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 Learned Man' 
 
 Defended and Reformed. 
 
 A^ifcoiirfe of fmgular Volitenef , and 
 
 ElocHtion''ik2i(onA)\y afferting the Right 
 of the Aiufes'y in oppofition to the many Ene- 
 mies which in this Age Learning meets with, 
 and more efpecially tfiofe two IGNO^ . 
 RANGE and VICE.^ . // 
 
 In two Parts^^^^/^f^*^^ 
 Written in Italiinbythe happy Ten ^/ P. Daniel 
 
 BA^TOLVS.S.]. 
 
 Engliihed by Thomas Salmbury^ 
 
 Sciemia eft de nnmcro hnornm honor ahtUum, Ariftot.Li, 
 DcAnima. 
 
 Scio neminem pojfc hne vtv'tre fine Sapisntia flt*dio. Se- 
 neca Eft^ adhwcu 
 
 J^filchrum eftinomm Artinm gcnere excere, Sabcllic//^,' 
 I o. dc CHltH & fruEbu Phiiof, 
 
 With two Tables one General^ the 
 other Alphabetical. 
 
 LONDON^ 
 
 Printed by 2?. and IV. Lejhurn^znA are to be fold by 
 
 Thma4 pring at theG'^<7r^^inFleetftteetxieer 
 
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TO HIS /Dn </n I 
 
 EXCELLENGIE^-^^ 
 GEOKG^ MONKE. 
 
 Captain General of all the 
 Armies of Etighnd^ Scotland 
 and Ireland'^ one of the Gene- 
 rals of the Naval Forces of 
 this Nation i Major General 
 of the City of London^ and an 
 Honourable Member of the 
 Council of State , &c. 
 
 Great SIR, 
 
 Kandnre of it felf is 
 Honourable ^ and 
 Learning in it felfe 
 Venerable^but when 
 they both con-center in one 
 pcrfon they are highly Admija- 
 ble. Dignity fingle , faith the 
 
 / 
 
The Eftjile 
 
 ^i;r;.t,a ' Father, The greater it is , the 
 ^'""^/j^'''''^' Vainer : Learninji ^lonti expe- 
 nence proves to be obnoctious^ 
 b BcaMm zi^a to evcry Calpejiation : But in 
 feaZTffeac' their happy Conjunftion , this 
 5encca£pi/?. f^-ccivcs FroteStiou from that^ 
 
 0.0. Lucium, ^ 
 
 NfiUmcji, cui gind ihat derives ^Per/e6l/(?« from 
 c7nlfJi'J,qll this. And as the Ancients, did 
 SS;r Honour to the onem Hercules, 
 b^/^b^[?ro- fo |-o j-he t?^^er in ^Hypocrates j 
 vegciius pj^/. whom the rroto-ArtJtocratta or 
 j._ ^yff w?*. y^/^/je/^i worfhipped as Hercnles: 
 (IL'rVigL. But never could we find a wor- 
 imp.)quosvir- thicr SubteB wherein to Honour 
 armac<etem uoth , than your Lxcellency. 
 i/M.Baptifi. -- Tis you (Brave Sir) tis you I 
 ignat /« /.r^ ^^y ^^^^ }^^^^ Mor a I iv:/ d thc La- 
 
 re miliULYi nihil J 
 
 htiiim, nihil hours of the Poets Hercules j 
 
 clar'fia Dtice e- ^ -. i -rx r* *V 
 
 y«</iro.Guii.52- itrangling the Dr^^^^^/j* oi ly- 
 lisburicnfis /.^. ^,^^^^^^ ^ ^^j Hsrcfie , if not in 
 
 c piin.tY^^ your . yet their Infancy. For 
 your G/£;ry ^ Aly Lc?ra ^^ Was re- 
 
 fcrv'd 
 
Dedicatory. 
 
 fcrv'd the Decollating tho{e 
 Hydra s , whofc Heads , were 
 but multiplyed by the oppofiti- 
 on of others : Cauterizing their 
 Courages by fevere and feafo- 
 nable Proclamations. Youitis, 
 that ( in this refembing alfo 
 our other Champion of your Ah- 
 JpitioHS Namc^ have rcmov'd 
 that Dragon of Armed ViUany 
 which watcht our Hcjperidean 
 Ga rden of Parliament^ and kept 
 that Golden Branch under Ke- 
 Jiraint^ which promifed us the 
 EliTjean Joyes of Peace. Your 
 Heroick Arm hath un-kennerd 
 thofe ^ Sons of Vulca^^^ Men of ^ ^^^''^^ 
 Iron , whofe flie and crafty con- 
 veyance rendred their Foot- 
 fieppes infcrutabic , till your 
 Excellency trace't them upon 
 thdt Ketrogradatious. In fliort, 
 A 5 your 
 
TheEpiflle 
 
 your Lordfliips Valour hath 
 Head the Nemean Lj^w^flain 
 the Erymanthean JBt^^r^diflodg^d 
 the Men-devouring DiomedeSj 
 flrangled Anthem j in their Mo- 
 rals oiZ^furpation^ Cruelty^ Op-- 
 prejponjznd Co<vetoHfnsJlfeywhxch 
 upon your Herculean Atchievcr 
 ments have loft their ftreqgth : 
 to conclude^ 'tis your invincible 
 Fortitude, hath refcued The feus 
 znd AlceJieS:, Nobility znd Inno^ 
 ctnce-y from Hell 5 in delivering 
 many Gallant and un)uftly-im'- 
 priioned Gentlemen from their 
 Chaines : And aflifted Atlas^ ii^ 
 helping our Patriots to fupport 
 the Globe of Government. But 
 yct^moft Generous Heroe^givc me 
 leave humbly to remember you, 
 that, if my Mythology cwin count 
 twelve 5 the number of y our 
 
 La- 
 
Dedicatory. 
 
 Labours arie tiot compleat, 
 whileft the ^Augean Stables sue ^,'^'^'^^' ^«f- 
 uncleanfed , and Hellijh Cerbe- l^'am^cxnllt 
 r»f Jiolds on his y^Jping. Thckp^lU,^ 
 two taken away , Merckry the '^l^^'^s'''^ '^^ 
 ^j\.€tvarder or Heras^ ami r^-¥ -^ 
 tron of Scholars 5 fliall Cr<?n?/f o/^;;/'^'" ' 
 your Valiant Temples with the 
 Fanegyrickj of Learned Pens^ 
 taken from his ^i;;^ : and this 
 being too fmall a Compenfation 
 for your Complicated Co?iqueJisy 
 you fliall ( as ^Cicero affirms of ^ ^^ ^ ^^ 
 Alcides ) ^^ ^aiir ^r/;/j^ /r^/e '^^^^^^^ 
 Heazfen. 
 
 And if Hyppocrates had the 
 Honour of an Hercules for cleer- 
 ing his Country of a general 
 Contagion , none will deny you 
 the Hononr of an Hyppocrates^ 
 whileft your Prudence hath re- 
 triv'd our Religion^ and Learfi- 
 
the EftHle 
 
 ing^ Liberties and Proprieties 
 from the moft apparent Ruin 
 that ever threatned them : 
 Therein flicwing that your Fi- 
 Boriom Handiszs dexterous in 
 A Sis of Beneficence , as terrible 
 in Deeds of Jufiice. 
 
 This glorious One^ oi Redeem- 
 ing your Country from the vilett 
 of Slavery , that ever a Warre 
 undertaken for Freedom ca- 
 joul'd men into, is every way 
 fo StHpendiom 5 that , leaving 
 the Story of it to Enrich Vo- 
 lumes J I fliall only hint that 
 you Timed it, when we were on 
 the point of Rivetting our 
 Chains ttp perpetuity, and when 
 we were like thofe Wretches 
 under the Tyranny oiMarganore 
 divinely defcribed by Ariojio, 
 
 Ma 
 
i Dedicatory. 
 
 '' Ma il popolo facea come e piu fanno, i' A"'«/2» i^f. 
 Ch'vbedifcon pia a quci, che piu in g"^;:^«|;*' 
 odio h^nno , &c. 
 
 \m €ngliQj t^us. 
 
 The Vulgar Rout ^ ledhj example^ pap 
 Ohjervance hlindtofuch 04 moftthey hAte 5 
 I 4ndlet the Tjirdnt at hu pie Mfure flay , 
 1 Baniflj^ Degrade of Honour^ Sequeftrate; 
 Cauje none for fear dires to hiifiiend im^ 
 
 part 
 How much the csmmon Ruin grieves hU 
 
 heart. 
 But vengeance though it in it's pace he flow ^ 
 Paves home M lafl with Jo much heavier 
 hlow. 
 
 &c.i7.f. 
 
 And for the Manner^ its befl 
 reprcfented by Loyal ' Hajhai^ -, ism.is.ji 
 temporizing with Abfalom i 
 whereby you have happily fru- 
 Iftrated the Councils of Achito- 
 phel^ who fnUenly Tctyvcd^ de- 
 lierting his Machiviliamfmes. 
 
 And fo vi^orioHS hath your 
 
 Ex- 
 
■ TbeEpfiU 
 
 Excellency been with a handful 
 
 of Men (animated by a Kigh- 
 
 teoHs Canfe^ againft a Potent 
 
 Enemy ^ that, as if their powet 
 
 had been given them for an Jlc' 
 
 cejpon to your Glory y you have 
 
 moft juftly merited with allfo- 
 
 f TkeodoYct. ber Chrijiians the great Title of 
 
 %p:^Zi:7t Orthodox AthenafiHS', who was 
 
 of which Dca. i Malleus H^rdeticorHm^ and arc 
 
 hathiatdv become Herculem Fa?tnaticO' 
 
 writ at large. 
 hToSejura ^Um. 
 
 impcmomm Thcrc rcfts no more , unleffe 
 
 i^uu andtt tit- 
 cere, hac villa I niay crave leave humbly to in- 
 
 efl mea^tneiis efi • •' • n i ' 
 
 ifie fervi'^.mea culcatc agamlt that commoni 
 K^guH' ^ M^xi/;/^, which miftaken, hath! 
 s.joanncm. wrought US fo much confufiou ^l 
 quemmetiiscx' That, ill the great work CvoU! 
 mbm.vd mo- are upon) or letling our Peacc^,] 
 ''LT:TpfiwuT ^Trerogati've is the bejife^urer of 
 mnmdifui Propriety. And that ' Popewa« 
 exempioMoin herem iniarJiDje, whomaintams 
 
 (as 
 
Dedicatory. 
 
 'as alfo k all that fpeak thereof) ^ ^''^'YT' 
 :hat Authority cannot he jHJi^ ^c]vm.innl,.de 
 f Illicitly acquired. And alfo aoi^T.^ln^n 
 bumbly to beg, as your De- '^^^ 
 fence of ^ Keliaion i fo your ^^f-»^'^»^.8. 
 countenance tor m Learnings than i. b.;,;/ p^?;2ci- 
 
 I . 1 1 t pi ei.i ^c relict- 
 
 which there cannot be a more ^^c eccL'fiJ 
 Noble and certain way to A- ZcIbZT' 
 irandi%e you. And becaule A^«/^^^ ^'j- 
 ome are perl waded that the re.^veif^. 
 Mufes agree not with Mars-^ let Z^ale'atqll' 
 me only name unto you for a •"'p;,Jf"'*'^^' 
 confutation of them . fuch Ho- "^ ^^g*^^ ^«»» 
 nourable irtnces , and great honore habent, 
 \Captains :, as Alexander^ Hani- %[lntf^yfu! 
 i^al, and C^r^r abroad; Albi- ^^^^^-^.^pj- 
 7im 5 Beau-Clerk^ , Edward 3 , 
 umph.D.ofCloceJier^ at home, 
 hofe Literature is as famous as 
 their Valour ; and f/j^^^r as great, 
 as can be parallel'd in any who 
 even But 
 
The Epiflle.&c, 
 
 But herein to fay more, would be to 
 entrench upon the Defig/z ot my Author^ 
 w\io(tVindicatimofLeaYnmgy as I have 
 been able co Traufcribe it, I humbly 
 lay at your Lordjhips Tcet : Promifing to 
 my Ambition no other in fo high a Bedi- 
 cation 5 than a welcome reception, 
 with fuch whofe Eyes greedily are 
 drawn by any thing , which is inscribed 
 with your Honourable Hamc ; which 
 haply for any defert of it's own in this 
 Age ( fo uncharitable to Learning) it 
 might not otherwife find. 
 
 Now, My Lord^ ii I have herein been 1 
 too Tree with your Modefiy^ or too Sawcyi 
 with your Merits ^ I appeal to your Cle^ I 
 mency , and plead that my Crime is^ 
 an EjfifH of your Lerdfhips f^ertues , of 
 which no man is a more obfequious 
 Admirer, than 
 
 My Lordy 
 
 Your Excellencies moft 
 humble Servant^ 
 
 Thomas Salusbury. 
 
 Jill 
 
TO THE 
 WOKSHIF FVL 
 
 WILLIAM PRINNE 
 
 E S QJJ I R E3 
 
 ji Bencher of the HonorAhle Society 0/ 
 Lincolns-Inn. 
 
 Honoured Sir^ 
 
 KF the Roman Fortitude of Laherim who 
 in a Syrian difguife , did in the than De- 
 hunched Senate complain of Tyranny 
 {forto quirites lihertatem perdidimui) hath 
 merited fuch applauds of a worthy Patriot; 
 what Englifh-manc3Xi without unpardona- 
 ble /;2^r4^/VW<? forget to Honour Mr* Prinnb 
 as Pater Patriae for his Qouragious , Public^^ 
 ^cCidiConflant alTerting of om Religion^ Laws^ 
 ^nd Likriiei; and giving us in the blackeft 
 night of 7>m««; 2L^eda!ianC/ue v/hcvthy to 
 extricate our felves when to moft Mens 
 thoughts we were irrevocably loft? No, 
 Sir, Your Numerous and Nervous^ ^f"Sfy 
 and Learned Volumes (which who can rec- 
 kon) have been fo fuccesful in their i?^- 
 tation oi Err ours ^Reformation of Vice^ Regida- 
 tion oi Diforders^ Refaurationoi Parliaments^ 
 and Laws^ that I inuft in Juftice joyn you 
 
 with 
 
To the Reader. 
 
 than this Innoccftt HandiiiaidJ withfo much 
 Juhtkty in our Climat oppofe: thus Retaliating 
 up^n them^ their Learned Suicide <?/^Lci3irn- 
 ing, mth this Jef uitical Refutation ^Englilh 
 JefuitiftiL.. 
 
 ThusforthefirR:Part^ thefecond^which tendeth 
 
 to the Reformation ^Scholars y I fhall not. 
 
 Jpeaf^ of ^ leajt Ifeemtoquejlion their Apprc- 
 
 henfion^ but onlj commend it to their Vx^&\ct 
 
 aswellas^c^(Xmg. 
 
 I am now too neerlji related to the Book, to 
 enter into any p Articular comfneridation of it : jet 
 filch is its ejleem in the Italian Tongue, that '. 
 fever d promifed it in ours : more efpecially oncj 
 4 Gentleman of known Parts, . v^hoat his Re- 
 creative hours, during his Refidence with 
 the Charaifter ^/^ Tuhlick^ Minifter in Italy, 
 tad taught it Englifh ; tut that heing feveral 
 jearsfince^ and upon exa5t enquiry not hearing 
 farther of it ^ I have at la^fetit before thee 2 
 iiotfo quaintljidreji y perhaps ^ as it might hav4\ 
 been: but mth oa much conformity to the Ori- 
 gal Senfe, m could be given to it, by 
 
 henmL 
 
Learned ilMen defended. 
 
 P A R T L 
 
 The Introdudion 
 learned Men not lefTe Happy for being difrefpedcd 
 
 by the Grandees of the World. fag. i 
 
 An Eflay of l/;?^^r/?^//^/V^ exemplified for a Tafte 
 
 of the other SciencesiWi the only Contemplation 
 
 of the Heavens ij 
 
 Wifdome Happji though in Mifery^ 
 
 The Wife-Poor-Man 
 rhe Wife Exile 
 The Wife Prifonen 
 The Wife Infirm. 
 
 3^> 
 42 
 
 57 
 66 
 
 Ignorance Miferable though in Profperitj. 
 
 Ignorance and Sandity. yp 
 
 Ignorance and Dignity. 90 
 
 Ignorance and Profeffion of Arms. 10 1 
 
 Ignorance ^nd Riches. 112 
 Theconfufion of Ignorance y being fileficed in pre- 
 
 fence of better Speakers, 120. 
 
 C^) hearncd 
 
The Contents. 
 
 Learned ^^en %ejbmd. 
 
 PART II. / 
 
 The Introdufllon. 
 
 PLAGIANISME. 
 
 TIaofanesxh.'Xt feveral wayes Appropriate the pains 
 ofother Studie^P'^^' -^'] • •^;''>^' ^^-130 
 
 That we ought nottoi^^^^/ from others, hm Invent 
 new Arguments of our own. 143 
 
 How we may Honeftly and Commendably Filch, 
 from o thers Writings. . 160 
 
 LASCIVIOUSNESSE. 
 
 The Infamous Profcflion of Lafcivious Foetrf. 172 
 
 The weak Apologies of Obfcene Poets. 179 
 
 Of the Goodufe of Bad Books. 190 
 
 A Tarandtfis to Writers of Immodejl Poems. 202 
 
 DETRACTION. 
 
 The Inclination of the G'^«///^5 andabufeofthe Wit 
 to the Defaming of others. 211 11 
 
 He that erred in Writing (hould not refute bfe I' 
 
 Confutation : And he that is Ignorant himfelfjp 
 
 (hould no: undertake to ^correcft^or condemn 
 
 others, '^^9 
 
 SELF- 
 
T^he Contents. 
 SELF-CONCEIT. 
 
 The eft^em of a Mans own Knowledg with di- 
 fpraife of others. 243 
 
 Two great evils of ^-^/V^^&'t^m; To fearch matters 
 of Fa^^^ with the curiofity oi Phjlofophy^^wA to be- 
 lievc matters of Phjlofophj with the certainty of 
 
 Faith. ^53 
 
 SELF-DECEIT. 
 
 The Folly of fuch, who pretend to ftudy little^ and 
 know much. 
 
 IMPRUDENCE. 
 
 The unprofitable cndevours of him that ftudies 
 againft the Inclination of his Genius. 274 
 
 Little credit to be given to the Sl^n^s of Ingenuity 
 tdkzniromrhQPhyftognow}', . *^ 284 
 
 The original caufe of the Excellency andDiverfity 
 of VVits^ 2.TidxhtVarious Inclinations of the Ge^ 
 nius. 2^2 
 
 AMBITION. 
 
 The Folly of fuch , who out of a Defire tofeem 
 
 ^ Learned, publifh their Ignorance in Print. 305 
 
 The unfortunate pains of fuch who Study 5^ and 
 
 Write matters wholly unprofitable. 3 x^ 
 
 (a) 2 AVA- 
 
The Contents. 
 AVARICE. 
 
 
 That he is guilty of the Ignorance of many , who 
 might benefit many by [the Preffe , and neglects 
 it, ' 325 
 
 The incomparable Veliclty of good Authors that 
 appearing/?/. 333 
 
 OBSCVRITY. 
 
 Ambition dL^A Confujion two Principles oiOhfcurHy \ 
 Affected^ and Natural. 341 
 
 That the Argument ought to be elected adequate to 
 the Wit of him that difcuffeth it 3 49 
 
 Suh'divijion & Defe^ion of the whole Difcourfe.3 56 
 
 The Methodizingoi the matter, called i)//z;^. 359 
 
 The Dijcouragement of thofe that encounter with 
 Difficulties at the beginning. 3 66 
 
 That we [hould vary o\xx Style , according to the va- 
 rious Suhje^oi the Difcourfe. 371 
 
 Ofthe Style called the Modern- A ffeSfed^ 379 
 
 When the Indifcretion to \^tz too Elegant , andP^- 
 lite^Styl<^. 387 
 
 Of the Examination and Qorre^ion of our own 
 Compofures* '395 
 
 The Conclufioru 
 
 ^li 
 
5^// workj fofrefaPth ikrive from Adams firfi off^nce^ 
 And thefs tn this cerreEt , as thofe that ch^figc thefenje^ 
 
 E R R ATA. 
 
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 Swn^^.zl I IT r}nterfOg,iY€S J p'^ihf r.Dkpentc, p.^/^tir.neque,p.'^n 
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 y.and cnviron'/i,p.44/ s r^ran,/ 24 r.pciv feath2i'd,p.4* li9r. Sapiens, 
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 beheld,'' .8 1 / i I rMiUcmyXZi I lo ". Ma.gne ,p.8 5 ^ i r, favour,/ 1 4 /'.give 
 herairo,p*8^/»3'uh'«ch,p«39/^ r.p'irntit^ p.f ^^ r.as a feren, p. 9^ 
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 fordid;/ II >'.give,p.io7 /^ yM^ I) r. urizes^p.i ^7 /./</^. >.?z oras, pioS 
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 p.iiJ^lidc.y^vix, ^n8/i7 "''-in, p. 141 /liz-.fi'cli p.145,^ T-'.Ar.ofto, 
 p.ij3/i4r, wife, for fuch, p.i';6idc i^. rewards, p.1^7/ 18 /'. acciplmns, 
 Majo;\p.\6:ilid Y.cond:mr\yp,i6^ lijhz^my? p. 169 penult, r. Lcoc/ai^ 
 p.170/7 ^.tUem, p. 171 /f >'. of awiiiDv, p.ij^^ ''- ^- P'-^f^vic hotorey 
 P.I78/X4 '/•.womin,p.i8o/ii rrcagoeJyiBucp.iSf /8 >-.too,5.i8j/i^ 
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 r,Macidas, p,zoj 1 16 r*hia, p.ii i /.19 r its , p.ixi / x^r.chatic is, 
 ; f«xzf /^r.wfch, ^,1x7/ i^Emperojr, p.iiS f./^^^.^anJ, p 131^ i^^, 
 ^-cujfu! f^m,p 13 5 / 1 1 rjednndcretyp.z^i 1 19 '■.vincenmHS^ V^^^7 ^ 15 
 */coiich'd,p.2 5i/4i /. icis,p.if3/i5^.1ivc.s,p i^o/i i i^Jeadcr^p^^^^i 
 
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 ■ r her, p,^ ^o 1 10 r.pr^dieatorem, p.^^iUi y.moft, P.3T3 / i^f v tun'd, 
 
 P3J4;'«^jz/;.r,anib;cion, /; 3 59/ 9 /him, p 3^0 /xy aadcjucion, /13 
 
 mnYmure, p 377 ^ 3'''o^cveiy,p383 / t^rtheyfay, p 385 warg, y.is 
 
 /f/'o,P387randere»aarchcs, p39o/i7 '/-andbtnilhs. , p 394/ 10 >•. 
 
 a-obferved, p 395/ zj r which arc, p 397 ^ ii >• fterilit/jp 398 / 5 r lul 
 
 ua 
 
 The 
 
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The Reader will be ere-longprefentedfrom 
 the fame hand with the following fieeeS 
 ready for the Prcjfe. 
 
 I The Secretary ; in four Parts, i The Hii^ory ©f 
 Letters, tlirir Originsl , ProgreHe , and Perfediori. 
 2 The Art of Writing all the known Charaders of 
 Ancient , and Modern ufe , reduced to Mathematical 
 Proportion* , and Demonftration?. 5 Twenty feveral 
 Species of Occult Writing , called Cypher , touching 
 alfo on the cxpofitionof ihe Egyptian Hciroglyphicks, 
 4 Advcrtiferoent GrsmmaticaK Khetorical, Moral, and 
 Polytical, neceffary for an Accorapliftied Secretary. 
 
 I I. Matbcmavical Collcv5liors and Tranflations of 
 forac of the Choiceft pieces of <*^rchimedesy Tartaglia^ 
 Galltletts , Ca/Ielli ^ and ^ava/enm^ &c» chiefly intended 
 for a Compleatdifcufionof the Dodtine, ^eiicftdentt^m 
 bftmido ; neceffary in all Aquatlck O^ erations. 
 
 III. Co^^t Gualdo Prio'iati his Excellent Hftory 
 of the Regency of the Prefcnt queen Mother of France; 
 giving an accurate Accompt of all the memorable A dions 
 Qf France-, England-, &c» from i<5475 to 1655. 
 
 The 
 
The Introdudion. 
 
 Be Calumnies of the Ignorant , and the 
 Vices of the Learned ; thefe are the rwo 
 Clouds that Eclips the Glory <^Learn- 
 irrg 5 and bereave this bright Sun of the 
 World ofitsfpendor. The Ignorant hate Learning? 
 and cannot comprehend it ; and becaufethey cannot com' 
 prehend it ^t bey therefore h^te it: forifOwlQS had eyes ^ 
 with which to lookfiedfajlly on the Sun, they would be * 
 no longer Owlcs but Ea2;les. 
 
 The others^ ill nftng Learning, like 04 certain Ma- 
 lignant Stars that imploy the light cU a conveyor of 
 mortal Influences ^ they render odious to the Worlds the 
 mosf goodly and innocent thing of the World, Thus the 
 integrity c/^ Learning appears not fo amiable, oa it mighty 
 whilftfome Mens judgments , without all Judgment 
 deem her Criminal, ^ind others Faulti , tofuchas h^ve 
 not good SyeSy reprefnt her Culpable. 
 
 Wherefore then m^y it not he lawful! for a man , ( / 
 fay not endued with Wit , which is notfo much re-^ 
 quired y but one[y with common Reafon^ for the vin- 
 dication ^/"Innocent Learning? to do as that Great 
 
 Anax' 
 

 The IntroduScioii. 
 
 Anaxagoras , wkki was no lejje folidtous for the 
 noiir, then acquainted with Courfo of the Sun; jr^^ 
 when it chanced to he in Eclips 5 md the Ignorant 
 Vulgar exclaimed at it y pointing to the Sun with his 
 finger^ he in fcome convincd them of their hlindneffi^ 
 telling them that^ that unlooked for Jymptome offudden 
 ohfcurity was not as they believed an Eclips of the 
 Sun, hut of their Eyes, which in the Moons /Iiadoj^ 
 as in a little night became durl^. The Sun which ii the 
 Tountain of aU the Worlds Light, can never he ex- 
 haujled ^ Light , can never Iqfe it; fmce it hath it 
 not as infufed) hut as confuh^antiated. Vnde veto', 
 fi qu^ obfcuritas Litterarum y faith that brave Ora- 
 tory nifi quia vel obtrcijtationibus imperitorum, 
 ' vcl abutcnrium vitio fplcndor eisintercipitur > 
 But hecaufe that that ^ which may bcfpo\en on this 
 SubjeBfor the neceffity of the Caufe [feeing its defended \ 
 hjitfelf) ts little more than nothing; and that which may 
 he f Aid for the capacity oft he hx^wm^nx. is infinite ^ I^who 
 have tied my felf riot fo much to 'a\2X\.zx as to time, have 
 thereupon faid on]}' jfo much as my Idlenejfe hath given me 
 leave , which had borrowed little more then the two hotteSt | 
 months ef a Suinm^v from my other affairs ^ to imphy 
 t hem in this rather Divertijement for my felf then Ad^ 
 tifementfor others, Howbeit , / wifh that this Utile be not fa 
 ferflucus ; in regard^ that of that which ii illfpoketi^ everjL 
 little y is not on!}> much^ hut too much, ' 
 
PART L 
 
 Learjud mm not lejfe happy ^ fot' 
 being difreJpeSled by the Gran- 
 dees of the WorkL 
 
 He Miiadventure> 
 
 (not to fay with orhcrs, the 
 Deftiny) of unhappy Vcrtucj 
 
 .^..._ proved and condoled in all 
 
 Ages 5 is that fhe cannot find in all this 
 great Theater of the World a place 
 voorthy of her merit , or a nich fit for her 
 Statue. Thofe Golden Ages are paft , 
 when Royal Crowns were expoled to 
 fale to him that bid moft ; and oppreft the 
 heads of thofe that ftood tor them : When 
 ,the fillets of Imperial Diadems did not 
 ferve to bind in the brains of fools, (as it 
 now oft happeneth,) but to honour the 
 merit, and crown the prudence of the 
 
 B Vvif^ 
 
The Fird Fart. 
 
 wife. The Wals , Foundations, and re- 
 mains of theruincsof that famous Tem- 
 ple of HonQur , into which the entrance 
 was only through the Door of Ve{cn , are 
 now-a-dayesfo demoliflied? and interr'd 
 m rubbifli ^ that there doth not remain to 
 memory fo rulich as the place where it 
 flood •, nor the hope of railing it from the 
 contempt of its prefent ruins , to the glo- 
 ry of its padcd grandure. Therefore 
 though now Vertuefirivcth toafcend, it 
 doth not increafc at all : like certain flars 
 neer the Antarftick Pole , which having 
 had fixty ages of continual revolution > 
 yet have reaped fo little profit from their 
 tedious travaile, as that they have not at- 
 leincd to fo much as a vifibie Afcenfion 
 above our Horizon. The Mountains which 
 arc gravid with Golden Ore, ufenotto 
 afford either Groves for delight , or 
 herbs for food : Naught appears upon 
 them but barren cinders , and fterile 
 fands ; through which as bones, they 
 difcovcr hu^efiones, pofTefiing a certain 
 ilinmeful nudity , fothat it would reflect 
 as a difgracc upon other Hills embroide- 
 red with herbs, and beautified with trees, 
 so be put in competition with them. This 
 
 is 
 
Wifdtm happy. 5 
 
 is the miferabic lot of Vcrtue in the 
 World. By its Golden veins inclofcd in 
 its bowels, itisrendrcdas poor without, 
 ;is it is rich within. And yet fhc proveth 
 this verity , that Vertue and Nakednefle 
 arc Twins , born together at one birch, iii 
 theTerreftial Paradife, and were never 
 iince feparatcd and divided frcm one ano- 
 ther. ThcGarments of the body are more 
 honoured than the vertuous habits of the 
 iriindc 5 itprofiteth not to have Sapience 
 and Goodncffe in the breft as orienjc 
 pearls , for if your poor clothes make 
 you feem a contemptible fliell of Mother- . 
 pearl 5 there's few v/ill look on you ^ and 
 flower eftecm you. 
 
 All this holdethtrue afwcll inLenrn- 
 ing as in Vertue ^ for it alfo , as born un- 
 der the fame Afcendant? hath icfor its 
 fate: To it all favours arc Retrogrades 
 all Bcnefadlors abfent, all the Afpedls 
 full of difrefpeft; and the courfcof For- 
 tune every way unfortunate. 
 
 Now-a-dayes is reputed amongfl: Mi- t/£lh^ 
 radcs , tor a Dionyfuts to become Driver of Lih, 4. ^ 
 his Royal Chariot , to carry Plato upon ^^r.Hi* 
 the high way into ^jracu^a , and pndc ^^''' 
 himfelf in the glory ot the fact? as if he 
 B z had 
 
4 The Firfi Part. 
 
 had guided the Chariot of the Moon 5 or 
 carrycd thcSunne in triumph. hnAkx- 
 ar^der Stzerm to cover a Ulpian Profcflor 
 of the Law with his Royal Mantle 5 and 
 to make his Imperial Purple a Robe to 
 honour, and a (\'\\^\d to defend him, A 
 Juftwi^n 3 a Sigi^mond Emperours, and 
 lome others like them 5 to make their 
 Courts Academies ^ and to frequent Aca- 
 demies as tlieir Courts ; holding dear 
 the mortal life of thofe ^ from whom they 
 receive in recompencc , an immortal life 
 of their Name and Glory to Polterity. 
 
 Thefe once fo fruithil trees , are now 
 become barren ; affording neither fruit to 
 feed them , nor fliadow to comfort them^ 
 in the Courts of Princes, more than in 
 the Cave ofay^olm ; there arc kept under 
 lock and key thofe ZephiruJJes fathers of 
 Fecundity 5 and Winds proper to the 
 Goldcn^aj^^e; nor onlyis theCuftomlofl, 
 that Per.es Sapierdk Regmm fit ^ which 
 f^c-ecx Po/ido .his faidj had been ufed per illofacu- 
 />;/.p.o loy quod a^r turn ferbibetur ^ but moreover 
 alf^ 3 "that Per/es Reoes fint Sapientes. Nor; 
 bccaufe the Books of learned men chancei 
 /ome imestobe read of Grandees, an( 
 exad from them prayfe and commendaj 
 
 tioi 
 
Wifdom happy. 5 
 
 tion , muft ic thcretorc follow that tl e 
 , civil entertainment and honours they- 
 meet withal , (liould rciflecl on the Au- 
 thors; which isjud as LaBa/^tjiis faith in 
 another cafe : Tiicy adore the Tnirigcs of 
 the Gods 3 buc care not for tbc Arrificers 
 that engraved them, they offer gihs to 
 the Statues , and eKa*? tribute of the Sta- 
 tuary's 5 they honour the Stones as Divi- 
 nities 3 and trample on thofe that formed 
 them, as if they were Stones : Simulacha BpOri<r, 
 DeoYumvznermtur^ f^l^ros *rjui ilia facere cor,- error c.\, 
 temi^unt. Quid inter [e tarn contrar turn ^ qttam exSsncc. 
 flatuarium c/ifpicer-^ 5 Ji^atuam adorare ^ (^ 
 eum yie in conuiuium quidem admit t ere qui 
 tibi Deos facial? 
 
 Fortunate Princes (faith a great Duke 
 oiMilUn) haveNers cf Gold and Purple, 
 wherewith they fiHi for men of ^ rear 
 ' wifdom and worth , which are che prtxi- 
 oufcd pearls that Heaven can bc'Jcow on 
 Mortals • rhey have wealtn where vjth to 
 purchafe Wits exellent in ever- Profcfli- 
 on of Learning, a Merchandife only wor- 
 thy of i^rinces. 
 
 Famous is the fooIifl:incfle of a poor 
 
 rich man 5 who knov/ing himfclf to be an 
 
 ^^'^Owlc, and defiling to become an Eagle> 
 
 B 3 gav« ' 
 
the Firfi Part. 
 
 gave a great fumme ci money for the 
 Lanthorn by whofc divine light EpiBeta^ 
 watching 5 became a Sunne of Mor^l 
 Prudence. A Lanthorn its true, might 
 give light to the paper 3 but not totheuh- 
 lianding, might give light to the eyes^ 
 but with what profit to the Student if the 
 mind be blind? Living Scholars are li- 
 ving Lanthorns, by the beams of whofe 
 radient luftreare difcovered the features 
 ot Pal/as^ Confervatrix of States, andPa- 
 troncfle of Princes : Thefe are the eyes of 
 which that is verified, which was falfly 
 reported of thofe of the Corgons^ that they 
 could lend them to one another; and with 
 thefe a blind Prince may become aHun- 
 dred-eycd-^y^05 ? all eye : Nor ought they 
 to be JcfTe , if tlie Aphorifme hold true 
 in peace, which is read in yigethu^ con- 
 ccrnin;:; matters of Warrc. Neque quen- 
 quammagtsdecet-i vel meliora fcire :, ruclpltt" 
 ra quam pruiCfpem ^ cujm doHri^a ommbidsfo^ 
 te^prodejje fuijeBis, 
 
 Before that King Vm^jfm would under- 
 hand this 5 more for fcorn then curiofity, 
 he deracindedof Ari^ipfm whence it was 
 thstt Phylofopherswent to rich mens hou- 
 fcs to beg a livelihood , and die rich- 
 went 
 
WifdciM happy. 7 
 
 went not to the houfes of Phylofbpbers to x*wf. in 
 get Wifdom ; andhadthisnoleiTctriiCj Arift. 
 thcnrcadyanfwcr : Becaufe poorPhylo- 
 fophers know what they iiand in need ot 5 
 and ignoranc iich men do not. ^ 
 
 That men of great learning are not 
 born 3 but only as the Phoenix , one in five 
 hundred years : that there are not fome 
 who inrich the World with new inventi- 
 ons in Letters and Arts; is not beciiufe 
 the Ages are erown barren ? or the places 
 unfruitful in Wits : The fault lyeth in 
 ereat part upon them who open not the 
 Port to them that would launch out , nor 
 fhcw the lure to him chat flyeth-, for tliere 
 wants not fome Minds withgreat W ings, 
 and Wits with large Sails. He had pro- 
 ved the fame who faid , 
 
 The Posts and the Studiom are few • {lack 3 
 Andvchen thefeheafls both food and Covert 
 They then thiir place of feeding do renew. 
 
 That there are not fome with the 
 noife of whofe great VVifdom , Fame 
 fliould make the World ring, and ftrke 
 it into dumb aftcniiliment 5 it is the fault 
 of great men? which contrive ^ot their 
 
 B 4 The- 
 
8 The Firjk Pdrt. 
 
 Lfk j. Theaters with that advice , which Fitru- 
 f^p, 3, z^iiis gave , where he counfclleth that 
 above all things 5 they have regard to the 
 building of the Theater , vrhcrc Come- 
 dies are aded , and Mufick recited fo » 
 that it be not deaf , and by that means the 
 Muficians and Comedians unprofitably 
 fpend their voice and pains. O how ma- 
 ny like to cold and livelefle vapours, at 
 cend not a foot from the earth , which if 
 they fliould meet with abeneficient Sunne 
 chat might infufe heat into their labours 
 and advance them, would fliine like fo- 
 many Stars: For the Vines fruitfulneflc 
 is in ^rear part to be acknowledged to pro- 
 ceed in m the fupport of the elme on 
 wii^cii ic rcltech. 
 
 To paffe tlie terms of ordinary in any 
 profcflion , and to attein tothofe of ex- 
 cellent 5 IS a task hard enough to require, 
 and Lng enough to take up our whole 
 Jives 5 Nqw what vyondcr is it, if there 
 be none that will fpend fo much to gain 
 nothing, confumingthir lives, and yet to 
 get no more than a Infficicncy where- 
 with to maintein them alive* 
 
 WcJJ-rigged-vcdels farrc excel others 
 lia xdogity-, and being well calked/urpafle 
 
 . rhcm- 
 
Wifdom happy. 
 
 therrifelvcs , fo that thofc which before 
 moved dully , and as it were againft their 
 wills, are now fo yarre, that they rather 
 feemtoflie, then fail. Favours infufewic 
 even into the ingenious themfclvcs •, and 
 where the fraught is a Golden Fleece, 
 the Oares, as it was with Jrgo , move 
 alone. 
 
 Finally, for Students tobe forced to dif- 
 pute every day with poverty, to contraft 
 every hour with her mifcrics, to divide 
 their thoughts into a thoufand leveral pla- 
 ces, whither their ncceffitics cailthemj 
 thefe are thorns 5 in which Learning 
 makes not her neft. He that will have his 
 bees gather honey , muft not expolc them 
 to the violence of the winds: for where 
 thefe have too much power j-thofe have 
 none at all. In their flight from their hive 
 to the flowers , and from one flower to an 
 other, in their return with the prey the 
 winds if impetuous , drive them out of 
 their way, and tranfporc them elfwhcre. 
 Such are the thoughts of Scholars * for 
 where other cares diftrad them, they can 
 perfect no excellent work they undertake. 
 And to fay the truth, how can thefe 
 two confift together ^ to perplex tlie braiti 
 
 about 
 
J o T^hc Firji Part. 
 
 about maintenance , and imploy it in 
 ftudy ? Therefore well faid he who ever 
 he was 5 and it holds not true of Poets on- 
 ly , but of all the Learned. 
 
 Softness ^ [weet foody md temperate gales 
 
 of aire^ 
 The Sfvans defire 3 And none mth finchmg 
 
 care 
 Come neer Pernaffus , and nho flill do 
 
 chant 
 On nothing hut their defliny dnd tvant 5 
 Lofe time and fpeech^ and [0 grow hoarfo 
 
 fitla^^^c. 
 
 Demoflhenes told the Athrniam that it 
 Tmau ^^^ ^^ indecent fight to fee the facred 
 Gall) Paralos ioxmtiVj ufcd only inthein- 
 tercfts of Religion jand to waft the Priefts 
 10 the facrifices of Delphes 3 now profaned 
 with vile imployments ^ they ufing it to 
 carry v/ood and beafts ; at which the 
 very winds murmurre, that drive it a- 
 gainfttheirwills-,andthe Seas fob to fee 
 it fo changed from what it formerly was, 
 and now ought to be. But arc there not 
 things now-a-dayes little lefTe indecent)^ 
 that a foul of a fublimc undcrftandiBgi-js; 
 
 and 
 
Wifdom happy. ii 
 
 land elevated inrellcduals? fentinto the 
 I World for univerlal benefit 5 and more 
 i reverenced by heaven ? then known by the 
 Earth, is forced to imploy himfeif inan 
 lunw^orthy Trade, to purchafe a fubfift- 
 ance ; (pending his nobler thoughts to 
 make provifion againft nakedneffc, thirft, 
 I cold, and famine. 
 
 The thoughts of fuch wander fo from 
 
 I the courfe of their begun fpeculations, 
 
 breaking off where necefTity imporcu- 
 
 inately calleth them 5 that they either 
 
 ; very much lofe the thread of their dc- 
 
 fign, or elfe arrive not halt way to their 
 
 Journeys end; like that nimble footed 
 
 t> Atdanta , which by going too much out of 
 
 i the way to take up Hippoma/jes Golden 
 
 . Balls , was caft fo farre behind , as that 
 
 t ihe was farre out-gone in the end. 
 
 Trdteriu ifi virgo duxitfua pY<£mU viBor. Met Am. 
 
 Hence the Satyrical Poet was fo dif- 
 
 ^leafcd with the Houfc of iVr^w/W , and 
 
 Hider this name with all the Courts of his 
 
 ; ime, feeing that beads had place and 
 
 ;>cing wheremen, and (if ic be lawful to 
 
 layic,) more than men found it not ; for 
 
 there 
 
r 2 The Firjl Part. 
 
 there wanted not meat to fill the pauncl 
 of a voracious Lion day by day j and ycL 
 there was not bread to fatisfie the hun-1 
 gcr of one meager Poet. 
 
 J^"^^"' ^I^on deficit iUL 
 
 ^^t, 7. fij^^^ emeret multa pa[cericlum came Ltonet^^ 
 Jam domitum, Conflat leviori M/uafumptu 
 JSTimimm^ ^ capimtphts mtejlina P0et£. 
 
 i 
 
 That Courts become Temples whcr 
 in Fools are adored , and Buffoons h 
 nourcd, whiles the Learned in the mean- 
 time are banifhed ; what is this but onely 
 to give to beafts all the Stars frooi the 
 more bright to the lelTe clear y and to di- , 
 ftribute the ample Canopy of Heaven a- 
 moiigft them 5 thence burying the Elyz,iaus 
 underground, and make them border on 
 Hell*, So that a Scorpion , a Dogge, a 
 Hydra, a Goat, a Bull, are advanced o- 
 ver the heads of all with names of Cele-l 
 ftialSigncs, and an Achilles', an OrphemM 
 and all the Chorus of Demi-gods are pla- " 
 ced under feet 5 TheBeafts to be gilded 
 with the light of Sols rayes, the men toW 
 be fmeared by the fmoak of PktQS King- 
 dom. Seeing the head; the Scat of th€| 
 
 un- 
 
Wifdc 
 
 om happy. 15 
 
 undcrftandingjand therefore only worthy 
 of a Crown , was placed by Natute above 
 all the other members , that fo they all as 
 vaffals fliould fupport ic their King: Now, 
 how IS it> that the feet are exalted aloft 5 
 and the head laid in the duft > That there 
 fliould be fome who in a brave 5 as out of 
 a fyper-humane Vertue, bear like the fa- 
 mous Milo 5 a great Oxe upon their 
 : fhoulders, whilftin the mean-time poor 
 I ClearahiS that he might live like a man , 
 was forc't to labour like a beaft ? 
 
 But having defigned to begin this 
 iTraftate from the peculiar felicity of a 
 l^cholar, fliewing that even then when 
 he wants all thines, he is fatisficd and 
 happy oniy in himfelf, and (as 5^/zec^ calls 
 him) a Vmle Jupiter -^ what I have done 
 hitherto exaggerating in the parfimonious 
 unworthincfTe of fuch as do not relieve and 
 refpeft him, the need he ftands in of re- 
 lief and refped ? Howbeic I have there- 
 by more difcovered the crime of fuch 
 who regard him not , then any mifcry 
 in him through his being difre^ardcd. 
 For (to conclude) Gold, although digged 
 from the dirt and ftoncs, amongft which 
 It lies buried in the mines ^ would appear 
 
 more 
 
14 The Firjl Part. 
 
 more fplendid 5 yet he is infinitely more 
 the lofer , who doth not dig and make 
 it his own, then it by being undifcovercd 
 and un-appropriated. And again, in the 
 crime of them thatefteem not the Lear- 
 ned , their merit is proved ? fince their 
 advancement isdemerited? and the not 
 honouring them is a crime. 
 
 Now let us fee how a learned man may 
 find within himfelf the lively fourcecif 
 that famous Neftar of the Gods , which 
 having only in it felf all other taftes, he 
 need not feek , nor enjjy any other. 
 This is the Eflayof Qnderllandmg , the 
 which how copious it is, although it may 
 be manifefted in the (ubjed of all the Sci- 
 ences, (but you m ay cfteem that too pro- 
 lix and troublcfome; ) I have thought 
 goodforatafteofthereft, to glance at it 
 in one alone , not of the beft , but of the 
 moft familiar; and it is the knowledge 
 and contemplation of the Heavens 3 a part 
 of Nature 5 if we ftand upon the judge- 
 ment of the Eye , the moft ample and 
 amiable; if of the Mind j not the laft«- 
 amongft the beft. ;tI 
 
fVifdom happy. 15 
 
 ^§^^########### 
 
 An Efay of Vnderjianding Dif- 
 (played for a tajic of the other 
 Sciences ^ in the onely Cofitem^ 
 plationof the Heavens. 
 
 He common Afiertionofthe Pl^f^^rc. 
 two moft renovvmed Schools ^^^^'' 
 of Pfthagoras and Plato is , That ^^^^' 
 'the Celejtial Spheres h:creafina one 
 aiove another mth meafures of Harmonicd 
 fr Of onion ^ in the revolutions that thej make , 
 m o^e the Confort of a moft perfeB Mufick, 
 LMacrobiu! renderth the rcafon drawn from Lit. 2. 
 the natural principles of Sound ; and de Som, 
 thence he concludes; Lxhis inexpugnahili Scip-ca.i 
 ratione goUeHum efl Muficosform de Sph^rarum 
 c^ltftium comerfione procedere , quia ^ So* 
 um ex motu fieri necejje eft 5 (^ Ratio qu£ di- 
 vinis in efl • jit [oko caufa modulaminis. Nor 
 becaufe that our eares are not Judges of 
 fuch Mufick> ought we therefore to doubr, 
 or to deny it ^ lorafmuch as that melodi- 
 ous found in its arrival at the Elements 5 
 ifsby the noife of their difcordant jarring, 
 
 loft 
 
i6 The Firjl Part. 
 
 loft and drown'd, and there moft, where 
 the noife is loudeft. And well w<is it faid 
 elfwhcre : 
 
 Jh Heaven $ not mutey as is belieifdlyfomej 
 But n;e are deaf'^ arid to our ears doth come 
 The Earths, harfh croaki/^g-, which the fame doth 
 Among^ who[e dijjom/jts in iJain n>e hope (ftop, 
 7" afpire to th' Heavenly Harps fweet harmony ^ 
 Touch' t hy the hand'of Delos Diety. 
 
 If it were not as Philo advertifeth, that 
 God rcferving for us to a better time, fo 
 fweetaguftof Mufick, had with a parti- 
 cular Providence 5 in fuch manner by it 
 deafned, and diflocated our audible facul- 
 ties, ochcrwife (ufpended, extacis'd, and 
 ravillied out of our felves by the harmony 
 of thofe moft Regular Bodies, we fhould 
 not only grow careleffe of cultivating the 
 earth, and remiife in the affairs of civil 
 life, but in the end lorget our felves : Co?- 
 Thtlo, lum (faith he) ferpetuo confenti^ fmrum mo- 
 tuum reddit harmontam fuaviffimam • qua fi 
 pofj'et ad noftrus aures pervenire in nobis exit a* • 
 ret in fams [ui amores^ fy defideria , quibm J 
 flimulatirerumad viBum mcefj art arum oUi^ 
 vifcerewur , non pafli ciho potuque y fed vdut 
 immortalitatis cmdidati. But 
 
Wifdont happy. x j 
 
 ♦ But to fay the truthjto comprehend in this 
 Heavens, the melody ot a ravifliing har- 
 mony, and to enjoy therewith above ^ a 
 delight able to make one almoft Angeli- 
 cal, it is not necelTary to defire that the 
 Mufick of thofc harmonical Spheres 
 (Spheres they are called by them who 
 will not grant that they be, as notwith- 
 ftanding they are all one fole and liquid 
 Heaven ) do approach the ears. Never- 
 rheleffc our mind may be thereby b-efied> 
 following with the flight of its thoughts, 
 notasfomedo Poetry, a lying inventor of 
 fables, which leading us through the vafts 
 of Heaven, faith 10 us, here P^^^^o-^ more 
 \ bold then cautious. 
 
 Au[m ^tevms agitare cuYruf-^ Seneca, 
 
 Jmmemor met a ju i e/df pater /^^^ 
 £luos polo [ pAr fit fur jofmig/ioSy 
 [p[t recefit. 
 
 Here fell Vulcan^ and the meafuring 
 
 with one irregular ftep all the voyage 
 
 from heaven to earth , by great chance, 
 
 coft him no more then the wrenching of a 
 
 '. toot. This flippery part of Heaven, is the 
 
 (great breach which the Giants o{ fleo^ra 
 
 /did make in the battery they gave to the 
 
 ■ - C ' " liars, 
 
 i\ 
 
f8 the^irJiPdrt. 
 
 ftars, vyben theearth oi thunder-flrickcn 
 became thunder-ftriker. Here is Hercules^ 
 here Prometheus ^ here BelUrophon^ and I 
 know not who ; But that part of the more 
 Noble Sciences, (which is the true Inter- 
 preter of myfteries, and Secretary of the 
 moft hidden things of the heavens;)which 
 doth unvaii the eyes, and make them lee 
 how they be in a maffe fo vaft, and yet fo 
 light in motion; in influences lo difcor- 
 dant, and yet in the maintenance of na- 
 ture fo united ; in the revolutions they 
 make fomefoflow, and others fofwift, 
 and yet all to the time, and almoft in one 
 and the fame danc(^ accord^ in obedience 
 to the firft mover fo ftrift} and in the li- 
 berty of their proper motions fo free 3 fp 
 fplendid, and fo profound ; fo uniform, 
 andfo various; fo majeftick, and fo a- 
 xniable. Violent with fo many Laws, bu- 
 fied with fo much quietnclTe ; in the me^- 
 fure of times, in the fucceflionof daies, 
 in the changes of feafons, fo confortial. 
 He who hath eyes to fee £0 i^uch, he it is 
 that knows how to make a Ladder to 
 climb to the fight of much more 5 He who 
 ty the Jong chain of thefe coeleftial na- 
 tures (of which the laft link is faftned tQ^ 
 che foot of the Throne of Jove) can climb; 
 
 even 
 
Wifdom happy. ^o 
 
 even to the Archetype formsjand to the I- 
 dca's of thefirft mind, from whofe inva- 
 riable defign are took the wcightSj num- 
 bers and meafures ^ as inftrumentsof the 
 work of this great order of Nature : He 
 which knows how to underftand the high 
 Wifdom of him, who in fuch variety ot 
 mutations, keeps ftedfaft the cour(e of an 
 immutable Providence, while he knew 
 how to give an occult order to the mani- 
 feft diforder of fo many efFccls , concati- 
 nating them with indifloluble knots to his 
 intended ends : So that thofe which fecm 
 cafual events of chance, are executions of 
 amoft regular Providence 5 he that hath 
 j afightforobjeds of fo high a co;^nition, 
 I is he not with it alone more blcfled then 
 ' others in all their fenfual enjoyments ? 
 That great Platonick Philo Alexmdrinm 
 gave credit to it, when he faid for proof of 
 iz. ^agata{?72eus) circa ftellarum turn fixcvum^ InCcf- 
 turn erraticarum curfusy (^ choreas juxta Mu- mop^ta, 
 (ica pr^cepta al^frlMffimas^ trahitur aware fa* 
 » ; fie/^ti<t [e deducentif^ at que it a emerocns fuper 
 3 orhnem fenfihilem efjentiam^ demum ir/telligi- 
 Mis defideriocorripitur, lllic confpicam ex- 
 .' erKplariajideafquererum, qu^ vidit^ [enpbi- 
 ; Uuifiy adeximii^ illas pulchritudmeSy^lprieta- 
 
 Ite quadam fobria capta , ta/iq^nm Corjbanus 
 C 2 />^'- 
 
p^ the Firjl Fdrt. 
 
 IjmphMur^ giUo flena amore longe melme-^cim ad 
 fummum fafiigium ad duHa rerum intelligihili'- 
 urrij adipfum Magnum Regem tender c videtur. 
 To whom thefefhall fccm rather flou- 
 riilics of art, then real verity, and being 
 un-experienced , fhould be fo much the 
 Icffe credible, I know not how to give 
 a better anfwer then that which was me- 
 rited from Hico^ratHSy by a man litde 
 knowing) and lefle credulous of the beau- 
 ^^^' ty of a pidure. Zeuxis that Son of Pain- 
 ters, which did not give fo much light to 
 the pifture illuftrating it,as fhadow to the 
 pidurcrs his emulators, obfcuring them, 
 drew in a thin vail the face ot an Heleny 
 with fo noble workmanihip, that the e5C-' 
 emplarwas out-done by the copy, and' 
 true Helen feemed to yeild to her felf' 
 painted •, for if the real one drew a Paris 
 from Troy to ravilli her, the counterfeit 
 ilrew all Greece to admire her. Nic&^ratm 
 meeting with this pifture (he himfelf alfa 
 being a Painter of no mean rank ) at the 
 firfl look^as if he had beheld not the head 
 pf Helmy but of Medufa^ was metamor- 
 ph^z'd incoaftone, and with mutual de- 
 ceit, Htler,. feemed to be as much alive iii 
 iicrpi^ure, as iV/Vo/fy/^?^ feemed dead in 
 Jiis amaz.mcnt; infomuch asa fimplc " 
 
 clown^ 
 
WifcUm happy ^ %% 
 
 clown, abluntdoir, a man wanting eyes 
 looking upon A^/Vo^r/t/^^ 5 which in;:ravert 
 in an ad of aftonilliment fcemed a S tatue 
 looking on a pidure, accoftedhim, and 
 almoft iliaking him out of his dumps, ask- 
 ed him, ^id tdritum in Helena ilh ftufferet:^ 
 He asked too many queftion s in one word. 
 But as he had not good eyes to fee Helen^ 
 fo he had no doci'e ears to hear Nicojlra^ 
 tHS: Tnerefore the Painter turning him- 
 felf , and between compailionating it, and 
 difdaming him , looking on hirti ; This 
 faith he^Isnot a pidure for Owls. Plucfc 
 out thofe ignorant eyes you have, and I 
 will lend you mine 5 and if now you be 
 an Owl without eyes, you will then defire 
 to be an Argtis all eyes. Non in terrogaret 
 me^ fi meos ocnlos haieres. 
 
 Behold, the very fame falls out to hinl 
 who wondereth , how in beholding that 
 goodly face of Nature> the Heavens, ia 
 which God> as much as the matter was* 
 capable, did defign, (copying them fron^ 
 himfelfj) lineaments cf fo rare beauties 5 
 we can find matter of fuch delight, as to 
 (wallow our wit55 extacife our thoughts, 
 andblelfe our minds. All behold Hea- 
 ven, but all underftand it not; and be- 
 tween him that underftandeth ir, and hin^ 
 G3 that 
 
^v, The Fir a Part. 
 
 that doth not5thcre is the fame difference 
 thatisbetvveentvvo, of which oncj in a 
 writiiiginArabickj ruled with go Idj and 
 written with azure, fees nothing but the 
 workmanlhip of well-compofed chara- 
 fters 5 the other moreover doth read the 
 periods, and underftand the fenfe, fo that 
 the leaft of the pleafure that he enjoyes^ 
 is that of the eyes. 
 
 But althou;jh the guft of the under- 
 ftanding is. as the fweetoefle of honey , 
 vvhich to perfwade, the endeavours of a 
 long diicourfe are not fo efficacious, as 
 tlie fimple proof of taftingone drop ytiQ^ 
 verthelelfe, I think good to make you hear 
 moft moral Seffecdy where he declarcth, 
 what was the content which he found in 
 contemplating the Heavens, whilft he 
 conceiveth there above fpirits , contem- 
 ners of the world ^ fpirits more than hu- 
 tnane. Hear him : 
 JPr£fat. Imagine (faith he) that you were af- 
 /. 1. ^at. cended to the higheft fphereof the Hea- 
 ^lidtfli vcns, fo that you faw Saturny Jupiter and 
 Afars^ turn themfelves in their feveral Re- 
 volutions, and under them each of theo- 
 ther Planets to run their periods. There 
 ^ou behold the immenfurable inafle o^fe ; 
 )odies:> the unparallel'd veloeityof theif^ 
 
 courfe, 
 
 I 
 
Wifd$m happy. 
 
 courfc 5 the numberlefle number of the 
 ftarsj which here fcarcefeemsfparks to 
 yoU; and there,are worlds of light , and 
 no lefTe then fo many Suns, Thence with 
 eyes fated with the greamefTe of thofe 
 fpaces , and of the mafs of thofe vaft bo- 
 dies, look down to this center of the 
 World, and feek about it for the earth. 
 It you were able to fee it^it would appear 
 fo little to one that looks upon it from the 
 ftars, that it would beneceffary that you 
 fharpen your quickeft eye^ and you would 
 defire that fome Syderial Nuntio would 
 help your fight. What from hence bc° 
 low feemed the fmalleft of the ftarres, (6 
 that the dubious eye knew not if he faw 
 it, or thought he faw it : fuch from thence 
 above the earth appeareth to you 5 fo that 
 at fuch a fight you would fay , That then 
 below, which I fcarce perceive, which I 
 fcarce difcern with my eye, is that the 
 earth ? Is that that point divided into fo 
 many Provinces, fubdivided into fo ma- 
 ny Kingdomes, for which wc rob one ano- 
 ther, for to get which, are invented in fo 
 great abundance, both Arts and Arms to 
 kill one another.^ fieges, afTauIcs, confla- 
 grations ^batteries, pitcht fields, fubveffi- 
 6ns of whole Nations made in a little 
 C 4 time. 
 
 ^3 
 
1^ The Fir(k P^rt. 
 
 time, which fo ofc hath made Widow'd 
 Nature weep ^ infeding the ayr with the 
 ftench of the putrified carkaffes , and 
 fometimes damming up rivers, fomctimcs 
 vermiliating the Sea with great -numbers 
 of dead men 5 with great abundance of 
 humane bloud. 
 
 Hear ye the incredible wonders of hu- 
 mane madneffepOur vaftcft defircs are loft 
 in a point. What, faid I in a point ? in the 
 leaft particle of a point. What would the 
 Ants do more if they had rcafon ? Would 
 not alfo they fub-divide a handful of earth 
 into many Provinces ? Would they not 
 fet their obftinate bounds (o , that they 
 would not yield in the Idlft to thundring 
 Jupiter himfclf ? Would they not found 
 in a fpot of ground a Kingdome , -in a lit- 
 tle field a great Monarchy ; a little rivolet 
 of water would be to them a NiUy a ditch 
 they would call an Ocean , a ftone as big J 
 as ones hand , they would ftile a great 
 rock 9 a Farm would be no IclTe than a 
 World: They would alfo raife Bulwarks 
 and Curtains to fccure their States, they 
 would leavy Armies in hopes of new con- 
 qucfts 3 and we fhould fee in the fpacc of 
 two foot of ground , f quadrons march in 
 order, with colours difplay'd againft. the , , 
 
 black 
 
Wifdom happy. 25 
 
 black Ants , as enemies , charging them 
 with boldneflc, juftlino; them, routing 
 them, and fome to return, the day being 
 won5vi6lorious^ ochcrs either to lurren- 
 der upon articles, or flying, hide them- 
 felves, or dying, bide the fury of their in- 
 raged enemies, and become booty. Such 
 a war between twenty or more ihoufands 
 of Ants, undertaken to difputethe pre- 
 tentions to a handful of earch,on]y to think 
 , of it would make us langh ; and vve,whac 
 i other do, we do, fub-dividing a point into 
 fpmany Kingdomes, and dciftroying one 
 I another to inlarge them > Let the I(ter be 
 the confines of Dacia , Strimm of Thraciay 
 the Khe/^e of Germauy^ the Parthims , let 
 I them be bounded by Euphrates^tht Sarmati- 
 ans by D^^mbim-^tx. the Virrene^n Mountains 
 divide Vfance and Spain^ the Alp Italj^ For- 
 wicarum ffle clifcurfus ejl in n^gu^o lah(f^ 
 TAntium, 
 
 {hounds -i 
 Tou chalk out Xing^^emes , and afsign t^jfm 
 And meafureSj hy the murks ofhloudand vpounds'^ 
 And yet herein you greate{l folly fJjofPj 
 In that hy griping much^ you let all go. 
 The rvhoU vpoyld s evWy mans^ andn>h& fo cares 
 T' appropriate any part^ divides and fjjares 
 What all vf(^ hu. All men om hoiSold le : 
 
 All's 
 
3 5 The Firji Part. 
 
 All's but one houfe^ from th* Center to the Skjy 
 
 Andinthishoufiw'have aU propriety. 
 
 Come and fee from hence above youi 
 earth, look out for your Kingdomcs , and 
 liieafure how much that is from whence 
 you take the titles of Grandees. See you 
 your fmall particle of a point? if a point 
 may admit of being feen > And is this 
 that which makes you go fo ftately 
 Come up to the ftarres? not to (ee only, 
 buttopofleflcif you will? aKingdonie e- 
 qual to your dcfire of raigning : Nor fhalL 
 you have any to ftrive with about bounds, 
 poffeffing all ; nor fliall you need to feat 
 that any will thruft you out of it, fincc 
 that being polfcLl by many, yet it can be 
 taken from none. ThuS:, Juvati^terfjderd 
 vsgantem divitum pdvimentaridcre^ ^ totuni 
 cum auro [no terram. What greater enjoy- 
 ment? then to gain fo generous fpiritSjand 
 fo noble intelligences ? Alexander accu- 
 ftomed to the great viftorics oi Ajia^vrheii 
 he received advice from Greece of fonic 
 Martial a(S? or conqucft ? ( which was at. 
 moft of a Caftle, or of fome petty City )i 
 he was wont to (ay. That he thought heij 
 heard the news of the military fuccelTes 
 between the frogs and the mice of Homer » 
 
IWifdom happy. 27 
 
 how much lelTe do things appear that 
 re beheld from a high place ! How do 
 hey abate , which here below feem fo 
 '^ 'reat, if they be beheld from the ftarrcs ! 
 \nA how much do we enjoy * perceiving 
 lie thoughts to inlarge, and the mind en- 
 ' afcj even to make us contemn that? 
 ich others like flavcs adore 1 
 1 1 That which the good Seneca teacheth 
 Irtstodo, the great Aaaxagvras had done 
 fi bng before 5 who defiringonly to fee the 
 • leavens, for the contemplation of which 
 1 lie was faid to be born, left his country , as 
 , Sepulchre of living men 5 and becaufe 
 r he earth fhould not take away the fight 
 : the heavens, he lived in the fields poor^ 
 I nd without covert. What faid he> Poor 
 ' • Hariottrlejje^ He enjoyed more, in 
 ' ng over his head the beautiful Canopy 
 nefercne Azures of heaven, in feeing 
 nfelf crowned with a world of ftarrcs, 
 / n did revolve about him, and in that 
 Sn.i gilded with his light, the rag- 
 lefTe of his poor garments; and in 
 .iat tne heavens fent him advice of all 
 liews, than if he had been clad in purple, 
 fjind his head crowned , and he attended 
 [[vichthe vaflTalagcof all the earth. And 
 (tetdorc: Mic covins dp ovum -i quilm im^. ^(^iscr.. 
 jj O rKer{i iM. 
 
a8 The Firji Pan. 
 
 menfi corporis , pulchritudo diftinguitu/^ fopa^ 
 lummn convooit y his Clafomeneans fcornedi'^ 
 him, as ridiculous, and rcjcded him, as* 
 favage^ but he oppofed the honours oiit^ 
 the heavens to the derifions of the vulgar. 
 he cared not fo much to be fecn in the 
 earth by men , as he did rejoyce to fee 
 the ftarres in heaven , and to be inter- 
 changeably fecn by them, with that cour- 
 teous eye, with which S/«<//Wfaid of him- 
 Eptf.ioo f^i(. Me flelUetiamipfe benigne^idemidem 
 p ' ^^^* de fpeBarezider4ur'f quern invaflifsima regu 
 ^^ ^'' one folum cum [cientia fui i^fpekorem intucK- 
 
 tUK 
 
 That which I have hitherto fpokc of 
 the contemplation of heaven, anobjcdof 
 a part of the Natural Sciences , to prove 
 that Underftandingisa certain beatitude 
 of fo excellent a taft, that it inchanteth 
 thefenfes, and takes away what ever de- 1 
 fires are of an order inferiour to the mind; 
 I would have to be underftood of the o- 
 ther fo numerous, fo noble,and fo vaft fub- 
 jeils, of moft pleafant coo;nitions5of which 
 the inj^enuity of the learned is capable, 
 brought into the world (faith Pytkagoras re- 
 cited by Sinejim) as Spedtator s in a Thea- 
 Sifief^M ^^^ ^f alwaycs new , and wholly noble 
 dc Prg" wonders. ItaVsLth^gorasSamm^Sapie/item 
 
Wifdom happy. 2^ 
 
 Ml Aliudeffe ait^ qukm eorum , qu£[unt 5 p^^ 
 ntc[ue fpeEiatorem, Proinde enim in Mundum-^ 
 \cin[acrum quoddam cert amen intrcduBum 
 iff'e, ut its qu<t ibidem punt^fpeBatoY interfn. 
 
 But if from the guft ot fpcculation the 
 ifeof learning be called back to the pra- 
 ^iceof living. Scholars would be much 
 norc fevere and grave; and I confeflc 
 ^as all the wife are of opinion ) to tearm 
 hat learned man wife> whofc mind a long 
 md right underftanding hath refined, and 
 whofe reafon it hath pursed from the filth 
 of thofe fenfual bafenefTes 5 and terrene 
 vilcneflcs of thofe affedions which in us 
 favour of bruitifh , fo that profperous or 
 adverfe that occurrences be^ Jte weigheth 
 them In the balance of reafon for what 
 they are; it would be no hard matter for 
 mcjlcading you through fome of the more 
 dreaded miferies, to make you fee fuch a 
 man fuperiour to them, then to fliew the 
 loftiefl ftarres to be as far from eclipfes, as 
 they are diftant from the ihadows of the 
 earth t ** 
 
 Sa^ie/tce 
 
go The FirJlFart, 
 
 ,1 
 
 Sapience bappy^ although in mife^ 
 ry. The Wife poor man. 
 
 Poverty is a fingle name> but no^ 
 afingle mifery, and one that's un- 
 dcrftanding in cyphers, in this only 
 word knows how to read a whole Iliad of 
 evils. The Poet with the title of Turf is E- 
 ^eflttfj placed it together with other mon- 
 fters at the gate of hell 5 nor did he any 
 injury to it, torafmuch as it brings with it 
 fufficient m*ter for a whole hell of mi- 
 fery, to thofe houfes of which it keepeth 
 the door. Famine within, eats the bowels 
 ^Kve; Nakedneffc without, ignomini- 
 oufly difcovers the fle(h; Shame fuffers 
 it not to appear in publiquej Neceflity 
 permits it not to keep in fecret : if bafh- 
 fulnefle makes it filentjit endureth a thou- 
 fand hardfbipsj if if beg an almcs, as 
 vile, it finds no credit. The evils it fuffer- 
 eth are fo much the greaterjby how much 
 the leffe others commiferate them. But 
 of as many griefs as this complicated mi- 
 fcry is pregnaitt with, there is not a vyorfe 
 
 fpcci-. 
 
Wifdom happy, 3 1 
 
 fpecially to a man of fublime wit, or no- 
 ble extradlion, than the becoming SubjcSs 
 of fcorn and derifion. 
 
 l^il hdet inWix pauper tas dmm in fe 
 ^em quod ridiculos homines fac it. 
 
 This is the blacked fhadow that folr , 
 lowsir? this is the heavieft chain it drags 
 after it : And how many which appear- 
 ed as jrees without leavcs,un-befecming-: 
 ly naked, have made choice of obfcurity, . 
 judging death lefle infufferable than igno-^ 
 rainy ? 
 
 Now this tormenting and deformed 
 JtJaqgman, (that might there be fo many 
 '"Furies in hell^ would make the fourth ) 
 who would believe it , when its joyned j/,^ . 
 with Learning and S^/>/Wf J, like a diffo- -^hich 
 tnant Diatefferon, which united to the with the 
 Diapence, rendereth the fweeteft ot all 5 ^^^^ 
 I harmonies J becomes lovely and pleafing *<^S. 
 beyond meafure. 
 
 Poverty with 5^/;/V;?re (faith theStoick 
 ^Philofophying , is a divine compofitiouj 
 which hath all, and hath nothing, yea,can 
 only give that, without which nothing \% 
 pofleft , therefore alone is all things , I 
 mean Sapience. And is not this the conditi- 
 on of the gods ? R'frict 
 
5^ The FirJiPar^f, 
 
 > ^ 
 
 de trAH^ OmmA danteSy nihil hO'bentes, 
 
 ifHiLcZ. 
 
 What can he defirc more in the World, 
 who phylofophyingjbetter than poffefSng, 
 hath made the world his patrimony ? Tte 
 things which arc fo much ours as Fbr- 
 tune and chance left them us, are more 
 others than our own, more lent than 
 poffeft, and make us no more happy than 
 the image of a man makes the Statue. To 
 know the world, faith MmilrMj this is to 
 polTeffe it; in fuch fort, that to every Verne' 
 triiu which fliall ask us , jQuid capta Patria 
 fuperfuerit nobis l We may with the fafne 
 MegAYenfis anfwGr, Nullum lidi qui res meas 
 ■Anferreu 
 
 To Pilgrims, not only a little fufficcth, 
 but much is troublefome. To a man 
 whole thoughts are not confined between 
 his own walls, as the center is included in 
 the circumference, but alwayes with the 
 Wings of the Mind difplayed , and ad- 
 dreffed thither where the dcfire of know- 
 ing new things calls him, whereby he htA 
 comes a ftrangcr, not only to his honle, 
 butalfo to himfelf , and is rather where 
 ht is not, than where he dwells^ Can it be. 
 
Wifdsm happy. ^^ 
 
 •diflionour or prejudice to him to want 
 ^hacwhich^as a Pilgrlnij would be as well 
 of impcdimentjas of wcightpFrom whence 
 $e/ieca iormeth the Aphorifm : Si vis vacare p .^ -^ 
 smmd^aut fauperfis oportety mtpauferijimilk, f^-^* ^7, 
 
 But behold an Eloquent Platonick, 
 who, whether by way of reproof or deri- ^pf*UiU$^ 
 fion,! know not, was oppofed with a pub- -^pf'^'H 
 liquc accufation, how that Poverty was f*''^fii > 
 cither difhonourable, or culpable. If thou 
 ( anfwercd he to the Accufer ) wert at 
 much a Phylofopher as thou art a rich; 
 man 3 thou wouldeft undcrlland that I 
 being poor am the rich man^ and thou be- 
 ing rich art the poor man. JVamq*, isfiHri-^ 
 mum hahet qui minimum defiderat : h^htier4mi 
 quantum vult gut vnlt minimum , (^ idcirc& 
 divitiiBrjQ^ mdm in fundo^^ ^ in fijsnor^^ 
 quam in . iffo hminu oefiimantur a'/iimo. \m 
 the Sea of this life the tempefts and bil- 
 lows contraft not thofe that arc full 
 fraight, to keep them from their PorCjbut 
 them that fail unladen. This fimplc coat 
 that covers mC) or this pLiinfla^ I Jean; 
 on, render they me contemptible? Tell 
 itiie what more had HercuUs^ fon of Jove^* 
 Conqucrourof the World 5 arid a Demi- 
 god? Ipfe UeTCulesilfu/lrator'^ Oriis^pur^ 
 g0tQr f0f$.ritm y ^€atium domip^ t ^ ii in^uam 
 
 I> Dm 
 
1^ the Firp Fart. 
 
 in Cesium ol? vinum adfcitttsefl^ntque uiaPite * 
 
 ue^itiorfuity mque uno hculo cdmrtatior. YcS, 
 
 even the Supreme Gods themfelvcs, wKac 
 
 have they in their Kingdomei v^ith vv*"hich 
 
 they are rich ? Large veins of mettafe 
 
 from which they extraft gold and filvetj 
 
 6ceans in which they fifh for pearUv 
 
 Couchyla'Sj out of which they pr^fle pufj^i 
 
 pie? Kingdomes, vafTals, and liege ped-' 
 
 pie, from whofn they extra(a tribute ? Ot 
 
 elfe without having other than theh!i^ 
 
 felves, but being in thcmfelves alone ble^ 
 
 U'd fed: do they not feem poor, becaufcthcy 
 
 have nothing, and are rich, foraftnuch a^ 
 
 they have need of nothing ? laitur ex nobis 
 
 cut quam mtmmu of us pt 3 ts ertt U£D pnt^' 
 
 1 1 fir. ; 
 
 Let therefore Socutes the poorj bijt jd^ 
 
 crates the Learned 5 go through ail the 
 
 Marts and Ports of the World, beholding 
 
 particularly the immenfc abundance rf 
 
 thofe goods, of which riches and honours 
 
 Xaervw make vaunt, blcfTcd with that which hie 
 
 ■i/iSccr^^ knoweth, not careful for what he hath J 
 
 not ^ and let him fay, and all his Com- ( 
 
 peers repeat it with him, ^am muke fjfe 
 
 mn egeo\ * 
 
 jilexmdef lamented with briitifh tieafl, 
 \ -^ whcp 
 
H^f Mom happy, ^ 
 
 wihfcn he heard the Phylofopher ^fsaxa^o- 
 -irWaflett 5 that Nature, either asavarici- 
 ^us'j wouldiiot, oras fterril, could not 
 ^oduce more then one W orld, it having 
 IJcither -mcafure to its power j nof bound 
 to its will; fothatinthefpaccsof itsim^ 
 nienfity> it hath not produced the nurti- 
 luiers of infinite, and equalled its being to 
 ifsutmoft power, andanfwered tothel- 
 dca's of immcnfurable Worlds, with the 
 Workmanfhipof each of them. AltxA^^et 
 •poffeft not one aloncof fo many as there 
 was, and therefore exclaimed for grief ^ , 
 
 fmmanium ferarummodo^ qudt plm quam exi- 
 git fames J .mordenU Yet he is Mafter of ^^m^*^ 
 Greud^ P^rfia^ ot the India's ( inunum tnim ^f* ^^^ 
 ^^nufnmulu RegrmcQh)ech ) but he mea^ 
 ittted his poverty by his wam^and fo much 
 he wantedas hcdiddefirc. ^tdenimin- S€>3icd 
 tereft qmt eripuerit R<gna^ quot dederh? de bcnefi 
 j^mtum terrarum trihuto prematl Tantum /. 6- tf".irf 
 i\illidei^qmntumcupit. jlepcmdcr therefore 
 J 15 poor, and in the riches of half the 
 J World -hath nothing, becaufc half the 
 J World is "nothing in comparifon of the 
 ^' itvfinite Worlds which he de fired. But in 
 fj the^mean-tinae, Crrfr^5, a learned man^ 
 vvhich had no more but himfelf, and a tat- 
 ^ ^edPhylofophical mantle ^..Vfuj:! .which 
 
^6 The FirfiFartn 
 
 he covered himfelf , more to canccal.his 
 
 nakedneffe , then to reveal himfcIF to l^ 
 
 a Phylofopher, lived in the earth like' i 
 
 Jufiter in heaven , more rich with tK^ 
 
 much he had nor, hen Alexander with ihs^ 
 
 JPIutar. all which he poffcft. Fin Alexander /^<m 
 
 dff tran- per inp^^ites mundos ab hniyiZ<^ox^% Auditcij 
 
 ^mll. a- ^^^ Crates, per^^ ^ palliolo inftruBm vhkfh 
 
 ^^^'' tanquam fejUvitatem ^uandamj/er jocnm^ ^ 
 
 rifum ageret. 
 
 Would you know juftly how to di^ 
 fcribe that famous Diogenes ^ which drew 
 to him^ (not fo much to vifit as to admire 
 him) Air zander ^y whom 1 e was fought to> 
 Seneca and tor Wfiom he did not care. Supra enirh 
 debenef. tminerevifiu efty infra quern omnia jacehipii, 
 /.5* c.^. You fhall take from Ctorf/V/ a fymbolidfl 
 image, but wnich more livelily will deft- 
 gure him V then if ApeUts himfelf Irii<l 
 drawn him. ^- 
 
 Lapis efi cogmmine Magnes^ '"''^^ 
 
 Clm^o *2)f/Vo/<?/5 oh[cuYU6y vilis, Non itle reperam -~; 
 de Mag" Cafariem fegnm^ non Candida virginU ornat'\ ^ 
 tjetc. CoUa^ nee infigni fple^*det per cinguU morM^ 
 Sednavafi nigri vidiM rniracula "Saxij ■^!^^'^ 
 Tunc fupe rat fulchros ctfkuSj if quidfidtl^^ 
 
 J. t*fif, iu^t:rai ymc^ros rw^rwj, ^ quia ^uiu\c trip ' 
 
 Ind^ liuoriim rubra [crutdtur arena. ■ ^' \h 
 
 His hi/pid bear4 uncomb cd hair, bis 
 
W if dom happy. ^y 
 
 5|Bformed vifage, bis ragged cloaths> his 
 iudc^andclowniih manners, his extreme 
 ^fyvercy^ did they not make him fcem 1 ke 
 -jinaked, black, heavy, ill-fhapt piece of 
 2one> Moreover, a Tub was his houfe 5 ., 
 
 yea* was to him as if he had all the world, ^^"'^^ 
 ^bccaufe of all the world tie would have no 
 more then that. He turned it at his plea- 
 fure, fcofhng at the celeftial Spheres^ and 
 fortunes wneel . bccaufe neither tnefe 
 with their penodsvur this with its prasci- 
 £iccs could op^ofe the revolutions of his 
 jCpb, nor either the heavens j^ivc any good 
 |p^ him that covets nothin^jor f rtune take 
 It from 'lim that being naked can be fpoil- 
 edof nothing. But in a man fo ill accou- 
 tred5andfoill lodged, wiience fvich vir- 
 tue, and one fo potent, ( I will fay ) ma^- 
 netifme, tuat he, obfcurc and be, early, 
 could draw ro him t i .e moft illu kious and 
 mod vvealrhy Monarch of the World , 
 thanks Phyiofophy, that in "Dhg^enes , as a 
 Sun covered witii a cloud, or a Venm 
 clothed like a Satyre , fhined forth fo, as 
 to be able to al inrc fuch a Kin^j and wrap 
 him into adm ration, and obfequieof a 
 ra^ge.i beegar. 
 
 j]j' What tnough n^logenes be a begjjar? Let 
 ^jiciies Se put ia balance to count crpoife 
 
 P3 ?hat 
 
- s8 the Fird Pi(r^- 
 
 tbatof the richcft Al£XAitder.' Diog^^i 
 all that the M^tcedoa offer^^d hiniyaccepiieici 
 nothing, becaufe he needed, nott^ifig. iJ^ 
 lexoftdery who wanted evcq that! wiiirh IhV 
 had, becaufe he wanted what he \you!td^> 
 defired to be transformed into, and iOrh^ 
 
 Seme it ^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^. Therefore ^io^^/?eii iW'^; 
 
 Itb^ P^^'^^H^^ ^f^to locuflettQr fwt^ Qmhia turn pof- 
 
 fide^pe Alcyiandto, Plus er/tm erat quod hic] 
 noUetdccipere quam quod hie pojjeidare. 
 
