amice. \ Tt is that wit wherein the nine lifters of Parnaflus doe inhabit: the pure quintef- fence of wit indeed, that keepes a come- ly decorum.in observing the time,the place, the matter, fubject, the object, and cverjr ftgular circumftanee, kitiih»o^riftotht AyX*W* Humors] 91 Jl^isMftWhich he defines to be taoixa'a cV Lgtoo-xs^o) ^f^9 j Sudden as afiafli ofligbt- mg,to dazle the eyes of a wiftied object, $nd yet premeditating in matters of roof went, wherein gravity and fagenefle is to icjefpected : thisisatruewir.everpiftolj |»pfe, having a privy coat of policy and wbtiity, toftienditfrom all the acute ftab- fodocsof any acute ObjVctionift, it never wants variety in canvaffing any fubject'. yea, the more it utters, the mere by farre isluppeditated untoit. It is like the vine, Which the offer it is psuncd, the more clu* ftcrsof fweet grapes it will ever affoord j It's like the feven mouthed Nilus, which the more it flowes in the Channell, the fafter (till it fprings from the head. I fconfcflc this wit may be glutted too much with too much of any object, and foo- ner with an irkefome object, as the Phi- lofopher fayth, any furpafling obj'cct de- praves the fenfe, fo it may be fpoken of wit; th$ nofemay be ovcrcloid with the fragran- teftftpwerin Alcinou* his garden, though itfftiel never fo exactly : & more with fmels Jprdby port Aquiline.Ihefight may fur- fet on fair Nira ^,and.quicklier with iowle Therfites. The apgetite may bee cloyed G wi& $t TheGlaJftof withbeautifull Lais, who was all face; and more with Mopfa, who was all lips ; this pure wit may furfet oft esimbrofta itfelfe, and fooner on cats meat and doggcs meatc j and though it be like unto Nilus , as the mouthcs of Ntlus i {o it alfo may be dam- med up, efpccially with forrie grofle terrc- ftriall matter: and though it do much refera- ble the vine, as the vine may be pruned too oft, fo it alfo maybe dulled with too much contemplation: this wit difdains, beeing fd great, that any the greateft things (hould empire over it •,&owing Nafos wit,no doubt, was more thancoufine german to this, who i faid, Jngenlo namq^ ipfe meo valeo vigeoque '- C&far m hocpotuit iuris habere nihil. "' tA demygo£s my heaver?s aftiring roit: Cefdr only man could not banifb it. Thelikeftraineofwitwas in Lucian,tnd Julian; whofe very images are ro bee had in high repute, for their ingeniofity, but tobefpurnd at for their grand impiety :and in many more, whofe workes are without compare, and who doe worthily merit for Humeri* pj for this,if for nothing dfc, to bee cano- nized in the regifters of fuccceding times, yea to be characterized and engraven in the .golden tablets of our memories* Pericles who was called the fpring head or wit, the torrent of eloquence, the Syren of Greece, was endowed with this fpeciall gift, hee had a copious and an aboundant faculty by feafbn of this, in hisdclivcty. Of whom Julian ( whom I cannot too often men- tion) in a ccrtaine Epiftle to Proerifimi fpeaking to him thus, fayes, I do falutc i thee, O Proerift^s, a man I mult needs \ eonfefle foplentifullin fpeech, vamp 6t no- tcxjuoi h ToU*efiot$, like to the Egyptian fields ; Pericli omnino Jimilem cloquentia, nifiquoiGreciam non permifceas • altoge- ther to be compared unto Pericles for thy admirable eloquence, onely this excepted; that thou canft not with thy flowing tongue fctall Greece on an uprore. So esfngelus Pol tianus inhisout of Eupo- ] {is his Comedy which is intituled cfivoi, or .1 Tribus, \ n«3v rii fr&igey loin role. $>4 TheGlaffeof • ^eitaffi X< p*| Top ma' fcytoj xivtf ov, &C. The goddcflc of Eloquence and per-* fuafion was the portrefle of his mouth , or fate in all pompe upon his lips , as on her royall Throne, hep among all the rou:of canning'Rhetoricians, did let the auditors bloud in the right veine , his words did moove an after-paffion(faith he) in them. Many befides had thefe excellent fur patting vcihes, of whom we may reade, rt'Weperufe thebiftories and other writing!' of famous men. This wit is evera conform with judgement^, yet often I canfcflc,the judgement is depraved in wit • for wee muft know, though Vsmm and Falfumht the objects of nnderftanding, every thing is wot difcerncd or under! tood according to thefe two , as they are properly eithel Varum or Falfum : for the agent under- ftandmg, conveighing the fpecics of any thing, (as imagine of-any fulfill ftrata'- gem} unto the paflive, the pafTive doth not alway judge of it accordingly : for if they feemegood and true at firft view, yet af- ter wee have demurred upon them any fpace of time/they are found neither true nor good, but altogether crude andimpcr- T'"'*? feet, Humors. py feet, FV my cenfure of wit without Judgement, it is like a flowing eddy or high iprmg ryde without banks to limit the wa» ter. Thefe uittcs are filch , as Lipfius faith in bis politicks (as I remember ) are the downe-fall and utter ruin e of a well or- dered commonwealth. Hee faith that thefe "j who are (3f*all our internal gifts are morcinbaunced and flourifh the more: where the fpirits arc apparelled with their own nature, and not attired or rather tired by any extraordinary ill means,which will never be accordant to their fecmly dccency,the foule of man is as it wercin a Thefattaicmplc of dxlight,which erovc for (aire flourifhing meades, for thf • G 4 pleafant $8 Tfce Qlajfeof pleafant fhade of buftiy Pkies, fof pirh* ling brooks and gliding ftieams of whol- fome water, for a fweet odoriferousiir, ifor the melodious harmony and chirpe- jng of vocall birds , for the fragrancie of medicinablc flowers and hearbes, for fill plealures that might feat and delight the fences, and draw the very foule in- to an admiration of the place, of all o- thcr did furpane', as the Typographer: y£lian, maketh mention. But now wee mearie to relate of the diverfitie of Spirits, both in a generall and fpeciall acceptation. i. A Spirit is taken for our breath in .refpiration , as Galen fayth, firft progno- se If (fayth hee) faTre from treatable, ltiloy\cw it implyes a paine and an inflamoiation c frodutta, cujtts adminiculo prop* tot vale at anims producere.a&Mf. A fpirit is a moft fubtill, aery, andlightfome fubftance, gene- rated ofthe pureft part of bloud, whereby the foule caiveafily performeher functions inthe naturallbody. They have their origi- nal! and oft-fpring from the heart, not from the braine, as fome hold. For they beeing fo pure , attd elaborate into the nature of ayre, earincte be generated in the brain,bee- ingby nature" cold, Where nothing is pro- duced but that which Is Vaporous. Again, Cerebrum eft exangue : the brain is blOod- fefle, as it is evident by anatomy, neither hath it any yeiBes to make a conveyance for thatjhqmor : therfore it is moft proba- ble , that where there is the intenfeft heate to extract thefe fpirits from the blond, and to rarifie them, converting them into an aery fubftance , that from thence they fnoiildhave their efficient caufe. For rhe") , fpirits in {pceiaUjtbey are of three forts, vi- / tall, natUTa&aud animall: vitall in the heart, V naturallinthe liver, animall in thebraine*' i Vital, be-au(etheygive "power of motion and pulftyn unto the attetics; which mdtion any living creature hatfi fo long as it hath a ! fceipg,andthatbeto| c^mct, thelifeaUb"» 1 .v * extinct. ioo The Glaffe of extinct, a. Natural in the liver, in that they yceld habilitie of executing fuch actions as chiefely conccrn,not£««, but £«opc/Tet, as nutrition and generation of the like. 3. A-, nimail in the braine, and though the fpirits proceed from the heart,yctarc they diflufecj, through the whole body,in the arteries and veins, and there in the brain they arc termed animall, becaufe they impart a faculty to the nerves of fence and rcail motion, which arc peculiar to every living creature. The con- duits of the fpirits are the arteries and veins* the arteries carry much fpirits & little blood, and veins much bloud and little fpirit,yet are each of them the receptacle of both. For the cherifhing and ftirring up of the fpirits.thefe things enfuing are greatly available. Firft, an illuminated pure aire, purged from all grof- fer qualities: fecondly, a choice of fragrant frnells; thirdly,mufical harmony and merri- ment, as Ludovicus fol.'Fgdig.doth write: a neceflary fourth may bee annexed, that is, nutriment, for it roufes up and lightens the fpirirs,therforethe Philofophcr in his Pro-; plem&faithstha,thomo pranjus multo levior sft, & agiliorjejuno: after mcat,a man is fa* more light and nimble than while hee i s ra- fting; fi>a merry pleafant man is more light Humors. 101 than one that is fad jand a man that is dead, is far heavier than one alive. There be other things alfo very commodious ,as inter miffion of meditatioii,a due regard of motion, that it be neither too vehement, and focorrupt the fpirits:now mean we to fpeake in order ofthe complexions. CAP. IX. Of a cholericke complexion. C Holer is termed ofthe Greeke word X©*»,of the Latins bilis it is not only ta- ken for the humor, bHt fomctimes for anger, ttsinTheocritus : Bitter anger appeared in his face or in his no- ftrils. So the Latineword is as much as an- ger. Plaut. fames & mora bilem in nafum conciunt: for anger firft appears in the face or nofe, therefore the Hebreweshave the fame WOtd for ira and nafus,thzt is aph, Fjn which is agreeable to that of Theocr. afore mentioned,and that of Perftrn, Jracadtt uafo^rugofa^fanua. Ferffit So we fay in ourBnglifh proverb, when a man !©l The Glajfe of man is teifty,and anger wrincklcs his nofCi fuch a man takes pepper in thCjnofc-tUtyei, joWcholer is an humour, contained in the MloWinferiour part of the liver, which place is called x6^*X*$ *v?l>> of Galen ; whofe forme is long,andforaewhat round, ending with a conus faxdby theftemof the vena cava, which ftiikes through the liver, from whence all the veins are derived tho- row the whole body : it takes two (lender veins from that ftem,which makes this pro- bable,that the choler may infect the blood,& caufe the morbus itlericus or jauidife todif- perfeit felfe oyer all the parts of the body? there is a doubk proccftion or way of chc* Jer,uito the duodenum & intralsidownwardi or into the ventricle upward, the vacuation is eafiein theformer,but difficult in the later. If the lower paffage bee dammed up with the thicke fediments of greffc choler, as oftentimes it tommeth to paiTe, then it af- cendsintothe ventricles and there procures etcretion, binders the conco&jon,cvcr cpr-» rupts fome put of the nutriment ( without, atengfaft) and takes away the ftomacke* yet others thinke that chdler is generated in the ventricle alsfo, thatitisalfo a veflet apt to receive k. This humour infe&e the Veins. Humors. to} ycines, ftirrcs upfudden anger, generates ayeftlMb.s. tonfumption with his heat, fhortneth the catidtcor- hfe, by drying Up the radicall moifture. «^* P°™ hun,i' mifiotle,znd after him Pliny, with many mo* ?:i*abrllUm doaffirmc that thefe men which want the vcficle of choler, are both ftrong and cou- ragious, and l.vc long. Yet Vej'alius fayth (although hee imagins that there may bee fome conveyance of choler from the liver into the duodenum, iothatitdonot before gather into a vcficle,1 he could find by expe- rience none fuch hitherto. Many things there be which caule this maladicus humour to ac- crue to fuch a meafure, that it will be aria* riy x»,an incurable thing; among which we will note fome. All fat of meats, faith Gam Gd.in lib. Jess, and fuch as are burnt, are both hard to Hippoc. de concoct,having nofwect juke,anddo great* *^MM*? iyincrcafe the cholcrick rumour, for the a-^ f- ^' trimonythatisinthem. Allkinde ofOlera192; or fait meats, arc not onely lllrfbr this com- plexion, but almoftfor all, as the Phy fitians doeaffiFme: zndAthenem to this pwpofeAtboi.i. \ iaitb,***«»«? ^,&c. allkindofpoc-hcarbs^^fi/,« o^ biinuti-natur'd meats are obnoxious to the ftomackc, beeing of a goawing,nipping <& pinching quality. 'Again, duke vinu nou 4&.idsmejsm>piG*m*lk, fwect wine is not 7'. whol- i<>4 Tk Glaffe of whoifomforcholerickcomplcxtons as ffip* pocrates witneftes- They are called ptcrocho* /*,who have a redundance of yellow bitter choler. Antinou* no doubt did partly fortbis difTuade Vlyffes from drinking fweet wine: °^5- _—L'^01505 ^ rptet ftiknMe. ButhoWfoevcr, this fweet wine doth not only iKhvetnwttrxvv, znd b.no yoiev, as the fame Homer fpcaksi //.S. zszlfoisftheneus notes,/*. 1 ,D«/?.butalfbis a great generator of choler: yea,all fweet meats are nurfcs of this humor>honyefpeciaIly is cholericke.-for fweet winesthis is C/ftrealbn; fitft, in that much calidity doth make bitter thefe fweet humors;and again,becaufc fuch W?ncs beufually thicke, neither can they fpecdily EifefjuftcpafTe by the Oureteres into the bladder : »4e afort wherby it comes to paiTe that they doc not 3S*/te'2- cknrccnolcrinthcir patTa^c, but rather cn- a£L. decreafc thd P°wer of it, fuch wines bee The- fon.mnia.reum, Scybelites, much fweet, thicke, and GaMi 7.6. black as Galen calls them. Again.to© violent '***£$*' & muck motion is not good for that con> ; pie* ionras qalen alfo faith, much eating is alfo dangcrmi for this humor.Then al things that doc dry up the moifturcof thebody, as watching Humors. to J Watching and care, dec. vigilant la maximi txiccat corpus fowh Ga/en.So doth care even Konfumc and burn the body: cur a therefore •is czWedtquafi cor urens. To thefe I may aflbciat & joyn ouradultc- rat Nicotian or Tobaco, fo called ofthe Kn. Sir Nicot that firft brought it over, which is the fpirits Incubus^ax. begets many ugly & deformed phantafics in the brain, which be- ing alfo hot and dry in thefecond, cxtenuats & makes meagre the body extraordinarily, thereof it may bee expected, that I at this inftant fo wel occafioned fhouid write fora- thing,and fure not impertinent to the fub/ect We have now in hand. This then in bricfc I will relate concer- ning it. Of its own nature not fophifticate,it cannot be but a foveraign leafe,as Monardu fayth,efpecially for cxternall raalladioua ul. cerstand fo in his fimplc it is for cacochymi- caU bodies, and for theconfamption of the lurigs.and Tyffick, if it be mixed with Colts foot dried, as it hath bcenc often experien- ced. But as it is intoxicated and tainted with bad admixture, I muftanfweras our lear- ned Poracilfus did, of whom my felfc did demaund, whether a man might take it i^vithoutiropechmenttobishcaith:who re- iot5 7he Glajfe of pled, as it is ufcd it muft needs be veryjpei• nicious, in regard ofthe immoderat and too ordinary whiff^efpecially in rcfpcct of trie taint it receives by compofirion: for ( fajtl| he) 