 Therefore Learning and conjtenced po- 
 vertyj in whom they do unite , compofe 
 that happy temper of the Golden Age, 
 when free from all fear of loffe, evei y ohe 
 lived pleafed with that which was hls^ 
 namely, content with himfelf, andfb f|r 
 rich as he needed nothing, ), namely> defi-^ 
 red not riches. Thus Fdemm and CWest^ 
 two friends , two Phylofophers, two fejegr, ; 
 gars, were by ArcheJilamiQxthQixhQtimt 
 tc^lled Reliques of the Golden Age. And b^- 
 |:ween others riches and their own pover- 
 ty, th^y lived like that friendof ^f/?*?^^.- 
 Non tA/iquam contempfifjcnt omnia , fed tan" 
 quam all is habenda^ permififfent. 
 
 The rich are not fo blinded with^the 
 fpl^ndor of their gold, that they fee nqt'^^t iL 
 Jeaft in part the worth of thcfc goods. A | /f 
 ppQf Ir^rncdmanappcarcth among riclvjjl: 
 
Wifd^m happy. 
 
 /j^cots, as rags among filks:)f ricze amongft 
 pujrpkj the meagernefTc of afaccconfii-^ 
 med by ftudy, and made pale with looks, 
 amongft plump and ruddy fa(^es ; Thofe 
 look on themfclves as fliecp covered with 
 g(>ldcn wooll5and the other as a great god 
 , among the ancients 5 graven in a homely 
 ftpncj or imprinted in clay •, but thereforc;^ 
 no leflTc honourablej than if they were caft 
 in gold, and in-laid with pearl. 
 
 That adventurous Ship, which firft of 
 SkW paft the large Straights of A/if^^/.Wi 5 
 which fleered it, environed all the earth, 
 whence it was called Viftory : returning 
 ijitq furofe^ and drawn into the Port, was 
 ifcheid by all asthe fccond Jrgo of the 
 VVorld. Thole ribs which had been of 
 jgjcoof againft the batteries of ftormSj of 
 i^ill-tjhen-unfQen Oceaps , thofc faithful 
 tails at the encounter of ft range winds, 
 that rudder, that maft, thofe fail-yards, in 
 finc^ all its parts were judged worthy of 
 ^he nobleft ftars in heaven ; fince fne had 
 wercoHie the elements , and made con- 
 qucftnotof a fleece, but world of gold, 
 blor did her beins; in parcdcfaceil Wich 
 weaki^d maft^diflocared yards, dikirm- 
 icd fidcSj tattered fails^ fain poup, render 
 ..her Iclle valuable and bcauri'ul; ' 
 
 D4- The 
 
 ^>?«* 
 
J4.6 a: The Firji PanV-^l | 
 
 The other (liips well rigg'd, behcldhcBo^ 
 with a certain envy, and thofe impreffiotis . 
 which the tempefts and the long voyage ! 
 had made in her, as fears in a Martial i 
 Captain, they efteemed more honourabIc> : 
 then that beauty with which they wer0t'4| 
 adorned. To her they ftruck fail, vailed 
 yafds, bowed Ancients, they full of mer- 
 chandife, and rich with gold , the Victory 
 empty, Shattered, disfigured, they adored 
 as their Miftreffe. Behold, the condition 
 cf a poor Scholar in the midft of many 
 ri^ii ignorant s J they have, although ma- 
 ny tinies they know not that they have 
 it 3 an Envie ot the internal riches , of 
 which they are wholly wanting, and do 
 look on that poor man as rich. Ullani au^ 
 tern Urn ingentium opuniy tarn magna F9tentiA 
 *Volupm , qmm fpeBare homines vetereSy if 
 fe/ies^ ^ totimorbis gratia [uhnixos^ i»fumma 
 tmnium rerum ahmdantia con^tenttt-i id quod 
 optimum fty fe non habere I Now if the rich 
 l^e trees, with a great grove of branches 
 ^ifperfed in every part 3 comely , and 
 ; l^afic : a poor learned man is a Icaficfs 
 / ^runk, and half naked 3 but what then? 
 
 ' ' ^^kfr}igifevo quercm {uhlimu in agro^ 
 4:>cjmij^ vtures }jp[uliy [acrata^cii ge^ant 
 
 Vona 
 
Wifdom happy fi^y 
 
 l>om dacumyTiic jam vdlidis radicihshdrent 
 Pofiifmfixofuoejl, nudofq\ per aersrsmes 
 £ffmdenSy trunco^nonfrondibm effich umbr(km. 
 Sed quamvisprimo nutet cafuraful? EurOy 
 Tot circumfjlvdprfMfe nbore toUi^t 
 S^Umenc^lim. 
 
 ^U>i«^i 
 
 The 
 
 
4t> Tb^ Firfit f^t. 
 
 THofe Ancient Sa^es, Maftersl 
 of Sapkricej which alive, had Greece 1 
 dead, had all the World for Au- I 
 dirors, left us for an infallible maximej to j 
 the end the mind learn to Phylofophatc, 
 and not errc 5 it's needful , the feet go 
 wandting through maay Lands : We m^y 
 attein to the riches of Sapience , but no o- 
 ther way but by going to the Sages, in ma- 
 ny places, and begging it. Truth (faid 
 they) a Native of Heaven, is a Pilgrim on 
 Earth, and is found no way butbyPere- 
 gri^iation .• He that feeks ic , doth as the 
 lly^s, which encreafe the more, the fur- 
 ther they go ( fo that they which at their 
 fountains wete fcarce little brooks, in di- 
 lating thcmfelvesj become Httlc leffe than 
 Seas, The vapours of the earth, would 
 they ever aflume the form of ftarres , if 
 leaving the country where they were all 
 dirt, they fliould not run after the Sun, (,^ 
 
 and jnalce thcmfelves muchmorehappy 
 in being Pilgrims in heaven, than if they 
 
 were 
 \ 
 
 te 
 
WifdPm happy. ^^ 
 
 JM5f,ere Ciuzens on earth? Men are not as 
 Pl^et>3 which have the greateft virtue 
 tj^/^i when they are in their own houfbs ; 
 yeaj it happens many times , «;hat ones 
 own country provcthaftcp-nxothcrj and 
 a.fprraignland rhenxothpr, ir^failiioaof: 
 tertajB pi4niSj which from their Nayve 
 Soilj where they w^re npuriflfiied wich ve- 
 nomous humour S3 tranfpor-ted to a ft range 
 ciima^te , in thb rerpove they lofe th^ir 
 powe.r of hurtino; , and find together with 
 aharmleffe relifli, the virtue of wl'K>k- 
 fo,me aliment, A mans Gwn country 
 ought to be to a wife man, as ehjC Horizpa 
 to the ftafs, for birth, notforSepul.chi^ ; 
 tQ take thence the firft light ? and ^s the : 
 Aurora oi Sapie/icey after to climb tp oth^^ » 
 pieces, even to find the moft high and 
 Cplendid noon-tide which it makes on 
 earth. 
 
 Thus thofe Sages underflood ic> ^nd^c- 
 cording to their knowledge praiftifiQg, 
 ^ftemed juft of the nature of the Heavens^ 
 ■which have reft in motion : whence with 
 'tedious voyages 5 they ran where in fome 
 new Academy oi the learned they might 
 vdifcovcrthegainof Wifdome. Their life - 
 '"was5as5/W//^«fpeaks5 a perpetual going 
 ^ huHtir>7^fomctimcs in Greece^ (cmccimcs 
 -- ••' ' in' 
 
4^ 
 
 r TheFirJiFdrt. .^ 
 
 in oEgjpti fomeciiiies in Perpa^ (omctim0 
 in the Indlts^ where the hope of the beft 
 prey inviting drew them. Thus Pythagoras^ 
 Socrates^ Plato^ Democrim^ DiogeKeSy Anaxttf. 
 goYM^ and a hundred others came throug)^ 
 un-frequented cHmates, and gathered the 
 quinteuenceof every one- like to certain 
 fortunate fountains , which in the pere- 
 grination they make through the bowels 
 of the earths paffe througlfthe middle of 
 precious veins, feme of gold, or filver5 
 tome of Emeralds or Saphyres, & imbibe^ 
 and carry away the bcft of their whole-. 
 feme qualities. 
 
 ;^^- And fee how the relifh of Learning 
 
 rendereth abfence from ones coUntryjnot 
 only fufferablcjbut beyond meafurc fweet, 
 whence to him who wifhech it> when ba* 
 nifliment cometh. Exile hath no other 
 pain then the name. To him who hath 
 
 ^ not, to him who knows not other goods, 
 
 then thofe which the ignorant vulgar call 
 gifts of Fortune 5 leaving his country, I 
 deny not is to him as to a fcarce imfea- 
 thered fowl to be thrown from his 4ie(l| 
 whofe going out is his fall, and his fall \\\%^ 
 ruine, but he that hath ftreng feathef 5^ 
 and expert wingsjchangeth a nert of ftraw 
 in which he lived buried^ for the ample 
 
fpaces, and open ayr of all the heavens, ^i^ 
 Which isfomach his, as is the liberty of 
 Hi^t which brougl t him thither/ ^^J «^l 
 t Who took ti.ec from tliy country ? (faith 
 * Shepherd to 7)r/m) Who made thee 
 lurn Pilgrim, and live a ftranger in for- 
 reign parts > 
 
 Et quA tantsfuit Romam tibi cau^a videndi } 
 
 . Wearineffe of fervitude , replied 7)f/m , 
 thruft me out of my native neft j love of 
 liberty brought me to live in ftrange pW 
 tiHh, -' - ■■>-^-- ; ' 
 
 ZihertM\ qudtfera^ tdmtn yefpexit ineriemy /.2. efj^* 
 
 €dndidior fo^ij^uamtondenti barbae adeb At, 
 
 •-///tf (F/'ry^fj^fagelyreplyeth) i'^ Sermone 
 Pafiorio ut libotatem in-veniret^ Patriarnfe ra- * 
 f^quijjefrloriatur, tu Phylofophos defies ? 
 ,^^ Let the Moors of Spain weep, whilft g^ter, m 
 ftey are thruft from thence to their Jfri- relate 
 CAy a Land fit tor fuch monfters ^ let them 
 gdnocas fucli as change places , but as 
 luch who are thrown down from heaven; 
 ind turning^ their eyes behind them at c- 
 veryftep, let them weeping behold Ora» 
 naia^ and Iwear, that Paradife (lands per- 
 lii sip ;ci pcndicolar 
 
1^1 Tb^ fitfiTam 
 
 pendkuiaTr ov^ that Kingdomc. th^si^y: 
 the language either of Sibmus^ whiciv^ 
 love their country a« a ftablejbecaufetb^! 
 lead the lives of anitnals, or of fools ; like: 
 to that fimple Athenian , which ftid kht\ 
 Moon of Athens was fuller then that cff 
 Corinth: Wkereas it was not that the ^ 
 Moon was more full 5 but his head more. 
 empty. Ethocidem (I (hall fay withFlitd) 
 
 Be exi' tarch ) accidit nehiSy cum extra Patriam co^ftir'S 
 
 Ih. tutimare^ aerein^ caelum duhii conpdefomtUy 
 
 quafialiquid eis dept eorumy quikts y in PMri^ 
 fruebdrnur. 
 
 Ruinethe country oi Stitpone^ in Gom^ 
 mon tears he alone is merry, and in a unirr 
 verfalloffefecure: And going thence a- 
 lone, and naked y carrieth with him all 
 that'shis,becaufe he carrieth himfelf- 
 but himfelf wife and learned. Sapie 
 
 LaertJft autem^ faith Antifthenes, etUm fi omnia de- 
 
 ^''^'/- fm'/folusfufficitfiti. 
 
 Let the Cla^omenHns^ as w€ faid above, 
 banifh the great AnaxagoraSy and as tin- 
 worthy of the name of Citizen , forbid 
 liim the City. He grieves not, as if his 
 
 ^ departure were from his country , but hill 
 
 prifon, and excluded from a corner of :i^ 
 earth, which was too narraw for his great 
 foul y he pdnted at heaven for his coun- 
 try^ 
 
t^j aftd the tVars fot hi« Feliow-Ciirzfcns' 
 Whcr^cVcrh^ gtjeihheis covered with 
 the fame roof of heaveti, fo that he fecms 
 n^t t6 have loft his h&afty but to have on* 
 ly changed rooms, ^id tmm reftn -mum 
 
 ) I €Wy ^jlumma^ ^ c&Ues alios videt. Cadum * 
 ' I UHuin fft. IltucMmufn e^i^it^ to cogitmontii 
 \\JuiiS exemni muniifartit tran^mittit j mc di* 
 • 1 ud ^t4am fuh teBi unm ^mpUxu ex alio in dlu 
 Hm thdammi tf^nfiviffe mitAt. Let the A .\ 
 
 k thenid^s mock^ntfflhehes^tcAukht hath 
 I never a houfe in the World 5 but all the 
 f World is his Irtne ) 4nd helhalUaiigh at 
 I thetn : j^uia (pkifi mhka^ni domihm nm-^ 
 sptsmfmt. Hediallliveinthechampain, 
 is the Semi-gods in the Elizium fields , ia 
 which ^ 
 
 NullicerUddmM. 
 
 Let Diogenes be thruft out i3f Sinofe 5 he 
 Will be as thankfal to his banlfticrs^ as 
 fhifew to Hercules hisDeliverer^wheffhc 
 fetcht him by force from that unhappy 
 ftoncj on which his punifhment Was in- 
 graven ; 
 
 Sedef^mernumqiSedekii. 
 
 . And 
 
4? The Firjt Fart. 
 
 And from that loathfome idlcncfle I 
 tvhich alone fufficed to him for a great 
 HclU inftating him in his Primitive Li- 
 berty : Let the fcofFers jeer his Exile 9 he 
 willanrwer> My Citizens have condemn- 
 ed me to go out of Sinope^ and I have con- 
 demned them to ftay there. The Wife 
 man knew, that they were more Exiles, 
 becaufe banifhed from all the reft of the 
 Worldj they were confined to one City , 
 fhenhe, which excluded from one Cityy^ 
 had all the World for his country. Being 
 £ar from Simpe^ he beheld it as he that caft 
 away in a fudden tempeft at Sea 5 and 
 driven by the waves to a rock? fees from 
 thofc cliffs, others fhipwracks 5 and cal- 
 ing his misfortunes felicities, defircth not 
 the Ocean which toffeth them, but abhor- 
 reth it 5 nor doth he envie fuch who perifh 
 init, but pittieth them. } 
 
 Would you fee a pidure, or rather on- 
 If a rough draught of the hand of the 
 worthieft Seneca^ which fets out to the 
 life the ftate, the imployments, the ordi- 
 nary paftimcs of thegreateft part of men 
 in their Cities ? 
 
 Behold, a world of people , which 
 though they be continually buficd, yet db- 
 iag nothings and that are Icffeidle while 
 
 the/ 
 
|;_ ^^Wifdom happy. 'fp^ 
 
 they ffcep then while tliey labour. Horum petran^^ 
 ft ^iauem exmntem domo imerYogdzerU -i £^Q. ^^'^^^'!* 
 }u} Sluidcegiml Reffondebit tibi^ Nonmc^ vinjis.1% 
 Herculcifcio. Si alt quos uidch all quid ^gwn,, 
 Sinefrofofito fy agmtur querent es ncgotia^ rjec. 
 c[U<t deflinAvermt aount^ f(din qu£ i/7mrre- 
 runt. Did you never obfervc a long rabble 
 o^AntSy one after another bufily clime up a, 
 jiftump, till they got to the top, asiftne^ 
 vyouIJ have toucht the very heavens > and 
 faluted the ftars,and then difmount them-, 
 felves by the other part a and fo return to , ^ 
 j the earth 7 His flerumquc ^milemnjttam ii-, iyl£ \ 
 ! gunt'i quorum non immerito qtik inquietum in* 
 ^ ertisfndixerir. Hi d,einde dornum tumfuper-. 
 vacua redeuntes laj^itudine ^ jul^arJ^ nefci^efe, 
 ipfos quarc exiertnt ,. ubi fueririt: joftero <^/tf, 
 . erraturi per e^em itia lefiigia. And can it be 
 t matter of grief or forrow to one who batK 
 ; eyes of Sapience in his head, juft efteeliiefs 
 ' of truth, to be excluded from fuch aplace?. 
 ' And \yould not he rather fay. to thofe that 
 • ftay there behind 3 xhsLtwhichStratomu^'^^ 
 C lodging in Zerif ) faic;! to his Hoft •, who 
 asking, what crimes they puniflied with, 
 kbanifhment, andunderftandingiLhat falfcst 
 dealers were pupilTied with eKile : And' 
 \vhy3 faid hej doe not you all turn Cheats^' 
 (o be delivered from hen cc ? ^ . ^ ; ; ^^ - 
 ^^ But when afterwards in leaving ones^. 
 
 Br Coiinr 
 
50 The Firfl Part. 
 
 Country jone is forced to leave all he hathj^ 
 this 3 faith Plutarch to a Philofopher , al- 
 though its no greater lofs than that which 
 a Serpent undergoeth to leave at the 
 mouth of its Den , by reafon ot whofe nar- 
 rovvnefs it is ftript j the old skin 3 which 
 put off they become more yong and adive : 
 at leaft in a Learned man its the leaft of 
 airioffes^ fincehe never wants a Country 
 or lively-hood. For as much as wherefo-^ 
 ever he goeth he is received as the fhips 
 cf/Wi^, which full of Gold and Pearlesj 
 make the ports happy in which they enter;, 
 or caft Anchor, 
 
 Scipio I that Roman Hercules 5 which 
 tamed not a Monfter alone, but Africa the 
 Mother and Nurfe of Monfter s; over-came 
 A[drnbaly flew Hamoy took Sifax^ deftroyed 
 Carthage , fubdued Lyl^ia ; with fo many 
 Trophies, greater then all others, and 
 only-equalled by himfelt 3. being become 
 rhe Sun oi the Roman Empire 5 hefetchc 
 tears from the weak eyes of envy 3 and be- 
 caufe he was too confiderable^llife began to 
 be malicious. He, feemed to this emulators 
 to be grown too formidable, having the 
 .Ruines of razed Carthage for the bafis ofhis 
 Glory. This was a grandure which ecli'p- 
 iCgd others merits p vvho (ecmedtobelo 
 
 much 
 
Wifdom happp ^t, 
 
 much the more obfcure by how much.the 
 more he was illuftrious. And bccaufeto 
 the thunder of an evil tongue , there is no 
 Lawrcl can refift , nor ^reatncfs of merit 
 can exempt ; the glory of his Triumphs 
 belilg ended , and bdng confecrated with 
 the name of^fr/V/j/^jhe found in Rome worfe 
 Monftcrs than any he had feen in ^/V/V// j 
 accufersand flanderers , which under the 
 conduit of Fortius Cato , calling him to ac- 
 compt would have condemned him; of 
 what crime? of that only 5 that he had 
 made^nvy toweep.But the GencrofeMait 
 would neither make his enemies laugh nor 
 cry. Therefore removed himfelf frorrt- 
 under their eyes which pryed into his af-, 
 faires, and went a voluntary exile out of 
 Kome\ which in this was lb much worfe 
 than A^frican Carthage^ by how much fron:i 
 Carthage deftroyed he received Triumph^^ 
 from Rome prefer ved 5 Exile. He retired 
 himfelf to Linternus^d, little Port for a great 
 tempeft^ and there changing his profefTioii 
 ofaWarriour, he turned husband-man^ 
 and with that felf-fame hand , which in' 
 the parched fandsof '^/r/V^thad planted 
 th^ Palmes of fo glorious ViftorieS) he did 
 cultivate a little farm; his iwotd with 2L 
 ftrange metamorphofis he changed into* 
 
 Er 1 ^ 
 
the FirJlFart. 
 
 a mattock 3 his rams into plows ] horfes 
 into oxen , trenches into fences 5 ditches 
 into furrows, the ranging of fquadrons . to 
 martialling of trecs,to routing of armies, 
 to rooting up of thorns: in fine , combats 
 into labours^and vidory into harvcft. Yet 
 he made not the fences about his farme fo 
 thick, but that the troubles of Rome might 
 penetrate them. Nor did his rufticity fo 
 difguife him 3 that publicke cares knew 
 him not , to torment him. The voluntary 
 banifhment which he took againft his will, 
 from hisingrateful Country, going thence 
 that he might not be thruft from thence, 
 fo reteined againft them, in-kindled in his 
 heart ever after a difdain , that it cxtin- 
 guifht not with the expiration of his life , 
 but the flame perpetualliz'd it felfinhis 
 allies 5 buried far from his ingrateful 
 Country. 
 
 Behold, here the advantage of a great 
 mind above a great heart. A man of high 
 knowledg : and of as hardy a wit, as Scipio 
 was of his hands, abandoned and bereft of 
 Rome^ would havefaidasSorr^/^f^, when 
 t u rn ed out of Athens. Mthi omnis te rra eadem 
 mater J owne c oslum idem t e Bum ^ tottii mundus 
 eftpatria. He would have cheerfully Jcft 
 the City oi Romulus^ ajid entered (as 
 
 Mufomtif 
 
Wifdem happy, 55 
 
 Mufonius faid) that oijove , not environed 
 with a circle of wals , but inclofed with 
 the vaft convex of the Heavens ; (o an^ple 
 that there all Languages are fpokcn 3 be- 
 caufe it comprehends all the Nations of 
 every Climate 5 and fo noble that its Se- 
 nators are the gods of Heaven^ and its peo- 
 ple are even the Senators of the Earth, 
 He would have got out of Rome , as the 
 little Rivolets which from the narrow 
 banks 3 between whofe confines they ran 
 miferably ftraightned ihrough the earth; 
 in their falling into the Sea (were they lofc 
 not themfelvcs as the Vulgars believe) of 
 rillets that they were beforejfcarce having 
 one fmall ftream of water 5 they them- 
 felves become Seas , and diftending as far 
 as it inlargeth , may be faid to touch the 
 ends of the one and the o-her World. But 
 vertue will have us poffefsa great Mind, 
 that fliould eface the fordidnefs of loving 
 more the fervicude of one corner of the 
 earth, than the libcrtie of thouihtsand 
 affefts 3 which makes it Miftrifs of the 
 World. 
 
 He that is feparated from his Country, 
 
 let him imitate the Moon , which the 
 
 farther it is from the Sun, the fuller it is of 
 
 light: and feeing the ircreafcmcnts and 
 
 E 3 ac.]ui{l's 
 
acquift's of new knovvledg , wchhe makes 
 in the Domeftick ufe ef Men greater than 
 himfelf; he can doe no leCfe than fay as 
 Mcibiades 5 caft out his Country 3 and re- 
 ceived by a forreign King, with the offer of 
 three great Cities at his firft reception 5 
 Feritramm^nifi fenijfemm. Oh how much 
 is Wifedom obliged to voluntary and 
 compulfive exilements ! Pdlas with this 
 hath made other manner of acquift's5than 
 when (he failed in the Argomutick fhip to 
 the conqueft of the Golden Fleece. 
 
 Before the Art of Navigation was in 
 ufe 5 the World was half unknown 3 half 
 un-cultivatedj all barbarous. 
 
 mc^9 Sua quifque flgerlittora ner^ty 
 Tatrio^ue Senex fa8u^ in arvo 
 Favvo dives y ntfi quas tulerat 
 NMsle[olumy mnnoratopeSt 
 
 Who then had, or knew what it was ta 
 have all the World? The Sea was idle ^^ 
 the Winds unprofitable ; Heaven , few 
 were there that did behold it, none th^t 
 piadeufe of it. 
 
 Nondum qulfquam fydera noratj 
 Stellifque quihm fingiter ^th^y^ 
 ' f^on crattt[m,'~—i 
 
 No\? 
 
IVifdom h^ppy. 55 
 
 Now all the World is made one only 
 Kingdome 5 whereas before every] King- 
 dom feemed a World. Each place is nei- 
 ther deprived of others, nor covetous of 
 her own^whilft that each tranfporteth into 
 another, that wherein it felf abounds: ma- 
 king all the earth but one body, where one 
 part readily fuccoureth the necelTuies of 
 an other.Now the whole heaven is but one 
 Roofe 5 and all Men doe know themfelves 
 to be but one and the fame Family , and 
 may with more verity, than he chat they 
 were faid by, fing, the vcrfes of Mamlm Lih 4, 
 
 ^jfr. 
 
 Jam mfqadm Natura Utet : fer^lcUmiis 
 
 omnem , 
 Et capto fotimur mmdo : no^rumque f^- 
 
 rentum 
 Parsfua co^fpicimu^, — — 
 
 What would the Gymmfophlfts , the 
 ^reths^ the Cfci/^^^«5 have had, if con rent 
 •with that only, which they vvere born 
 with 5 they had not gone cut of their 
 Country to feek, as Uliffcs in his fortu- 
 nate wandrings, that Sapience from o- 
 ih^iTS, which they themfelves- did \?anr> 
 E 4 Look 
 
5« 
 
 The Fir^ Fart. 
 
 Look how much better a feeing eye is, than 
 a blind , faith Philo Ahxandrmm ,To much 
 more excellent is a man whom defire of 
 knowledge h^d led , a Pilgrim and volun- 
 tary exile 3 through many Nations: then 
 he who is like atree? that where it firft 
 Iproutes, there it takes root , there it 
 lives 5 and there in the end it r6ts. 
 
 m * ■11 1 
 
 The \ 
 
 
Wifdom happy. 
 
 57 
 
 The Wife Prifoner. 
 
 THe Soules of Philofophcrs 
 ({aid a Wife Ancient) have their 
 bodies for houfes : thofe of the 
 ignorant, for prifons. Becaufe the firft are 
 tetired in the body as in Temples of fleep 
 and repofejand goe out freely at their plea- 
 furc whcrefoevcr their fancies carry them: 
 iand the fccondj fhut up in the narrow 
 1 wals of their body ? are tied with as many 
 Ichaines as they have members , without 
 I feeing any other light then what comes to 
 them through the little holes of two pu- 
 pils: and reft there fhut up, inasmuch 
 dsthcy have no thouc;hts but what their 
 tbodily neceflities infufe. Thence it is that 
 |if the ignorant chance to be prifoners they 
 jare double prifoners: The Sages noi at 
 all 5 the better part of whom can no more 
 be confined 3 than the wind may be im- 
 prifoned in a Net ; or the light fliut up in 
 jChriftaK The TuUianum ot Rome: the Cave 
 mSyracufe^the Lethe oiPerfia, the Ceramo of 
 f^yfW 3 ani oi as many as there were , or 
 1 there 
 
^8 The Ftrji Part. 
 
 there are now a-dayes famous , or infa- 
 mous prifons of the Worlds none are fo 
 deep 5 that they bury ? or fo obfcure that 
 they blind 5 fo narrow as to bind ^ fo ftrong 
 with double walsjthat they confine a mind 
 truly Phylofophical. Thanks to Sapience, 
 which F)at3 cals the wing of the Soul, that 
 carries it not only out of its prifon , but 
 beares it up initsflightoucoffrhe World, ; 
 Nam cogimio ejus (faith the Stoick) circa ! 
 §mne co^lum-i ^ in omm yr Aterhum^ futurum- 
 que tempm emittitur. Corpufculum hoc cufiodia^ ■ 
 ac 'vinculum miwiy huc-y atque il/ucjaHatur, la 
 hocfupfliciaj in hoclatrccima 5 in hoc morbi rx- 
 ercentur. Animis quidem ipfefacery ^ dternm 
 ejly ^ cut mn pOjSit injici manns. Therefore 
 a prifon ro a wife man is no prifon 5 but a 
 houfe^fincc he is at liberty to go out when 
 he will. Tctum autem hominem ammusy cir- 
 ]^^^ay, cumfcrt (fsLithTertullianJ ^ cm velittran[^ 
 tjYQSc^.fcrt, 
 
 It is of little importance to the Soule 
 
 what becomes of the body ? whilft itSj 
 
 IlintHs thoughts arc out of the body. Thus Ermo' 
 
 lib' i-j. timu^y whole foulc left his body at pleafurc 
 
 c/ip. 52. and went travaling^in divers places, even 
 
 into the remoteft Climes , to fee what 
 
 was done in the World, felr fo little 5 thaf 
 
 he knew not intheleaftifhe fuffcrejin ip 
 
 ih^c 
 
Wifdom happy. s^^ 
 
 that he ufed to burn his body alive in one 
 place, and his foul infenfible of what was 
 done, enjoyed it in another. 
 
 A light remedy was that of Socrates , 
 againft the heavy vexations of the always 
 faftidious Zantippc , to get up to the top of 
 thehoufe, when fhe made the bottome 
 ring with her brawling. How much bet- 
 ter would it be to avoid the fight of the 
 darknefs , the feeling of the narrownefs, 
 the anoyance of the folitude of a prifon, to 
 clime with the mind to the ftars , to make 
 lit (elf fplendid with their light, andtra- 
 ' cing out their periods , and meafurin^ 
 their magnitudes, to make himfelf a com-^ 
 panion of the intelligences which fo ex- 
 pertly reveal them ? Nihil crm [emit in 7-^^.^^//^ 
 mrvo^ cum animui in Coslo eft. ,-^/^, 
 
 A pleafan t folly was that related by Hb- 
 race of a Greek fool , who for many hours 
 of the day thought himfelf in a full Thea- 
 ter, and to fee perlons appear inScsenes, 
 ^^ and to hear excellent Tragoedies recited 
 yy the braveft Adors ! There was not a 
 Plan in all Jrgos more content then he. 
 
 iH 
 
 ", 
 
 ^^i^e crtdthat miros audire Tr agendo ; Lih» 2 1 
 
 In vacuo UmfejJ'or^ fUuforq^^ Tbtatro. ^P- 2. ^d 
 
 His 
 
^o The Firji Part. 
 
 His friends 5 going about , to comiferatcj 
 him > were 3 without knowing it cruel to 
 him: for by the power of Helebore rc-fetling 
 the brains in his headj they took the joy 
 from his heart : whereupon hej that would J 
 not have exchanged his folly for all the; 
 wifdome in the World? being cured 5 con- 
 doled his unfortunate difcretion ^ and en- 1 
 vied his fortunate folly^ and to his friends, 
 becaufe depriving him of an innocent con- 
 tent 5 they had reftored him to the anoy- 
 ance of his former perplexities , and ot a 
 fainedSpe(aator3 had made him a real 
 AdorofTragoedieSs he makes grievous | 
 complaint. 
 
 ■Meoccidiftis amici 
 
 Nonfervafli^y ait^ cut fie extort a velupt^, 
 Et demftus per vim mentis gratifimm error. 
 
 Thus far a foolifh imagination of an ir- 
 regular fancy can co-operate to other mens 
 content 5 whileft raviflning them out of 
 themfelves, it fixeth them upon fome plea- 
 ling objed. And cannot Sapience doe that 
 in a head full of noble and fublime notions, 
 which folly can doe in one devoid of un-, 
 derftanding ? Knows flie not how to pre- 
 fent the mind with fpedlacles, the pleaiure 
 
 whereoi 
 
 Mi 
 
Wifdom happy. 6i 
 
 whereof may make a man toro;et the place 
 
 where he is; fo that being tonfinedina 
 
 Prifon, he may conceit himfelf, one while 
 
 in the bowels of the earth, another, in the 
 
 I watery abyfle ; fometimeson the Ocean, 
 
 ' (ometimes in the airjtoft too and fro by the 
 
 ' iwinds 5 now neer the Sun, anon among the 
 
 "Stars; by and by in the utmoft regions, 
 
 'land even alfo in the immcnfe vacuities 
 
 labove the WorId?Thefe are the fpeculati- 
 
 'pns that tranfport our minds out of them- 
 
 jfelves, and make us happy in their contem- 
 
 elation. True dreams of waking eyes , 
 
 A^hich at the fame inftant give both reft , 
 
 ind delight. Scisenim PhilofofhifpeBaculam setnt.6. 
 
 ''faith that excellent Platonick Maximm 
 
 T)rm) cut waxime fimde dice I Infomnio ni- 
 
 ^nirnm mAnife^o^ Cjf circumqu^que voUtar/tiy 
 
 I'ujus^ trite gro cor pre mmente-^ animm tarn en in 
 miverfam terram excurrit. Ex terra effertur in 
 s'Jcelum uriiver[um^ mare per tra^/fit^ u^iverfum 
 herzoUt aerem, Terram ambit cum Sole^ cum 
 "HLunacircumfcrtur ^ c^tero^ a^rorumjuh^itur 
 ^Vhoro^ minimumq^ aheji-y quin ma cum Jove «- 
 ^'HVerfa guhernet-i & ordinet.O Qferatiomm kta- 
 Ham ! OfpeB/uulafulchra ! ir/fomraa ^eri/i^ 
 ^na\ 
 
 ^^ He that can enter a Prifon with fuch cx)n- 
 Jj :cmplation 5 may well fay m:hTertul/iany 
 
6i The Firfi FarU 
 
 Supra. Juferamus careerismmen^ feafjum voamUfs 
 He changeth place, but not fortune ; he al- 
 ters the entertainment of his body, btitnot 
 the imploynient of his mind : and as the^ 
 Poet faith of the 'Demi-gods^ That they doe 
 the very fame things below in the Blilian 
 fields, which we doe living here above. 
 
 'J^ud^ gratia cur rum ^ 
 
 ft^md. Armorum^ f^tt vivis , qu<t cur a nttenm 
 
 Pa[cer€€quos^€adem[equituYteUurc repoftos^ 
 
 Thus the wife prifoher, hath the fame' 
 
 noble exercife of mind, and that either' 
 
 fole, or principal care of foaring higher toP'' 
 
 new degrees of fublimer fpeculations 
 
 which he had when free , eddemfequitur teP 
 
 lurerepoHum, Wherewith he entred inta 
 
 prifon 5 not to receive from thence ^bfcu-' 
 
 rity and infamy, but to bring thither light 
 
 De con- ^^d glory; he enters it as the great Socrates^ 
 
 ffflat. ad IgmmimamipfilocodetraBurm-i {sLithSenecay 
 
 Helu, Nequt etiam pterat career viderty in quo So-'* 
 
 cap. 13. crates. 
 
 But this is not the only fruit of Learning] 
 in the Wife Prifoner , far greater is that^ 
 (which very often fucceeds) of converting? 
 the Prifon into a Z;frf«?» , and with feet 
 fettered in fhackles.to ufe the liberty of his^ 
 
 hands* 
 
 ^ 
 
 c, 
 
Wifdo7n happy* €3 
 
 hands in managing a pen. So that he who 
 Jives in a Cell, known only to himfelf , like 
 Silk-wormesintheirfhels, Jam mutatmin 
 alitem^ flies with his books through every 
 place, becoming in the fchool of a prifon > 
 jone of the Worlds Sagesjuft like the Sun, 
 which when it hath left our Hemifphere, 
 (and is fepultur'd under ground , giveth to 
 'the World a World of Stars, fo that its 
 Kofleis with gain , hisabfenringhimfelfis 
 with honour. And what elfc do the Pearl- 
 fiihes which imprifoned in the bottomeof 
 !:he Sea , fettered and chained to a Rork , 
 deprived of light , yea , of eyes , work 
 pearls,which releafed from that dungeon, 
 and brought out of darknefs, into the light 
 i^f the Sun,and inchaied with gold,are put 
 For the ornaments of Crowns, upon Royal 
 Temples , to the veneration of the World? 
 Thus AnaxaoorO'S between the four walls of Plat, de 
 |i narrow prifon, invefted the Quadrature extlh. 
 )f a Circle, Thus A^m^ the Poet , found ^^^^-^-S* 
 n the bottome of a Tower, the top of Par^ ^'J" 
 ^^fjm-i therecompofinga great part of his \ '^^* 
 ^oems. And becaufe no-body would im- ' " * 
 'i)rifon Euripides , he fliut up himfelf in the 
 "cep dungeon of a Cave, and there wrote 
 hofe Tragoedies , which afterwards had 
 he world for their Theater & applaudcr. • 
 
 The 
 
£j^ The Firji Part. 
 
 The Prifons wherein thefe famorfs'metti 
 were confined > hindred them not front 
 being famous : But their writings more 
 difplayed them to the world, then their 
 faces could have done. And as of the ima- 
 ^QS ot Brum and CajTm which were not 
 feen at a publick funeral, 74f/fw faid. Eo 
 iffo fy<efulgehanty quod non vi^tbmtur. So 
 likewife thele emitted more refulgent 
 rayes of glory, whilft obtenebrafed by the 
 obfcurity of a prifon, then if they had been 
 publi^^uely manifefted. 
 
 How aptly may that be applied to them 
 
 which TertulUan fpeaks of the light of the; 
 
 day 5 which taken hence by the Weftern 
 
 ^ 7? /»- Ocedn , and as it were inrerr'd ; Rur[m cum 
 
 fur, car, f^^ cultUy cum dote^ cum Sole^ eadem fy integral 
 
 g^ ,*2^ ^ ma umverfo orbi rtvicifcit ; interficiens 
 
 mortem fuam noBem . refcindens fepulturam 
 
 [uam te-r7elras, Thefe Wife men wenrinto 
 
 prifon, as feed fals among the clods, 
 
 which buried , but not dead; without 
 
 comming out, fruitfully (hoot out through 
 
 the fertil mould , and by the Eares it fends 
 
 forth , makes it appear that Where they 
 
 appeared dead , thei|: they laboured for 
 
 the lives of many. They were fiiutupin 
 
 Towers, & there revolving their thoughts 
 
 •with indefatigable fpcculations , they 
 
 became 
 
 • !i, 
 
Wifdom happy. 6^ 
 
 became of univerfal utility : juft as the 
 Town-clock imprifoned in fome Tower 
 with a finger pointing without, to the 
 hours , gives a rule to all the peoples ani- 
 ons. They were hid in Caves of Itone, but 
 like that fabulous Eccho of the Poets^having 
 !i loft all their other eflencejthey became all 
 voice 5 which re- founded 5 and reverbe- 
 rated 5 by the ftones of their prifon , they 
 made themlelves heard through all the 
 World : fo that it may be affirmed of one 
 of them , what the h\xt\\otoi Metamor^ho' 
 fis faid oiEccho. 
 
 LatetnuUaj^inlucevidetur^ Lib. jo 
 
 OmnibHi Auditur. Sonm efi qui vivit in illo. 
 
 Solitude, and filence the indivifible 
 companions of Study ; which to find , o- 
 chers have buried themfelves in the mod 
 private retirements of their houfefiwodis, 
 & caves ; thcfe have for their cofnpanions 
 in prifon, & are thereby the lefs folirary,& 
 with the mind contradcd within irk If, 
 their wits are as cleer fightcd in their pro- 
 founditudeSjto dcferve the clecrcr lights of 
 all the Sciences,as from the bottom of that 
 famous well, the eyes were able tc' difcerii 
 the Stats at roid-dav. ^ 
 
66 ThcFirJlPan. 
 
 T/ie Wife Injirme. 
 
 POctry had a "Deucalion that of 
 Stones could make men ; Phylofo- 
 phy had a Zi^no that of men could 
 make Stones. 
 
 "Deucalion ^ reftorer of the World j from 
 the naked top of mount Psrnajjm 5 the only 
 Pore of all the World fubmerg'd in a De- 
 luge, and made one intire Sea 5 caft over 
 his head-ftones 5 the bones of our Grand- 
 motherjand according to the Oracle, 
 
 Sexa {quifhoc credat-^ nififit fro tefie vetuflos?) 
 Toneu daritiem c£pneluumj^ rigor em. 
 MolUrij^ mora 5 moUitaj^ ducereformam. 
 
 On the other hand Zeno , transfufed a 
 vein of ftone into thofe men chat were his 
 Scholars, and made them become obdu- 
 rate and infenfible, by extirpating all afFe- 
 ^ions out of their hearts. So that his 
 fchool was rather an Ingravers {hop where 
 he wrought Statues than an Academy 
 ofPhilofophy , where he moulded Phylo- 
 fophers. His firft and laft JefTon was to 
 ftarn to get the mind to the pitch of Royal 
 
 forti- 
 
if 
 
 Wifdom happy. $j 
 
 fortitude 5 fo that reither the furprizals 
 of Love^ nor the affaults of Malice, nor the 
 feiges of Hopcjnor the batteries of Defpc- 
 ration, nor the fcalado's of Audacity : ft- 
 nally, that neither the arms nor arts of any 
 Affedion iliould be able to force the heart 
 CO furrendef it felf 5 or yeild either at dif- 
 cretion, or upon articles. In the tempeft 
 of bodily infirmity 3 of difturbed humours, 
 of fickly conftitutions ^ he would have the 
 ' heart ftand Velut ^elagi rufes immota^ which 
 affaulted but not moved by the waves, 
 breaks them at his feet 5 and makes them 
 rccoile in a foam. All the tortures of the 
 Worldjthough with a painful wxackc our 
 members fliould be torn off, one by one, 
 liave not in them any thing worthy to 
 ciaufe a fainting of palenefs in our faces ^ or 
 ieeblenefs of courage In our brefls: have 
 not power to extort one intcrjedtion from 
 our mouthes , nor one bare tear from our 
 eyes. Yea 5 rather the more torments in- 
 creafc 5 the more of checrfulnefs fliould 
 appear in the fore-head 5 like the Heavens 
 which arc then fullefl of fcrenity when 
 ZJor^'^^blows with sreatcft frigidity & im- ^ 
 
 petuofity. But what talkc I of ^^//o and the 
 Stoicks } Epicurm himfelt , that anima! , 
 %vhofe foul only ferved him for fak^ to the 
 F 2 ^nd 
 
d8 "m'- fi The Firfi Part ? .^-^i: -| 
 
 end he might not ftink alive In plcafates^ 
 taught, not how to turn thorns into fiovir- 
 epy toextrafthony out of gall, to change 
 tii?; miferies into Jubilees, and to convert 4 
 inisfortuncs into felicities. Delight there- 
 fore being the fountain of beatitude (faith 
 he) and that man not being able to call 
 himfelf blelTed, who is not alwayes fo, it is 
 necelfary that he knew as well how to re- 
 joy ce in torments as in contents, ^are Sa- 
 piens (faith Epicurus cited by Seneca) Ji m 
 JPhalaridis tauro peruratur^ excUmabit : Dulfe 
 Vj?, ad me nihil pertineK 
 
 But they deiSre too much , who will not 
 infufe Wifdom into men, without depri- 
 ving them of humanity. Other Schools 
 more prudently taught, that the affedions | 
 fhould not be puli'd up by the roots as ve- 
 ncmous plants , but as wild and un-culti- .< 
 vatcd trees they fhould better thcmfelves^j 
 by tranfplanting and grafting, Manyli 
 found, vvitout a skilful Artifl to accord 
 them, makcadifpleafingdifcord; but if 
 from Proportion they receive Time and 
 Meafure, they compofe the melody of a 
 perfcfl: Harmony. But thcfe rigid Schools 
 by the impofition of fo ftrid an injunftionj. 
 of extirpating the paffions from the heart,' 
 have taueht us thus much 5 that right 
 
 Phylo- 
 
VVifdom happy. dp 
 
 Philofophy can give us fuch an empire 
 pvcr our affeftions 3 that if itinchant not 
 the fenfes at the undergoing of affliftion, 
 Tior yet render usfo ftupid as to be infcn- 
 iible of them ^ yet it permits us not to be 
 tranfported with defperation , not provo- 
 ked with impatience 5 nor in the many 
 tcmpeftsarifingfrom the miferies of the 
 body 3 to lofe the tranquility of the 
 mind. 
 
 ;v Now therefore behold a wi^e Sick wan: 
 Behold him I fay, not extended on a bed , 
 butimbarqued in a {hip-, not among the 
 feavers and anguifhes ot a violent infirmi- 
 ty 5 but amidft the waves and billows of 
 a long and tedious tempcft. See how he 
 lower fail, how the planks flye afundcr 5 
 how the niaft trembles, how cacrj pare 
 frompoop toprowfhivers, and the lliip 
 refentsallthis, as no peril of wrack , buc 
 \ asthe nature of the tide. Thejud^meniof 
 I the Pilot 5 and dexterity of theMarincr£> 
 fteereit, I will not fay quietly through fo 
 many tumults 5 but fecurcly through fo 
 many dangers. Sapience (its at the ftern , 
 to manage the mind , and govern the affe- 
 dtions, that in one, (though it may be vicr 
 Jent)tempeft, wherein another would have 
 funk> a Wife fick man will lail,if up: v/ith 
 
 F 3 ^h^ 
 
yo T^he Firfh Part. 
 
 the (crcnity ot a calm^ yet wirfi tihcfecurP^^ 
 
 ty of a Port. ^' 
 
 Yca,niall fee in a body tottering,a mind 
 fofirm 3 in a body difordered a mind fo 
 compoled, that you would think youfaw 
 two perfons in one man 5 one of 4 Phylofo- 
 pher. another of an Infirm. This like thq 
 tidcisoi Olympm obnubulated with clouds , 
 bathed with myfts^ and transfixed with 
 thunder ; that, like its lofty top 5 alwayesi 
 cnjoyes the Heavens fercnc, alwayes be- 
 holds either the Sun or the Stars ; That like 
 a cloud which is melted and dirfolved into 
 rain j this like a Rain-bow y merry in mc--^ 
 lancholy , and laughing in the raidft of 
 tears. 
 
 Now if you would know how this comes 
 to paffe : tell me : Tranquility of mind y 
 doth it avail to the fanity of body?Thcy arc 
 fo united together, that the one fympathi- 
 zeth with the other, and (as it happens in 
 rhe chords fettounifon) that the one be- 
 ing ftruck the other moves. The affediions 
 of the mind are the winds, the humours of 
 ihebodythefea J whilft the winds rorb, 
 the Sea grows rough and tempeftuou^. 
 On the contrary. J^dquidanimum evextt^^ 
 faith Smecayttiamcorforeprodeft. So chat if 
 Phy lofophy did no otlier but only teach i; ; 
 
 to 
 
Wifdom happy. 71 
 
 to.eftecm death to be that which it is (of 
 which it hath fo noblc^ and fo generous ex- 
 preflions) how many and how violent pa- 
 Iroxifmes of fear, (aflailants fometimes 
 more mortal than Feavers themfelves ) 
 I doch it thereby expel from the heart.^ flow 
 many, half-found, wholly fec^re, at the 
 leaft fliocke of calamity die onely out of 
 1 fear oT death , and miferably expire for 
 !| nothing : in like manner as D^fhdntes that ^P'^'''* 
 I hang'd himfelf in a halter made of a Spi- ^^'^^' 
 ders-web ? 
 
 ^ne:^s coming to Hel-gates,had a terri- 
 ble in counter of Cf;;f<iir/^5j Harpyesy Chyme- 
 ra'Sy (jOrgons^ Hydras , at which fight his 
 bloud retired 10 his heart for fear , and his 
 I hand to his fword for defence. 
 
 JEt ni didld omnt% Unms^i/it corprcjiw - . , 
 
 Admoneat njoliure cAVAfubimaginefoYma^ 
 Irruaty ^fruftraferro diver beret umbras. 
 
 Tuft in the fame manner doth the fvife 
 Inprm, The feares of death which in fun- 
 dry frightful fliapes , doth make towards 
 him from the gates of Hell, he knows what 
 they are. Temes fine corporevit£ , and re- ExepiJ^, 
 mcmbreth that which that Ror/?a^ Sage 2^. 
 writ, ihsii N'oii hmmbus tmtum:J(d(^rcf'^fs 
 Qi F 4 per- 
 
72 Thefi^TttW'^ 
 
 ferfonAdemendaeli^ ^ reidinik fmn pM 
 ToUe iflsmpompamfu^ qualates^ &ftulmtir^ 
 rit^. Morsesquamnuper fervmmeWj qiiMm 
 amta contcmpfit , (^c. In fo much that the 
 fools which feeking medicines for dife^fcSj 
 have no remedy for this of fear , in which 
 they freeze more than they burn inth<?ft 
 fcavers ;will neither fee any thing r nor 
 permit themfelves to be feen of any thing, 
 \vhich may awaken in their memories the 
 iremembranceof death. So that they imi- 
 tate the fimple Fellow 5 who to hWc 
 himfelf from the fleas that bit him> pat 
 outthe light; and jv-t^S 
 
 j^pi^r. ^^n me^ irK^uit^ cement arnplim hi fuUces^ 
 
 The fearful and tjmerous have but too 
 good eyes, being accuftomed to fee better 
 in the dark than light. 
 
 If therefore the difpofitions of the mind 
 be of fuch efficacy in theimprcffions of the j 
 body , what great advantage hath the 
 Wife Infirm, that he maintains the foul in 
 ferenity, and the mind in tranquility; that 
 fear is not able to caufe the feaft tranf- 
 portment or palpitation of heart , an d 
 the acerbitude 4t felf of the difeafo^ is 
 therebyqualifieJ ^ and remits of hi$-f#y? 
 
W if dom happy. j^ 
 
 fyVim mrhum ( faith Seneca ) dum pitas fa^ 
 CHS. Omnia ad opmonem fufpenfa ^unt, Non 
 ^miitio tantum ad illam refpicit ^ aut luxuriay 
 40f avaritia. Ad opinionem dolemm. Tarn mifer 
 ijtquifque quam credit. 
 
 But the mifery is fmall if wc doe not 
 augment it, and make it greater by impa- 
 tience, and (o much the leflcjby how much 
 the mind being otherwayes occupied , (a 
 thing eafie to the fludious) is diverted 
 from the Icnfc of the prefentpain , and 
 takes its flight as the Hearts in time of a 
 ftorm ofHailor Rain, furmounting the 
 clouds fo enjoy the Heavens in their fere- 
 nity. 
 
 : Siracufa being taken by Mdrcel/us^ and 
 
 full of the (houts of the vigors, and fnrieks 
 
 ipf the vanquifhed , whilft thofe over-ran, 
 
 !f^nd thefc ran through the ftreets , only 
 
 Archimedes had his mind fo intent upon the 
 
 Mines of certain Mathematical figures 
 
 which he was defcribing , that he neither 
 
 faw, knew, nor heard any thin^, of all that 
 
 paft abroad , but had loft himfelf in his 
 
 contemplations , fo that being (lain by an 
 
 impatient Souldier he perceived himlcif 
 
 ^ -dead before he was aware ot his dying, 
 
 and was mote aggricvedthat he could not 
 
 vfinifti his Demonftration, than at the 
 
74 The Firji P4rt. 
 
 finifhing of his life. And Solon groning In 
 his laft pangs , whilft he lay a dying , 
 over-hearing fome Phylofophcrs , which 
 accidentally began a Difpute, neer his 
 bed, he forgot he was a dying y and re-cal- 
 ling his fugitive foul to his head, as if he 
 had awak'c , or rifen from the dead , 
 opened his eyes , and earcs ; nor did he 
 end his live , till they had finifhed their 
 Difpute. Senecd^ did not he once (as him- 
 f elf relate th)run from the ague that fought 
 him , flying in the hour ot its acccflion to 
 hide himfelf in the moft fecret fpeculati- 
 ons of Phylofophy ? Angelical St. Thomas 
 was not moved with theimartofaburn 
 which he had received cafually, in that he 
 prudently reflected with profound ftudy^ 
 upon his wonted lucubrations. 
 
 Your body is confined to a bed, let your 
 mind prefcrve its liberty, and you fhall be 
 the lefs prefent to your fuffedng^ , by how 
 SenecA ^"^^ by this you areabfent. lHudefi quod^ 
 Bt.i%» imperitcsi/zziexatme corporis male ha^ft, Non 
 ajjueveru^t Animo ejje contenti, Multum iUis, 
 cumcerporefuit. Idco lirmagnm^ Acpvudens 
 animum deducit a cor pore ^ (^ multum cum tn^-" 
 liorey ac divirio, parte verfatur : cum hac que^ 
 rula^ ac fragili quantum i^ecefje eft, H c woul,d 
 fay (and he fpeakcth there oi tl e: Wi^e 
 
 Ihfrm) 
 
Wifdom happy. 75 
 
 Inptm) that he is asaCompafs, which 
 if it hath one of his feet immoveably fixed, 
 it with the other moves about, defcribing 
 greater or leffer Circles, according as it is 
 more or lefs diftant from the Center. 
 
 Butjbeholdjin one only man the precepts 
 of all thefc. In the beholding of Pofido?4us 
 a Wife fick-man 5 you will find what I 
 have (aid to beauthenticke^that Learning 
 and Wifedomjbear up the fick-bedinan 
 inundation of infirmities ? 2i%ihtCrocodiles 
 their nefts upon that oiNilus. 
 
 This was a Phylofcphcr, a longtime 
 un-healthy and laden with more difeafes 
 than members 5 for in every part ot the 
 body he had many ails ; and had he been 
 fub-divided into many men5he could have 
 made a compleat Hofpital of all Difeafes, 
 whereas being all fumm'd up in him alone, 
 they hardly made one fick man. Thanks 
 to the fortitude of his mind which fup- 
 plied the imbecility of his body ; and the 
 anguifh of his crazy limbs did no more pe- 
 netrate his heart^than the dart transfixech 
 the bowels of an £///?to^, which is repulfed 
 by his skin : lo that 5 
 
 Totjaculis u/iam m/iexple/'it vulrieramo/Um, Lhi:^^, 
 
 Vi^urAtuuUteni ^emtk. /•^- ■^=- 
 
 Thac 
 
j$ The Firji Fart. 
 
 ^' That grand proof of Roman valour which 
 
 Mutim Scevola gave to King Torfenm^ whiift 
 more refencing the errour he had commi^i- 
 ced than the burning of his hand 5 beheld 
 it un-dauntedly to burn in the firejwhen as 
 he could not endure without impatience 
 to erre in his body, to the fo great aftonifli- 
 raentofthe king his enemy 5 that he was 
 conftrainednoc only to commend his mur- 
 therer^in the middeft of his repentance tor 
 not having (lain him ; but to be alfo his 
 champion againft himfclf , taking the 
 fire from under that hand which merited 
 light, and was more worthy of a palm for 
 his error than he would have been for his 
 blow ; This I fay, was one, only ad, upon 
 one only hand, for a Hiort time , in a man 
 worthy of death5in a man bitterly offended 
 withhimfelf. Pofidonm fo many years in 
 his bed, as Anaxarchufin a morter^ tormen- 
 ted in one part after another , and con- 
 fumed by his dolours , furvivech the con- 
 tinual death, which he endured only to be 
 the longer dying, and beheld himfelf and 
 his miferies, with not only dry, but cheer- 
 ful eyes 5 and took thofe very pains as fub- 
 je(5):s ao Phylofophate upon , methamor- 
 phofing his Chamber into a Schoole, and 
 his Bed into a Chair. In a word, he didas 
 
the Moon, which though ic be in eclips & 
 Jofe his light? yetitlofeth not the courfc 
 iof its revolution , but profccuteth its mo- 
 tion 5 although ftiee be not fo full of light 
 as before. 
 
 ., Menflockt from all parts about ^W^f, 
 to hear and fee a man, which from his 
 own wounds took Balfome for other s^ and 
 more admirers had he lying upon a bed j 
 than that famous ColojJ'sts of bidiis , erected 
 upon the entrance of the Portjfor the glory 
 ofEhodes^and miracle of the World. Pompcy 
 the Great pafled into greece , and drawn 
 by the Fame of Polidontui > defired to fee 
 him; and he came juft at the inftant, 
 when he was more than ever 5 under the 
 anxions pangs of his dolours. He came 5 
 he faw, and he was overcome, Pompey 
 feemed the patient, compaflionating the 
 torments of ?o/jWo/;/^; Pofidonim feemed the 
 'healthful man, difcourfing amply with 
 Pompey^and proving the verity of this argu- 
 ment, nihil tomm f/f 5 nifi quod hor^ejium fit *, 
 ^nd with fuch cheerfulnefs of face ? and 
 conftancyofminddid he doe it, that lace- 
 rated with torments, inftead of ^roiling, 
 ihefmiled, and when others would have 
 qaJaidthebeaft, he fiid. Nihil agu dolor ^ 
 'igtfA'^vis fis mclejliis mtr.quum letfje ccn^tehov 
 malum. Thus 
 
78 The Firji Pan. 
 
 Thus Sapience which is the quintef- 
 cence, ofthenobleft learning, can better 
 than the Stygian Lake did Achilles ^ render 
 the mind impenetrable to the wounds of 
 thebody,and hold it fo far alienated from 
 all fcnfe of its fufferings , by how much it 
 knows how to employ the thoughts about 
 more pleafing obje^Ss. 
 
 So that be the fVi[cman poor, be he in 
 prifon, be he banifhcd, be he fick • behold, 
 in two wordsjthe remedy for each of thefe 
 difcafes. Pauper ftaiinterplures ero. Exulfiam}^ 
 Seneca j^ ^^^ natum puuho quo mittar.Aligakrl^uid 
 epifi, 24, ^fr^^f^^ Nunc folutus fumi ad hoc me fjatura grave 
 iorfQris mei pndm ah^rinxit. Mortar I Hoc 
 dicU: Definam agrotare pajfc^ depnamalligari 
 fojje:, definam mori fofj'e. 
 
 Thus have I glanced at the happinefs of 
 a Learned man, by what maybe taken 
 Iromhimfelf , but becaufc this little light 
 which I have been able to give to io illu- 
 ftrious a matter, may appeare yet cleerer. 
 I will draw its fhadow neerit: and if I 
 have made you fee Wifdom to '^be happy 
 though in mifery ; now I will prove Igno- 
 rance to be milerablc though in felicity. 
 
 I^HO 
 
Ignorance unhappy. 79 
 
 Ignorance miferahle^ although in 
 Felicity. 
 
 Ignorance andSanoiity. 
 
 SAnftity is a pearl of (0 ^reat a value 
 & of fo ineftimablc a priccjthat then 
 '^^ when it is not fet in Gold , when it 
 fliines not among the lights of the under- 
 ftanding, among the rayes of the Sciences , 
 it diminifhcth not at all in worth nor is it 
 lefle eftccmcd by that great Merchant , 
 which gave all he had for it. 
 
 In Gods ballance is weighed 3 not the 
 goodlinefs of the underftanding , but the 
 goodnefs of the Will; nor is he taken with 
 
 j acute fancies , but with ardent affedions. 
 
 ' Wretched Lucifer knows this, who ha- 
 ving the flames and fplendor of Wit 5 but 
 wanting the ardor 01 Love, ambitious to 
 become the Sun ofParadife, became the 
 Prince ofinfernaldarknefs 5 and prsecipi- 
 tating with the other S tars which fell from 
 Heaven , manifefted how far deeds excel 
 
 know- 
 
^o The Firfi Psru 
 
 knowledge 5 whilft the ignorant men of 
 the earth clinabe thither from whence the i 
 learned Angels from Heaven fell. \ ' I 
 God never defired any mans head ^ yet 
 he defires every mans heart j nor doth nc, 
 didating tothepen of the great Chrono- 
 loger Mofesoiho Creation 6f the worldatake 
 care to teach how many are the number 
 of theStars , how greatis the maffe of the 
 Heavens, what the vertue of their afpefts ^ 
 and whether they derive their light frorn 
 the Sun, or have the fountain of it in theni- 
 felves J By what wayes the Planets move, 
 whence come the fpotsofthe Moon 5 and 
 thecaufesofEclipfes-, li the Heavens be 
 folid, if the Sun be hot j how the Ram- 
 bow is paintedjhow the windsrun through 
 the airj Who moveth the Sea with fluxc , 
 and re-fluxes •, who makes the earth to 
 Lib. 6. quake. ^^mhiUdms^ faith St. Ambrofcy 
 Henam, qmfinihil fYofutura fYd^Urtit. He faid only 
 cap. 2 . fo much as {ufficed to infufe into the judg- 
 ment the fundamentals of Faith ; he di- 
 dated onclyfo much as was ncceffanr to 
 be known tor the accompliftment of his 
 Law: thereftheomittcdjasif, Mmep- 
 Ihuir?;, cc/^is [apienti^^vahitates. 
 
 And the Wifdom of the Father , hfeli- 
 
 \\\\2, Word, the great exemplar of all the 
 
 ^ Idea's; 
 
Ignora7Jce utihappy, gj 
 
 .idea's , came he in the School of a ftable i 
 iipon che chair of a Manger^ in the afTcm- 
 biy of Oxen and Aflcs , to teach in the (i- 
 lenceof mid-nighr, with the voice of hi$ 
 groanes, the occult verities of humane 
 Phylofophy ? Liv'd he in the tic'ium , i 
 Profeffor of Learning , a Mainrainer of 
 l>ifputes, a Writer of Sciences? Or yec 
 did he difcover the leaft letter, tharmay 
 be pronounced , did he in this (as faid St. 
 ^^ugufiw very finely) niake fo much as jotd 
 ummyyjvhkh is the leaft letter ^ yea or Urns 
 apex, that is , leffe than the leall of all the 
 Letters? 
 
 tit came, its true, to convince tht Phy- 
 lolophy of the Academi's and Liceums of 
 Ignorance 5 and to make the Wifdofihof 
 the World to appear fooliflmefs : but hd 
 ufed not therefore, fublininefs of rtilc:, nor 
 quaintneffe of pelligrine diifcourfes. Wuh 
 the fimple word of his mouth, f^aV /^-w.^ 
 Jefputo, ufing parables , and a manner of 
 fpeech not only vulgar, but rude, and with 
 this reftorcd fight to ourbutdim-fighted 
 
 And for Apoftles, the Legiflarofsof the 
 World, the Oracles of true anfvvers , vvho" 
 did heeleft ? who did he call ? the rude 
 p and ignorant, taught with no other voices 
 jg ^ a thari 
 
82 the Firji Part:^ 
 
 than of hoift the failes , weigh anchor, 
 make to fiioare ^ learnt them m the Matt* 
 ners fchool 5 Yec, faith Tbeodoret^ with thS 
 Solecifmes of thefc iliitrates he confottfid^ 
 ed the Syllogifmes of the Phylofo{)h^^. " 
 f^ide s- Thus God honoured Sanftity without 
 ^^r«^r^. Learning, by how much thd purer 5 by fo 
 infant n^uch the fairer: By how much the leflfe* 
 cxhal'd by fpeculations, fo much the lirot^ 
 plentiful, and abundant in affeftions. 
 
 He knows much> yea, know^ all'tfi'^t 
 knows no other thanonely God. He that 
 knows not this 5 howbeic he knows eveir^ 
 thing elfcj knows nothing : whereupon ac- 
 cording; to Origen , that bad Politician and 
 worf e Prieft Caiphas fpoke the truth to tht 
 Hebrew Senators fworn enemies o^Chri^. 
 Fos mfcitis quidquamiJ^ere enim nihil noVeriint^ 
 qui Jefum veritatem ignorabant. 
 
 Lord, give me the merits of fo great a 
 glory as that wherewith St. Gregory ho- 
 nour eth that good Monk Steven , of whoih 
 he faith 3 Jb'rathujm lingua ruflica^ fed doaht 
 z'ita. Lord, teach me, and difcover to tnfe 
 thy fclf , I defire to know no other 5 and 
 I will leave with the Samant^n the VVellof 
 humane Wifdom, that fprifigs ffoM the j 
 earth, and alfo the pitcher of defirc of ever 
 any more thirftirigfor it. 
 
 Hitherto 
 
Ignorance unhappy. 83 
 
 Hitherco I have fpoken in others kn- 
 guage, not with my own ; and faid thar? 
 not which is abfolntcly true , but which 
 fgrne preach as true: feme I (ay ^ qui ad ., 
 
 infcitUfYAttxtidm , faith Naz.tenz.tn ^ in al- OrAt^ ^j 
 ledging themfelves to be the difcipks of 
 FifhermenjCondcmn thcScicnccs in others^ 
 .yyhlch they dcfire not^ or indeed rather 
 Know not how to have in themfelves. 
 
 AnEcclefiaftickthat could read no o» 
 
 i^lier Books : underftand no other Phylofo- 
 
 phy then that of his revenue , and defen-" 
 
 4ed hinifelf with this fhield of the Apo- 
 
 ^^ftlci which faith, Learning is a venom and ^ Cortfii: 
 
 %^^^lUt^ra tnirn occidit (thus he interpreted 
 
 _^])at text )moypdSir.r/;o^^/ M?^r^,cither 
 
 in "d|eiilion J or for his correction to write 
 
 '^on him this Epigram : but in him alone 
 
 \iohow many doxh he fpeak ? 
 
 ii^gn^ VAter^cUmas^OcQid^it litter a :'r;^ ori 
 Hoc mum 3 ,Occidit licteraj/^w^^/ hahn^ 
 Cfi^jj't^ihnc tiiy ne te ulla cccidnepofii 
 J^ptera^Non ulla efi littera /?,Q;^/z tUi. 
 
 ^^i Than SanBity without Lf/zW/;^ is vers^ 
 
 gr^jprecious and eKcellenta there is none will 
 
 4^ny. That its better to be a holy m?\\ 
 
 f hati a wife nim , whodoubcs? bur chat 
 
S^ ' The Firfi Fart. 
 
 its not better to be a Saint and a Scholar 
 than a Saint alone ^ I know no man that 
 can with reafon queftion it. 
 
 To be, as Chrifl (aid of the great BAftif-, 
 LucefncL Ardem^ (^ lucenSy in whom the light 
 is united with the fire, and the heat with 
 the fplendor 5 which is that very Perfe^um 
 oiS.Bcman^n whom both parts concurre; 
 Lucere^ ^ ardere. To have as the Holy A- 
 nimals ofEzekiel^ Marm fab pennis^ namely, 
 the works of the hands , and the defires of 
 the mind. To carry in the mouth as the 
 Sponfe, the Hony combes , cultivated by 
 Heaven , and of the Earth, with the Ho^^ 
 ney of etcrnallifc for himfelf, and with 
 the Wax tapers of Sciences, Illuminators 
 of others. To unite as in the Ark the Law, 
 and the Manna-, asinParadife the Tree 
 of Life, with that of Wifedom; finally, 
 to Love and to Know : is not this upon 
 earch the type of t^cBeatitudes of Heaven? 
 is it not worthy to be the Throne of that 
 *jrcat Monarch, and God, which fits upon 
 the Chcriibimsjand rides upon the Wings 
 cf the Wind? 
 
 One of the moft fignal honours God 
 dothbcftow upon his favourites is the gift 
 of the Sciences.For if by giving to Abraham 
 one letter of his name , he did him fo 
 
 extra- 
 
Ignorance unhappy. g^ 
 
 extraordinary a favours ^t//- quewddmodum 
 reges\i^\t\\ Chryjofiome) frtefeBis fuis tdellas 
 aures tradunt^ jigium videlicet princifatm fie 
 'Dim jufio iiiij in honoris argumentum^ unam li- 
 ter am deder it: What (hall wcfay, ofhim, 
 to whom Gods adds , not onclyalettcrto 
 the name . but great S ciences to the mind, 
 making him the likcr to himfelf the perfc- 
 dter he is in underftanding ? The Spoufe 
 craved ngthing before this beginning the 
 Canticles with demanding a kifs , which 
 was in effcd to require, that her Husband 
 would be her Maftcr, and with his Love to 
 give alfo Learning ; that , in the union of 
 the lips; this, in the impreflions of the 
 fpeecii 5 Petit ofculum:, faith the Interpre- 
 ter S t. Bermrd'i id ejly Spiritum SauFIum in > 
 'Vficat 5 per quern accipiat fimul (^ fcie/^ti^gu^ 
 flttmj ^ grati^e condimentum. Et ^enefcientice 
 qua in ofculo datur, cum amore vecipitur • quia 
 Amor is indicium o^culum eft. Thofethat are 
 thuspriviledgcd5irc thcFilii Lucis^ called, 
 as B'da interprctech it, by theilluftrious 
 name of Day, in that place where the Pro- jf^pfja 
 phctfaithy Dies Dei eru^at verhm^ per diem 
 enim accipimtti limpidifimum , ^ lucidijsi-^ 
 mum ingenium s^d divina cQnttmplandd hahen- 
 US. And as according to the faying of St, 
 Jmkofe , Ipfe tft Dies filius , cut pater "Dies ^^^ ^^^^ 
 
S6 The Fird Tart. 
 
 DivhntAtes fu£ eruBat anamm , fo'totliipic 
 tliefaid Dies film principal fountain of all 
 knowlcdg imparts his fplendorsjinrichihg 
 them with wifdoni. Thcfe, faith 0//gip/?5 
 are the Golden Candlefticks , by vvhofe 
 light the Ark is inlightned , and the San- 
 duary illuminated. Thefe are Lillies^ in 
 the Truths they undcrftand) Candid^and in 
 the Charity with which they love5^y"w//- 
 W, Thefcare the Grandees of the king- 
 dom of God tiiat add the Docere to the Fa- 
 cere, The S tavs fpU/jdid in perpetu,is tternita- 
 tes'y the precious ftones, foundation of the 
 Jerusalem of Gold : For this title of honour 
 the great Augu^lne gave to the moft elo- 
 quent ^t. Cyprian -And both thefe rnerited 
 ir, and with them the Areopagite , AihariA- 
 fmy Bafil^ Naz^ienzen^i Chryfoflome^ Jerome ? 
 Ambrofe-i <jreoory , and many others no Icfle 
 admirable in underftanding than in con- 
 yerfation. 
 
 The Theologcr cals one indowed with 
 
 Qrat, 10 Sandity, and devoid of Learning, a man 
 
 ' deprived of one eye^for even to know Gbd^ 
 
 whereby to be the more ingaged to love 
 
 hirn^ the Sciences, to him who knows how 
 
 to ufe them as Guides^ give a great light. 
 
 And here fee under the type of a Sole- 
 
 dfniafecrct mjflery hinted by S.^^^^^^o/*^, 
 
 ■' ' ' elanccd' 
 
Ignorance unhappy. 87 
 
 glanced at by DiZL/ij "Defeceru^it (fahhhc) In^faL 
 oculimei iaeloquium tuum ^ dicentes ^ ^uando 115?- 
 coa^oUberisme^ How will you accord this 
 \>yith the laws of Gx£Lmmd,rfiCULI dicenteSy 
 ' iri the plural number , with the other An- 
 gular Coi^foUkris ^iEp if Pcrfpe(aive do not 
 teach you ? that the Centrick lines of both 
 the eyes 3 called the Axis's , doe concurre 
 to turn to one point, wherein b«th the eyes 
 fcrvebut foronc, for they fee not the ob- 
 ]Q.&. doubly rcprefcnted , but fingly ? as if 
 there was no more but one eye howbeitit 
 muft be conferred 5 that the fight as double 
 is more ftrong, more diftind and able to 
 judg of diftant objects. If to the knovvledg 
 and vifion of God the eyes of Faith and 
 Science concurre, (which happily is that 
 which the kingly Saint defired, ) can any 
 one doubt it Inch a fight be more diftinft 
 and di(cernin;;!?Therefore the Sciences are 
 not prejudicial to Sanftfty, but rather affi- 
 ftant as companions, or at leallfubfer vi- 
 ent as hand-maids. 
 
 As (again) to the example o^Cbrifi^ to 
 fee how little he favoured the ignorant 
 y^^s^jSaint incomparifon of the Wife-, itfuf- 
 ficeth to remember , that where he in rc- 
 coundng the liftofour mifcrics 5 fogene- 
 roufly extends his armes,' lie 01 ly dcbarrcs 
 
68 TheVirji Fat^K 
 
 ignorance? iior would he fufFer-?her d^teflt 
 ucis to have any place in the Light of ther^ifc 
 VVorlcl, In poverty neceftxfous 5 in weafc*^Aj 
 neflfe drooping, in follit^de abandoned >iit/, 
 contempts negleiled? in nakedneffe ;^4-j 
 bafliedj in pains tornxented, onthecro^w 
 murthered : fatiatcd with opprobricsiWi 
 and from the crown ot the head to the^^ 
 ipal oi the foot abounding with dolours: 
 arnongft fuch a multitude of maladies, 
 he would not admit of Ignorance. Under 
 the hairy skin of the falvage Efau was re- 
 jteined the voice oi Jacob , fo that as being 
 the Wifedome of the Father he was not , 
 and Maftcf of the World, he would not be 
 Ignorant. For if that he fpake not more 
 highly of what he did , it was becaufe he 
 would not be a Sun to the eyes of Batts; 
 condcfcending too much in being a Lamp# 
 But if he then was filcnt, he hath fpo- 
 Iccn ever fince for thefe fixteen Golden 
 Ages, which the Church hath hitherto 
 feen •, hq had fpoke I fay with the tongues 
 and pens of fo many and io illuftrious Do- 
 <ftors of the World, chat from him , as the 
 fountains from the Sea^have took all the 
 iplendor ^nd all the profufion of that 
 t)^^rine;^ wherewith , to the profit of 
 ^ ^ Poflerity 
 
Ignorance unhappy. 8p 
 
 ^j^pfteritVj they have fo copioufly. fiird 
 
 heir voluminous labours. 
 
 , Lofidate igitur pucri Deminum ^ hoc (/?(faith py^/. , ^ ^ 
 .)>t. August ine) {n{eneBm vejlrs fuerilU^ ^ ^ 
 
 \h queritia fenilu , ut ncc Sapiemia vefira fit 
 \:um[uperyU^ ntc humilitas fine SapientiA: tit 
 ^audetis Pcminum ex hoc nunc & ufque inf^cu- 
 
 urn. 
 
 1^^ 
 
 ign(h 
 
^p : y%be Firfi Part. 
 
 Ignorance^ and Dignity. 
 
 Mlferably .fimple are thofe Sta- 
 tuaries who know not how to 
 form a Giant of Terrible afpedt, 
 if in the pofture of a mad man they make 
 him not todiftend his armcs, andil-fa- 
 vouredly ftradle with his legs, as if hci 
 would meafure the World at a ftride. 
 The fame , faith Plutarch^ befalsto thofe 
 Princes , who believe themfelves to be 
 moft majeftical , when they make them- 
 felves appear moft terrible. And there- 
 fore they aflfume an auftere life , with an 
 artificial feverity contradling their brows, 
 and elevating their looks ^ fo that behold- 
 ing them, you may properly apply to them 
 what the Poet {siVihoi Pluto 5 
 
 — — Magna fars Regni trucU 
 Herfti ' ^JUpfe D0mim46ycujm afpeBum timet 
 ^^ ' ^idquidtimetur. — .— — 
 
 How aptly would it evene ? if wc might 
 whifper into^ their cares , what a moft 
 
 prLiclcnt 
 
In^oratiee unhappy. oi 
 
 prudent Empetour told the Senare of 
 Rome 5 when he undcrftood the defigne 
 they had to degrade him j becaufe being 
 troubled with the Gout^he could not come 
 abroad in perfon to manage the publick 
 affaires 5 Hecaufedhimfelftobe brought 
 into the Senatc-houfe^fhewing with a long 
 Oration, that he had as free a mind 5 as 
 deficient feec, and left them in a confufion 
 withthefe words: JNefcitif caput imperaye^ 
 
 The repute of being a man of great judg- 
 ment: and not a frowning countenance 3 
 makes the Grandees efteemed ; nor is he 
 the moft Majeftical thats the moft ftately; 
 He that knows moft, and can do moft ^ he 
 who is all Eye and all Scepter (vvliich was 
 the Kierogliphick 5 and GharatSer with 
 vf\{ichthtEgjftiam expreft the Idea of a 
 King) he is fnoft a Prince , he hath moft o£ 
 Divine. 
 
 Nor can he be faid to know fufficiently, 
 who being an Arbitrator of publique and 
 private interefts, hath not wit , and confe- 
 quently a judgment informed by thofe 
 Sciences, which diftacc to him what he 
 ought, and what he may doe as a Prince, 
 asajudg, and as a Father. On tiiC con- 
 trary a Prince lofcth fo muc!i of his 
 ' Di^znitv 
 
^2 The Firfi Part. 
 
 Dignity, as he wants of his Knowledge ,[ 
 being thereby neccffitated to fee with an- 
 others eyes^ or to put others eyes into hi$ 
 headtofec- 
 
 For if you have fome,who not to profti- 
 tute their moft worthy part , their Under* 
 Handing 3 and therein become fubjed to 
 their fcrvants 5 will by themfelvcs alone 
 refolve that , which requireth, another 
 balance ^ and other weights then thofe of 
 their deftdive difcretions. Turn veroy faith 
 XerxeSy ignorantu Principis^ regninayim Aoi^\ 
 in fyrtes. Therefore he that hath not an 
 underftandingof his own fufficientj is con- 
 ftrained either to erre to the ruine of him- 
 felf and others; or elfe to avoid errours, he 
 is compelled to fharc his office and be- 
 come a Demi-Prince ? and the Property 
 for to father the mif-governmcnt of a cor- 
 rupt and mercenary Counfcl : whereas 
 thofe only arc compleat and abfolute, in 
 whom the fcales of Power , and Policy j 
 proportionably to the State they govern ^^ 
 are fufpended in tiequilibrium. 
 
 Joh2 the Emperor therefore chofe ra- 
 ther to die , than let his hand be cut off, 
 wounded by an envenomed darr > and 
 gives this reafon. Becaufe having but one 
 hand we fnall he no more than half an 
 
 Empc-r 
 
Ignorance unhappy. ' ^j 
 
 Emperour, nor can wee by our felf hold the 
 reigns of Sovereignity , to which both our 
 nands are little enough ; and he, whoto- 
 ^gethcr wich prudence wants the half of 
 :he draught of a perteft Prince, doth not 
 ic feem, in being ignorant, to be but half a 
 Prince ? 
 
 What ftrangc Capricio came into a 
 certain mans head 5 to write and teach to 
 the World : That the moft neceffary qua- 
 lity of a Prince is Ignorance : that only line 
 fufficing him for an intire EncyclopadU ^ 
 which Lewis ihcXl , defired that Charles 
 the VIII 5 his fonne fliould onely learn , 
 ^ui nefch difj'tmilare^ n e[cit Ytgnare. 
 