1 grant it w lie vacaate the ftomackjand purge the head for the prefcnt,of many fe- culent and noyfome humors, but after by his attractive vertue it proveth C alias humeri leaving two ponds of water (.ashe tearmed them) behind it, which are converted into choler, one in tie ventricle, another in the qerdi.r. of braine.Which accords with that of gerard plants,c.63 thcirherbaliftiinhis lecond h9q^ 0£ plant^ ca.6 g.of Tobacq, or fJenbane of fern, and Trwidadafor he aificms that itdftth indeed evacuate eafe one day, but the next it dock generate a greater flow of humors: even as a wel(fdithhc)yec!dsnot fo much water as when it is moft drawne and emptied. Again, it is moft obnoxious of all to a fparc and ex- tenuatedfeody. by rcafon of few jug open the poras^into the which cold doth enter: and we know, as Tu/ly faith, U.6jf.1,o a. citing the l>QCt,cujus ftvguli verfut funtiUfingu- la tefttmonia, every of whofe particular verfts is to him axiomatic all,, as be fayes, i&6%6c.U ^tmipTtfot) nxihtt*.iwMLjoff ; That is, Cold is a bane and deadly enemy to a Humml 107 a thin and fpare body .And fincc that phyfkk is not to be ufcd as a continual alimcr,but as an adjumcnt of dropping nature at an extrc- mityjand bcfide that,feeing every nafty and hzfeTygellus ufe the pipe, as infants their. redcorals,ever in their mouths,and many be- fides of more note and eftCcm take it more for wantonncs than want,as Gerard (peaks j I could wifh that our generous fpirits could pretermit the too ufuall, not omit the phyu> call drinking of it. I would treat nore copi- oufly of it, but that many others, efpecially gerardjaxid Monardis in his book intituled* The joyfull newes out of the new found world, or Weft Indies, which Framptots tranflatcd,have cafed me of that labor ,fo that I may abridge my fpeech. j, Choler is twofold, either naturall or not naturall;the natural choler is tWofold,either that which i% apt for nutrition, as of thefe parts which be proportionable unto it in qua- lities hot and dry,8c this is difperfed into the veins,and flows throughout the whole body mixed with bfoodjthe other excremental,un- fit to nourifh, which purged as a fuperfluous humor from the blood, is received into the veficle or vciTell and bladder, that is the re- ceptacle of choler, intermed the gall. And H this 108 TheGlaffe of and this ufually when the veflell isdlfchat* ged, diftils from thence into the duodenum firft, then into the other intrals, &c. that which is not natural! ©f four forts, Aex fidfin, *po.aoM$,&Hsilvhi. The firft is r»- teSina bills, of the colour of an egge yolke, Ter.caUs it generated of palew colonr,overhea ted with wMibUisi the acrimony of unntaural callidity .The fe- cond is Porracea, of a lecky nature or green colour. The third cerulea3 of a blewifh or a- zurecolour. The laft eruginofa, of a rufty colour. And all thefe are generated in the vcntricle,by fharp tart & fweet nutriments, as leeks, muftard, burnt meats,hony, fo fat meats, and all fuch as ingendernoifomnefle Upon the ftomacke. W herupon comes our common difeafc called xajuJjatyia: forfor- row & vehement exercifc caufe the yellow choler to flow in the ventricle, by which men being griped and pinched with painc Within, do labour of this evil, which indeed hath a wrong name given it: for it is only an affection or paflion ofthe orificeof the ven- tricle, the mouth ofthe ftomacke, not ofthe heart,as Galen witneffeth/ Now todifcern QslMHip:*imn of acholerick complexion, hee is al- ey P/*N^f *wf*oc,q>vTXh°d. pcrature of the body, as certainly it doth, they then muft needs excel! for invention, Who have this bcft complexion. Their fpi- rits furc have the moft exact temper of all, wherewith the foul as being in a paradife, it chiefely delighted. Among all the humours the (anguine is to be preferd, faith the Anti- quary jfirft, becaufe it comes neereft unto the principles & groundworks of our life^which ftands in an attempered heate and moiflure. Secondly, becaufe it is the matter ofthe fpi- • rits, whereofchi fely depends our life, the operation of our vegetative and animal ver- tue, yea,itisthe chicfe inftrumcnt where- with our reafonabie foule doth operatc:for. trusisthePbilofopherstf*^*; In the clc-r aentsconfifts the body, in the. body ther H 4. bloud, ^ U4 T^ 9lajfeof bloud, in the bloud the fpirits, in the fpirits foule.Thirdly,becaufe it is a nutriment for aj and lingular parts, of what qualities foevcf, It is termed in Hebrew 0"?/*»£/w,for his nutrition,and fure it is as it were the dam or nurfe from whofe teats the whole body doth' fuck out and draw life. Fourthly,in that this humor being fpent, our life alfo muft needs vanifli away .there- fore fome Phiiofophers, asitis well known to the learned, did not onely furmifc, but ponftantly averre that the foule was bloud, becaufe it being eftufed, the foule alfo doth flit from the body : but that was a maddc dreamc, and no doubt ifthe found of judg- ment had awoke them, they would have' confefled thcmfelves to have been enwrap- ped in a cloudy crrour. They alfo that af- firme men of this conftitution to be dullards andfooles, and to have a pound of fofly \ to an ounce of policie, they thcmfelves do feeme not to have fo much as a dram of dis- cretion , and doe erre the whole Hea- vens. I eonfcrTe a fanguine complexion' may be f©, as any other in their dyfcrafje, vet not as it is a pure fanguine complexion, but as there is mixed with the bloud, ei- ther the grofTe fediments of melafteholy, or Humors. 115 or the lent a materiespituite, tough phlegm, When the bloud is alio over-heated by rca- fon of hot choler, or any other accidentary caufe which generates a (urplufage of bloud, and indues the fpirits with a grofneflc; and too hot a quality more than their nature can Well fuftain with keeping their perfection and purity. •From Whence the bloud hath his originall, as it is apparently known,erpeciaJIy to them which are skild intheautorfie of ahctomy j the feat or fountain of it is Vera cava^a great hollow vein which (hikes through the liver, from whence it is convefedby many cifterns, paftages, and conduit-pipes throughout the whole body ; like fprayes and bran- ches front the itemme of a tree. It hath his ©(fence from the chymus or /uice ofour ali- ment concocted : his rednefTe is caufed by the vertue of the liver, aflimilating it unto his own colour. To fpeak more of the external habit & de- meanor of man that hath this complexion : he ever hath an amiable looke, a flouriftiing frenS vifage,abeautiful colour, which as the pbetfaitfr,dotbgreat1y-commend one, if all otherthings be wanting. -•- . ■ -■}.' ■, t-. - Nee u6 TheGIaffeof Nee minor his aderatfublimisgr atiaformet Jgu ZfoM^iAr^bat coitus eft parvus morbus comitialis, and but for this they were fupereminent above all men, but their rare qualities and admirable vermes do more than counterpoife this naturall fault. For his refoiutionjhe is like the ceter,immo- vablc, never caried away with the heady ftreara of any ba/e affection, but licsatthe anchor of conftancy andboldnes.He is never, lightly variable, but being proudly harneft: with a fteely heart,hc wilrunupon the pufh o£great danger,yea hazard his life againft all the affronts of death it felfc : If it ftand ei- ther with, the honour of his. foveraigne*. u8 TheGlaffeof the welfare