 He held it for an infallible MaKime,that 
 one man cannot be both Learned and Pru- 
 dent, oppoiingthe (peculation of Sciences 
 to the pradice of Government. And thus 
 into the hand oi aKinghe puts theScepter, 
 to his fide the Sword, and to his Head the 
 ears of King Mtd'iS. Aures lenn ^yadientis Maan^^ 
 aJefH : Aures apm^^randiorikis fabulis . 
 
 Thus vif^n/;/^/^^ educated herSon,Huf- Tenuis 
 \ band, and Paricide Nero^, ta king him from ^' ^^^'^ 
 i hisgra\ierftudies 3 left that turning Phy- ^* 
 ! lofopher , he fhould lo(e the beaftly life 
 ; he led. Thus Licimm the Emperour 
 I moulded himfelf , who condemned 
 1 • Learning 
 
^1 
 
 jP4 The Firfi Fart. 
 
 Learning as guilty of high tre^fon in a higlljl 
 degree , although ic never offended himrl 
 as having never entered into his head 
 never come within his comprehenfion i 
 having begun to be a beaft from the inft^r* 
 he began to be a man. > / 
 
 Let us fet up in oppofition to this un- 
 worthy errour, or folly, amongftan hun- 
 dred others 5 an Augu^m , a ^crmanicm^i, 
 Tiut6^ an AdrUnyZn Antoninus Phjlofoflmy^H 
 Alexmder^ a Cor^ftamne^ a 7heodofm^ all 
 crowned with a double Lawrel, as Sages, 
 andasEmperours. Let us range Auguflia 
 in the front of this Celebrious Troop, who 
 (upon the credit of Suetonius and ID/o/;,) 
 every day though in the height of the im- 
 portunace affairs of Warre , and under a 
 paviJlionin the field 5 did fet apart forae 
 time for his fludy ; that fo no day might 
 pafs in the which he had not done fome 
 aft of a man 5 and yet neverthelcffe he 
 reigned fourty years, fo wifely and happi- 
 ly over the whole World. And acrainft 
 him let us ranck the moft illiterate !Z)o/w/- 
 tian^ whofe imploymcnt for fome hours 
 of the day was to ftick Flyes, and for every 
 one that he flew , he boafted, as if he had 
 been an Apollo , againft a Python . 
 Compete Alexander Sevens, rjaverenced 
 
 85 
 
as Terren j^fiur[^ not lo muck for the 
 Thunder which he held in his ' hand 
 2L% Emperor , as for the PaUm he had 
 ifl his head as a Phylotopl^r : with 
 the fimple CaU^uta 5 expofed to publick 
 view 5 attired hkc BaccIms , crowned with 
 Lawrel ? and a Tylers skin for a Mantle, 
 which reprcfented him to be more like a 
 beaft than a ^od 5 and Ice us hear him de- 
 liver his cbrious Oracles with a ridicu- 
 loufnefs conformable to his garbe. 
 ' Who taughcjthat Thacian Cofi/joay to PoijiaH, 
 treft ladders towards Heaven upon the Strata^,- 
 towring top of a mountain, feig^ningto take 7* 
 on thofe acclivities from the mouth of 
 Jmo ^ theanfwers, which hegavein the 
 interefts of the publick good , but only 
 Prudence^ for that the laws and ediftsof 
 great men are fo much the more willingly 
 accepted, when they are prefumed to 
 come from a mind ot more fublimCvSapi- 
 ence, and more noble underftanding > 
 Thcreforein my judgment, the mod Cc- 
 lebrious Schools of the Phylofophers did 
 not aflign the Heavens an Intelligible 
 Mover, fo much out of the necefficy of 
 revolving thcm,being of themfelves move- 
 able , or if you will not fo, at leaft, mu- 
 table Spheres 5 as becaufe the World 
 
 {hould 
 
$6 the Firjl Part . 
 
 jfhould rtft the better fatisficd with h\% 
 Government, whilft they believed thefe 
 to be moft noble fpirits 9 that revolving 
 the Stars, difpofe the principles , and 
 temper the influences , upon which to 
 their thinking the felicities and calamities 
 ofboth publick and private fortunes de* 
 pend. 
 
 Little Aleocander vvhilft he fpoke with 
 the tongue of Ariflotle , his Tutor 3 in a fo- 
 lemn audience, which in the place of his 
 Father Philip he gave to the Embafladors 
 of the Perfian Kingjfatisfying to the curious 
 demands , which they put to him to try 
 him ; wan to himfelf the name and title 
 of Great King, whilft he was as yet but a 
 little Prince 3 Iftepuer (faid the Embalfa- 
 dors) Mugnm eft Rex^ nofter auum Dives : by 
 which aSt he begat in the Perfian as great 
 defire to have him for their King , as an 
 Plut^r. eKtraordinary opinion of his wifdom. And 
 ^'■* ^' doubtlefs, take from this Great Monarch 
 M^xa^ fome few errours ot youth 5 and exceffes 
 proceeding from his too violent and Mar- 
 tial temper, if that part of his adlionsbe 
 confiderably weighed (not with the ma- 
 ^^ MceoiSeneca (for in this he is rather a Cy- 
 defart. ' nick than Stoick)//^^^ with Sage Plutarchad 
 Alex! fiȣ^ii^ ^jf^ ABiones cxcUmnrCy Phylofophice. 
 
Ignorance unhappy. py 
 
 Butfeing that the Prince ancfWs Court 
 are like the Satuc and its Neech which mu- 
 tually take one from the other , value and 
 ornament, now what Neech hath a learned 
 Prince ? what Court ? Nero was a Mufician 
 amongft Fidlers, like an j4pollo amongftjthe" 
 Mufes, Mm Vems was Emperour of the 
 Wind, in the habit of ^.'Eolus amongft his 
 Courtiers , who were clothed whit^ like 
 ^Aufter^ another like Zephjrus^ another like 
 JBtfr^^i A grave and prudent Prince amongft 
 Sage Courtiers^refcmblcs the Sun amongft 
 the Sjrenesy that with their fongs ravifti the 
 PlanetSj called by Qeanthes their fidleftick ,• 
 becaufe the Harmony of their Scepters ac- 
 cord with the rules of his beck. 
 
 For liMamlius of Heaven, as of a Gouit, - 
 fingingfaid; Sunt JleUa Procemm fimiles ^ &c. ^Z^^'^'^? 
 And to the Emperour Julian the Sun q..^^.^ 
 feemedtobeaKing, about which the Pla- 
 nets obfequiouflyraov'd ; why may not! 
 eall the Court a Heaven, a Prince in whom 
 there is the light ofunderftanding, and the 
 heat of power^a Sun in the midft of (o many 
 Stars, as he hath about him Learned Men; # 
 
 that from his wife difcourfes derive light, & 
 that to him with femblable illuminatioii 
 communicate it. Of a higher value, and 
 nobler alloy is this than thj i;imc'J anxj 
 
 H Mat^~'.. 
 
pS T^hc Firjl Part. 
 
 Material Heaven o^ Co/roes the King of Per- 
 
 Jia^ which painted in the arched roof of a 
 
 fpacious Chamber , as in the ferenity of a 
 
 pure azure bcfpangled with Stars of Gold, 
 
 and diftinguilhcd with certain moveable 
 
 Spheres., ordLily revolving one within an- 
 
 , other-,and rcfcmbled the wholevaft mafs of 
 
 the univcric • in the midft of which the 
 
 Barhanan^ morclikca Spider in the center 
 
 of her felf-fpun-wcb , than Uke a Monarch 
 
 in the midft of the World, did idely fit. 
 
 Seneca had not a more lively conceit 
 wherewith to exprefsthe Beatitude of his 
 Jupiter 3 than the placing him in the midft 
 of the Gods of his Court, as a Sun in a 
 Circle of Mirrours of fplcndid Diamonds, 
 therewith the mutual transfufion of rayes 
 from him into all 5 and from all into him , 
 the light of the private knowledge of each 
 became publick to all , and that of all , be- 
 came appropriate to each, But ifji^z^^fhould 
 from on high caft his eyes down here be- 
 low to the difcreet Courtof a Learne(i 
 Prince, he would fay either out of thetranC- 
 ports of ftuporj or pleafure-, as he did when 
 •• he faw all the World cxpreft in the little 
 
 Sphere of the CiQ^ziArchmeaes ; where 
 
 In 
 
.Ignorance unhappy. pp' 
 
 Inparvo cumcerneret omnia vitro CLtnh 
 
 Rijit^ (^ adfuperos tali a diffa dedit . 
 Fuccine mortalls progrej/upotcntia curJL ? 
 Jam mens in fragiii htditur or he labor. 
 
 The Sjracufan n:)ionyfius had a dcfirc of 
 fludying Phylofophy 5 and making himfclf 
 as profpcroufly a Tyrant over fjulcs vvidi 
 his tongue, as hchad prepoftcroufly over 
 bodies by his fword. He invited Vlaia 
 therefore and condudcd him from Athens lo 
 Sjracuja. There need no ether Mafter , to 
 poHih thatftone^on which neverthcljffc he 
 could not grave i Mercury: for 2S much as 
 Plato miojiW eafily make men Phyloloplicrs,- 
 biit could notmakebcaiitrren. He came 
 with his mouth full of his ^mV/^ hony ^ bi^t 
 thatfpungc flecp't inhumane blood could 
 not im-bibea drop. Yet, nctwithftanding^ 
 whilcft Dionyfiiis heard him, all the Couit 
 changed Sq.^\\^ , as fo many inchantcd Ca-- 
 files 5 which at the feake of a magick rod , 
 are changed from one thing to anotnci. The 
 Royal Palace, Shambles of Sjracitja^ ana 
 rather a Caucufes Den than a Prhnces palace^ ' ' * 
 fuddcn.ly was transformed into a iycntni^oi 
 rather a Temple of Sapiciv.c invv'luih not 
 th-e niwn only , but even the liK ncs ot th j 
 
 ]■ ^ H 2 p.lVC-' 
 
1 oo T^fotf Firfi Part. 
 
 pavement feemcd to phylofophate ; fincc 
 there was not fo much as a Palm on the 
 wall, which (hewed not the defign of 
 ^^^w<?/r/V^/Dcmonftrations , or the com- 
 putation of Phylofophical numbers. Now 
 i)/^^/// had buried the name of apublick 
 Carnifex in that of a Philofopher^ and 
 thole which till then had abhorr'd him 
 as a HellifhFury, began to refped him as 
 a Demi-God amongft Princes. So much 
 can Learning doe in a Prince,{o much can a 
 Prince profefling Learning doein a Courtj! 
 
 1 
 
 WO' 
 
Ignorance unhappy. 
 
 lOI 
 
 Ignorance 
 and 
 FrofeJJion of Arms. 
 
 I May poffibly find fome difficulty in my 
 undertaking to demonftrate^that lear- 
 ning in a Souldier , is not to hang a 
 Chain of pearl about his neck^ and to nmakc 
 him liker a Bridegroom thana Warriour. 
 Some are of an opinion^that Learning wea- 
 kens the courage, exhaling the fpiritS;, from 
 the heart , and confuming them in the head, 
 whereupon as it is profitable to fuch :\s ufc 
 the pen 5 fo it becomes incommodious to 
 fuch as manage the fword. > 
 
 S cil/cet ingemoA dedicijje fidetlter artes Ovid> 
 
 'E'tnolit mores ^necfinit e^firoi. 
 
 The moft ingenious animals , fay they; 
 are the moft timerous : and the moft fal- 
 vage, and indomable, are the moft.ftrong 
 and cour^gious. Philofophy ^ the Laws > 
 
 H 3 and 
 
102 The Fir a Part. 
 
 and Poetry 3 are no greater ornaments to a 
 Souldier, than for a Poet to handle his 
 fword.^ for a Civilian to order a Musket^fox 
 a F hy lofophcr to trail a Pike. Hercules per- 
 ceived this, and fcands recorded as an exam- 
 ple to others in that act of his , when Kc 
 broke his Lute upon the head of his mafter 
 Limis^ and ran out of School-, the fidle-ftick 
 not becoming thathand, which fhould ufe . 
 the Club 5 nor the harmonious melody of 
 Mufick futing with him that was to wont 
 himfelf to the bellowing of Buls, the roar- 
 ing of: Lions^the hiifing of Hydra's and cries 
 of Tyrants, forwhofe punilhmenthewas ^ 
 boni-.. 
 
 Its truCj I pretend not to pcrfwade, that 
 a man of war ought to be a Flato^ an Archi- 
 medes^ o\'^ Homer: but that the fplendor 
 of fomeluudable ftudy Ihould have a refle- 
 xion upon the Genius ^ like the lufterthat 
 darts from armes , or the picture upon the 
 (hield 3 I fee not who can with reafpn 
 doubt. 
 
 An Eagle who hath eyes (o acute in the 
 Sun, and'tallons fo fcrong for the prey 5 
 An Hercules y which knows how to tame 
 monfters with his hand, and to beare the 
 Heavens on his head • An JpcUo, who hung 
 ;it hi.fi.le both his Harp and Quiver-, A 
 
Ignoranm unhappy, • lo^ 
 
 Pallor ^ with a Pen in one hand, and a Pike 
 in the other : Laftly.a Souldicr with a cer- 
 tain mixture of Learning •, what indecorum 
 is there in thefc ? Is the ruftineiTc of the wit 
 a iuflre and beauty , when its fodifhono- 
 rable, on the fword and armcs? Is there 
 fuch enmity ^between the Pike and the Pen5 
 the ftrength^ and the judgment ; the com- 
 bating of a Souldicr 3 an'clthe difcourfe of 
 a Scholar ? 
 
 It is controvcrccd amongft Cr/V/Vi/whe- 
 thcr is the more prehcrninent felicity^ Vacere , 
 fcrthenda^ or elfc, Scriherefacienda, Let every 
 one pleafe his fancy in this , but there is 
 nonewillqueftion, but that they areF^//- 
 cifiimi ^uibus contingitutrum^ue. That your 
 hand with the fword know how to attempt 
 works meriting immortal memory , ar.d 
 the felf-fame hand to know how to tranf- 
 mit them to eternity, faithfully writing, 
 what it hath couragioufly atchieved , a hi- 
 ftoryof it felf , doubly glorious, and like 
 to the Sun , which to the appearing m its 
 truegrandure y needs not the aflfiftance of 
 any other light : isnotthisthe fummity of 
 that glory to which humane merit may at- 
 tein? 
 
 So much the more, in regard that the re- 
 lations of Hiftoriani , are flighted if prolix, 
 
 H 4 ^^id 
 
I o± The Virftj^art. 
 
 and.fufpected if (hort : there befonie men 
 found in our dayes , that in writing others 
 Battailsj have their eye only upon the vi- 
 ctory of their own profit. I (ay 3 there are 
 certain men that to keep themfelvesfronn 
 ftarving of famine , expofe the immortality 
 of fame to who gives moft. Rapacious 
 Ravens thdiHr^gVictorC/^fary not to him 
 that conquers, but to him that feeds them 5 
 So did Glow-wormes , which by their 
 bodies gives light to others , and feek food 
 f or themfelves 5 and like the flatterer of the 
 /^c*>^' ^^^^i^^^' Pirgopolinices in Vlautus , they 
 Utc dlr. ^'^^ ^^ ftories by the fmell of the Table , 
 and beftow applauds in proportion to their 
 hunger. How much better is it to be a mans 
 ownHiftorian^ and to imploy the pen as 
 beft fuites with the Honor of Loyalty, that 
 admits ofnofpurious additions of ti^ionj- 
 andwiththeLoveofGlory , which fuffers 
 no injurious detraftions from Truth ? 
 
 Julius C<e/ar is more obliged to his pen 
 than to his Sword ^ for that flue his ene- 
 mies 3 this preferves him alive in the World 
 %o this day , ancj preferved in its flourifh- 
 ing verdure 3 the double glory he had pur- 
 ^ „ ^ chafed of an Hiftorian and of a Conqueror. 
 Aifhy/,' And if that brave RogUro King oiCidly , as 
 '^eaf. ' if h^ would ^xpreiTe himfelf a debtor to his 
 
Ignorance unhappy. 105 
 
 fword, or manifeft his gratitude to itj as ha- 
 ving opened him the way to more than one 
 Kingdom , cut thereon this ingenious in- 
 scription. 
 
 Afulus^^ Calaler^ Siculus^mihifervit^ ^ 
 Apher. 
 
 C^/Sr might write upon his flile 5 rather 
 than on his fword the Viiftories of fo many 
 Battails , the glories of fo many Triumphs ; 
 fincethatifhis fword made him vidorious 
 in the Fields where he did fight , the ftilc he 
 did write^gave him all the people of all the 
 
 World for a Theater , and the applauds of 
 
 all fucceeding ages for Triumphs. 
 
 Who will not laugh at the vanity of that 
 
 ^r^a^« Statuary 5 that prefented himfelfin 
 
 the habit of Hercules before Alexander, ^^My p/fnarc, 
 ^ Liege^faith he, the vertue of your heart:, the staficrar., 
 ^ valour of your fword have changed the ^^[rtivtj 
 ^ World for you into a Temple of Honour. ^^''^^ 
 ^It onely remainsthat we have a Statue for ^^^'^' 
 ^yoUjwhich ought to exceed the vulgar pro- 
 *^ portion of thofe ercfted for others. Your 
 ^ Giantlike Virtue , which warreth with the 
 ^ Gods ^ ought not to be ranked among 
 •^ Mortals. I being defirous to eternize my 
 ''labour? with your name;, raid not fo much 
 
 tQ 
 
io6 The Firfi Fart. 
 
 ^^ torenderyou immortal inthefculpturc, as j 
 ^^ to render thefculpture it felf honoured in 
 ^*' you •, here I offer my fclf to grave you in 
 "the highcft Mountain of the World , and 
 ^^make you equal to Heaven, fince you are 
 ^'already greater than the Earth. Behold, hi- 
 ^^ther as far as Tkja/j^ AthosYAng of Moun- 
 ^f tains 5 inclines his ftately top, and fuet4i 
 "to be transformed into You; I will fo con- 
 <^trivetocutit, that you (hall fet one foot ^ 
 "on the Sea and the other on the Land , and ' 
 ^^thefe two great Elements fhall ferve for 
 "yourbafis. Iwillmakeit, thatinone hand 
 "you fhall pour out a falling River out of a 
 great Veflel, in the other you (hall hold 
 a City. Nor will it be any fuch great mat- 
 ter for you to hold a City and a River, that 
 ^[ have all the World in your hand. 
 
 Alexander with one and the fame fmile 
 accepted & refufed the profufe offer of the 
 Sculptor. He had, its true, as many more 
 may,a paflionate defire of being Great in 
 the World 5 and to eternize himfelftothe 
 memory of pofterity; but he delired to be 
 known by the World for a mighty War- 
 riour, and not for a huge Coloffus. Where- 
 upon refufing the tools oi ^tafcrates ^ he 
 defiredthepenofF<?w^r, and called ^tr/;//- 
 lis fortunate, bccaufe fiom himfcH he had 
 
 Valour^ 
 
 cc 
 cc 
 
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Ingorancc unhappy. loj 
 
 Valour^ and from f/^w7^r Encomiums: from 
 himfelf merit, and from Homer glory. Alas, 
 wherefore was is not better , for one that 
 aboundini^ in innumerable Heroick enter- 
 prize needed not the helpoffpeechfor his 
 ingrandment, rather to haveanHiftorian, 
 than a Poet ? And if (o^ why Ihould I envy 
 in others the glory of making me happy 
 with making me immortal , if it be in my 
 own power to obteinit, making my fclf as 
 famous by my pen^as my hand had made me 
 by my fword ? 
 
 I will omit the ncceflity of eloquence in 
 the profeflion of Arms, to animate to re- 
 prehend y and to reclaim the Souldiers : 
 andof aperfeft pradice in ancient and mo- 
 dern Stories, andof thofe parts of Geome- 
 try which pertein totheMechanicks and to 
 Fortification, and.fomtimes of x^ftorno- 
 my 5 that fo he may not lofe a march , or 
 cafl away an army , as it hath more than 
 once unluckily evened , through the ter- 
 rourof a fudden Eclips of the Sun-, fo that 
 he be forced to alledg Ignorance for his ex- 
 cufe, and fay as one oi Romulus , who made 
 the year but often Months onely . 
 
 Sd'Jcet at ma magU qmm Tyd^ra Romule ^ ., 
 
 Of ' 
 
io8 the Firfi Fart. 
 
 Of all this I fpeak not>as being abufinefs 
 belonging only to the Commanders ofi 
 War ; It (hall fuffice me only to remember , 
 them for a conclufion : 
 
 That they are not to be alwayes in thCi 
 Field 5 and in armes, but that one while j 
 times of Peace ^ and another while the ne- 1 
 cefsity of repofe may call them to a Civil I 
 life, wherein ought they not to have fbme 
 of the rudiments of Learning, at leaft he: 
 thatisnecefsitated to the honourable con- 
 verfation with perfons of quality , and of i 
 parts : ought he to refemble the Drums 
 which in tinKs of quietnefle quite loft the 
 found with which they ratkd in times of 
 War? or in imitation of the ancient cu- 
 ftomofthofe good ^^»7^;^ Knights, the War 
 being at an end ought they not to fall to cul- 
 tivating their Fields ^ as if a man of War 
 were a beaft of rapine, which having gotten 
 his prey in the populated Campagne, re- 
 turneth to theforreft and takes covert ? 
 
 Pau/us ry£milius having vanquiftied King 
 Ferfius and fubdued Macedonia, he refolved 
 with the Barons of that Kingdom to cele- 
 brate the Feaft of Vidory with fumptuous 
 Banquets , in which he ufed fo ingenious 
 a method in martialling the Dilhes tiiat- the 
 Table feemeda prtchtEeld, in w'^ichthc 
 
 ranks 
 
Ignorance unhappy. 109 
 
 mKS of Difhes marched up againft the 
 Juefts, who firft began the skirmage, and 
 ^ave the firft aflault; making in time the 
 mpty and difcharged to retreat, andgi- 
 ing way to frefli recruits ^ which marched 
 p to their fuccour ; there were rarities j 
 vhich ftill kept their firft poftures on the 
 Table 5 and there were feme that fecmed 
 o give orders who fhould retreat fafter ^ 
 nd who more leafurely. Some cameupco- 
 'ertly, and in Ambafcado's as if they were 
 recherous, others openly difcovered them - 
 elves ; to conclude^ the matter was no lefs 
 lelighrful than the manner of ranking the 
 Niapery : and all the invited beftowingtheiy 
 .pplauds on Paulus ^milius^ he replied, 
 Ejufdem viri ejje ^ armatafn aciem quam ma- Tint Arc. 
 :imz terrihilem , c^ convivium ^uam jucitndij' Sym^o^ . 
 fLmum in^ruere. 
 
 But if the Knowledge of a Souldier ex- 
 tend no farther, fo that the converfion of 
 War into Peace^ is onely a mutation of the 
 mnoyesoftheCampeinto the delights of 
 the City, and to become as ^/^;c, to dav a 
 great Warriour^ to morrow a Flower^ this 
 s a very mean Sapience , and even fuch 
 hat perhaps it would be better being with- 
 out it. How much more honourable and 
 ielightful entertainment of the wit doth 
 
 II 
 
 Learning 
 
no The Firfi Part. 
 
 Learning afford a part • moreover, to dul- , 
 corate the ferocity of the nature, and to' 
 civilize that I know not vrhat of falvage , 
 which is contracted in the fanguinous pro- 
 fefsion of Armes ? 
 X/^.7, Arms are, faith C^^/W^r«/, In hello necep 
 jerm.iZ* jariajnpace decora* Ot Learning it may with 
 much morejufticebeaffirmed , if only the 
 times be changed and you fay , Inpace necefi 
 faridt^inheUo decora, Achilles ^hotw^vy day 
 learnt two Leffons^ one in the Defart where 
 hegrapled with Lions, another in the Cell 
 of Chiron , where he harmonioufly plaid 
 upon the Harp 5 and learnt the Secrets of 
 Natural Phylofophy, inftructed himfelf 
 how to live both in Peace and War : in j 
 Peace amiable to his friends , in War terri-^ 
 ble to his foes. This alfo was the glory of 
 that Roman Ac hi He f^ Scipio Major ^ that m\ 
 War was like Lightning all fire with gene- > 
 * rous refolutions 5 and in Peace was all light ^ 
 
 with fplendid wit ^ nor was there lefle ad- ' 
 miration to fee him manage arms , than to . 
 latere, hear him dilcourfe. Semper enim^ ant belli ^ aut 
 lih.iM' pacii Jerviit artihus (laith yeUeius)femper inter 
 •^ ''• arma^ ac Jludia verfatus ^ aut corpus periculiSy 
 aut animum di/ciplinis^ exercuit. 
 
 Thefe are very rar e to be fcen,& its almofl 
 a miracle to findeares, accuftomed to the 
 
 found 
 
JVifdom happy. 1 1 1 
 
 found of Trumpet, and noifc of Drum > 
 and yet not fo dcafncd , but that Wifdoms 
 voice may by them be diftinctly under- 
 flood. Rare are the Martial Hercules' s that 
 having confummated their labours, confe- 
 crate to i^^rr/^/>/ the Olive-club taken from 
 TalJai •, but the merit of thofc few that there 
 are, be inhanced by their rarity having thofc 
 two incomparable qualities that queftion- 
 lefic render the perfon divine in Vv^hom they 
 are united, Terrorem pariter ^ ^ dec or em y 
 which aggrees with what CaJfiodorus^ixxSx of 
 a Squadron of armed Gallies, that whether 
 they fported they could not be more good- 
 ly , or whether they fought they could not 
 ' be more terrible. 
 
 to 
 
 Igno 
 
H 
 
 iia The Firji Part 
 
 Ignorance and Riches. •l 
 
 'E that ufcth Learning for gain^ 
 and makes ufe of Mercury, as the 
 Gold-fmiths do of Quick-filvcr> 
 to feparate Gold from others^ and ztxzSk it? 
 to himfelf i underftands not what a malady 
 Ignorance is ina Rich man. For fo the hand 
 befullj they never empty their head , nor 
 limbick their brains, fince they have al- 
 ready found the qnintefcenfe of Fortune, 
 which they fay is Money. Doth it fuffice to 
 be of Gold ? then it matters not if they 
 afterwards be as that beaftialPhylofopher, 
 Golden Afle. 
 
 Now a-day es, money is that which pur- 
 chafed Love and Honour : therefore you 
 have not betet letters of recommendation 
 than letters of exchange y nor can you tell 
 how to write with better ink than that of 
 Bankers. 
 Ovid» Ingenium quondam fuerat pretiopus aurOy 
 
 At nunc harbaria eft grandis habere NihiL 
 
 And again 5 ta what end (erves fuch Phy- 
 lofophy;& fuch Sciences inthe head; if they 
 
 are 
 
IgnorancQ unhappy. i i 5 
 
 arc only a means to break it^ and let out the 
 brains ? Behold, the ancient Phylofophers 
 and you will rather defire the hand oi Midas 
 to make Gold , than the heads of thcfe 
 fools to make you fuch. Who fhut their 
 eyes to fee better in /the dark ^ and to make 
 themfclves Eagles become Owles: Who 
 threw their wealth into the Sea , and made 
 themfelves Beggars , that they might not 
 become poor: Whochofetolive in places 
 {baking with continual tottcrings^ and con. 
 ceited they lived beftjwhen they were every 
 hour in danger of death , and that they 
 lived mod fccurc 5 whilft their houfe was 
 continually ready to become their grave: 
 Who lived in Tubs more like to Dogs in 
 their Kennelsj than to men in their houfes : 
 Who flung themfelves into the Sea,& threw 
 themfelves into ^JEtna •, the one bccaufe he 
 underftood not thccaufcs of thofe fluflua- 
 tions , the other becaufe he could not trace 
 out the original of thofe flames* Pythagoras 
 transformed himfelf into twenty Beafts; 
 Socrates (landing all a whole day in one 
 thought, andreftingupononcleg, rcfem- 
 bled a Cranc; Anaxagoras ftedfaftly behold- 
 ing the Sun as an Eagle; Zenocrates was a 
 marble without fenfc-, Z^/^c? a (lock with- 
 out pafsioo 5 Diogenes z\)o^^^ Eficuru^^ a 
 H I bruit I 
 
fi^ The Firjl Part. 
 
 bruit ; Democritus a fool , that alwayes 
 laught- BeracUtus ^ diferted fellow, that 
 alwayes wept. O curas hominum ! Is it not 
 beter to have no head, than to have ohei 
 with all thcfe fooleries ? Is this to be a Phy?) 
 lofophcr ? with this doe the learned ac- 
 quire credit ? The pearies thae are roun^^ 
 and plump (two properties of Richldeotsj) 
 are the moft precious and moft efteemed| 
 things of the World. Make me of Gold, for 
 then being but a Calf Khali be adored as a 
 God: begun to be Canonized of old by 
 the Ifraelhes in the Defart, and followed 
 even to thefc our dayes , as it alfo (hall be to 
 the end of the world. 
 
 This is the Phylofophy of many Divifir 
 . which they broach in contempt of thd 
 Learned , efpecially if they fee them poor^ 
 illfurnifhed to refift hunger, and ragged , or • 
 it may be naked. 
 
 But I wifh on the other fide that I had 
 fo good afaculty with my pen, that I knew j 
 how to exprefle to the life the deformed 
 features of an Ignorant Mifer: and heihould >. 
 appear with the fame Horror that Orgogm^i 
 famous Limner of his times » occafioned 
 in many friends of his , by difcovering unto 
 them a moft mithapen Mednfas head ; fcri' 
 delineating which, he had fought tind/ 
 
 coUe^li 
 
\ 
 
 Ignorance unhappy. ii^ 
 
 coUeded all oF hideous, and monftrous 
 that he could find difperfed in a hundred 
 ugly and dreadful animals 5 that he had af- 
 femblcd together for that purpofe. 
 
 The Spartans to reprefent abominable the 
 vices of IdlenefiTc and Luxury •, the enemiesi 
 ofthat fevere Rcpublick', called all the peo- 
 ple to a general afTcmbly , and made them 
 to fee Nauclides^ from a high place 5 a nian 
 fo fat^ that from head to foot 5 he feemed all 
 paunch. Other examination, other procelTc ^liaff; 
 they made not againft him. His corpulency ^'^- 4*^ 
 convinced him of IdlenefTe : whereupon '^^^ 
 ilhc was banilhed that City as unprofitable^in 
 ^jwho they punifhed as prejudicial to all-, him 
 I that was only profitable to himfelf. Now 
 |fet before your eyes a Wealthy Ilitterate^ 
 youfliallfee in him, not a man, but in the. 
 rcfemblance of a man , a living piece of 
 Touch-ftone, which knows how to diftin- 
 guifli Gold and Silver , and at the only tad: 
 iiknows and difcernes them • but yet after ali 
 a ftone ; you (hall fee a Spunge , that for 
 vhathecanfuck isalleyes-, but for the reft 
 ; voidoffenfe^ yea, is not to be accounted 
 :imaL 
 
 iV Clothe him with the fubtllcft webs, 
 (jlviih rhe whiteft linndns , with the nobleft 
 p-lfiiics-, vefthim with the pureft wool! that 
 
 I 2 evr 
 
fiictan. 
 
 t» 
 
 "De- 
 
 n}o?j. 
 
 II 6 The Firft Part. ^^^ 
 
 ever blulht with its double fcarlet dye- if be 
 be accoftcd by a Vemonaxy you (hall heai; 
 the blunt Phylofopher tell hiip as he did 
 fuch another : ^^ Sir , this Wool! a Sheep 
 <' wore before you , therefore doth it fit fo 
 ^^ well 5 and fo voluntarily fit and become 
 <^ you^ becaufe it is not of opinion it hath 
 '^ loftj but only exchanged mafters. And as 
 <^ the colour into whichitisdyde, hinders 
 ^^ not but that it continues Wool, although 
 *^ more glorious , fo the (hape of Man that 
 *^ you have 3 hinders not but that you are a 
 '^ Sheepjhowbeitof afairer skin^and good- 
 *^lierprcfence. 
 
 Put him into a houfe ornified with the 
 beft garnifhesjwith all the nobleft furnitures, 
 and what have you done? Who fo pafTeth 
 by, and underftands the conditions of its 
 mafter, that inhabits it, will fay as the ac- 
 quaintance of a certain ilothful r^r/^,retired 
 unto a country feat, pafsing by, Vadahic 
 SenecA fuus eft. Hcar Seneca give a rcafon of the 
 ^P'fi'')')* fame: Vlvit is ^ (juifi utituY'i, not hevvho 
 '^p.^o makes his belly aflavctohishead, but that 
 confumes the thoughts of that , to find I 
 means to cram this : the belly being bound | 
 to ferve the head , by providing it with fpi- 
 rits 5 neceflary inftruments for humane ope- 
 rations : otherwifc (purfucs he) ^ui latitent^ 
 
 I 
 
Ignorance unhappy. 
 
 ^ torpent , fic in domofunt tanquam in condi* 
 tivo. HoruM licet in lumine ipfi^ nomen mar-- 
 mori infirihas^ mortem fuamantecefferunt. 
 
 Thefe conditions of men ignorant, and 
 rich Themiffocles that Sapient Athenian knew 
 very well •, that fceking a Husband for his 
 Daughter poor ashimfelf • and one offering 
 to have her-, rich its true-, but that knew not 
 any thing more than to tell money : where- 
 as others would have run to this Golden 
 hook, and have expreft their gratitude to 
 Fortune,withthe Hecatombcs oi Pythagoras: 
 he retir'd with that Golden (entencc, which 
 was worth more tharvall the wealth of that 
 Illiterate; ^u^ro virum qui indigeatPecunia^ 
 -non Pecuniam^ qii £ indigeat viro . 
 
 And here, before I conclude this particu- 
 larjcandoe noleffethan fuffer my felf to 
 be tranfported and to beftow my congr^tu- 
 Jations upon certain happy Families , in 
 y^hich not fo much the riches or thepatri- 
 'mony of their Anceftors, as Learning haih 
 been tranfmitted from Father to Son in con- 
 tinual fuccefsion, as to Feoffees • fo that like 
 asamongft the Chickins ofthe Eagle, Df^<?- 
 nere^quiluminatorfity he that cannot endure 
 the fight of the Sun , his extraction is fufpe- 
 dedamongftthem, and he that at his birth 
 " produceth not fignes of the f imc vivacity of 
 
 I 3 wit. 
 
 "7 
 
xi8 T/je Fird Part. 
 
 wit^ andloveofLearniigj is accounted fpu- 
 rious. Oh! Stockoffamilies truly happy^ih 
 whom there is always fome Golden branch} 
 nor only uno avulfo non deficit alter Aureus y 
 but in them there is in every age, fuchwho 
 bud, who flourifh , and who germinate, an- 
 fwering with ihe degrees of age thofe of 
 wifdom, whichare, to Learn > toPoffefle, 
 and to Teach. 
 j>l^tarc. Excellent was that cuftome of the ^^r- 
 tans^^\\\ch. divided into three Qiiiers, ac-; 
 cording to the three ages of Man • Old, 
 Viril, and Youthful^ went finging in certain 
 publick procefTive folemnities. The Aged , 
 s JSos fuimm fortes-^ thofe of Midle-age an- 
 fwered , £t nos modofumus ; to which the 
 Young reply ed 5 ^t nos erimus aliquando. 
 What Melody like to this?when it fals out 
 thatinonehoufe the Grandfather, Son,and 
 Grandchild, the firft, deferving well for his 
 Learning, recounting the degrees of his I 
 Honours, pronounceth that glorious Fi!^/^ ' 
 The fecond difplaying his Colours ^ and 
 enjoying his fplendors , faith Sum\ the laft 
 giving hopes, and afTuring himfelf in hisg 
 • promifing towardlinefle , faith £r^; to be" 
 able one day himfelf alfo to fay Sum^ and 
 at lafl Fui'i This is to concarinate a pre- 
 /•ious difcent of Children ^ as Jewels with 
 
Ignorance unhappy, lip 
 
 a Ring of Gold: This is to make anin- 
 cefsion of Heiresj like to a rich vein of 
 Diamonds, of which everyone by it folf 
 is a Patrimony; all together are an Ex- 
 chequer, 
 
 Ihe 
 
1-0 The Virfi Part. '^^^i^ 
 
 Theconfnfionofthe Ignorant'^ heiHg 
 filenced in the frefence of better 
 Speakers. 
 
 T 
 
 O the Guft which wee have 
 above faid to be proved by the 
 Learned in the exercife of inge- 
 nuity , and deteftion of verity , I will now 
 pppofe in the laft place the Difguft of Igno- 
 rance, condemned to filence where any 
 man of Learning is prefent; for as much as 
 he that knows not, either how to keep fi- 
 lence, or to fpeak, Andes matter of fhame in 
 both 5 as being for his filence accufed , and 
 for his fpeech condemned for a Novice. 
 Thus ^kxander^ which illinftrudedin Lim- 
 ^f^Zal) ' "^"§ ' ^" ^^^ School oi^pelles^ praifingfaults 
 for pieces of Art,1^ots for fhadows, and 
 errours for bcautie* was by the Scholars 
 themlelves derided. O miferable Ignorants 
 put to a nonplus at the meeting of the 
 Learned , and cither ftand like Confonants 
 amongft Vowels mute , and with out any 
 iound, of their own^ or the falfe amongft the 
 firings of a Cittern, which can reverberate 
 none but difcordant founds.Thanks,thatthey 
 
 have 
 
 Hut arc. 
 
Ignorance unhappy. it\ 
 
 , have not their eares on their heads , but as 
 ^ the Tyrant Dionjfftus in their heels ; & capa- 
 ^ ble onely of bafe and fordid things , weare 
 ^not in their heads fancies proportionate 
 S^to a matter of noble intelligence. 
 
 And becauf e it natu rally e venes , that as 
 veffels y the emptier they be , they are the 
 more fonorous ; fo he that hath his brain 
 worft furnifhcd hath the greateft verbo- 
 iity : hence it is , that thefe more ambi- 
 tious to feem Learned , than cautelous of 
 difcovering themfelves Ignorant • whilft 
 they talke freely upon that which they un- 
 derftand not ; gaine in the opinion of their 
 Auditors the very fame reward with that 
 ambitious Neanthes . which perfwading 
 himfelf to be a Sono(Uran/a , thievifhly 
 filcht from the Temple of-^?^//^ the Harp of 
 Orpheus*^ and getting into an open place ^ 
 i at the dead time of night, to have the grea- 
 ter attention ^ there began to finger that 
 lucklefs Inftrument, which had not a chord, 
 which at the touch of fo rude a hand fent 
 notforth in anfwer a dolorous Groan; asif 
 it bewailed in its own dialed: , its being ra- 
 ther tormented, than plaid upon: So that 
 if ever it was true that the Harp oi Orpheus 
 merited to move Trees and Stones, itwas 
 at this time, when it was fo unskilfully 
 
 Sn<^red 
 
1^2 ^ TheFirJiTart. A^ 
 
 fingred by T^eanthes.'^yxt what was not dond 
 by them^ was doneby beafts^ forthedif- 
 cordant jarring roufing fome brave ma- 
 ftifFs, and they judging of the Harper 
 more by his Mufick than by his counte- 
 r\d.nct:, j4 [mum ad L)iram\ tore him in pieces. 
 Whereby ifhc rcfembled not Orpheus mt\{€ 
 grace of his harmony ; yet at leaft to his ill- 
 fortune 5 he foUov^v^d him in his tragical* 
 *Ajmous kinddfdyin^. 
 
 JhTbekg More mildly , its true, but withall more 
 nqukedto publiquely^S^ by more mouthes is lacerated,' * 
 itin "^f'" ^^^ Ignorance of the dilcrepanr divulgef of 
 marlfe^ impcrtinencies j recounting inderifionthe 
 his skill ♦, foolei ics he fpoke, the fccurity wherewith 
 hi^Tn he defined them, the confidence wherewith 
 mademo he defended them. 
 foexajiiy Havc you cvct heard two of thefe, more 
 [Tvefuffi- r^""d than the Circle of "^QW^^-, difpute a 
 cienttejii' Queftion amongft themfelvcs , or ("as 
 '^IZm.'' ^^^^f™^s they will) refolve a- PrO-; 
 via^id of blem ? t If will bring to mind the words^ 
 h2nd; a&d and into the mouththc laughter ofP^^^^/^^AT; 
 thlpHy which over-hearing two difpute aloud:, one 
 ve;biai ftopounding 5 and the other anfwering 
 fpiech^ things to no purpofe.Thou (faith he to one ' 
 t Lunafi ^^ themj milkeft a Goat^ (and to the other) 
 i» q)£. thou inftead of a Pale holdeft a Sieve. 
 
 It 
 
 ?^o». 
 
Ingorance unhappy. 125 
 
 It is a thing really, that moveth, I know 
 not whether more to compaflfion or laugh- 
 ter, accidentally fometimcs to hear read, or 
 recited by fuch people , upon fubjefts , al- 
 though of noble argumentjtediousdifcour- 
 {cs , and yet not one ofTo many lines touch 
 the center , or 'hit the mark , that the argu- 
 ment prefixed. So that the matter that there 
 is treated off might doe to thefe, as Diogenes Lam. 
 did to an Ignorant Archer 5 who feeing in a 
 hundred ftioots he never fo much as once 
 bit the white- ran and placed himfelf j u ft be- 
 fore the Butjafluredjthat he would hit every 
 thing, but what he aimed at. 
 
 Ifatleaft you willnot grant 5 that it was 
 the charader of a Angular wit to be able to 
 talke away the time, and fpeaking of every 
 thing elfe, not fo much as once lightly to 
 tjouch upon what he would have faid. Thus 
 judged the Emperour Gallk/i in a folihin 
 hunting ; awarding the vidory to one, that 
 flinging againft a Bull from ahttle diftance 
 ten Darts 3 never touch him with any of 
 them: Andprefently fenthimthe Crown; 
 faying, to fuch as wondered at the fentence ; 
 This man is expert above you all. For to 
 caft ten Darts fo little a way, againft fo great 
 a mark and not to hit it ^ is a thing which 
 none knows how to doe befides himfelf. 
 
 And 
 
1^4 The Firji Part. 
 
 And thefe are the merits ^ thefe the rewards 
 ofthefons of Ignorance, when they affed' 
 Theaters, and beg applauds. ' 
 
 But if by misfortune they doe incounter 
 wuth deferved fcorn , inftead of applaufe, 
 you fhall prefently hear fome of the moft 
 pertenatious alTume thefe bitter complaints. 
 Envy is fatal to Virtue. Vrom thejplendors of 
 glory arife the Jhadows of malice:^ Detra&ion 
 ma'^s it felf partner in the merits of the worthy y 
 like a (lave intrudinz into the Chariot of hisTriA 
 untphant (^onqueroiin 
 
 Again 5 from the more modeft are 
 heard thofe ordinary excufes y applied 
 upon the flighteft occafions : That the diffi^ 
 culty of the matter^ and the fuhlimity of the argu- 
 ment {fit only for an ^AtUs^es wit) is above their 
 abilities. And fometimes their comes into 
 their heads the excufe of that fimous Fauflu- 
 lus which difmounted by an Ant upon which 
 be rode 5 and feeing the by-ftanders laugh; 
 remembredthcm , that he had Phaeton for 
 his companion in that fatal difgrace. Hear 
 the ftory, 
 
 ?robinHt jpaujlulus infidens Formic^^ut magno Eleph^iOy 
 tmero^e-^ D^r/V/V, & terrA tergafupina dedit. '\ • 
 
 iof/if ^^xf^ idem ad mortem eft mult at us calcihus ejus^ 
 Perditus^utpo£etvi<^ reperare animam. . - 
 
 Vix 
 
Ignorance unhappy. li^ 
 
 V^ixtameneFtfatus, ^id rides improve livor. 
 ^uodcecidu ? Qeciditnon aliter Phaeton- 
 
 The difgraces of fuch who not knowing 
 I lio w to fpeak, yet ^ ^% a fruit of their igno- 
 jranceattraft tothcmfelves others laughter 
 fought not to go disjunftfrom the fcorns, 
 which certain mutes alfo demerit that have 
 the garb of Scholars, but are indeed with- 
 out any habit of true Litterature ; with 
 titles fomtimcsofmore than Scholars 5 but 
 voxpr^teYeajuenihiL 
 
 The skin of the Kemean Lion honoured 
 by the (boulders of the great Hercules ^ that 
 did wearc it , never was more undervalued 
 than when it covered a Woman. Credo ir 
 ]uhas pe^finem pajjas ^ ne cervicem enervemin^ 
 ureret Jliria leoriina •, Hiatus crinlhus hifartoSy 
 genuinos inter ant i as adumhratos . Tot a oru^ con^ 
 tumelia mugiret fi pojfet, Nemea certi (ft (jiiU 
 loci Genius) ingemehat : tunc enimfe circum- j- t r 
 fpexit leonem perdidijje. No other wife doe dcTaUio* 
 "the drcffes and the titles • the cnfignes and 
 charafters proper to the Learned , born by 
 people without Learning or Civility 5 be* 
 wail their Milhap, feeing themfclves con- 
 demned to be liars perpetually, in that they 
 proclaim to as many as fee them •, him to be 
 a Lion who was but anAflc^, him to be a 
 
 Doctor, 
 
126 The Firfi Part. 
 
 or 
 
 Dodor 3 who is like certain Books (asLu^, 
 dan told fuch another) guilded glorioufly 
 and painted curioufly without , and withf 
 in void of all Learning , being blank paper- 
 How many of thefe are fcen to ftalke 
 along fo proud and {lately, that they refem-. 
 ble that perfed Globe of the Mathemati- 
 cians^ that touchcth not the Earth but only 
 with onefoot?Looking on what they feeniy 
 they forget what they are^ and like -5//^:^- 
 fhalus in his trappings ^ they vouchfafe that 
 none (hall touch or behold them but the 
 greateft King of the World* 
 . . Such was thatDcmi-manjagainft whom 
 
 (m In^ Lucian fo bravely whets bis wits. He, as 
 do^tim, nianyalfo now a-dayes^meafured his know- 
 ledge by the Learning, that he had not in, 
 his head, but in other mens writings ^ As if 
 the Wifdom of Phylofophers , fhuc up in 
 their Books, as it were ma glafTc, were like 
 that oi Orlando • and they could with only 
 fmellingtoit, draw it all into their brain 5 
 and thereby make thcmfelves living Libra- 
 ries ofas many Authors,as they have Books 
 in their fludies. Sic apud defidioftfsimos vide- 
 De trafj" lis f faith Seneca) quidquid orationum , hijio- 
 ^utL ar, r/ arumqne e^'^ ^ te^iotenus extruEtaloculamen' 
 5'^' ta. But to multiply Books in this manner, 
 and to wipe the duft off of them every cay, 
 
 not 
 
Ignorance unhappy. 127 
 
 not imploying them to take the ruftfrom 
 thtir brains •^'this is in the judgment oiSydo- 
 nius ^ Membra nas potius amare ^unm literas. Lib. 4, 
 Thisis to make the houfe more confidera- Epifr. 
 ble, than its Mafter, as fucceedcd to that Jr- 
 cfjefansy to fee whofe Palace fin regard it 
 was painted by Z^/^at^J people flocked from ^//^^ 
 all parts; whilfl: in the mean fpace f faith So- i^y^ 12,' 
 crates) there was net any man that ftirr'da vAr.hift. 
 foot to fee the owner of it. Jt^uiddulJus n .i»*. • 
 liber ^O" tngenuo ammo ^ O" advolupates hone- Dialog. 
 Stas nato^qium videre flenamfemper ^^ frequen- 
 tern domum concurjii (pleniidijjimo hominum^ 
 idque f^ire nonpecunie^non orbit at i.^ neque officii 
 alicujus adminiftrationi.fedfibiipjl dari. 
 
 THE 
 
la 
 
 8 
 
 THE SECOND PART. 
 
 IT is not reafonable that the 
 defedls of the Learned (hould j 
 prejudice Learning. ' Nor 
 bought we to believe that to 
 '« be a natural quality, which 
 is a vicious cuftome. The Horizon obfcures 
 the Sun with the fogsof the Atmofphere. 
 The reflexions of the Earth ('if their error 
 be true who hold the fame j appear in the 
 Moon as fo many fpots : The Aerial Va- 
 pours make the Stars feem unfixed with a 
 perpetual trepidation : Is therefore the Sun 
 contaminated ? Is therefore the Moon ma- 
 culated? Are therefore the Stars incon- 
 ftant? 
 
 There is not that thing in the World fo 
 innocent, that is not culpable, if the wicked- 
 ncfleoffuch asabufeitcan render it crimi- 
 nal. Arms 5 are perverted to be the execu- 
 tioners of Cruelty ; Scepters, the fuppor- 
 tcrs of Ambition y Beauty, theformentcr of 
 
 l-uii3 
 
^ The Learned man reform d. i ap 
 
 Luft^RicheSjminifters of Luxury-, Honours, 
 the fuftainers of Pride 5 Nobility is oft 
 Counfelour of Difdain. But what doe I 
 examining one by one the better things , if 
 tobefliort Sanctity be fubfervient to Hy- 
 pocrifie, and Religion to Policy? Therefore 
 the abufes of Learning by fome, doth no 
 more condemn it, than flowers lofe their 
 innocency , or beauty , becaufe Spiders 
 feed on them or fuck venom from them. 
 
 For if it be, as indeedit is, the light of the 
 Intelleft, fo alfo it hath this immutable pro- 
 perty of light, that ilTuing from the center 
 of the Sun it carrieth with it together with 
 his being , reditude ; fo that it nciither 
 knows nor can diffufeit felfotherwife than 
 by right lines : thus Learning coming from 
 the glorious Father of Lights, whofegift 
 it is 5 (hould it have the beams of its under- 
 ftanding inflexible from the Rules of Verity, 
 and Reafon : how farre happier wouldit 
 be ? how much more happy would the 
 World be with it ? 
 
 But feeing that onely the defire of it is 
 
 -little, and the pretence to ii to great; it 
 
 feemcd reafonable to mee to produce 
 
 -iome particulars , wherein Lccirning is 
 
 ^worft ufed , not onely to the prejudice of 
 
 others , but alfo to the dece.t of who fo 
 
 K knows 
 
f3' 
 
 T^he Ssconcl Part. 
 knows not bow to ufc it (for fromthefe 
 two originals I have took them J to imprint 
 them on the minds of fiich , who together 
 with the knowledge of their errors, requif^; 
 fomeinftigation to amendment. 
 
 — r 
 
 PLAGIANISME. 
 
 PlagUries that in federal manners 
 appropriate the fruits of others 
 Studies. 
 
 THe ancient Art of Thievery Na- 
 tural Daughter of NecclTity^ al- 
 though fince become the Adoptive ^ 
 of pro5t^is as v/ell committed upon Learfi? ' 
 ing as upon Money. Clemens Akxandrinus 
 ipeakes of the original of thofe ancient 
 times, when it might be laid^ that the trea- 
 fures of the Ingenious > no fooner were 
 made ' publick to the eye of the World , 
 than they became fubject to the purloinings 
 bf Plagiaries ', and the Hellens of excellent; 
 t ompofurcs no fooner came to light> than. 
 they found a hundred Menelans'sj a hundrccf 
 i'^/Z/x toravifhthemp 
 
 Some 
 
Flagianifme. 1 3 
 
 Some think ( I will in a way of mirth 
 wreft to my purpofe the fenfc of that Ao 
 dent faying of the Comick j that oneiy. 
 Homo trium lltterarum makes Fut'^ name- 
 ly 5 that its only the Vice of the Illite- 
 rate to fteal the labours of the Learned, 
 and with them to appcare brave , and be- - 
 come rich. Howbeit the nobleft wits , and 
 accuteft pens have honoured this Art, im- 
 ping their own fancies with the wings of 
 others Mufes : whereupon it holds true no 
 lefleofthe majeftickLion, than ofthefcebie 
 Ant, that 
 
 Convi5tare]uvatpr^das^ ir vivere rapto. 
 
 The Writings ohhzgxtdXArtJlotle^ are 
 fam'd to be a beautiful piece of Marquetry, 
 whereof the defign is his own, but the mat- 
 ter for the moll: part borrowed from others: 
 And ii^ Sj?e:ifippus in thepurchafe ofwhofe 
 Books he disburft three Tallcnts- if D^w^- 
 critus^ if others like them, the labours of 
 whofc Wits Alexander collected together 
 for him ^evcry one (hould challenge his own, 
 he that appeared a Phoenix in others Plumes, 
 would appear but a fa i,^-claiv inhis own. 
 
 Plato was taxed by a railin;^ Fellow for a 
 Thiefc, wixh a:i indidaient made in the 
 
 K 2 name 
 
1^5 
 
 The Second Part. 
 
 name o^rhilolaus^ as if he had (\ will not fiy 
 tiiinfcribcd from him a great part ofhisT/- 
 fncits)h\M rcplcnifhcd it with fublime juice 
 fucked out of Writings of that fecond Pytha^ 
 goras 5 behold how Timon accufeth him. 
 
 y, '. txiguum rtdlmus grandi Are liheUum. 
 
 ^', * Scri here per quern or/iis per do^usah indefuiSti, 
 
 And>doubtlefs3werc there but an Archime* 
 I Vhr* dei^ that knew how to diftinguifh of Books, 
 pr^ffat. as of mixtures of two metals, between the 
 ,7' legitimate and the borowed ^ Were there 
 but an y^r//?^/^^;;^/^ a Judg that could under: 
 ftand the language of the dead when they 
 fpeakby the iiioUthes of the living- Were 
 therebutaCr^/^/;^///that could put Booksto 
 the torture 3 and form the proceffe of their 
 , thefts^ as he did of the Poems of Menander^ 
 f^r^ '■ ofwhofe thieveries he com pofed fix Books; 
 ^.oet» y^^ mould lee how true it is that Mercury 
 god ofthe Learned is alfo god of Thieves. ' 
 • But in my judgment 5 the whole crew of 
 fuch^who in their Books under their own 
 names publifh the labours of others^ may 
 be diflinguifh'dinto three orders^oneworfc 
 than another. The fii fl are thofe who ga* 
 thelring from one, one thing; and from ano- 
 ther, another^ and altering their titles 5 and 
 inverting their order ^ compole Books as 
 
 they 
 
flagianifme. t^j 
 
 they make Garlands 3 wherein many Htles 
 make a mickle^many flowers make a Coro- 
 net. They have this difcretion to fteal 
 from every one a little ^ that fo few fhjould 
 perceive and none complain of the theft ; 
 and fas I may fayj they do not embafe » 
 but only clip the Coyne. . 
 
 The names of thefe Authors fumptuoufly 
 writ in Capital letters in the Frontifpice of 
 their Books, ftupifiethemto behpLd them- 
 felves fathers of fo prodigious an ifTue; 
 when as they are eonfcious that they were 
 devoid of produdive virtue , or feed, tbajc 
 might inable them to the generation offo 
 admirable Births- 
 
 Miratnrque novas frond^s^ e/ nDnfiufoma. 
 
 He percciveth himfelf indo w'«d with iiich' 
 riches, and yet knows that he had neither 
 ftock nor revenues cquivalcnit to fo grcai: 
 ^purchafc. ,. . 
 
 They hold it amongftthcm for a Law,' 
 never to mention the Authors out of which 
 they had filtch'd, tefi they ftiouldbede- 
 ceded for Plagiaries. Noir care they for 
 riiny^ that faid, Obnom antmi , ir infelicis in- tn Pr^f: 
 genii ejje4efukn4i in f HYto rnaii$ ^ qtilm mtuo ^?^r, 
 feddm':, cHmfV'^fmm firs ^i^t e); afur^. Nor 
 
 K7 that 
 
154 ^^^^ Second Part. 
 
 that ancient cuftomc related by M. Varroj 
 to crown their Conduits once a year with 
 oderiferous Garlands of flowers 3 in grate- 
 ful acknowledgement of the clear y and 
 wholefome water , that they drew from 
 them. 
 
 But it happens many times (and this is 
 the final end of all the Art of fuchlik thieve- 
 ries^ that they take uponthemtocenfureas 
 Ignorant^ and condemn asfhallowand fu- 
 perficial ^ thofe very perfons from whom 
 they borrowed all that they had of good, 
 inibmuch as declaring therafelves nice and 
 critical in their opinions, they are unfufpe- 
 
 ded of felonious filching»5"ft^^^^o^^^" 
 rents, which where they break down their 
 banks with a high tide , diradiat , teare up, 
 and beare before them>all that {lands in their 
 way, but of that which their impetuofity 
 carries away, they ingorgethe moft folid, 
 and (liew only the flumps , fedg,and mud. 
 This is an aft proper to Harpies , to fatisfie 
 their hunger at anothers Table , not con- 
 tenting themfelves with devouring that 
 which they carry away, unleflTe, moreover, , I 
 they fpoii that which they leave behind. 
 This is to doe with worthy Writers as the 
 LaertJn Cd!mSc Dionysus did to his friends, which 
 Bi^gen. faith^D/^^^/^^/^as veffels of precious liquour 
 
 he \ 
 
Plagianifme. 135 
 
 lie fuckt and dreincd till he was full , ;|nd ■ 
 tben broke them as being empty. Tiiis is 
 itorefembletlietwo infamous Monfters in 
 the Straights of Sicilia neer to Pharos^ SciUay 
 and C^jT^'^^^^of which the firll fplits the fliip, 
 and wrecks the merchandize,the other with 
 his circulations devourcth them 3 and in a 
 great gulf fwallowes them. They under- 
 value not others with an intent to rejefi J/p^'r 
 them, but to inporpc them / nee expuunt nau- ^■ 
 p'AgiaJed Mvorant^ 
 
 Wherefore let them hear as fpoken to 
 thjSm-alone what upon aix>thcr fubjcifi the 
 }AQ\^Flutarchx^CO\^^^ ppn ckhemusfuffii' ^'^F^f^^ 
 rari gloriam eormi^ qui n^in^hum CKtulemnt^ ^^^'^^ *'* 
 mcejje ut Regtilii iy£fopiy qui defer uti Aquikm 
 (Ujm ea laffa uh^^ih KonpctHii vol4re% . , > , 
 ., Worie than thefe are the iecond , v/hb' 
 finding , I know not how 3 the imp^rfe^Jt 
 works of Acute Doctors 3 charitably col- 
 lecting them as the Ofpray the unpluni'd 
 Eaglets fain from their Nefts 5 take them 
 bonie 5 and as Orphan and deftitut;^ adopt 
 them for their ow^n legitimate iilUe, The 
 (hame of appearing tgnorant, overcomes in 
 thera theinfaiijy of beingthleyes 5 nor ^e- .. ^ 
 ga rd they SLn^fi us ^th^t faid, Magfi impium ejje Epiff^'i 4 
 j^o^'/jimm lucubratioms ~^ (jj^4m vejles furari ^ 
 ff4fd fepHhl?ra perfodm dicitur. Oh how^ 
 
 K 4 nT'AnV 
 
1^6 The Second Part. 
 
 many^ if they might come forth of their 
 Graves ^ or but draw their heads out of 
 their Tombs to fee their labours inherited 
 by fuch as had no right to fucceed them 
 al mejlato , they would fay with that for- 
 lorn MantuanS\i^3.^\iQi(X. 
 
 Injere nunc Melih^epyros^pone ordine vites. 
 
 It was a rpoft modeft Law of thofeno 
 lefTe brave than difcreet Painters oi Greece y 
 obferved in all ages, to honour the memo- 
 ry of the worthy Matters in that Art; by not 
 putting the penfil to the pieces, which they, 
 overtaken by death, ihould have left either 
 without the finilhing touches 5 or elfeim- 
 pcrfed ; whereby they in effeft would tell 
 us^rhatthofe relicks thus diminifhed ; and 
 unfinifhed were more excellent,thanif they 
 had been by their hands exadly completed. 
 ^Tlmiiu Of this the Hiftorian fpeaking , Illud per 
 i.il^Ai qmmraram^ v^faith \\€) ac memoria dignumy 
 L;V etiamfuprerna opera Artificum , imperfe^afque 
 tabuld^jicut Irin Ariftldisy Tyndaridas Nicho- 
 mac hi ^ }4edeam Timomachiy & Venerem ApeU 
 lU in majdf:! admiratione ejpy c^uamperfeBA. 
 
 Now iii^Letters, amongft fo many Laws 
 there is not fene of fo good determination, 
 or fo great frdelity ^ by reafon every one 
 
 hath 
 
Vlagianifme. 137 
 
 faathto great an avidity to the applaufe of a 
 man of ingenuity : therefore they put their 
 hands to another mans works, not to com- 
 pleat them for the Author , but to ingrolle, 
 againft all the rules of equityjanothers Prin- 
 cipal to their Ufe. 
 
 He that found a treafure in his field had spart.'w 
 it all to himfelf , as was enafted by ^yidrian t/^dr. 
 theEmperour^ but if inanothers 5 he divi- 
 ded it 5 and the owner of the field had half: 
 A law, if in monyes jufl, in the riches of wit 
 moftjuft. 
 
 But the third fort are intolerable ^ name- 
 lyjthofe who to anothcrswork prefix their 
 own names ; Men of impudent Fronts, 
 which having in a Book no more than a 
 Frontifpice ; as the AfTc in the Fable that 
 had nothing of a Lion but his skin 5 appro- 
 priate all the reft to themfelves. Juft as if 
 the patro fining of a Book were the dedi- 
 cating ofa Temple to fome god, wherein it 
 was fuflicient to Grave his Name on the 
 Front. What elfe did Caligula that Beaft 
 Ihrouded in an Emperour, when he behead- 
 ed theSatue oi Jupiter Oljmpius^dXiA erefted 
 his own in the place to be adored as Jupiteri 
 The Per(%am beleived that the greateft ofall Plutar. 
 fins was to be Indebted, and next to this, to ^^'2''>^«- 
 be a Liar. Thcfc are both ; for, what they 7 ^^^ ^'^ 
 
1 58 The Second Part. 
 
 are indebted for to others, and they have 
 nothing otherwife 5 than by the patroniza- | 
 tion of (hameleflTe lies. 
 
 One of thefe being convided of fuch a 
 like theft, whileftitwas expeded, that not. 
 being able to cover the fac^ with lies ; he, 
 Giould at leaft wift have covered his face 
 with(hame; he as impudent offore-head^as 
 dexterous of hand, puthimfelf on his guards 
 and pleading in his defence the Sympathy^ 
 about which iome, called Phylofophers^. 
 keep fuch a ftir; boldly retorted; N^ne 
 could fYove him a violator of the witings of any 
 muHy tillfirfl he proved that there woi a difjimi* 
 litude in their yninds ; inregardthat two Wft$^ 
 uniform andconjentancous of genius^ have by vfrr 
 tue offympathetickjinim^ and identity inthemo^l 
 tion of their winds ^ and order oft heir thoughts* [ 
 Kepler, Now Keplerus.MerfeniuSy and Galileus gQ, 
 lik 5. about toinvcftigate the myiierious reafoi;jr^, 
 har.prop. ^^y ^-^q Chords tuned to an Unifon , ^ 
 Merfe.^. Diapafon, or a Diateffaron,. fo accord the 
 %JileH "^^^^^^"^ the other in found 3 that the one 
 tn dill! ^ou<^h*d the Other not touch't trembles, and' 
 ^ov.phiL nioves. But fee here a Problem of more. 
 difficult foiution, (if haply in uniform wits ■ 
 there be, as they fey there is in Muficai'^ 
 Chords ^thofe regular vibrations, which v^' 
 
 counLdngthe Harmonical nunibers of Ff"^ 
 
 ■ fc^ 
 
FUgidnifme. 129 
 
 dconfonants, doeoccafion the like mo- 
 otis) how it can be , that two braines by 
 /ay of fy mpathetick confent fhould accord 
 5 leledone and the fame argument, todit 
 t iJay it with the fame form of fpecch ; never 
 lifferingaword^nonorafyllable : Yea, with 
 b exad refemblance of ftature, voice^ and 
 eatures, that they are taken for the Af^«^<r- j„ p^^f. 
 mioiPlautHs^ howbeit 
 
 Ita forma Jimilipueny velnutrixfua. 
 'Noninternojfepojfetyquamammam dahat', 
 l^eque mater adeo ipfa^ qiu illos pepererat* 
 
 From the dexterity, that many ufe in 
 [filching others writings; is occafioned, the 
 jjealoufie for the preserving them ; and the 
 (quarrels when they happen to be feloniouf- 
 ilyftoln. 
 
 I Even Nature herfelf hath taught two ani- 
 mals 5 that produce two the precioufeft^ and 
 fweeteft things ; fo much the more inge- 
 nioufly to defend them from Thieves 5 the 
 more greedily they feek them. Thus the 
 Cockles that gender thePearlcs , when the 
 mornings light difcovcreth them , clofe 
 themfelves • and if any one chance fome- 
 times to furprize them , whilft as yet they 
 are open, though other wife blind; Cum 
 
 njanum 
 
I ^o The Second fart. 
 
 PitHttu manum videt^ comfrimit fefe y operitjue opes i 
 if.p.c.^^ gnara propter iliasfe feti ; m4nUm(]ue^ fifrdvei 
 niat^ aciefua> dhfcindit , nuUa ]ufliore poena^ 
 Thus the Bees, with bittereft combs 3 like ;, 
 VeMian LahjrinthyfiW ihQir hivcs^contra a/^a^ 
 . rumhejliolarum aviditates: Idfefa^uras con- 
 It 7i^6 -^^^^^ ^^^^ concupifdpojjit^ But becaufe 
 Nill ejl deter iuslatrone nudo ; 
 
 and againft thefe Thieves, it is not fufficient 
 for Mercury himfelfto ftand Sentinel, with 
 <^Arauss hundred eyes: hence it is, that, 
 with the accufations of many Authors, fo 
 many Books are cramm'd. 
 
 Arid doubtlefle in this cafe, patience is, 
 very difficult ; and paflion very excufable. 
 Even the Dead Statues ofbrafle, faith Cafio- 
 dorus^ if in thenight time they be ftrucke by- 
 Thieves with an intent to break them - 
 though they have not fenfe to affliftthem- 
 fclvesj yet they have voice to lament them-* 
 tih. 7. felves, with which; tiec in toto mHt^rmtpjuan^ 
 Ser,2i' doafimhuspercHjpi^ mjlodesvid^nturtinitihs 
 admonerc^ 
 
 But, behold, in two ftiort receipts , thfe 
 remedy againft the vicious avidity after 
 others labours. The firft is, to perfwade 
 your fdves that the World [snot a Judge 
 of fg Utic judgment^ that it cannot from 
 
Flagianifme. i^i 
 
 iblick fame , or rather infamy ; from in- 
 ^Idiments, and witnefles 5 when (o thou art; 
 \A thee to be guilty of felony : and by 
 Ids meanes thou wilt never be got to do it, 
 Ithough occultly 5)out of a hope that none 
 'in deted: thee. You invert the order of 
 lings 5 fo that the method of thofe things 
 :em yours , which you transferre f rom o- 
 lers to your own ufe : yet howfoever 
 ^ hough you fliould be a Cacus ; fubtile in in- 
 ertingupfide down the traces ofthefeetof 
 he prey, that you filcht into yourhoufe^ 
 ragging them by the taile : there will not 
 vant a Hercules; that by thofe very trails, 
 vill trace out the theft , and fraud ^ and 
 )uniih the Author, Yea, you your fclves, 
 vill let flip from your mouda , or pen, 
 bmething', that may advert (Wdifcreet of 
 :he fad : and you (hall in this refemble the 
 .^aven 3 which never fleals fo fubdely, but 
 with the fanguin d beak ; and even with the 
 prey in his mouth ^ he croaks : whereby, 
 afore he is aware, he charms up the ftoncs , 
 :hat flye about his cares. 
 
 l^am tacitusfafcitfipojjetcorvus^haheret Ho rata 
 Plusdapis^ C^ rixce minus ^ invi^i^que. 
 
 Nay,when you yourfelves are fitent: your 
 ' " " papers 
 
1^2 The Second Part. 
 
 papers fhall fpeak againft you 5 andyoui 
 own Books (hall form the procefle. In thiJ 
 confidence Martial t, with whofe Epigramj 
 many made themfelves pafTe for Wits, anc 
 Poets, divulging them for their own j fpeni 
 nowordsintheaccufationofThieves, and 
 the defence of his o wn. 
 
 Lib. 1 . Indice non opus eft nojlm^ nee vindice IthrU, 
 cap, 5 4 . Stat contra^ dicitque tihi tuapagina^ Fur es. 
 
 The fecondis • that you perfwade your 
 felves, that its a far lefle evil, not to appearc 
 Learned; than to be proved Ignorant; ha- 
 ving nothing of your own, and yet fallaci- 
 oufly filching from others. Ifyourhead bfc 
 bald for want of hairs (the Emblem of the 
 thoughts , |1^ riches of the mindj) you will 
 not take thorc of the dead^and make of theitt 
 an ill-Ihapt Perriwig. 
 
 Kji€4rt. Calvo turpas e^nihllcomato. 
 
 Better is it to be poor with my own,thait 
 rich in other mens fpeeches. To be able t^ 
 fay. This is mine, although it be Uttle-, il 
 much better : than to fay-, This is much, but 
 it is not mine. 
 
 The precioufefl: Verfes that Manllhis could' 
 read in his Poems, were thofe two : 
 
 Nojlri 
 
Flagianifme. iij.3 
 
 Nsjlra locjuar* Nulls vatum dehihimur orfa^ L\b*^. 
 N ec f ur turn ^ fed opus veniet , 
 
 So write, that upon all your labours you 
 may ingravethat Diftich, that the Poet c/f- 
 Tijto writ over the Portal of his Gate. 
 
 Tdrva.fed apt a mihi^fed nuUi obnoxia^fednon 
 Sordida^arvay Meofedtamen^ere^domus. 
 
 That we ought not to affume an- 
 other s argument^ but rather to 
 invent new of onr own. 
 
 IF the dcfire to become immortal to 
 pofterity by the PrefT^; did but as 
 much whet the wit unto invention of 
 matter of ones own: asitfharpnethones tal- 
 Ions to prey upon that of another : many t, 
 who, as convided for Plagiaries, haveloft 
 their time,& been confifcarcd of their repu- 
 tation; w^ould have eternalized the one and 
 the other. And oh/ how much more would 
 Learning flourifli ? and in how many better 
 imployments might we fpend our time, ouv 
 Studies, and our wits : if leaving this ibrdid 
 work of changing 3 ^adrata rotmdk; and 
 
 putting 
 
144 
 
 Seneca, 
 
 the Second Part. 
 
 putting that in the margent, wkich odie« 
 infcrt in the body of their works : all the 
 bent of our thoughts (hould be fet upon eiv- 
 tiching the Arts ^ and Sciences , with Ibitie 
 new Difcoveries ; which being unknown to 
 the Ancients^ may be beneficial to fucceed- 
 ings ages.One only fuch a Leafe, would fuf- 
 fice to merit that honour ; to which mai^ 
 times monftrous Volumes but vainly pre- 
 tend. 
 
 Yea, the only inquifition after novel in- 
 ventions ; although wefucceednottoinve*- 
 ftigatethem ; is not without its applaufe^jis 
 //d!«If "^^ being without benefit : Vlurimum enim 
 <j,c. 5, ad inveniendum con'tulit^ qui (peravit fojjeref 
 perire. And one that is agitated by generous 
 thoughts 3 had rather by himfelf trace ontfa 
 way to Heaven , than to tread in others 
 tracks on earth ; io that he may fay with the 
 Poet. *'^h 
 
 n^* ^ 9 Likta per vacuum pofui veJligidprincepSy , ) 
 Non aiienameoprelJipede. "^ 
 
 But in (hort 5 although its eafierforhifan 
 to fall 5 who attempteth ro fore into Hea- 
 ven ; than for him, that contents himfelf to 
 pore on the Earth; yet that Magni^ t^mn 
 excidit aufis'^ hath fo much of glory : as thftt 
 the honour of having ^fccnded ^Voutv^igi^ 
 
Vlagianifme. 1 4.5 
 
 by far the difgrace of being precipitated. 
 And even to thefe our dayes, the generoiis 
 andacity of young Icarm^ that flying even ' 
 touch'd the Stars; hath more admirers of 
 his mountingj than {corners of his fall : 
 
 •Stivxquelnntxm arator Met^ii 
 
 Vidit^ & objlufuk-^ quiff e athera car fere pjjit^ 
 Credldit ejje Deum. — ^ — 
 
 And for my part, confidering, that with- 
 out either fall, or trip ^ its hard going in thef 
 high way ; (fince that in many things our 
 judgment confifts more inbelieving, than 
 knowing; more in not feeing, the errors 
 which we have , than in not having them ') 
 I have the fame refentment in Learning ; 
 which that freind of Seneca had in another V'ageUa.- 
 (enfe : SicadtndumeBmihi^ coelocecidifevellm. p^^dSe- 
 I would have our wits doe to our thoughts j ^^^^^'^f* 
 as the Eagle doth with her Chickens; which J*^r^--* 
 before that as yet they have diftendcd their ^' 
 plumes 3 and fixed their wings for flight; 
 throwes them from their neft, to fhifc for 
 themfelves: asif(hefhouldfay. Te are now 
 well feathered Eagles ; and fit }e here idle ' hove-^ 
 ring over your nefl? Tehave tallons^ andhea^^ 
 4ndareye not afhamedto he JliU fedlike fo many 
 jKfung Swallows / gp for fhame and dig your 
 
 L living^ 
 
ia6 T/jc Second Fart. 
 
 livings out of others bowels . for nowjoj£\ are^ 
 armed ^ Jo r now you are Eagles^ 
 
 Every thought ^ that had not atcndfinij^ 
 to the invention of new experiments in ' 
 Learning; Hyppocrates cdccrnQd befides^the ' 
 mark, to which the Learned ought to direii: 
 all the lines of their Studies. Heallowerfe 
 not that we ihould piece together ther<^-; 
 liquesofdead Authors>5'//^^^«4 n4ufrMg4nr^ 
 tium) but, that we (houldfetfail totheac- ■ 
 quift of new Merchandifesi whereby we^, 
 may inrichthe Worldjand gain glory to pjtir' 
 In arte felves. MihivsrQ invemrealiquid eorHmy(ju<e 
 initio, nondum invent xfunt^ quod ip/km notum qu^ffi 
 occultum e£l pri^^M ^ fcienti^^ yotum^ Cr opui 
 ejje videtur. 
 
 Ohjhow many, feeking things not befpre 
 found; have found things not before fougbtf 
 The only defire of converting fome bafer 
 Metal into Gold , how hathitftiarpnedih^ ' 
 conceit, and refined the wit^ infomi^ch^,^ 
 that thereby thofe rare miracles of "Natilrc^ 
 arc found, w<^^ the Art of Chymiftry kno\ys 
 how to produce? And what mines offiin-^- 
 dimcntal experiments, of a true natural^ 
 Phylofophy, arc there, that difcover not 
 themfclvesin them; tillin times tocome-f 
 there be fome, who know, howtow6r]|; 
 them; difcourfing from the experiences;^ o^^ 
 
 '^tli'^'' 
 
theefFcifts, to the firft originals of their 
 caufes? And it falls out in this^ (faith n 
 brave Man) as to thofc recited by ^ ^/^^that 
 feeking Gold ; which their Father dying ji 
 faid he had buried in a field; all fell of dig- 
 ingit; whereby the field, of fterile that it 
 was before* became fruitful ; notyeilding 
 them' Gold 5 but inftead thereof, a very 
 plentiful crop5 equivalent to much Gold. tolM. 
 Truth is not now barren ; although Di n 
 (lie was fo prodigal in teaching our An- mfdi 
 Cefters* EtiamquicunquefunthabitimortAlIum fi^'^'^ 
 fMentipmi y multdfcrjfi dicuntur non omnia i 
 They ftudyinghave not fifh'd all the pearls; 
 /peculating have not difcovered all the 
 trafts of truth. Worthy and famous they 
 V/ere its true ; but not like Hercules^ fc>, as' 
 thrttthey have found, or pfcfcribed bounds 
 to nature ; beyond which as pillars, it is not 
 lawful for men to pade. P^et o-mnibinven- £^1^^^ 
 tasy faith the Moralifl , ndndumeJlocaifAtA y 
 rhuhumexillAeti&mfiitmk^ ydi^nmcj}. And 
 asthe J/74r/4«ffaid5 tliat neither Rivers nor 
 'Mountains affigned- bounds to their King 
 ddm ; but that it extended it fell: as far as 
 one couM throw a dart : in like manner the 
 •ArtSj and Sciences, diftend sbcmfclvcs as 
 •for as the acvitenefle of our wits can enlarge 
 thcmv fete nowhere as i:n the Ocean , In' 
 % ^ which- 
 
iij.8 The Second Fart. 
 
 vihich j^/exandenhQ Sixth dxcw from Pole, 
 to Pole 5 aline; cfofle one 6f the Ite bT 
 Capo Verde ; and affigned bounds totbe Na^ 
 * vigations of the Cafitlthns , thence to tbfe 
 Weft ; and of the Pvriugsls^ thence to the 
 Eaft. Pitet omnitus^verita4. 
 
 Some of the AncientSjWOuld havf^a^jj, 
 
 this Une between the Gree!^ and ii^i^ 
 
 Poefie; whereupon l:Ior4ce that would paf^ 
 
 it^interwcaving to himfelf in a Crown ; , J&e 
 
 Lawrds oi" Jtkns with thofeof ^^w: .J{|! 
 
 that he made the Gree^Ljmi Poetry to Bjq 
 
 heard upon the Latine Cittern ; wasby tK^ 
 
 more part of the Ancients reprehend&dfv 
 
 and his compofitions rcjeded^as cbildr^ of 
 
 a Baftard Muje; and Hermophrodiiical 
 
 Monftcrs, This neceflitated that Poei; to 
 
 commend his own ftyle, in the defenc^^f 
 
 h;s Miffe ; and under the pretence o|^ Ijis 
 
 own vindication^ to publifti the crimes ofp'* 
 
 jAlf.2. therscnvy^ and malice, Ciying; Th^tkif^ 
 
 ep'tft. I. pfition ofhii compofures proceeded not fgimcl^ 
 
 from the love of others Ancient eligamj/ 5 04 from 
 
 the envy of his modern gr^ce* That thej/^^if 
 
 ^owledgy condemned their own ignorance: J^jng 
 
 afjAmed to learn from him^ Ajiomg^^ny that^ 
 
 which they ^ being old ^ vpere notable to find out* 
 
 That this tva^theorigindofaUhisemulatifrstfi^ 
 
 lice* 
 
 ■ Vel 
 
 I 
 
tOlo^ moii WJnb nmZ out y i^ir^ c^ v 
 Y4!q^UfUtn&HmrnifiqmdplacmtJihi^ du€unt. 
 Uf^i^ftid fuYpe pHtant purer e minor ibmy & ju^ 
 fyi^rhs didkerefenesperdendafateri. 
 
 ^^^ Ahdidoubtleffe^ we miy fay with him 
 VCid^inutius* ^idinvidemusyfiveritcunojlri Mlnn^^ 
 9MBrk4iAU maturmt. Is elegance^ and in- 
 ^ntjveingenuity, fo intaileduponth'An- 
 fo^nts; that it niay never berenew'd ? AI- 
 ttrough^ that which Amohm writes of Re- 
 figion, cotictrningthe truths which every 
 Hfy with new acquift's difcover themfelves, 
 rrfrac- NonquodJequmurnovumeB^fednos Amoh^ 
 /ero didicimus qttodnosfequi oportet. 
 
 Who then will prefcribe bounds , and 
 limits to the free flight of the ingenions ,- 
 confining them within the ftraights ot the 
 thitigs already found ; as if there could not 
 be^ny new Difcoveiies ? If this Law had 
 been knownto Antiquity^we (hould at this 
 j^y have known nothing. Nufquamenimm- Ser.eca, 
 ^kiinietur^ficd^tentifmrimus inz'enth^ Propferea etifi, 33. 
 '^ui atiumfiqUHury nihil fcquitur^ nihil invenit^ 
 imnecqu^rit, Andofthclcin myopinionj 
 ^e may fay, as Z)^/2f^ very finely of thefear- 
 fiUSheep that follow rhdr Leader. 
 
 €ant. :?a 
 ^^Mjitljfhcepj whentwo orthreemore hald Pfuj^t, 
 
 , And venturous than others leavetke fold 9 
 
1 5 o The Second fart. 
 
 Tlje reft^apaid^deje^lng ejes and head ^ 
 iVi'thout in<juiryJhJlowthoje that Ud: 
 Andifoneftay^ the reft in heap}^heftnde -^ \ 
 Him y not ktiowing wh/ , and/imply there aifde. I 
 
 Be orig, ^(are (to add to Dante La5fantius) cum 
 error f*^, y^^^^^^ iJeJl^veritaternqmrere^ omnihsfitm- 
 namm^ Sapientiamjjhi adimunt ^ qui fine ullo 
 judicio inventa Majorum prohant y ^ah4lHs^ 
 Pecudum more ^ duamtur. And moft apt is 
 thatanfwerj that the Eccho o?£rafmus gave 
 to that wretched Ciceronian , who crying 5 
 i:^£cem annos confumpfi in legendo Cicerone; 
 Heard this reply {One:) which was as much 
 as to fay, thatdefiring to become an Ape 
 ofC/V^r^, he was become an Afle, byporipg 
 on Cicero. 
 
 But the courage to undertake , and the 
 felicity to fucceed in thedifcovery of new 
 andneceffary things, I do grant is not for 
 every one to expefl; for fuch as undertake 
 this enterprife , do ordinarily find feares in 
 themfelves which affright them, and ^er- 
 fwalions from others that retard them. 
 
 The fixed Stars that move not of them- 
 fclves 5 but are carried by the Heavens, and 
 born away by the Common Courfe 5 have 
 not any that accufe them of irregularity, or 
 condemn tbcm of error. On the conKary 
 
 the 
 
, Jtlagiamfifte. , 151 
 
 the Plapetsi . Vv^hich fo generoufly make a 
 revolution by thcmfelves ; bccaufe a fini- 
 .pieandmoft regular motion ; with an apr 
 p^arance of afcenfion and declination; of 
 
 'velocity and flownefic; doth varioufly con- 
 jcrpperate them : arc called by the vulgar, 
 
 'jrfegular in their morions ; confufed in their 
 revolutions: and believed not to be errant, 
 but erroneous; not to make Circles, but 
 ^ Labyrinths. 
 
 ^ cL^/iAr^;/<il?rthat had fo great a Heart and 
 ^fpcapaciouSj thathe could conceive within 
 
 ^ jit 3 the dcfireofa World of Worlds; being 
 
 Vcome to the Eafiern Ocean , confefTcd 
 'Jiimfelf to little for this one little one: and 
 doubting to find the fortune of the Sea, 
 'different from that at land *• ftruck fail to 
 .his defires, that carried him to fjek, on the 
 other fide of that Ocean, new places to con- 
 quer. He ihewed himfcif prudciit in his 
 fear ; and to authorise his retreat with o- 
 thers counfcl; he made a ihc7/ cf com- 
 plyance to the rcafons ofhis CounfcUours, 
 who to dilTwade l^im,faid ; 
 \^ Great oSMonarch^ Little move thanGreccefuf- Senec^ 
 jicedtomal^ Hercules a Demi-god: and will not Sn^f. 
 all the Earth fuffice to mal^ j/ou a Hercu'ej^ 
 l^^e pot this WorldTuhihtyou are in qiiejl of an 
 0her, If there ixere more land on the other fide 
 
1^ % The Se€ond fart. 
 
 tie Ocean 3 your enemies Tcouldhdnje£ei,^i^t^ 
 Tvhoto hidethemfelvesfromyowr Arms ^ ^^JQ^i\ 
 are goneto burj themjelves in HelL Content yM^, 
 /if that the Confines of your Kiitgdom ^ are 
 ' thofe of Nature herfelf This Shore t^ill an^ferml 
 the print of your viSforious Feet^ eternally intfrtSi^: 
 and in ere^iing the ultimate limits ofEumadt) 
 Gexerofity : Toujhall he a Hercules in theS^l 
 <c; Hercules wa4 an Alexander in the fVeff, Widr?' 
 th:it Alexander '7 
 
 yj:fin» 
 
 Con^itit^6' magno fe vinci paJfu$al^orhe^Jh\<xt 
 M^ nrror ^i's-o ica x^l 
 
 If that Generous G;//^w^/r/ 5 thatlikahrJ'^ 
 in an Ocean, as in a Deluge of water , difr 
 covered new Lands,and new Worlds; had-/ 
 not done more than this , when in defoight 
 of two Republiques^and one King; (follow- 
 ing the advice of the Winds , that blew to 
 the Weft 5 andWhifperedinhisEare; See 
 yonder ample lands,whence the exhalations 
 rife in fuch great abundance,) he weighed J 
 Anchor^ and fet fail , witha Frigot and two 
 iCai'vaU ; and launched into the bofbmc of; 
 that vaft Ocean; without ever ceafinghis 
 courfe ; or tacking about in this Voyage , 
 in a §ea never before ufed , or believed un- 
 navigable ; in thelenght of a courfc of un- 
 jcerfain boupjds: difcouraged neither by the 
 
 encounter 
 
flagunifme. 15 j 
 
 cncbuntcrof Monftersj nor the mutiny of 
 his men ; nor the want of vidluals, in a place 
 dcftitute ofall accommodation for ftran- 
 gcrs; nor the frequent tempefts, that drove 
 him upon ftrange Climates ; nor the long 
 and exceffive calmes that took him upon the 
 Confines of the Torrid Zone ; where the 
 Heavens for the exceffive heat feem a Hell: 
 would £urofe at this day have had thofe aro- 
 matick Spices , and Minerals , or fo much 
 as the knowledge of that half Worlds Am- 
 ricai Would Columbus himfelf have gained, 
 I fay not only that priviledge from the 
 Kings of Caftile , of quartering the Arms gf 
 his Houfe, with the addition of the new 
 World that he difcovered ; and with the 
 Motto over bead> 
 
 For CafUlla , y for Leort^ 
 I Nueva Mondo hallh Colotu; , 
 
 j but thofe immortal merits whereby all ages 
 j come to acknowledg themfelves debitors 
 j tohim^ and by him to (7^/2(?45 and all Itafy; 
 for the intire value of a World ? No other- 
 wife 2 fuch who in Learning elTay to make 
 thefirft way to the difcovery of new places; 
 (which is nothing inferiour to the failing of 
 un-navigable Occgns^) is it neceffary , that 
 ' , ^mongft 
 
.1.^^ Th SccQndr fan. 
 
 amongfl: the annoyapces ^ ^nd , toils pf the 
 
 long Voyage, of ^;i un-pra^ifcd ttjudy; 
 racics of defperatipnf he conqu^fihimlelf 
 
 amongft the familiar , and frequent CQi^i 
 
 a thoufand jinxes .-; attending, a^ tjiQfe,<5lp' 
 rious Heroes 5 Conquerours ofthe Golden 
 Fleece ; more to the glory ofthe endj than 
 to the trouble of the means, 
 
 VaLTU, Tufol^anmosy wentemque peturis , , > 
 ^^1* '^* Glorify u viridem videt immunemque J}neBd 
 Phafidos in ripajlantemjuvenefo^ve vocanfem. 
 
 Thus Eomey\ the firft Poet Herpicgi'aBd 
 fir ft Hero pf Poets ; is dpubly^ gre;at : in 
 that he had pot any befor^^hipi tha^t Ke 
 might imitate ; nor after him that liath i^ii- 
 rated him. 
 
 In the firft, greater than his Predeceflcjrs, 
 in the fecond 5 greater than his Succefibts ; 
 which is tlie great Panegyrick , that in two 
 words hath been comprehended hYVelfeiujf 
 inftead of all that which others h^ve;b?en 
 i^elleiiu fcarce able to exprelle with rnany ; . Ne^ue 
 li*i.hifl. ante iUum quern irnitaretur ; ne^jue fo^ill^m^ 
 quieum imitari pojjet inventUrS ek^ Thefe, as 
 long as Learning {hall Gonpiu\e i%,the 
 World 3 (and diat will be as long as the 
 W^rldlaftsJ (hall fplendidly iliinein the 
 
 praife 
 
*praife of the Learned^, a^ that adventurous 
 Argo ; that from the tempcfts of the Scas^ 
 .-lyhichit before all other fhipsdidaavigate; 
 ■ cfim^ to take port in Heaven ; ' 'Nvhere now 
 '^|:s inriched with as many Stars, as before it 
 
 ^* did carry Heroes : 
 
 at: 
 
 . Mari quodfrima cucurrit ^ fir on. 
 
 ^eritum magnu mundum tenet a^afrocellii^ 
 
 Servando Deafa^^a Deos • — 
 
 ■ ♦> 
 
 Thus, after a thoufand others, in this laft 
 
 age GaUileusy an Academick truly Uncean : 
 
 both for the eye of his wit , and for that of 
 
 ; "jhisPerfpedive Tube -, with which he hath 
 
 ^'rendered the Commerce of Earth with the 
 
 Heavens fo familiar; that the Stars which 
 
 were before hM , no longer difdain to apr 
 
 pear, andfufferthemfelvestobefeen; and 
 
 \ '^thofe which were before feep, difcover to 
 
 us; not only their beauties, but alfo their 
 
 ^ defefts. At the foot of the Sepulchre of 
 
 ^'^l^thismoft acute Linx; might be ingraven in 
 
 ^^'*^lamcntation: that which thePoetin deri- 
 
 fionfaidpf ^/^^/j 
 
 Jroe jaces : quodo^^e m tot lumim lumen hor Ovid. 
 
 Rxtin^umeJ}^ €€mumq\ oculosno^occu^at m^^ 
 
 Thus 
 
i5^ 7herStt0nifktrt. 
 
 In EpiJ^. Thus Chriffof^ Scheirt^^^iM^^^Gtl^^ 
 
 M 09 motions of die FacuU ^znd ihtMacufSW 
 
 ^ff^'r the Sun hath found by Aftrotiomy aii^ 
 
 •^«/^#. phylofophy Coelcftial Lights of fd nobfe^ 
 
 rare, and authentick verity ; as are the ddi^l 
 
 ble motion of the Sun, that in the faftiion dP 
 
 a Top, firmly revolyes in it fcif ; and off 
 
 the Poles of his Axis : that moving atthfe 
 
 famcinftantintwoCircks^ordinatelycurJ^ 
 
 it, whence arifeth the variety of appearaii^ 
 
 t .t^^^t '^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^ Spots therein make. Moreover, 
 ^ * '* "and befides the rational conjedures'j which 
 are drawn from the conception, birth, ^^in- 
 creafe, return fometimes , and decreafeof 
 thelpots; to define what is the fubftaricc 
 andnamreofthe Sun it felf» Where witfi^ 
 he hath fo inrich't the World with fublim'^^ 
 experiments, that if every agfefhouWafFord^ 
 ^^ "\ the like; few ages would luffice to mafe8^ 
 Aftronomy as abfolutely Miftris of thi^ 
 Heavens: as at this day Geography is ci]f 
 almoftall the Earth. Ma^Ungenh eHeaxU^' 
 Imerpretes^ rerimque naturd capaces : 4rgu-^'^ 
 tnentirepertores^quo Deof^ Hominefque vtciftti? 
 Worthies ; to whom , as to that Ancictit 
 Meton., that left as a legacy to poft^rityi'^^ 
 giraveh in a Column, with lines oPexad: ptd-^ 
 portion; the various coui'fe of the Sun : 
 thould be ereftcd as reward, ott^drikF 
 ^''^^ ^ honour 
 
s^lagianifme. i^j 
 
 Ij^our^ Statues with tongues giWed, and ^^^^^a »! 
 qnderncaththisinfcriptiQn; Oh divinas^r^^ PihJ^^ 
 \ diffhnes. Worthies -, to whom Heaven 3,r4/^.}Tj^K 
 i (Bould be given: not as heretofore the Em- = .w>w*« 
 I p<2rour Caroks ^intui^s^ only inpidure. 
 the Starsof the Crofier (z, Conltellation io 
 calledjtoOt//V^/<5the Hiftorianofthe Ame- 
 rican affaires : but it felf, for a reward ; and 
 h^r Stars, for a Crown. And well do they 
 4€fervethem, 
 
 ^> 4dmover& ochUs dljlantiajjdera noHris^ Tafior* t 
 ^ jEthereaque Ingeniofuffofuere/Uo, 
 
 I have inftanced only in thefe two , that 
 (o I might not overpafs all; fince I could 
 not fpeak of all. Only to us that fucceed 
 thefe, ought that of i'(f/;^r^ to be inculcated 
 that; Agammhomm fMtremfamili(^ : Facia- Bpft.6^ 
 fmisdmplioraqute accipitnus Major ifta htf^redi* 
 ti^Am adPoJleros tranfeat. Multum ad hue 
 njlatafens; Multumque rejlahit , nee uUinato .^ ^^^^ 
 f oft milk ficuhfrdtcluditur occajio alicjiiidddbiH ' ' -^-^ 
 adjkiendi. 
 
 i Iballonly add thus much,that tabecome 
 Inventors of new things, we muft not make 
 our felves Matters of Novelties, wandring 
 without reafon (^cfpecially in things that^ 
 ai^ raecrly Natuxal) from thofc : wayes |^ 
 
 loonor 
 
 which 
 
i^^ The Second PaH. 
 
 which beaten already fo many agcs^ by the ^^ 
 beft wits of the World , have upon their ! 
 ; Confin'es for fuchaspafle thenij Temerity 
 and Error. Nor do asDhgenes , going con- - 
 ' trary to the current of all men 5 as if wc;; 
 alone^were the Sages • we alone dived to ' 
 thebottom of HeracUtusyV A\ 3 to fetch up' ' 
 Truth. Should we efteem of the Sun of 
 the Wits of the World y not by the light ; 
 of their greater knowledge of the truth 5 " 
 but by our oppofition to the courfc of alt 
 the World: and could we fay in a vaunt 
 what Apolio fpake by way of 2[<lvice to his 
 Son Phaeton 5 
 
 t Mets ^^^^^^^ Adverfum^ neqneme^ qui c^terA^ vtncif ' 
 Impetus : & rupdo contrarius evehof orhl^ \. 
 
 we ought aUo from him to hear ^ th'af 
 without peril of precipitation, we cannot 
 deviate from thofe direft paths , whichi 
 trodden by the Chariot of the Light;, cite 
 made no leffe obvious than clear : 
 
 Hucfititer: mamfeJlarot<^ veJl/gUcemes. 
 
 That the Earth with an annual period 
 revolves under the Ecliptick; and with a 
 daily motion turns from Weft to Eaft, 
 
 That 
 
* Fldgfanifme. . imp 
 
 That the Moon 3 yea all the Planets, (noo- 
 ther but voluble Earth) ha\^e inhabitants 
 people of different nature : That the World 
 cdtiufft' 5f infinite Maflesor Ghaofes, and\ 
 in its isitn^tife Vafts comprehendcs innu- 
 merable Worlds : &c. Thefe are Opinions, 
 that fome Moderns have fondly raifcd from 
 their Qcaves : calling them back >, thefirftj 
 from |hc;. Sepulchres of Cleantbe^\^x\A Phy- 
 loUusv jhefecond oiVytUgora^^c^^oiBerA" 
 clitusi. tl)e third of Demccntusdnid Methro^ 
 dom :■ with whofe death they had becnfo 
 mariy ag^s buried in Silence ^ and Oblj* 
 vion. , ; ^ 
 
 vThis is not to inrich the World with new 
 cognitions, but with old errors 5 nor to 
 make ones felf Mafter ofthofe tbat follow 
 us ; 'butDifciple ofthofe. that precede us; 
 with tlais remuneration: that thofe very 
 dreams of theirs , which were not blindly 
 received by the World 5 fhall in like man- 
 ! ner fleep with us, in our Sepulchres. 
 
 
($o the Second Part. 
 
 «k^- 
 
 Horp we may honefily and comment* 
 dably fie al from others Writings. 
 
 BVt I find I have eaterprized too diffi- 
 cult a task 5 whilft I pretend to di- 
 vert our thoughts from the taking 
 felonioufly from others, with propofing to 
 them both the obligation of enriching 
 Learning with new inventions- and the 
 guerdon that info doing we acquire j Much 
 better it were that I (hould teach. That we 
 way borrow with a good Qonfcience^ and not only 
 without mcejftty of^eflttution^ hut alfo with the 
 Merit ofCommendation. 
 
 All the thefts of light, made upon the 
 wheels of ^ipoUos Chariot; which are (if 
 I do not ill augurate^ the Books of the moft 
 cclebrious Wits , upon which Truth fhines 
 & tf iumphsi^ that condemn not the oifender 
 to the Rock^ olCaucaJuSy and the Eagle of 
 Trometheus, There is an impunity of taking, 
 provided we take not as the Moon from the 
 Sun; which when it moft approches it^ 
 and moft repleniftieth it felf with his light, 
 inpQvkiiNovi'lunii; irigratcfuUy edipfethi 
 it; but as he, that in a Mirrour of pure 
 
Vlagianifme. i^j 
 
 Chriftal receiveth a Sun beam ; and with 
 that 5 doth not only > notdiminifhed it of 
 light; but rather renders it with the refle- 
 xion 3 the more Iplendid , and glorious. 
 Thus the Bee, equally ingenious , and dif- 
 creetj 
 
 Candida drcum Lilia funiuntur. 
 
 But fo innocent is their Rapine , that 
 without diminifihing the odour; without 
 violating the beauty ; without breaking the 
 pods of the Flowers; they abundantly ga- 
 ther Wax , and Hony, for ihcmfelves , and 
 others. 
 
 Thefirft way to Borrow with applaufe-^ is to 
 Imitatewtth Judgment, He that is notu Giant 
 of high ftature, let him climbe to the top of 
 a great turret; and thence infoim himfelf of 
 the ftraighteft wayes, and fecureft paths. 
 Hc^ that hath not in his head a Theater of 
 proper Idea's J and Idea's of good defignc : 
 let him take according to the ancient Cu- 
 ftome of the firft and rude painting ; the 
 Circles of the (hadows of regular bodies^ 
 and compile his work upon tbofe models. 
 
 P/;r/;7^3 whileft foe lived 3 (Fhrhiey the ^/^;^^ 
 Athenian Venus^ fince flie was no lefTc unchaft ^Ux. 
 thanfair) was the Samplar of Painters; from in Pro"^ 
 whom they took the defign and features of trep. 
 
 M ' the 
 
i62 T^he Second Part. 
 
 the face ; to draw if they could more beau- 
 tiful 5 and withal more divine the Venms 
 that they painted. The only fight of her was 
 inftrudion: ferving, not fo much for a 
 pattern to the copies which they drew; as 
 foraformofperfedionjtotheldea'sjwhich 
 they comprehended in their minds : of a 
 moftabfolute proportion of parts, temper 
 of colours^ and vivacity of Spirit. Such to 
 the fancy, are the Compofures of the brave 
 Mafters of Learning : which beheld with 
 intenfencflc, imprint in the mind bylittle^ 
 and little, a noble Idea of the like ftyle,- and 
 we find by experience in him that is accu- 
 ftomed to read with attention , works of 
 noble fentiments, and lofty ftyle ; that^ as 
 ifdrunk with the fame fpirits; itfcemsim- 
 poflible for him to expreffe himfelfin any 
 other manner^ than nobly. Thus it even'd 
 to the Nightingales ^ that made their Nefts 
 upon the Sepulcher oi^ Orpheus y that as if 
 from the afhes of that great Mufician , and 
 Poet 3 they had alfo took his Spirit: they 
 were incomparably more ingenious , and 
 skilful Songfters , than the others; fotbat 
 the others feemedfalvage Quirrifers, thefe 
 coelcftialSirenes. 
 
 And from this , of reading intenfeljr o- 
 thers Learned Labours , to imprint an im- 
 
 2§C 
 
Flagianifme. i6^ 
 
 age in the mind conformable to them : may 
 {eem to arife thofe occult miracles of the 
 imaginative power 5 which hath made us 
 fometimes fee, ruftick mothers^ofdcformed 
 faces 5 and plebean proportion ; to bring 
 forth children of vifage and features Ange- 
 lical; (like lovely Narcijjla's growing upori 
 ill-favoured y and fordid Leeks :J thanks 
 to the form, which the mothers frequent 
 beholding of beautiful faces , and exquifite 
 pidures , gave to the tender Babes in theii' 
 conception. 
 
 Nor becaufe the Authors are excellent.^- 
 and we flupid of wit; doth it follow that 
 the reading them is of no avail , to make us 
 withimitation torcfemble them.The Eagle 
 before that Ihe thruftsher littleChicksfrom' 
 theNeft, with great circulations and turn- 
 ings ^ foares and wheeles over and about 
 them 3 flriking them fometimes with her 
 wings^and provoking thern to flie: where- 
 , by the Eaglets 5 although they are net a jot 
 • incouraged to follow their mother even 
 ^^abovethe Clouds ; whither at one diftcn- 
 tionofthewing fheistranfportcd : yetne- 
 verthelefTe , it prompts them to c'lbandotJ 
 their Neftj put themfelves on their flight, 
 and to try alfo themfelves upon the wing. 
 Therefore it naturally comes 10 pafle , that 
 
1^4 ^^-^^ Second Fart. 
 
 we follow that which pleafeth : efpecially, 
 if the Genius of the Nature , accord with 
 the Elcdion of the Will : and the toiles 
 therein undergone , either arc not tedious 3 
 or elfe thebitterneffeof thetrouble, lofing 
 it elfe in the dulcity of the operation j they 
 are not felt toilfome. 
 
 Seeing before us therefore , the fublime 
 flights of an happy Wit, let us not only 
 roufe and provoke our defires to imitate 
 thenijbut lets us add vigour to our thoughts, 
 and courage to our mindes: that fo we may 
 find our felves able to do more^than without 
 fuch a fight we could ever have effeded. 
 Whereby 5 if we come not to touch the 
 Heavens^ and foar above the Stars; atleaft, 
 wc may raife our lelves from the Earth, and 
 dif^ncft. If wc attein not to exprefle with 
 equal periods , the lofty circulations of the 
 exemplar, which wepropofed to owr imi- 
 tation- yet we may do as the Sun-flower, 
 which fixed in its root , and moveable in its 
 Hower, by continual looking ontheSun, 
 learns to dcfign in a little Gire, that ample 
 Circle; which he defcribes from another 
 Horizon . 
 ^ . ., But ofthewritingsofothers to profit our 
 lIT\'o. ^^^^^^ ^^^ only the imitation 5 in the judg- 
 ^.'2. * ment of ^/»////Vi»^ which fpeaks at large of 
 
 this 
 
Flagianifme. i^^ 
 
 this niattcr,is to too litle a benefit. Let there- 
 fore the fecond manner of theft not only 
 lawful but laudable hQ-.Totake whatTcepleaJe 
 of others; butfo to improve it with our orvn , that 
 it may not be mended by any. In like manner as a 
 Diamond receiving one (ingle ray of light, 
 that penetrates to its center jisfobeautihed^ 
 that as if it was depainted w'^ a thoufand va- 
 rieties of colours j the Sun it icif is notfo 
 glorious, & the Stars eclips and in envy hide 
 their heads there at. Is it not in the ftealing 
 of knowledge, as to take a little light foame 
 oftheSea, to mix it with the coelcftialfeed 
 of his Wit; fo that that which was unpro- 
 fitable, and vile matter, becomes no lede^ 
 thanar^;^///: forming to himfelfacompo- 
 fureof more than ordinary beauty. 
 
 That famous Labour oi Phydia^yjupiier 
 Olymptu; the miracle of Carving, and of the 
 World: was of whiteftlvory. BiittheE- 
 lephants could not therefore boafl: of that 
 divine Mafter-piece as theirs: nor charge the 
 Graver of fteaUngthat beautiful material, 
 which rendered his Labour fo famous. The 
 exa(5t proportion of the members; thema- 
 jeftick features of the divine vifage; aud 
 what elfe that made that Statue the beft in 
 the World for beauty , and value ; all was 
 the Art of the Carver ;, not the merit of the 
 M3 Ek- 
 
^^4 ^^-^^ Second Part. 
 
 T>eKe' Elephant. PhydU manus ({siith TertuIIiany) 
 
 J'ttr.cary* ]ovem Oljmpum exehore molitur y (^adoratur^ 
 
 fao. 6. Kccjar/2l?e^I^y & quidem infuljtjjitm dens ejl^ 
 
 fedjimmumf^culi Numen. Nonqma ilephart'- 
 
 tus 5 fed quia Phydias tantus. He that takes in 
 
 this manner , rude and informed trunks to 
 
 work them into Statues ; Sordid glafles to 
 
 change them into Diamonds ; drops of 
 
 jGmple Ekw to make them Pearles ^ is not 
 
 a Thief but an Artift. He is not indebted to 
 
 others for the Matter ^ but the Matter is ob- 
 
 lieged to him for thehonour of fo noblca 
 
 form. 
 
 But this is yet more lively illuftrated by 
 the Artifices of the famous Fountains of 
 RGn:e,oiTivolyjoiFrafcati: where the wa- 
 t(e.sfport in their torments, and in their in- 
 genious obedience change themfelves into 
 more fhapes than the Poets Proteus. 
 
 They arefeen from the flime and gravel 
 ofvaft niches fo to diftil drop by drop into* 
 fmall rain 5 that the Clouds never did it 
 more namrally upon the Earth: To imitate 
 as it were the Ifluing of the winds out of 
 the caverne of y£o!us ; the South with moift 
 Aires 5 Z^//^;r;^j with pleafing Gales 5 ^^- 
 reas with bluftering and cold Blafts : To 
 diffufe themfelves fo fubtlely , and dilate 
 themfelves fo equally : that they feeme 
 
 \ ' tranf- 
 
Plagianifme. 155 
 
 tranfparent vails difplayed in the Aire : To 
 fub-dividcthemfelves into little drops, and 
 form themfelves as it were into a dewy 
 Cloud 5 which incountering with the Sun, 
 becomes a Rain-bow, painted wirhpcrfcft 
 colours : To revive with motion dead Sta- 
 tues ) and varioufly ading them in diverle 
 (hapes : To ftarc thievithly out of the 
 ground , and to mount , and to fufpend in 
 the Air with high fpirtings : To fob , as if 
 grieved : to roar, as if inraged; to fing , as 
 if delighted 5 nor only to renew to the 
 World that which Teriullian callech Porten- De Re* 
 tojtjjimum Archimedis munificentiam^ihz Hy- f^J* ^^^' 
 draulick Organs ; but in the murmure , ^^' 
 Trils, Quavers, artificial Salts,Diviiions, & 
 changes of melodious Voices, to imitate to 
 the life the Nightingales-,as if by their mouth 
 did not fing Spiritusqui illic detorme/ilo aqia^ Ihid. 
 'anhelat^ butthofcwatryinhabicans, the J)- 
 y^«/ themfelves. By works of fo ingenious 
 and admirable contrivance we rake the wa- 
 ters of a common Fountain, which if Art 
 fhould not advance from their native bafe- 
 ncflc to nobler Ufe, transfufing asitwere> 
 Soules and Wit into them : they would 
 run vilely wandring on the Earth, through 
 miry bogs : not vouch&fcd to be fcarce 
 tailed oft by Beafts s where as now they arc: 
 M4 the 
 
# 
 
 The Second Part. 
 
 the Delights ofPrinces^and the Glory of 
 Gardens. Is not thistoiiiperate the Matter 
 with the VVorkraanfbipoblicging , and. 
 making it our own? The fame doth he that 
 borrows. He buries the theft of the matter 
 in the Art of working it : fo that in the addi- 
 tion he makes of his ownj thatiswholy 
 loft which was anothers. 
 
 But this kind of mending things^ fothat 
 they no more appear what before they 
 were ^ and by that means become ours: 
 well known^ but illpradifedby people able 
 indeed to change 5 but not to amend : hath 
 rendered them fo much the more culpable, 
 by how much it is a greater fault to deform 
 thebeauty, and to deface tbecomlineffeof. 
 anexadcompofure, than fingly to fteal it. 
 To fiie the infamy of Thieves^ they become 
 Homicides: bereaving the life of the beauty 
 &om thofe things they take •, whilft they 
 difmember theintire, and diforder thedlf- 
 joyntedj with fo infelicitous a felicity in 
 the doing it-, that in a few draughts of the 
 Pen, they transform a Helen into a Hecuba: 
 and an Achilles into a Thir/ttes. They do by 
 others works , againft their wils ^ as the 
 Athenians did in defpight of the three hun- 
 dred Brazen Statuesof the famous Demetri" 
 g^/;which by way of difgrace and Ihame to his 
 
 nam e, 
 
Vlagianifme. x6f 
 
 name^ they melted ^ and transfound them 
 intoVeflelsof theviJeft , and moft fordid 
 life. The Rod of Circes^ and the Pen of thefc 
 ftrive in power: this, being able with igno* 
 ranee to transform beautiful compofures , 
 into deformed Monfters : as that with Ma- 
 gick could change Gallant Heroes , into 
 fordid Animals. The like treatment found 
 the Verfes of an excellent Poet , with an il- 
 literate Comoedian ; which imitating with 
 tumblings, and with that which Cajpodorus 
 calls the mute 3 andloquatiousfpeechofthe 
 hands • the ancient Myftery of the Mim- 
 mkks : fo il-favoredly reprefented that by 
 Aftions 5 which Poetry had expreft by 
 Words 5 that in the Fables oiNiohe^ and of 
 Daphne; that changed intoaftone, and this 
 into a tree •, in this he feemed a tree, and in 
 that a (tone. 
 
 Saltdvit Niohen^fakavit Vaphnida Memfhif. £.y-^ 
 JUgneus ut Daphen^faxeus ut Nioben^ Gr^c* 
 
 When in ftcaling from others we ufe 
 that caution and reverence, with which the 
 Eagle fnatcht^and carried the Idan Boy into ' 
 Heaven , without hurting him with his tal- 
 Ions or tearing his clothes-, and which Leor- 
 ea4 with nolefs judgment than Art exprefled pitnuu 
 in BraiTe, Sentlentcm quid capiat in Ganymede^ U*i^S'i 
 
 & 
 

 J^o The Second Part. 
 
 ^ mferat'^farcenummguihusetiamfervejlem^ 
 Yet this fufficeth not : for difcretion in rob- 
 bing mitigateth ^ but doth notremovethe 
 crime of theft. How Tnuch worfe is it to 
 deform, to confound , to mangle others la- 
 bours to make them our own ? and make 
 it in this manner truly oursjnamelyjill made, 
 like that Fldenmus^ of whom Martial 
 
 ^em recital nseusefly o Fidentine^ tibellnt. 
 Sed mali cum recital incipit ejfe tutu . 
 
 To the imbehfhment we make,as it were 
 with an alteration of more noble Quality, 
 whence the things are happily changed 
 (which I have faidis a manner of robbing 
 innocet & commendableC/<^J^ in thelajl place 
 the increa/e of the Quantity -^ -when a great maffe 
 is formed of a little feed^ md a tree o/ajhruh. 
 
 Many things proceed from the Pens of I 
 good writers , fpoken fome times only in- 
 cidentally, and as ifpointedatbythe fingerj 
 which by him that hath not a very appre- 
 henfiveeye are eafily over4ook*t : and yet 
 they are Cyphers pregnant, fomtimes with 
 lofty 3 fometimcs with large conceits j jfnd 
 he that knows how to unloofe that which 
 in them is knit up , of nothing makes much, 
 and all for himfdf, all his own. 
 
 The 
 
FUgiMifme. 171 
 
 The Heaven of many Stars as it hath ; 
 to no more but feven hath afligned proper 
 Spheres 3 and liberty and room to runne 
 wandering through that liquid and fubtle 
 Air 5 which from here below diffufeth it 
 felf even to the Firmament. But if all had 
 been afligned their proper periods and re- 
 volutions • whereas now the World to 
 make room for feven only is (o vaft : wliat ^ ^444 
 would it be, if fo many millions of Stars had 3}^^ 
 been configned their proper Circles, and 
 proportionate Spheres ? The felf-fame do 
 worthy Writers , in compofing Books. 
 Determinate Matter is that to which they 
 give place, and as it we^e Sphere, andre- 
 Tolution 5 handling and difcufling it as they 
 pleafe, at large: But in as much as they 
 permit it not to dilate hither, and thither; 
 I will call them in this refped", fixed Stars of 
 fublime thoughts, and lofty conceits 5 able 
 to replenilh as it were, a great Heaven, a 
 large Volume 5 when they find Spirits and- 
 Intelligences, that know how to manage 
 them as is requifite. He that in this manner 
 robs from others, theives happily, takes 
 little, addsmuch , makes all his own. He 
 hurts not an Author that takes from him 
 a fpark to make it a Sun. It is with profit 
 neverthelcfle of him that took it, that of a 
 
 little 
 
-)j^5 T^ly^ Second Part. 
 
 little ncglc(aed feed he forms ^ great and' 
 mighty Tree. And much to his Honour: 
 fince that its the Work of a grand Wit, 
 upon a few hints , of f6me naked words ; 
 to work double counterpoints of fublime 
 difcourfes. Upon the fimple track of an Her- 
 cuUssiooii to form, as did Pjthagorasi ail 
 the intire made of a body 3 compofed to the 
 cxad proportion of all its parts. 
 
 LASCIVIOUSNESSE. 
 
 The uni^orthy Profe£lon ^f Lafci- 
 n^iom Poetry. 
 
 SAint Jerome^ that brave Lion ^ that 
 from the Cave of Bethlehem made,i' 
 the roarings of his voice to be heard 
 through all the Worlds to the terrour 
 of Herefie, and aftonifhment of Vice^'s 
 omitted not to give a fhaketo the licenti- 
 ous LafcivioufneJJc of Poets 5 that masking 
 the Stars with unchaft Images , envious ca- 
 lumniators ; and a thoufand times worfe 
 than the Giants oi Phlegra: they have af- 
 faulted Heaven not with (tones , but with 
 
 ihc 
 
JuafcivUnfncffe, 
 
 he wickednefs of the Earth. Nondehemut IncMp.^ 
 ^uifabul^sPoetarum^ ridicula , ac portentofa ^^^i* 
 nendacia , quihus ettam coelum infamaire conan* 
 UKy d^ mercedem/lMporiinterfydera collocare. 
 
 And to fay the truth; thofeare worthy 
 ofthe anger of Heaven, and Earth, 
 
 ^orum carminihus nihil efi ^ nififahula coelum^ Man. 
 
 Were not the Lafcivious thefts of Jupiter 
 fufficiently manifefted to the World with 
 other Lights j but that they muft (hine 
 among the Stars ? Did it not fuffice that 
 they were publiiT:ied to all the Earth ; ia 
 Marble, inBralfe, inPi(Sures, inpublick 
 Scenes, unleflcalfo moreover they had gi- 
 jven them the Heavens for a Theater ^ ttie 
 SStars for Reprefentors, and the World for 
 .Auditors : And afterwards to tell you that 
 Jupiur (vom Heaven, lent hisThunder-boltJ 
 lagainftthe Earth, guilty of thofe vices, of 
 -which Heaven was the Mafter? An Adul<- 
 :|terous C^/iJla hath the Stars of rhe Pole; and 
 makes a double guide , becaufe it dir^ifts by 
 |Sea, andfhipwracksbyLand 5 whileftfbi- 
 ning from thence above; itfeemesto teach 
 the Chaft to be happily Lafcivious; there 
 being a Jupiter found , that remui?erat(?^ A- 
 dultery with Stars, 
 
1^4 ^^^ Second Part. 
 
 Pruie?i, ^^^ Ariadnaus Jlellii Ceelejlihus igm 
 
 contra Addltur, Hoc pretium no^is perfolvit. Uonifn t 
 
 Cym l,\ Liher^ut<€thtreHmmmtrixiUuminetaxem. i 
 
 From fuch Conftellations of obfcenityii 
 what other influences, then Lafcivious ; can 
 redound to the Earth ? 
 
 t^rchitas^ defiringtofpeak in publick a! 
 word noneofthemodefteft; in calling it tai 
 hisIipSj itappeareth fo unworthy to be in-! 
 graven by the tongue of a Man ; that not to^ 
 defile himfelf with it^ he took for tongue 
 a Cole: as more agreeable to the matter^ 
 worthy of fire ; and with it not fo much 
 writings as blotting, upon the furface of i 
 wall; either expreft, or hinted it. Oh! the 
 golden Tongues of the Stars : whilefl: the 
 night charms all the World tofilence, the 
 better to attend ; of what fpeak they ? and 
 what teach they? They puhlijh thofe mif- 
 deeds mth the lanonaH of Uiht in Heaven 
 ^hich for JJmme would conceal themfelves, mth 
 darknejje on Earth. 
 
 But I wi(h that only the Ancient Poetry 
 of Gentilifme was guilty of this •, and not 
 exceeded by the modern of Chriftiansj that 
 not in depaintingthe Stars, with imaginary 
 figures, of difhoncft memorials ; but in ex- 
 
 preffing 
 
Lafcivioufnejfe. t J5 
 
 prefling in paper and which is worfc^ im- 
 printing in the mind , the Ads themfelvesi 
 10 happily or rather unhappily bufieth it felf. 
 There wants not to the Poetry of thefe 
 times its Ovids; that fubjecfting ParnaJJus 
 to Ida ; the Lawrcls to the Mirtles ^ the 
 the Swans to the Doves-,and ApUo to Cufid: 
 make the Virgin Mufes publick firumpets. 
 So to thefe OwV^, there fhouldnot want 
 Augujluss for Mecmas's ; and for a refri- 
 geration of their too burning Loves ; the 
 Snows of Scythia^ and the Ice of Vontus, 
 And herein now a-dayes the evil is fo epi- 
 demical : that from the antecedent of being 
 aPoet, this confequence feemes to follow 
 of being Lafcivious ; as Antiifknes from 
 the profeflion of ifmenia^ took that confe- 
 quence 5 Si horns Tihicen eft^ ergo^ mains hom& 
 ejl. 
 
 ' Who would not have fworn^ that Poe* 
 try coming from the Gentiles , to Chrifti- 
 ans^ (hould havedonC:,as thei^^^r^^^^r^^^/i 
 which paffmg the Eurotas^ faid to them; that 
 if they would have her company, they muft 
 break their Looking-glafTes , deface -their 
 Bracelets, divert the Whores^ and not only 
 clothed hcrfelf with modefty^ but armed 
 herfelfwith bravery: and fcemed rather a 
 Warlick M^/, than a \Jiimo\\^Yenml Yet* 
 
 . ~ that 
 
iy6 The Second Part. 
 
 that which is yet worfe ; to that libcrt 
 of Lafcivious writing ; to which here- 
 tofore was given banilhment for a punifh" 
 ment : honours are now conferred for a re 
 ward. 
 
 We advance as high as Heaven , an 
 amongfi: the Stars adore thofe Lyres,of the 
 modern Orpheujps; that have opened Hell^ 
 not to draw thence a condemned Euridice.i 
 but to eoudu(5t thither a world of innocents. 
 Their Books go through all the Earth: 
 (pread through every Climate ; become 
 Citizens of every place ; and are with great 
 diligence tranflatedj that they may fpeakin 
 all Languages: as if for fear the Virgin 
 World (hould want RaviHiers^they wonld 
 di fperfe through every Climate , incentives 
 ofLuft. 
 
 They bear in their Frontifpices, thetitles 
 
 ofthe Grandees, to whofe name'they were 
 
 by the -Authors dedicated; and by that 
 
 means pafTe fo much the more freely 5 by 
 
 how much the more they are defended. 
 
 Thus many times 5 thofe come to be the 
 
 Protectors of Impurity 5 thatftiould belts 
 
 Ter.cin- Judgcs- proftrating their names, and au- 
 
 tra thorities to unworthy \}{^s : as the Barh- 
 
 Marc. riansoiScjthia: that whilft they are Lafci- 
 
 . X. f.2. vioufly imployedin their CuiSySufjpendmt de 
 
Lafcivianfnejfe. t w^ 
 
 jugo phar£tra4 indices^ ne ^/f aj intcned^t : 1(4 
 necarmis emhefcunt. 
 
 V Vere Hippocrates now living , that com- 
 plained of the Piiblick Laws^which aflign- 
 ing no punifhmentto Ignorant Phyficians; j^^ - 
 permitted them to be Homicides ; D//cmt ^ ^ ' 
 enim (faidthai other) pemu/t^ nqfirii ^ & ex- 
 ferimenta per mortes agunt. Medicoque tan- ^/^^^ 
 turn hominum occidiffe impunitas jumma efl^ ** ^* '* 
 VVhat would he lay , where the being a 
 publick compounder of poifon; fo much 
 the more dangerous by how much the more 
 plcafant ; makes him not to forfei): his head, 
 but to merit a Crown ? 
 
 But if in like manner as Luci^n-^ made the 
 infamous tongue of the Pfcudologift , re^ \ 
 
 count with anger and regret, the fordid 
 offices, in which he was bafely imployed; 
 we might hear the ipurtherous Pens of fd 
 ipany Lafcivious Writers, to relate one by 
 one , the obfcenities, by committing ofw*=^, 
 they were infentives; in the hearts of fgcb, 
 who with too great an intenfeneffe rea4 
 their venemous writings : would there be 
 a man that would inrich them with eoftly 
 rewards; that would honor them with tbefe 
 applauds 5 fit only for a fuper-huniane ex- 
 cellence? . ^^^ 
 
 ^effe criminal was that lij^idin ous H^^ ^^^'* ^*'' 
 
1 78 T^he Second Part. 
 
 that ufing his Mirrours in abominable /pe- 
 culations, ea^I^s e^entahaty quibus ahfcon- 
 dendls nulla fatjs aha noxeH:. But to condude- 
 SiU oftentahat. The Dragons that being 
 poifonous^keepthcmfdvesfecluded in their 
 fubtcranean Dens^ are not judged fo faulty; 
 that we fhould therefore go hunt them out, 
 and flay them. When they come abroad, 
 to inftfl the Air with their breath : there is 
 none that being able to flay them^ wilL 
 fuffer them to live. To publilh to the eyes of 
 all the World Ea^ quibus ahfcondendii nulla 
 fads aha nox efi; and that fo much the worfe, 
 by how much the more exquifite is the Pen, 
 that delineates it; and the art leems of grea- 
 Vltmui ter perfedion^ whileft according to the An- 
 //.54.r.5 cient painting of the Greeks it is wrought. 
 Nihil velando : and to find a reward of that, 
 to which there cannot be found a chafl:ife- 
 mcnt grievous enough;is not this a miracle of 
 humane, (I know not which to call the leaft 
 evil) folly; or with more reafon, malignity? 
 It is ftiU infamous for a man to ailiime 
 the habit and face ofa woman? and to tranf- 
 form a mans felf, not into the habit^ but into 
 the profefTion of an over-grown Hagge^ 
 Bawde to all (he mofl clofely contrived ob- 
 fcenities : is this honorable ? is this a life 
 worthy of Statues, and l^awi'ek ? 
 
Lafcivioufneffe. ^79 ^ 
 
 The rvea\ excufes ofobfcenc Poets. 
 
 Bllc let us hear, the Apologies tbac 
 thefe make, in defence of their 
 impure Books they print-, that pre- 
 tend their Fury from the Torch oi Cupid i 
 (hewing themlelves more Fooles, than 
 Poets. Hear their firft Apology, 
 
 That facetious andmcrry Poems i (/^//xapud ^^'^^^t*^ 
 cos tota impuritas vocatur VrbanitasJ how- ^»^'^^>^* 
 leit they only entertain their Readers^ with the de- 
 light off5fiony and the JweetneJ/e of Verfe , in 
 thoughts of Leva ; yet in the end kll is hut in 
 thought : whereupon the pleafure they give the 
 Reader , is more J^eculative , and of the mind-, 
 than pra^ical^ arid ofthefenfe, 
 
 " I would here have you by way of an- 
 ^^{wer take notice of thofe two unfortunate 
 *^ Sifters ; that the firft time they read a fa- 
 '* mous Tragi-comoedy of the like nature^ 
 ^ newly publilhedin prints became fo good 
 ^f proficients in impurity, that they prefent- 
 "lyfet up School : converting their houfe 
 *^ietoa Stews , and divulging themfelves 
 ^* for Whores. Of fo many married peo- - 
 «^ple, as heard the faid paftoral recited;. 
 
iSo The Second Fart. 
 
 *^ (and it is the authentick obfervation of 
 
 " many ages) whereas they came chaft ; 
 
 " there was none but went thence conta- 
 
 ^^miaatedwith dilhonefty : and pradifing 
 
 ^^ that ioofe liberty of Love in fuch as pleafe 
 
 ^^ them 5 (of which they there heard the 
 
 *^\precepts, and faw the examples^ difco- 
 
 ^^vcrcdunfaithfulnefTe; and with the dead 
 
 *^ Adulterers, from the feigned infentives 
 
 ^^ of a Tragi-comcedy ; bore away the true 
 
 *^^ Exit of a Tragoedy but all Europe, and all 
 
 the World ; as farre as thefe Books have 
 
 beendifperfed ; how many variations of 
 
 Sccenes , how many deplorable Cataftro^ 
 
 phies have they feen; while mindesthat 
 
 for the prize of Virgin purity warred in 
 
 candidnefle with the Angels ; having drunk 
 
 in forcery and poyfon, from the golden Cup 
 
 ofinmodeft Poetry; have for ever after^ had 
 
 under humany fhapes^ brutlfh manners? In 
 
 -. . . the firft perufal they lofe the virginity of 
 
 vitdof. ^""-'^^^ ^y^^^ and as one whole name I know 
 
 not faid in Plutanb of the impudenr" : Verte- 
 
 runt ptipiUoi vlrgines in meretrices: next that 
 
 of the mind, after which the flefh as having 
 
 loft the fait that fhould leafonit putrefies. 
 
 Saint Jugusiine complains of i/^wj^rj^, the 
 
 * firil Patron of fabulous Poets ; that having 
 
 feigned the god?; fooK Homicides , fom^ 
 
 Thieves, 
 
LafcivioHpieJfc. iSi 
 
 Thieves, forae Adulterers j he had made 
 Sin a Divine propercy, & thereby unawares 
 infinuated it into the approbation of the 
 World : feeing, ^lifjuu eafecijjet^ non ho- ^^^- t- 
 mines perdttos ^ fed coelejlei Deosvidehatur imi- ^M^if* 
 tatm. ButthefCj that putting their tongues ^^^' ^^' 
 in the mouthcs of Poctick Perfons ; teach 
 Nature to be two imperfed, which is fo in- 
 clinable to the pleafures of Love ; whilft 
 tlie Law inhibits the procuring of them : or 
 the Law to rigid andunjuft, in interfering 
 with Nature. Thefe , that to expugn the 
 conftant honefty of Virgins > put them in ^ 
 mind. That beauty fadeth with years ; and 
 with the beauty all of amiable is loft for 
 which others court them^ : That its in vaint 
 ingray haires to wifh for that, which in 
 youth is refufed : That to a life fo lliort one 
 Love is not fufScient-' : That honefty is no- 
 thing elfe but an Art of appearing honeft, 
 &c. Thefe peftilent Dodrines ; thefe poy- 
 fbns extraded from the wit, diftilledfrom 
 the hand, let fall from the Penof aChri- 
 ftian_>5 ^ifoli uxort fuatnafculs^^ nafcitur^ 
 (aith TertuUian ; and ciipiditate procreandi aut 
 mamfcit^ aut nuUam^^idkh Happy Minutim: 
 what other effeft have they 5but only to ren- 
 der fin fo much the more facile , by how 
 niuch they perfwade the belief , that; this is 
 N 3 rather 
 
iS^ T^he Second Part. 
 
 rather a crime fnot to fay Law) oi: nature^, 
 than a vice of the will? Age wils it;example 
 tcachcthit-, occafion perfwadesit; weak- 
 neffe excufes it ; let it fuffice, that circum- 
 • fpe<Siona(S ir* And is this only to delight 
 the thoughts^ and to incite abftrad: and P/a-*. 
 tonickj, not epicurean Love ?. Would (I 
 will not fay an SlmsVerus , and Idolater of 
 the writings ofOv/ci de arte amandi; but ) a 
 Beaft 5 fiy any other ; if he had the rules of 
 Learning, and Art of Poetry ? 
 
 Nor is that material which they alledgi 
 that thcfe leffons and examples are given by- 
 feigned perfons. That which perfwades, 
 is not the quality of the Counfellor, but his 
 reafon ; nottheperfbn, but the fad. And 
 befidcs, what are the perfons of Poetry , but 
 only as the Caverns of Mountains^ that re- 
 verberate the Echo / The voice is the Au- 
 thors, although others pronounce it; as 
 the writing is the hands /although the paper 
 exprefle it. Love diigaizcd iik^ jjcamus 
 did no leffe inflame the unhappy Queen; 
 than if he had been in his true fhape, andnot 
 concealed under a for reign habif. 
 
 For J if we will be judged according to 
 experience, great Miftrefleof Tiuth;(heby 
 daily pradice (hews that in reading others 
 torn 3 we karuour pwn..] That com- 
 
 paffion 
 
Lafci^ioHfneJfe. 183 
 
 Paflion to the mifadventnrcsof fiichas are 
 rcjeded ; becomes a means to facilitate 
 our furrender at the like requeft. That that> 
 which in feigned perfonsis condemned as 
 cruelty 5 and obduratncffe of a mind to 
 averfe to fuch as love-in ourfclves is found 
 to molifiethc heart upon the likcoccafion. 
 Whereby, the Tinder being appliedtothe 
 Steel; there is no more wanting, but a blow 
 of an encounter 5 afalutcaglancej toftrike 
 fire. 
 
 We foften our own hearts , in others 
 flamxs : we imprint in our minds thefeal 
 of thofeatfcdions, that others fidiouflyex- 
 prelTeinthemfelves: there is only one y^//- Li^. tT 
 guftine^ that hath with tear es bewail'dthe Confef. 
 deigned difafters of theforfoken Dido: thefe ^^P' ^^ 
 are the ordinary -effcds, that Poetry daily 
 accafioneth , with its Sci^snes , and Obcene 
 Books. Arid though fometiraes, when we 
 are involved in Love, we are ignorant of 
 others affedions; weloveyet, an I know 
 not what of unknown in others : we love 
 asthat fooli(h Boy in the Fable 3 that from a 
 vain Image taking real love 
 
 ^ici videat nefcit^ fed quod videt uritur illo. Met am* 
 
 Iblulhwith Clmens Akxandrinm :> tare- 
 N4 member 
 
j^^^ The Second Part. 
 
 i^ pro- member here tBct wo Venus' s of Cj)prt4i^ and 
 tiiptico Gnidos; that of Ivory; this of Marble: Sta- 
 ad gen- tuesdcad inthemfelves, butfor others luft 
 ??^? to lively. I only add the Bfiphomena of this 
 Author 5 for that is to be underftood of 
 Poetry , which he faith of the graving of 
 fiich like Statues lafcivipufly naked : Tan- 
 turn ars tialuit ad decipiendum , qu(4 heynints 
 miori deditosillexit ii$ barathrum ! 
 ^ .The other defence of Lafcivious Compo- 
 furesis : Thatjuch Poems have no more of evil 
 l^Ht the appearance : That thefe are vi:^rds of Al- 
 legories ^ that cover the fenfe of mo^ admirable 
 fnaralFhjlqfophj ; faucedtvith the. honj offahu-^ 
 loHs inventions; that they may for their favorj 
 cooking be the more eafity fioaUowed* Thus by an- 
 cient cu^ome^ the Laws in Candia ordained that 
 they (hould comprife their in^rudiions , to their 
 children^ in Mufical meafuyes ; and a great part: 
 efthe Divine Law^ wasputintover/iby Davids 
 hiFf I, ^^^^^^ roemsofthePfalmsi Ut dumfuavitate 
 * carminis mulcitur auditus (faidSt* Augu- 
 ftine) divini fermonis pariter utilitas infe- 
 i^atur. Werefore they may write in thefrontifi^ 
 ^iece of their Poems that Terzet of Dante^ 
 
 Xefoules indued mthfouudihtelligencey 
 plferve the hidden leffonsthat do lye 
 V^'^up in^ their. m^iierioHs lomy^.i! .- 
 
 /"''/.'■ " " ■ '■ '■" " lend 
 
Lafci^uioufnejfe. 1 8 ^ 
 
 iirjd with thefe the Poets , to fuch a^ well regard cJWkr. 
 them^he Phylofophos, nomine Po etas, qui Tyr.fer, 
 invidiofatn remadeamartem perdu xerunt, ^^' . 
 quae maximepopulum demulcent. 
 
 Now did you ever hear a fidlion tnore 
 Poetical, a lie more folemn than this ? The 
 inverters of Morality would be taken for 
 true matters of it. 
 
 Etfimulant Curios cum Bacchanalia fcnhant^. 
 
 Such a lie might well have fitted Ponjpej; 
 when in his Theater, which he had ereded 
 for the reprefenting of the moft Lafcivious 
 Spe<5lacles j becaufe he would not (upprefTe 
 it, ^afimo^rttm lanrenam^ ? he there dedi- Ter.Je 
 cated a Chappel to Venus ; cut fiihjicimusy speEi, 
 inquit^gradus fpe^^aculorum* It a damnatum^ & ^^f* ^^* 
 damnandum of us Templi titulo pr^texuit^ ac dij^ 
 ciplinamfufer^itione delu/ir*.3ut now a-dayes 
 the World is not fo deprived of judgment^ 
 but that they knowjthat certain Allegories, 
 which others, fthanks to her felfj apply to 
 this Poetry ; (Allegories, which how ever 
 they are wyer-drawn , yet do they notat- 
 tein to the covering of thofeimmodefties, 
 which are read in them^ were not the Mo- 
 del by which the Poem was compofed^nay, 
 never entered into the Authors thought : 
 
 Chimi^ras 
 
t^^ The Second Part. 
 
 Cimaras arc thcy^ not Allegories^ * and 
 unprofitable endeavours of fuch.. as would 
 convertobfcenity intoa myftcry. 
 
 The Table oiCeks is one thing ; to trace 
 the intricate avenues ofwhofe Labyrinth, it 
 requires the Clew of an Old Interpreter;, 
 that fo a ftranger not underftanding , as he 
 faid, the Enigma a of that Sphinx^ meet not 
 with death where he expeded benefit : The 
 raodern Poems another, which ftand in 
 need more of a Sphinxy to put them into 
 Enigma J than of an Oedipus ^ to interpret 
 thenx.. 
 
 : Yet 5 all this while I deny not , but that 
 fome Ancients , to conceal from the eyes of 
 the vulgar the miferies of their Theology: 
 hid them , fas treafures within the Sileny^) 
 under theFables , which they received for 
 Verities. Howbeit^as there remains nothing 
 of the myfteries of the Egyptian Sages, but 
 only their Images^ Bats, Apes, Owles: 
 heretofore learned Hierogliphicks,now un- 
 fortunate Rcliques; which alone are taken 
 from the ancient Pyramids : fo of the an- 
 cient Theology ot the Gentiles, there re- 
 mains no more to the memory of the 
 World,butthe Adulteries, Thefts, Homi- 
 cides of the gods : Images two unworthy 
 of any fubfcrviency , in the difplaying the 
 
 myfteries 
 
hafci<vioiifneff^. iSlbb^ 
 
 tnyfteries ot Divinity r But the Poets now 
 a-dayes have no occafion for, or thought of 
 this. And if they Qiould, they would be no 
 lefle imprudent than impure : taking away 
 diredly contrary to the end pretended : 
 namely, reciting, to infufe good manners, 
 obfcene Fables;apter far to extirpate virtue 
 where it already hath been implanted: 
 which would be (as faith the Theologift 
 Js!a:^anzen)perfcopulosdiicere adlittus,T\\^^c- Or at. ^, 
 fore it needeth not that they clothe the centra 
 Wolves like Sphepheards , and the Lafci- J^^^'^^« 
 vious Poets, like Moral Phylofophers. 
 
 The third defeftce is that they fuy\ they intend 
 no mans hurt : in their vpritinos , hut their own 
 honour. Their Rooks hear in their frontijpiecesy 
 written in Capital lettersythe faying ofhsx'ion'mSy Prafat^ 
 Cui hie ludusi nofternon placet, nelegerit: Cent,^ 
 aut cum Icgerit oblivifcatur : aut non obli- 
 tusignofcat. So that hewhofaSethmu^hlame 
 himfelf as weak^^ not the Poet; which compofed 
 not the Book^^ norpuhlijhedit » to offend the Rea- 
 der , What hArm is their in the ftonesy if fitch a/i 
 \ ^^^ of^^f^go tojujlle with them^ /* He that can^ 
 \not fight ^ let him not Arm himfielfi: he that is not 
 ' weU provided fior dftormjet hirn not ingulfie him* 
 felfi in the danger of it. The Reader fhould he a 
 Bee, that gather eth the hony ofiingenious fiyles 
 ofiwriting ffromths imitation of Poetical forms 
 
 cf 
 
'\u 
 
 X|$ The Second Part. 
 
 efjj^eech: 7/^7/4 Spider, 'thatfuckeththepo}Jonof\ 
 Lafciviou/heffe. Even in Holy Scripture we meet 
 vpith the Inceft ^/*Ammon: the Adultery of 
 David: the detejlahleuncleanejje ^Sodome. 
 The finger of God writ them ; nor are they ml- 
 fahle^ hecaufefome may draw thence examples of 
 finning: reli/hing the fa^f^more than they re/pe^ 
 the puniffment. Iherefore^ that fome decline in 
 their Virtues ^ hy reading a Book^y compiled onely 
 v>ith an intent at the advancements of the Wit: 
 this is the crime ^ not of the innocent Author , hut 
 oftheincautulous deader. 
 
 J^amfapiensargumentatrixfihivideturigno" 
 tantiA humana ! faith TertuUian^Ufon fuch an- 
 other occafion-,. Did you ever fee So- 
 phifmes, better couch'd in Syllogifmes ? I 
 thought at firft , that I my felf fhould have 
 been perf waded by them : " For, (feeing 
 ^'^that that which is not direftly intended, 
 ^^ cannot render another culpable: j the fin 
 ^^is not a fin ; we not intending in the leaff 
 ^^ the incommodity of the crime , but only 
 ^^ the pleafurCjOr commodity of the aftidh, 
 Thefe are Matters of their profeffionv But 
 do they not defire that, which they fay they 
 defirenot : whilftin the mean- time crafti-^ 
 ly they attempt all the means , by which it ^ 
 is atteinable : fo that if they intend not o- 
 therwife, why do they attempt otberwifc ? J 
 I ^ ■ ' "" ^ Suppo/e "^ 
 
5uppofe this very thing were the Scope of 
 bme Poets : to excite with the delegation 
 3f Fable J and Verfe, the infentivesto luft : 
 Could they do it more handfbmelyjor more 
 efficaicoufly ? And when they indited were 
 they either fo ftupid , or fo blind , as not to 
 perceive the fame ? And can they be faid 
 not to defire that , which in fo fbrceable 
 manner they effeftually defire ? Nor may 
 that be applied to their purpofe, which Ter-^ 
 tuUsan fgeaks of Women Lafcivioufly at- 
 I tired: ^idalteripericulofumus! J^idakeri .^ . 
 concnpifcentiam importamusi Verit iUetuafor* /» ^ ^ , 
 1 maji concupijcit; tuafauaesgladiiism. 
 j Even in the primitive ages of the Church 
 certain Chriftians^ which before their Bap- 
 tifmewereby profeilion Carvers: defired, 
 it might be lawful for them to make as be- 
 fore, and to fell Statu's ofjove^ oiMars^ of 
 Venus i and they defended the hGt^ faying : 
 ^^That they intended not others fin , but 
 *^ their own profit : To keep themfelves 
 '^ alive, not to make others offend. That 
 ^^ their Statues were worfhipped ; was the 
 "fin of the Idolatry, not the faOlt of the 
 *^ Sculpture. We live according ro the 
 ^* Laws of Chriftians ; and labour according 
 *^ to the Rules of Art ^ in what then do we 
 
 *? fi^ ? ^\M Pdcjs^ ;.o defend thcmfclyes in . 
 
 ' "T - ~ " • - -- - - g 
 
ipo Th e Second Part. 
 
 a common caufe ; would give fentence in 
 favour of thcfe. But thefe , and thofc^ are 
 condemned, and that juftly hy TenuU/an; 
 and their hands convicted of being Manm 
 Idolomm matres , and declared to be Manu$ 
 fr^cidendas. He makes them guilty of Sa- 
 crilege ^Priefts of Idolatry; nay, more than 
 
 ^cJdol. Vndks'jCumperte (hixhhQ) Du /jakam Sacer^ 
 
 cap, 2. dotes. 
 
 The good life ofbadBooJ^s. 
 
 TO reclaim the Spartans from 
 Ebriety Lucurgus the Law-giver 5 
 (in this particular withput Law ) 
 killed, and extirpated all the Vines. And 
 the remedy was worfe than the malady ;l 
 juft as if we fhould pull out our eyes , to 
 avoid the fight of our deformity. He ought 
 rather, faith Plutarch , to have carried water, 
 and made fountains their where the Vines 
 grew ; and to have correded Bacchus with 
 the Nymphs ; a mad god , with many 
 Sages. The fame would they do thatto take 
 out of the World the mifchief,that ill Books I 
 occafion, would take all Books out of the| 
 World. Thefe are extream Remedies 5 j 
 
 whichj 
 
Lafciifiouptejfe. -^l 
 
 which as the Father of Phyficians teachcib, 
 would not be ufed, but in the cafes of extre- 
 niity, and when there is no other help. 
 
 There are many BookSjin which as in the 
 head of the Pulp-fifti fthat which Plutarch De and. 
 faith of Poetry^ there is/ome-thing good^ ^^^^^^^ 
 jandfome-thingbad. The danger isForthofe 
 that are as that Ancient C^*to Eelluo lihro- 
 rum fo greedy ^ that without picking, they 
 fwallov/ the good and the bad : whereupon 
 afterwards they fuftein fome incommodity. 
 I givvyou leave, faith ^nguftine^ to make ^^^ ^^^ 
 a prey or booty of the Books of evil writersj^ ^...i^^ 
 but in the fame manner asthe7/7vj'^&^j*did chrifi. 
 upon the Houfes o£ the ^gyj?tians ; where 
 they took the Veffels of Gold , but not the 
 Idols, although they were alfo of Gold. 
 Sharpen, as the Hehrem did the Sithe of your 
 Wit at the Loves of the Philisiines: but i ^^^' 
 mowe not in their Fcilds ^ freeing the ^^-'^-^Pa 
 Haiveft, andthe Sithe, from all fufpitionj ^'^^ 
 for they have m,ore Weeds than Corn. 
 
 He that hath good eyes 5 fees expofedin 
 
 :hc Books of the Ingenious things as va- 
 
 ious 3 as heretofore were (liewn by the 
 
 ^Vitty F///f^/ , when in the difguize of a Mer- 
 
 ' int, he Difplayed a thoufand V Vomans 
 
 les before the Virgins of cy^/r^/;. with the , 
 
 : tunate inventionof a wile Knight^ toxhe 
 •J " " end 
 
I pa The Second Part. 4 
 
 end he might difcover ^ and gain to the 
 V Var s Achilles, whom his timerous mother 
 had hid among thofe Virgins , under a wo- 
 mans habit. The fucceffe was, that whiifl^ 
 fbmeof them runtotheMirrours, others 
 to the Tablets; to the BraceletSjto the Ringsai 
 Achilles^ remembering himf elf, betook himj 
 to a Sword , which was put amongft thofc 
 Femenine trinkets^for the fame purpofe,and 
 with that difcovered , and as overcome by 
 r/{/&j'5heyeilded himfelf, andagreedto be 
 his Companion in the Trojan Expedition. In 
 the fame manner ought we in reading of 
 Books , to deport our (elves with a carriage 
 nobly MafcuUne, that difdaineth and avoid- 
 eth what ever favour eth of Femenine^ and 
 bend our defire , and put our hands, to only 
 fuch things as are worthy of us. 
 
 Even in this did Alexander {h.z\N himfelf 
 like himfelf 5 that is. Great; when being 
 offered theLuteof /"^r^fjto which he had fo 
 often fung the beauties of Helen ^ and his 
 own Loves; he vouchfafed it not fo much 
 as a look : but in its ftead defired that which 
 Achilles played upon in the Cave of old Chy 
 Yony with his hands flill reeking in the blood 
 of the new-kild Tygers, and Lions. 
 
 Bu t its not alone f ufficient in the reading||i 
 of dangerous Books to have a good end, if 
 
 m 
 
Lafcivionfnejfe. 'i9^ 
 
 we have notalfoa good Method ; fothat, 
 in reading them we be fo circumfpe(Sed , 
 and wary^ as if we were to go 
 
 Per ignes Suppofttos cineri dolofc * 
 
 St. Bafil ingenioufly evinceth it where he HomU: . 
 faith,^* That we muft never give our minds^ deatHe^ 
 *^ as the Helm up into the handof the Au- likOe»K 
 «^ thor weread, for him to turn us at his ^^P*'^'* 
 *^ will 5 and fteer us at his pleafijre : Keep a 
 ^Moof from the Cramp-fifh that hisvcne- 
 ^^ mous frigidity feize you not 5 left ifother- 
 *^ wife he feften upon you, and render you 
 ^^ ftupid and infenfibk ^ he raal^e you his 
 ^^prey. Herbs fpurfues Bajt/J as (weet as 
 *^ they be , if they be mixt with Henbane Sc 
 ^^ Hair ; Flowers as fair as they feem^if they 
 ^^ conceal under them Vipers , and Afpesj 
 ^^ would be gathered with a hand more 
 *^ cautelous, than curious. By how much 
 '^ the more the danger is concealed by fa 
 ^5 much the more is it to be feared. Laugh- 
 «"^ ter in the mouth, and flattery in the face ^ 
 " are the fcmblances that maske trcafons.t ; 
 
 It is not only in the Ring oi'DemoHkenes^ pihit^ 
 Q^Cleopatra^oi Annibah^ but in Books alfo, ii^i^.^.i 
 Jthat the poyfons are concealed under Jew- 
 ' cIs : npr are they therefore the ieffe mor- 
 
 O " "/'""■ £aL 
 
ip^ T^he Second Part. 
 
 tal, for being the more precious. Thofc fub- 
 limc Wits, like the Heavens, enriched with 
 as many Stars^as are the goodly, and lofty 
 conceits which rcfplend in their writings ; 
 Ihould never leave us fo fecure, but that in 
 our kdion of them, we (hould ufe muchfu- 
 fpenfion and caution ; fince it pft eveneth 
 ill Books as in Heaven; that the faireft 
 Stars, compofc the mod deformed figures: 
 whence in the ftudy of them the advice is 
 neceflary, v^hich the Sun gave to Phaeton, 
 frill to keep his eye on his way, and his hand 
 {trail on his reines , fince even in travelling 
 among the Stars, 
 
 Mefo Per tnfidinu iter ejl^ formafque feramm. i 
 
 f 
 Here the advertancy of the Dogs of J5-* 
 
 g}p^ fervcthto our purpofe 5 that drink thC)^ 
 
 waters of Njlus running , nor are they fo 
 
 earned to quench according to cuftome 
 
 their third; but that they more fear to fa- 
 
 tiate the hunger of the Crocodiles. Here 
 
 alfolct me infertthe cauteloufneffeofthe 
 
 Eaglcj which when it chafeth a poyfonous 
 
 Dragon, 
 
 Occu^at adverfuni) ne f^va retorqueat ora^* 
 
 All 
 
Lafci^ioufnejfe. 155 
 
 All this,whenthe Books are fuch that there 
 may be profit extraftedfrom them^by thofe 
 that read them ; and profit without preju^ 
 dice by thofe that deUberately read them. 
 Otherwifeiftheyare either of that kind, of 
 which may be averred what TertuUian (aid 
 of the ancient Spedlacles 5 ^orumfumma Defied 4 
 gratia de (purcitiaflunmum conctnnatae^ti or ^^?'7* 
 replenilhed with poyfonous Dodrine, and 
 peftilential Opinions: we [hould not wilh . 
 
 (as theComickfayes) ex arhorefulchrajlran- Ariftofii 
 gulari. What ? If this, and the other Lafci- 
 vious Poetfliould not have compofedand 
 publiflied his Poems, could not I know 
 how to be a Poet ? and may not I (ay as 
 fick Pomfey , when the Phyfician prefcribcd 
 him for fupperby way of reftorativea Ma- 
 -y/ir, adding (fincethat it was out of feafon^ 
 that Zi/c//^;// could help him to one 5 aspre- 
 ferv^ing them all the y ear^ ^/W/ faid Pompey 
 (with a difdainful lookj N/Ji LucuUus luxu^ 
 riaretyTion viveret Poynpeius! 
 
 VVith fuch Books whence nothing may 
 be extraftedbut poyfon>and peftiferous do- 
 cuments ; we fhould do as Crates the Thehatu* 
 did with the money , arifing upon the fail of 
 hisgoodsj calling it into the Sea, and there^ "^ 
 
 with faying, Iti : ferdo vos, ne ferdere i vobis. 
 And juit fo Qrigsn^ and after him Su Amhrof^ 
 
 Oa " called 
 
ip6 The Second Fart. 
 
 called the mifchievous Doctrines of fertile 
 wits in the language oiDavid^ DivHiaspecca- 
 torumn 
 
 The fongs of the Syrens are fwect and me- 
 lodious : Nor are the Remorras fo power-- 
 ful in flaying the Ships when they grapple 
 them with their teeth^ as they in enchaating 
 them; fo that without calling Anchor, oj; 
 ftrikingfail, as if they were run a-ground, 
 they remain immoveable. 
 
 CUffd, 
 
 I) el at is licet hue incumhem aura carina 
 ImpleJJentqueJinum ventidepufpeferente 
 Figehat vox una ratem, 
 
 But what enfues ? after thefong comes 
 flcep ; and after the fleep death . Thus they, 
 only enjoyed fo much, as wasrequifitefor 
 fleepj fo much they flept as was fufficient to 
 die. 
 
 Kec dolor uUuserat^ mortem dahatipfa voluptoi. 
 
 There is no better efcape from thefe perils, 
 
 than by the flopping our eares to their chan- 
 
 tings, and enchantings 5 ufingfor that pur- 
 
 CaJftoL pofe the famous wax oiVlifes, j^i eogita^ 
 
 * ;/" vitfelicijjimamfurditatemy ^utquam vincerein^ 
 
 m : 4<5' teUigendo non potmt 5 weli%j non advertend0 
 
 fuper-^ 
 
hafcivionfncjj^e. i^j 
 
 jfiperdret. No Icflc (liould wc dowiththcfe 
 enchanting Syrens of Books ; plcafant its 
 true, but for the mofl: part pernitious ; the 
 which both bccaufeunproli tabic, and be- 
 caufe prejudicial 3 Nefcire qumfcire melius ^t*gtijf, 
 tjt. 
 
 Who will drink C>rr^5 poyfon , for the 
 Cups being of Gold and of Pearl?VVho out 
 of the greatnefle of their curiofity 5 would 
 behold in the Shield of ValliUy the head of 
 MedufcUj if the fight of it coft them a mcta- 
 morphofis into ftone •, which to become , 
 Sam efi vidijjefemell How irrational both Clmd. 
 in honefty & confcicnce (not to fpeak of the Giiant. 
 Ihamelefl'e liberty of the bad) is the too 
 much affiance of the fimply good; that 
 with a pretence ofpoli(hing the wit, by the 
 mirrourofiiich kind of Books : to draw the 
 riches of precious conceits > from the trea- 
 ■furies of fo Learned Authors •, do as thofc 
 that in taking the Jems out of the head of 
 the Dragon 5 drink the venom andpoyfon. 
 They run at the fongs, and are caught in the 
 fnare* They become defirous of certain 
 Spirits that fo difordcr the mind in taking 
 them in 3 that they lofe their Senfes there- 
 by. 
 
 He that travails in duftj or dirt, bovvbeit 
 he treads lightly ^ alwayes reteincs fomc 
 ^' " Oj filthi- 
 
J 58 The Second Part. 
 
 filthinefTe on his feet : and even the Stars, 
 faith /'///y/5 which, fliotwithftanding that 
 they are Stars, that is to fay, the pure fub- 
 ftanceofHeavenjUiingledandconfolidated 
 with lightjj in regard they are nourifhed 
 with Terrene humours ; fordid Aliment, 
 which they exhale from here below : they 
 become fpotted , and deformed : Thus 
 (^though without any reafon for itj doth 
 Lth, 1, /Y/^ hold. Mafmlc(4emmnone^ea]tudquhm 
 €^p» 9* ter r>t raptor cum humorefordes. This indeed is 
 true>that mindSjalthoughofCoeleftialpro- 
 fefTionSj and lives-, if they diet themfelves 
 with fordid humours , imbibed from P^/r^- 
 niud^itom ^puleius^ from Oi^M-andbefides 
 many others, from fome Poets in our Lan- 
 guage worfc than all the r eft; they will con- 
 trait impurity at their hearts; with a hazard 
 of conceiving defires like to the objects they 
 behold ; as the Sheep oi Jacob did at the' 
 fight of the party-coloured Hods , whofe 
 Lambs were gravid again, with the fame 
 devife of many-coloured fpots. 
 
 Is there any want of Books, of leflc dan- 
 ger, and equal delight and utility to one of a 
 found Palate "Who would found the Flute, 
 faid Alcihkdes ; fhould they fee the wry 
 inouthes:, and the bladder-checks that they 
 ^efgrmecjly make5 when they may have the 
 
 Lute. 
 
Lafci^vionfneJJe. l S?p 
 
 Lute, and the Cittern, which afford more 
 delight, without caufing any deformity ? 
 And with that he threw them away : nor 
 was there any in Athens that would from' 
 thence-forth ufe them. Books which make 
 you Monfters ; and transform the beauty of 
 Gods Image, imprinted in your Soules^ 
 into a Beaflly and Brutilh deformity: to 
 what end are they read ? ifthere be fo many 
 others of equal plcafure, and ofgreater pro- 
 fit ? Drink not therefore the dregs of im- 
 pureft Authors, as ^^/^^^ with an ingenious 
 im^ention>depaintedma?iyPocrs5 the imi* 
 tators, or thieves of K^w<?r; that with open . 
 mouth received that which he vomited : if 
 ' clf-where there is Ne^ar without Lees 5 
 and fo much more 1 weet, by how iniich the ^^^-i^'f* 
 more pleafant, the cleanly Viands of tiie ^'^-^3- 
 Mind are, than the fluttilh ofltals of the ^^l^lijl^ 
 Senfe : at whofe Table much more melo- 
 dioufly than at that of the Queen of T/ro, 
 
 By]o^:xsthat ?7^TP-Phoebus zi expreft 
 In Roles of Lovely yellow bravely drefly Vtrtril, 
 
 ( With charming Lookj^ and Scepter of pure «y4r«. i 
 Gold) f^hfirtf. 
 
 Heavns Miracles ^ and Motions ^xi^hich the old 
 World-bearing Atlas to Alcy des told : 
 
 04 B^ 
 
n qo The Second Fart. 
 
 He/t/igs the Moons ohliquely Keg lav Tvays^ 
 Which her become ^anci oft eclifs Sols Kays : 
 BowmenandheaHsatfirftweremade^ 6* hew 
 Raines^ Winds ^ and Lightnings are produced 
 
 now : 
 ThefuhjeBofhi^fongin the nextflrain^ 
 is of the Bears ^ Crow^ Hyades^ and WaifLj : 
 jindwhy the Vernal-dayes to tH Oceanjfy 
 Sofvpi/tlj'j and the nights fo leafurely. 
 
 A paranetical •reprehenfion^ of the 
 Writers ofobfcene Poems. 
 
 HEar me, 6 ye Lucifers of the Earth : 
 Did God endue you with a wit full 
 of lofty conceits ;, and an acute 
 fancyj to the end you fhould turn the point 
 of it ingratcfully againft himfelf ? Did he 
 inflruft you to manage the Pen with ap- 
 ^:)laufe3to the end you make thereof a Dart 
 to transfix him in his honour ? Did God 
 befto w upon you Angelical minds , to have 
 you prove enemies like the Devils ? 
 
 Tell me not. The vain of our genius is good 
 €nfyat ihefe. Theams. I will fay to you that 
 'v/hichTertuUian (aid of the Ifraelites , Main- 
 iflis almm^ d'f^pe^ quim caelum fragrart^* 
 
Lafci'vionfnejje. rio% 
 
 The clarity of your wits ^ which might 
 (hineas benevolent Stars : you have made 
 lights of rotten wood : compounded of 
 putrefaftion and corruption. Grant it to 
 be true , that you are good for nothing but 
 Poetry. Yet, to write Lafcivious Poetry, 
 was it thenecefrityoftheWit5orthevice 
 of the Will? Itfufficeth (ks Fythagora4 did 
 with a Lafcivious Lutanift ) that you alter ^--^^^^ 
 the tune of your ii^/^i- Lyre, and change a 'l^ily^ 
 Lafcivious Lydian^lnto a Grave Dorick: in- ^^^j^[ 
 ftcad of exciting in others , affedions and 
 motions of Lafcivious palfions 5 to reprefle 
 them. 
 
 But 5 if ftillyou are enamoured upon a 
 
 (Strumpet dMufc^-^ and tainted with that 
 
 jwhich you call a Genius, or humour of un- 
 
 chaftverfifying^ I (hall fay of you, and that 
 
 with morereafon, what LaSfMiius (aid o( 
 
 Leucjppus the Phylofopherthe firft inventor 
 
 of y^/f?«^f/, and defender of Chance, j^anto Beirs 
 
 \meUu} filer M tacerey quhm in ufustkm miferahi' ^^^ ^' '® 
 
 '<?/, t^m inmes^ habere linguam! Is it not better 
 
 to have no vain of Poetry ^ than to have a 
 
 vain of vomiting venom and poyfon ? A 
 
 prudent Emperour would never confent, 
 
 that his Wife (hould drink wine ; although 
 
 the Phyficians fwore to him, that there was 
 
 |tio other way to make her of barren that (he 
 
 was 
 
 / 
 
50 2 The Second Part. 
 
 was to become fruitfull. That difcrect 
 
 Prince efteemed the remedy, worfethan 
 
 thedifeafe : and faid , Malo Uxorem Jlerilem 
 
 quam Vinofm. O how much better would 
 
 Ted.Mpud this other laying found in your mouth^Ad alo 
 
 ^^\T* MufAm^Sterikmciulm Ufcivm. Did I not 
 
 rlh IaI '^"Ow any other Language 5 than that of an 
 
 ^ll ' irrational Creamre 5 I would rather choofc 
 
 to be a dumbe Man, than a fpeaking Beaft. 
 