and quiet of his countrey, the after-fame and renown ofhimfelf :clfe he is chary and wary to lay himfelfe open to any danger, if the finall end of his endeavor and toils be not pfciufible in his demurring juofy ment. CAP. xr. Ofthe Phlegmaticks humor. THis Humour is called of the greciant i»kc fen*wa- ter no TheGlaffeof tertbatturnes into the nature of mud : and this is it that ftrycs in the joints, and caufcs the incurable knotty gout, whereof the Poet fpeaks, Qvidfom', Solvere nodofam nefcit medicina podn* gramy Necformidatis auxiliatur aquis. This was alfo in a woman whereof CeU Rodiginus makes mention: I rcad,faith hec, amongft the learned, of acertaine kinde of phlegme like unto plaifter,bruifcd into wa- ter , which in a fhort fpace abiding in the joints of the members, growes as hard as plaitter ftone it felfc: we have, faith hee, an example of a woman,which was grievoufly vexed with an itch inthefpondlesor joints ofthe backbone and reins : which fhcrub- Cel. Kodi£. bing very vehemently^ndraiing the skinne, 6 a>l *■ fmall mammocks of ftone f el from her,to the number of eighteen, of ihe bignes of dke,& colour of plaifter* 3 There isfatfum, of a faltifh nature by the admixtion of brackifh humours and of cho- * ler,which being m the ventricle, caufeth' an hydropicall thim, and fomewhat excoriates (he intrals, Plate in bis Timem ipcakcth of this % Humors. Ui this : i>tiyiz*U,&c. for phlegm beeing by nature fharp, and of abrinifh quality, is the off-fpring of all difeafcs which confift of a fluxile hUmor, and according to the diver fity of places whither this brackifh humor doth infinuatc it felf}thcbody isteend and acdoid Hip.hb.di with divers and manifold maladies. So Hip»flmbui4> pocrates fpcaksol this, to SifhiyiMifipiiat Xckokti fAifxlyfAirovfaoi &v vfowloil i$ dykias ro7rtjc, lAxoi. Bitter and fait phlegms where- foever it falls into unwonted places, it doth e> ulcerate. There is alfo Acetofurn phlegm. 4 fliarp and tart, which almoft is of the fame nature with the former,caufed chiefly ofthe mixture of melacholy indued with the fame qaality.Thc laft is called 7V»»^whichis ve- 5 ry waterifh and thin of fubftance.which wc ordinarily term rheum,which comes of the word pe», to ft ow; there be three kindes of it;the firft is called Branchus, which hath his current from the head into the jawes : the fecond is called «•«•«* or (&wa, which runs from the noftrils, wee call itthcpofe, thereupon ilennus is ufed for a foole, homo obefe narts : as contranwifc homo emuncla naris for a wife man.The laft is called catar- rbus)0ix&7U and pig, whofe matter hath thepaifegedownwajdiniothc^rw arte- 121 TheGlaffeof ria, tbebreaft, and the roomes that are. contiguous, which ufually is. a caulc o£ the cough. For the humors make anop- pilation in the lungs, and (top the pores, whence our breathing aire doth evapo- rate , and whither it beeing drawne in> doth pierce and betake it felfe , thereupon there is made a refutation, and a ftrugling with the humour and the aire , which caufeth the cough : Though it may hap- pen alfo, the cauie beeing inthcajpera ar- teria, as it is well knowne to them that are but initiated into phyficke.Tbough HipT HippocJiJe poerates feemes to fay, All c*>«gh breedca flatibus,fe- in ,t}ie mid-Way of the artery, not in the Gim J- lungs. Thefe are his words r For the fptrit which we attract (fayth be) is carried tothc lungs, and is fent backe by an ixarroU or regurgitation > and when the rheum di- ttiVingdown,doth meet the fpiritafcending intheartcrysthe cough is caufed, and the phlegmaticke matter caft up.,, - which cau- feth an exafperatsion in the mityhy the hu- mour which lies in the internal! hollow es«f the extnberariecs of our artery.: which cau- feth great heat to bee ingendred there, by the coughirigimotion, which heat dra wes afRcccdent phlegme * frowthcVainc ftill more more procuring an cxtrcamc cough; All phlegme is generated of crudity,though it do attract fome bad accidcntary quality >wherc- of it hath the denomination jand the phy fiti* ans arc of that opinion,that natural phlegme concocted will turn to bloud. Suiias faith of itjOX^/uci iu yinTcq vifmcii aaro TJjj^cf ticizifu- to» ybi> d7ro%ciring wits of all Divine Plato af- 5jr.?. firmcs.thattnofchavcmoftdexericalwits, who are wont tobeftirdun with a heavenly fury:hcfaith,ftuflra poetlcas foresee, hee that knockes not at the portal of Poets Innc, as furious and befidehimfclf, is never like to be admitted in. A man muft not with the foole in the fable,rap at the wicket with the fre-pennynayleof modcfty,if he meane to have entrance into the curious reomesqf invention, Seneca fayth, Nullum fit mag- num ivgeniumfinc m-xtura dementie : wit never relifhes well unkfle-it- taftc of a mad humour , or there is never any furpafling wit which is notincited with fury. Now pf all complexions, Melancholy is Oeftro fercita,furoreconcitata^-noft. fub/ect unto furious fits i whereby they conclude,! hat Q5etanc|ioliclce men are endowed wkl> the rarcfl Humors. 119 rareit wits of all. But how /hallow this their reafon is, he that hath waded into any jdepth of rcafon may cafily difccrne. They might proove an Afle alfo of all other crea- tures moft mclancholicke, and which will bray as if he was home mad,to be exceeding witty. They might fay this as well, That becaufe Satume is the floweft planet of al], fo their wits are the floweft of all. I con- fefTc this, That oftentimes theraelancho- like man by his contemplative faculty,by his aftidoity of fad and ferious meditation, is a brocher of dangerous Matchiavcliifme, an inventor of ftratagcms, quirkes, and poli- cies, which were never put in practife, and which may have a happy fuccciTc in a king- dome, in military affaires by land, in naviga- tion npon the fea, or in any other privat pe- culiar place : but for a nimble, dextericall, fmirke, pregnant extemporary invention, for a fudden Ayxiveut, a pleafant conceit, a comicall jeaft, a witty boord, for a fmuggc ncatftilCa for delightfome fentences, ver- nifhed Phrafes, queint and gorgious elo- cution! far an aftounding Rhctoricall vein, for a hVdy grace in delivery, heccan never bee cquiqajent with a fanguine complexi- on, which k the paragon of*«H if fc g° I tf not I jo The §laffeof notaftray from his owne right temper and happy crafis, nay the former muft not fo much as (land at the barrc, when the later with great appiaufe can enter into the lifts* Hee that wifhcs this humour whereby hee might become mora witty, is as fond as De- mocritiu, who put out both his ey s volunta- rily,to be given more to contemplation. Of all men wee count a melancholicke man the very fpongc of all fad humours , the e^-'" qua-fortis of merry company , a thumbe under the girdfc, the contemplative (lum- berer , that fteepes waking, &c. But ac- cording to pbyficke there bee two kindes of melancholy, the one fequeftred from all admixtion,the thickeft and drieft portion of bloud not aduft , which is called naturall, and runnes in the veffcls of blond, to bee an aliment unto the parts which are melan- faj. Rbod. cholickcly qualified, as the bones, griftles, li.tf.caA, (mewes, &c. The other is xetT*>cex*0|Kiiii* #i**7Xofc«*\« which is a combutt black cho- ler, mixed with falnfh phlcgmatick'e hu- mour, or cholericke, or the worft fanguine. Jfyou defire to know