 And what gain you, when you fpend your 
 Wits, & confume your age and life to pub- 
 li(h awork totheWorId^(which fuppofe it 
 fhould be granted Immortal) if for the fame 
 you (hall be applauded on Earth ; and tor- 
 mented under the Earth-, praifed where you 
 are not , and tormented where you fhall 
 eternally be ? The Horaces^ the CMuUufs^ 
 the Ovids^ the GaUIos , the MartUffs ; ( to 
 omit thofeofourown,ofa holier Religion, 
 butofaprophanerPoetryO what availes it 
 the that they remain yet to the light ofpu- 
 blick Fame; if in the mean time they remain 
 buried inthedarkneffe of Hell: & for every 
 particle of that obfcenity w'^^ they writ,ihcy 
 are tormented there below 5 whileft here, 
 withoutthere knowlecfge , they areforthe 
 fameunprofitably applauded ? 
 
 Suppofe that after many years ftudy , 
 your Pen Ihould fend forth a Work of imr 
 
 mortal 
 
? Lafci'Z/ionfneJfe. 205 
 
 ^mortal merit-, (in ^h\ch notwithftanding 
 FAuciquos£quus amavit Jupiter) of that glory, 
 which is the proper and legitimate reward 
 of the labours ofHeroickVy its 5 youmuft 
 promifetoyourfelves no other (hare , than 
 the leaft 5 1 mean that ofthe vulgar, or of the 
 vicious: inasmuchasmenof wifiiomeand 
 judegment(to whofc qiixq^ Soloecifmus m^g- ^' ^^' 
 nus 5 & vitium eft tur^e quid narrare , ) will 
 rather abominate you , as cankers of civil 
 converfationjandwholfom cuftomes: nor 
 will the mifimployed virtue of your Wits, 
 appear otherwife to them, than the immea- 
 furable , but impious ftrength of Giants : 
 who are not commended as mighty, be- 
 caufe they can dig up Mountains, and heap 
 the a top of one anothcr^but are condemned 
 as irreligious, bccaufe they therewith pre- 
 tended to aflault Heaven, and pull Jupiter 
 outofhis Throne, 
 
 *^ But ifnothino eJfe will prrfioade you: he- 
 '^ hoIdGoddefcending to the unclemnefs ofd Sta- 
 ^^hle; to the miferies of poverty; to the inconve- 
 '^ niences ofohfcurity ; to theft orns of-moc^^rs: to 
 *^ the calumny of detraBors ; to thefaleofafvse^ 
 ^^to the condemnation of ci Criminal; to the death 
 ^'ofaThiefl Mhliflers underthefcourges; all 
 ^' hloody amidftthe thorns; aU confulion^ in his 
 " nakednejfe; all anguijh^ ontheCroJfel Now 
 
 fet 
 
 tn^f^i^ftcjjt; ; (414 an^Hfjfjy un ^f]c\^rujjc : 
 
^04 ^^^^ Second fart. 
 
 «J}i him before y OH i and as^him, for whom lji\ 
 ^^ to okjo long a voyage ^ andatfo longftages^ ai\ 
 ^ffrom Heaven to Calvary? For whom hedi/pended 
 *^fo many teares ^fo much fweat ^ and blood I 
 ^* Had this noble dA/ierchant in allthiiadefgnrf] 
 ^^ other gain than of Souks? Fretendeth he any 
 ^^ other from us; requejled he any other ofhU 
 ^^ Father; than to have tt^for hii imitators in lifey 
 ^^ and companions in glory ^ Nowputyour/elve^ 
 *' in competition with God; and behold the dif 
 ^^proportionate unworthinejfe of this comparifom 
 '^ HetofveSoules^ didwhat he could ; you what 
 ^^you know , to damn them. Whutprogno^icA^ 
 ^^ tions makeyou ofyourfelvfs ? What faces will 
 ^^you have to appear before y our ^udg 04 guilty: 
 *^ while ft that 04 many 04 have been loft by your 
 '^ means; and in the Volumes ofagestocome,Jialt 
 ** he (hewn y after thef , to have perifled through 
 ^^youroccafion; fhall exalt their horrid yellings^ 
 ^^from the deepeftpit of Hell ^ againftyou f What 
 ^^ defence will fou have foryaur felves , being to 
 ^^ anfwerfor the crimes of others / howbeit they 
 '^ are not fo much others My our own-, f nee you laid 
 ^^ theftumbling-blockstothofefals^ youfowedthe 
 ^^feed to thofe fruits of Death. 
 
 There is not that man living on the earth, 
 that Z;^f(/Jrbeholds with abetter eye, and 
 obfervcs^andpreferveSj with greater care ; 
 thanhethatbufiethhimfelfininfufing from 
 
 his 
 
J-jafcivionfne^e. 205 
 
 lis brain ^ into the golden Cup of an Inge- 
 liousBook^the peft of error, or poyfonof 
 mpure Poetry. One of thefe alone fuffi- 
 :eth to cafe half the Devils of the trouble 
 )f tempting : for a mifchievous Book, con- 
 ervailes a hundred Devils. Uqvc Belemotff P^' t 
 lecpeth in fecjeto calami^ ittriack hHmentibtis^ 
 leither is there any neceffity of his contri- 
 ;)uting to the fall of men j where the way 
 is fo glib, and flippery, the feet eafily Aide , 
 :nd the fupports deceive them->, 
 
 7>w7f?« the -«^/Z'^«/4;2 hated all men^he loved 
 me onely Alcihiades •, but to love him was 
 io hateall : becaufchefore-fawby hisincli- 
 iiations, that he would be the ruin of many, 
 tndlhould become a difturber of all Greece. 
 I\nd thofe true Mifamhropih there below ; 
 fthere be any men that they hug as friends, 
 nd imbrace as dear unto them^ they are 
 hole, that with Books of immortal dura- 
 ton, and mortal operation , are to fight for 
 nany ages againft Heaven ; to expugne ho-. 
 lefty in many brefls > and to enrich their 
 ingdom with many Souls. 
 
 " Thefe Truths difcerncd with the lights 
 ' ofreafon,and faith by a famousPoet-, (as I 
 ' hear from a perfon of his familiar acquain- 
 • tance)they made him often-times ftartle 
 ;for horrour^ and almoftfwound for grief? 
 
 ^^and 
 
tQ6 The Second Part. 
 
 ' f and f far tranfpor ted Him^rhat he took upi 
 "the Book which he himfclf had compofed 
 Suet, in " ^o behold it Tanquam Orhi6 Terrarum Phai- 
 Cdl.f. 1 1 ^^ tontem (as Tyberim cal led CaUgula)'whcncc 
 " as having merited a flafh of lightning, he 
 "lentencedittothe flames. Butnofooncr 
 "did he reach out his hand to caft it into 
 "the fire, but he pulled it in with occult 
 " violence of compaffion; Love, then bring- 
 "ingto his mind^ the cold and tedious 
 "nights 5 ofthofe feven years watching ^ 
 ^^ which he fpent in writing it^ the great 
 " labours of the wit , which there had ex 
 " preft the quintefcence of its Arti the harms 
 ^* of his impaired health, enfeebled and worn 
 "away by the file of continual ftudy: fo 
 *^ that there was not therein a fyllable^ of 
 «^ verfe , that did not coft him fome part of 
 " his life: The publick dcfire of the World, 
 ^'longing to {eeit: The^lory, which the 
 *^ merit ofa Work of that lingular Nature, 
 " did promife him : Alas! Thefc were Spels 
 " which (hook his hand , ftupified his arm, 
 ** and perplexed his heart : whereupon he 
 "repented, altering his purpofe, andcon- 
 " demned himfelf of cruelty, and creduUty,* 
 ^^andina pofture, as if he would implore 
 *' mercy and pardon of his Book, he kiffed 
 !! it^ hugged it to his bread 3 and to comfort 
 
 ''it 
 
 I 
 
hafci^ioufnejfe. cioj 
 
 «< It after the fright of the fire , he promifed 
 "it^ as before, that it (hould be publi(hed 
 "to the light. 
 
 God keep you , that you may never be 
 the Father of fuch a Uke Book. Albeit you 
 difcern its malevolent inclination , and in- 
 famous difpofitions; yet to ftrangle it with 
 your own hand, to tear it in pieces, to con- 
 fume it in the flames ; will be an enterprize 
 of that difficulty, as if you were with your 
 own hand to flay a Son, and to rip his Soul 
 out of his heart with your own knife: and 
 the fame faid Omens Mafter in Stromatii 
 
 o 
 
 Lihri funt filii animorum. 
 
 The knowledg , and fore-fight, that the 
 publifhing it it print, would be to the pre ju- 
 diceofmany,and perdition of your felves ^ 
 as a Man, asaChriftian will fometimes in- 
 fufe horrour into the mind, and chilneflc 
 into the heart; and you will repent to have 
 done that, which coftyou io many figbs, fo 
 many toils. But in Conclufion , this (hall 
 convert to that Remorfe of C<^fars con- 
 fcienceuponthe Banks of i?«foV^«. You will 
 ftrive to overcome God , and your (elves ; 
 and flightly over-pa(fing the inconveniences 
 of others, or your felves ; you will proceed 
 with a refolute J^<f?^ e^ aUiu. Suet, in 
 
 For my part ^ if two fpe^tacles (hould C*fc.z\ 
 
 offeD 
 
-jog The Second^Part. 
 
 offer themfelves to my viewion the one hand 
 ^^^d Abraham y binding his only IfaAc^Q^s a 
 vidime upon the Altar^ withahandas fted- 
 faft 5 as his heart was intrepidable ; and the 
 fire putto the wood of the Sacrifice, and 
 the hand up to fetch the blow upo the throat 
 of the innocent Son ; without either by the 
 (hivering of the arnijOr altering of his coun- 
 tenanccjor bedewing of hiseyes, giving the 
 leaftfymptomes of a difcompofed mind; 
 applying himfelf with fuch intenfenefle to 
 his Prieftly Office , as if he had forgot his 
 paternal relation ; orelfeifhehad theaffe- 
 dionate refentments of a Father; it was 
 with more emulation , than com paflion of 
 his Son that he flue ; although in him he 
 was both Viftime and Prieft ; (for he flue 
 himfelf no leffethan him, in whom more 
 than himfelf he lived: ) And on the other j 
 hand an excellent Authour of apeftilenti 
 Book 5 over-comming the contrafcs of his 
 thoughts^of his friends^and of all the Devils i 
 in Hell; facrificing it gcneroufly to the 
 flames , ^ith that felf-fame hand that had 
 fyllable by fyllable written^ and weighed it : 
 cutting off at one blow ^ the labours of the 
 years paft, & the glory of the ages to come ; 
 and flaying himfelf in his iflue: lofing with 
 a voluntary icfufal, that life ^^ which only 
 
 makes 
 
 I 
 
 I 
 
hafctvionfnejfe. ^op 
 
 inakcs us furviv^e death 5 1 mean, the Fame 
 of fucceeding Generations. Of thefe two 
 fpcdacles I know not which I fhould 
 more willingly behold , and perhaps it 
 would appear unto me a lighter matter 5 at 
 the exprcfs command of God;Father of the 
 unborn ^ and life of the Dead, to flay a Sort 
 that was begotten with delight 5 and may b6 
 raifed again by miracle: then at the voice^ of 
 theun-audable Speech^in which God fpeaks 
 to the heart • to burn a Book, that in con- 
 ceiving it, in bringing it forth, in bringing ic 
 up, coft more pains, than it hath fyllablcsJ 
 What though the love of Glory; and the 
 hopes of obteining a Name of an invincible 
 Soul , moved Brutus to condemn his own 
 Sons to death; being rebels to their Coun- 
 try, and enemies tothepublick good ? He 
 condemned them asa Conful , not to deli- 
 ver them as a Father , StexuHratremutQon- ir^Urim 
 fulem ageret. His l)^art fuffercd him to fee jMux. 
 tied to the flake, Young-men, of amiable //. 5. r.g, 
 afped, andina word, Sons* EtqHifpeSt4tor ^.^ ^:^j 
 erai; amovendus ^ eum i^fum Fortuna exa^orem /;^,2, ^ 
 fuff licit dedit. But he could do no lelle. 
 Who then fo obduratcd his heart ^ or who 
 bereaved him of it, for the time ^ wl)ilefl: 
 he both commanded, and undiuntedly be- 
 held the death of his Sons? 
 
2 1 o The Second Part. 
 
 e/£»cfd.6 Vicitamor PatrUlaudtmque immenfa Cupido^ 
 
 Is the avidity of glory , able to make Fa- 
 thers Executioners ? Where then in one is 
 loft both the Son, & the Glory which from 
 him was expeded ; how much more he- 
 roical an ad is it to kill him-, fince thepower 
 of doing it 5 was taken from nothing, but 
 from the love of Virtue ? 
 
 But the hope of ever feeing fo happy a 
 
 Spedacle, is a vanity. Yet I would perfwade 
 
 tbefe, that the excrements, (Tuchefpecially 
 
 as favour wholly ofbrutal) may be pared ofr^ 
 
 thatthe Book may remain, if notgood,yet 
 
 at leaft, not exceeding bad. But alfo for this 
 
 thej' are perfed: at thatanfwcr , heretofore 
 
 given to the Senate of Eomey when they 
 
 were confulting of Icfning the7>^^r3 by 
 
 branching it, and diverting the Rivers that 
 
 emptied themfelves into it, thereby to fe- 
 
 cure the City from the frequent In-unda- 
 
 Vactt . tions, that fubmerged it, Iff urn Tjknm nolle 
 
 prorjus accolis fluvius orhatum^ minor e gloria 
 
 fluere. They will not permit their works to 
 
 be a drop diminiftied , a tittle impaired* 
 
 They fay they would feem monftrous being 
 
 maimed , when as indeed they are Monfters 
 
 being entire 
 
 DE- 
 
Hit 
 
 DETRACTION. 
 
 the inclination of the Genius ^ and 
 abnfive imployment of the Wit 
 to the defaming of others. 
 
 WHo would ever imagine that Le-^ 
 traUion Ihould befo fweet, that 
 he that had once tafted 1: 
 ftiouldever after defire it; &as the Lions, 
 which if they have once licked the blood 
 from their pawes, are alwayes after that 
 greedy for it ; fo likewife he that tafteth the 
 firft rellifh of flander^ hath ordinarily fo 
 longing a defire after it , that ?they become 
 like thofe that had rather be without a 
 tongue, than without their Jcftsj andceafe 
 to live fooncr than to leave jeering. Old 
 age, (when they arrive at it) thoughit oft- 
 times bereaves the head of wifdom 5 yet it 
 deprives not the bitter tongue of it flings ; 
 like as the old thorns, which Winter makes 
 to lofe their leaves not their pricks; their 
 ornament, but not their (harpneffe. 
 
 Thefe, for the moft part, acute of wit^ 
 
 but only to fling \ never fpeak better than 
 
 Vt >Vh'eii' 
 
a I « T/j(f Second Part. 
 
 when they fpake worft ; never fhine more 
 than when mcft they burn. All the proofs 
 oftheir Wits are jeers, and pungent j efts : 
 & to become the fmaitcr inbiting,thcy teter 
 their wits, more than that famous Oratour 
 ftrove in defpight of his lifping tongue to 
 pronounce and exprcffe the canicular and 
 Inarling letter R. 
 
 To hear them^how a Menippus^z Zoilus^ a 
 Momns will play upon one another^Cfo inge- 
 nioufly they do it) it is as if you heard a Mu- 
 fick, but fuch Mufickasthar, which PjthA^ 
 goras obfervedtobe made, by the blows ^ 
 and perculTions of great Hammers, Their 
 Pens , taken from a Vulture, not from a 
 Swan , like that of the famous DemoH:henesy 
 have the ink at one end ^ and poifon at the 
 other : yea, the ink itfclfisa venom , that 
 impoifons the names which it writeth; 
 whereupon as thofe that die of poifon, they 
 appear wan and black.Thc fparklings of the 
 wit,which in others are wont to be innocent 
 Lamps of light, not of fire; for delight, not 
 for offence; in them are lightnings, that 
 carry flames on their wings , and death on 
 their points. 
 PUmtis There is transfufed into their heads the 
 f r^fat. Genius of Lucilius , qui primus condidit Jlyll 
 9fi\\ nafum. They have in tbeir mouthes the 
 
 proper 
 
DetraSiion. :j i g 
 
 proper tongue of the AncientEpigramma- 
 tifts; namely, (as A^4///Wdcfineth it^ Ma- Pr^f^u 
 lam linguam; nor though their fpecch be Li.cftg, 
 fweer^ and copious, caniteverbefaid, of 
 them, as of the SwceteftP/^/^^ that the Bees 
 put hony in their mouthes- but inftead of it a 
 Scorpions egge, or a Sliders venom. In fum ; 
 they accuftom their hands to the cauterizing 
 inftruments like an Anatomift ; rather than 
 to the Pen like a Writer ; and the more fub- 
 tilly they cut, the more excellent chey feem; 
 wounding the living, and tearing in pieces 
 the death. 
 
 Thcfc detracting Buffoons, unworthy of 
 living amongft Men, ds partaking of Beafts ; 
 (as was faid of Cicero) to gain the applaufe of 
 a jeft, care not to iofe the favour of a friend. 
 
 Diimmodo rifum 
 
 Excutidtjihiy non hie cuiquAm parcel amico, ^<^y^t. 
 
 lib, I . 
 
 Whereupon they may we^l be called 54^,4. 
 with the Comick Vuhurii ; fince that Hojiefne 
 an Cives comedant pdri^ipendunt. To expreffe 
 one of their conceits, they care not though 
 they torment that innocent party upon 
 which it lightsr. They onely ufe their eyes 
 toftrike their blows home ^ nor do they 
 care , when it fometimcs falls out that they 
 fpeedas the Eagle •, that let aTortoiie fall 
 P 3 upoii 
 
?H 
 
 the Second Fart. 
 
 upon the bald head of a Poet, to break the 
 (hell. Thus they take pleafure , in others 
 fufferings ; and honour , from others diP- 
 grace : imitating ( if he did fuch a thing) 
 Buonirotiy that crucified a man, thereby to 
 depaint to the life a Crucified Chrift. Or 
 rather Nero^ that fet fire on Rome^ to chaunt 
 upon the Tower of MecanoA , to the found 
 of his Gitternjn the real wrack of hisGoun- 
 try, the feigned conflagration of Troy. 
 
 Ah las ! too barbarous is that defire of 
 theirs, to appear at others coft, quick- wirs; 
 of an acute and nimble brain. Its the cruel 
 cuftomofthe people of 3^^/j!?^?^^, to prove 
 the temper of their Scymiursi & theftrength 
 of their armes, upon the Carcaffes of the 
 condemoed. How much wor(e is it under 
 pretence of a fportive skirmilh , to thruft 
 in ones* breafta Daggar, no lelle mortal to 
 thereputationof himthat receives it ^ than 
 the wound of a Sword would be to his life ; 
 which, as faith Vegetim^ Butts unciat ada5t^ 
 mortalesfmt. Yetyoumuftknowj that the 
 L\k I. ^atyresy Fathers and Matters oi Satyre^-^tt 
 cap, 11, more ugly for being Semi-beafts, than 
 beautiful for being Demi- gods: and in your 
 mordant taunts , that which is ingenious, 
 doth not fo much pleafe ; but that which is 
 inaliciousp doth more difpleafe. 
 
 1 
 
DetraSiion. 2 15 
 
 Bethefe the fublime ufcs,the divine im- 
 ployments, for whichWitwas given you? 
 To make it of a King that it is a Tyrant'; 
 and of a ConfervatorofCiviilifeja Homi- 
 cide, and Hangman ? You appropriate that 
 toyourfelves, which an Ancient writ a- 
 gainft the cruel PeriUus; juftly complaining, 
 that he had debafed the innocent Art of 
 forming in brafie the Images of gods , and 
 Heroes j unto the making of a Murthering 
 Bull, to be the Executor, orlnftrument of 
 the mercilefle fentences of Fhalaris. In hoc . 
 ajimulachris Deoruniy hominumque devo caver at ^ U ia cZ 
 humanijjtmam artem. Ideo tot conditores ejus 
 eUhor Aver ant ut ex ea tormenta fierent / Itaque 
 una de caujafervantur opera ejus^ ut qnifqms iU^ 
 videaty oderitmanus. 
 
 The ordinary puni(hment of thefe is to be 
 beloved by none, (hunned by many, hated 
 by all: To bring upon themfelves the in- 
 famous title of a Satyrift^ a Detraftor, a 
 ButFoonjwho might bear in their fore-heads 
 that ancient Diftich, extrafled from a 
 ^r^^^ Epigram, 
 
 Si meus ad Solemfiatuitur Nafus, hiantt 
 Oresi hent ojlendet dentibns bora quota e^. 
 
 Diogenes^ the Band-dog of Cy nick Phy lo- 
 - :^ P 4 fophers; 
 
ot(^ The Second Part. 
 
 fophcrs; had his palace, rather kennel, ina ' 
 Tub. Thiswas the Heaven 3 which he rcr 
 volvcd: An Intelligence really worthy of 
 fuch a Sphere : This the Cave from which 
 heddivered his Oracles, that fmelt more of 
 Wine than Truth : This the Chair^ where 
 teaching , he undertook to corrcd others 
 uncomely cuftomes^ with a miracle (if he 
 had fuccceded fo,) that a Butt (hould re- 
 duce others to thcmfclves, that is wont to 
 make them runbefides thcmfelvcs. What- 
 foever was the dodrine that he taught 
 ^lUn^ (which yet was fuchi ihdXPlato called him, 
 nh. i^. <i^^^'^^^ Socratcmy2^/^;^4f»?Jncverthelefs, 
 c^^.7,Z. becaufe in that nafty and filthy Butt, he 
 "VAT^hifi. mingled the Wine of fyncere Phylofophy ^ 
 with the (harp Vineger of a continual male- 
 didion, he had more Scoffers than Scho- 
 lars ^ and all Athens y lookt upon him as a 
 Dog, and fhunn'd him as a mad Man. 
 
 And v/ho is there that will hug a Porcupine] 
 Cnce he cannot touch it fo warily, but that 
 \t will prick him? who would keep com- 
 pany with one, to whom as to the Scorpion^ 
 I.lin.l.i I Semper Cauda iniHu e^U Who would makea* 
 ca^. 25. fficndofaLion^ which then when it neither 
 nfkth paws nor tcethjhath fo Iharp a tongue, 
 that even when itlicketh^it fetcheth blood ? 
 Better is it to honour them^ tliat thc;y may 
 '" '''^'. " ~ ' "'^ ' ~ """' not 
 
DetraoiioH. i^iy 
 
 ot become enemies; facrificingto them^ 
 > the Romans did to the GoddeflTeFc/;//; 
 Drthen they obliegc you when they come 
 jot neeryoii;and when they only fofarre- 
 lember you, as never to think of you. 
 
 But it would bcfo flight a punifhmcnt 
 )r Detractors , to be oncly lliunned and 
 /oided ; it alfo they Were not pcrfecutcd. 
 br although fometimcs they arc fubtlcin 
 le intcrefts ot their lives, as to know how 
 luch it behoves them not to irritate thofc, 
 lat can anfwer to the Pen with the Sword; 
 nd to words, withdccds: but that in the 
 (Fairs ot fuch they ought to bedumbe, if 
 ot blind ; taking thereof an example^, from 
 crtain Northern Cranvs^ that being to pafle 
 ^ount Taurus take a ftonc in their mouthes, 
 Dthc end they mny not with their chatte- 
 ing wake the Eagles there ncfted : yet its 
 ildom feen , that they are fo cunning ; but 
 hat onetime or other, they do thatun- 
 wares; whichthey continually do, either 
 >tit ofa habit 5 or nature : whereby either 
 leymaketothemfelvcs:, as the Silk^rvormst 
 
 prifon with their own mouthes; or pro- 
 oke them in whofc power it is to crufh 
 he Scorpion^ upon the fore it made : bring- 
 ng to mind by their example the truth of 
 hat 5 which FoUio faid of Auguifus; That 
 
 we 
 
2 18 The Second Part. 
 
 MAcr. wc ought not Scribere in eum^ quipoteftpro 
 
 li.i^Sat.flriher^:^. 
 
 cap. 4. They will not alwayes" meet with fuel 
 as will give them money to hold theii 
 peace; norfuchas (following the advia 
 o( JlphonfmYi\ngoi Aragon ) will throw tc 
 the Cur me^icatis frugihus offam , to keej 
 him from barking, or at leaft from biting. 
 It was the fingular fortune of that Advo 
 Z^l^vci Martial: 
 
 Lib. I. ^odclamasfempeiTy quodagentihus obffrepii 
 
 Non facis hoc gratis^ accipi^ ut taceas. \[ 
 
 f( 
 Many times accipium^ ut taceant; but they ra 
 rieceive lomething 5 but what I know not, 
 upon which they ceafe to fnarkjfo that they k 
 are never heard to fpeake more : which was n 
 the reward of that notorious 2^/7-«j ; who 
 whether he were burnt alive, or ftoned; or 
 Vitrn. crucified, in one of thefe forts of coyn 5 he 
 frdf. li.-j was paid the wages^of his afperfions againft 
 the Prince of Poets. 
 
 i/tf 
 
Detra^ion. 219 
 
 He that hath erred in Writings 
 Jhould not refute his confutation: 
 And he that is ignorant himfelfy 
 Jhould not undertake to correB^ 
 or condemn others. 
 
 THere is not a man upon Earth of fo 
 clearand ChryftalineaWit , that 
 in receiving the light of Sapience 5 
 doihnot caft fome (hadow ; fomc more, 
 bme lefleopaciousj and muddy with Igno- 
 rance. Our fouls 5 feida Wife Ancient, 
 (fires of thcmfelves all light, and clarity,) 
 being that they arc conjoy ncd to this g rofle 
 matter of our bodies > which they enliven ; 
 befides the floth that attend* them, are alfo 
 obfufcated with foggy vapours; where- 
 Upon, like flame confufed and intermingled 
 withfmoak, they lofein great meafurethe 
 vivacity of their motion , and the clarity of 
 their light. And from hence is the difficulty 
 in feeking, and incertainty oi difcerning the 
 Truth, Therefore banc veniam fetimufque 
 damHfqtteviciJfimy of fometimcs not hitting 
 the Center, without being therefore expul- 
 
 fed 
 
i 
 
 ^lo The Second fart. 
 
 fed the Circle of the Learned ; like as tl 
 Moon, although that it be fometimes Ecli 
 pfedj and darkened 3 yet fhe is not forth 
 banifhed from Heaven. 
 
 And to fay the truth , they are not to bl 
 tolerated J that either vend their own wri 
 tings, or defend others as Oracles of infalli 
 blc Truth j as Gold of the twenty-fourtl 
 Carad without mixture of errour, withou 
 alloy of falcity. As for their own, let then 
 hear St. Arnbrofey that very aptly refemble 
 them to Children, to which the love that i« 
 born, blinds the judgment; whcreujfor 
 the better Fathers they are to them , the 
 S^Amhr'^ worfe Judges they ufe to be of them; Vnum 
 quemquefaUunt/uafcriptay & Authorempr^tte- 
 reunt, Atque ut filii etiam deformes deleBant pa- 
 rentes^ Jic etiam Script ores ^* indecoros quoquefer 
 monespalpant. For thofeofothers, let them, 
 St. Aug, befides many %>ther places o{ Augufiine^ 
 ^pfjf^'iii jfeadhis iii Epiftle where he faith, His cu- 
 ilome was not to adore the Authoursbut 
 the Truth; not their Sayings, but Reafonj 
 forfaking /them where they forfook hen^. 
 Talis fum ego infcriptis aliorum (concludes he 
 the Epiftle) tales volo intelie^oresmeorunL^. 
 
 On this ground, the more Wife are pcr- 
 fwaded before the publifhing their writings^ 
 to bring them to theteft^ and cenfureofa 
 
 friendj 
 
 1 
 

 DetraEiion. 22 1 
 
 \ tend, equally judicious, and faithful 5 that 
 :i rherethey find thcmdefedive, they may 
 ly to them, as the Ancient Fencers to their 
 i| :holars5^<?/'^/^;,but if only after their coming 
 wi ) publick light, they be feen deficient; they 
 ;:| aemfelves may correct them ; retading 
 ]i lem as Painters 5 which boaft not their la- 
 ii ours for works exaftly perfect according 
 [ the rigour of Art, but write underneath 
 ; he Vaciehat oiPoljcletus and Afettes. Tanquam Pitn^pra- 
 j nchoata Arte^ &perfeSfa^ ut contra judiciorum f^^* "*j^' 
 farittatesfuperejjet artifici regrejJUs adveniam^ 
 helut emendaturo quidquid de(ideretur ^ fi non 
 fjet interceptus. And of this the Great Hjp- ^^^^'^^^' 
 'ocrates gave an example, who reputed it no 1^1^^^ 
 bame to retradl anything, which he had inljirt, 
 rl^rit of the Suturesoiiht brain^* c^c. 
 
 But for as much as either the Writer (un- 
 efletoolate) perceives not hiserrours, of 
 ivhich unwittingly he makes himfclf Ma- 
 kr , printing them ; or is prevented by o- 
 thers in opportunely prefcribing them an 
 'I Antidote, and giving them a reproof, when 
 that evenes,he that is a prudent Judg,and ra- 
 tional friend, Ihould not write to difgrace, 
 injure 5 or irritate him : for that is not his 
 dcfire, that as the Ancier* Romans whilft 
 they were wholly ignorant of the Mathe- 
 mathicks^ r^gwlate^ their publick a<ftions by 
 " " " an 
 
mt The Second Part. 
 
 ^lintHs an Irregular and lying Dial; NonenimcoH 
 
 //.7.r.5o gruehmt ad hora4 ejus linU; foj his errour; 
 (houldbe the rule of others underftandings 
 Nimh enim perverse feipfum amM i laidthii 
 
 Ad\<flr- Greaty^/^^^//>/e?3 qu^& Alios vult err Are ^ A 
 
 cLfi'm. ^rrorfuuslateat.. 
 
 Yea 3 to be aflifted in un-deceiving him- 
 fclf, and which is more^ the World s ought 
 to be fo much the dearer to every one, bjt 
 how much all are oblieged to love iHcj 
 Truth. And hear in a few of his own wordsj 
 the fenfe that the fame ^//^«/?/;^(f had ofthisj, 
 A man,I know not whether of greater inge- 
 nuity, or modefty : l^on pigehit me^c uhih^* 
 ^ fito qmrere^fic ubi erro difcere. Proinde quifquij\ 
 • ^'^ h^ec legit ubi pariter cert us ^J^fergat mecurft^ uhk 
 pAriter h^jitst , qu^rat mecitw, Ubi errorem 
 /tmmcognofcitredeat Adme ; ubimeiim revocet^ 
 
 And this, of which I have hitherto writ, 
 is the part ofthe modefty ofhim that writes: 
 Nor (hould it be leflTethat, ofhim that read^ 
 eth. Not betaking themfelves to a profef- 
 fion of running only to erro rs of Writers tOj 
 condemn them ; as Vultures to putrid Car- 
 cafles , or Ravens to Carrion to devour] 
 them ; doing it moreover with as muchli-i 
 berty, as if there were no poffibility of their i 
 crringj in noting the errors of others: and 
 
DetraSiiort. 233 
 
 yet the Aphorifme of j^mhrofe is moft true, 2 ., AjxtL* 
 Scepe in judicando majus e^ pccatum judicii ^ DavU. 
 jucimpeccati illius^ de quofueratjudicatunL^m ^^^' ^* 
 This is the difcourteous manner of many, vihutu 
 ^t okreSfatione aliens Scientist famam fihi ^rdtf, 
 iucupanturs 
 
 Temlafque trijlesfceptra H<€dagogorum. (Jlf^rt, 
 
 rfaeyholdaCenforious brow ftill advanced 
 over the Authours they read^ to lafh them • 
 they dehghting no leflethus to ufetherod, 
 than others to grafpethe Scepter. Thence 
 ire born the fo many Contefts, Apologies, 
 [lot to fay the Duels, and Tragoediesofa 
 :houfand Authours , though ofno ordinary 
 udgment ; which in this kind of imperti- 
 nency, have thrown away much time , and 
 much fweat, but to what purpofe ? 
 
 Bella gen pi aatit nuUos hahituratrmmphos. 
 
 This feems to me a matter , not to be 
 A^hoily paft over with a coniving eye : Take 
 h^jreiore about it fome fewadvertifements. 
 
 Firft I That a man that hath no more but 
 I belly and a tongue , (as Antipatet faid of Jpl^^^ ^« 
 Oemades) fhould 4indcrtake to make him- ^ofh. 
 elf the Trier of the Golden Writings of 
 
 v/ortby 
 
Q24 Tihe Second Part. I 
 
 worthy Men ; finding how much of purityj 
 and how muchofdrofs they contcin; con- 
 demning what they underftand not, reje- 
 ^ing what they like not, gnawing what 
 P/. e/^- they cannot bite : That a fordid Womati 
 W^' inftead of her Spindle , (hould take a Pen ^ 
 and write againft the Divine Tl^eophraffus 
 taxing him of ignorance and fimplicity; re- 
 newing the Ancient Monfters of Fable 
 That a proud Omphale , (hould condemn 
 Great Hercules from a Club to a Diftaffe 5 
 from killing of Monfters, to fpinning : That 
 zDemoJlhenes ^ (^Cook to Valens theEmpc 
 rour,) as if the Kitchin had been a School of 
 Wifcdom, and the Difhes Books ; (hould 
 viUifie the Theology of Great Bafih and re 
 jed it as viands without fait 3 and Sapience 
 without favour : That one Mr.Jo/jaiL LuJo- 
 'viem J ihould pretend to draw the mod 
 Learned Augujline out of ignorance: and 
 prcfumc (Sus Minervam) to teach the true 
 form of Logick to that Great Augujhnt all 
 Soul ; to that Ingenious Archimedes^ which 
 againft the enemies of Truth and Faith , 
 knew how to make as many thunder-bolts. 
 as he made arguments: deducing his pro- 
 pofitions from moft manifeft principles, as 
 rayesfrom the Sun: and direding them in 
 a Logical form, to rhe mark of infallible 
 
 con- 
 
DetraBion. 
 
 confequences: Is not this theftmc as to fee 
 Mures de cavernis exeiintes ; tilt with aftraw 
 atthebreftofa Lion<f To fee water-Frogs 
 not only to cfiuddy the water for Diam,, 
 but to defire to ingroffe it folely and wholly 
 to themfelves ? To fee Beaftsj,that with the 
 horrid yelling of their difcordant throats ^ 
 to affright and put to flight the Giants ? 
 
 In beholding thcfe^ and others ofthe like 
 ftamp expound, blot out and corre(S the 
 writings of Learned Men- it brings to 
 mind, and fets before my eyes that indif- 
 creet Afle, which with teeth accuftomcd 
 to Roots, Shrubs, and pungent tops of 
 Thiftles; durft attempt to tear and devour 
 all the lUiades of the Poet Homer: to the 
 greater difgrace and difafter of Troj (lis a 
 Poet fpeakes) in as much as heretofore ^ 
 Horfc more honourably, now an Aife more 
 fordidly dcftroycd it. 
 
 The Grecian ^r/'&V^/died, a man of 
 Martial valour 3 proved at more than one 
 encounter-,& died of poifon takcnfVom the 
 wound of a certain little Animal ^ that had 
 flung him. Death grieved not the valiant 
 man, but dying fo diOionourably : namely;^ 
 nottornbyaLion; not bruifed by anElc- 
 phant; not difmembered by a Tyger ; but 
 Itung by an unlucky Flye. Thelike^in my 
 
 CL jud- 
 
 
Lih 
 
 31 
 
 26 T^bc Second Part. 
 
 judgmentj may be the refentment of thofe 
 great Mafters of the World, feeing them- 
 idvesftung, reprehended, condemned 3 not 
 by men excellent for Wit and Learning; 
 but by a Cook, by aVVoman^by a Pedant, 
 For if the Stars(faith CaJJiodorui)kQmg upon 
 a Dial, the immenfe periods of their light 
 imitated^and as it were mocked^by the little 
 motion of a j[hadow; would be offended, 
 and in difdain confound Heaven, and the 
 World : and would commence other mo- 
 tions, other revolutions, Meatmfuosfortajfi 
 ^'rt ]' defte&^erent ne iali ludihriafubjacerent: What 
 ^ '^^* doyouthinkfomanyin every profeffionof 
 Learning, Oracles of V Vifdom^would now 
 dojif in the filence of their Sepulchers they 
 might hear themfelvcs taxed, Ibrae for 
 blind, fome forfimple, fome for in excufa- 
 bly ignorant ; and this by men^ not only no 
 Sages.but (if they may be meafured by their 
 judgmenr j no men ; who to acquire in the 
 vogue of the Vulgar, the name and credit 
 of Hercules , and Samfon; ftrip the skins 
 from the minds of the already-dead- 
 Lions. 
 
 Secondly , it happens many times, that 
 that is our Ignorance, which we may think 
 anothers errour : and we may peradven- 
 ture iay to ourfeives, tbat^ which many 
 
 ' grave 
 
DetraSiion. 27 J 
 
 grave and holy Bifhops fiid to the Apoftatc 
 EpcYQur Julian; who read^ and contemned a 
 moft learned Apology of St. Apollonarle : ^S^^J^^ 
 Legifli y fednon inteUexi^i ; fi enim inteUexlJJis ^ 
 non improhajjts. 
 
 ^ho. hwcitni Romans y in the exercife of 
 Arms 5 wherein they held the Souldicry 
 contiuually trained ; gave for the firft rule 
 of well beftowing their blows^ Not to lay 
 themfelves open to their enemies weapon : 
 fo that he w^arding the blow ^ in the ftmc 
 aftjwound them inj:he deficient part of their 
 Arms, before they could recover their 
 Swords from the thruft and return (with- 
 out loffe of much timej to their guard. In ^^^- i- 
 ^ua mcditatione^ {[zixSxVigetius) fervabatur ^^h^'^* 
 ilia cautela utita Tjro adinferendum vulnm in- 
 fur geret^ ne qua ex pane patent iiJe adplagam^* 
 And the firft ruleofthofe that take up the 
 Pen againft a Writer , ought to be, that in 
 condemning anothcrs ignorance^theylhew 
 not their own. Otherwife;, if entring into 
 a Labyrinth;, to fetch out one that v/anders 
 in the fame<,you have not a clue with which 
 to wind out yourfelvesj you fhall be thie 
 fubjed of P^W(?rr/;/^ laughter . that derided 
 thewretched Grammarians, wholly intent 
 to trace out the errors o^VUfes^ whilft in the 
 mean-time rhey faw not their own. 
 
 0^2 Wc 
 
2 8 The Second Part. • 
 
 We need not betake our felves to bite 
 others , till our Wife-teeth be grown;, 
 which (as ^r//?<7//^ advifeth) fiiootlate. It 
 is requifice to be doubly furnilhcd , with 
 Learning^and with Wit , being to corrcd:. 
 him that crreth -, that fo both the erroiir be 
 certain^ and the corredion inculpable. And 
 liow many times doth it happen , that 
 through the infufficiently underftandjng 
 the true fcnfe of the Writer , we commit 
 the crime oi Mmius Scicvokj that thinking 
 to kill the King , flue the Servant ? V Vc 
 arraign that as faid by another , which he 
 neither faid, nor dreamt^ and dcfperately 
 engage in a Combate with phantaimcs : 
 when aSj if not havhig eyes of our own fuf- 
 ficiently able to difcern, we had ufedthofe 
 of a perceptive friend ; we ibould have put 
 up our weapons, (as the Sybil made jEneoA^) 
 that we might not fruitlefly grapple with 
 lliadows With great pains to our felves^ and 
 no hurt to them-.. 
 
 Thirdly, Its not the cuftome of thefe de- 
 praving Caliunniators to irritate any^ whilft 
 they be livings meafu ring his knowledge 
 by the writings which he publifoed • in re- 
 gard that in a peribninc^iinfed 5 anger many 
 times converts to Wit : roufing all his 
 Spirits before dormant ^ whjch gunning 
 
 where 
 
DetraSiion. 2 2p 
 
 where ncceflity calleth them 5 like as Infu- Sen. itA* 
 cemis olmm Jhii iUb uhi exuritiir. How many, q-i'^r^-^^ • 
 that kept the golden veins of fubiimc vvit 
 and precious difcretion conceal'd and fe- 
 khred in their breafts, once being flung 
 by luchas unadvKedlydaredfeftecmingthc 
 devoid of Learning) to provoke them : have 
 manifefled their parts to the World : gi- 
 ving their emulators canfe to repent the 
 misfortune of angering them : in like man- 
 ner as ibme times the Rocks beinq ^^vAA 
 with rich , but occult minerals; rent by a 
 thunder-bolt , and fending forth by the o- 
 pening of the wound an efTay of that v/ealrh 
 which was within concealed : make it ap- 
 pear, that thofe are Mountains of Gold and 
 Silver, that were reputed to be no other but 
 inculrivated heaps of Stones? How many ^ 
 whofe brains appeared frozen, and as impe- 
 netrable as flint : being provoked to the 
 proof of their Pens,- jufl as flint flricken, 
 have fent out not fparks , to light : but 
 flames, and lightning to wound? What 
 canbeamoreincenfate, and ftupid animal , 
 thananAflfe? Yet obferve that of avaricious 
 Balaam ; that being fmitten with more paf- 
 fion y than reafon, became in its ovvui de- 
 fence a Demofthenes, Bala a (faith Chryfoftome) j^ ff^f 
 ejrat Afims^ animal omnium h^hetijjimum ; neo ' * 
 
 0^3 ''^'^riUs 
 
i-^o 'the Sedoncl Fart. 
 
 minus hentfe defendit apudeum , qui iffumpuU 
 fabat^ qiiam homdprdditus ratim^^^ But far- 
 ther 5 Do not even ^^////^j-themfelvesCasis 
 faidofthatSon oiCroefus) in defence of the 
 things to which nature hath related them, 
 know how to untie the tongue^ and, with a 
 miracle of that natural Love, to which no- 
 thingisamiracle, tofpeak that which they 
 never learnt tofpeak ? 
 
 How many , be it envy ^ be it defire of 
 
 contradidionjbe it ambition of ereding to 
 
 themiclvcs upon others ruincs a repute of 
 
 Iffp7<tf, gallant Men; (imitating, (faith T/^^^^i?r^/,) 
 
 jid DtaL thd^nShimei^ which made himfelf famous to 
 
 the World with floning a King : a King fo 
 
 holy, fo innocent as David:) have with the 
 
 flings of their over-pungent Pens^inf uriated 
 
 thofc, which (being fuppofed Lambs , but 
 
 * found Lions,) have made them wifh tbem- 
 
 fclves out of the lifts ? but in vain^ and too 
 
 lute, for 
 
 juvcnal. Galeatum feth dueUi poenitet : 
 
 have fown, with Cadmus ^biting fpeeches 
 as it were teeth of poifonous Serpents^ and 
 have afterwards been affrighted feeing an 
 Hofl of Armed Men fofuddenly fpringup? 
 
DetraSiion. 231 
 
 Mejfis cum froprio mox hellatura colono. Ovid- 
 
 have took (as Archj/loclms told one who 
 would without caufe quarrel with him) the 
 Wafpeby the wings-, and afterwards hear- 
 ing the huming, have wifht that cither they 
 had had no hands to take it, or had had no 
 cares to hear it? Have (i rived as Ma)fia,i LucLt.in 
 with Apollo^ (believing him to be aShcp- ?A^^^- 
 herd^who was a God) and when afterwards 
 they have fcen themfelves flea'd like Calves 
 have begged pitty 3 have offered promifes, 
 but in vain; for he thatrefolv'dto havchis 
 skin^would not give him a word: nor would 
 hefuffer himfelf to be overcome with in- 
 ' treaties, that hvid overcome in Singing ? I'l 
 " fliort 5 hov/ many be there that have found 
 tl>emfelves in the middeft among Vipers, 
 andAfps; nor have they known of whom 
 to complain befides themfelves alone j that 
 rafhlyrullit among them , too late taking 
 ' heed, and have complain'd to no purpofe ? 
 as that unfortunate Z^^^j^^^/^Army, that find- 
 ing in yiffrkk^ vaoxc Monfters, than humane 
 enemies:, with whom to fight : faid 
 
 — r Nihil Africa de te, ^-f^c tJ^j 
 
 Necdete Naturaqueror, Totmonftraferentem 
 (jentihus ahlaium dedera^ferpentibus crhem. 
 Inlvcaferpentum nosvenimus^ 
 
 Q_4 Sucli 
 
n 
 
 •nt'^ii 
 
 The Second Part. 
 
 Such as one was Ruffims , who forely to 
 his coilftung, and piovok^d^ St, Jerome; 
 and chofc rather to be his emulator than 
 friend : But afterwards proving how dexte- \ 
 reus a hand he had to ftrike, and heavy to 
 wound, he would have withdrawn himfelf 
 from the fray, crying; "That hehadfuffi- 
 '^cient punifhment in himfelf without his 
 "^^ blows : That Love of Truth, notpaflion 
 '-'had guided his hand whileft he writ: 
 '^^That it was not handfom betwixt Chri- 
 ^^ (lians 5 between Monks; to take up the 
 "Pen, and to ufe it as a Sword to hurt one 
 ^*^ another. To whom StJerome^Sfto^ hid 
 he ) me nefcius vulneram : quid ad me qui per-- 
 cufujjum / Num idcirco curari non deheo qui A 
 lu me bono animo vuIueraBi / Confofiu jaceo : 
 ftridet vidnm in fe^ore. , Candida pri us f anguine 
 membra iurpantur : 0"tumihi dicoA^ Noli ma- 
 num adhibere vulneri , ne ego in te videar vulne-^ 
 ra/pLj^ 
 
 Cautions 
 
DetraSiion. 233 
 
 Cautions abeut the nice myjiery of 
 oppofing others J and defejtding 
 ourfel'ves. 
 
 IT fufficeth not by way of advice to fuch 
 as know little and prcfiime much to 
 have hitherto faid, that a Shoomakhr, 
 who in his Craft raifcth not himfelf uLra 
 crepidam; ought not to climbe to the face and 
 cenfure a countenance defignedand painted 
 by Jpelles; whofe Art, as he hath not Eyes 
 Learifed enough to underftand it, fo ought 
 he not much lefTehave a tongue fo bold as 
 to condemn it : But it reds alfo to fpeak of 
 that which is required in contrafts between 
 the Intelligent ; thatfo they may attein to 
 the level of reafon, and agree with the Stan- 
 dard of Equity ^ And they are either arreign- 
 ments of others writings 5 or defences of 
 our own. 
 
 And to the writing againfl: others : As 
 the Love of Truth 5 ought to be that alone, 
 which puts the Pen into the hand, and in a 
 certain fenfe dubs the Writer her Knight • 
 fo Modefty ought to be the Miftrefle diat 
 teacheth the Art of managing it : ufingit 
 
 net 
 
\ 
 
 234 T^he Second Part. 
 
 not .IS the Lance of a Souldier^but of a Chy- 
 rurgion ; againft Errour to amend ; not a- 
 gainft the Authour^ to offend him : Therctn| 
 evincing himfelfagood Scholar of Divin€| 
 VVifdom the Word, whofe Mouth in the 
 C^«^ 5. Canticles \s compared not to Roles, which 
 yet are of a colour, that more than all other 
 Flowers rclembleth the Lips ; but likened 
 to the Lillies : and this , not only bccaufe 
 the candure of the proper and native Ve- 
 rity of the mouth of C/?;//?, without painting 
 or borrowed imbcll irhment, by it felf alone 
 lufficiently refplends ; which is the inge- 
 . nious furmifc of Theodoret: but alfo, becaufe 
 JncAp.^ the Lilly is a Flower^nolefle innocent than 
 Cant. lovely : without pricks, orroughnefle , to 
 render it (harp and pungent. Vlosfuhlimis 
 (faith St. y^w^r^ofC/i/z^pourtraycdinthe 
 Lih. 7.«« Lilly^J immaculatm^ znnoxius^ in quo non /pina* 
 Lhcm. ^^^ o^endat aj^eritoA y /id gratia circumfu/a da- j 
 refcat, 
 
 7ud(r,c.s ^^^^ ^^^^^ whilft they fought againft 
 ^ Si/era , broke not their order , forfook not 
 their ports, nordifcompofed themfelves in 
 doing it. Manentes in ordine^ ^curfufuoy ad- 
 *verfus Siferam pugnavemnt. And thus ought 
 they to do that undertake to write againft 
 others 5 which yet is a combate not with- 
 out vidory, though without bloud. Itis 
 
 good 
 
Detra^ion, ^35 
 
 jjood to beware, that in running the Lance 
 bfhisreafon, he lofc not histtirrop-, and 
 [:hcreby the mcritof Wit be overcome by 
 i::hedefea:ofPalfion: And that he ccnfurc 
 not the pride ofP/ato-^ with the pride o(D/o- 
 ^enes; rendring huiifeif criminal in the very 
 aft of recriminating. 
 
 The convincing one of errcur , is to put 
 the finger into the wound, and tofcarchic 
 even to the bottom 5 anafrion to be done 
 with exquiiite deiicatenefle , that the cure 
 icaufe not more anguilh, than the wound. 
 Difcrect Bjfpocrates^ commanded that the Lihro d* 
 eycsofthefick , as parts cxt ream delicate, 'w^^^^^* 
 (hould be wiped with the purcft linnen -, 
 and the wounds cleanfcd with the ibfrcft 
 fpunges j and both done with all pofliblc 
 dexterity and lightnefleofhand. And be- 
 fore him the Protowedicus Holy Raphael or- 
 deredyoungr^^/^5 thatin the cure of the 
 eyes of his blind Father, before he applyed 
 the Gall tor medicine^he lliould give him a 
 kiiTe for love. Ofculare eiim ^ flAtimam lint ^^^* i^ 
 fuperoculos ejus exfeUeiJto : We would pre- 
 fcribe thcilike advice to fuch as pretend to 
 illuminate the eyes of the mind oi: the erro- 
 neous ; (till to have regard that the Gall of 
 reprehending another for his crrour (which 
 although it were only to publilhit, yet is a 
 
 coUjrmm 
 
1 5^ The Second fart. 
 
 coUiritm of great (harpnefTeJbe not disjund- 
 ed from the Kifle/ind the Kiffc disjunct from 
 Love. 
 
 CArneadesth^ Academian, being refolved 
 to write againft ZenoPatron of the rigid Scdtl 
 ofth^ Stoich; with a fmal' pill ofHelliborc 
 purged his ftomackriom peccant humours, 
 efpecially from Choler , to the €nd their 
 fumes ihould not obfiifcate his wit in that ^ 
 ggli* Ith. important adion. Nequidl cormptis injlo- V 
 '7'^"55« macho bumorihm ad domiciliiim iifque ammi re^ 
 dmdered. He that hath purged his brain, and 
 knows what is fufficient for that which per- 
 teins to the enterprize of confuting-, let 
 him not omit alfo to purge the tartneffe of 
 Choler; fo that his dodrine and th^e man- 
 ner of dcUvering it be equally inculpable. 
 Lethimaccord the AffedioRS of his mind 
 ^^^ . to the Mufick of Reafon , that fo the ftyle in 
 Xenoer^ which he exprcffeth himfelf, do not partici- 
 pate ofdifBcuky, ordiffonancy. jLct him 
 not enter the iifis till he hath made that facri- 
 fice to the Graces ; thvUthe complaccntial 
 P/^r^advifed the churlilli Xenooates. Then 
 let him go as thofe prudent andl puiflant 
 Spartans that fell not ta the Battail at the 
 found of the ratling Drum ^ bur of the Bag- 
 Lib, 2. P^P^ '^"^ Flute, Utmodejliores modulatiorefqm 
 cap. 1 1, farent , faid Ikujdides in Ge^Jius. Otherwife 
 
 he 
 
> 
 
 DctraSlion. 137 
 
 le that is not as appaflionate as you feeing 
 'ouf-difcompofed method j will fcorn and 
 lifdainyou. It will bcalfo faid to you as^the 
 oct dHenander(3xdx.o Phjlemon his Antago- 
 iift.& through the ignorance of the Judges 
 Jfo his Conqueror , ^<£fo te honaveniadic 
 nihL, cUtnmevincisnonembefcuiYow acquire, 
 i\ .Aigh you know your *Veny to be good) * ^ ^^'^ 
 fyou be not as modeft as efficacious, the ^/j^^^.'^'t/ 
 r ^'c of that cruel Chyrurgion of Ro}yie^ lyejefice. 
 , .:ch for the roughneiTc with which he . 
 ndifcreetly madeinfcitionsj loft the name ^. ["^^ ^ 
 ofChyrurgion gaining that of Cir/^A:. Areha- 
 
 But far more difficult is it for one , pro- guthw. 
 /oked to flop at the marke of Realbn; 
 when he thinks his refentments may be 
 xeer, for that his provocation is juft and rea- 
 fonable. This is one of ihofc not ordinary 
 tempefts in which it is neceflary to be pro- 
 vided of the Rudder of Refpeft , and an ex- 
 traordinary Maftery over the Affcdions ; 
 fo that one while with flight , another wli|^c 
 with force we ward offhand break^the forces 
 able and impetuous aflaultsofthe Billows. 
 That Moderamefiinculpau tuteU^ih^^o. where 
 itis lawful to conjoyn in defence of ones 
 fcif, is a line fo difficult to be touched, with- 
 out running beyond it -, that it refcmbles the 
 cafe of him that runs down the fteep of 5 
 
 Hill, 
 
238 The Second Part. 
 
 Hill , and can very hardly (in that rather pi x • 
 cipice than race) fo comand his feet,and the 
 bulk ol his body^ that at the place where he 
 is to ftop. he run not fome (teps farther than 
 the w:\ik' 
 
 If I hold my tongue 5 men will think] 
 
 plead guilty by a tacit confeflion. If I rc- 
 
 fpond not boldly ^that will appear a rcmorfe 
 
 of a guilty Confcience^ which would be 
 
 the di(5rare of an innocent modefty. Thus 1 
 
 (hall become the Owle of Writers , and 
 
 fcorn of the World ; For even the Spiders 
 
 make their Webs upon the Statues about 
 
 the face and beard oi Jupiter ; nor fear they 
 
 his thunder-bolts ^ becaufe they are in the 
 
 hands of a Wooden god infenfible^ and 
 
 incenfatc. To anfwer one, lo^ that he come 
 
 off with torn Clothes , and a broken face • 
 
 would be in one, to warn all others, thai 
 
 they rake heed of two bold ftiarpningthei 
 
 Pens againft fuch who know how to turr 
 
 th«m into Darts 5 and retort GaJlforlnkj 
 
 and wounds for flings. Thus the thurder- 
 
 bolts from the Clouds Paucomm pericuh , 
 
 Sen. de multonim metu. One burns with the pain oJ 
 
 CUmdiA if^ all freeze for fear of it 5 and the death oi 
 
 cA^, S. ^y^^ alone , teacheth many to fear Heaver. 
 
 though fereneiremembringhow it thunder 
 
 cth v/hen incenfcd. 
 
 With. 
 
j DetraSiion. 33^ 
 
 I V Vithal^ there be many 5 that abandoning 
 I themfelves to Palfion, to aflfert their Right, 
 jrehnguilhallReafon. And the blind Fools 
 percdvenot, thatCholcr inaDifputant is 
 j commonly an argument ofwcaknefle , and 
 a fign of being overcome ; ascalmnefleand 
 mirthj is ateftimony of Vidiory. Thus that 
 Prince, the friend of Sj/donius AfoUlnanusj 
 prefently adjudged him conquerourin the 
 Difputation, as foonas the paflionofthe 
 adverfary did confefle it. Ohle^atur commo- Sill'tAl 
 tionefupemi; & tunc demum credit fihi ceffijp cptfi.z. 
 Cellegam^ cum fidem fecerit vi^orU fu^ , bilis 
 alienor- 
 
 Moreover, as to every oppolition of 
 every emulator , vvc need not rcfpond: 
 (whence therefore excellent was that faying 
 \Qi Xenocrates in my jugdment; Tragoedy Laert. in 
 vouchlafeth not to anfwer the injuries, that XenKr. 
 ^^Comoedy offers)fo alfo every oppofition to 
 ^ which we ought to reply, requireth not the 
 {ame temper in the Reply. VVhen a Dare 
 hath only peirc'd the skin, to what purpofe 
 (hould a man rave 3 and take on, as if it had 
 transfixed his bowels ? Let it fuffice to imi- 
 tate the Elephant, that difburdeneth himfef 
 ^^of an hundred Darts by one (hake, and 
 
 .11 
 
 Mjota cHte difmit hajleu. LffcAf 
 
 Yea 
 
2AO T^he Second Part. 
 
 Yea fometimesjthe caufe isfo obvious^that 
 there is an advantage in (hewing what could 
 be faid, without fo much as deigning to 
 fpeak it. There is not a creature better pro- 
 vided for its own defence , nor more apt to 
 another s offence then the Forcufinc^^ 
 
 Ext em Am nonqumtopem, Fen omnUfecum* 
 t^i' «5;?/>/Atr'^/?r^5 /iye jaculo^ fefe utitur arcu^ 
 
 *** *J ' Vtmm animal cmHas heUorumfoJJldet artes. 
 
 But againfthim that provokethit^though 
 it have all the pricks of: its body , as Darts 
 in the nock , yet he ufeth not his utmoft 
 power, and that which he can do with one, 
 he doth not with two 5 and if threats fu& 
 fice, he forbears to wound 
 
 l^l^^ — Iraque nunquam 
 
 Frodigatelomm^ CautiContenta Minari. 
 
 He only ereds his bi'iftles, and as it were 
 putting them in the bow, he feems to fay 
 to fuch as offend him^ Loo'^to jourfehestbere. 
 Cap' 6. This manner of Apology TertuUian ufeth 
 writing againft the Valentmms ^ Oftendam 
 (faith \it)fednon imprimam vulneraJi ridehitur 
 alicuhi 5 materlls ipjisjatisfiet. Multa fmU fie 
 dlgna re vinci^ ne gravitate adorentur^ 
 
 But 
 
DetraBion. 
 
 ^4* 
 
 But when either the importance of the 
 Matter, or the infutferable taitneflcof the 
 Provoker j admits not of filence , or diffi- 
 mulation, afTume a ferious Defence, and. 
 fct on work all that iswithin the power or 
 capacity of Wit, Art, Reafon , and Elo> 
 quence. In this cafe you may Thunder and 
 Lighten : but let not the lightenings be 
 compofedof ftinking fulpher to infc6]: the 
 World, but of pure light to clear the Truth. 
 Flie not out irregularly through Palfion ; 
 })ut free your felves juftly by reafon. Let 
 there be, as in Jams the God of War, the 
 face of a youth, and of an old man ; Spirit, 
 and judgment 5 Fortitude and Maturity ^^ 
 Refolutionand Moderation. C^rjfo^omeh- jj^^^^ .} 
 mcnted not ; ^lod tanquAm lupj m adverfa- in Man. 
 rios ruAmusyfdpe/tne vi^oriAy qui tamen vinc'e^ 
 rimus , fi oves ejfemus h pajlorh auxllio non re- 
 cedentes ^ qui non luporum: fed ovium paH:dr 
 efl. _ 
 
 Learning would be happy, ificsProfef- 
 fors fhould ufe betwixt themfelves the emu- 
 lations, and contrafts, wherein zx^^rotogenes 
 i^nd -^/<f//i?j lovingly contented, in drawing 
 in th^ midft of a very fmalUine , another 
 line morefmall than that , without the Icaft 
 crookednelTe : If the pungent, and refplen- 
 did Arras of V Vit, were Q^sCa£idorUs (aid of 
 
a 4^ T^l^^ Second Purt. 
 
 Liy.-j. certain others armajurliynonfurorf Si rayes 
 for. I . of verity, not Darts of Dctra<aion* But to 
 conclude, experience fhews , that the con- 
 troverfics of wit, of Civil that they {hould 
 be, for the moft part become criminal ^ 
 whereupon it would be better in my judge- 
 ment , when the intereft of publick good 
 pcrfwades not otherwife , to convert the 
 Sword, and Speare,into Plow-(hares,aad 
 Mattocks 5 and to cultivate their own wits 
 . rather than to contraft with others. But if 
 the itch ofcontradidion, permits them to 
 live quietly no way, but by difquieting o- 
 thers ; do the want (as faid St. Jerome to 
 Augujtine^ rcfufing to come with him to a 
 trial of wit , and to difpute,) do they want 
 publick Matters ofErroursj Hereticks, 
 Atheiftsj&Politicians to cope with/Lct them 
 fparemen,and killbeafts. Letthenjfay withi 
 £nteUus when inftead of 1)aretes his enemy 
 he flew an Oxe. 
 
 'Brictyl here toyoHthiifoul prefentj 
 As heing more worthy ofthisfunijhment 
 Than that (T/'Daretes. AndY i oroK^rnvf 
 As ufelejp^ lUy hji mjArt^ mdbow. 
 
 SELFi 
 
H3 
 
 SELF-CONCEIT. 
 
 The cfieem of a mans ownhjtoYpledg 
 rpith dijpraife of others * 
 
 T He head of a man is not fo incapa- 
 cious, but thatj better than the fa- 
 bulous Budget of Ulyjps 5 it can 
 
 ^ conteirt as many Winds as Pride and Lofti- 
 nefle infpire ; nothing lefle forceable to 
 turn upfide-down the Sea^ and Land> than 
 are the Whirle-winds to raife Tcmpeftsi 
 and the exalations , imprifoned in fubterre- 
 neanCaverneSjto (hake it with Earthquakes^ 
 Thofe unfortunate Scholars know this to 
 their coft ; which (I know not if I (hould 
 fay, in, or rather befidcs their Wics.,) go fo 
 ftately, that they think they are riding in 
 their Triumphant Chariot. They are the 
 Sau!es , that are above others Jl^ humero cr 
 
 furfurtiy not by the head fo much , as by the 
 brain , and opinion of themfelves, Thefe 
 arc the Oljimpm'es^ of whom 5 the loftiefl 
 fummities of Mountains^ the moft elevated 
 ingenuities, and wifcft Soules^fcarce attcin 
 |0 5h^l>afis> and to kifle their fe^f-' They 
 
 % 7^ " m 
 
'2A/i The Seco?2dPart. 
 
 are the Smis ^ that alone have light to illu- 
 minate all obfcuiity , and to obfcure ^ 
 clarity. ,_^ 
 
 Thcfe^Iknow not whether they Thould 
 more move tears in Beraclltus^ forcompaf- 
 fion^or laughter in D^w^cr/V/z/^fordcrifion. 
 And howbeit you efteem that Alexanhusxhc 
 Grammarian , is worthy of the pity of a 
 Phylofophcr rather than the (corn of the 
 Vulgar j to whom his School {eeming an 
 Clcmzv.t, Heaven i the ranks of Forms that flood 
 Mex, iH ^boyj. j-jjj^ ^ circulations of Spheres , the 
 Boyes he read to. Stars j his Documents, 
 Light; the Nowns , Pronowns , Verbs^ 
 Articles, Sec, Signes of the Zodiack; him- 
 felf made a Sun ; nor would he be any other 
 way dcpainted, or called : and it was a 
 crime to behold him without a certain fuf- 
 fcring of the ey es^as when they are fixed on 
 the Sun : Yet that Title would better have 
 fitted him, which Tjiberius ufedto give to 
 */r^ ^pp^on^ a Grammarian as himfelf, and no 
 rhl'^^^' lelfe a Bragadocchio then he, being empty 
 of undcrftanding, and full of Wind , anil 
 therefore apdy called Cymlfalnmmundi. ' 
 
 What think you of that other Remnius^ 
 (rather PaUon ihdinPollemon;) that went up 
 and down bewailing the misfortune oft) it* 
 VVorld;^ that (bould remain after him; .1^ i? 
 
 /' ^ had 
 
Self-conceit. 245 
 
 had done before him ignorant : in regard 
 learnings that was born with him, with him 
 alfo (hould die? And upon the matter it 
 feemedtriie; for he being dead, there was 
 not one letter left to make his Epitaph. 
 
 But the proud conceit that the tenth ^A 
 phonfus Kmo oi Ca/lile ^ had of his Wit and 
 Knowledge (urpaftthe bounds of common, 
 yea, rather of humane opinionntivencfTe j a 
 man by profeflion an Aftronomer, (ot 
 whom now a dayes thofe Tables- of his 
 called Alphonfine take their denomination) 
 notyetoffo fubHme intelligence, norof 
 fuch knowledg in this Art, that Atl^ i"Oight 
 have trufted Heaven to his (houlders, with- 
 out endangering a ruinc ; but of fo high 
 efteem ofhisownbrain, thatheufed rof-iy, , . 
 That had he been permit teJ, Gods ear when he i^^y.^^^. 
 compofe^ the Heavens , and ajjtgnsd the periods jjiCcar. 
 to the Stars ; he would have contrived thliwor!^ '^'jpdi j^ 
 with more order ^ and rvith rules of more exa^f '' 'p- s^ 
 proportion-j. Now God interrogated j^i as ^^^v^o 
 of a thing, tranfcending the capacity ofour ^ ^''^'^ 
 wits ; Nnmquid nosfi ordinem Coeli / c^ pnes 
 rationem ejus in terra! If God would go to 
 School to Jlphonfusy heoffcrcth himfelf to 
 be his Matter in Aftronomy •, And if he 
 would bring him the Volumne of his eter- 
 nal Idea's,, he would blot out, he would 
 R 3 " ^^]^'^ 
 
2J^6 The Second Part. 
 
 adjuft the Model of the Heavens> andtiic 
 Pattern of the World to a more methodical 
 contrivance. 
 
 Only madnefle could defend this Waf- 
 phemy from the fulminations of the Uol^ 
 vcns y whcrt pojuit osfuum : and indeed God 
 imputed it to his folly , ufing him with 
 more compaflion than anger, and by letting 
 him blood as a frantick perfon in the vein in 
 the middle of his fore-head, took away his 
 Crown. He would give him to underftand, 
 that he would not have known how to ad^ 
 juft the Revolutions of Heaven to a better 
 form ; and therefore fent him a Revolution 
 in his Kingdom ; whichhe^with all the Ca- 
 nons and Rules of his Calculations , never 
 knew how to adjuft; whereupon he came 
 tobedepofed by his Son and died an exile 
 in a forreign Countrcy. 
 
 Men diftradled as Alexarchm-, as IRemmus^ 
 although perhaps lefle known, I doubt not 
 but ("as in all times,) fo alfo fuch there arc 
 now a-dayes in the World. He that would 
 pomtray them to the life, may depaint a 
 great Smoak, fthat advanceth it felf even to 
 the Clouds, and the more it exalts,themore 
 do thofe its great Volumnes fwell anddi- 
 In P/. 3 6 liite-,) thereto affixing the Motto oiAuguJlint 
 ^anthgrmdior^^tm\i>VAniQr. 
 
 Hearing 
 
Self-conceit. ^47 
 
 Hearing them fome times (peak in their 
 ownpraifc^ and in uncfer-vaiuing of others ^ 
 we may know how juftly they merit the 
 falute that Philip oi Macedonx^tmntdtohis 
 proud Phyficianthat writ to him, Menecra^ 
 tes ]upiter VhiYx^^ofalutem: The anfwer wa^^ 
 Philippus Mcnecratiyir/^//i?/^w.*which was to 
 make himfclf the Doftor of his Dod:or; 
 and to fend him for the health of his brain, 
 a dofe of HMor in a faUue. You may hear 
 them brag, ^«That under their Caps and 
 «^ Gowns the moft lofty, & mod profQund 
 *^ Sciences are touched as the Pearls arc 
 ^f confined to the (hels of the"^ Pearl Cockle. * c$chtU. 
 ^^ That their Diftions are the Charts of fe- 
 ^^cure Navigation, without which in the 
 ^^ Sciences, we incurre, naufrage or peril. 
 ^f That their Documents are at the ultimate 
 '^ extent of Truth , as the Stars at their cx- 
 ^^ tremity of the Worlds confines : fo that 
 
 Ahius his nihil ejl^ h^cc confinia tnimdl^ AfxniL i 
 
 " Others are the Ciftcrns , tlicy the O- 
 ^^ cean ; others Moles, they Linxcs; others 
 ^VFartalla's, they Eagles ^ others Flics they 
 «^ Hearns. 
 
 O Medici^ mediam contiindite venam / 
 
 R4 And 
 
^ a8 The Second Part. 
 
 And if not fo^atlgaftletthem attempt to 
 .Qpen the door to let out the wind, with 
 which the wretches have their heads fo puft 
 up; and this may be done by bringing their 
 eyes into the light of fome perfpicuous ve- 
 riticssSuchasthefci 
 
 I Eve)y one fancies his own things ^ being. 
 Little^ to he great. Self-love is a concavd- 
 glaflc that reprefents an Hair to be a Trce*,-^ 
 and a Gnat to.be a Vegafus. He that taHes- 
 Love for a Jwdg, efteemes his matters as that 
 C//V/^jefteemeda NAval^^i^ in which bat- 
 Tint. Or, tcring and finking onely three grecian Gal- 
 ^Jefon, lies , as if he bad either routed Xerxes , or 
 Alex, fmpofcd fetters upon the Ocean, from 
 thence- forward he alwayes made himfel£ 
 to be called by the majeftick title of Nep- 
 tunt^. 
 
 Whence is it that the Moon being forty 
 times lefTe than the Earth, feemeth to the 
 judgment ofthe eye equal to the Sun^ which 
 yet is greater than the Earth almoft an hun- 
 dred and forty times? But only becaufe 
 the vicinity ofthe Moon to thcEaith, re^^ 
 prefenteth it fo much greater; as the Sua* 
 appears lefler 5 by beiqg more remote. But : 
 thrc.is nothing fo nccj^toanyone, asishis 
 o /,: cornpofures ; thence it is that they* 
 ■'' :-.cm immenlurably g^eafV^d 
 
 more 
 
Self-conceit. ^49 
 
 tnorevafl: than thofe of other men , which 
 by being befides us ^ and therefore remote 
 from us 3 are much diminilhed in thcit;^ap- 
 pearancc. 
 
 2 Compare a Grafs-hopper to an Ant , and 
 vho doubt hit that it would feem a giant I He 
 that meafurcs what he knoweth , though 
 very Httle, with what he knoweth who 
 knoweth nothins ; believes himfclftobe 
 iabfokitely , when as he is only compara- 
 tively, moft Learned. Thofe that went to 
 ftudyat Athens ^{diA Menedemus^^'Zx\t\i\{\thQr: 
 Dodorsj continued there Scholars, and 
 came away Ignorants. Not only becaufc, pim^re. 
 the more they underftood that which they c^mm-jdo 
 knew^5 ^he more they cdme to know what 'fr'f'&c 
 they did notunderftand ; but alfo becaufc, 
 they met 5 in that moft Celebrious Con- 
 Icourfe oftheNobleft Wits of the World , 
 jwlth filch to confront their underftandings, 
 Ithat compared to them^ they believed they 
 [knew nothing. "This was the Art by 
 ■^ which moft prudent J'^rr^i'^i corredcd the 
 ^* preftimptionof his^/r/^W^/j who being 
 ^ rich by paternal inheritance , and by his 
 ^ acquift of much wealth, became fo ftate- 
 ■'ly, as if he had been a Monarch of the 
 •^ World not a private Citizen o^Athens* 
 I * He brought him to the knov^iedg of him- 
 
250 The Second Part. 
 
 *^ felf, by a Map of the World, in which he 
 <^ {oyxnd Europe^ 2.nd'mitGreece ^ znd'mgre^a 
 " with much a-do Athens; Now (faith hej 
 *^fiew me here thy Houfe^ andthf Fields : whki 
 ^' havings as thou fee^^ no place in the Worlds 
 ^^ how comes it , that thy head is filled withfiu\ 
 «^ contempt ihk thoughts of the Worlds Hc th^l 
 believeth himfelftobe in Ingenuity an^ 
 Wit a Star of the firft magnitude, lethitu 
 compare himfelf not with the IcflTer 5 buj 
 with the Suns of the World; and inons 
 and (he fame inftant , he (hall fee his ambi- 
 tion to wane, and his light to vani(h. 
 
 3 1 hat one ^ where oa he is great among others,^ 
 (hould defire to he greater than others; where ^{^ 
 heisoneofthefirft^ he/hould deftre to he alonej^\ 
 is that which may not hefuffered in anyone^ mm\ 
 then heretofore it was tolerated, in that prom 
 VefleiHs Pompey 5 Qui, ut primiim RerapubliQiBC 
 ToMk 2. aggreffus eft, quemquam animo parem nor 
 *^* tulit, & in quibus rebus primus efledebebat 
 folus effe cupiebat. For though you be 
 excellent in every profeflion of literature, 
 yet are you not a Fhoenixy alone, and fingul^ 
 in the World : nor a Frimum Aiohile, thai 
 without receiving impreflion or motioci 
 from a Supedour Heaven , giveth the mo\ a 
 don , and revolution to the lefler Spheres 
 Whois there, that knows fo much, tha 
 
 other 
 
Self-conceit. 2^ 
 
 iJicrs before him knew nothing; fo that 
 
 ic may affumcthe infolent words of Prince 
 
 f^^/)a4 y Vos nefcitu qHtdquMmi Nature was 
 
 tetfo fterile, that you being made, fhehad 
 
 iibtthe like Molds again to make others : 
 
 l4or fo poor , that to make you rich itt 
 
 liflowledg, fhe (hoilld leave others Beggars. 
 
 wherefore then look you round about you, 
 
 nd thinking you fee none in the World 
 
 fiat may ftand in competition with you 
 
 8r knowledge 5 fay you foolilhly to your 
 
 blveSjj as Deucalion(d\d, to his Companion > 
 
 V^x duo turhafuwus ^ Wherefore make you 
 
 /our wit a ProcruHes , and defire that every 
 
 )ne equallize the ftarure of your judgment 
 
 is the Standard of Truth ; and therefore 
 
 sat off the feet ofthofe that furpaffe you, 
 
 nd wrack the feet of thofe that did not 
 
 peach to your lenght ? 
 
 But admit you were for ingenuity the 
 irftamongft the foremoft^ is it a very infe- 
 iour and unworthy thing to be our own 
 Pancgyriftj audadeipifer of others ? Hear 
 low the Brooks roare^ andaccoftiiig with 
 ftones how they rumble , that they (eem to 
 carry not a Rivolet of water^but a Sea;& yet 
 naany times though their channel be amile^ 
 cheir depth is not a palm. On the other fide 
 
 I he real Rivers^no lefle deep than valt, with 
 r^ /. ' how- 
 
a <2 The Second Part. 1 
 
 ^ 'J 
 
 how much J I will fay, modefty/dotH< 
 
 go to the Sea ? There is not heard froi 
 
 them the leaft miirmuration that might ic 
 
 timatc the profoundity of their bottomi 
 
 the amplitude of their (hores^ the clarity j 
 
 their ftreams ^ or the impetuofity of th^ 
 
 currents • they move filently and quietlj 
 
 They that carry but a fmall depth (in w5j 
 
 many times it is true ^ but in the judgmer 
 
 alwayesj are moft intolerably clamorous-,3 
 
 with their own applauds, and the villifying 
 
 of others, deafen the world : whereby, ^ 
 
 fore they are aware , they make themfelve 
 
 the more contemptible, by how muchth 
 
 more they extol themfclves: for accordinj 
 
 to the Aphorifm oiS^moniacusj 
 
 evik^^* ^^^^^?J^^^ ^nlmdsnon cadit affeBata jaBatic 
 
 Butbecaufeitis the property of Opiniona 
 tive Wits , to ufe not only Pride onEartlij 
 but to exercife Curiofity in refpeft of Hea 
 ven \ in the firft, unjuft to men, to whon 
 they would be undefervedly fuperiour j i, 
 thefecond, impious to God, whofe being 
 whofe a(Sions they weigh by the weight 
 and meafure by the pole of their fhortunj 
 derftanding: take therefore upon this occa ' 
 fion the fubfequent confideratiorL.. 
 
 7i8 
 
Self-conceit. 255^ 
 
 vr ' '■ 
 
 trpo great e<vils of Misbelievers '-^ 
 Tlo ferch matters of Faith with 
 the curio fity of Phylofophy^ and 
 
 \^ to believe matters ofPhylofophy 
 with the certainty of Faith. 
 
 GEographers in their Protradions 
 upon Maps, or Globes of the Earth, 
 J when they come to the confines of 
 
 [Tountries hitherto difcovered, having no 
 ^novvledg of the others that remain, arc 
 iccnftomed to draw certain obfcure lines at 
 random, and in the fpace that is left to write 
 Vena Incognita. Of this cuftome of Geosra- 
 )hers Tlutarch makes a very apt uie^ in ex- ^« ^'^^ 
 :ufcofhis Pen, if undertaking to write the ^^^P- 
 incs of certain ancient Hero's , he could 
 loi: one by one particularize the enterpri- 
 zrs^ wtf h which they acquired the grandure 
 )fths:irnames, and the glory of Immortals: 
 )ccaufe Antiquity and Oblivion its follow- 
 er, rendered many places unknown, many 
 5arts of their lives, hid and obfcure. That 
 ifvhich Plutarch faith of the adions of thofe 
 inciem Worthies, is equally true of all the 
 
 ereat 
 
S<4 Th^ Second Part. 
 
 great maffe of matters, which may be cont: 
 prehended by our capacities. Much there 
 is known much refts incognita : rather not 
 unknown only, but unknowable, till fuel! 
 time as we enter into that School where! 
 the Word being Mafter iw the Ledure 
 of a bare look , teacheth with indelebk 
 and moft perfpicuous proofs , how vainlj 
 the Wits now a-dayes ftretch and wrack 
 their brains in tracing out new inventions^ 
 I fay the moft abftrufe Arcani<£ of Faith, 
 which are certain, if not obvious, require aii 
 implicit fubje<aion to believe them , not an 
 impertinent curiofity to examine themj^ 
 . * For a man that is of high ingenuity , and 
 
 of vaft intelledualSjmeafured with what h^ 
 prefumes to undcrftand it is no more than 
 a fhallow ditch , for to contein the Ocean 
 For though the fpeculations, and fublime 
 thoughts, with which the mind is elevated 
 to the knowledge of the occult truths oi 
 Faith, be very lofty, yet they can bring us 
 no nearer to them^than the Giants oiPhlegrA 
 were to Heaven, when they climbed to the 
 tops of rdion^ OJTa^ and Olymfnu 
 
 The eye of an Otvl is notmadetoveiw 
 the Sun, on which the Eagle with her ada 
 mantine pupil can fcarce immoveably fi^^ 
 Ijier fight. Filher 'boats with a pieeeof k 
 
Stlf'Cenccit. 355 
 
 (ail, and half a rudder^are not able to furrow 
 the Ocean, and difcover new Worlds, 
 \ What other are our intelleduals tied ? limns 
 tothe clog of thefenfes, but Oftriches , of ^'- 1<^»^-^ 
 greater bodies than wings, whereupon they ^^'^^^ 
 cannot raife themfelvcs a foot from the ' 
 ground , nor can they otherwifeflie, then 
 by diftending their wings in the Air, refting 
 ijieir feet all the while on the Earth. But 
 were we better feathered wefhould reach 
 the Clouds it not the Stars. What mind 
 is there, what Genius^ of that lofty know- 
 ledge, that maketh not to God a Sacrifice 
 of his thoughts, upon that famous Altar 
 o^ Athens dedicated , Ignoto Deo; and con- 
 fefling himfelf unable to underftand what 
 God keeps hid, of himfelf, and his affairs, 
 as it were clipping the wings of his thoughts 
 conformable to the laws of Sacrifice of 
 Birds ; faith not with Augujline:^ Melior eft .^ . 
 fidelis ignorant i a -^quhm temeraria fclenticu. 
 
 The water of a Fountain rifeth no higher 
 ;than the head and fpring from whence it 
 'flowes^ whereupon wc ufe to fay: That 
 I water afcends no more than it defcends. 
 Inow our judgment doth it not begin from 
 'the Senfes ? and thefe of what other arc 
 jthcy capable , than of matter within the 
 ' bounds ot fciifible Nature ? And how do 
 
 \vA 
 
 wc 
 
^t6 'the Second Fdrt. ' 
 
 we cxpcd hence Fontemaqw^faltentls in vitad 
 ^ternam\ w»hich,wc interpret oftheknow- 
 Icdg of things fupcrnatural, and Divine ? , 
 
 But amongftthofc^ which we may caH 
 wickedly curious ^ others thtre are, who. 
 prcfume to make thcmfclvcs Matters ofthj^ 
 cfwhich the World hitherto hath had noh^ 
 that have been Scholars; and whetting the 
 edg of their Wits^ maugre thcimpoflibilityj 
 would penetrate to thcVery Center of Veri- 
 ty, &fee.her inherfclf;, unveiledjand naked; 
 Tliey have fcarce a mouth to fuck the milk q\ 
 Vaith^ and yet they will gnaw the bones, and 
 rake thence the marrow ; As if they already 
 underftood that^whioh Nature\\-^\^ of intelli^ 
 giblcj foth^.t nothing refts for them to pene- 
 tratejbut only the obfcure mylleries oiFaiih. 
 They would be Hercules' s , that having fccn 
 and conquered, the Sea, Land 'and HelUtl 
 felf they might fay 5 
 
 Here ^^^ domita tellns^ tumida cejfemntfaiu^ 
 
 Ffire'fst' Inferna noflros ngn^fi^fii^^ impetus ^ 
 
 Immune coelum ejl, Dignus Alcidx lahor. 
 In alta mundi ^atiafuhlimis ferar, 
 Petatur cether~ - — > 
 
 But whilft they raife thcmfclvcs on tip- toe 
 and ftrctch out thcii* wings to flicj ho\^ 
 
 ictfonl 
 
Self-conceit. i^4 
 
 feafonable would it be for one to hint to 
 them^ttie much that they attempt^ and the 
 little that they atchieve: For one tp whifper 
 in their ears^whattheWomaofi'^w^r/^ (aid 
 to Cir/ft. Vomine^neque in quo haurias hahesy 
 ^puteus alt us eH. Before youafpire to grea- 
 ter matters , anfwer to the qucftion made 
 you by St. Jerome: Whjithe Elephmts^ that 
 are as it werefo many Mountains ofjiefh , have 
 mely four feet ^ on which they rejithe immeafura- 
 He majjes of their huge bodies: and the Loufe^ 
 vphich is hut a living? oint, hath fix I You will 
 confeffe you know notthis, (whichifyou 
 did^ you knew juft nothing; J and willyoU 
 pretend to underftand that, which ev:n that 
 man is not able to underftand whounder- 
 ftandsall things ? At the firft ftep you take 
 in the purluit of intelligible things , you 
 ftumble with Thdes into a ditch, and would 
 you attein to the fight of that which fo far 
 furmounts the Stars? ^^ How oppofiteto 
 " you, would the correcf^ionbe, which Zend 
 ^*^the Stoick, gave to a conceited young 
 *' Fellow 5 that had as little wit in his head ^ 
 " as hair on his face ; sind demanded his an- 
 <^ fwer to things , of which he was not able 
 *^ to underftand the demand: ThePhylo- 
 ^^ fophermade him fct a Looking- glafic be- 
 *^ for ehirat 5 and then wliifpered in his ear : 
 "" S ^'Ihi 
 
^' XM(km4ndjou }nak,e^and the qa^S^io»j/ou os^^ 
 ''^ are vporthj 0/ this heard* '^" ^ 
 
 Your Wit in comparifon of that of the 
 Great ^yiugn^ine , is but as a Grallioppcir 
 confronted to a Horfe ; and do yon pretend 
 to couch the lance, and hit the mark^ when 
 he withdraws, aixl prcfumes not to eflay it ? 
 Yea, (as it were flinging himfcif with that 
 Phylofopher into the Sea^ and faying ^ 
 ^H(T*^ ^« me cafe ^ qulateipfenon capio;) heai\ 
 hundred times protefteth in his writings 
 to know nothing ; and that he knew not 
 how to know 5 and goes on faying, Nefcio^ 
 d^ non eruhefco confiteri me nefcire quod nefcia. 
 Andhow dare you open your mouth, or 
 exalt your voice to contradid, andqueftion 
 that, to which for this fixteen Ages, the 
 Pens of a world of Dodors ; the Blood of 
 a world of Martyrs -, the confent of fo many 
 Nations ; the Teftimony of fo many Mi- 
 racles have fubfcribed and ratified ? With 
 the Rufh-candle of your Dim underftand- 
 ing, will you pretend to examine the light 
 of the Sun ? Cannot the Wifedom of God;, 
 your Mailer ,do as much wirh you; as that 
 of Pjithagora4 with his Scholars ? Nol?is cum^ . 
 fitate opus non eft pojl Chrijlum ]efiini^ nee /ii4.. 
 quijitiotiepofl EvangeliurrL^. ' " ' « 
 
 Others there are as vile as obftinatf,*!!;^. 
 
 fwcar^ 
 
Self-conceit. ^25^ 
 
 fwearing in verba magijlri; thd^ftake the 
 Texts of fome Ancient Phylofophers for 
 Sacraments ; and his Sentences for Ora- 
 cles : and fo far confeffe C/^r//?, as he doth 
 not contradidi Arijlotky or VUto. Thus they 
 hoidtheGofpel, andPhylofophy, in equi- 
 .fihrium^ in an equal poife of beHef. 
 
 ^uid Athenis, & Hierofoljmsi ^idAca- Uid^ 
 demU^d' Eccleji'ei Noflra znjlittttio de porticu 
 ' Solomonis : Viderint qui Stoicum e^ Platonicum^ 
 & Dialect cum Qhriftimum fro tiderun t. Ev en 
 at this day the Ctiurch bewails^ and (hall to 
 the end of the World complain of the de- 
 triments done her, by the prophane and 
 idle Wit of the Age ; and by the Ancient 
 Writers of the World; (Fathers of tene- 
 brofity^and Mafters of millions oferrours;) 
 to whom (he may confirm the Title con- 
 ferred on them by TertuUian of Patriardos ^^^^' 
 
 How much mifchicf did P/ato in the firft 
 Ages of the Church 5 too much read, too 
 much behcvcd , and fo made, as the fame 
 TertuUian {^QdkSy hcerefnm Condiment arium: 
 Heinftanceth, (palfingbyall the reft ^ fince 
 that he alone Icrves for all^) in unfortunate 
 Origen •, that of an Eagle which he had bccn^, 
 accuftomed to fix his eyes on the Sun of 
 Ghriiiic^n Prudence i and to draw thence 
 
 Si ' lights 
 
2 6 o The Second Fart. 
 
 1 Tghts pifcblimcft Truths ; was transform- 
 ed into Ireatt : admiring a few glimmering 
 rayes of light mixed with many umbrages 
 of ignorance and errour: and became (b 
 great a Platonick , that he in the end ceafed 
 to be a Catholick; lofing the Truth in 
 Fables , and the Faith in Phylofophy : and 
 that fame man whofe breaft had been kifled 
 tamquam Spiritus San5ti^ & ccelejlis fa^ientU 
 templum ; became Mafter of a School of Er- 
 roursj and Reader of the blind ; and fo 
 madly did he talk 5 that as before , Uti bene 
 nemo melius: fo after , tlhi male nemo pejus. 
 What infinite mifchief even at this day 
 Cajf.iiv. doth that Stmendi^ & defimendi artifex verfi^ 
 IcU. c. 2. pellii AriJliHle^ believed the Authour of the 
 mortality of the Soul; which in one word, 
 is as much as to fay, Deftroyer of the Faith, 
 and Father of thofe, that live without the 
 Souls ofMen^the life ofBeafts? How many 
 Cyr.ttA- ofthofewhomhehathinchanted ^ ^i nihil 
 Ih '' ' ' <?//W j//^;^ Arijlotelemrutiant^ hold only thole 
 points of Faith for certain, that accord witjbi 
 the Oracles cf Feripatui ! as if Religion we^ 
 a Grain, to be gathered out of the Chaff of 
 humane Phylofophy: and not a Bread of 
 hfe defcendcd from Heaven, to the end that 
 S.^ Hier. upon the tailing of its fweetncffc, we mig^t 
 ' i^iiQ\xii\\^\y^^^%y qu^mdidlamnoHl)ah^^ 
 
 lib, 4, in 
 J'r- 
 
 I 
 
Self-deceit. 261 
 
 mcpo^unt nutrin difcentitimfo^ulosy fed de ina- 
 nibusjllfulh conteruritur, 
 
 Thofe are Frogs, faith -^//^!^//y?///.^ji^^«4?ii/^- Serm.g^ 
 mantes fdudihus limofis (c^x)Jliepitum habere 
 fofmt^ doSirimm ver^fapientU in^iniiare non 
 foJJUnt. No W5 whilft the Heavens are open, 
 and yoLi hear the Father, (from thence 
 pointing with his finger to the Word his 
 Son,J to fay Ipfum audiic : will you lend one 
 eye to Cbrift, and the other to AnH:otle^ or 
 riato^ Qoelum tonat: ta^eant Ran^. where Cmjl 
 teacheth, and in him Truth , or rather he as ^^ ^^* 
 Truth it felt revealed ; Wifdomcisdumbe, dc'temv! 
 and thePhylofophy of the World fpeech- 
 lefle, ^phjlofo^hia noHra Chnjlus eft. s. Petrus 
 
 Dam, 
 -— — — ferm.^j^ 
 
 SELF-DECEIT. 
 
 The folly offnch as pretend tojindy 
 little and h^iow much. 
 
 IT is not the opinion ofHjppocrates only, 
 nor oi Ariflotle , andTheo^hrafha; but ^^^* ^<? 
 it is the common vogue and concor- • '^^^* 
 dant complaint of all the VVorld, Th^t hed- ^'^^'^* 
 ven hath been /paring to us cf that time , whereof Laert, in 
 ikhath heenfo prcdigal to Stags , Crows /^nd Tkeofh. 
 S 3 OfreJP^s. 
 
262 The Second Part. 
 
 Cy^reJJes. We have alotted us too fhott a 
 life for fo long a LefTon j too (hort a Viatic 
 cum for fo tedious a Voyage. There is no 
 fuch virtue now to be found in fteel , to 
 ftrenghtcn thofe Elixir viu , that inbalmed 
 Men alive; fo that feeing themfelves to ap- 
 roach their thoufanth year 5 they refolvedto ' 
 leave the World more out of (atiety with fo 
 long a life, than out of any ncceifity of death. 
 We, like Flowers that y efterday fprung up,, 
 to day are old , and to morrow dead, have 
 fo (hort life, as it we were born only to die, ^ 
 That which in the Ancients was but their 
 Child-hood, is in us old Age ; their tythes 
 are our exceflive riches, their overplufs's, 
 our treafures : fo that of horineffe and gray- 
 hairs , the Alexmdrian TertuUian faith, with 
 as much Truth, as Learning, h^c e^d^ternitas. 
 noJlrcu> 
 
 Ifour knowing in this manner, the fhort- 
 neffe of our hfe, could but perfwade us to 
 fpend it according to its brevity • that 
 would be a favour^ which we think a puni(h- 
 ment. Is an unreafonable thing to accufe 
 Heaven as niggardly of time to us , and we 
 like prodigals profufely to waft it 5 ufing 
 our life 5 as if we were to meafure it with 
 the long pace of many Ages \ not with the 
 ihor t palm of a jfew years. Who 15 there 
 ' " ' *^ " that 
 
that with the Prince of Phyficians a'ycsnot 
 out, J?^s longa^uitahn'vii^ but in the mean- 
 
 ! time, who is there, that is IbhcitoOs to 
 get quicldy, to the mark v^hich the nrjoft di- 
 ligent reach to^ but too late? AdfitfimtUm 
 quisaccediti ^h dignam judicata ^{/^^^^** />; J^ 
 tranfitu novem / ^is phjlofophiamy ant ullum itb.n. 
 liheyak refpicit Jliidium , nifi cum ludi intercA- cap, ult, 
 lanturyCumaUqidspluviiisintervenitdiesy quern 
 perdere licet^. 
 
 Nature with good advice hath placed 
 Man in the middle of the Worlds as in the 
 Center of an immenfe Theater , Procemm Deani/n 
 Auimal (fiiich Ca£iodorus) ^ in ejfigkm pnl- ^^p- 1^* 
 chenim^ fpecidationis ereBiim^ to be there noc 
 as an otious Inhabitor^ but a curious Speda- 
 tor of this her incomparable work : in fo 
 much union, {o various ; in fo much variety 
 founited 5 with more miracles , that adorn 
 it, than parts, which compofc it. Howbeit^ 
 
 i tothofc that rightly behold it , it is not the 
 defign of nature , to put us in the V Vorldi 
 fo much in a Theater , that we fhould ad- 
 mire; as in a School that we fhould learn. 
 Therefore fhe hath enkindled in our hearts 
 an incxtinguilhable dcfire of knowledge 5 
 and fetting open before our eyes , as many 
 Volumnes , as the Heavens and Elements 
 cogtein natures 5 with fhcwing us in them 
 S 4 mani-' 
 
i^£A The Second Part. 
 
 manifeft cffeifts, inviteth us to trace out 
 their hidden caufcs. What ftrengh what 
 force of intelligence of the afliftant , or ra- 
 ther intrinfick form is that, which revolves 
 the great maffe of the Elements with inde- 
 fatigable motion ? Are the Spheres of the 
 Planets many Heavens, that contraded in 
 the concave of each others lap interchange- 
 ably furround one another: orferves only 
 Heaven to all that great family of Stars foi* 
 Manfio^i ? Of what fubftance compofed ? 
 Corruptible or incorruptible ? Liquid as 
 Air; or confollidate , and firm , asaDia- 
 piond ? Whence proceed the MacuU, and 
 whence the FacuU about the Sun? Whence 
 the obfcurity in the face of the Moon? Of 
 what matter are the new Stars and Comets 
 compofed, and with what fire enkindled, 
 that appear unexpeftedly ? Are they For-- 
 reigners, or Citizens of Heaven ? Natives 
 of that Countrey , or Afpirers from here 
 below? The irregular errours of tlie Pla- 
 nets, bow may they be reduced to regula- 
 rity without errour ? How may weknow^ 
 how may v/c fore-fee Eclipfes ? How great 
 is the profoundity of the Heavens ? How^ 
 great the number of theStars?How great the 
 yclocitv of their motions? How great the 
 moles of their hoodies? The Winds^whence, 
 
 " ""'^' take 
 
*Sdf-dec€it. 2^5 
 
 : :^ake they their wings toflie ; the (paces of 
 ^their courfe, the force of their bhfts , the 
 qualities of their operation , and the fet 
 meafure of time for their rifing, duration, 
 departure ? Who holdeth fo many ponde- 
 rous Clouds fufpended in the Air? How 
 drop by drop do they fquceze out Rain? 
 How from their pregnant watery wombs , 
 are Thunders begotcen^which be fire?Who 
 congeals them into Snow ? Who harden- 
 cth them into Hail ? With what UltameL- 
 rm is the Rain-bow depainted with al- 
 wayes one order of Colours, and one pro- 
 portionate meafure of Diameter ? Whence 
 again , comes thefource of Springs on the 
 highefttops of Mountains? Whencecomes 
 it, that there fhould be in Hils of one & the 
 fameEarthjMarblesof fo various mixcures, 
 Mettalsof fo different tempers. Whoaf- 
 fignsthe Sea its periods , of flux and reflux. 
 Who replenifheth the Rivers with waters, 
 fo that their Channels are alwayes full , 
 though they be alwayes emptying > The 
 imbroidery of Flowers and Herbs; the 
 working of fo various bodies in Beafts, in 
 Birds, in Fifhes ; the temper of theraixt, the 
 harmony ofthe common and occult quali- 
 ties: In fine^what ever is, what ever is made : 
 what being hath it, and how is it produced ? 
 
 To 
 
766 The Second Part. 
 
 To know all this in comparifon of wh^j 
 might be known, is to know nothing : An^ 
 yet who is there that knoweth this Not 
 thing ? Is there thenfo much to be knowo^i^ 
 and have wefo little time of life to learn iti 
 and do we think that the oneiy furplullages^ i 
 andiiireds of time fufBceth usforftudy?v^ 
 Hear now what I have told you, exprcfled 
 in theconclufion of that precious little Trea- 
 ^^'^[^* iii^oi Seneca y Deotio Sapentu, Curiofumno*, 
 1 . '''^. hu Nalurainnnium dedit^ & artls fihi^ acpul*] 
 chrituainuJu(R conjaajpe^atores nos t ant is r^- 
 rumfpe^tacidis genuH ; perditura fru5ium fui , 
 fi tarn magna y tamdara^ tarn fukiliter duBa^ 
 tam.nitida^ c3" non uno gencre formofa ^ folitH-- 
 dini ojlcndent. Vt fcioi iUamfpe^ari voltiijp^ 
 non tantum afpici : vide quern nobis locum dedit. 
 Ad h^c qu^renda natus^ dUima quam non mtd- 
 turn accepem tempom , etiamfi iliudtotumtihi: 
 vindices. Licet nihil facilitate eripi^ nihil ne- 
 gligent i a patiaturexcidere , Tamen homo ad im^ 
 mortalium cognitionem^ nimismortalis eji. 
 
 Thofe SageSjMafters of the World:fome 
 whereof have left their Memories, and 
 others the productions of their Wit eter- 
 nized to us 5 knowing this , as weefteem 
 little Diamonds , fo they held precious the 
 ieaft minute of that time , of which alone it 
 i& coawendable to be covetous. It was a 
 
 miracle 
 
Self-deceit. 26 j 
 
 miracle to fee them in Publick: and they 
 refembled , as in the love of VVifdom , fo 
 alfo in this , the Planet d/VLercury^ which is 
 placed very necr the Sun , and which, by 
 that means very hardly is difcerned : as if 
 he cared not for terrene eyes, who alwayes 
 was in(the eye of the Sun : and beheld by 
 him 5 not with an unprofitable look , but 
 with a large commanicatioft of light. In 
 perpetuity of ftudy , they were like thofe 
 Falcons neer the Nort h- Pole-, which when 
 the dayes are ihorceft , when the Sun ap- 
 ,proachcthO?/7r/V/7r/73 are fo much more foli- 
 citous in fceking , fo much the more rapid 
 in followinga fo much the more couragious 
 in aflaulting, and ovcr-comming their prey. ' 
 Men, as white in their thoughts , as hair, 
 were not afnamedtofitintheopen ftreets, 
 where they found matter of new co^ni^ 
 tions : and as Diogenes to him that repre- 
 hended him for eating in the Market-place, 
 Cam inforo efuriam^ (aidhe, quareinforonon Laert^ 
 edam^ thus to them, the not knowing of 
 fomeobje^Sj was afufficient excufe to take 
 it where it offered it felfto them. Farther 
 more that which by the Law of Nature they 
 were bound to allow the body to prefervc 
 life, they allowed themfclvesfor neceflity 
 uotfor delight^ and many tidies it fell out* 
 V " ' ' " ■" thai* 
 
a68 The Second Part. 
 
 that, either with a voluntary abftinence,rhe 
 in part deprived themfelves of it, or immei 
 ged in the profound thoughts of their ftp 
 dies, for feme time forgot it. Thus Carnet^ 
 des^ (unmindful of his being a Man , whil 
 he was all mind, and all thought , andfate^ 
 with the fwectcft Ne5far of thofe nob! 
 cognitions, with which he banqueted hi 
 . VVit,) had let his body die of famine, 
 others by force had not revived him with 
 food. Thus Archimedes feemedalwayes out 
 of himfelf, whilft he was more than evei 
 An fern wholly in himfelf : whence , ah^ra^us 
 verenAa tahuU ^ a famtlis ^ (\d\d Plutarch) /poliatus^ 
 refp, unfits ^ Taper ipfapelle fun Mathematka Sche- 
 mata exarahat. Thus, to omit a hundred 
 others, Demo/ihenes ^ knowing himfelf in- 
 debted to his noble Wit for a more than 
 ordinary fucceffe, took his houfe for apri- 
 /bn : and, (having his head, oblieged him-r 
 felf from going abroad , till he faw his hair 
 grown on his head , and his mind improved 
 inVVifdom, which he wanted. We, that 
 ought to be fo much the more ftudious than 
 thefe,by how much the more ignorant, do 
 we conceit, we do not only enough, but 
 morethanweneed, ifrefervingone, ox^ 
 mofttwohoursiuaday fro the dulcities of 
 (leepjfrom the urgency ofnegotiation/rom 
 
 the 
 
Self 'deceit. 16^ 
 
 the invitation of profit, we dedicate them 
 h ftudy ? To lo little ftudy a Ncal^s age 
 ii^ouldberequifite: Farvis mtr mentis quart- Sym. ep. 
 fuama morte defendintm , nihil tamen ad rohu- ^^' ^^i* 
 ftamvaletudinem^romovemur. Drops of wa- 
 kr, continually tailing become chizels^ and 
 iXrcar away marble its true^but becaufe this 
 is marble and they drops of water 3 they re- 
 quire a hundred years time before they 
 ran cut a fingers depth. Did you never hear 
 I certain Paraftte in an Ancient Comoedy 
 l^be it oiAquiliui^ox: htk ofPlautus) intitled 
 Boeotia^ complain of him , that being witty 
 :o the detriment of others ftomacks , had 
 nvented the Art of making Sun-dials: 
 ki^hich becommmg the meafure of hours 3 
 md time, do govern publick and private 
 iftions 5 fo that now we muft no more eat 
 ivhen v/e are a hungry, but when itpleafeth 
 :he Dial ? Hear fome of the Verfes recited 
 by ^'eilius. 
 
 Ut ilium Li male perdanty primus qui horoi 
 
 reperit. ^'^- ?• 
 
 ^J^ique adeo primus Jlatuii hie Solarium^ ^^f* 5* 
 ^imihi cofTiminuitmi/eroarticuIatim diem^ 
 JSlam , me puero^ uterus hie erat Solarium 
 Mubo omnium i^orurn optimum & verijji* 
 mum^ ~ ~ 
 
^jo The Second Part. 
 
 il^i I Re moneh&t ejje nijicum nihil er At. 
 Kuncetiam non ejlquodeft^ nifiSoUluhet. 
 ItAquejim oppletum eft op^idum Solmii^ 
 Major pars popidi Aridi replant f am t^. 
 
 So great a defirefhouldyehave a!fo> re 
 feed your mind with the fwect honey of 
 VVifdom : that your (lecping hours (liould 
 fecmages, and the moft necefTary adionfi 
 forthe maintenance oflifc torments. Thai 
 {ixmcDemoJlhenes^ of whom a little above! 
 told youjhad fo great an appetite thereto that 
 to feed the mind lie made his eyes abftein 
 from fleep, and his belly from food: whcre- 
 S.Hhr, t^pon 5 Plusolei^ quhm vini expendijp dicitur. 
 f^p' r. o* orr^nes Artifices noEturnis femper vigiliii, 
 tontra. pntvenijp:^. I 
 
 -^»j- And this ought alfo to be a Law to you,noj| 
 to give to that m.oft avaritious Publican (as 
 1 p^d^g, Clement A !exnndrinuscd[\tt\\ Sonunus^hQ half ol ,, 
 taf. 91 . your life for Cuftome, It was permitted the 
 %Athu, ^y^^^ii^^^ humane Animals , that by publick 
 cdid: they fhould expulfe all Cocks from i' 
 their City; that they might not with tbeii^i^ 
 crowing break the thread off! ecp, iathei^ 
 fweeter hours : you , 'that are to ufe youijjj, 
 bcds;, not to bury your fclves in them , but, |f 
 to repofe y our felves upon iheiii ; ke(^p asji^. 
 PythagGras did a Faithful Chant icleere ; that in 
 
 ths 
 
Self-deceit. 271 
 
 the morning may wake you, and call you 
 from feathers to the Pen ; from the dreams 
 of the Fancy, to the contemplations of the 
 Mind. 
 
 It will notfucccedtoyou, as to that ad- ^iji,z 
 venturous VVarriourT/w^//'^//j', to whom c.io, 
 * Fortune with a great net drew Cities , Ga- "^ar.b^Jt, 
 toics. Provinces and caft them into his lap, 
 ■^whilft he in the mean-time lay favourily 
 ^fle^ping. In Learning^hc that fleeps arriveth 
 not to" his end , bccaufe Wifdom is not 
 the gift of Fortunt.but the fruit of Induftry . 
 Imagine that Ca£iodorus faith to you 5 that ^.y 
 with which he advertifeth others , of the f^j>^, 
 duty oF their office ; V^gi/a impiger cum no- 
 6iurnis avibus^ nox tilifandat afp6&us^ & ficuP 
 ill^ repenunt in ohfcuris cihitm ^ it a tu poffts in-- 
 venire prdconium, Thefe arc the moft pre- 
 cious hours of the day \ whether it be^ as 
 F/V/;z»/ teachethj thepriviledge of particular 
 hifluences of Heaven-, or for that the 
 iteoughts , imprcffcd on the pureft of the 
 spirits, whofe droffy and grofs parts either 
 ^Jifperfcd, or digefted with fleep, prefenc 
 ihemfelves to the glafs of the mind without 
 nterception5& in it moft apparently difcern 
 he reflexies ofthofe firft W^j'j-^thatare forms 
 ^)f the Truth. Howibever itbe^ theexperi- 
 ^mce ofthofe that pra(Sice it, teacheth, that 
 
 AnroYA 
 
Qja The Second Tart. 
 
 Aurora, is the mother of honey; and that iri 
 the early cMoming Pearls do fall uponth^ 
 paper of fuch as write, as the dew diftils it 
 felf into the Conchjlia^ to engender Pearls. 
 
 Tohimthatfleeps in this manner > fleep 
 becomes not only what TenuUian calls it, 
 C4p, 45. Recreatorem corporum^ redentigratorem virium^ 
 de 4nim, probatorem vaktudinum 5 peccatorem opemm. 
 medicum lahomm , cut legiiml fovenda diet 
 cedit^ nox legem fdcit^ auferens reriim etiam co" 
 lorent; but as he in an other cafe addeth, 
 MafteroftheRefurre&tonfor the worehlejfed uft 
 cfLif^. 
 
 A fpeech of an Angel in the mouth of a 
 
 Beaft, efteem I that excellent faying o^ApoU 
 
 Li i lonius^ j^i alehat (relates Phyloftr^tus) oppor- 
 
 vit, *<Jf- ^^^^ ^<^^^ Phylofophmtes^ adveniente aurora cuni 
 
 pi, Deoverfm; procedemedie^ deT)eoloqui^ reli- 
 
 quum tempus humnnis rehus^ o'/ermonibus dare. 
 
 For the imployments of the MMy in whac- 
 
 foever matter it is exercifed , there is not a 
 
 better time, than the firft Davph of day; ini 
 
 which it feems , that by certain or occult 
 
 confent, the light dawns to the Wit, as the 
 
 Clem. daybreaks to the World. Therefore Beati 
 
 AlexJb^ qulfeipfos Ajjimtlant Angelis ita vigihndo. 
 
 And this ought not to hold iil force for a 
 fewdayes enly,but to be the ordinary Law 
 ^f our lives, 7ha^ in the divifron of the hanrs oj 
 
 the 
 
Self-deceit. 275 
 
 'he day , voe dedicate thefirjly and commonly the 
 mo^tojludy. At lead we fhouldbcableto Tltmm 
 fay as that Great Mafter of Ancient Paint- ^-S^-^-i^ 
 ing 3 that there had not pafl: us one day 5 in ^''^^P^'^'^ 
 which we have not , if not fully depainted 
 aFace, yet at Icaft drawn fonic line. Light 
 and flame where it is kindled, is kept with a 
 little fuel 5 but if it be fuffered to extinguifh 
 and die^it will require much to re-kindle it. 
 Let us not be like the AJ)/^, xSxtNigris^ and 
 other Rivers; which before they fall into the 
 Sea bury themfclves feveral times under 
 ground, and as many times rife again. They 
 lofe themfelves in abftrufe wayes, rather 
 whirl-polsj and thence difgorging , they 
 arc found a new. They have a hundred 
 heads, they fpring a hundred times, and are 
 alwayes, and yet never the fame. To inter- 
 rupt the ftudies with certain long paufes, 
 mademoreby inconftancy of Genius, then 
 neceffity of great affairs; this is to undertake 
 muchj to profecute little ^ and to complete 
 nothing. 
 
 IM^ 
 
^74 1'^-'^ Second Part 
 
 IMPRUDENCE. 
 
 ii 
 
 The unprojitable cndeu'voHrs ofhitA 
 tbatjindtcth againji the inclina'^^ 
 tionofhk Cenim. J 
 
 TO fee out with fuccclTc upon ouj 
 journey 5 in ArtSjSclenees^and every 
 profeiTion of Learning 5 itisnecef- 
 faiy CO confulc the Genius^ and from its in- 
 clinations to take dircdions ; as for him 
 that goes to Sea , to obferve the wind that 
 blows^ to fit the fails, & turn the rudder ac- 
 cordingly. Nature is like the Planets^ that 
 \?vhere they go retrograde, make but fmalb 
 progrefTe. They get not moft from her, that i 
 moft preflTe and force her ^ but they that 
 moft pleafe and obferve her : whereupon, 
 fhe, which freely working in every, though 
 difficult enterprize , fucceeds withnolcfle 
 facility than felicity ; ( as the Coeleftial 
 Syrens revolve their great Spheres with their 
 melody,) ifviolence be offered her, fhenot 
 only not increafeth thevirtueby the force, 
 but rather lofeth her former vigour anH 
 ftrength : as water^ that by coW freezeth t 
 
 '" and 
 
Imprudence. 075 
 
 and if before it had motion, now all ftrength 
 isextind:, and it becomes immoveable, and 
 as it were dead. 
 
 He, that in the labours of the brain , is to 
 contraft , not fo much with the difficulty , 
 that is incident in the acquill: ot the Scien- 
 ces : as with his own C7t7;/V^; and with that 
 which the Matters of Arts calleth Invita 
 QjM.inerva : is like to him thatfwims againft 
 the dream in a place where fomc torrenc 
 precipitates; that toils much, but advan- 
 ccth little ; tiUfuch time as over-come by 
 wearinefle, and lofing together with his 
 little power the remainder of his will, he 
 prove by experience the truth of that natu- 
 ral AxIome^That things violent are not perma- 
 nent-'. 
 
 By this is evinced [he crrour oi-fuch as 
 apply themfelves to ftudies , and amongft 
 them, to ihefpeculative, orpradicalp or 
 mixt: wlien the Inclination 5 when theC?.-- 
 ;?//«, when the Nature admits it not : v^hich 
 is juft as it you would ftrive to make Riyers 
 leave theircurrents, to go chmb andalcend 
 the tops of hils. 
 
 The Wife ^^thenians efteemed it a foun- 
 dation of never knowing any thing , not 
 to know from the beginning to apply our 
 fllyes to tbatj for which Nature defign'd 
 T a us. 
 
Si 7^ T*/^^ Second Fart, 
 
 us. Thence it was that before they applved 
 their children to any profclTion, tbeycu- 
 rioiifly inquired into their Inclinations ; 
 of which the Defires commonly areTruth- 
 telling-Interpreters : and that they did, by j 
 laying before them the implements of all 
 Arts : Ut qua quifque deie5fabutUY ({ii\S\NU' 
 ^ ziunzen) & adquam (ponte cunehant ^eamdo" 
 
 //. £;/- '^hcy believed that Heaven called them 
 doxh. whether their Inclinations carried them. 
 And in that, they accord with the opinion 
 of the myfterious Cdes^ who at the firft 
 turn of her Table (hewed you Gemujy who 
 calling, direds men the courfethey fhould 
 fleer through the whole feries of this lifc^ 
 ManMat quideis^ uhi in vitam venerint ^ faci^ 
 endumfit , ^ cut vit^fe committer e deheant ^ fi 
 falvt ejp in vita velinty ojlendebant. 
 Dial, de God, faid T/^^/^fconcerning the honey of 
 ja/l^j.de a very excellent Truth under the comb of 
 Rep. [tib a Fable^ hath cemented the minds of men 
 fincm- together with Mettals. Into the Peafants 
 Iron, into thofe of Princes Gold , and into 
 every one elfe comprehended between 
 thefe^he hath infufed their Mettals propor- 
 tionately to their States, From this arifeth; 
 the difference of Inclinations 5 and variety 
 QiGenuiss. I would counfcl every man 
 
 there-! 
 
Imprudence. 277 
 
 therefore, by the tcft ofa good Touch ftone 
 to learn what fort his Mortal is of; and ac- 
 cordingly to cxtrad there-from what he 
 may. Let him obfcrvc (% the P/(^/^;?//?/j in 
 the delcent of his Genim^vom the Stars^whilft 
 it was palTing through the Icffcr Spheres, 
 from the Seal of what Planet it took Im- 
 preflion : whether from a fpeculatf\^c Sa- 
 turn: or from a Lordly J/// /V^r,- or a Warlike 
 Mars'-, and accordingly let him confidently 
 betake himfclf to the Pen,to the Scepter, or 
 to the Sword. 
 
 It is doubtlefTc a mofl unhandfome thing 
 to fee fome times in the Schools certain 
 heads , better able to crack Lobflers, than 
 to ftudy. Heads that have a Mind fo ftupid, 
 and fo ill adapted to the myflerics of Learn- 
 ing, that they feem like a reverted J^i^^ 5 to 
 carry Bacchui in his brain , and Falloi in his 
 belly. Their Litcllcduals, fat, and groffe, 
 (diS the water of theLake Jfphahites^in which 
 nothing finks to the bottom) creep with a 
 flower pace than the Pygritia , a notable 
 creature of India ^ that when it is at the 
 fpeediefl moves half a pace at a hundred 
 fleps, and in a hundred dayes travails a mile. 
 No file can be found of temper hard enough 
 to fetch the rufl off their Sculs. Let us make 
 ufe(as the BCvirs do to their unform'd Cubs) 
 
 T 3 of 
 
oy^ The Second Part. 
 
 of all the expert Tongues in the World, 
 they will never be able to ingrave upbn 
 them the leaft feature of a Learned Man. 
 Ammonius would fooner make his Afle a 
 Phylofopher^than one of them a Gramma- 
 rian-,. 
 
 To what purpofc do you (end fuch peo- 
 ple to School 5 as if it were to a Carvers 
 iliop 5 if after all their hewing and carving, 
 they retein more ofa Block than ofa M^r^ 
 curp ? To what end would you break that 
 mans brain with Learning, out of which^if 
 Vulcan (hould open it, you fhould fee an 
 Owliffue, rather than a PuUoa! To what 
 purpofe doe you feck out a Mafter that is 
 an Eagle, if it be toteach aTortoifeto flic? 
 Thatisan Oracle of Wifdom, if it be to en- 
 terprize the imprinting Learning in a head 
 of one which lets flie all he knows out of his 
 brain, and never indent fo many letters, as 
 a Crane,or a Stork accent in their flying? 
 
 Itsnotenonghto Wifh^ that Pumices be- 
 come Sponges ; that Maftiffs become Ha- 
 riers; and that Oaks bear Honey inftead 
 of Acorns : which can never be done with 
 all the Art that you can u(e about its plants. 
 ,^n.i». Foolifh was that pradice of the Sjhantes to 
 var.htft. teach Horfes to dance, and to deprave the 
 ^•M-^»^-^ warlike difoofition of that generous Beaft, 
 ~ / - - " ' by 
 
Imprudence. 27 ^ 
 
 by that effeminate cxcrci/c. The fame er- 
 rour do they commir^who would have him 
 ^^pply himfcKto his Book, who was born 
 for War j and make him an Archimedes who 
 would be a ManeUtiu 
 
 What then ? We may contraft with , 
 we cannot conquer Nature. Sooner, or 
 later 5 when (he is left to her liberty, (he 
 returns thitherfrom whence with violence 
 fhe was taken, ^chillesmxy be for fometime 
 concealed under a womans apparel. Ille TertnU 
 apuclrupicem^ &/)>lvicoJam^ & monjlrorum em- ^^ p-'i^^i^ 
 ditoremfcrupea ft hola erudittu ^pattens jam ujiyi- ^^?«4 • 
 cuUi^ fii (linens Jl ol am f under e^ comam JlruerSy 
 'ittum fingere^ fpeculumcoufuleye , columdemul- 
 cen^ auremquoquefora tu effxminatus : But all 
 this was the lefTe likdy to be permanent in 
 AchiUes.^ by how much the employments of 
 aWarriourwere more coiifortial with the 
 (pirit of Achilles than thofe of a woman. 
 Therefore NeceJJitas^ not of the Trojan war ^ 
 but of his Genim manifeftcd at the fight of a 
 Sword, reddidit fexum : De prxlio fonuerat , 
 necarmalonge, Ipfum^ inquit^ferrum virrum at- 
 trahit, 
 
 Butbehold in matter of Learning onely 
 four of a thoufand that applyed diverfly 
 from that to which the weight of natural 
 Inclination bore them , after they had 
 
 T4 con- 
 
580 The Second Part. 
 
 contended in vain, yeilded for overcome. 
 
 Socrates^ apply ed to Sculpture ^ having 
 
 graven the three (jr^f^j- 5 (but^Ifuppofe, fq 
 
 tingracefuUij^ that Hell would have received 
 
 them for Furies5)perceiving5that at working 
 
 Marbles he himfelf was a ftone ; he broke 
 
 the edge of his Chizel^ and (harpned that of 
 
 his Wit ; giving himfelf the Moral Phylofo- 
 
 phy , to which his Genim led him : and he, 
 
 which forking ^ knew not how to make of 
 
 floncs. Statues of men ; phylofophating, 
 
 made through admiration, of men Statues. 
 
 riato gave himfelf to Painting, and feeing 
 
 himfelf turn a painted Painter , and his pi* 
 
 dures only meriting the name of (hadows 3 
 
 transferred himfelf from the unfuccesful, 
 
 ^^Corni, defigningof^ Bodies, to the noble pidu- 
 
 mi^ Cor- ^'^"g of Souls : he left the lies of the Pencils^ 
 
 pi. and gave himfelf to the truth of Ideas , of 
 
 which he firft depainted the Features , and 
 
 difcovered to the World the Image. 
 
 AuoiiHus^ ambitious to in-occulate the 
 Lawrel of a Poet ^ upon that oiEmperour; and 
 of being afwel an ApoUo with the Harp , as 
 he was a Jupiter With thunderbolts, com- 
 pofedhis j^jax; aTraga'dj^ which for the 
 laughter that it merited , became rather a 
 Cvmoedj, foill wasir compofed. However 
 he wpuld have itaTragoedy in defpight of 
 
 Artj 
 
Imprudence. ^8i 
 
 Art^and (o it provcd^for he give it a mourn- 
 ful Mt by tearing it in pieces. Capricorn^ 
 which he had in his Afcendenr^, called him 
 to Rulings not to Rhming^ not to the Pen^but 
 to the Scepter ^ not to private Sccenes^ but 
 to the publick Theater of the World. 
 
 On the contrary^ Ovid applyed by his Fa- 
 ther to the Law 5 //V/^^/^^J more with him- 
 felf than others*, forasmuchashisPoctick 
 Genius^ and the tranquil influence of Gemini , 
 called himfrom the bawlings oiihz Fomm^ 
 tothcrepofe of the Mufes-^ and from the 
 Sword of j4flrea^ to the Phletrum of Apollo : 
 whereupon in the end, commencing from 
 himfeff^xho. Work of his Meiamorphojts; one 
 day transformed him froman^^/i^^r^/^to a 
 Fdet. 
 
 See how theG'^;?/;//isa filthful Loadftonej 
 which may pofiibly by force be turn'd to 
 any other point , befides its North; but 
 never refts , {o .> as to ftand without con- 
 ftraint, till fuch time as ithathalfo gently 
 done that in us, which the Poet fpeaksof 
 
 Ducunt volentem Fata^ nolentem trabunt. Seneca, 
 
 But if it happen, that the interefts of ho- 
 nour^ and profit permit not m.en to furceafe 
 
 that 
 
aSa The Second Part. 
 
 that which they badly began ; you Jhall fee 
 as many Monfters in a Learned Accademy ^ 
 as in an Affi-ican Lyhia: A Poetical Phyfi- 
 cian, APhylofophicalHiftorian, a Mathe- 
 matical Civilian^ in which, thofe in-nate . 
 Seeds which are derived from the Womhy , 
 into the InsJiti^ o( the A^mdy confounding 
 and in-terminghng themfelves with thofe, 
 that are acquired by Siudj; nvhilft neither 
 thofenor thefe wholly prevail; by being the 
 one and the other- thc7 are neither the one 
 northeothcu.. 
 
 There is therefore a neceffity, if we will 
 fpeed,to apply our felves not only to Learn- 
 ing 5 but to this more than that other Pro- 
 feSion of Learning • and confult our own 
 Genitu^ which is wont , to make it ielf un- 
 derftoodtofuch as have good Eares by the 
 language of frequent Defires , when they 
 have not that which they would 5 and by 
 ' , the pleafure they have when they obtein it. 
 Alfo it b^hoveth them to fay to their Willy 
 as jEoolus to Juno : 
 
 k/£ff, I. Tuuiy ReginUy quid optes 
 
 £xplorare labors mihijujja cape/cere fateft, 
 
 Otherwife , to pretend in defpight of ones 
 Genim to prove excellent in any profcffion , 
 
 is 
 
Imprudence. 382 
 
 i s juft as if one would to open the way to 
 ihcEf}^zian fields, lop that golden branch 
 
 Tom its ftock, which Nature her felf denied 
 
 lim. 
 
 Non virihiis uUis 
 
 Vincere^ nee diiro foteris convellerefeno. 
 
 But hitherto I have more evinced the nc- 
 ceflity of obferving the genius , then the 
 manner of knowing it : becaufcits my opi- 
 wion, that it hath foknowable a voice, that 
 it needs no interpreters to declare it, but 
 eares to hear it. Ic only refts that we fpeak 
 fomething for others information in this 
 difcovery ; and it (hall be of the counter- 
 figns from whence Wit is conjedurcd: 
 and the knowledge thereof will be ufefnl to 
 the end that in employing fuchas depend 
 upon us 5 weerrenot, as others ufe to do, 
 who, not knowing their G'^/?////j- , through 
 nriftake force them to eontraft with their 
 own Inclinations- 
 
 t/£n,6i 
 
 Litric 
 
a84 T^f^^ Second Fart. i 
 
 Little credit to be gi<ven to tbeftgns 
 oflngennity tah^nfrom the Phy^ 
 jiognomy. 
 
 T 
 
 iHe Ancient AnhiteBs^ more by the 
 Ijl^ws of Judgment than Art, in 
 building a Temple to any god, of 
 x!^xtt grecian Orders, Dorkk^^Jonick^y and 
 Corinthian^ eledcd that which bed agreed to 
 FitrHv. the nature of the Deity to who they ercded 
 the Temple. Therefore they ufed the Dorick^ 
 order, being grave, and fevere for their 
 Martial Deities, as Mars^ Hercules y and Pal- 
 loi: The Corinthian J foft and lafcivious, for 
 Venns^ Flora^ Proferpina^ and the Water- 
 Nymphs ; The Jonic^^ moderate, for junoy 
 Dianay Bacchus and the like. 
 
 The very fan;ie Law fas fomc Platonifls , 
 :ind all Phyfiognomers are of opinion ) hath 
 A^i^//^/'^rigorouf]y obfervcd in building Bo- 
 dies , which are the Temples of the Soul : 
 fo that there being feme Souls Warlike ^ 
 others Cowardly- fomevivatious and in- 
 genious, others ftnpid and infenfate; fome 
 Tervile, others imperious, born to comand : 
 fte hath in conformity alfo to their inter- 
 nal 
 
Imprudence. CiSj 
 
 1^1 Genius s, and tempers delineated the ex- 
 ternal features of the Face; anduftdfiich 
 Architedurein the Body ^ as correfponded 
 with the inclination of the Mind: From 
 thence hath the Art of Conjcdtural Phy- 
 fiognomy took its beginnings ; by which , 
 from that which is feenin any one, that 
 which is concealed is coUciSlcd , and infer- 
 red. And, look as they gather from the 
 quantity of the Manners, whethel^ood, or 
 bad: many, and different , and not feldom 
 lepugnant Indices of the Wit in fuch as they 
 'find either ftupid, or apprehenfive, and 
 acute ; fo likewife do they multiply Signes 
 for the knowing it 5 as ifchey were to find 
 out a Proteus by the natural features of his 
 foce, and nota fT/Vby its Qualities, 
 
 But becaufe many of thefe Matters of 
 Divining, more looking to the Features , 
 and tempers of Ibme few ingenious per- 
 fons , than to the univerfal occult caufes of 
 the Wit, have made the fices of a few, the 
 common W^a: of all; in fo much that P^^^ , 
 
 (as if he were the Alcihiades ixom whom ^^^^^ 
 we muft take the features of a true Mercury) 
 coppyinghimfelf, framed from his particu- 
 lar /W/V^/, the univerfal, and almofl only 
 conjedure of an excellent Wit; whence 
 it is 3 that it proves fo fallacious to divine 
 
 from - 
 
s8i5 The Second Part. 
 
 from the vifage^conftitutionjand lineaments 
 of the Body, of the immenfity, fubtilty, 
 vivacity and profundity ofa VVit : I will 
 here recite , bqt without much troubling! 
 my felf with their confutation , the more 
 common fymptomes given of this matterj 
 by the Profcflbrs of Phyfiognomy. And 
 firft. 
 
 The FUtomsls deny that Beauty of Mind, 
 and deformity of Body can fubfift together 
 Tlotxon* in one and the fame man. That Trine oiVe 
 tra Gnof, ms WiihihQ MooYi^ wliich i% the feal^ where- 
 W <ilii. with the Stars mark the moft lovely faces, 
 that it may have confonancc with numbers^ 
 theycontempcr theMind, and accord it to 
 the motion of the fiift Mind. ?ytha^oriu 
 that Soul of Light , was fo fair in his fea- 
 tures, that bis Scholars fome called him J 
 others believed him JpoUom the difguifeol 
 Tj'thagora^^ or ?jthagOY<u coppicd from A- 
 poUo : Nor doth there want a reafon for the 
 fame. For as much as beauty is no other, 
 than a certain Flower , that is produced b) 
 the Soul, as a buried feed, upon [his ground 
 of the Body. LikewifetheSun, ifaClouc 
 cover it, it ihineth through it, with its moi:^ 
 fubtle Rayes, and renders it fo glorious, 
 that it no longer refembleth a vapour extra 
 (fted from the Earthy Iqrdid and obfcure,but 
 
 . flaming 
 
 
Imprudence, 287 
 
 flaming Gold and as it were another Sun. 
 Noother>vifea Soul^ that is a Sun of light 
 within the Cloud of the Body, that covers 
 and conceals it, fhineth through it with the 
 rayes of its beauty 5 fo that it renders that 
 alfo beyond meafure beautiful : and this is 
 that which Tlotonus CdihthcDom/mon^ that 
 Form hath over d^atier. 
 
 Which if it (hould be granted^that Souls 
 come only into Bodies rcfembling them ; 
 and onely tye this knot of ftrift amity, there 
 where there is exact fimilitude ; who but 
 fees that a beautiful Soul cannot then unite it 
 felfto a deformed Body ? 
 
 Nor availeth it to tell them o( t^Jop^ 
 (born, if ever any was^wich the Moon in the 
 Nodes) that he was a Therjjites; Crates , no 
 Citizen oiTheheshwi aMonfter oiAffrick;0^ 
 Socrates ^ fo ill-furnilht with beauty, yea, of 
 fo grofle a ftamp^ that Sophjnis the Phyfiog- 
 nomer gave him for the very Idea of one 
 ftupidandblockifh; whom Alciyiades cd!\\^d 
 zSylenns; thereby declaring him without^ 
 half Beaft ^ within, more than Man : and 
 Theodorus defcribing in TheeEfetus a Youth of 
 moft fortunate VVit,fpeaking with the fame 
 ^S'^cT^/^/, could tell him, Non efi pitcher: firnilh 
 ^kiiiejl: fimonafo^& prominemibus ocidis^ qinim* 
 vis mims iUe quam tu in bis moiiim excedat. 
 
 Thcy_ 
 
«88 The Second Part. 
 
 They deny that fuch deformity in them wa5 
 the intention of Nature^ but the miftake of 
 Chance; not the defed of F^^-W;, but the fault 
 of difobedient A/^r/^r. 
 
 But if that be fo, the Women have there- 
 in great advantage , to whom Beauty was 
 given for a Vomy ; and wc fee > that it is 
 Natures continual care^ to work that foft and 
 morbid Earth, fo, that (he may therein plant 
 this flower the more fuccesfully. And yet 
 through the (ubjedion to which they were j 
 condemned , ihcy have as little judgment - 
 in their heads , as they have much of hand- 
 fomncffe in their faces. Whence ^fops 
 Fox may fay ofthemoft of them, ashefaid 
 of the Marble head of a very lovely fac*d. 
 Statue-, *0 beautiful^ hut brainlefs head ! 
 
 And really, if we obfcrve experience , it; 
 
 will beobvious^ that Nature isnotoblieged 
 
 to thefe Laws , of fetting Pearls only in ^ 
 
 Gold 5 and of putting Wits of excellent 
 
 Sapience only in Bodies of cxquifiteBeautyi 
 
 StfiecA Totejl ingenium fortijjimum^ acheatiffimumfuh 
 
 epfi.66, qualihet cute latere. Potest ex cafa vir maguni 
 
 exire; Votefl exdeformi vilique corpufculo^ for-t- 
 
 tnofus animus^ ac magnn^. Rural Limbs oft** 
 
 times cover moft polite Wits. Moft amia^ 
 
 ble Minds lie under rugged skins^ asHif^ 
 
 juud^r the dreadful skin of the Menean Lion* 
 
 ^r" ' QSd 
 
Self-deceit. 289 
 
 gaUa the Orator, appeared an informed 
 lump of ftonc 5 but within had a Golden 
 vein of precious and (hining^VVit. Where- 
 upon M. LuUius fcoffingothim was wont 
 to fay 5 Ingenium Gal hum rm/h habitat. Thus ,, ^ 
 many others, of whom it would be too te- n^^^ cX\ 
 dious to fpeak particularly, have bccnfo Sattir. 
 detorm'd, but fo ingenious, thaticfecm'dj 
 that in them, as in the Adamant, or Magnet, 
 beauty of Mindjand uncomelinefie of Body 
 went hand in hand. 
 
 Others again there arc, that meafarethe 
 grandure of the Wit by the bulk of the 
 Head 5 and believe, that that cannot be a 
 great Intelligence , that hath not a great 
 Sphere. They comprehend not how a fmall 
 head becometh a womb able to conceive a 
 Great Pallas: howa Giant-like Ingenuity 
 cancomprife it felf within the narrow neich 
 ofalittleScuI. 
 
 They know not how that the Mind is the 
 Center of the Head, and the Center dbth 
 not increafe by the bignefTe of the Circle. 
 The eye,, is it any more than a drop of 
 Chryftal? andhathitnotin fuch fmalnefle^ 
 a concave fo capacious ; that by the gate of 
 a pupil, it receiveth,withoutconfufion of ir^ 
 half a Wold. 
 
 V Parvula 
 
apo T^be Second Fin. 
 
 MaMil. I ParvnUfic totumfervifit pupula cotlum. 
 ^firon. ^oque vide^^ oculi minimum eji^ cum mm^ 
 ximacernant. 
 
 It often happens 5 that as a little Heart natii 
 rally includes a great Courage; foin a Head 
 of a fmall bulk, a Mind of great underftand 
 xngiscomprifcd. 
 
 Others argue from the palure of the 
 face 5 as fromafhes^, the fire ofaSpiritely 
 Wit ; and thus NazianzencdWcih Palidnefs, 
 Or4t, tsi ^^^^^^^^fMimium virommfiorem* And rea- 
 fon feemeth to perfwadeas much; for that 
 the very bcft of the blood is cxhaufted in 
 the operations of the Mind, and the face 
 thereby left ex-fanguate and difcoloured. 
 Therefore the Star o( Saturn^ the Father of 
 profound thoughts, beareth in a half-extin- 
 gui(h'd light y his face as it were meagre^ 
 and palid. 
 
 Many fay that by the eyes fparkling in the 
 day, and glittering in the nighr,theyc an tell 
 vvhich are the true PaUadian Bats. Others 
 there are, who inconfufed Charaftersfeem 
 to read the Velocity of Wits , whofe fan- 
 cies 5 whilft the hand with the flight of the 
 Pen cannot follow, it comes to pafle, that 
 icill makes the letters, cuts off the words, 
 
 and 
 
 u 
 
Imprudenct. ^?l 
 
 md confounds the fenfe. Thus the f pcedeft 
 ^eafts 5 imprint the moft informed tracks^ 
 yvhilft on the contrary the flow-moving 
 3xe makes his fteps with patience^ and lea- 
 urely formethhis tracks one by one. 
 
 But I undertook not to relate, much leffc 
 o refute all thefymptoms from whichVVit 
 s argued by thefe fubtle Diviners : the Ihol- 
 krs, and neck dry, and lean ; the temper of 
 he flefh morbidly moulded ; the tore-head 
 imple, the skin thin anddelicatCj the voice 
 na mean between loud, and low ; thehaii* 
 [either litherly dangling, nor, fas dry,) 
 urled and crifped j the hands lean; the 
 egs fmall ; the corporature indifferent ^ the 
 olour amiable^ and I know not whar". 
 
 Thefe are for the moft part dubious con- 
 eftures , and fallacious profpe<5lives> yea,, 
 hey equally agree to contrary, not to fay 
 Afferent principles. At leaft it is certain, 
 Ibat either there muft concurre to their 
 ftabliftiment, experience, with the obfer- 
 ation of Ingenious Men; or Reafon, drawn 
 .^ jrom the temper ,and difpofition of Organs, 
 bat arc of ufe to the Imaginative Faculty, 
 ndthe Mind: and experience cvinceth it, 
 D him that is inquifitive, that of any three 
 
 f them two prpves falfc; and that the 
 
 :mperot the Internal Inftruments hath not 
 
 - Y\ fuch 
 
 ad 
 
2^2 - The Second Part. 
 
 liich concxion with thefe external Signcs: 
 that one may colle<a , thence ordinary, 
 much lefle infallible arguments. 
 
 The Original caufe efthe excellence 
 and Di<verfity of fVits] and thi 
 "varioni Inclinations of the Ge\ 
 nins. 
 
 BY a clean contraiy way to the foil 
 mer, go they, who placing all thi 
 energy of the Wit in the force of thj^ 
 Soul, and liippofing its ufe wholly inddri 
 pendent from the inftruments of the Body! k 
 do deny, that we may argue from any fertrii 
 fiblc appearance, the quality, or quantity <| p 
 others Wit- There is, fay they , differend b 
 amongft Souls , not only in their propyl if; 
 Effence, but alfo in the degrees ofaccidditk 
 tal Excellence- which makes them oi for 
 more or lefTe perfect than another. This 
 no lefTc an honour to the great Artift th 
 made them , and an ornament to the Worl 
 than that variety of features which is int! 
 face of Man (though it be compofed of fe 
 members^ wherein, to find two a-like 
 wonderful ; two ftampcd with the far 
 
 u 
 
 cJin 
 
 fed 
 
Imprudence. 293 
 
 jimprefiion, almoft imponible, Thediver- 
 MtyofWitsarifingin this manner from the 
 liverfe degrees of perfedion of Souls, to 
 rvhat end feek they /W/Vt?/ thereof from the 
 i5ody ; as if faccordmgto iheerraurof that 
 jreat Proto-Phyficianj chc Soui v/erc no 
 )ther>than a Confonance of qualities, and 
 I Harmony of humours ? To argue from 
 :he voice, from the Complexion, from the 
 features, accutenelfe of Wit J is, as from the 
 pencils, to divine theexceljency ofthe Art 
 i)f a great y^/?^//^x; or from the Sword the 
 ^lour ofthe arm of a magnanimous Scan- 
 ierheg. An Oxe with one only claw divi- Phmus 
 ledinthe midft; and Alexander fo painted, A^^.r.io 
 :hat his arm advancing with a thunderbolt^ '^ ^^petl, 
 [eemed to come out of the * Tele: Thefeare * ji^^t-i^^^ 
 true arguments of Art & Ability. The Inge- cnwincha 
 nuity hkewifeisknown by no other means ^'^^^''■^ " 
 thanbythe adionsjothertracks it leaves not ^'^^'^' 
 by , which to guefle ot its formic ther (hadow 
 it hath not by which to coUcft, its propor- 
 tion. 
 
 And if that be not fo. Obferve the diver- 
 fity of Wits , which as if tiiey were Stars of 
 different Genius d.nd Nature, varioufly in- . 
 cline3 and then, ifthcrebeany, you may 
 find in the temper ofthe body^ the principle 
 whence fuch difference is derived. -. 
 
 V 3 Some 
 
a 04 T^^^^ Second Part. 
 
 f Some are fo nimble witted , that they 
 eem to have fancies compofed of light ; to 
 / whom the fettingout, the running, and 
 arriving are all bat one moment. Rapid* 
 Eagles, to whom their Mafters no fooner§ 
 (how a Lure, then they reach unto it, fo that 
 as Plato (aid of his ^nftotle^ they have an 
 Art to accellerate their wings,that they ma* 
 flye not by force, but by choice. % 
 
 Others on the contrary, as Zenocrates^i 
 Mercury without wings both in head an4' 
 feet, are fo flow, and dull, that they muft 
 have fpurs to make them run, nay, go. They 
 are Stars , but of that Conftellation called 
 the Beare^ to whom the vicinity of the Polcj 
 makes the motion very flow, and the revo- 
 lution tedious, as iftheyalfo wcrcfubje 
 to the Septentrion frofts. 
 
 Some have an Underftanding , like! 
 
 preflions made upon the water , thatfoo 
 
 receive the ftamp 'and as foon alfo lofeit : 
 
 That are as fwifc in forgetting, as they were 
 
 in getting. Wits refembling cither Dove^j 
 
 ^en /i.i ^arurri omnh inclinntio in colores novostranfit) 
 
 nat[a*c,'<^ butcolours ofwhichasfaflias they take on^ 
 
 lhid,c,6. theylofe another-, orGIaffes, in whid 
 
 t^que cito omnis imago aboktur^ac componitit\ 
 
 Contrariw;{e, in others the Underftand 
 
 ingis a graving in^Porphyrc and Marble. Ai; 
 
 imag 
 
 4 
 
Imprudence. ap^ 
 
 image is not formed in them without the 
 force of Chizels5& with great patience; but 
 then it is of fiich duration , that neither Ob- 
 livion, nor Time can e-face it. Cleanthes was 
 oneofthefe, call'din derifion the JF/^r^/^/f?/ 
 of the Schools , becaufc his bccomming a 
 iPhylofopher was as laborious to his ifiind 
 as it was to the body of the other to make 
 himfelf a Demi-god. Oris mguHiJJlmi vas vimnrc 
 (fo faith Flutarch) difficilimi admit tens, fed fern- 
 ferretinens quod admifit* 
 
 There are them, that when Children, are 
 all Spirit, when Men all Dregs. In rfieir 
 firft years, the Nightingales feem to fing on 
 their mouth, as on that of the Child Stejtcho- 
 rui'y grown bigger they roare like Oxen. 
 Like to that Ancient Hermogenes^ that was, 
 Senex inter pueros^ inter fenespuer* 
 
 In others, on the contrary, the Wit gra- 
 dually meliorateth with years : whereupon 
 thofe that before appeared fteril truncks, 
 their buds opening by little and little, they 
 fend forth branches oflargeextent,and un- 
 fold fome lcaves^& in the end are lade with 
 more fruit, than others have leaves. Obferve 
 Baldo ^ajurifl^ that flood (tofpeakfo) as the 
 Palm, a hundred years before he bore any 
 fruit, whereupon arofe the fcoffc which 
 he had lo oft laid in his di(h, being a 
 V 4 Scholar •, 
 
5p6 The Second Part. 
 
 Scholar ; DoS^oreris Balde , fed ^n^terhof^i^ 
 cuto, ■• 
 
 What (ball we fay of thofe, that for ojtty 
 Science have a Wit equally perfe<fl; that 
 as thclightro all Colours, fo their mind are 
 adaptcdto all matters ; fervile, orfublime j 
 of ample 5 or profound dimenfion? Few 
 fuch there be, yet fome there are ; anddri • 
 them we may beftowfor aperfe<S Panegy- " 
 rick, that great applaufe, 
 
 Claud. -r — - Spargunturtnomnes^ 
 
 In te mjiflafluunt^ 6' quit divifa beatoi 
 6fficiuht^ coUe^atenes, 
 
 li't'^'hf} El^fif^dVVits^in whom, that which P% 
 fX r ' ^^'^^^'^^ Tree , that alone was an en tire Or- 
 chard, it having ingrafted upon it the fruits 
 of all Trees; that which ^ufonim had in 
 a Statue of i^^trc/'A^, that had a kind of re- 
 femblance to every of the gods:, whereupon 
 he calls it not a god alone, but a Fantheon , is 
 much more happily, and with greater ad- 
 miration , and envy, exprefly fccn. They 
 are few, but are worth many; nor only 
 many, but many of excellency and merit ^ 
 (o that it may be faid of them, as of the great ><*. 
 P:lin, lib, CoIoJJlts of Rhodes ; Majoresfunt digiti ejus ^ , 
 H-f-7' q^itm pler^que Jiatu^, They are few, but 
 " ' ' tranf- 
 
'hftprndencc. 197 
 
 iransform themfelves into as manyj as 
 .earning hath Profeffions ; nor know you 
 1 which they moft excel; being that in all 
 heyarelikeunto themfelvesj and not in- 
 ;:riour to any others : and you may fooner 
 ndfuch as envy, thanfuch as equal them. 
 Finally, in whatfoever kind of Learning 
 ou will 3 they are able to fay as Vertumnm 
 mongft the Poets, 
 
 ^'■bpportund '-^ed tfi cunSfa natuufigurli^ PropJ.^. 
 'In quacunqUe voles verte. Decerns ero^ 
 
 • Again, others there are (o determinately 
 itent upon one only kind offtudy, and that 
 lot by elc^ion of theWill,bu t by inflind of 
 rV^///^, that to take them from,that is to take 
 heir VVits quite from them . He that will 
 ee their excellency,muft behold them from 
 )ne pointy namely that, whereallthe lines 
 )f their knowledge Concenter ^ otherwife 
 hey have nothing confidcrable, and indeed 
 ecm Monftrous. 
 
 Thefe, and many more are the Chara- 
 :1crs and different forms, whence VVits 
 :ome to be (o various in (7^;7/////and Tallent 
 |mong themfelves. Now what temper of 
 )rain, what harmony of qualities^ what dif- 
 )ofition of humours, doth fo obliege the 
 
 Soul^ 
 
sp8 The Second Part. 
 
 Soul; thatitfhouldbeinfomeinjthethings 
 of the Mind blockifh ; and in the more fim 
 pie and material mofl:a(5live 5 in others,,! 
 the abftrads excellent:,' jnth^erpraAicks liii 
 profitable : Thatitfliouldbediipofed, heri 
 toone, thereto another^ here to alU tb 
 to no ail of Reafon , or labour of Wit.?, 
 the adionsofth^intelligept Soiil are dprt^ 
 by her-felf , and reft in her,- what can t^ 
 Body do , howfoever tempered ; or the 
 Brain^ in what manner foever difpofed ? and 
 if they can do nothing; it remains, that the 
 diverfity of Wits^ arifeth from different per- 
 fedions of the Soul,not various difpofitions 
 of the Body. 
 
 But if this be fo, if the mind depend no^ 
 on the Organs for operation 5 noronthcj 
 Humours for well operatiiig ^ whence is it; 
 that fome, either by an accidental blowofl 
 the head, or by a ftrangedifeafe, have fud- 
 denly or gradually loft their Memory, and 
 impaired their Wit ; fo that their brain, like 
 the opened Box of /"^Wf^r^, or the vented 
 Box oiUljfes, is for ever after without Spf- 
 ritj and Judgment ? How comethfrom th^ 
 hcatofthe Brain, the diftemper of the Dif- 
 courjive Vacuity \ the rebolliment of the Spe-^ 
 cies, thediforderofthe Reafon, Frenzy^arid 
 Madnefle? Why doth he, fthat when a 
 
 Chile 
 
I 
 
 Imprudence. 190 
 
 Child was ingenious^ and apt growing with 
 yeares^ 5 become grofle of mind, andfo 
 muchthemoreftupid, by how much the 
 more before he was fpritely ? Yet the 
 Soul is it felf. Who then implumes the 
 V Vitj who obtufcth the Fancy , who alters 
 the Soul from what once (he was ? 
 ; But Countries, fome abound with ac- 
 curate WitS5as in j4ttka^ that famous j^thenx, 
 theNeft, and Nurfe o( the Sciences ; and in 
 regard of the walls that environ it , all ap* 
 peared a Temple of PsUat ^ an Academy of 
 Learned Men: On the contrary ^^^//^ is 
 inhabited, I will not fay by living Men, but 
 by dead Statues, in whom Reafon,amongft 
 others fhewcth no greater difcourfe, than 
 the Zffphiti motion amongft other Ani- 
 mals. 
 
 Do we not fee fo gp^zt difference of 
 Wits between City andCity, even in adja- p/^^, i, 
 cent Countries , that fome, as the S^ptian ^Alex, 
 Alexandria, fecmto have defigned their firft 
 foundation with Meal: others,placed upon 
 the fummity of Olympus -, have their feet 
 higher,than others carry their heads ? And 
 whcjlice is this, if neither Heaven, nor Air, 
 nor Climate, nor Spirits, nor Humours ^ 
 tempered by them, have the leaft influence 
 in thofe Aftions : which being proper to 
 
 the 
 
JOO 
 
 The Second fart. 
 
 the Soul 3 as the principle of difcouifc; by 
 her only are produced, and in her alone are 
 received ? 
 
 It is then a more approved, and I am fui 
 a more received opinion, that the Tempera 
 ment of the Complexion , whence the ftate 
 of the Body proceeds , ferveth as well tQ 
 the ^7^5 and to thediverfity of its Genius ; 
 as the tuning of the ftrings to the melody 
 a Lute ; and diverfe Conforts of Voic 
 Intervals , Notes, meafures of Tunes, Orr 
 dcrs, and difpofitions ofUnifons, & Semi^ 
 tones, proper, and mixt,to the diverfe Har- 
 monies Frigianj Doricl^y Ljdiani whence 
 proceeds the various Mufick, Grave, Lafci- 
 vious. Martial, Melancholy, and Merry. 
 LeUg.in Confider the various (we will fayj Tones, 
 ^jfT' de and Moods, of Wit, which C^rkan^owXd, 
 acre & defcribe by the various conforts of the pri- 
 ^^^''^' mary qualities in nine kinds of humane Bo- 
 dies : Obfervethe proportion of eight parrs 
 ofBlood, two of Choler , and two of Me- 
 lancholy, which F/V/;^/^ would prefcribe to 
 the harmony of a great Wit, and let every 
 one believe thereof as he plcafeth. 
 
 This feemeth univerfally true , that the 
 works of the Wit, participating an I know 
 not what of fiery , as the velocious motion 
 ofthe thoughts, and the nature oftheignean 
 
 fp frits 
 
Imprudence. goi 
 
 ^irits that ferve it demonftrate ; thofe hu- 
 mours that partake mod of fiery , are moft 
 capable of ferving it : even as on the con- 
 trary,FIegme rendereth it ftupidjand brings 
 it as it were into a fomnifcrous Lethargy. 
 Therefore Choler which is hot in exceffe, 
 & withali dry,is wholly proper to the Wit. 
 But Melancholy (although it doth not fo 
 feem)is more appofit tha that; not thatgrofs 
 and loathfome humour, which morefym- 
 bolizeth with Flegme in frigidity ^than with 
 Choler inficcity; but a certain (as it were) 
 aduft part of the yellow Choler, cold and 
 dry by nature, as the earth, but, ifitberari- 
 fied and enkindled , fo capable to conceive 
 fire (as the exhalations raifcd by the Sun^ 
 which yet are a cold and dry earth) anda 
 fire fo vehement, and forceable, that itpar- 
 taketh of lightning in ftrength, thoughit be 
 more durable and conftant. And hence 
 proceedeth Madnefs, and that Grave Frenfy 
 of the mind that wholly tranfports itbefidts 
 itfelf, and wholly concenters it in it felf ; 
 that gives it velocious motions, and holds it 
 ftedfaft, and fixed- wholly difperfing, and 
 wholly contracting the thoughts. Nor may 
 therebe wanting BloudandFlegme,the one 
 for aliment tothcfpirits, the other tor tem- 
 perament ; that fo the too gi*eat drinelTe 
 
 make 
 
^QX The Second Part, 
 
 make not barren , or the too great heat di- 
 ftemper not the organ and caufe more 
 fmoak than light. The predominant ought 
 therefore to be fiery, the reft ^ of a mixture 
 in proportion to the degrees of this. 
 
 And thiSj if I gueffe not a mifle , is the fo 
 famous Dry Light oiHeracUtHs; That Igne^ 
 Hs vigor y & coekjlis origa that where it 
 hath the flame more bright, and in more re- 
 fined humours lefTe thick and muddy, there 
 its a thing more like a Heavenly Intelligence 
 than a terrene Wit. 
 
 This is that fo difficult Sledfmm of Wit 
 and Judgment together. The Wit the Mer- 
 curj/yZll inftability& motion; the Judgment, 
 the Chymical Medicine that fixeth it : The 
 Wit the Lion^and the Dolphin all fury, all 
 fpeed; the Judgment,the Bridle, and Anchor, 
 that reftrains the fury, that retards its mo- 
 tion : The Wit the Sail, the Judgment the 
 Ballaft : That the Wing, this the Clog: 
 That the young face oijanns^ this the old, 
 and gray. 
 
 Butbecaufe the temper of the humours 
 for the fervice of the mind , is not one indi- 
 vifible one , from their varieties take rice 
 the abilities, (/^«/i///, and humours, which 
 incline them to various kinds of ftudies. 
 Becaufe that in feme ftudies there is re- 
 quired 
 
Imprudence, go J 
 
 juired more patience, and, as we arc wont 
 o fay, more Flcgm ^ in others, greater 
 jromptneffeofmind; in others, imagina- 
 ionsmore firm 5 elf-wheredifcourfemorc 
 ibftiaft : here great memory , their capa- 
 :ity of comprehending as it were in one 
 ble ad the cognition of many objcfts; and 
 iifcerning their dependency without con- 
 bunding them*, according as the humours 
 nd their qualities, arevarioufly tuned and 
 larmoniz'd together : whence more or 
 iffe according to the predominancy of hot, 
 ndcold, dryandmoift, we have abilities 
 Qore apt to one than to another Science 5 
 ccording to the temper of the quaUties, 
 hat the inftruments require , for the better 
 ifpofing them to operation. And thisabi- 
 ly of power, well difpofed towards fuch 
 )rts of objeds, is the foundation of that, 
 /hich they call Genms* Becaufe that there 
 eing in every one by natural inftind an. 
 i-natedefire of knowing-, and Nature not 
 cring, but being confcious of that, which 
 ^e is to apply us to the defire of,as our Good: 
 ii thing, which to obtein we have not power 
 lifficient:) thence it is, thatfhecarriethus 
 [) the defire of that, to attein which we are 
 jifficently difpofed. The proportion there- 
 jjre of the power to the objed, and the 
 * defire 
 
ooA T^f^^ Second Part. 
 
 defire which we have to know; of whici 
 oneapplyeth, the other determineth, cau-|- 
 feth that fympathy , which we may call th^ 
 Form of the genius. 
 
 So 5 that it is not the difpofition, figure 
 colour 5 nor maffe of the members of th( 
 body that we (houldobferve as immediate 
 or true teftimonies of the Wit, in applying 
 any to Learning. But from the J^s^ the 
 moft natural teftimonies of the Powers , wi r 
 may argue their internal Temper ^ therebj 
 to find to which of the Arts it hath mpf 
 agreeable proportion.Thus^fince the honej ir 
 cannot be fetch from its Sourfe , which ii k 
 the Stars (as P/inj/ fpeaks) at leaft let then rli 
 ftrivc to make it as pure as they can , bi tr( 
 working it out of thofe flowers^ which moj b 
 Flin.lttf. refemble them in nature 5 Ihi enim optimk ! 
 1 1. r.T2. /emper (ros mt\\\s)u[?i optmommdoliolisford i\ 
 ^st.hift. conditur. Since Science can be enjoyed nlle 
 otherwifc than as fain from Heaven inti u 
 thefe terene Bodies 5 at leaft-wife, let the» in 
 apply themfelves to gather it of thofel fp 
 which with tempers like to Heaven, fierji 'rii 
 and fubtle, but withal ftable 5 and regulaJ nit 
 moft fy mbolize and agree with ir^. ivt 
 
 \ 
 le 
 
 AMB 
 
3o§ 
 
 AMBITION. 
 
 The folly of many who dcftrous to 
 feem Learned^ doe pnblijh them- 
 fel<ves in Print to be Ign&rant. 
 
 r' ■ ■>Hat infatiate, I will not fay defire , 
 I butmadnefTc, which we have of 
 ^ publifhing our felves to the World 
 For men ot Learning, Icouldwifh, that it 
 ivouldwhet the Wit, as well as it (harpcns 
 :he Pen ^ that fo the Sciences might in- 
 :reafe in weighty as Books increafe in num- 
 
 Scarce have we got in the neft of a 
 School the down of the firft feathers upon 
 the brain ^ but we already think our (elves, 
 not only Eagles ^hut Mercuries with Wings 
 on our heads. Scarce is there enkindled in n^ 
 afparkof Wit, but prefently wedefirc in 
 Print to fhine as SunSjandmake our felves ;> 
 with a ftrange Ambition, Mafters before 
 we be compleatly Scholars. Every thought . 
 ithat the mind conceiveSiWe think worthy of 
 jrtie light s and akhoogh many times it is 
 m> more than 'Ridiculus M us ^yv thy all means 
 i ' "' ~ ' X ' Witt 
 
306 The Second Part. 
 
 will call the Prefs^to be Lucins;2Lndco\kdit^ 
 and keep it not only alive but immortal. 
 The Gnats ^ Moths and Flyes of our own 
 brains, feem to us worthy to be cmbalmedj 
 as that Bee 5 in Sle^er^ and cxpofed to the 
 iighr, and admiration of the World. Thus 
 
 per 
 
 ' Tenet infanihile multes 
 juven, Scrihendi CAcoethes. cr ^z^o in cordefinefcH 
 
 Happy would Learning be^ if Books alfS 
 (hould have their Winter, and the leaves of 
 thegreateft part of them (hould fall, as the 
 leaves of trees fall every year after Au- 
 tumn. The World would be thereby fo 
 much the more wife by how much fewer 
 the number would be of the Matters of 
 Errours^ and Oracles of Lies. 
 ^ *«. '« How many Books come to hand which 
 vtrl* ^" bear in their frontifpices Infcriptiones propter 
 quas vadimonium deferi ^ojjlt / In perufing 
 the proud promifes of their Titles, you will 
 call to mind either that Verfe oiBerace^ 
 
 ^iddignim tmoferet hie promtjjbr hiatus 
 
 or that fcoffe with which Diogenes mocked 
 at the great Gate of a little City, faying : 
 Shut this gate or elfe the Town mil run out at it ^ 
 4nd leave jioiiniihout houfe orhom^. 
 
 The 
 
Ambition, 307 
 
 The eye 3 and the hand run with impa- Plin, ibi 
 tience, this to turn over , and that to read 
 the leaves^ at cum intravem (Dii De<^que) qu^m 
 nihil in medio invenies ! Affric^^ which is in- 
 compafled with fuchdeHghtful fhoares , is 
 within moft of it barren {ands, and naked 
 deferts of gravel. The firft leaf, like that fa- 
 mous sheet oiFarrhafius , feems fo painted, 
 as if it covered a Pifture, whereupon 2^/^Ar/> 
 Accoiv^Ajfagiiavit^tandemremotolinteo often- y^^^^^ 
 dipi^uram ; but in reality there was no o- ^^' ^^ 
 therpidurc thanthcil^eet, deluderofthe 
 eyes, with the lies of the pencil. Thus, in 
 this, is that faying of i^^^^^c^ verified, J^^a^ Epifi,66: 
 & magna contra vifentihns^ cum ad pondus Tte- 
 vocata flint fallunt. Books many times de- 
 ceive as the Apples olSodom^ that being fair 
 tolookupon, have nothing but the hypo- 
 crifie of appearance; for within they are 
 a(hes and Imoak ; and in opening they va- 
 nifh into nothing : Si qua illicpomaconantur <iAplog^ 
 (faith TertuUian) oculis tenus dcterum cona^n 
 cinerefcunt* 
 
 A Learned Man doth indeed defervc 
 great compafllio^that fetting himfelf earneft- 
 lytoone of thefe Books, which hath no- 
 thing but Perfpedive, and appearance^ 
 findeththwU to be a painted Cloud,, which 
 fe believed to be a rich ^iino ^ and inftead 
 
308 The Second Fart. 
 
 of extrafting thence the treaiures which he 
 expeded, he fees , that the Book cofts him 
 more in regard of the time he unprofitably 
 fpends in reading it ^ than it ttood him in , 
 by reafon of the money he gave for it. He 
 fiftieth thcreinday, and nighty till that with a 
 Nihil coepimus he cafts it away. He foares 
 with a curious Wit 3 to the apparance of 
 fome fingular conceit, of fome Mafter-piece 
 of Art j but as the Birds that flew to the 
 
 ptiyiius painted Grapes of Zeuxis ; if he came with 
 
 Ith. 5 5 . appetite, he departs hungry. 
 
 capAo, Q] to how many Writers, which more 
 than once have made the PrefTe to groan, 
 may we repeat that Verle oiAufonius^ 
 
 Utilius dormirefult. qua mferderefomnum 
 Atque oleum . '^ — — i 
 
 The wretches have watched many a. 
 nighttocompafleaBook, which (hall lay 
 a fleep all that read it , if their refentments 
 ofCboler againft the Author keep them 
 not awake. To how many Books,under the 
 Title they bear in their Frontifpiece , may 
 Ovie^o we write the name with which ZuazoyZ 
 inSiof, Sfanifh Do(ftor called a little Defert Ifle, 
 to which approaching in his Indian Navi-, 
 gation,he found neither herb nor any otheij 
 
 Xufte- 
 
Ambit lan. 209 
 
 fuftenance; therefore he gave it this name, 
 Nolhecogitare quidedatls. And yet flis Saint Proem, 
 Ambrofi ingenioufly calls them) Books are ^»^- 4. ^« 
 the Ports wherein the Soul not only reco- ^f*^'^'^^' 
 vcreth reft from ftorms ; but plenty from 
 poverty. But take three Reafons onlya- Three rca- 
 mongft many 5 whence it comes, that fo Tons of the 
 many unprofitable Books, and devoid of fZ/^r^'JJ." 
 all goodnefle are printed. profitable 
 
 I Some thinly they do nothing if they m&ke ^°°^'- 
 onl^ one Book^. They alone would make a 
 Library. 
 