this complexion by their habit and guifc : They arc of a black Swarthy viftge, dull paced, fad counte- rianted > harbouring hatred long in theit breads, Humors. i$i breafts, hardly incenfcd with anger, and iif angry, long erethispaffionbee appea- led and mitigated, crafty headed, con- ftant in their determination, filing their eyes ufually on the earth, while a man recites a tale unto them : they will picke their face, bite their thumbes, their cares will bee fbjourners, ]\ke Cleomenes in 'Plutarch , minimus eft in Peloponefo : their wit is a wooll-gathering, for laugh- ing they be like almoft to Anaxageras , of whom \y£Han fayes,5roT 6u ytha, he never la-jghf ;they be much given to a folemn mo- mfticklife, never wel-nigh delighted with confort; very fubj'ect to paflfions, having a drop of words, and a flood of cogitations, ti- ling that of Pythagoras, fxii as volkots 0X174, dw or ox/yct$ ;roM<2-they are cold in their ex- ternall parts, of a kind nature to them with whom they have long converft jand though they fecme for fome diflikc to alienate their minds from their friend, yet are they con- tent in affection. But for the firft kinde of melancholy, it is ever the worthier and better. This they call the electuary and cordiall of the minde , a rcftorative confervice of the memory, the nurfe of contempla- tion, i}i The Glaffe of tion,tbcpretiousbalmofwitandpolicy;the enthufiafticall breath of poetry ^hc foy fon of our phantafics, the fweet flcep of our fenfcs, the fountain of fage advice and good pur- veyance; and yen foralithis itcomcsfar be^ hind the pure fanguine complcxion.Neither do I think it is to be adorned with thefe ha- bili ments of words,and pranckt up with fuch glorious titlesasufuallyitis,of whom wee doufually treat of it* For the later,it caufeth men tobe aliened from the nature of man, and wholly to difcard thcmfelves from all fociety, but ra ther like hermits and old An- chorits, to live in grots,caves,and otherhid- den eels ofthe earth ; the firft may be com- pared to an Eagle, queaJtiftme volet ; fed tardiffimefe elevsit;which foaFethhigh, but is long ere fhecanraife up her felfe.To Oe~ dipHs3ofwhom Euripides faith, 0" thus cured of his maladie: he was pent up i. an iron grate, and had no meat given him at ail, only they adored him* and offred to his deity the fumes of frankiiv- cenfe, and odours of delicate difhes which alwaies pa!t by him. W hofe deity grew at length fo hungry, that he was fain to con- feffc bis humanity, unleffc he meant to have binftarved. the like we teade to be reported of Me* necrates, whobeingagreatphyfitian, and ^oiugmany wondcrfull cures, had fuch a fweiling pride,and ovCr-weening opinion of,himfelfe, that he eftccmed himfelfe a god; wherefore he thus wrote to Philip King of neftly^and with counterfeit teares,toJet goe his urine and extinguish this great; flame, which other wife would bring a great en- dammagement to the wholctown, arid that it would hurne alfo the houfe up where hee did dwell. Who prefcntly not perceiving theguile,^na;mooyecjby the mans pittifufl lament and outcry , fent forth anaboundant ftteame of unn, andfo was recovered qf his malady. Divers other pleafant examples are recited of.antient waiters, but our &ort- breathing penhaftens to the races end* , ;.rr^,. •.:...,.,Cap. X HkWiCYU ie\i l . . . .'Mu- CAP. xiv. .-nk- ... 0/ f A* dreams of complexions. ^npHe pocticall writers make mention of I two forts of dreames > the one procee- ding exebumcajfae other £ />?rr * cornea,fr6 the former gate fabulous and falfe event! doe iftue, from the latter true and full of foothfeftnefTe: which fitHtbus the Thebane Poctin his Heltnes rape thus defcribes. '-' Nu| H TriiuK&fJtxaurstL itir' hthloto xeXw3g$ Qdaihm lb Y'-'artJvlXotppi^TetftMTwpos&ra«?f«$ E'jUwtf. Afxc^vif : jJoiif af; q * ''.-i si Which ^rg#,.inthe 6 of the i/£#**^.ar the end thusalfo:paints forth, * • • >*j ^Maro.6: .nrrhbr ;io3C j^T'i* +&nti&, Sunt gemititfemni fortA, quorum altem fertur .'»»•-■ • ; (ffa»ea,qv*&r%f*Qifeda$uniMs*tus umbtis Altera candenti perfe&a nitens Elephant* - ^cdfalfaia^ft0mittu^Hufompia manes. • TvlMv, K a Whjeh 14* TheGhffeof Which a gates, maugre this my waiward and dumpifh Genius, whichhales me at this inftant from my poeticall throne, I will thus defcribc in our tongue; ttrhere fttsmkring Morpheus wont there been two gatesr n Tw'txt both dull Somnium in her cabhmltes, Who halfeafleepshard at the denning waits*, ToiOsfwerouraioSturnal^hantafies: Hft horn it is,whbuSe ]he dothprophefie • > Whence not,it is^ofburnijht JVory, tattia in his pf &\e(e>H*mer, Od, icua little after Pe+ Cjtdlu&y «r^» .?1C-;3,t»i .;• ,,vj'' ?. it}.* La Crcefus, which was ofLydiaJCing; la i. Dreamt he not that he fate upon a tree, : n r w o Whichfignifie'd that he fiseuU hanged bee. Many more be rehearfedin that plaee, which lis worthy toberead:wherinthfepoetfhe#a fumfejfe both a Divine, afcHiftorian,* &A- ,v.Vr jk Jofophcr Humors. 145 lOfophcr and Phyfitian. Intreating of dreams, wc wil not intermeddle with thcfc,the omi- nous and fatal dreams wee read of in the fa- cred writ. One portentous dream I wil recite which comes to my memory, and which I my felf heard related of the party that drea- medit. There was one that dreamed (he was wal- king in a grcenifh mead , all fragrant with beautifull flours and flourifhing plants, who whileft fhe wondrcd and ftood as amaz'd at the glory ofthe fpring,an ancient fir, all wi- ther^ and lean-faced with oldnes, the very emblem of death, made toward her with a green bough in his hand, fharpning it at the endjwho as (he fled away frohVhjs purfuit, darted it ofte at her,the branch 3 times cora- mingvery neere her, yet did not touch her at al: who whe he fee he could not prevail with his aim, vanifhed eft away & left the bough behind,and (he asaftounded & affright with the dream,prefently awoke.Now mark the ifequel of it -.within 3 dayes after fhc was for her recreation fake walking in aj*reenifh in- clofure hard by a pond fidc,& on a fudde" her brain was fb intoxicat& diftempcred, whe- ther wfth a fpice of a Vertigo, or whataujai zing difeafe fdevcr ,f know not,but£he was K ^. hurried i4« Ikgiaftof hurried into a deep pond with her head for- warding in a great peril of drowning.and jf foe had not caught faft hold by chance of a branch that hung over the water, fheehad (aecn drowned indeed. Thefe alfo are fatall dreames : as when We dreame of Eagles flying over our ^eods, it portends infoitunatenefle. Todreame of marriages, dancing, and banqueting, fore- tells fome of oyr kinsfolkes are departed ; todreame of filver, forrow, if thou haft it fiven thy fclfe : of Gold, good fortune; 0 |ofe an axle-tooth or an eye, tlpe death of fome fpecialj. friend. To drcamc of bloudy teeth, the death of the dreamer : to weep jn fleepe, joy ? to contemplate ones face in, the water, and to fee the dead, long life. ?Tohandle lead,fomemclancholikedifeafc. To fee a hare4dcath. To dreamy of chickens andbirds,comrnonlyill jUck. Ajiwh|cb,and a thoufancj more, I will not aver to be true* yet becaufe I have found them or many of them fatall, both by myrie owne and others experience, and tobe fet downe of learned men | and partly to fhew what an ominous dream is. I thought good to name them in ftis chapter. "" Vaine dreames hee,wfcejDia man imagines he Humors. 