 HinCy ohlita modi^ millefima paoina furzit 7 
 Omnibus y & crejcit midta damnojapapyro . ^^,f. ^^ 
 
 A hundred Volumnes, of a thoufand pa^ 
 ges a piece. Children of one fole Wit, 
 Birthsofone only Mind; Works of one 
 only Pcnj this makes one go high and 
 ftatcly : And yet the Glory and Fame is not 
 to be given to the number but to the vv^orth 
 of Books. For how many times in a River 
 of words, there is not a drop of VVit5 in a 
 Sea of Ink , there is not one Pearl ; in a 
 Foreft of Paper there is not one branch of 
 Gold ? All the Work , be it a hundred 
 Volumns , may {ay as the Echo of Aufonius : 
 
 X 5 Aerii 
 
31 o The Second fart. 
 
 Jens, fh" lingucefumfilia^ mater inanh 
 . ludicii^ lingudm qu^Jtriemente gero , 
 
 So that its a rare miracle of patience in 
 the Reader^ if flinging away the Book, he 
 fay not to the Author of it, that oi May- 
 iiah 
 
 Lib, 9J Vlsgarrufe, quAtitum 
 
 e^ijl:, Acctps ut dames^ accipere ut uceas / 
 
 Inprdsf, Books, as faith Domitm Pifoy cited by 
 over. PHnjyThefaurus opsrtetejje^ nonlthros. Every 
 wordlhouldbea Pearl, every leaf a Jewel : 
 fo that he which reads them, Ihould in one 
 hour enrich himfelf. with that, which we 
 have been ten years in gathering. 
 
 Aelas ! what is become of that precious 
 cuftome, and fortunate age, when the Honej 
 of the Sciences was put into the ^F^a; , on 
 which it was then the cuftome to write 
 with a Stj'kf with how much the flower 
 hand the words were indented by the ftyle, 
 the tenacity of the wax retarding it ; the 
 more were they fixed on the thoughts, and 
 came to be better examined. Nowa-dayes 
 the Pen carries the words in a flight from 
 the hand 5 and the conceits fromtlhe head; 
 
 and 
 
Ambition. gn 
 
 { and thofe and thefe the lighter by how much 
 the lefle weighed. That oftentatious Soul- 
 dier in the Comick, which faid 
 
 Ego hanc manch^ram mihi c onfolarl volo^ pf^, ^ j^ 
 Ne lamentetury neve animum de^lpondeat. mil.glor. 
 
 ^ia jam pridem feriatam gehem : 
 
 Lively expreflcth the itch many have to 
 Write^ and write muchj as it were to com- 
 fort their Pens 5 that complain thcyftand 
 Idle in their Ink-horns ; without wearing 
 blunt with writing at the Icaft one Book. 
 
 It is not the muchneffCjbut the goodnefs 
 that is valued. Books are the Souls> whofe 
 grandure is notmeafured by the bulkofthe 
 body , but by the nobility of the Spirit. 
 And moft true is the Aphorifm of great Au- 
 guHineJn iisqu^non mole magmfunt^ idem ^fi ^^^ T-^-i. 
 ejje mAjus quk melius. The ftones of moun- 
 tains are vaft in bignefTe, yet a Diamond, 
 which is only (foith Manilius) Vun6fum la- j^.y ./ 
 fidiiy;xsfd\: furpaffeththem in worth^asthcy ^^^^y. 
 exceed it in magnitude. 
 
 If you were to fpeak to an afTembly of a 
 hundred of the moftingcnious^and Learned 
 Men of the World, would you fay what 
 came next to the tongues end, withoutde- 
 liberation^withoutrefining^and many times 
 
 X 4 with- 
 
^12 Th^ Second Part. - 
 
 without fubftancc, and order? Or rather 
 would you not ftudy to fpeak not onely 
 Ro/esy as they faid of old, but Pearls and goldf 
 and do not you know that by the Prefle 
 you fpeak not to a hundred or a thoufand , 
 but to all the Wifemen in the World that 
 will read 5 and hear you? Therefore, 
 why do you not as Fhocion , that being 
 asked why he flood upon a time fo pro- 
 foundly pcnfive, anfwered ; That being to 
 Ipeak in publick to the Athenians , he was 
 picking his words one by one , and exami- 
 ning them, if there was any that he (hould 
 pmit ? Laudato ingentia rura^ faith the Poet, 
 Extguumcolito, Honour the GyganticalVo- 
 lumnesofothersj but ftrive not fo much to 
 imitate tHem in bulk , as to furpaffe them in 
 worth. Write one only good one, but one 
 that may be more worth than many. One, 
 but one of which you may fay as Ceres of her 
 onely Daughter^ 
 
 Kumerl damnum Froferpina pen/at. 
 
 2 The other reafon of the unfortunate fuccefs 
 efBoo^Sy isy the mdertal^ng to handle a matter^ 
 and wanting a Wit proportionable, I chanced 
 |o write an Od;ave> or Epigram , and pre- 
 
 (ently 
 
Ambition. 
 
 [ently I conceited that tlicy called them He- 
 roick PoemSjOr Tragoedies. 
 
 sn 
 
 Non ide o debet pelago fe credere ^ fi qua 2 Trifi, 
 
 Audet in exiguoludere cymhalacu. 
 
 That Hercules doth enterprize the con- 
 queft of the Heavens, and delire to do it by 
 his ftrength never wonder: Since he hath n^^cuU 
 already tridethenijand knows their weight, p^^/^, 
 
 £t pqffe coelum virihus vinci fuis 
 Didicit ferendo , 
 
 Do ye likewife meafure the ftrength of 
 yourfhoulders, by the weight of the bur- 
 den^ and where you can {vj^l'ar oneri cervix^ Icrom 
 cake up the lame, and go on. Trudentia ho- comyt^. 
 minis ejl^ faith St. 'Jerome ^ nojje menfuramfuamy 
 nee imperiti^t fu<e orhem teftem facere, Yee 
 fhould unite ^rgw/ and Briareus ^ fothatyc 
 [hould nothavea hundred hands ready to 
 write, if ye havenotalfoin the Intellcvft, an 
 hundred eyes open to undcrftand. .Let not 
 afpacious field of noble Argument fo tran- 
 fportandhurry your Spirits, thatthe defiie 
 of running through it, make you forget that 
 you have neither wings nor ability to doe 
 it-. 
 
 Vale 
 
514 7^7^ Second Fart. 
 
 Vale your too venturous plumes, that 
 would fooner make you fall than flie, and 
 do. 
 
 DAKte. like to the un-flegg d Stork,^ thatftrives tofly^ 
 Andheingumimelf hafiy ^fluttering leaves 
 ItslothedNefl , andfo a fall receives. 
 
 But of this I am to fpeak upon another 
 accafionbyandby. 
 
 3 The third cauje why there is more abort ivls 
 than births , is from the impatient defire to bring 
 them fort h^ before they be perfe^ly formed. They 
 hear not the precept of Horace 
 
 In Arte, lionnunque prematur in annum^ 
 
 Membranns intus fofitU delere licebit 
 J^odnonedi derii, Nefcit voxmifla reverti . 
 
 It is no wonder if Muftirums that grow 
 up in one hour , rot in the next; and our 
 works prove, faith P/^^^ , like thofe famous 
 Gardens oiJdonls^ j^ifubito^ &dieunonati 
 celerrimepereunt. 
 
 ^^^^W^W was a Painter 5 for whom all 
 the Cloth of Greece , all the Colours ot the 
 Eaft fufficed not. He compiled the draughts 
 of his Tables with more expedition , than 
 the Sun draws the Rain-bow in the Clouds. 
 
 But 
 
Ambition. 515 
 
 But what then ? They were piflures that 
 hung in every fordid place ,• and, cxpofed 
 without regard, hved no longer than the 
 men fown by Cadmus, 
 
 On the contrary Zi^/zx/Vj who in bringing 
 forth his works was more tedious than the 
 Elephant 5 and gave not a touch with his 
 Pencil 3 which he recalled not to a critical 
 examination merited that eternity of glory^ 
 for which alone he painted. The wifefl men 
 are ever the moft Icvcrcwith ths works of 
 their own Wits : knowing that they ought 
 to be not only read but examined by men 
 of great judgment w'*" made them (ay with 
 young FUnius 5 Nil eji curat me^ fatls. Cogito Lib. 7. 
 tiuam (it magnum dare aliquid in manus homi- ^p^fi. Ce- 
 num : nee perfuadere mihi pofum^ non & cum ^-'''• 
 multis^ &fipi tra^andum, ijuod placere, irfem- 
 per J & omnibus cupias. 
 
 And fo much fifficeth to have faid of 
 thofc^that being but ill furnifiied with Wit, 
 undertake to write ofthings above their ca- 
 pacities. Now I ought not to omitccrtain 
 others , which mifufing the Wit wherein 
 they are rich^confumethcmfelveSj&fpend 
 their ftudies about certain unprofitable mat-- 
 ters, ^04 nequefcire compendium (fiith Atno- 
 hius) neque ignorare detrimentum ejl uUum^, 
 
 The 
 
3 1 6 The Second fart. 
 
 The unfortunate pains offuch whi 
 jiudy and write matters vphoUi 
 unprojitable. 
 
 A 
 
 Lchymijls are men of more hardineft 
 than judgment. Judgment indccc 
 they have none, albeit of the greaii 
 tree of folly, there's in appearance perhap: 
 is the goodlieft branch^namely, that brand 
 of (/^/^ that fends one to Hell fooner thai 
 to the Eljzian Fields. But they are never j 
 theleflefortunate, for feeking, as they fay 
 the Phylofophers Stone, with the favour ol 
 Art they finally end it, and it is that Ancien* 
 Golden Poverty the true LafisFhylofophorum, 
 which leaving them nothing in the World 
 freeth them from the care of keeping, an 
 dangerof lofin g : both priviledges of th 
 true Golden age.They un-avi(edly pretencj 
 to fix zMercurj in Silver , and perceive no 
 that the God of Thieves knows better ho 
 ^ft V ^^ ^^^^ ^^^y ^^^^ others , then to impart o|uj 
 Mooos!' ^^^ Own. They would change the Moo 
 into a Sun. That Moon which never lofetl 
 it felf more than when it moft approachetl' ,|| 
 
 to the Sun. But above all things the efticao 
 
 y 
 
Ambition. 
 
 )f that moft pleafing enchantment of hope 
 s worthy of admiration , which bereauing 
 he heads of thefc wretched fools of Wife- 
 dom, their hands of money , their eyes of 
 lecp > and their hearts ofthe love of all the 
 
 I World, fo blindeth them that they fee not 
 
 I what they fuffcr; and tormenting their lives> 
 no leffe than the minerals on which they 
 
 .work, renders them ftupid to pain, and in- 
 fenfible of torment. Thus you fee them like 
 gnats wind themfelves every moment about 
 a little candle, which gives heat to an Her- 
 metical Furnace, and in one inftant to laugh 
 at that fire, and weep at that fmoak : Till 
 fuchtime, as the myftery compleated,they 
 at the gathering of the fruit of all find a 
 goodly Sx nihilo nihil fit. All their hope is 
 evaporated and only the dregs remain: 
 Fortune ^ that flood upon a Ball of Glaffe , 
 that being broken 3 is fain. Andfromallit 
 is at laft concluded , " That Gold grows 
 
 I ^^ not, but only inNegotiation^ and makes 
 
 I ^ no Vcines and Mines but in Banks. 
 
 I have with two touches of the Pen 
 
 ; Jrudely pourfoil'd the equally foolilh, and 
 unfortunate pains ofmiferable jlldjmi^sy 
 
 I which with no other gain, than of a fmoak 
 that makes them weep, fpend all that they 
 have, or are y to the end th^t in theirs you 
 
 may 
 
 3^7 
 
3l8 The Seco7id Part. 
 
 may the better obferve their folly of as many 
 as being endowed with a certain tallcntof 
 Wit 5 fpend both that, and their time and 
 pains 5 (whereby they (horten their lives, 
 and limbick their brains) , about the unpro- 
 fitable compofure of certain Books , whofe 
 contents fcrveonly to confume the time of 
 him that reads them i as they impare the 
 health of him that writes thcni_. 
 geH, lib* I know that Phavoiirtm advifeth , that 
 tj.dz. forfharpning of theVVit, when it feems 
 blunted and dulkd by long idlenefle, the 
 beft means is to undertake matters of leffc 
 utility, and more jollity. Thus did he that 
 praifed Tfyrfitesy and the j^artan Feaver , as*. 
 Djon did the Fore-top , Sme/ms Baldheflc, 
 Luc/an ^Fly ^ and an hundred others about 
 the like lubjeds have bufied themfelves. 
 But its one thing to awaken, andftirreup 
 the Wit with matters although not profi- 
 table, at leaft facetious ; and another to 
 weary ir, & dull it with over much intence- 
 neffe, and tedious expeding from thenV 
 all the glory of his prolix ftudies, as that 
 JliartUl other that faid, 
 
 'PlinMbj lU^ ego fuitm nuUi nugarum laudefecundus* 
 11. cap, ^ 
 
 VVbit think you of Arijlomachus , that 
 
 with 
 
Ambitio7i. 31^ 
 
 with exadeft obfervations of every day, 
 (I had like to have faid of every hourj for 
 fixty two years continually pryed into the 
 nature of Bees ? So many years jfuch dili- 
 gence, would feem to me to have acquired 
 noleffe, than adifcovery of all the fccrets 
 of Heaven , and an eftablifhment of all the 
 periods of the Planets. 
 
 Seneca^2iS offended with ceitainPhylo" 
 fophers of his time , that confumed the te- 
 dious watches of the night , and the impla- 
 ! cable difputcs of the day, about certain too - 
 leries, meriting, I know not whether more 
 of laughter, than la(hes: MusJjUaha eB^ Spift d^ 
 I JjUaha cafeum non rodit , Mus ergo caufeum non 
 rodit. 
 
 pueriles inept oi ! In hocfuperciliafubduxi* 
 must In hoc harbam demifimusl Hoceji quod 
 trifles docemus^ ir fallidi ? Men are wont to 
 fay that we are twice Children, once when 
 we come out ofour Swathing-clouts , and 
 again when in cxtream old age we re- 
 aSiime childifhnefTe : but he that imployes 
 (not to fay confumeth) his life in thefe con- 
 ceited vanities, NonhispuereH^ ut vulgo did- 
 turjfed/emper : verum hoc intere^^ quod majora ^ 
 ludtt, 
 
 I To what end (hall we ftudying unbowel 
 our felvcs, to weave but fly-intangling 
 webs ? 
 
 //.2.r.4, 
 
o^O The Second Part. 
 
 webs ? To what purpofe fhould we with 
 Nero imploy nets of Purple and Gold , 
 (^thoughts and difcourfes of a precious Wit) 
 tofi(hfor Shad and Bream ,5 ^isnonmire- 
 TUnAih. tur({nidP!hiyfycakingofPlatans^trccs that 
 i2.f. I. produce nothing but leaves for (hade) ario- 
 rem umhr(^ gratia t ant urn y ex alieno fetltdm orbe? 
 Are perhaps (hades fo rare in Europe I or 
 thcfe of PA^wr^^/ij bccaufe, barbarous arc 
 they therefore the more beauteous, that 
 we fnould run through naufrages to thefar- 
 theft parts of the World to get the plant 
 that produceth them ? Is there fo great a 
 fcarcity of unprofitable bablings^or are they 
 fold fo dear, that to ftuffe a thoufand un^r 
 happy lcaves.it muft eoft you ftudy, waking, 
 toiling J and no (mall part of your life ? If 
 I can have fancies of fublime Ingenuity^ thai 
 fore a loft as the Eagle 5 or Falcon to make 
 new acquift of prey : wherefore (hould I 
 wi(h that they be like the Lark, which fceks 
 no other benefit from a troublefomeafpi- 
 ring, and painful flight than that unprofi- 
 table chattering which they make; after 
 which they defcend from their altitude, 
 dircdly to the earth • ravifhed and content^ 
 as if they had taught a Lcifture of Mufick to' 
 the Coeleftial syren^s^ 
 
 There 
 
Ainhitidn. 22 1 
 
 There is (writes Oviedus) in the Weftcrn oviediu 
 India s great abundance of Cotton, Alumn, in hifl. 
 Salt 3 and fuch like ordinary Merchandizes, 
 yi^ith which that place is moftpIentifLil, but 
 ihereisno man vouchfafcth to carry them 
 away y nor do they frequent thofc Ports, 
 but only to fraight themfelves with Gold^ 
 Silver, Pearls^and Aromatick Perfumes. A 
 Voyage folong^fo difficult, fo dangerous, 
 (fuch itwas.inthofe primitive times) none 
 ^ould undertake for lefle. Alas I moft 
 fimple Merchants : The Voyage of your 
 life, fa great part whereof you fpend inftu- 
 dy , the felicity of the fancy, the toil ofcom- 
 pofing, which might fill your Books with 
 Gold and Pearls,^ you only employ to en- 
 rich your felves; with what? Fables, empty 
 Queftiorks , (it had like to have fcap't my 
 Pen, Romances) Poems of Love, reforma- 
 tions of Ancient Heads, more often de- 
 formed than reformed, correftions fantafti- 
 caUconjcdiures, imaginations, and I know 
 not what, ^are appenditis argemum^ & non Ifni^c-^i 
 in panihml faith f/^, and St. Ji?/*^w^ under- 
 ftands it of the unprofitable Sciences of the 
 age, how much more may it be underftood 
 of your wholly, unprofitable fooleries? Is 
 t"hatT>^m/^ ftill alive, that enjoyns you to 
 tell him, Whofe daughter was Becuba^ 
 
 Y Whar 
 
3^2 
 
 The Second Part. 
 
 What name Achilles took when he lay con- 
 cealed among the Virgins of Ucomedesi 
 PlHt.^M. What the J/rt?;/^/ are wont to fing of when \ 
 
 €9nviv. they enchant pafllngers; on which hand | 
 r^«//if was wounded by D/^w^^^/; on which 
 foot Vhili^ halted ? Is Domhian yet living , 
 that teacheth you to fpend many hours 
 every day in the unprofitable hunting of 
 thefe flyes ? 
 
 HeIiogdulu$ ^ to give an argument to the ; 
 Worldof thegreatnefleof jRtfw^j like a fool, 
 made all the Cob-wcbs that hung in the 
 hoiifcs thereof to be gathered together 
 upon one heap ^ and that he efteemed a fuf- 
 ficicnt foundation for a conceit equal to the 
 grandure of a City that was Queen of the 
 World. There is no Wife man but fmiles 
 at this Fool. But is not this the fame with 
 the folly of thofe, which for to give a pub- 
 iick proof of their wit, rake together a 
 mafTe rather of Cob-webs than of Papers in 
 
 ^ a Book, writing vain and unprofitable mat- 
 
 '^ ' ters? Utinam taceretisy & videremini fapi- 
 em is. Let the applaufes of foolilh friends 
 make you never fb great, thefe are never 
 more, than what Diogenes called the won- 
 
 L4en. ^^^s do"c ^^ ^he Spedacles oi Bacchus^ Mag' 
 tlA miraculaJlukorunL^, 
 
 Butamongllthe unprofitable labours of 
 
 the 
 
I 
 
 Ambition. 222 
 
 the Wit, (^however the interefled refent Aftroiogy 
 things; I [hall only hint, that the firft place ^^pp^^'^- 
 ; ought to be given to that, which St. Bafil 
 aptly calleth NegctioJtJJimam prorfus vanita- St.Baftl. 
 tern y Aftrologie y (I know not whether I 
 j fhould fay ) Indiciary , or extrajudicial 5 
 S worthy, rather ot the difrefpe(a,than of the 
 f Afpeiis of the Stars ^ from whence Shet 
 \ taketh lies to vend them the dearer, in re- 
 ; gard they be cceleftial Merchandize. H?r 
 ' Art is to ered twelve Houfes in Heaven by 
 the help of men , that many times have 
 not a cottage on Earth ; and by their hands 
 to difpcnce to fome riches and dignities , to 
 others misfortunes and prsecipices,- who 
 themfelves beg bread to keep them alive. 
 You muft not ask her fas Diogenes demanded ^^■^^' ^^ 
 of him that talked fo freely, of Heaven) ^'^^*^' 
 ^ando nam de C^/o veniH:i . For /he pre- 
 tends to know how to read every ones for- 
 tune , written with charafters of Stars, and 
 Cyphers of Afped:s : To know how to 
 trace out in the periods of thofe Spheres the 
 courf es of every ones life : To be able to 
 confine the Stars and Planets in Trines^ 
 Quadrates, and Sextiles, as info many Ma- 
 gical figures 5 and to force them to tell fu- 
 ture cveniencics, both publick and private ; 
 To condude^tobe a prophetefTc of truth t 
 Yz And 
 
5^4 T^^^ Second Fart. 
 
 And all this by virtue of fimilary obferva- 
 tions y which as yet never had fimilary fi- 
 gures in Heaven ; By dependance on one le- 
 gitimate point of the Nativity ^xho, weight of 
 which it examineth in the Ballance of Her^ 
 mes; By virtue of Cosleftial Figures, ima- 
 gined by the C^pricciooi others, obferved 
 by them as myfteries ; By help of things , 
 which have nothing of fubfiftance or reaUty, 
 fuch as are the Dragons-head^ and 7ail^ and 
 An /vftto- the "^ Partoi Fortune; in fine^ in defpight of J 
 ccfm*^ the Truth not found out , but ftumbled 
 upon 5 not by meanes of Art , but only by 
 cnance in one predidlion of a thoufand , 
 they are emboldened to maske a falfhood , 
 as if it were a thing credible ; and to per- 
 fwade a thing credible as it were true. 
 
 What doth this Profeflion merit , whofe 
 office it is to deceive men on Earth , and to 
 defame the Stars in Heaven ? You may give 
 it the Caucafmy and Vulture oi Promothew; if 
 you think, it be a far greater crime, to make 
 Heaven a ly ar , the Planets deceivers, and the 
 Stars malevolent^ than to take from the 
 Wheel of the Suns Chariot , a fpark of fire, 
 abeam of light j therewith to infufe light 
 into the dead Statues of Epimetheus^ and to 
 transfufe Soul and Senfc into their breaffs. 
 But for my part ^ becaufe I will not pafic 
 
 judg 
 
! 
 
 ^ Avarice. 
 
 judgment to others prejudice^ ^^ I would 
 f^ remit them to the Tribunal of that brave 
 <^ Emperor Alexander Severtu^ who punifhed 
 ^^ Turinus his Favorite/or felling the Favors 
 <^ of his Mafter with Falacious Promifes: 
 ^' Condemning him to be ftifled to death 
 «' with Smoak,thc Trumpets all the while 
 " proclaining aloud j Fumo puniter^ qui ven- 
 diditfumunt^. 
 
 cc 
 
 AVARICE. 
 
 'Xhat he is guilty of the Ignorance 
 of many ^ rvho might benefit maify 
 by the Preffe^ and negle^s it. 
 
 THere are not any men for whofc 
 maintenance the World more un- 
 willingly Labours, and Nature 
 takes pains, than thofe, who regardlefle of 
 others, would live only to themfelves. 
 Thefe are Pilgrims eveainthrirown Coun- 
 try , and Solitary in the midft of Society ; 
 Thefe have the countenance of men , but 
 areBeafts amongfl^cn^ that deferve ik) 
 more to have been born by others , then 
 they caic to live tor any but themlel ves. 
 
 Y 3 Amongft 
 
 325 
 
^26 T^he Second Fart. 
 
 Amongftthefe, none will fcrnple to enu- 
 merate certain ^varitious Wits ^ which 
 would bury the Golden Talents of Scien- 
 ces and Arts, (with which they arc endow- 
 ^ cd) in their Sepulchers, rather than become 
 
 beneficial to pofterity by the Prefls. 
 
 When, if there was no other inducement 
 moving him thereto then the great reward 
 (f of that honoured Memory , with which 
 after death he lives immortally^ | 
 
 •:.>/« ^rit qui veUe recufet 
 
 Os ofuli mermjje , & cedro digna locutus 
 Inquere nee fcomhros tnetuentU carmina nee 
 thus! 
 
 1 
 But , there is not only this allurement i 
 
 which can , there is ftronger reafon whichl 
 
 fhouldperf wade him to doit j and it is the 
 
 publickintercftj which may not be negled- 
 
 ed under pretence that he is carelefTe of his 
 
 own. So much the more in regard that 
 
 Wifcdom is not received from Heaven as 
 
 a(7{/?5 which may be loft with our fclves, 
 
 hwizszLorte ^ tobetranfmitted to ourluc- 
 
 Ceflbrs j fo that the doing it is not 3 infome 
 
 fenfe, fo much Liherality , z,^jujlke: It is to 
 
 be received J as the Air receives the Light 
 
 from theSun^ to tranfmit it to the Earthy 
 
Avarice. 337 
 
 r and not to rctein it concealed from others^ 
 f] and with little profit to our fclvcs. 
 
 Therefore our folitary, pale , (hriveled 
 I Anceftors have in the courfe of fi) many 
 3 ages (pent the Vigils of flgw-pac't Nights, 
 a andconfumed notfo much the hours of the 
 I Day 5 as the daycs of their Lives 3 to fetch 
 i with the blows of hard Studie, from the 
 i rich Mines of their Wits, golden Veins of 
 truth, and new difcoveries in knowledge 5 
 and expounding them freely, have made 
 [ their private patrimony a publick inheri- 
 tance: wherefore then do we, (ingrateful 
 to our PredecefTors , and envious to our 
 SuccefforSj) avaricioufly bury both theirs . 
 and our own ? 
 
 He that puts himfelf between our Ance- 
 ftors , and thofe that are to come after us ; 
 and beholds the Example of the one, and the 
 l^ecejfttji of the other : I fee not how he can 
 have a heart to deny , either imitation to 
 thofe, or affiftance to thefe. For ifthe only 
 beholding the dead Images of thofe, who in 
 publick managements of Peace , and War, 
 have acquired the name oi Grandees^ can do 
 no leffethan move the heart, and involve 
 the defires in the like enterprifes ; in feeing 
 in Books the lively and breathing Images of 
 the Wit of thofe Gteat Souls expreft to the 
 Y 4 life. 
 
5^8 The Second Part. 
 
 life, that therein ftill fur vi ve, ftill fpeak^ ftill 
 teach, to che benefit of the VVorld 5 can the 
 rudeft man choofc but defire to underftand, 
 and can the intelUgiblc choofc but blufh to 
 keep that covctoufly concealed which others 
 have coUedcdonelyfor Common Benefit ? 
 Sf»eca Sume in mams indicem Thilofofhorum. Hac 
 £piH. 3 p. ipja res expergifci te coget : Si viderit quam mul* 
 ti tihi lahoraverint , concupfces ^ & ip/e ex illis 
 nnusejji^,, 
 q)e Ik- Yet faith P/^//^5 Sapience is a Sun, from 
 fomwis. which we cannot take the Splendor without 
 deftroying it. And many Flatonickj make " 
 Souls ofloftieft intelligence to be of the na- ] 
 Plinji.i. tureoffirc, Cujus unius ratio f^cunda; Jeque | 
 cap^ioj* ipfeparety ir minimis crefcit feint illis. 
 
 So that if the Examples of our Anccftors 
 is notfufficient to pcrfwade us^let us behold 
 the Neceffity ofPofterity, to whom it is 
 double cruelty to deny that , which we 
 ought to bequeath them with Intereft, and 
 they would receive with profit. Abolifh 
 this inviolable Law 5 which is not written 
 in Marble, but imprinted on the heart of 
 Man, of bequeathing our Goods afwell as 
 ourLovetoourPofterity jand what other 
 do yoii do but deftroy the World, and^ 
 make it barbarous, and brutilh ? But if thofe 
 (ecm fortunate \ who tranfmit to their 
 - ^ ^ Legi. 
 
A'varicc. 329 
 
 Legitimate Iffiie , ample yearly Revenues^ 
 and entail with the riches that they have , a 
 happy Fortune to their Family ; what more 
 precious and durable Inheritance can we 
 leave them than the Endowments of the 
 mind/andthe golden Tallents of our own 
 Wit? Thefe are Revenues that diminifti not 
 with ufe, that confumc not with time; that 
 llirvive both publick& private Ruines;Are 
 al way es living, alwayes entire 3 alwayes in 
 die fame efteem, and ec|ually beneficial. 
 And hence drew the fecond "TJiny that 
 forceable motive, wherewith he perfwades 
 a Friend to leave for publick benefit fome 
 fruit of his long andtedious ftudies. Effinge Lth, i. 
 ahquid)& excHcie^ quod Jit per petm tuum* Nam ^P'fi ^ 
 reliqua remmtuamm^ pojl te Aliumatque alium ^^^h^*^' 
 iominumfortientur. Hocnunqnam tuum dejinet 
 ejjey fifemelcceperit-'. 
 
 But hear what thofe fordid Mifers have 
 to fay for themfelves. I am dehor to no man 
 fortphxts wy own. Let others ta^ pains oi 1 have 
 clone ; let them find of themfelves^ thaty which 
 Hs unhandfometo beg of others. This is pittj not 
 rigor; love to Learnings not hatred of the Learn- 
 ed ; for it heeds up Wits in fothfiilnejfe when 
 they find that in others , which they [hould dravfi 
 from thenfelves, Kecejpty renders Ingenious; 
 itndma^es him thjit would he alwayes a Scholary 
 
 Jludying 
 
330 
 
 The Second Part. 
 
 fliddjingthe Id ours of others^ to become Mafter, 
 invent tug new of his own, Thu6 we make A- 
 c\\\\Yi^' ^y giving them whole , the hones of lions ^ 
 that they may hrea^ them^ and pi c^ out the Marow: 
 thus brAve Swimmers give way to the Courfe of 
 the Stream where it is mofl impetuous: f^ecaufe 
 it is mtfo much Art as NeceJJtty infucha cafe 
 that teachetb them to come outr*. 
 
 And do not thefe confider, that if this 
 fhould hz^Learning would alwaycs continue 
 initsinfancy? Ifhethatfpends manyyearSj 
 in ftudy, teacheth no man what he hath dif- 
 coveicd; he that comes after him 5 when 
 he alfo hath been equally folicitous infeek- 
 ing, and equally fortunate in finding , fhall 
 know nothing more than the former : and 
 when will they this way advance Learning? 
 Yea the knowledg of that which othershave 
 found, helps one to find that which others 
 did not know. Thofe willferveus for Prin- 
 ciples ^ which were to others but Confe- 
 quences , and there we begin our fearch 
 where others left feeking. Wifedom is gi- 
 S,^ug, ven 3 faid ^uguHine^ not for a Slave but for 
 aSpoufe, and requires from us SuccefTors 
 and Sons ; hoc eJlingeniifruBus , & quofJam 
 mentis partus^ quos non tarn lihros , quam liberos 
 dicimus; and when (he obteinethnot that, 
 (he laments^ will not fay like her that faicl. 
 
Avarice. 551, 
 
 faltcmmihi parvulus aula ludent ^nea^y but 
 like the innocent Daughter oijeptah^ that, 
 more bewailed the Virginity, ihan her 
 Death 5 It heing the true and only death to die 
 without leaving an IJpie wherein to live^ But if 
 a wilful abortive makes the Mother a Ho- 
 micide, Etqu€ originem futuri hominii extin- *'^Octa^ 
 guunt ( faith Minutius) parricidium factum ^'^' 
 -antequam faridnt ; to ftifle in Wiledoms 
 Womb that which (he (as it were preg- 
 nant with our Conceits) conceives, to kill 
 it that it (hould not be brought forth,is not 
 this Parricide? Is k not homicidii feslinatio 
 frobihere nafcii 
 
 Others their are that defend themfdves TenuU 
 with years , and excufe themfclves with ^P^^^lr 
 old age 5 That being fcarce able to live them- ^^^' ^^* 
 /elves J hovp can they toil for others ^ To him 
 that hath done his part in a^iivity , it is cm- 
 iltyto deny him to gather his wings into his Neflt 
 and tojlrikefail in the Fort. Other times y other 
 cares. The eyes inclined to the fieep of death , 
 more than to the xoakings effludy^ can go no far- 
 ther without danger of errors J andmiflakes. 
 
 But if I mifunderftand not , thefe are not 
 the words of one that would live out the 
 few years that he wants of his full time, but 
 of them that would anticipate their death 
 fpme years before they die : and to die I 
 
 call 
 
553 The Second Part. 
 
 PU.prdf. call the doing nothing but// 1^^. Theftudies 
 eperts, of his cxtream old age were the fweeter 
 to A/. VarrOi the nearer he was to his death, 
 becaufc not knowing any other life more 
 like a man, than to underftand, he lengthned 
 his life, as he did his ftudy , andfaid to him- 
 felf J Dum hitc mupnamur flurihus horh vivi- 
 mus. Yea Seneca that noble Wit, taking mo- 
 tives to Labour from his Age 5 whence o- 
 thers feek pretences to reft, in the ultimate 
 years of his not-compleated-Iife , applied 
 himfelf to inveftigate the occult fecrets of 
 Natural Phylofophy, and therewith , as if 
 he was more than himfelf , he faid with his 
 
 Poet ; 
 
 ToUimus ingentes animos^ ^ grandiaparvo 
 Tempore mofimur. 
 
 fritfiit. Thereupon, as it were pricking and fpur- 
 lib. 2. ring on the flothfulnefle of his Old age> 
 f«</f. Feftinemus^ faid he, c^ opus , nefcio an/kpera-- 
 ^^^' bile 5 magnum certe , fine atatis excufatione tra- 
 
 Remits, , 
 
 itAnfeni VVho ever fceth (faith Plutarch) Beesfor- 
 £erenA^ agc to grow lazic, floihful and idle in their 
 Re^Hh. Hives 5 and not flye to the flowers and ga- 
 ther Honey , as they did when they were 
 young ? ^^ Take from me the power of 
 
 l^ writing 
 
 JO 
 
Avarice. 552 
 
 ^' writing, faid(/c?i//«/3and you take away my ^» fi»e 
 *'life. So much onely of life I ask for my ^^^^'^'^ 
 *^felf 5 as may be ferviceable to others. -^^^'^* 
 ** Ne^uelongioramihi dari/patiavivendi volo^ 
 *^ quam dum ero ad banc facultatem fcrikndi , 
 ^' commentandique idoneus. 
 
 Let the divifion of the life of him that 
 profefleth Learning be fuch as that of the 
 Ancient Veffa/s of Rome, which was divided -P/^^ i^* 
 into three equal parts. *^ In the firft they 
 "learnt the Rites, and Ceremonies, as 
 *' Scholars to the Eldefl ; In the fecond they 
 «^ pradifed them , as Companions of the 
 ^' midle fort; In the lafl they taughtthem, 
 ^'as MiftrefTes of the Younger. Thus the 
 " leaves ufher in the bloffomes , and the 
 ^^bloffomes fallings with a happy end, do 
 *' knit in fruit. 
 
 The incomparable felicity of Good 
 Authors^ that appear in Print. 
 
 THe defireof living hath been the In- 
 venterefs of a hundred ways of not 
 . djing. And becaufe Phyfick hath 
 
 [neither the hcarbs of ii^^^<^^ againft Old-age^ 
 nor the Jwhojia of Jupiter againft Deaths but 
 
 thac 
 
534 ^^^ Second Fart, 
 
 hiff, 2. that its too true, as Sydonim finth, that many 
 ^f^ft' 1 2, Dodors a0entes/ir (^ipdentes.parumdomy 
 ^g^' &famfeduli^ languidos mulios officiojtffime oc^ 
 cidunt ^ we betake our fclves to the Arts of 
 Colouring Linncns \ Ingraving MarblcSj 
 Founding BrafTe^ ercfting Arches , Maufi^ 
 leums^ and Theaters ^that fo ifwc cannot 
 long be men, yet at lead we may be the | 
 Superficies of men on Pedcftals , theima- 'l^ 
 ges of men in the Infcriptions of Arches> / 
 and Epitaphs of Scpulchcrs. But there is ,'! 
 nothing ot cur invention , as I have above 
 adverted, fo able to conferve us alive after 
 death, as the procreation of Children 
 whereby Nature provideth for the mainte- j^^ 
 nance of the common Species^ and private 
 defire of every one. Mortumejl pater (Gith 
 Ch^t'l^ £cc/e^aflictu) & cjuaji non e^ mortuusyfimilem 
 entm reliquit fibi pojlfe. But howbeit it be 
 true that the Father transfufes himfelf intol ' 
 his Child that he begets, whereby dying! J 
 he doth not die, whilft he liveth ftill in him ^ ^ 1 
 yet nevertheleffe , the Child oft-times fo ^""l 
 degenerates, not only from the looks , but! ^^ 
 from the Genius, & Cuftomes , oftheFa-l^ 
 ther> that very often it comes to pafle f Asj 
 in the Egyptian god Jpu) that the Father is afj'i 
 Lightning, and the Son an Ox. Caufed, irP^ 
 that the temper of the Iflue^ follows not thej^i 
 
 will 
 
 b 
 
A'z/arice. 555 
 
 willoftheagentj but the nature of the mat- 
 ter ; nor doe we make our Children fuch 
 as we would, but fuch as we may. But 
 Books are the Children of the mind. Heirs 
 of the better part ,* lively Images of our 
 felvesj thefe only are they, in whom wc 
 have as much of life as we can enjoy after 
 death. Contingit (faith Cajftodore) dipmilem Proem, 
 filiumflerumtjiue generari^ orMto dijpar morihus '^^r. 
 vixunquam pot eft inveniri. SB ergo ifla valde 
 certior arkitrii proles. They are immortal 
 Sons, that make our dying only a ceflation . 
 from miferyjto commence in them a life of 
 glory ; like even as Hercules , leaving the 
 earth, was received from his Labours into 
 Heaven j andinthe midft of it hebegan to 
 fhine with the Stars, whofe body confiimed 
 in the flames of the funeral pile, feemed re- 
 , duced to a handtul of a(hes. 
 
 What fo ftrong fupport , what fo ftablc 
 afis^ hath the memory of the names, and 
 he glory of the merits of Great Souls , 
 omparable to the eternal duration of 
 ooks? Obfervc the mines that time makes 
 :n everything, precipitating fome, and 
 gently gnawing others. The Rocks, do 
 :hey not, as it were, decrepit, and bending 
 mderths heavy burden ofage, incline to- 
 i^ards the grave^ and mouldringbit by bit, 
 
 and 
 
53^ T/;<? Second Fart. 
 
 and fcattering their divided members fa- 
 ther bones here and there, do they not 
 fcem to beg a Tomb from their own V^- 
 lies? Doth not even Iron it fclf, worn away 
 by the ruft , confume to duft by the D^^ 
 file of Time. Once-ftately-Edinces ^ now 
 old Carkaffes, and naked Anatomies , not 
 of Fabricks but of ruines, if with fome frag- 
 ments of broken walls , more falling ih^g 
 {landing, they keep upon their feet, do they 
 not more manifeft^a Tropheeof Time than 
 a tcftimony of their former greatnefle ? 
 Where once were theTem pies of the Gpds'i 
 Courts of Kings, AfTemblies of Senators,' 
 Accademies of Students, there can now 
 hardly an Owl neftherfelf. but ravenous 
 Wolves have there their Coverts. In the 
 mean-time , in the midft of the mines of all 
 the refifting & durable things of the Worlds 
 how do the Trophees of great Wits abide \ 
 In the death of all things, evenot the lifcn 
 lefTe, how live Books, or rather how liveir 
 Books their Fathers and Writers? Let tb 
 ConfoL mod Sapient Roman Stoick (ay it. Q'^tera 
 ad Poly^ qn^per conjlru^ionem laplduniy ^ marmorea^ 
 hnm moles , aut terrenos tumulos in magnam cduHo 
 cApMt. altitudinem^ conjlant ; non fropagahunt long^h 
 diem^quippe & ipfa intereunt. ImmortalU ejl ingt 
 nil mcmoria. Lee the Poet Martial i^^dk it 
 
 Mm, 
 
Avarice 057 
 
 Marmora AleJptU firtdit caprificus^ &AudAx Lib. lo- 
 Dimidios Crijfi mulio ridet equos. Or, i . 
 
 Atchartisnecfuria nocent^necfecuU fr^funt-^ 
 Solaque non norunt hdtc monument a morL 
 
 I Well may we call Af^/f/&/ happy 3 who 
 was borne to his Sepulcher upon the (houl- ^^'^* ' 
 ders of his four Sons , of which two had 7' ^* 4"^* 
 been, one was, and the other was a while 
 after to be Conful of Rome. This was fo fu- 
 perbofe a funeral pomp 5 that the Hiftorian 
 admiring it, faid. Hoc eftnimirum magisfeli- ir^igin^^ 
 citerdevita migrare^quimmon^ but in fine, it ity. i. 
 was r^ -z^/V^ w/^r^r^ , and his Sons , though htfl. 
 with great pomp , yet carried him to the 
 Grave. Books alone , not four Children , 
 but as many as we multiply with the 
 Prefle , their Father retiring to death , 
 and the Sepulcher , bear him aUve into 
 every place where they come, and put him, 
 not fo much into the hand, as into the eye, 
 ofasmanyas read him , into the mind of as 
 many ^s underftand him. 
 
 And oh! how many times he, who living 
 in his native Country,^ either un-known, or 
 un-regarded , fo that with much ado he 
 drew to himfelf the eyes of fome few , that 
 ; pok*t upon him as a Man of Wit, in his 
 ^ t '"" Books 
 
338 
 
 The Second Part. 
 
 Books draws to himfdf the hearts o^^a 
 V^ Vorld : Like as heretofore the famoi^ ^ 
 Lyre oi Orphem^ihzx, on Earth>faith MmilitHy * 
 ravilhed the Trees, Stones, fav^ge Beaft^^ 
 in Heaven whether he was tranflated^ dreijr 
 the Stars after him. 
 
 I . ^fir, Tuncjjlvas^ &/axa trahens nuncfydera duciu 
 
 V Vitnefle that moft pleafing defire th^t ' 
 any one hath to know of what femblance 
 were the faces , and what the features of 
 thofc^who in paper have damped fo goodly 
 portraitu' es of their Wits ; hence pro- 
 ceeds the care of delineating them, yea^ of 
 counterfeiting them, whenthorow the ob- 
 livion of many ages , their faces ai'e un- 
 knowable : iV(7« enimfolumexauro^ aygmtotje^ 
 aut etiam ex ^ere ^ in bihliothecu dicaatur^ iUi^ 
 quorum immorules animA in iifdem lotis lo^ 
 quuntur; quinirnb etiam qu<ie non funt ^ fingurt" 
 turfariu itque defideria non tmditi vultu^^ jicut 
 in Liomcro evenit. ^o majus^ ut quidem ar^ 
 h'nror^ nullum e^felicitatisfpecimen. qu^mfem- 
 per omnesfciYe cupere , qualis fuerit aliquis^w 
 
 And not on y fo , but as oft as the dubi- 
 ous mind knows not how to unknit the 
 knots of intricate difficulties, that wilder the 
 thoughts] fo oft with defire'ivmns to covet 
 
 to 
 
Avarice.. 559 
 
 ^'to behold thofe alive , which only are able 
 tohcOedipuss to their t^ntgmas. Yea, as PU^a^c. 
 once the Generous <Slfacedon to a Forre gn ^f^^^^oda 
 Mcflch^er that brought him good News , 1^^'^ P^^ 
 and before he expreft it in words, intimated •''^^ ^^> 
 it by the joy in his face ; What now f (laid he) ^^• 
 l^^hat News hringfl thou ? // Hcmer ri fen from 
 the Dead / This alone was the moft wel- 
 come Intclligencejchat that great Emperor 
 could receive-, which yet had a Soul , and 
 a defire adequate to the Monarchy of In- 
 finite Worlds. 
 
 At this day alfo if we did ask a great part 
 of thcWifeft Men, what thing they deiired 
 abovethe terms of ordinary,we fhould hear 
 them with 5 feme, that /'/^/^ might return 
 tolife^and ^AriJ}otle\ fom^y Hjppocrates and 
 Gallen; (ovnt Archimedes and Ptolomj; fome, 
 Bomer 2nd Virgil-^ (ome Demo flhene sand Ci- 
 tero'^ fome , Livius and Zenophon-, fome, 
 tllpjan and Paulus -, (ome ^ Chryfoftome ^ and 
 tj/luguftin^. 
 
 Their lives 5 were not (in refpcdlofthe 
 fhortnefle of oursj fo long, butthatthey 
 Ijvere to fhort for the need the World hath 
 of them.. Therefore the death of thofe is 
 ever dTpIeafing who cannot die without 
 publick prejudice, as alfo they would not 
 hav^ lived but for publick benefit* MM 
 uj. Z 2 duteiH 
 
n^o The Second Fart. 
 
 Lib.^. intern {{dk\i xht Conful f/z^^vcry finelyji j 
 /? iftsl, videtur acerbafemper^ C^ immatuya mors torum^ 1 
 maxtme^ ^^^- iynmortale aliquid parant , Nam qui volu^ \ 
 ptatibns dediii quafi in diem vivunt , vivendi \\ 
 caufoA quotidie finiunt \ qui ver&posieros co^i^ 
 tant^ ^ memoriam fui operihus extendunt ^ hit jl 
 nulla mors non repentina e^^ ut qiuftmper in-' 5|| 
 choatum aliquid ahrumpat, 
 
 Thefe Suns of the World the rayes of"' 
 whofefublime Sapience, enliven the Scien- 
 ces, illuminate. the Ages, beautificall the 
 , Earth, merit they not in honour that place , 
 that the Light had in the firft formation of 
 things ? The Light was made by Godwoy- 
 thy of the chief praife , that he gave 
 with his mouth to any work of his 
 hands. And that not fo much becaufeitis 
 beautiful in it felf , as becaufe every thing 
 that it feeth, it makesbeautiful ; therefore, 
 S. Am- Tantum [ibi pr^judicatorem potuit invenirey a 
 crofji, I . quo jure prima laudetur quoniam ipfa facity at 
 hcx,c»^, etiam cxtera mundi membra dignafint laudibus^ 
 This is the nature, and thcfe the merits of 
 thofe, x\\2X Seneca (adoring the minute in 
 which they were born, kiffing the earth on 
 which they lived , bewailing the hour in 
 Erfi.^A. which they died, J calleth Praceptores generu f 
 humaniy and if this betoolittle,/D^^r//«^r/Vjir 
 coUndos. And why not? would Vitrwms\ 
 
 6yij 
 
 I 
 
Ohfcnrity. 541 
 
 fay: Cumenimtantamunera ab Script mm pru- P^nr^.i'^ 
 dentia fuerint hominihus prAparata^ nonfolum "^rchi- 
 arhitror palma4 , c^ coronas hk trihui oportcre^ ^^"' 
 fed etiam decerni triumphos , & inter Deorum 
 Jedeseos dedicandos. 
 
 OBSCURITY. 
 
 I Ambition and Confnfion-i two prin- 
 rifles of Ohfcnrity -^ Aifcciedy and 
 Natural. 
 
 WErc it not for that Opinion , 
 wholly againft truth, which an- 
 ciently had fo general credit 
 with the vulgar : That the fxed Stars were 
 ^mothers , and keepers of Souls ; and that every 
 one vphiljl he lived had above in Heaven his , of 
 the fir H^ ^ middle ^ or great eft magnitude^ and 
 Jplendor^ adjifed to the degrees ofFortnue Vy^hich 
 rendered him more or lejje confderable on earth. 
 Certain Obfcure SouLs^ certain Chymme 
 rian Minds, whence would they be able 
 to derive themfelves^butonly from thcnu- 
 bilous, and duskc Stars, that have fomuch 
 light mivedwithfo much darknefiTc , that 
 they fcem amongft their fellows, rather 
 Spots than Stars. 
 
 ' Z 3 Thefc 
 
24^ T^he Second Part. 
 
 Thefe are thofe unfortunate j^thlopi^n 
 Soules, that extract Obfcurity from the 
 Sun, the Father of Clarity ; that learn con- 
 fufion from Wifdom 5 the Mother of Or- 
 der. From the fire of the Sacred Palace, 
 whereby the Wirs become fo much the 
 more luminous, by how much the morein- 
 famcd, they take only the daikneffe, an4 
 blackncfleof Coals; and rejciSing the pu- 
 pils of the Eagle ^ for the eyes 6f a Bat, 
 eftcem themfclvcs more the Birds oiPallat , 
 yv h^n they be moft isJoSfnrnals. 
 
 In vain would Prudent Socrates experi- 
 ment his wonted conjedurc upon them, 
 that knowing , the Jpeech to be a lively Image 
 of the Mind ^ to come to the knowledgof 
 uhit was in any one, would fay to him, 
 Loquere ut te videam. Their fpeech , their 
 writing, isas if one fhould dcG^n in piano 
 certain Monftrous figures of Faces , butfo 
 mifcolourtd-, andoffeatures, butfo coun- 
 terfeited ; that no eye can difcern in them 
 the lineaments ofhamane refemblances,but 
 only looking through a Cylinder of po- 
 lin~:cd fteel^and feeing them by reflexion. 
 O, , Ingenuities , unfortunately ingenious J 
 Deualu-'sy cuvXYivci's only of Labyrinths (o 
 cro' k<,d, foconfufed, that they ihcmfelves 
 jan fcarcefind Qm^ to dif-ingage them. 
 
 But 
 
Obfcurity. g^j.^ 
 
 " But all Obfcurity is nor ofthe fdf-fame 
 tiature-, nor hatli all one only beginning 
 and fountain. For there is one made by Art, 
 and another had by N iture : This^being the 
 defedof the Wit, that the efFcd of Ambi- 
 tion: the one, worthy of compafTion, the 
 other of rcprc henfion. 
 
 ^' Its a received opinion among the vul- 
 
 *^gar, That all Obfcurity , is an Argument 
 
 " of Wit, and the markofthc loftinefTeofa 
 
 "great undeiftandingto meafureit felf by 
 
 " it, even as will as heretofore by the nine 
 
 " hundred Stadiums of ftadow the Anci- 
 
 <^ ents found the height ofthe Summitie of 
 
 ^^ Mount Atho^. That Nature hath given 
 
 ^' the Stars to the obfcuriry of the night, 
 
 ^^ a-^d Wifedom to the obfcurity cf 
 
 ^^ Wits. That God himfelfinhis Oracles 
 
 .^* is all Clouds; a idthattheexcefiive Light 
 
 '^'in wh ch he dwels , in which he is {^Q\\ 
 
 ^hith the name of daikncfTc; bccaufe it 
 
 ^^in fuch manner (hews him, thatitinthe 
 
 ^^ fame inftant hides him. That the ftyleof 
 
 ^^ the V Vifeft A ncicnts was no other, whofe 
 
 ""^^fublime minds , whofe high conceited 
 
 '^ Wits, as it were mountains with ftecp 
 
 ^*^ tops , have their heads ftill amidft the 
 
 ^"Myfts and Clouds. That their writings 
 
 ^^^were fo much lecurer from the Fifher, 
 
 Z 4 -'' the 
 
g ^^ The Second Part. 
 
 " the more they were obfcured : that &cy 
 ^^ were fo much the abler to difcover 
 '^Carbuncles, and Diamonds 5 the more 
 '*^ palpable was the darknefle. 
 
 Thus the vulgar deluded by a fajfe appa->. 
 ranee of truth, always moft admire what 
 they Icafl: underftand. The fplendid , the 
 dear:, though profound ftream of Wit, 
 becaufe they reach it with their eye they' 
 efteem not ;■ one foot of muddy water, be- 
 caufe they cannot dive into the depth of it ^ 
 with their fight^they judg to be an abyfTe ol"! 
 V Vifdom. So like wife in ^earning. 
 
 j^Ha h'gufff-a vadunt) Vaccinia nigra leguntur. 
 
 Thereupon fome take through their am- 
 bition of Wit, an affedation oT Obfcurity, 
 and with the Art of not making themfelves 
 underftood, they fcekto make themfelves 
 adored. They transform themfelves into 
 morcfhapcs xh^nProteus^ to get out of the 
 hands of fuch as hold them , that fo they 
 may not know what they are. They invent; 
 more Hieroglyphicksthan £e;///knew,be-»-V..^ 
 <!:aufe therein they fancy a kernel of folid 
 truth , under a fhcU of feigned myftery^iiiv 
 Every one of their Periods is a Gordianlsvw 
 knotpthatpromifcthan Empire tohimthatf ni 
 
 unknits 
 
ObfcHrity. 345 
 
 unknlts it. They confound their words , 
 more then the leaves ofSjMla were difor- 
 dered by the wind j and leave credulous 
 wretches to pore into their Oracles, and 
 towreftthemto fenfes, which never c^ame 
 into the Authors thought. 
 
 Other timesj they expofe their conceits, 
 as the Deities in a Theater, wrapt in a knot 
 of Clouds. They fhew a (mall Sentence of 
 fome well compofcd Difcourfc, thereby to 
 win credit to the reft,which is loft in a croud 
 of confufed thoughts. The Reader of their 
 Books, one wouPd think was fiflriing for 
 the Cutt/e a moft crafty Fifh, which mali- 
 cioufly frees it felf from the eye, and hand 
 of others, muddying the clearnefTeofthc 
 water , by difgorgingup a Cloud ofcertain 
 black humours, of which it is full. Thus 
 they with their Pens like that Fifh 
 
 Naturamjuvat ipfa dolis^ ^ confclafortiSy Claud, 
 Utitur ingenio, dej^pis. 
 
 Oh! how oft is there juft nothing found 
 tliere where fome beleive great myfteries 
 to lye hid ? Since it is an ordinary cuftom 
 with thefeto cover that with a veil, as7>- ^^'**^'^- 
 wantks^ which they have neither Wit , nor ^^' ^*'^' 
 Art fufiicient to ex prefTe. 
 
 By 
 
I 
 
 ^^6 The Second Part. 
 
 By which means they feem to be ncvl 
 
 Seneea BeracUtm s (cut cognomen Scqti non fecit ora 
 
 epp.ii' tionii ohfcuritoi) if of them alfo we may fay 
 
 what Pjthagoroi faith of the writings of th( 
 
 Laert. in Other ; Opu ihi ejje Delion^tatore, They con 
 
 ^yth. tefl with the Delphi m Apollo in authority , & 
 
 jr I credit, if hke him, Nequedlcant^ neque at 
 
 ^p^^^^^^Jcondant^fedindicentforum. 
 
 J, But the other Ohfcurity more unfortunate 
 
 than faulty 5 is adefed of nature not a vice 
 
 of the will : And this in fome is an eflfcd: dj( 
 
 paucity and poverty of Wit, in whom th^ 
 
 formative virtue, as in too narrow a wombj* 
 
 cannot unite without confounding 3 cannot 
 
 place the parts without mifplacing the 
 
 whole. In others it is occafioned by too 
 
 fervid a mind, in whole fiery thoughts, as in 
 
 fudden conflagrations , there is much more 
 
 fmoakthan flame. 
 
 Thefe are thofe Wits truly fiery ,a^ive 
 and prompt ofunderflanding; fo that in 
 one only cafl of the eye, ( fparkling with 
 mofl velocious thoughts, according to thq 
 nature of lightning, ) they rcfleft upon a 
 thoufand things, they make a thoufand new 
 difcovcries. It would be happy for them . 
 if they could infufe gravity into their flame, ] 
 andputabridleof reflraint upon their fire": 
 but as the fleeted fteafls make the obfcurefl 
 
 foot- 
 
OhfcHrity. 347 
 
 ^1 foot-fteps. To they being wholly bent on the 
 'things they fee , fee nothing, of the n:ianner 
 \ how to exprcffc that, which the mind fome- 
 T limes with mcft abftradcd Species , as it 
 j were in a moment^underftands: And more- 
 ] over, (being fo much Icfle able to metho- 
 dize, the more fruitful they are of inventi- 
 on;^ theyexpofe, whether fpeaking, or 
 .writing , not a Birth, but many feeds; and 
 they themfelvcs being afterwards cooled 
 again, and quiet, (when the jugdment is 
 more adapted to difcern) are not able tore- 
 form that, for which the Wit is defcdive of 
 both heat and light. 
 
 And thefe are , in my judgment the two 
 Vicious Ohfcurities , the one the crime of the 
 ambitious Genius, the other thcdefcdof 
 the poor, or muddy Wit. There is a third 
 fort which they call Ohfcurity ^ and is truly 
 fo> but it is an Obfcurity of the Wit of him 
 that doth no t underftand, not of the Authors 
 who doth not write or fpeak fo but that he 
 maybe eafily underftood by men of mean 
 ^nderftandings. 
 
 If we difcourfe with certain principal 
 tmiverfal Maxims , from whence as from 
 their true Principles we draw other Coro- 
 Jlaries, till that we defcend to fomc parti- 
 cular matter : which is the nobleft and 
 ^ iub- 
 
^^8 The Second Part. 
 
 fublimcft of all other kindes of grave M-' 
 courfe : ) imitating the Falcons , wWdh^ 
 with great windings & circulations mourii^ 
 on high, fro whence to ftooptothequarry: 
 If wc trace out Wifdom, with f eigned^ but 
 \ apt inventions 5 which like a garment we fo 
 difpofe and put on, as neither todifcover 
 what wc ought to conceal^nor to hide what 
 we would reveal ; a cuftome which Smjfui 
 I ih. de cal 1 e th. Per antiquum ataue Platonkum : If we 
 tfifom»i:s fometimes exempt the Pen from a particu- 
 lar touch upon each circumftance by itfelf;,^ 
 andabrcviatcfome, fo that all is feen, in a 
 Li^. ^^. fmallroom: If wc write as 7)wrf;/^/»tf/ paint- 
 €dp.io. ed. In cujusomnitus operibus^ faith Pliny , in^ 
 telegitur/emper plus qukm pingitur & cum ars 
 /ItmmA (it ingenium tamen ultra art em e^: 
 Thefe Pfeudo-Vitilitigators condemn us of 
 Obfcurhy^ and fay that to underftand, & pe- 
 netrate fuch things 5 Non lucerrict (piculo lu-- 
 mine ^ fed totius SolU Uncea opus ejl : Never 
 confidcring , that our Writings want not 
 light, but their eyes ^t^di Eye-bright ; in as 
 much asthey are like that Dunce Arpanet 
 in Seneca ^ who being infenfibly become 
 blind, not doubting but that he faw afwel 
 as ever, ajebat domum tenebrofum ej/i. 
 
 But becaufe, for the remedy of that Ob/cU" 
 ^/(;, which is capable of cure there cannotbc 
 
 better 
 
ObfcHrity. 3^^ 
 
 ktetter advice prcfcribed then to obferve 
 : DiflinUion and Ordery that are the Father and 
 M )ther oiPerfpicuity , I have laid it down 
 in the fubfequent Sc<5bions ; howbeit per- 
 haps with too frequent trips of the Pen, in 
 regard of what this matter requireth : yet 
 is. It not befides the purpofe 5 or without 
 pi ofit ; I being to lay down fome adver- 
 tifcmcnts 5 which from the Choice of the 
 argument even unto the laft Corre(5tlon, 
 fccmed to me conducible to the more or- 
 derly, eafily, and fuccesfully Compofing. 
 
 That the Argument ought to be ele^ 
 tied adequate to the Wit of him 
 that handleth it* 
 
 THe firft, andmoft of all others im- 
 portant trouble ; is the invention 
 of the Argument ; about which 
 obferve the firft Law of Hor4ce , where he 
 advifeth : That if you be a VigmyyjiouJhoHld 
 not go to charge your [houUers with a World , 
 af if you were an Atlas, 
 
 Verfate diu quidferre recuftnh 
 it? ^uidvakant humeri, 
 
 1^ if 
 
550 T'he Second fart. 
 
 If your Wit have a weak and ill teiti- 
 pcrcdcdge, youmuft not attempt to work 
 in Porphyre, Flint ^ or Marble that may bc 
 much too hard for your tools. Proportior 
 your Sails to rhe Wind and your Ruddei 
 to the Waves a ^,d if youbebutafmallPin. 
 nacc, ftrive not to imitate the great Ships. 
 A Lake, fbould be your Ocean , and an 
 Ifland 3'our India s^ diftant fome half a dayes 
 /ail ; Jltiern alii teneant. 
 
 What would you doe, if fifhing foj: 
 fmall fi(h you (hould fee a great VVhafig 
 come into your Nct^and m^kehimfelf youi 
 prifoncr ? Would it fo inchantyou with 
 thcgrcedinflTe of the prey , that it (hould 
 make you forget the weaknefTe of the Net! 
 Rather would you not fear to take that 
 which otherwife you would be willing tq 
 have-, knowing, that Nets knit with fc 
 fmall threed are no more able to catcJi 
 a Fifli fobig, than a Cob-wcbis to take t 
 Hornet ? 
 
 Oh ! how many do like the Icamnn tW 
 PoetSj which neither was a good Bird in the 
 Air,norgood Fiflvin the VVater; in reganis 
 that flying he prsecipitated , andfwimmin^ 
 drowned. His unfortunate Father , feeing 
 him furpaffe the bounds , he prefcribec 
 him as he fattened his wings to his (houl- 
 
 ders 
 
Obfcnrity. jri 
 
 dcrs, followed him a-far-oft^ and cried. 
 
 Ah fiwple, venturous Boy FarfailayJ^^ 
 
 Whji dojl thou rafhl)/ fore fo far beyond 
 
 The fight Ifet thee! wh/goeft thonfo neer 
 .^^ Thefcorching he-itns ofSo\s confumingfpher^! 
 ■^, jirt thou Jo foolifi as to mal^ account 
 j^ ' Thy wings of wax cm neer the fire mount f 
 \^, Why Icarus I fay ! foft ! notfo high ! 
 
 So ho } fay Icarus^ jand lower fy ! 
 
 But to what purpofe ? if he would preferrc 
 his pleafure to his perril, and his eye to 
 ,his ear, 
 
 Coelique cupidine taffus ^ ^^ g^ 
 
 Altius egit iter. 
 
 i^Till that the wax beginning by little and 
 iilittletomelt, andhiswingsto moult5hefdi 
 ,j.from Heaven into the Sea, and there died. 
 ' juftfodothey who take their flightatplea- 
 [*fure 3 and meafure not the height of the 
 ^courf e they take , by the ftrength of the 
 livings that bear them. 
 
 There be feme Arguments that fcem to 
 
 Slave the ambition of the Great Alexmder^ 
 
 Bihar would have noPifture, Statue^orlm- 
 
 ?geof his face but what Ihould come i^om 
 
 ^V^ the, 
 
35* The Second Part. 
 
 die Pencil of Jpelles , from the Gravers of 
 VhjdioA 5 and from the Moulds of Lyjtppus: 
 So they difdain the workmanfhip of any 
 that is not a golden ftyle : amongft ^W thri 
 Wits, they admit only the moft fublimc, 
 asJVt^^of all the earth only referves to him- 
 felfthetopsof Hills; and its with reafon, 
 <J\(^. That to the higheft Deity the higheft pare 
 ^/''- of the earth flioiild be dedicated. 
 
 That then may be aptly faid oiJrguments 
 oiTheames^ which the Ancient Sages faid of 
 Fortunes; that, asin garments ^ he hath not 
 the bcft that hath the biggeft, but he that i 
 hath the fitteft , and belt bccomming his 
 AfuleHs back, Pereichus the Painter dcpainted no- 
 -^K<1?- thing elfe for the moft part but Stables and 
 ^i9Yt. Horfes: Seraphion nothing but Heavens and 
 Gods. But the Heavens oi Seraphion par-; 
 taked of Stables^ and his gods of Horfes, as - 
 alfo on the contrary the Stables ofPereuhus 
 were a Coeleftial fight, andhis Horfesfor 
 the excellency of Art had fomething in them 
 of Divine. Its not the matter, but the work 
 that gives name to the Workman and value 
 to his workmaafhip. Ifyou have a Pen like 
 the Pencil oiPeretchus that can imploy it felf 
 about ordinary matters with more than or- 
 dinary praifc; dcfire not to be zSerdphioity 
 that being ambitious of more lofty fubje^s, 
 
 makes 
 
Obfcnrity. ^i^:j 
 
 niakes the fair deformed^ whereas he might 
 have made the deformed moft amiable. 
 
 The World hath never feen a more ad- 
 mirable piece of Arr than the Sjriere of the 
 divine workman Archimedes^ who making 
 as it were a Compendium of the World 5 by 
 Contra(5ling the large, by Epitomizing the 
 great, byRctardingthefwift, byAbafing 
 the fublime, within the narrownefTe of a 
 Globe 5 knew how to comprehend it , and 
 not confound it : and giving liberty to the 
 Planets , order to the Stars , variety to th^ 
 Motions, proportion to the Spaces , (o ex- 
 aftly difpofed all 5 thatifthe Pcriodsofthe 
 great Heaven had been never fo difordered^ 
 one might have turned them again by the 
 little one of Archimedes, But fo noble a 
 work, for which Saphires and Diamonds 
 would have been matters to fordid, did he 
 not make it of GlafTe ? With the fragility 
 ofadefedive GlafTe, he imitated the eter- 
 nity of the incorruptible fubftance of Hea- 
 ven ; nor did he lefTen the worth of the 
 Work by the inferiour value of the Mat- 
 ter. That great Rock-Chryftal, of v^hich /;,* r^;>/c 
 Mercatorvi\2LA(^2. Coelefiial Globe for Charles Mercal. 
 the Fifth^enchafing therein Circles of Gold^ 
 pureft Diamonds for Stars ^ and making it 
 intbis manner ^ (os chat other his' Hellem) 
 • ' ' Ad: ^' it 
 
354 
 
 The Second fart. 
 
 if not fair, at leafl: richj hath fcarce pur-^ 
 chafed a rcmembrancej much Icfle an $p- 
 plaufe in the World. The Diamonds of 
 Mercator^^tY^ fomuch more bafe than the 
 GlafTe of Archimedes y by how much the 
 Art was in it the more Ingenious^ and the 
 vvorkmanQiip more Artificial. 
 
 I do not hereby pretend to teach ^ that 
 one (hould affume Vulgar Theames : how- 
 beitthefe are better handled, than the more 
 felecft. I only advife him that is no Delius 
 that he fhould not put himfelf to fwim in 
 Gulphs 5 but content himfelf with ford- 
 able ftreams : him that hath no Wit , or 
 knowledg, Uhi conjijlat ^ that he goe not 
 about, as y^n/vw^rf^/ would have done, Qoe- 
 lunjiterrawquemovere ^ afiTuming matters of 
 great moment, and fubjeils of lofty intelli- 
 gencCjto w hich neither the flight of the Wit ' 
 or PencanatteiiL.. 
 
 Yea the beft partof thedifcourfe, is the 
 excellency of an Argument: and he that is 
 acquainted with Brain-work^ knows by expe^ 
 rience, that the Ingenious fubjed: admirably 
 fbarpens the Wit ; and it feems , as if a 
 Noble Jheam infufeth from it felf, thoughts 
 worthy of it felf, out of an ambitious of 
 being Nobly difcufied; Crefcit enim (faith 
 Maternus in the Dialogue of Tacitus , or 
 
 rather 
 
Ohfcnrity. 555 
 
 rather o^^intiUian) mm amflHudine remm 
 visingenih nee quifqnAm claram^ "& illu^rem 
 orationem efficere poteB^ niji qui caufam pArem 
 invenit. And, to fay true, upon a rugged 
 andcourfeT<?/^of har(h CanvafTe, it would 
 (hew Unfavoured to paint rich embroderies 
 of Silk i and the Pearls and Gold would 
 difdain to be feenupon {o bafea Ground. 
 On the contrary 3 how proudly 5 and with 
 what (late (faith a PoetJ do the waters of 
 Pa^o/us ^ndTagus move y becaufc they run 
 upon Golden fands. Waters they feem not, 
 but Diamonds, liquor lefle precious , not 
 befitting fo noble a Bottom... 
 
 Let them therefore that can worthily dif- 
 cuflethem, choofe t^^^/r^r/ of fublime ^r- 
 gument ^ if they defire the Births of Noble 
 Compofura fhould follow : otherwife it will 
 fucceed to them as it did to that Archjda- 
 musKing of Sparta^ who having taken to 
 wife a Woman of exceffive fmall ftature^, 
 was depofedby the Efhoritanquam non Reges^ 
 JidReguncHlos procreMurus. 
 
 hz i Tk 
 
5 6 T^he Second Fart. 
 
 The fuh-di^ijion and Defe&ion of 
 the vphole Difcourfe. 
 
 HAving found an Jrgument proper to 
 him that is to treat upon it , and 
 worthy of him that is to hear it ^ 
 he is t o give it fomc Method^ Defe^ing , and 
 Suh'dividing it into members , that fo with 
 ingenious diftindion they may compre- 
 hend all that they dcfire to fay of that fub- 
 jcd. And this is one of the moft important 
 tasks of one that writeth. For fuch as is 
 the proportion of the members in the 
 body 5 fuch is the Divifion of the parts irl 
 Books; whereby they enjoy that beauty 
 which comes from fymetry , and that per- 
 fp cuity which proceeds from Order. 
 Therefore it concerns the Jj-^dgment to 
 Ideate and figure in the Imagination thcde- 
 fign of all the mafic together, from thence^ 
 as Love i:uhe Chaos, to diftinguiflij orga-. 
 nize, methodize one by one, and afterwards 
 uniredl}' to conjoyn all the parts. 
 
 It is indeed a great commendation ofa 
 Noble Work, that it variouHy revalves it 
 fviit through n^ny ^Ad diverfc matters;, but 
 
 with 
 
Obfcurity. 357 
 
 with fo much union of all the parts , that 
 looking one while onthefoot, another on 
 the hand , now beholding the breaft ^ then 
 the face, ftillthcy are one &: the fame body, 
 ftill the whole is underftood in every of its 
 parts. 
 
 IsJeprmo medium^ medio nee difcrepet imwrn. Horat. 
 \ in Arte. 
 
 And this, ofitll the excellencies of Hea- 
 ven, is that, which more than all others, 
 renders it wond?rfuI,that in it the difcord of 
 fo many motions fo harmonize, & the wan- 
 drings of fo many Scars are ib reformed , 
 that there is not only no dif order occafion- 
 cd from their variety, nor confufion from 
 their multipHcity, but moreover the Pla- 
 nets (hew, and as it were teach one another 
 veiwing themfelvcs with Sextiles, Qua- 
 drats, Trines, AfpC(!T:s, and oppofite Dia- . 
 meters: looks all, wherewith they do not 
 fo much glance at one another, as fcuiblably 
 (hew themfelvcs to thofe which behold 
 them. Thus it is, faith M&nilim: 
 
 Hand quicquam in tanta magii eB mirahik ^'^^^i^^- 
 mole, I Afirof. 
 
 ^m ratio ^ & certisquhdlegihtii omnia parent. 
 ' Nufquamtnrha nocety nihil his in parti htfs erat^ 
 
 Aa 3 Foe 
 
358 
 
 The Second Part. 
 
 For if there be wanting in Compofures 
 the lic'htDivifion of the parts, and with it a 
 good Method, ('as he that hath made the 
 firft Rough-chyzelling of a Statue of Mar- 
 ble lame and defident , though he after- 
 wards poUilh it, and exaiSly work it , takes 
 not away its being a Monfterfo) it fhali be 
 more or leffe monftrous. Nor boots it , 
 that a diforderly difcourfe be replenifhed 
 with high fpeculations, and fublime fancies, 
 with folid reafons , and with Ancient and 
 Modern erudition , to the end they may 
 Icem, illuftrated with io many lights 5 and 
 embellifhcd withfo many ornaments; the 
 Aphorifme holding in fuch like Compo- 
 fures , which Hyppocrates writes of ill-affe- 
 fted bodies, ^o plus nuiries eo magis Udes.. 
 Its neceilary therefore wifely to imitate 
 Tlin. W. the Bees_, which firft work their Wax into 
 ix.f.6. Combes, andfub-divide cheratkks, and 
 this is their firft bufineffe , in which they 
 employ greater time and induftry^ and after 
 they go abroad in fearch of Honey, with 
 which in few dayes they fill their empty 
 Ccis, 
 
 The 
 
Obfcurity. ^t^ 
 
 The prepartiofi of the Matter^ called 
 Sylva. 
 
 TO the Argument found, to the parts 
 difpof cd 5 follows the compofing : 
 which is ac it were to cover the 
 bones with ficfh, and to make a body of a 
 
 And here take, to begin with it, an ordi- 
 nary ervour of fuch , who bringing to fuch 
 labours onely clean P^lper , a Pen and his 
 own brain 3 would in one and the fame in- 
 ftant Invent^ ^^fp^ofe^ and Com^ofe; attending 
 at one and the fame time to the Matter, Me- 
 thod , and Manner ; as if he were the Sun , 
 that to painta Rain-bow in a Cloud 3 with- 
 out difference in the Circle,, without dif- 
 order in the Colours, hath no more to do 
 but CO behold it, and there withal to (Iretch 
 forth the Pencil of abeam, wherewith in a 
 moment he dcfigns and colours it. 
 
 Thefe, whilft they gnaw their Pen , gaze 
 on the roof, and buzzing Hke Beetles , hum 
 to themfelyes ; putting down beginnings 
 without conclufions, and find themfelves 
 at the end of the work in thp beginning^, 
 A a 4 how 
 
i^6o The Second Part. 
 
 how fcafofiably might one whifper in them 
 ear for a jeer;, and the caution that common 
 Axiom which {aith, exnlhilo mhil: Ye pre- 
 tend to rain down Gold from the head, 
 where you have it not in Mine ; and farther, 
 that you will mint it into weighty money, 
 and with the impreffion of lawful Coins 
 thus in one and the fame time you play the 
 Alchymift, Affayer, Coiner, Treafurer , 
 Prince ^ every thing : Which is the direft 
 Q^ifitih way to do juft nothing, Ne igitur refupimy 
 iff. 10. re^e^antefque teSfum^ & cogitationem mur- 
 murare agit antes expe6femm quid ohveniat^ 
 Imagine, that the compiling a Book is the 
 building of a Houfe. Its not enough to have 
 Platform, and Model, ifone want Stones, 
 Morter , Beams, and Iron-work. There-- 
 Ctcr,, ds fore Syha rerum^ & fententiarum paranda e^: 
 ^^^* exrcfum enim cognhione^ ejjlorefcere debet ^d" 
 redundarum cratlo. 
 
 He that hath not in his head a living Li- 
 brary, collefted with long ftudy from Sto- 
 ries Sacredj Prophane, Natural, and Civilj 
 fiom Politick Inftrudions -, from Ancient. 
 Laws and Rites; from grave and fententious 
 Sayings of Wife men; from Fables, from 
 Hieroglyphicks, from Proverbs; and that 
 v^hich is more than all , from Phylofophy 
 H2turai,and Moral^/rom the Mathematicks; 
 
 from 
 
Ohfcurity. 361 
 
 from Civil Law; from Medicine; and as 
 much as is rcquifite from Theology : it is 
 requifitc, thatfromdcad Books he borrow 
 andcolle(ftthat> which fliall fuffice hisocca^ 
 fions. 
 
 It little imports to have conceived a good 
 Argument , if when ye betobringitforthj 
 you have not breads full of milk to ncuriiii 
 it^ fo that it is forced to die in your hands, 
 of pure famine. Stafi crates ^x\\di^ov\\d en- 
 grave ^^lexander^ with making him a more 
 than a Gigantical Statue of the Mountain 
 <^thosy was not aware, that the City which 
 he dcfigned to put in one of his hands , in 
 regard it had not about it fields to cultivate, 
 would become unhabitable. To this Alex- 
 a^derhzd an eye more than to any thing elfe. 
 Dele^fus enim (^iaith Vltruvius) rat lone form'^ , Pr^fat. 
 ftatzm qzijcjivity fi ejjent a^ri circay qui pojjent ijy^ ^^ 
 frumemaria rati one earn civil atem tiieri : And 
 underftanding in the negative, he refiifed 
 with a courteous fmile the offer of the inco- 
 fiderate Statuary, lit enim natus infans Jine 
 nutrias la^e non poieji ali^ neqite ad vit(Z ere- 
 fcentis gradus perduciy fc QivitOA^&c, juft fo, 
 what ever Theame one affumes , if he hath 
 not wherewith to nourifli it, it cannot 
 grow, nor maintein it felf •, but like a fprout 
 q)ringing up in the dry fands, of Arabia 
 
 defertay - 
 
JHexHm, 
 
 0^6% The Second Fart. 
 
 de/ertaj no {oontxdothit (hootup^ but it is 
 deprived in one inftant both of moifture 
 and life. 
 
 Therefore they do prudently , who be 
 fore they refolve upon an Argumentjlook if 
 there \s^ or if they have whence to extract 
 matter fufficient to compleat it. Thus ex-? 
 perienccd Architeds , faith St. Amhrofe^ in 
 designing of all Fabricks , employ their fir^ 
 thoughts^in contriving how they may bring 
 in the Lights with beft convenience into 
 every Room . Antequam fundamentum ponat^ 
 unde lucem ei infundat explorat ; c^ ea prima 
 eft gratia ^ qu<eji defit , tota domus deformi 
 horret incultu. 
 