147 hee dcth fuch things in his fleepe, which hee did the day before, the fpccics beingftrong- ly fixed in his phantafic, as if hee having read of a Chtmara, Sphinx, Tragelaphus f Centaur us 3 or any the likepocticallficTion, fees the like formed in his phantafie, accor- ding to their peculiar parts : and fuch as when wee dreame wee are performing any bodily cxercife, or laughing, orfpeak- ing, ice. Thefe alfo may be fatall, as if N we dreame we doe not any thing with the fame alacritie , with the like cunning, and in the fame cxcellencie in our fleepe, as Wee did them in the day time , they forefhew fome perturbation of body, fo fayth the Phyfitian in his treaty of dreams: Hippocfib. for hee faith that thofe dreames which0-'2JrMW* arc not adverfe to diurnal! actions , and that appeare in the purity of their fub- jccls, and cminencie of the conceived fpecies, are intimites of a good ftate of health : as to fee the Sunne and Mpone not eclipfed, but in their fheene glory r fo journey without impediment in a plaine {bile;to fee trees fhoot out, and ladened with varietic of fruits, brookes Aiding in fweet meades,with a foft murraurc, cleare waters, neither fwelling toohigh,nor run- i4S The Glaffe of ning nigh the channell, thofe fometimcs are vaine , and portend nothing at all : fometimes they fignifie a found tempera- ture of bodv- ' 'The laft kinde, which is moft apperti- nent to our treatifc, is a dreame naturall *•• This arifeth from our comple .ions, when humours bee too aboundant in a wight; as \f one be cholericke of complexion , to dreame of firc-workes,cxbalations,comets, ftf eking and blazing meteors, skirmifhing, ftabbing,and the like. If fangnine,to dream of beautifull women, of flowing ftreames of bloud, of purepurple colours. If phleg- maticke, to dreame of fur rounding waters, of i wimming in'rivers, of torrents and fud- den fhowres,&c.Ifmclancholickc,to dream of falling downc from high turrets, of tra- velling in darke folemne places, to lie in caves of the earth, to dream ofthe divcl,of black furious beafts, to fee any the like terri* bleafpe&s. Rhod, ' csflbertus magnet dreamed that hee dmnke blacke pitch, who in the morning "when hee awoke did avoid aboundance of blacke choler. ",' Concerning thefe forenamed Complexiq* riate dreames, looke Hippocrates deinfom. -."■'* mis, ^* Humors. 149 'piu,feSi.^\ Butthefe may belong moreun- "to a diftenjperatureby"a-iaremif iet in any complexion confufedly, than to a natural! complexion indeed . as when a man after a tedious wearifome journey doth irflame his body with too much wine,' in his fleepe hee fhall fee fires, drawne fwords, and ft range phantafma*sto affright him, of what com- plexion foever he be. So ifwe overdrink our felveswe ftiajl dream (our nature being wel nie overcOitie) that wee are in great clanger tif drowningjn the wavesrfoif wee feedon any groffe meats that lie heavy upon our fto- * maefcand have a dy fpepfy or difficult con- coction , fae fhall dream of tumbling from the top of htghhils or wals,& awaken with- all before wee come to the bottom, as wee know by experience in our own body jhogfi Wot of a rrielaucholicke conftitution ; yet it iliould feem too,that this humour at that in- ftant domineers efpccially, by reafon of the great tickling of our fplcenein falling from any high rdbfne, which we each perceive when wc awake fuddenly out of thatdream. They that arc defirous further to quenchtheir thirft concerning this point, let them rcpaire to the fountaines, I mcane to the plentifull writings of fuch leaf ncd authors, a$ write of 150 The Glaffe of of dreams mote copioufly, as of Cardan that writes a whole trcatife deinfomniis, and the Alphabet of dreames, and Peter Martyr, part, i .com.pla.caj. and many others. CAP. XV. Of the exaHcft temperature of aS, wherofLetnnius fteaks. THcy that never have rellifhed the ver- dure of dainty delicateSithink homely faroisa fecond difli,faith rhe Poet:they that never have been raviftied with the fenfc be- reaving melody of Apoltejmagia Pans pipe tobefurpaffing mufick:thcy that never have heard the fweet voie'd Swan andxhc Nigh* tingallfingtheirfugred notes, do perfwade thcmfelves that Grafhops and Frogs with theis brekekekex coax can fag fmoothly* when they crouk harfhly -as Charon in Ari- ftoph. bidding Bacchus as hee pa(l to hell in his boat over Acheron to row k&4> for then he fhould hearc a melodious founded frogs. Arifl.inhU Singing like fwans before their death; fo they that Humors. 151 that have never feen in any, or at leaft never contemplated this heavenly harmonical cra- fts, this excellentand golden temperature, this temperament adpondne,c\o furmife that there cannot be a more perfect crafis and fweetcomplexion, than thofe that are vul- gar to the eomon eye: when indeed there is no complexions© temper that is perfect and pure to any eyc,thbugh the fanguine doe ex- ccll all the reft: £>uantu lentajolent inter vitmrna Cuprefi, As far as the high and beautiful! Cypres tree peers over the limber fhrub & lower Tama- risk. Thisgolden temperature n uft be onely underftood and feen with the internal eics of reafon, feeing it hath not a reall cxiftcncc. Which wee may defcribc notwithftanding, to fhew how neer hethat hath the beft,coms nie unto the bcft ;& how far he that hath the worft doth wander & digreffe from the beft. He whom we are taking in hand to blazon out according to our meaner penfil, may be likened to Qtcerostc guintilians orator,to Xenopdions CyrUsfoAriftotles Felix, to Sir T&dmas Moors Eutopiajio Homers Achillef, to the Seoicks perfect man, to Euripides his tg*. IheGlaffeof happy^fouljinthe end of his Elcgra, and in his Hecuba,vAaetohe faith* ,„ ^;iu, ' ._ : ib- ■■'■ ./.'* Hecubaher -------K fl>e$(J'oA@tto'T<*.TOf ...;;7 »ords in rJ>TU> Xsu> 3,^ TliyycKvei W^iv x«X0ya '•» Euripides. ' ' ' . .- f r .; ,'.)rf? ;f»>r #e jsin a moft happy cafe* to whom never.a 4?y there happens any ill. There was never any^of thefe.in the fame perfection they are defer ibed: who is fo happy ? nay, who on earth almoft cannot fay with the fycophant in Ariftophaneo\, . V(, Arift. in bit . : M Tff&ixoSctuui &, T6?a*(f, $ P/wr.aff.4. .r.lTi nevraws; £<£&)<£ exoUis, g-jupfidx<£ $aoithriccuBl?pppy,.and four times and five j times, and 11 times, and an hundred times. N one of thefe (I fay )arelimd out,as if there were.the like meminencie and dignity, but ejther fbr;aftection, or a fume of glory, by their applaufive defcription,o^elfe for a de- Wtfito.ftieW'What they ougfetto be: fo $hj*' temperature muft bee departed forth, of us, nota^cprdiogio.bis exigency, as if there; Were the like axtant,but accordingto a kind. ofcigcncy,asit ihould,beinhcrcnt. The man then^that^thisixafe jp abfolute in the, Vjyl equall Humors. 155 tquall poize ofthe elcments:he is fayd tobc perfect according to the perfect fquare of PolycUt«swho,(as Fabian reports) for his cunning did meritanamc alxweall mortall memfor carving images .being called iheAr- chetypus 0f all artificersdn this eucrafy there is an abfolute fymmetry, afweetconfent, a harmony ofthe firft qualities , in the whole fub/ect a conspiration of all faculties. Hee that is endowed with it, all his fences are vigorous and lively, all his innate powers do performe their duties without indamroage- mentcach to other, and without impeach- ment to the whole. His material parts have Hip.deviH. via.To; \i7iTdj. nefn. . '.'.r. H«»face is not ovetfprcd with the clouds of! (jf^ontcut at anytime, but having a lovely amiable afpect full of all pleafance,wherciri the fnowy lilly and the purple rofe do ftrivC for preheminenceariddoiriinion. In bis life tnV, J* hg 15*5 TheGkfftof he is neither a Democritus, who ever laught,noran Hifr4c//r«*,alwaiesblubbring* • as the Poet fpeaks of them, ' • •" P erpetuo rifu pulsnonem agitarefolebat D emocritus,quoties a limine moverai unum Prohibuitifcpedsm ;flevit contractus alter, The one eackwherewith ever- kinckjng vain The bellows ofhis breath he tore in twain: The other with a double-fiuced eye Did finer ifiae his tears to vanity. His gate alfo is fage & grave, not affected & ftrouting like a ftage-player.-his whole body (as Mario faith of Leender) as ftraight as C 'erces wand: who is all granotis to behold: Uke Achilles, of whom Muximus Tirrhus fayes,he was not only to be extoldfor his ex- ternall and golden locks, (for Euphorbus in like manner hadfaireyellow hair ) but be- caufe he was adorned with all vertue : In whom, as Mufens faith of Hero, there was above the ordinary number among thepoets, to wit an hundred G races: he is all favor,as Amarantha in the poet was all Venus : Sinna\ar. Hie Amaranthajacet,qu£fifat verdfdteri, <''*• Aut Humors: iff Aut Venerifimilis,vel Venus ipfafult. Here Amat ahuha lies,who was of right, Lf\e s Venus fair, or certes Venus hight. LikeEphefiusEuthym'tcus,6[ whom Achil- les T atius faith, that he was ----xaXin the 24 Serm, in fome fort J that all good hap is granted to no mamfome is graced with this bciuty on this part,fome on that,none have all favor, fayth he highly in his praifethat others having but the compendium of excellency ,he alone had it in the greateft volumes; --—» -—----ftarguntur in omnes, fu te mixtaftw nty &\qua divifa beatos EfficimtfdRecs'a tenet: ' AU Humors, 159 All thofe gifts which arc difperfed among al, so Argclut arecombined in thee,and whofe feveral par- Pol. fines of eels and as wc may fay very drops to tafte o n Laur:. were happines, they all concur in thee.thou ^/ /J2• haft the courfc and full ftreame,whcrby thou Jpifii.ia- maift even bath thy felfin bliflc. cobo Ami- Now my pen wil needes take his leaveof s«f ion\ his fair love the paper , with blubbering as q^ihulin you fee thefe ruder tears of inkcrlfthere be ^f"e */"" any parcrgeticall claufes , not futing true magnum judgmcnt,& as impertinent to this our trea- putant Jlle tife,asfurcly fome there be,I muft needs in- miyerfis geniouflyconfefTeitasadefauit. mintm' To^Ttxwyoripovxon* Atbmm. w Bpyov est 7tuf if yov ojcroyav. That I may fpeake, though not with the v ry words,yet according to the fenfe of A- gathon in Atheneus, tomakeaby-workea Work,is to make our work a by-work: Yet am I not plunged over head and eares in Pa- rergasm They are (if it Were fo that I made much ufe of them) but as our poetical Epi* fodei4nsyas VtrgiI hath in his Culex, wherof Jofeph S caliger inhis book intituled Maro- nis appendix,aad in his comment upon thefe WQrds[~**f' elttm *mP* Lotos impia'Jtn the L 5 C*1** 160 The Gfoffe of Culex faith :all thefe the Poets defcriptioni, although they be nothing but Parerga,not- withftanding they fill up the greateft roomc ofthe pages of this Poem-,fo that there is the leaft portion of that which is mOftcompetcc and requifit. So in fatullas defcription of his PulvinarCatul.wmes moft of the com- plaint of iXriadnc,of the three fatall ladies, but of god Hym'.n and of mariage fcarfe any whit at all. So in this Culex, faith hee, arc many words written inthepcaifeof the ru- ralllife; themepheardshappines, thclira- ming out of plants,&c. but of the Gnat hee fpeaks leaft of all: for,faith he,«* pt&ura tarn £rff. 17. tenui, hiftparerga adhthueris, quid dignum oculisproponi petcfi ? in fb little a toy unlefte there were obiters, what would be worthy viewing ? W hich faying may not much bee unfitting our purpofe : Though the Poets have a great prerogative to arrogate what- foevcf : X account this piftura tenuis in regardof it fclfe. And if not,I hope I may inrcrraddle now & then athingincidently by the way, fo it be not wholly out of the way. I know fome felfe-couceited nazold, and fome j'aundice-facd ideot, thatufesto deprave anddetra t from mens worthineflc, by their bafe obloquy (the very lyme-twigge Humors^ 161 our flying fame) and that with Arifiarchus, readc over and over-read a book, onely to fnarle at,likc curious currcs,and maligne the Author,not to cull out the choiccft things to their own fpcciall ufe :like venomous Spi- ders, extracting a poifonous humor, where the laborious bees doe fip out a fweet profi- table juice: fome fuch I fay,may peradveu- turebe mooved at thefe Parergits & other Tbeoder.iri efcapes, as though they alone were Italian/erw.i .fie Magnifico sandgveat Turkes ^rfcacxsLn-1^^ ftiip. Butiftheybegreeved, let their toad-^ * fwoln gals burft in funder for me,with puf- fing choler; let them turn the buckle of their dudgeon anger behinde,lcft the tongue of it catch their own dottrill skins, I weigh them notanifle. When they have fpoke all they can,fillyfouls,thcy can work thcmfelves no great advancement and me no great difpa- ragement. But here will wee now caft our happy anchor,bcing in the road and haven of our expectation: this little Barke of ours bcingfourftin cumberfomc waves, which never tried the foming maine before, hath toiled long enough upon the Ocean. Phoebus beginneth low to Weft, yea now is gone downetovifltand callup the drowile Anti. podes; If the radiant morn of favor do greet r L 4 us \6i TheGUffeof us with fcrenity of countenance,wc mean to attempt a further Indian voyage, and by the happy means of our helm-miftrcfle Miners va,vicc'\ fraught and baliifte our little Q\ip With a golden trafflque, what unrefined mettall foever fhee is now ladened withall. Jn the meane time wee wil lay in morgagc a piece of our fallowed invention, till out bankrout faculty be able to repay that deeper debt we owe to learning. @4&s^S<<§> ^S&tftw&cJj^Ja^la The Ciofc. AS fidrwgPbxbus with his radiant face,, Enthroni^'din agolden chain of ftate. The watching candles of the night dotbchojc To feefci out bidden eels,ait pdjfionate: So man in richeft robes of nature dreft, *Doth quite obfeure the glory of therefi. Whatsoever thing 4s feene,tt bath hispeete t The Citty a Sovereignejhe Heavens a Sunne, The Birds an Eagle. Beafis a Lion feare: The Flowers a Rofe,in ttilims ahart doth wonne] t The World a Center: Qenteihatba Man Her lording, primate,metropolitan. This man's a little worldthe jirtifts fay, Wherein awifeiutelligencedoth dwell. That reafon bight which ought to beare thefway, Thefpheares our Urns in motion thatcxcell. The confortwbichby moving hence doth fall)} Teelds harmony to both angelicall. Mans rarer gifts ij we do duely feen j Sag e wifedome,peerelejfe wit find comely feature, Hefeemes a very Demi-God,m man, EmbelliJhed with all the gifts of nature His heavenly foule is in his earthly mold, An orient pearle within a ring of gold. His comely body is a beauteous $nne, Built f airely to the owners princely minde, Where wandring verities lodge oftlodg'd with fin, Such pilgrims tyndefi entertainment finds. An $nne faid 1,0 no,that names unfit, Sith tbeyfiay wtwght^utdwellin it, Hsst i$4 TheClsfe! Man is the Center trarefi wonderment. Who waxetb proud with this her carriage, Andcksltt herfelftwith Arras ornament, For him to tread, esona loftyfiage. For him once ytmly fix. her fetfe does dtght Witbgreeneft Smarald to refrejhbufgbt. The heavens are full of fadder anguifbmtnt, That they enjoy not fuch a worthy wight-t The earth it full of dreary languifhrntpt, That Heavens envy her that's hers by right. The Sun that ftrives all day with bimforgrdce, At night for fhame isfaine to Jhroudhkface. Poire Cynthia's often in the fining waive, When Jheenjoyes nothisfociety, And oft her glory it atfullagaine, When he bat daines to view her Mety. Whilom invelopedin mifky cares, She now difplayes herbright difhevildbaires. True image of that high celeftialljower, Eauatl to Angels in thy happy pare, Wkofi happy fault jkoulibe a pleafant borne For Senility,her felfeto recreate, 3^ right Pandora hath enrichedthee With golden gifts of immrtaiitie. Thtumen is mode,-though be himfelfe deth rear, fy that alluring fm of luxury : And from buexKlkncywendetbfar, Jfy letting loofe the reins to venery,' Hi* foule in lufi,td death away it hent, Li{e >Efopes pearleit in a dunghitlpent. Uo\e as the fable night with jettyhew, Imdarknes mtlfflts up tbegladfome day, AndCymhii in her cloudy cell doth mew, Itftfbetbenigbts foule vifitgt fhould bewrayt: So noyfome riot rifing as a dempt, ®ath quite extinguifijreafons burning lamp. 0>ieft The cio&: *** Chiefs foe-man unto man is lavijfiryot, Which rna^es him beinferior unto man, For when the appetite ore-runs hit dyet, Thefoule-wfetbtedpowersfutl little can. Of glorious creatures greater is the fait, Corruption of. the heft u worft of aU- Reafonsfair'ft turret highly feated is, (Seat ofthefades power,which doth moftexctH) Within lil$ turnings of Meander 'tis, (Or labyrinth) where Rofammd diddwell: A triple wall tb' Anatomfts efpie, "Beforeyou come where Rofamunddotb lie. The firft is made of Elephantine tooth, Strorgly compact",hit figure circular, The wall rough caft,and yet the wor^e ifinootb, Thefatreft thirgs not ever objeO are. So cloudy curtains drawn areth'aqir dstQC, (As'eye-lids) cover Vbcebw Jhimbring eie. The other twain are notfoftronglypight, Theyrotherfervefor comely decencie, And teach w that a prince within doth fit, Enthron'd in pempe in higheft mjejty- That things more highly Prifd are more pent tn, Left they might be entie'd with flattering fin. So tb'born-mad Bull muft keep the goldenfloat, $n bowreof brapfair Dime muft be pent, The Vragon watch yourfruit Hefpendet. The all-eyd Argus muft faire U tent' The labyrinth clofe peerlejfe Rofamund: Thefragrantft rofe muft tbornes envtronrouJid, The wall which framed is of ivory, A glorious double eafementdoth com anse, Each anfwering both in uniformity, Andboth thefaireft objetlsentertaine TheOpticknerves tbegaUerUtvherettt The fiuleiothwdie,*** thefefree objetts M iM TheClofe. Within this pallacc wallagoddejfe pure, Whom Ratio all the learned Sihoolcmcn call, Clofily herfelfe within doth here immure, A Goddeffefober,wife,celeftiall : Who fitting though within herregall chaire, Oft head-ftrong appetites her overbeare. Riot the metropolitan of fivnes Laies daily fiege againft this goodly towre: And firft by pleating baites Riot begins, Then by conftraint the virgin to def towre t The towre at length is rail d by battery, Which could not bo orecomt by flattery. Ay me '.ft fairs a fort to be throrene downe, That itfofaire,no lorger time may laft : Thatlaft fhould be unpaid with reafons crowne, That rav'nous Riotfhould this palace waft. Thatfhee the miftrejfe of our lawleffe will With uncleane exeejfe thus her feife fhould fpill > Ay movfter fmneof pleafing luxury, The very heCticlpfeaver of the foule : Tbeharbingerof wofullmifery, Sweet poyfon queftout of a golden bowle, Vhrenfie of appetite, blind Cupidsginne, To catch our brain-jic^e Amoretto's in. The Lethe of a ftable memory.' Thewildftreof the wit • the mint of woes: A falling ficl^eneffe to our treafury: A mate ,that erewith irreligion goes, An Epicure that hvggetb fading joy, Before eternity with leaft annoy. Riot's a bar\e in th'minds unconftant ntaine, Toft to and fro with wafts of appetite, Where reafon holds tbehelmewitb carefullpaine, But cannot fteare this laden kjtele aright ' Here wifedome as agallijlaue is pent, Scourg'd with difgme, andfed with difcontenr. How The Cloft7 i6y No& cdth it is to ta\e tbegclden fleece; The all cy'd Argus «bw ajletpe is caft. Thecxuid$ey'dT>rogonsfaineby Hercules: Faire Danae is dejlowrdtbtugh nearefo chaft. By clues ofwindtrgpleafures new is found A trail to kill tbelcefeft Rofamund. Abandon and fha^e hands with riot then, Once let himnotin thy faire palace reft: Happy's that foule that doth not riot \en, That fcepesnat open houfe for fuch ague ft: Who Uvcf to have his Urns withfatnejfe lin'd, There lives within bis Urns a merger minde, ^Defeat thefe dainty Urns of wonted fare, Wean thou thy appetite while it isyourg, Left that itfu rfetirg thy ftate impaire, With that two-fold port-culliscf thy tongue'. Stop thou the way left too much enter in, Thefoeofvertue,lutthefritndof fin. Who hunts nought elfe in tb'ApriUof his daks, 2fut Perfian fare, too wanton merriment, A Winter fiormejn May,his l\fefhallcra\e, His fatall and hisfini^g dreariment: The only meed that comes by luxury, "$s fervileneedfullend,and cbloauy. Till fond def re be banifht from within . AgainfibiileigearebellhewUlrife, IDraw not thecurtaineo're this Jlumbrirgfin, That light of reafon may him eftfurprifel ^ITrtpn^dtf^nrfe'fh'dildtftUlhimtie, ' Heele dreame on nought buthellifh villanie. When Morpheus doth ajleepe thy fenfeslvll, Vfefleepe withfober moderaticn : Too little,wealiens wit; too much doth dull 3 And greatly hinders contemplation. Who keepes agolden meane isfure tofinde, AheeltbfultbodjandatUarifullminde. I f8 CataftropheLca«ri. 2>aijfneGrantas Nymphs,our youth to entertained Vntillour wit can reach an Ela ftraine. /Among Games fifaer fwans thaufweetlyfjstg, We Baucis and Philemonprefent bring, * GrcatThekus,tbougb Hecalc were notable, Vouchfafdacceptance of her meaner table- ■ Renowmed fiLrtsxiixcskumblytqok The prefent of Cynetasfrom the brook,. Our power is as a drop,and little can; Vet thisfiiMce,our/nind's an ocean; ' "Eft fogourMufejfhowyotidaign to/pare, Shee'lfeedyfiur e'aret with more deiiciowfare* £ IN i s- jf£ui note eft*kodic,cras tnagis apt us eritf nrr^ju i 1L3J & II >* * fLJ The Optick Glasse of Humors Thomas Walkingion Cambridge, 1639 National Library of Medicine Bethesda, Maryland CONDITION PRIOR TO TREATMENT The full leather cover was soiled and abraded. The upper cover was detached. The sewing was intact. The laid paper text was flexible. There were minor tears. TREATMENT The edges of the text block and heavily soiled leaves were surface cleaned with grated and solid vinyl erasers. The leaves were repaired with Japanese paper and wheat starch paste. The broken joint of the cover was repaired with watercolor toned Japanese paper applied with wheat starch paste. The leather was consolidated with hydroxy-methyicellulose (Wucel G) in ethanol. Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts Accession #91.850 March 1992 v >'■- 1*! 4: ■*«* ■**" '■" •■ - «r