 Therefore its needful to haveknowledg 
 of, and acquaintance with many Bookstand 
 a 5udgment of competent ability to pick 
 out, but of greater maturity to apply the 
 things that one finds ^ that fo where caufe 
 requires they may in an ingenious, and 
 Angular manner , expreffe that which they 
 have to fay. And in this, its an infallible ob- 
 fervation , that every one gathers that for 
 himfelf, that to his Genim (to which alwayes 
 concurs the manner of Speaking) is mofl 
 Quiml. apt, and agreeable. And z^ IS! eminem dele- 
 in DinU Bant , & fordida ; magnamm enim remmjpe- 
 €^<f* cies adfe vocat^ ^ extoUit; fo feme fAeve 
 
 are 
 
Ohfeurity. 5^3 
 
 are, that leave Diamonds with the Cock of 
 ity£fop: and, as if their brains were of yellow 
 Amber , they attraft nothing but Ch.afFe. 
 Thus there are fome that from flowers take 
 only the fight,fome onely the odour^others 
 the images , painting them , others the wa- 
 ters 5 diftilling them j but the Bees take 
 thence the honey , and the honey all of one 
 fweetneffe^andof one Svivour; though from 
 flowers of diverfe natures and tafts they 
 gather it. The fame happens in Books , 
 Meadows of odoriferous flo wers and hearbs 
 for the maintenance of the Wit. There be 
 thofe who only take from them the fight, 
 in the delight of reading them; others 
 fome fpirit of good odour, to waken the 
 Brain^and comfort the Wit. There are fome 
 that bundle up herbs, carelefly gathering 
 what comes firft to hand ; and fome that 
 with greater curiofity pick only flowers to 
 weave ihQx^oi C^onmes and Garlands. Some 
 fqueeze out the juice , others cxtrad the 
 waters; Few from a great multitude of 
 Subjeds, different from one another, know 
 how to gather honey of the fame taft , (o 
 applying things 3 that all Ipcak to the fame 
 purpofe ; and fo that there may be the De- 
 light of Varietjj without wanting the Union 
 
 Thcfc 
 
5^4 T'^^^ Second Part. 
 
 Thefe diverfe manners of eledion , and, 
 npplicarion, fubmit to the Judgment, and 
 the judgment follows the genim which | 
 every one hath of fpeaking fome in onel 
 ftylcjand fome in another, fuitable to the I 
 7</<?4of hismind. Therefore matters extra- 
 ded from Books, may be faid to be like the 
 dew 5 which if it fall into the fhell of a Con* 
 * PIt». chylla (according as * fome believe^ is chiin- 
 ^'*9' ^.55 ged into Pearls, if upon a rotten Tree it be- 
 comes Toad-flools, 
 
 But in uniting matter to form thereof a 
 
 Book, I hint in thelaftplace^ that it may be 
 
 of no leffe prejudice to have too much, than 
 
 to have nothing. My Scholar ought 
 
 not to be fo fparing in the gathering , as if 
 
 be would that the Work he is to publifh 
 
 were more me»ger thanan Anftarchus^ than 
 
 aT^/^/^/,thanaliving S^leton; fo that one 
 
 may count the bones , and fee all the cour- 
 
 fesofthe veins, the ligatures of the nerves, 
 
 the difpofiiions of the mufcles, the motions 
 
 of the arteries, and almofl the Soul it felf. 
 
 Nor ought he to be prodigal , as if he were 
 
 about to form a man fo corpulent, that he 
 
 fhouldfecm rather a Botle than a Man. He 
 
 that amaffeth together iuperfluous fluffed 
 
 unleffc he be Magnus Dens , as the Ancients 
 
 called Love^ as being the methodizer of 
 
 Chaos, 
 
Obfcnrity. 26K 
 
 Chaos, is not able to d fpofe it , but that in 
 fuch a crowd there will be a confufiorL. . 
 
 Further more 5 upon a fuperfluous Col- 
 Iedion5it comes to pafTe that we exceedingly 
 grutch after having cuU'd out the moft ex- 
 cellent and oppofite things to caft away the 
 reft as unprohtable^ which yet will be far 
 more than thofe that are pertinent ; thinking 
 it not the property of a good Judgment^buc 
 a propenfion to prodigality, to lofe toge- 
 ther with fo many things ^ the toil and time 
 fpent in gathering them. By this meanes 
 whilft all plcafeth, and the Audiorfeeksa 
 place for every thing , he ftuffs his Books,as 
 thcGlutto doth his belly more for greedinefs 
 cffwallowing, than out of any heat he hath 
 to digeft : and fo from the abundance of 
 corrupt humours, arifeth the indifpofure of 
 the body 3 the confumptionof theftrength, 
 pal^neffC) and a hundred difcafes. Idemigi- Seneca 
 turin his quihm aluntur ingcnia ^ peftemus j ut epifi.S^^ 
 quecmque haujimus non patiamur integra effe , 
 ne dllenafint^Jedcoquamus iUa . Thus let us be 
 advertifedjthatas to Bodies/o to Books^wc 
 give not fo much as they can receive , but fo 
 much as they can concod^ and digeft. 
 
 "^ov! xhsi Argument found , theP^r;/mc- 
 thodizedjthe A/^^r^frcolkfled, and ranged 
 in order^ let him proceed to Compofing. 
 
 ^7hc 
 
^66 The Seco7id Pari 
 
 The Difconragement of thofe thai 
 meet with di^cultics' in the b(* 
 gi?ijii?Tg. 
 
 IN every Art, and Entcrprizc^ the begin- 
 ning is more difficult than all the re- 
 mainder. The firft ftcps require the 
 grcatcft ftrengthand conftancy; after which 
 as having mounted the acclivity of a high 
 Rock^ the way ilill proves morefmooth and 
 cafie. All Arts may fay of their beginnings, i 
 VihnJfoUo^ In^mOim^rhaeton^ (aid of his | 
 journey : 
 
 4 . Alet, Ardua prhna via efl^per qmrn vlx mane recentes 
 Enituntur equi, . 
 
 So in the gains of Merchandize, thehar- 
 
 dcft is to get out of poverty •, Pecunia (iaitb 
 
 Pltit. Mn the Stoickj ciroL faupertatem flnrimam mo* 
 
 ftht rcfp. ^.^^ hak't^ dum ex ilia ereptat. Whence Lam^ 
 
 ^^^^" '*' /pw^avcry rich Man, being asked how of a 
 
 Beggar thathcwaSjhc was become fo weal- 
 
 thy 5 «^ My fmall riches I got (faid hcj by 
 
 ^f watching a nights^ my great I get now 
 
 *^ flceping a dayes. 1 moyled more in the 
 
 " be-* 
 
*^ beginning for a Farthing, than I did after- 
 '' wards for a Talent^nor did my being now 
 ^'^ fo rich coft me any more, than the firft 
 *^ painsi took^toceafetobepooc^. 
 
 This not being underftood by the unex- 
 perienced in the myftery of Compofing, is 
 the caufcj that encountring in the firft on- 
 fet with fterile fancies, dry veins, and an in- 
 comprehenfive Wit, they grow impatient, 
 and either condem n themfclves as unable to 
 proceed,or abandon the Art as too difficult 
 to apprehend. They conlider not that one 
 cannot immediately paffe from Nodur- 
 nal Obfcurity to Meridian Clarity. There 
 precede it, thefirft glimmerings , that arc 
 afmall light mixt with much obfufcation ; 
 after that the Dawn , lefle dusky ; which 
 alfo grows white upon the edge of the Ho- 
 rizon ; next Aurora , more rich with light, 
 more adorn d with colours J and laftly,the 
 Sun ; and this , in its firft peeping above 
 our F^w/^^^r^is thick, vaporous 3 oblique, 
 weak, and twinkling ^ but getting at length 
 above the Hori:{on ( as he that with great 
 trouble climes a pendent CliffeJ by little 
 and little it recovers the Zenith ^omtoi 
 Heaven. They remember not that a man 
 muft firft be a child, andmuft creep before 
 he can runj carrying his reeling, & at every- 
 
 ftep- 
 
3^8 
 
 The Second Part. 
 
 ftep-ftumbling body 5 upon his feeble feet, 
 and tender arms : Nor that he is not fnt- 
 nifhed with fpeech , till firft he hath beeif 
 long filent ^ and then he atteins a pulingf 
 cry 5 than a fluttering and (lammering 
 tongue, and halved and broken words, cry- 
 ing with much a-do Da J^and Mam: and af 
 laft learning the fyllablcs and words one by 
 one from others moiithes, he repeats theni 
 as xhc Eccho piece-meal 5 more imitating 
 others fpeechy than fpeaking. 
 
 Great Men are not made by Founding, 
 astheStatues of BrafTc, (which in one mo- 
 ment arc formed whole and entire) but are 
 wrought like Marbles^ with the point of the 
 Chizzel by a little, and a little. The ApeUess^ 
 the Zeuxus^ the Farrhafiuss^ tbofe great Ma>- 
 fters of Painting, of whofe Pidures it could 1 
 not be faidj that they wanted Souls to feem i 
 living, for that they knew how to appear a if 
 live even without Souls ; when they begmi f 
 to handle their Pencils , and to Vourfoil^ do i 
 not you think that they ^ave onefalfetouch 
 in tv/o;and that it needed to be written undeir 
 their Work what the Pidures were, that 
 a Lion might not be taken for a Dog ? k 
 is the opinion ot Vliny\ xS\2Xl^^ture her f elf* 
 (notwithfianding (he is fo great an Artift'^ 
 ♦indMiftreffe otthc moft excellent Works) 
 
 before 
 
ObfcHTity. ^(5^ 
 
 before (he fet her felf to make the Lilly, 
 a work of great Art , did prepare her (d^ 
 by making as it were the rough draught , 
 and model in the Qonvolvm a white and 
 fimple flower; therefore called by him t;^- Lib. ii. 
 luti mtur<t rudimentum^Uliafacerecondifcentu^ cap, 5. 
 If you have feen the Campidoglio of Rome^^ndi 
 in it the Temple of Jupiter , enriched with 
 
 ithefpoilsofalltheWorld^wouldyou know 
 
 \ it for that which once it wasi when 
 
 Jupiter dngufia vix tottujidat in dtde^ Ovid, r, 
 
 [ Inque Jovis dextr A finite fiilmenerati ^^A 
 
 \ From this neglcdd feed fprang that great 
 iTreeof as many Palms 5 asthc Campidoglio 
 ifiw Triumph; according to the common 
 Law of all things 5 T/?at they he firH: Springs of 
 \foor Originals o' mean beginnings^ then Rivolets^ 
 \next RiverSi and at lajl Seas. 
 
 For though it be true that fome times, 
 
 1 according to the Ancient Proverb ^ Rojal 
 
 Rivers have Navigable Fountains / and he 
 
 l-that is to proceed in fome profefTion of 
 
 « Learning beyond the terms of ordinary, to 
 
 " any excellencyjgiveth extraordinary Symp- 
 romes in the very beginning, like as Hercules 
 
 Monftrafiiperavttprius^ ^amnojjepojjlt^ 
 Bb tn' 
 
2 70 ^^^^ Second Part. 
 
 in his Cradle iftranglmg Dragons, thereby 
 preluding to the H|/^r^, and giving thefirft; 
 teftimony of his ftrength : this, notwith% 
 {landing that it be true in fome few > holds 
 not as a Law to all ; nor fo n:uich proves ihc 
 facility, as the felicity of the firft operations^ 
 and rather the abiUty of ch^^Wit, thaa ihc 
 ufeof Art. * '^ ' • ' > -•■ • 
 
 Let us not therefore abandon the enter- 
 prize for the diffi<;ulty of the beginnings not 
 let us leave Proteus if he breaks thefirft fnares 
 we tie him in. Defire not to be Maftcrs be- 
 fore you be Scholars: And bear in mindjthat 
 beginners do enough iftheybegin.Takefor 
 encouragement fomeVerfes of the King of 
 Poets^with their application to the purpofe; 
 
 ^^lis fpeliinca fubito commota Columira^. 
 Chi domusy& dukes Utebrofo in pumice nidi* 
 Verturin arva valans^fUu/umq-^xuritafenm. 
 Batle^o ingentem : Mox airs lap/a quieto 
 Radit iterliquidum^celeris mq\c(mmovetdM* 
 
 5uft fuch (hall be your Wit. Now it behoves 
 you to beat the votings ftrongly, and raifc 
 your felves to fly with great pains ^ he (hall 
 not need to go much , that without clap- 
 ping the wings , or beating the feathers , 
 can take moft fortunate flights; and that 
 ^ - ^ (hall 
 
Obfcnrity. 371 
 
 fhallbc, when (having acquired the skill of 
 compofingO or the doing what you will^ 
 the bare defiring it (hall fumce to efFcd it. 
 
 'that we OHghttoufe 'variousStyXcs^ 
 according to the variety ofSHb- 
 je&s difcoHrfed of. 
 
 IT is requifitc now to (hew what Stjle^ 
 what Form^ or^ as ffermogenes called it ^ 
 Idea of fpeechj ought to be ufed by him 
 that compofeth. About which you mufl: 
 know, that in the Method of difcufling any 
 thingwhatfoevcr 5 whatis moft worthy to 
 bcobfervedj is reduceableto,^^«^/^and 
 ^altty. The firftismeafuredby theP/^/w^ 
 and Brevity : the fecond by the Bjpcacy and 
 MWty of the difcourfe. And becaufe in 
 both the one and the other of thefe two 
 Spedes 5 you have the twoExtreams, and 
 the Mean between them , it thence followssj 
 that under the ^antity is comprehended 
 the Longejij Mean^ Shortefi : Under the Qua- 
 lity ^ the Sublime^ AleanyZn(^ Vulgar, The 
 three firfthave had people that have rnade 
 ufe of them. Ofthe Longe^th^ Apans^oiihz 
 Mortieflxht Span m^oUb^ Memxhz Jtticans. 
 
37 
 
 The Second Part. 
 
 The three fecond have had Orators ^ which 
 upon the word of M.TuUjy have been ex- 
 cellent in each of thofe Forms of Speech- 
 
 The pure A/iatkl^xs moft Difufed-^ and 
 likes of what it pleafeth, and is accuftomed 
 to fpeak • as that Alkitius recited by Seneca , 
 Non quidqutd debet ^ fed quidquid fotefi. h. Style 
 cruciating the ears , which in an Qcean of 
 words 3 hath not a jot of Salt; N^Uo eniiM 
 certopondere innixus^ verbis Immidis^ S' lap/an- 
 tibus dijjimt. Cujus or at tone m benl exijlimatum 
 eft in ore nafci^ non inpe^ore. Whence its a mi- 
 rade (that "wUxch Arijlotle faid to an impor- 
 tunate Babbler) that he (hould find any that 
 have feet y able to walk with him , or cars 
 willing to hear him. Have you obferved 
 the firft Letters of Indentures written in 
 Parchment ? How many ttrokes of the Pen 
 how many dafhes , how many flourifhes in 
 Text go to the forming them ? and in the 
 end they are no more than an A, a B^ a Let-*, 
 terj as the reft that are fimply writ. This is 
 the true Symbol of the <iy^Jian Stjlc. In a 
 World of Words it tells you no more than 
 OL hers would fay in a Sentence. 
 
 The pure Laconh^^ ufeth rather Hiero- 
 
 glyphicks than words ; and in it as is faid 
 
 f/r*J^* ofrhePi^fluresof P^rr^^yJi^. PlasJntell/gTtftr 
 
 qu^mpingatar. Studet enimut pauciJJimHS verbU 
 
 CAD,\Q. 
 
Ohfcurity. 275 
 
 plurmoi res comprehendat ^ zs BelicamAjJks De juL 
 iaithofThuLiciides. Its three great Periods '^'^^^• 
 are touched in one Line. Three Lines are 
 little leflTe than a compleat Oration. Every P^^t.pr < 
 wordof iCj nay, ahiioft every fyllable, is ^^^>'^- 
 what DemoBhenes termed the Hiyings of P(;o- 
 cioHy A hlow mtf) an Axe . 
 
 The Mean between thefe two , that as £^ 
 Uxor is tempered & compounded of both, is 
 ih^Attick^; which without the LifipidnclTe 
 of the Afran^ without the Obfcurity of the 
 Laconukj hath the Perfpicuity of that and 
 the Efficacy of this : and as in a well-form'd 
 Body allisnotNerves,nor isali Fledijbutit 
 hath part of the one for Strength^and part of 
 the other for Beauty. He that takes a word ^^^- ^''- 2. 
 fromitjbereavesitnotjas Ljfia4 ^ Defenten- ^*^ ^°* 
 tidy but as Plato y De elegantia. It hath that , 
 which Seneca the Controvertift calleth Tug- Prcsm, 
 natorum ( of which the Afiatic^is wanting) ^'f- ^* 
 butufeth it with other more fccurcandpro- ('^^^^' 
 per waycs of skirmilhingthan the Laconic^^ 
 which at every blow makes a Paffe, and 
 comes to the Clofe^and not offering (as Re^ 
 guliis faid of himfclf) any thing but Foyncs, 
 and all at the throat of the caufe 5 ftillrun- 
 {ueth the danger; A7<f^^;7// ^t^aut talus ^ uhijugu- Pl^»* ^- 1 
 Jumputat. ^p'fi. 20 
 
 Thedifierent Stjles under the Species of 
 n.V Bb 3 Qua- 
 
374 ^^^^ Second Fart. 1 
 
 Quality , have not as the a-forefaid^ the ex- 
 trcams vicious, and the mean beft; but they | 
 proceed in goodnefle one above the other; 
 as they be one more perfeft than another. 
 :Rhof,i. I . Yq difplay their nature tnore clearly, we 
 Or^t. ad ^, jji ^^j^ j.^ j^ij^ j^ ^1^3^ J5 taught by Ariflotk 
 
 ^''''^' and Marcus TuUj. That the Art of Perfwa- 
 fion hath three moft potent Means , with 
 which it is wont to obtein its end : thefe 
 they are, to Teach^ to Delight^ to Perfipade, 
 And becaufe every one ofthem hath a diffe- 
 rent ofScefrom the other, they have alfo 
 different characters, and forms, of which 
 they make ufe , the Vulgar or Popular to 
 Tedch^ the Mean to Delight , the Sublime to 
 Verfuade. 
 
 As for the kind called Popular^ {ee the 
 terms between which the Father of Latim 
 
 Vhi fu" Eloquence hath confined it. Acutum omnid 
 
 Y^.* doccns ^ ir dilucidiovA non ampliora faciens ; 
 fukili quad ^m J & pi^iff^ oratiene limatum. In 
 it the principal things are diftindion, per- 
 fpicuity, order, politeneffc , and propriety 
 of words> without Metaphors , Phrafes , or 
 Mctanymies. It hath not the fla(hes> thun- 
 ders, lightnings, nor thofe lofty and magni- 
 fick forms of Speech, with which the Ora- 
 tion Majeftically flourifhed. 
 
 ^^'iim^ The Mtan^ Jrijigne^ &florens e^;pt^um^ & 
 
 expo-. 
 
Obfcurity. 575 
 
 expolitum;tnquo omnesverhorum^ omnesjenten- 
 tiamm illigantur le fores : neque enim iiii frO' 
 foJitumeJlpeYturhare anlmosy fedpUcare potiuiy 
 nee tarn perfuadere^ quam d^UBave, Condma4 
 ighuY fententioA exquirit magis qudm prohabi- 
 les; ^ re f<^p} difcedhy intexit fahuloA ^ verba 
 apertim transferty eaque ita diJJ)onit ut piSfores 
 varietatem co forum, Paria parihrn refert ^ ad- 
 verfa contr Arils f^piJJ^mcque ^^militer extrema 
 definite S'c 
 
 But the Sublime z\\ Majefty, all EmpirCj 
 in that moft grateful violence that it oflfcreth 
 to the minds of its Auditors, transforming 
 
 , them in all their aff efe, and ravifhing them 
 
 . with their confent , recollcds as much of 
 fublimity in the fenfes, offtrcngth in the 
 reafons, of Art in the order , of weight in 
 the fentences, of ennergy in the words , as 
 can be poffible. It is Ample , Eloquent, 
 Magnificent. A Torrent but molt clear , ,a 
 Lightning but regular. With excellent va- 
 riety of Figures , with mutations of affc- 
 
 . dions, mixt without diforder. And as it 
 
 were a Cloud , which in the fame day gives 
 
 out Fire and Water, Lightning and Rain. 
 
 Of this Form ot Speech I will take thePi- 
 
 ,,^ure from the defign oi ^intilian: ^u^ Lib. 12^ 
 
 faxi devohit y ^ pontem indignatur ^ & ripoi c^pj-- 
 fibifacit, Muhup ac torrens. Judicemvelohi- 
 Bb 4 tejitem 
 
^y£ The Seco^id Part. 
 
 Untem contra ferensy cogenfque ire qua rafit: £m 
 defun^os exltat. A pud earn P atria clamst ^ ^ 
 alioquitur aliquem. Jwplijicat ^ atque extellU 
 crationem^ & vi fuperlationum quoque erigit ^ 
 Decs ipfos in congrejjum quoquefuum^ fermonef- 
 que deducit^ &c, 
 
 Thefc are the Charafters of the Forms 
 of Speech in their pure being , onely hint- 
 ed, notdefcfibed. The Matters of this Art 
 Nvhich according to their profeflion do treat 
 tliercof 5 will compleatly fatisfie them that 
 defire a more full information. It fufficeth 
 me to have faid fo much concerning it as 
 was requifite to be known by way of Intro- 
 dudiontothe enfuing advice: And it is^That 
 the SVjlcJhouIdh varied conformably- to the va- 
 fiety of the SuhjeSfs treated of accommodating 
 it to each as the Light to the Colours , vphich 
 into fo various Formsy fo conflantly transforms 
 itfeif. The fame Scoene fervesnotto Tragce- 
 dieSy Comoedies y '^indP aft orals, TM requires 
 Fields^ and Woods, that City-houfes of re- 
 fort , The Tragic!^ Princely Palaces , and 
 Temples. The place ought to correfpond to^ 
 theAdioii. ljkc\\'& Oration (hould adapt' 
 itfclfto the fubjcd; not treating offublime 
 matters with ^Vlehean Sty ley nor of bafe Ar- 
 guments withfublime Eloquence. 
 • In fine ^ v/e fiiouldhave that fubtlety in 
 
 the 
 
Obfcnrity. 577 
 
 .the ufc o(Stjlesy which fome Ancient foun- 
 ders of Statues had, that formed not every 
 god every Mettal 3 but according to their 
 various natures 5 in various tempers mixing 
 them 5 they cxpreffed them to be either ^ 
 gentle, or cruel ^ horrid or handfome; bright 
 or duskifh : and in that moft commendable 
 was the judgment of j^/con , that made a 
 Hercules all of Iron^ LabaiumVelpatientiain- 
 du6tusi faid Vliny. 
 
 Yea^ we ought not only univerfally to ufc 
 Styles fitted to the nature of the entire fub- 
 jcds, of which we fpeak; but in every com- 
 pofition it behoves f o many times to vary it: 
 as the things arc divers which compofe it. 
 And like as in Tragical Anions the Scoene 
 changeth , and alters it felf to Rural , to ex- 
 preffc fome particularity either of the Anci- 
 ent Smtyre^ or of the Modern Tajloral-, thus 
 where there occurs in one difcourfe mat- 
 ters proper to other Kinds, than that, which 
 the fet fubjcct comprehends, tocxprefleic 
 decently, it is requifiteto change the Form 
 of Speech; ufing appofitely & opportunely, 
 zs> Seneca advifeth. ^y^liquidTragici grande^ /^'^4?. 
 ^Mliqtiid Qomice exil^, ^^^' *'^* 
 
 Moreover -, the parts of one and the felf 
 fame Difcourfe, require various manners of 
 Prationj and fo various, as the Narration 
 
 is 
 
^jS 7he Second Fart. 
 
 is different from Proof, and Proof from 
 perfwafion. Omnibus igiturdicendiformisut^t- 
 tur orator i nee pro caufa tantum^Jid et torn fro \ 
 partihm cauf<e. Tluis he that well perufcth 
 aTreatife of feme bulk, (hall find no leffe 
 variety , than there is in the ading of a 
 Scoene; in which appeares manyPerfonsof 
 difterent State, and Office : and as in that,, 
 
 ■ ^^ 
 ^iKtd. jntereYttmultum'Davusloquatur ^ anBeros* 
 
 ^ ' ' Adaturus nefenex^ an adhucflorente invent 
 
 Fervidui. An Matronapotens^ anfedula NutriK^ 
 
 Mercaiorvevagm; Cult owe lirentk dgeUi^ , 
 
 Colchus^ an AJJyrius^ Thebii nutrltus^ an Argis : 
 
 and in the variety of thefe perfons, the va- 
 riety of their affeds (hould alfo be obfer- 
 ved, therefore j 
 
 Trijlia moeHum 
 
 Uorat. Vultum verba decent . Iratumplenaminarum, 
 tn Arte, Ludentem lafiivia y Severum feria di6lu : 
 
 fo proportionably inProfe, (hould we ac- 
 cording to the variety of things, varioufly 
 acccmmodate xht Style. And he alone is the 
 
 perfect, and onely Orator {[mh Tulfy^ after 
 » Orat. ^^^ ^ Q^ j^^ ^^^^ ^£ ^ ^^^ ^ ^^^ 
 
 ad Brut* -j. A^r .;. j . ^ j. 
 
 wtUaJubttliter^ & magna graviter , crmeairf'- 
 
 cria temperate potejl dicers. 
 
OhfcHrtty. 27^ 
 
 Of the Style called Modern Jfc- 
 Bed. 
 
 BUt I do predict , that there will be 
 fomewho will think 5 that fpcaking 
 of the better Idea's of Speech, I have 
 been unmindful of the bcft, having hitherto 
 faid nothing of that which they call the 
 Conceited^ or Witty Style^ ufed now a-dayes of 
 many with no fmallapplaufc of Wit. 
 
 This is (fay the jj that Style y given oncly 
 to Wits enriched with high fancies^ for ail 
 is difTolvcd Pearls , and beaten Gold, the 
 office of (ublime Souls ; fince that as the 
 Indian Bird called the Bird of Paradife , it 
 never fets foot on Earth, never abafeth it 
 fcif, but ftill towers a-loft in thepurcft Air, 
 and the fercneft and fubhmeft Heaven* It 
 compofeth the draughts of the things it re- 
 prefenteth with a precious Mofaick of a 
 thoufand Ingenious Conceits ^ emulating 
 that great P^w/^^'^that Triumphantly Calbeit, 
 Verior luxuria , quam triumpho ) carried his ?//#;. hi 
 Picture compofcd only of Di:^monds5 Ru- 57. c. 2.\ 
 bieSjSaphyreSjCarbuncles^and Pearls, wich 
 (0 goodly a contraft between the dcfign , 
 ^ and 
 
580 The Second fart. 
 
 and thecolours<3 thatone knew not which 
 to admire moft , the matter or workn^an- 
 Fli9. lib. (hjp^ That Venus ( ^uam Graci Charita vo- 
 35.^.10. ^^^^^ that y^/^/fe/faid was injured by every 
 Pencil but his own , is wronged by every 
 Pen but that of the Sf rightly Style ^ which will 
 cxprefly and lively delineate her features ^ 
 according as vivacity is proper to her. The. 
 World is not now what it was when men, 
 brought forth by trees , did eat Acorns for 
 Confefts. In the tafte of Learning it hath 
 now a-dayes fo delicate aPalat, that it will 
 have notonely theliquours which it imbi- 
 bethby the ears (which are the mouthesof 
 the Soul) to be precious , but will have the 
 cup to be no lefTe precious in which itsputj' 
 fo that both the matter , and the manner of 
 pouring it out 5 be worthy of it. And this 
 
 Thniut Ingenious Style 1% that only , in which TurbA 
 
 frtem. gemmamm potamus ^ & Smaragdis teximus u- 
 
 '^^•37- Ikes. 
 
 That Ancient Idle kind of Speech 5 which 
 in a difcourfe of many hours fpreadsa great 
 Table ; feems to feed you, thereby to hold 
 you in fufpencc ; but leaves you in the end, 
 
 S$n. her. ^^ hungry as in the beginning: juft as Tantalus, ' 
 
 V 
 
 In amne medio facihiis , ficcis Jenex 
 Se^atur undas. Abkit wentum latex^ 
 
 Tidem'- 
 
Ohfcnrity. 581 
 
 Fidemque cum infeft decepto dedit^ 
 ¥ugit unda; in ore pomade (lituuntfamem. 
 
 It promifeth you Fruit, but gives you the 
 Leaves of bare words • and leaves your 
 mind as hungry as your ears glutted. But 
 the Modern Speech fets before you as much 
 variety as plenty of fweet Viands '•> and 
 taking them away upon your firft rafting 
 them 3 and ietting on other new ones , 
 ki*eps you ftill fated 5 and ftill hungring : 
 according tD the Ancient Laws oftheNo- 
 bleft Suppers^ in which, Dum likmljfxme edis^ j ^^g 
 tunc aufertur^ & alia efci melior^ at que am- it^yA,c[% 
 plior fuccenturiatur : Ifque Jlos Coenut bahetur. 
 Nor becaufe the Style is plcafing and de- 
 lightful , is it therefore cither foftly effemi- 
 nate, or feebly weak for the enterprizeof 
 Perfwafion. The grace takes not away the 
 Vorce, It can make the fame vaunt with the 
 Souldiers oi Ju/ius C^far that knew, £tiam Sueton. 
 unguentati heni piign^re, y^/'^^x wore his (hield *^^^l^ 
 of Hides, without ornament, horridly ncg- ^^^^ 
 iigent ; Achilles that had his covered with 
 Gold 5 and ftudded with Diamonds , was 
 not theretore Icfle flrong , becaufe more ^^ 
 
 beautituL Imagine an Akihiades ^ equally '^- T'lV. 
 generous in the heart, and fair in the face; i^rm,i9' 
 which delights to appeareinthe field with 
 . ■ ~ Gar^ 
 
38a The Second Part. 
 
 Garlands of Flowers on his Helm^ andf whh 
 Imbroyderies upon his Curafles, andtobc 
 as bravely adorn'd when hefights^ as others 
 arc when they Triumph. 
 
 Thus fpeak thefe of their Jy;//(f y bcfidcs 
 which none doth pleafe them. If aTreatift 
 want thofe^ which they call Conceits ^ as if it 
 were a hcc^Cui gelafmus ahe^^i\\ty vouchfafcf 
 not fo much as to look upon it. To there 
 Palat that only which flings hatha good fa- 
 vour, all the reft, Melimelafatu^que marifc^^ 
 is meat for Children. In fine^theyfo idolize 
 thcfubftance, thatmany times they adorC 
 the only name of a Qo^ceit , where thej' 
 think it is: and^ I had almoft faid^they da 
 with it 3 as he defcribed by Martial^ dlrf 
 with his PearlSj 
 
 Lih> 7, l^on pr myfiica ficra Dindymenes^ 
 £pft*<2U Islecper Niliac^ hovem juvenc<£^ 
 
 NuUos denique fer Beos Deafque^ 
 
 Jurat GeUiUyfed fer Uniones, 
 
 Others on the contrary fay this is not thst 
 
 Modern Stjle. The true and lively Image of 
 
 it i$ pourtraj/'d in that Ancient Picture that 
 
 Quint. K ^iintilian left of it (lih, 12. cap. lo^ which 
 
 i2.f .10. y^.^^^^5 not the firft that drew it. But beit 
 
 as it will ;, Ancient or Modern ; whofoevtt 
 
 m 
 
0bfcHrify. 383 
 
 its applauders be ^ yet if cither we weigh 
 its Nature, orUfc in the Balance of good 
 Judgment , it weighs nothing > for its all 
 lightnefle, it hath no folidity, for its all Va- 
 nity. It doth as the WeSem Indisns^ that 
 more efteem a GlafTe, than a Pearl, a forry 
 BrafTe Bell, than a Wedg of Gold, with this 
 its rich and pompous, o' omne Ludicrum ille Seneea 
 inpretioe^. Its Anthovs, fantaHruacing d^y fp^fi* it S 
 and night 5 confume, and unbowel their 
 brains, as Spiders, to weave with ingenious 
 fubdeties the Webs of their difcourfe. 
 
 They turmoil themfclves in hammering 
 out Conceits , which moft commonly 
 prove Abortives, or Cripples ; works of 
 Glafle^neiled by a Candle, which touchr, 
 I will not fay feen, break in pieces : and 
 yet by how much the frailer by fo much the 
 fairer, /wi quihs fretium facial iffafragi- FIhp Arc. 
 
 Its a matter of moft pleafant divertife- ^'^'ST- 
 ment to fee their Writings , as it were fick- 
 mens Dreams , to paffc at every period 4fe 
 genere in genus , verifying in their Actions 
 that which they ; That their Conceits arc 
 lightnings, & flafties of Wit • fince, befides 
 that their appearing and difappearing is the 
 fame thing, they in the fame inftant fly from 
 Eaft to Weft , and oft-times [inc medio. All 
 «* ' their 
 
384 ^^^^ Second Part. 
 
 their Leaves refemble a Peacocks tait'^ii^ 
 played before the Sun : as various in co-^ 
 Tertml. lours, as inconftant in motion. Nunquam 
 liht dc ip/a^femper dlUy etfifemper ipja quando Alia. 
 PdM,c,i; Toties mutAYiday quoties mdvenda. And be- 
 caufe they hold it for a Maxim that this kind 
 oiCmpofmg is a woven Garland ofFlowers, 
 Pltn^hh. qut vatietate fola placent 5 they thruft in all 
 2i.r,^. they can, and that fometimes that would 
 not have come in ^ whence in viewing the 
 particulars thereof^they incurre not fb much 
 p tin. lib. the cenfure, asangerof P//«;^5 who curfcth 
 25.r.2. the fuperftitious care of the Inventor of a 
 certain Counter-poifon , that was com- 
 pounded of above fifty feveral ingredients', 
 and fome of them of infenfible quantitiest 
 Methridaticum antidotum^ex rehus quinquagtntk 
 qmtuor componttwr ^ mterim, nuUopondere equA- 
 li; & quamndam, remm /exagcfima denarii 
 unius imperAta, ^0 ''Leo rum perfidiam ijlam 
 mon^rante / Hominum enim fukilitoi tanta 
 ejje non potuit, Ojlentatio arm , ^ portentofk ' 
 /dentin venditatio manifeslx e^, ac ne ipfi qttU 
 dem illam mdverunt . 
 
 From hence cometh the uniting of pe- . 
 riods, divided, and as it were Appftropni'd 
 intofmallconcife particles 5 an cffeft of the 
 multitude of minute-points, each of which 
 iSnilh thefentence, andchangcththc fcnTe, 
 
 J 
 
Obfcurity. ^g^ 
 
 6" tamfHiiti iefimnt^ m non irevtA fint] fej Sen. ~pro. 
 ahmpta: Or rather, as ^ eJf-where Sentca l-i-csmr, 
 {dixh^Kon dejinnnt fed cndunt ^ uhi mdximl ex* * chcword 
 peffes reUffura^, is atroy bur 
 
 Finally, from their not fpcaking what |]^^^|°s 
 they fpeak , it comes that they fpeak it a Sr,e^T,\ 
 hundred times ; fo that;, like them that be-^ ^=*^ ^^' ^- 
 ginning alwayes new defigns how to live,'-^^''' 
 rfiey know not living how to live ^ faith £/?. io«<| 
 Manilim , 
 
 Viffuros agimus^fentper ne^juevhimusunquam^ 
 
 fo thefe which have this method of fpecch. 
 that they can as well conclude in the begin- 
 ning, asbeginintheconclufion, may aptly 
 enough be able to fay of themfelves, 
 
 Di5turosaiimusfemper ^ neque dkimusunqttam; 
 
 Therefore their difcourfe refembleth the 
 unhappy fport which Seneca alSgned to the 
 Emperor daudiw^ for an Infernal pain; and 
 it was that he fhould alwayes ftand in a po- 
 flurcofcaftingthe Dice^andne\'er hav^ his 
 Throw ; 
 
 Nam qnotUs mij/tims erat^ refenantefritiUo. in Atii 
 UtraqHi fnhdnifo fiigiihat tejpra fundo. 
 
 G c ' Cum- 
 
386 th^ Second Part. 
 
 CMwque recoOeSfos auderet mitt ere taUsy 
 iMfuro fimilis femper ^ femperque fitenti i 
 Veceperefiderfi^, . 
 
 That then, in which tliefc Wits triumpB^ 
 is in their Defcriptions^ which when they ob- 
 tein, they fay to themfelves, Bk Rhodus^ hie 
 falta. And yet it con:imonly fucceeds with 
 fuchconftraintof Artand Wit^andinfo Hy- 
 perbolical, and Giganticalamanner, that 
 tlie more they defire to fpeak the lelTc they 
 fay 5 equally roving from that which i$ na- 
 tural and that which is profitable. Whcre- 
 t^^^- upon we may fay as much of their childifb 
 ^'^' 8. p^rz/z/^^/^asDrnVfaid of a violent teqp^ 
 atSeadcfcribed by Timothy ^ Majoremfein 
 ferventi oUavidi^^^, 
 
 What would that Ingenious Phavorinus 
 fay now a-dayes^ that reading in Virgil ^, 
 where he defcribed EuceUdHsi^\xx\ditx*&x\x<fk 
 under A/^;^^/M^,jand faith ' 
 
 Liquefa^aque faxa fuh auras 4 
 
 r Cii^ gemitu glomerat : 
 
 ^.5^<r//. judged this faying, in a Poet, and that i{^E*K 
 /.i/.f.io of a Giant, and of an ty£tmy Omnium quf • 
 monflra dicuntury monJlro^JJimum : what wotifH 
 he fiy , fty I , if he (hould hear ; rhdt Ro/H 
 
 'i 
 
^»Vt 
 
 Ohfcurity. 387 
 
 in the Cheeks to removey and arches of admircL- 
 tion in the hrows to the triumph of others vir- 
 tues^ in running through the fields of Eternity^ 
 with the fiefs ofDefert^ &c. exprcflions ufual 
 in fubjefts of familiar but Plebeian Argu- 
 ment, and about things that they cngreaten 
 notintheleaft. 
 
 When its tndifcretton to nfe too 
 Elegant and Polite a Style. 
 
 BUtof07«r^/Vx and the manner ofufing 
 them, let every one jtjdg acccording 
 to his reafon and fancy. For my 
 part, if I be to borrow any of them , for the 
 ncceffityof the Argument, 1 efteemthem 
 VLB Jewels 3 and take their value from their 
 Nature, and Ufe : fo that they be not coui^ 
 tevfeit but real: and not df ordered at all ad- 
 ventures , but put in their proper places. 
 The one is the Office of the Wit , which is 
 to /«z;^//ahcm ; and the other of the ^udg-^ 
 ment^ which ought to Difi^ofe them_> . 
 ;^ The Wit is not to take Chyftals for Dia- 
 monds 5 ihcjudgment muftnotcrowdthem 
 in where they fhould not be : imitating the 
 Wefiern Barhrians^ which c^t iht skitis 6i 
 Qci - ■ -^ theh: 
 
oS8 tht Second Part. 
 
 th^irface's, toehehafe therein Jewels $ never 
 perceiving tbat they more deform them- 
 {dvcs with Hthe, GaQies they make; than 
 adorn themfelyc5 with the Ornaments they 
 wear. The face requireth no other orna- 
 ment, than ii^s natural beauty; and itsitiorc 
 v/i cngcd and deform' d by a Pearl although 
 very Lxcellenr, cnchafedina Cheek, than 
 by the bleraifh of a Mole, growing there 
 narurally.In like manner in the Art of Spcokr 
 ins', feme things ^ippcartfi^Tairel- for tHefr 
 plainnefle; and refemble Piftures^ in which 
 idiih Pliny Junior very excellently, that the 
 Painter; Ne err arc quidem debet in meltuf* 
 
 Lyftpftu caft a Sxdiiwtoi Mexanderhio 
 the life, that it (eemed , he had infufed 
 into the melted BrafTe the veey Soul of that 
 great King. Nero , (that Was Cruel even in 
 his Favours, and did hurt even there where 
 he pretended to help,)having it in his power 
 amongft other fpoils of Greece , would gild", 
 it; judging that a Statue of fo excellent 
 workmanfhip was not worthily compofed 
 of any worle Metal than Gold. The Fool 
 confidcred not , that ^Martial faces were 
 better expreiTed by the fierceneffe of Brafle^ 
 than by ihefprucenelTe of that Womanilh 
 and lafcivipus Metal. Therefore the Gilded 
 Statue of N€ra y lofl all the Nobility of 
 ^- JleX' 
 
Alexander; all the Workma4ifhip of Ly(tppus : 
 and that, beinggilt, became adead Statue 
 which feem'd oeforc a living Image : So 
 that l|e was coriftrain'd to cprred his crror^ 
 and for ISleros fault to flea. Alexander i 
 taking off with the Vyle that Golden Skin^ 
 which had been lay'd on with fire : and yet 
 fogalht , fo ill dealt with, it remained more 
 beautiful than it did before when it was gil- 
 ded j Cunt fretio periijpt gratia artis (faid the ^/^'»./i^. 
 Stoick ) detract um ejl aurum ; pretiofiorque ^4»^* S. 
 talts <€jlimaturj etiam cicdtrkihHs operis^ at que 
 
 ^onfiifcuris , in ^luihus aurum h^ferat , rema- 
 nentibus* Therefore Imhelifhments are not 
 alwayes Or//^«2<?;//j-;butfometimes transform 
 
 (^one into deformity, and where 
 
 Ornari res ipfa negat , contenta doceri^ C^fan, 
 
 ^^%0 be fupeyjluoujly , and fometimes affeBedly 
 \^ijQnceited^ declares a great plenty of Wit^ but 
 afmall portion o^ judgment. 
 
 In C4ffeBions then , cither let us betake 
 
 Ifpur felves to jmitate , or (upprefie them ^ 
 
 ^which is the hardeft point in the ProfefTion 
 
 ^ Rhetoric!^: becaufe an exquifite Art of a 
 
 1: refined judgment, muft lie hid under fuch 
 
 NaturalneJJi that what is faid , may notfeem 
 
 a Dictate of Wit, buta venting of the hearty 
 
 Cc 3 not 
 
SPo 
 
 The Second Fart. 
 
 not ftudied, but born of itfelf ; not got by 
 paufing 5 but found in the very aft of Ipeak- 
 mg ; whatufecanbemadeofa5Vf/i?3 that's 
 diftillcddrop by drop by the dim light of a 
 Candle 5 with words wra<5l in their Me- 
 taphors, double in their allufions, with fpi- 
 ritousand lively fenfes : more abletopuzic 
 ^he brain, than to move the heart? Mor- 
 twm non artifex fjlula (faith Qjryfilogm) fed 
 ^implex plangit afe^io. 
 
 For my felf , when I chance to hear the 
 affciSions managed in fo improper a manner 
 I feel a greater naucity , than one who is 
 Sea-fick; and my tongue itcheth to be ufing 
 that faying of a Wife Emperourjthatfaidto 
 one of his Servants^all perfum'd with Musk 
 as hetruft him out of his Chamber, banifh- 
 ed him the Court, Mallem allium oleres. 
 
 How would that great Matter of the 
 Stage Polu^ , in expreffing the affedions^ 
 fufFcrtheaffedatioof achiidifti Stjh^viho to 
 rcprefent more lively the perfon ot Hfr/i^^, 
 lamenting the loffe of her Valorous Son 
 dead BeSfor^ whofe afties (he carried in ati 
 Vi > ;, dif-interred the Bones of his Own Sort 
 a lirrle before buried , and filled the Uiti 
 therewith, and with that in his arms appear- 
 ed on the StagCj leaving the Art of Mourn- 
 ing to Nature, and exprefling theimitation 
 
 witl^^ 
 
Ohfcurity. fig| 
 
 with reality 3 whilft under the mask of Hc?- 
 cuha 3 he reprefented himfelf a child-leflc 
 Father , and under the name of HeSior be- 
 wail'd the lofle of his Son ? Thus the StjU 
 of the atfedions is the truer , the more na- 
 tural it is 5 nor is it poflible that whilft the 
 Thoughts run to the motions of the Soul, 
 the Wit fhould be fo idle as not to be ftu- 
 dioufly Ingenious; nor that whilft it is 
 conveighed from the heart to the tongue 
 of a perfon impetuous and violent , reple- 
 nilhed with a thoufand different meanings , 
 it (hould have time to fdc<S the words , to 
 difguifethem, turning them from thenatu- 
 iral to the metaphorical fenfe, and to imbe- 
 lifh them with flourifhes^ and conceits. But 
 he that hath zioWd judgment y if in treating 
 o? ^Lny mxttcx humerous ^ he fee hisimpor- 
 tunely-fertile Wit, to offer and prefent be- 
 fore him, fubtleties^and nice quirks, he wjU 
 thruft them away , with his hand , and lay 
 unto them 5 Non eH hJc locus. He doth with 
 the eye of his mind, as the bodily eyes do, 
 when they fee coo rau:h light^they contra^ 
 the pupils, and thereby exclude part of it. 
 ,And is wife in fj doing, like that famous p//«. a^. 
 Ari^on^ that being to expreflfe in a Statue of Sl-^-H- 
 Jr(?/«i? the Fury, Shame, & Gnti oi Jtha- 
 «/^^ mixed Iron and Braffe together, and 
 Cc 4 dark- 
 
ftps The Second Part. 
 
 darkncd the brightnefle of this, with the 
 ruftineffe of that. A wonderful work it 
 was 3 and how much the lefle rich for the 
 matter, fo much the more precious for the 
 Art J by which the ruft , which is afault in 
 the Iron, became a virtue to the Braflc , and 
 made it worth its weight in Gold. 
 
 In fine , where he is to fpeak {erioufly to 
 convince^ to reprehend , to condemn, an 
 ad vice , or pcrfon , in ufing aStjlethzt 
 iings when it ihould roar , that inftead of 
 thundring, lightens; (the Periods leaping 
 by falts like the fpouts of a Fountain, when 
 they (hould run like a ftream) every one 
 fees how far he is from obteinin^ what he 
 f.lift. tihi ^^^^^ ^^* ^^^ ^^^^ amputata oratio & ah* 
 1 ep.io, fi^JJ^:>fi^ l^i^i & magni^cA^ & exceJfa umty 
 Tac, fulgumty omnia deniqueperturbat^ ac mifcet. It 
 would be nervous and mafculine , not wo- 
 manifh^effeminatly dreft^ & ^Aefcheated for 
 Levity. The looks of the Oratour (hould 
 not begamc-fome, and laughing, but maje- 
 ftick and fcverc ; of whom it may be faid , 
 as the Poet faid of Pluto : 
 
 Vuitus eft illi jovis ; fed fulminanti . 
 
 'pL de What vanity is it, faid Hyppocrites^ to bufie 
 Medtco. ones felf more in cmbroydring the fwathes- 
 
 than 
 
Obfcnrity. 393 
 
 than in 'healing the wounds ? as if the hand- 
 fomneffeofthe bindings were a Balfomero 
 the fore. Certain over-worn > toothlefle 
 Files 5 ferve to polith and give brightnefTe 
 and luftreto Iron: But where it is rufty, 
 than it needs others. That fcrape, fret;, and 
 rub : The neerer it goes to the quick the 
 better. J^id auresmfOifcaJfis! quid ohle^as? 
 aliud igtttir. Vrencius , fecandus , ahjlinendus 
 fum. Ad hit c adhihitus ej, Tantumnegotii ha- 
 hes qumum in ptJHlentia Medicus : circa verba 
 occfipatus es f 
 
 The %/(? with which ue combate with 
 Vice, is as Warlike as the Sword, whofe 
 goodnelTe, and bravery confifts not in the 
 Gold of the Hilt, nor in the Diamonds of 
 the Pommel; but in the temper of the Steel. 
 But the more its befetwith Jewels and en- 
 riched with Infculptures, and Ornaments, 
 the worfeitcutS5and thelelfe expeditioufly 
 is managed. And well faid that brave T/;^^^;^ Sjn, de 
 Captain Epimanondas^ to a young muskified i^^I^^- 
 Athenian , that laughed at the plain wooden 
 Hilt of his Sword : When vpe fight thou (halt 
 not prove the Bi/thnt the Blade: and the Blade 
 Jhall wake thee weep then , // the Bilt 
 make thee laugh no^. Auri enimfulgor^ atque 
 argenti (faith Tacitus) neque tegit ^ neque vul- 
 nerat. 
 
 Let 
 
594 ^^^ Second Part. 
 
 Let the Style therefore , where>Afith wc 
 are to fight be no Bridegroom , but a War- 
 riour. Where the words are to be Darts, 
 fill not the mouth with Flowers of Elocu- ; 
 tiottj to fend out at every flop, a puff; as if 
 Vice was a Hornet, to which the fmeilcf 
 Flowers is a deadly poyfon 5 or ^s if you 
 would kill your advcrfaries as Beliogamui 
 did his friends , fuffocating them in Rolbs, 
 Itis an-hitherto-obfcrved folly, to fight a 
 Duel dancing, and to mix SaUs , and JfaulUy 
 and Flourijhesy with Pajps. There s no jeRing^ 
 vpfth edg-tools^ Blows made to wound the 
 heart, are not to be fetcht meeting thebreft 
 of the enemy in a jefting way; as if one 
 would imbrace rather than wound. 
 
 And yet there's none that believe that the 
 f erious and fevere Style wants its elegancy, by 
 wanting the ornaments of fubtle, and (uperr- 
 fluous conceits. The Lion requires not 
 a combed creft , gilded paws , pendents at 
 his ears, norropes of Pearl about his neck 
 lafcivioufly fitted , to make him brave^ 
 The horrider he is, the more beautiful ; the 
 more ruff and (haggd, the handfomer. Bic 
 Sftfi'^i, fpiritu Acer ffaith Seneca) qualem ilium ^ ejji 
 natura voluit , fpeciefHs ex horrido , cujus hic 
 decor ejl^ nonfini temore afpici , prafertur itit 
 
 V 
 
OhfcHrity. 5^5 
 
 Of the Examination and CorreSiion 
 ■p of our OTvn Compofures. 
 
 THe work of a Book being complca- 
 tcd (about which , the end which 
 in the beginning I propofed to my 
 felf, was, to advert that only 5 which con- 
 cerns the invention and difpofing of mat- 
 ters, and the manners ofexprefling them) 
 that which onely remains is , to go over it 
 With the finifhing touch , and repolifh it, 
 examining it particularly , and making a 
 fe\^cre judgment of eachoHts parts, to fee 
 if there be as Sydonim found in thofe of his Sjdonius 
 ^migim^OfOYtunita^in exemflu ^ fides in ttfli- L<^.e^qn 
 moniis^ proprietas in epithetis^ urhanitas in fi-^ 
 guris^ virtus in argumentts: pondtds infenjihm^ 
 Jlumen in verhUjiilnten in claufuli^y&c And ex- 
 perience will prove the obfcrvatio oi Seneca 
 to be moft true, that the things , that whilft 
 they wcreincompofing feemed moft love- 
 ly, revifed appear no longer the fame , nor 
 i*efemblethe Authour, Necfe agnofcit inillis. 
 Thereafonis , becaufe the boyling of the 
 Spirits whilft the Wit iswarmdii irjdid:- 
 ing ;, leaves not that tranquility nor clear 
 
 fqrcnity 
 
5^6 The Second Part. 
 
 ferenity in the judgment , as is requifitefqr 
 to work as evenly as deliberately.Thereforc 
 £/7. 1 00. ^^^^ ^^^ impetu flacent minus fr^Hant ad ma^ 
 Seneca, mm relata. And ^intilian condemneth the 
 precipitate method of thofe, that abando- 
 ning t hemfel ves to a certain rather fury than 
 fervour of Wit, inconfiderately write what 
 comes firft in their heads- repetum deinde y 
 Qjuntih ^ compemnt qutt efuderunt^ fed verba emen- 
 '•»<^.^-^ dantuTy & numeric mAnet in rehus temere con- 
 ^^eBU^ qu^fuit levitoi. Therefore ( fubjoyns 
 ihe^ let them write (efpecially in their begin- 
 nings) confiderately, and flow ly : and put 
 wery thing in its place, and not confound 
 matters; and feled: their words with judg- 
 ment, and not take them at adventure ; not 
 efteeming that good which comes eafily, 
 QftintH. hUn entm (ito fcrihendo fit ^ ut hem fcribatHry 
 ibid. fed bene fcribendo fit ut cito. Virgil a man. of 
 fo excellent Judgment, and that in writing 
 Phavor. gradari(i6 fuit , was wont ^o fay , that he 
 G / / brought forth his Verfes , More , mque ritu . 
 ^10 ^^ W^^^^5 becaufe not content to have brought 
 iheim forth, he repoliftit them one by one ^ 
 astlieBear , which with her tongue lliapes 
 out the members of her Cubs, which were 
 brought forth not only defornVd , but un- 
 formi^'d. 
 
 We (hould not therefore feek only to 
 
 form 
 
Obfenrity. ^^ 
 
 form the work , but to reform italfo ; and 
 remember, that others will not fticfctoufe 
 with them that feverity in condemning, 
 them, which we, foolithlypitifulyfpared in 
 coriedtingthcm. Let us in this take exam- 
 ple from God himfclf, that hath been ever 
 fince the beginning of the World with a 
 great Leffon our Tutor herein , in that he 
 made the World in one day,and was five in 
 beautefying its taking one while darknefle 
 from Heaven , another while fterily from 
 the Earth -, adorning that with Stars , this 
 vrtth Flowers : till that having conipkatedy 
 his Work he commended it as worthy o£ 
 his hand 3 d^requievit ab univerfo operequod: 
 patrarat. He might, its true, have made the 
 World as in a Mould, and perfcded it in a 
 moment. But as St. Amhrofe well advifeth, ^^^* i* 
 PriHs condit i 6' molitur res corporeoi y deinde ^^^'^^ 
 perficit , iUuminat , ahfolvit, Imitatores enim *^^^^^* 
 fieos nos efe voluit , ut frius faciamus aliqua , 
 poftea venuUemus^ ne^ dum fimulutrurnqHe Ado" 
 rimur^ neutrum poffimus impler^^, 
 
 Neverthelcffc, I will not fay that we 
 (houldbefo ftrangely cruel with our wri- 
 tings, as to wreck every word if not every 
 fyllable,that fo it become like the Chords of 
 the Lute 5 ^oplus torta^pks Mufi^afcripta Sidon.ef^ 
 
 enim 
 
998 
 
 The Sttond Part 
 
 Sen. lth» enhn/ua torquent^ (tm\i that Ancient Coiu 
 1. comr. trover tiftj qui de Jtngulli verbis in confilium vL 
 f''P' niunu 
 
 -'^Andwemuftknow, that in this particu- 
 lar the fuperficious diligence of fuch whp 
 like Pr ot ho genes ^ Nefcit tnanum de tahld^ is 
 fto lefle blameable, than the negligence of 
 fuch who wholly omit tocorred. ForNegr 
 ligencc, its true, leavcth the fuperfluous 
 matters in a Treatife ; but the fuperftitious 
 Curiofity fwhich is worfej takes away the 
 neceflary. That, by not correfting omits to 
 chang the bad into good^this^ by over-much 
 correding , changcth very often the good 
 Plin.hh. *^^o bad. Fetfe^fum enim opus , ahfolutum- 
 ^-epifi.i, que , non tarn ^lendefcit lima quam deteritur^ 
 ^'7'^F'35 (^ Nimia cur a deter it maguquam emendat. 
 
 From the defire of contenting iheir infa- 
 i\2kA^ genius^ proceeds, infome, their be^^^ 
 ginning a thoufand times the ftme labour^ 
 weaving and re-weaving wirh Penelope ftill 
 the fame piece, and cancelling to daywhat 
 they writ yefterday. Refembling the pu* 
 nifhment of Syffpus in Hell 5 who never 
 ceafeth to rowl to the top oi the Hill that 
 inconftant and deceitful Stone , which, 
 trundling back to the bottom whence hg 
 took it 5 fruftratcs his pains 1 and Wearies- 
 
Gthfcuriiy. 99^ 
 
 his arms. Imitating the folly of that famous 
 AfoUodorus^ who not pleafed with the 
 StaiuesV which withgreat expcnce of pains ■ ^H 
 he had madcj for anger broke them to pie- 
 ces with his tools J and was almoft ready 
 to grind them in his teeth ; called therefore 
 thel'^/«r« of Gravers 5 becaufehe difmem- 
 bred his Children , and eat them though o£ 
 Stone. 
 
 ^' 'Nunquidin melius dicere vu quampotesi PetrJ.yJ , 
 Said an old Maftcr to a melancholy ^p^fi- 7" 
 young man 5 that being unable to fpeak as 
 he would , would not fpcak as he might j 
 and therefore had unprofitably travailed 
 three daycs together about the beginning 
 of an Oration. This is the way to learn 
 not to fpcak well, but to fay nothing; of 
 which, the more Ingenious Young men 
 are mod of all in danger , that having by 
 Nature fees of high thoughts, and impo- 
 Ete rudiments of a Noble Form of Speech ; 
 neither know how to content themfelves 
 with the ordinary, nor yet havefo much 
 of extraordinary , as therewith to fatisfic 
 themfelves: Therefore Jca'dJt ingeniofisaio- ^ti%ntiL\ 
 lefcentihus frequenter ^ ut Uhore confumantur ^ apud Pe- 
 & in filentium ufque defendant ^ nimia bene ^^* 
 dicendi cufiditaf^. 
 
 What 
 
Aoo The Second F art. 
 
 What man is there though of never fo 
 excellent a Judgment, to whom his works 
 arefo pleafing, that as Goldofthetwcenty 
 fourth Karaii , there i$ nothing to be added 
 of good or taken away of bafe Alloy? Per- 
 fcction isa prtt^iledge denied to all thetbings 
 in the World. The Sun hath its Myftsy thd 
 Moon her Spots ,• of the Stars 5 forrie'^ire 
 turbulent, fome melancholy; and yetthefe 
 are the moft confiderable Bodies in Hea- 
 ven; nor ought they therefore to be difolr- 
 vcd 5 becanfe they are not altogether fo 
 beautiful as they might be. Examine the 
 Books that have the efteem of great Learn- 
 ing and the fame of great knowlcdg, they 
 will be fair faces but not without fomeblc 
 mifh^ordefedt^ for not only good Homer^ 
 ^indoque dormitat^vx in a word, the z^;^//// 
 alio, though they have- a hundred eyes. 
 For if they had refolved fully to fatisfie 
 themfelvcs, and not to publilh their labours 
 to the VVorld , till that they ihould have 
 been compleatly perfcift , Adieu-Books: the 
 VVorldvvould not have had one good one* 
 But if thsy patiently fuffered their defedis 
 counterfeited by fo many excellcnde:$^' w^ 
 need not dcfpair but that fo much as is of 
 good in our writings , may find more praife 
 than the culpable difpraife. 
 
 Let 
 
Ohfaiity. Ao\ 
 
 Lee us apply unto our lelvcs than counfel which that 
 Aftrologer gave to the Cripples , to coii^fort them 
 concerning their maime(i,{hriv'lcd , and diflocated 
 limbes : Oblerve* laith he, the Heaven , and in it the 
 Conllellations, one by one ; all are not fo beautiful, 
 but that there are forae that are deformed^ lame, and 
 one way or other, maimed. The Scorpion wants his 
 claws: TegAfHsfic Taurtts have no more than h^ilt of 
 them iecn. 
 ^odft ftiUrti circumfpicis omnia cura. Mdnil, 
 
 Fraadatajirjcnies amijjisfyderamcmbrh, Hf^^ 2. 
 
 Scorpius m Libr A confttmu bracbia, Taurus Al^ 6 
 
 SucciditincurvocUudiis pede : LumincL C^^ncro -^ * 
 
 DefKfit, Ceraaufj fttpere^& quarltur unum. 
 Sic nofiios cafusfolatur fundus in aftris , 
 Omnis cum cmlo jortitna pendeat ordo, 
 Ipfaque debilibus forutentur fydcra mcmbrif* 
 That finally jwhich confumaces all djligence^rcqui - 
 (ite about our Compofitions^ is to lubmit them to the 
 judgment,to the cenibre,to the correction of a faithful 
 andundcrlknding Friend. Onccye of aby-rtander ^ 
 lees more into anochers matters than two ot his own: , ^ 
 becaufe love of his own productions, is a certain ne- * ^ . w 
 ceflary blindnefs^ which deceives the more,thelefs its ^ *!^ 
 fufpe(Acd. Ochcrs eyes fee our matters as they are in ^^^^'^' 
 themfclves, ours give judgment according, to the di- 
 fpoficion of the op:ick powers , not according to the 
 cffenceof the oh)Z^ ^Familiar iter dome ft tea afpici^ 
 WW, faith the Slo'\(:k-,& femper jadicio favor efficit^ 
 nee eft-) offiod nos magis aliena indices adttlatione pe- 
 , fire qtikm wfrra, \^ood friend fnould ftand us in the 
 fame (lead as that MirrouV did Dem»ftheneSyQ^^\\\ch 
 hemide ufe^ aa of a Correilor to mend the faults 
 which he committed in his manner of delivery; wfing 
 tofay nothing in pubiick vjhich he had not oricd as ^p^kiu-if 
 hh^hCsy ^afi a»te Maaiftrfim. apol ->'!■, 
 
402 The Second Vart, 
 
 But cake notice that the fubmilfion of our H^ritifin 
 to ihc cenfurc of others, is not to be done out of com- 
 plement, but to have them corre6^cd; not to be com- 
 mended but amended. Ai id if it happefis,that ModeRy 
 or Refpcft reltrain oui friend from uhng liberty and 
 rigour with us, we muft fhew our rcfentmentsat it^Sr 
 befpeak him as Ceiius the O) ator in a like cafe did his 
 fT^^"^ confident , Die abqmd contra, ut dm fjmus , and be 
 ftb.:i,M ^^^1^ }^jj^^ ^^^^ rjonirafcatur-, trMti. 
 fra ^. 8 . But this is become now-a-days lo difficuir, that, whereas 
 there is but few that know how , there is none almoft that 
 p . wiJljIike a friend unde: take the charge to be Triers of others 
 
 Fmar.-i, woiks.Thcy know that Thyloxenusthc Poet, bccaufe he ufed 
 de Fort, his Pen freely in expunging a great part of a Tragoedy of 
 ^AltX, ^ionyJim(i. man that knew better how to make Tragoedics as 
 a Tyrant, than to write them as a Poet) was for a reward of 
 his fidelity , buried alive in a marble Cave. We muft net be 
 offended to know that which we defirc to knew: otherwife we 
 (hall find in our friends the Style of that Ancient ^uintilun , 
 Morat* ^^^'hom: SidefejtdcredetiBumyquamvcrterc malles: 
 
 Nullum ultra verhum, aut operam fumcbac inamm^ 
 ^i'm fine rivali tequc, & tuafolns amarcs^ 
 
 "Dl/f / bAVe hitherto perfonand that &ldTixcC\2is, that being blind himfelj^ 
 ^^opcn3dthe eyes oj ethers, & (iumbling atevtvyftepyjhewed the doubt jul the 
 fafeft w.iys^Wor do I yet thhl{^ that I ought to be therejcre reprehendedinor be- 
 caufe my Stylcis a tuty¥dc am I culpable, if with it I have endevauredto 
 brighten othmM'hoexpeHs that the Hone which fets an cdgon Blades,^ould 
 it fdjcut? Or lool^sihat ihofel^txcunzs offtoue , which pointed the way to 
 TravtUenfhe Hid travail themfelves? The Brain hath ?w fc fife, affirms Caffi- 
 odorw, andtcf t.uei and yer^jor that the ne)'vcs are fixed in it,andf'om it re- 
 ^che thefnatsjgr the noblefl operations oftheSoulc , Senfum mcmbiis re- 
 liq listrcidit. 
 
 // r luavc not the tipplaufe of a Pencil, that Painting is able to teach others 
 to Painr; I /Kay affuffie that of a Cole, that draws thofe dead lines which {I'fi 
 FourfoiJ I he Dehgn : lyhich though they be cxpung'd by the Colours, and lo(l 
 ra the Pldjre, yet ihey tofe not their venue ^ oj frefciibitJg order to the Co" 
 lours J snd giving c rn'c to the 'Defigit^ 
 
 r I N I s. til* 
 
 hi 
 
 i 
 
The Table of the moft material 
 
 Contents 
 
 ABraham? generous facrificing 
 Ifaak io8 
 
 Argufr.'-. . rr, bf d'rfcuf* pJould be 
 tL<xcq^>*i^if to the capacity 5 49 
 /-.rifco's inf(riptio» 9ver bis Gate 
 hc\i\\\^s his CharafteY,&c, 78, j ^^^ ^ 
 
 lo^,lio,iZ9,:79,38i- , Anftides i^^M tjr^r F^;f n^- 
 
 ^ffcEilons not mov'd mthto af'\ A-ifcomachus Ruddied the name 
 
 jelled a fiyle i 8^ [ . „j Bets 6^ysa.rs 3 19 
 
 i4ge cxcufetb ntt from (li^dyi?fg t.} : Arifcophancs Phylofophus 152, 
 
 profit others 
 
 Alcib'iades his Characlcr^ &c^ ^f, 
 
 Alexander Magnjs bis Char.'^Ci i 
 &c.zi^S^l^,<)^,\o<i,iio,^^:i, 
 
 Alexander Severus hisCba- T' , 
 
 &C. 4,'- 
 
 Alexarchus Gramraar.cor; -: 
 
 ow« Lexning 
 AUegories excufe 7ig: 
 
 Poets 
 Ambition of fecmlng in.'j i 
 
 fome affcB Obfcnniy . 4 
 
 Amendment ojerrdrs is the ra ti 
 
 ufedbybcfl:rits 
 Aiiaxagoras /;ir Do^ineand Cba 
 
 AJphoafus R-x prejarr'd kimfdjia 
 Autonomy :o God 14 f 
 
 Apologies ivith what caution to be 
 writ 210 
 
 i.^i ,1 Arifcotlc hischaYacier ajid do6irim 
 
 Arifcppus avfw.r ta Dionyfius 
 byrncLif. ^ 
 
 Arms and Arts mail? a cc?»plen^ 
 
 Cu.ptain I ol 
 
 ; Ap ronomy its delight &c. 1 J j 1 1 8, 
 
 iTo,Tfj,iy^,iJ9, 171,17s 17} 
 
 - o 
 
 ; ',ologycenfii,-cd ^ly 
 
 Lh(.nunh obferved their Child/ ens 
 
 G^niui's 27 J 
 
 AugLj tUiSand. 180^1243158 
 
 ^uguftusEmp. his Chara^er^ &c, 
 
 94,zSo 
 
 f* ^ I -\ ufierity adds n%t to ^taje (iy 9 8 
 
 ) Authors good Boclii incomparably 
 
 happy 328 
 
 B 
 
 hea'^y of Eouy no true fign of 
 
 becifit^oj Mind 288 
 
 ' Has th&, fi'btUiy 
 
 Apuleiu? Thylofopher his A^oph- . sees ihii) p'Diieiy 140 
 
 thegmSj ^c. 3i>»98 I Beginmng oj aU things difficult ^66 
 
 Archicasfo/5 chirrMer^&ci-j if^i'i^ \ Bodies held by fome to anfTver the 
 
 ArchiteBure i^4ji855i?4l Souls 0^ their owners 784 
 
 Archimedes Syracuf. ChxrA^ttr & ^ Booby} abide T^hm all things decay 
 
 commendanort TjjJ^jij^^^^T I 3^9. Notto terejc^ed]or cjnv 
 
 i , Dd 1 ' janhs 
 
The 
 jaHltsbUtecmited 190. Notttbe 
 vdnrcd ai Great but Good 309. // 
 bad they fame veayes bun the Rea- 
 f^y '97. JftvhoUy ba.dn»t to hi 
 read 19 ^ if partly good pa-aly bad, 
 "ivith circumfpeftion 19 1. Some- 
 times have nothing good but their 
 titles 30^ 
 
 Brutus his jwfiiee upon his Son Z09 
 Buonarotci crncifieda man to paint 
 the Pafflo n by him 2 1 4 
 
 Bujinefe of the Idle in Cities 48 
 
 Carfar Dia*t. hitpralfes 104,207 
 Caligula Emp./;i3 Ckara[icr pj^ 
 
 Captain: glonou: ij Conquoi/Jg they 
 ckn write their C onqticfls 1 04 
 Carncades modnatkn in writing 
 agAinfi Zcno 23^,2^8 
 
 Cato his love of Book.^ 191 
 
 Cati'ions tothofethut horrovffiom 
 other Authors J60 
 
 Ccbcs Tables ' ^^6,176 
 
 Cenfttres Hot to be commonly ^radii- 
 fed 111 
 Chymlfl* and their difeovcries 
 
 i4^,3i^>537 
 Ckzyo his love of jcslcng ii3 
 
 T A 1; L E. 
 
 Condemning cther$ is eft tkef^uU 
 
 of the Ignorant 125 
 
 Conns full of Scholars^ a Princes 
 
 Glory 97 ' 
 
 foun of Dionyfius of a Shambles 
 
 turn d Academy joo 
 
 Confleliations obfcene, unworthy of ^ 
 
 Heaven 171' 
 
 CiitcshisChara^er,&c, 37,58, 
 
 Cruelty y of Buonarotti2i4, Of$be 
 
 Japponois i^i^. of Parillus 21 y 
 
 Cyices Rod 169. Cup j^j 
 
 D 
 
 Death feared, is Deadly 7 2 
 Delight to be tal^en in Aflornom. 
 
 contemplate, iS 
 
 Dcmofihcncs bis Cha/a^er, &c, 
 
 10,193,2^85X70,403 
 D"niocrkus his Charti^er y &c» 
 
 114,15? 
 Demonax his Cynical Apophibeg, 
 
 Il5,t22 
 
 Detraction hotvpleafng tofomczii 
 Defined 21 2 
 
 Dialling 1^6,1^9 
 
 DomhhnC^(a.x his Character 94 
 Diogenes his Character tsf Apoph- 
 
 theg 3^,38>39>47,99j»^5,iS4. 
 158,215, 237,2^7,305,32* 
 
 hcs his char Ad.and doctrine \ Difficulty of making new difcovetiis 
 13,1.^9 m Learning 151 
 
 Columbus dlCcoverer ofW. India | t)ionyfius Tyran. 3.^,99,1^1,134, . 
 
 Dlfcourfe of mar, ca'iinot fdthom^ 
 the truths of Faith 
 
 Clcai 
 
 ZSZ'. 
 
 Coinpofutcs fbould be fubmitted to 
 others piigment 403 
 
 € Q:npo fur es of brave Authors Cop- 
 py^s for Dthevs imitation 1 6 1 
 
 Conceits^ as Jev^els^ ^nuH he True, 
 and Prober 5'87 J 
 
 *5i 
 E 
 
 Earthy beheld f torn the Stars , ftcm, 
 contcmptibU to the Mind as little 
 to the Bye »J 
 
 E litis 
 
The T 
 
 Ella? Vcms Et/ip.hliChaynCi. ^7,18^ 
 
 Era^mMs his Tvkty Eccho i;o 
 
 Euripides comps'd bisTragxdieTin 
 
 foVitude 61 
 
 Exile to a Jjife-man, r,ot lofs but 
 
 Z^ifi 44- 
 
 F 
 
 Families happy in a fucccffion of * 
 Learned Men 117 
 
 Fesr of Death a deadly evil 7 * 
 
 Fo'/titude of mind requird by S:olci{S 
 inbodilyr.i)'/mcnts ^8 
 
 Fountains of \Artificia' contrivance 
 
 166 
 
 G 
 
 Galaton a famous TainUr 199 
 
 G'iOitc ancther 111 
 
 Galilcus prais'dfoy invcnLcr of Op- 
 
 fi(ji^j Tele fc opes i38,in 
 
 Gallen €inp. his (^mnge fcmence in 
 
 favoiif of an ill Ni<i>^f-»8.7a j 2:5 
 Genius tvhat and rphencc it is ^oi. It 
 
 may be ml [led never v^hoUy fupreft 
 
 ^74 1 
 
 ABLE. 
 
 Vicxmoixoius foitUouldlcavc Its body 
 
 at pie af lire 58 
 
 Hiero^'yphiiks " ^T,!?^ 
 
 Hiliory cotnmerded /oj 
 
 Horace ^ polony for his Voctrs 148 
 
 ; Homer P'icctpv l^ociar, 10^,1 54, 
 
 180,^99 
 
 KumnuYS that fewe the vlt of "what 
 
 temper they fyonld ie 17 y 
 
 Hyppocraces his Vocir'inc, &c. 177 
 
 I 
 
 Ignorance Spidemcel , a7id j^oneare 
 
 exempt from it x\^.Sh^.}»tjul in a 
 
 Souldper^ cfpecialiy in ttmi vf peace 
 
 ic8 
 
 Ignorant men; intolerably infolent 
 in Wilting -figainU the Liaymd 
 1x3. ■? hey ccfi/nye jor dhfcu; c Tvkat 
 t bey do ?> 1 im dcrfU nd 147 
 
 Imit^i'j}tdislinirg a good /iulhor^is 
 jforfe than flcali/'g leS 
 
 Jmpaticnce in revifmg our w/iiings , 
 caitfe of their impe'jeSlions ' 3^5- 
 
 Inclinaiion ojihc Genius may bemif- 
 led but vot totalyfupprfsl: 274 
 
 390 
 
 Geoo^rApby if^,in3H3 i igcnmty knr>w^ by jaUnJle 
 
 Glory of a Captain that can mcn^tge , intentions, Pntendedly good,oi tafci- 
 
 , koth Pike and Ten Vtcionoufly lo^ j ^ ^^,^^, p^^^ ^^^.^^ .j^^^j ^^^^^^ 
 
 H 
 
 Heaa's of great builds held capable 
 
 ofgYc.it wit 280 
 
 Helena painted by Zcuxis ^ admired 
 
 6yNico^ia:us 20 
 
 Heliopabalus /;f^ Ch.vraCt. ^2^5)94 
 Hcraclituj his Chara^cr aid Do- 
 
 cirine ^ 114.158,1^9 
 
 Hercules /;fi CharaEler and Labours 
 
 ' ?J,1 ox,! lI,t25>MT, 172,125,15^ 
 
 them not 187 
 
 Johnthe EmpcycuvscoHslancy 92,9^ 
 Jerome 5"fl/?ir I7i,;42,i57 
 
 1 apli his method in grorring iiLh^f:6 
 
 Learned M-.ns paucity the ciime of 
 
 great men that regard t'^em n»t. z 
 
 Honours done them by/cveyal I'ri'i- 
 
 CCS J 
 
 i-^,*)f7 .Lcarirngitsttvo great enemies, J^nO' 
 
 3 M 353 m "^'^^^^^^^^ yicc* ?resfat. B) fnme 
 
 ■ held 
 
Th E T 
 
 heldnecdUg'einnich-menui, Not 
 evil bee uufefufMc mx^e ill ufe of it: 
 12,8. Hifd to m.ilie uew difcovcnes 
 i^ if I J I. Not to be obtciued by every 
 
 ABLE. 
 
 N 
 
 Genius ij^ honoured by our S^ivi- 
 
 our 80. his Apofiks 81. and by God 
 
 himfdfS^^Sr.mted by Lkmms 9J 
 
 andUms XL ibid, 
 
 Lcucippus the Inventet ej Aiomes & 
 
 Chance 201 
 
 Leocras an excellent Imager i f^ 
 Lifetoopoortfor great undcrtciliings 
 
 x6i 
 
 Love of life hiventerejfe of mvjy 
 
 things ' J J, 
 
 Love of 6ur Bool^smul^cs nt ^a/iial 
 
 judges of tbcra 148 
 
 Love of To Verity jhonldmove mto \ 
 
 fuhlifh ouf fludtes 31^ 1 Pytmng,Wcigery,Cayving,&c, 11 4, 
 
 Manisjliced in the mtdii of the ( 5^^,?^!, 568,588,^91, 39»,^99 
 
 jvorldto contemplate it 16 1\ TalcnefTe believed a ftin of Ingenui- 
 
 U^ttaltheFoei 141.101 ^ Ji> J & 
 
 Nat/ig^fi<7»^io,59,f4,i48,in,iy^ 
 Nero his Charaiier, &c. 93,97, 
 310,588 
 l^ovcl-difcovcYies are mo (I profitable 
 fludies 14 J 
 
 No-^eltics not to be ra(h!y dhulgedi^i 
 
 o 
 
 Obfcwfity of the n'lttwo fold , Afe- 
 
 Cied^/^l , and Natural 34^ 
 
 Opinionatene(i of fome men^xi^, x/^, 
 
 Ongcnagfe.it PUcotii^ 1^9 
 
 Ovid Pjeta 1 98,40*, 28 1 
 
 O vie do the RiUorian honoured by 
 
 Carolus V. 157 
 
 P 
 
 UQttllusthebappkflman of bis time 
 
 Method the pmcipal pan of « Boo\ 
 
 3T^ 
 
 Methrodori:s)f i? affirmer of MuUi- 
 pUciiy of iVfirlds ij^ 
 
 Mercury God of Scholars Is alfo 
 
 God of Thieves 
 Moor 
 
 jji 
 
 ty 290 
 
 Paulus iEiTiilius, as irrgfnuous in 
 
 Feafling as Fighting 108 
 
 Perfons fdgrCd are incentives to Lftfl 
 
 184 
 Plagiari es of three l(mds 1 3 z 
 
 Piztohis Cbara6ier^&c.^yiU^^y99 y 
 i3i,ii3,i^9,^7^>i8o,i8^ 
 Pleafant dream of a Foot of Argus ^9 
 
 Sir Thomishismtty Epigram ' Phylolaus/zi^Pychagoras, 13^,1^9. 
 
 O J 
 
 Modern Sroachers of novelties cen- 
 
 A'red 1 j7 
 
 ^ioderty in defendi?ig lox. In oppo- 
 
 Morning befl for (ludy 271 
 
 %M>tfe better Dumbthiin Obfcene ioi 
 
 Phylofophers that confront their au- 
 thority (0 the Gofpel ZJ9 
 Phyfiognomy a Liar in the fymptomei 
 of nit 184 
 Vhyfuians ignorance dangerous to' dr. 
 '^aion lif 
 Poetry lafcivioHS doubly cidp^hleiti. 
 Chri* 
 
 M 
 
The T 
 
 ChrlHians ij^.Voets more culpable 
 
 forobfccnicy, than commendable jor 
 mt 103 
 
 Polus unbuned his [on to weep more 
 perfeSily 390 
 
 PompeybisChaYa5ier,&c. 77,185 
 
 Po{fidoniu5 (icii in body^ was ftrong 
 mmind 75 
 
 Tovc'ty is a complicated CMifery 3 o 
 Honorable in a ivife Man 31. De- 
 j ended by hpuk'ins 33 
 
 Pri/ons are not prifons to Phylofo- 
 phcrs J7, are afehool to the Learn- 
 ed 61 
 
 Ttinces unlearned are not perjcfl 
 Prmes 1,90,91 
 
 Pythagoras CharaCier^&c. 1 5r,i U, 
 
 R 
 
 Repentance too late jor him that con* 
 
 jures up a n'ittypcn againflhim 130 
 
 "Revifing our uritings necejfary 5^7 
 
 T(ichmens Hcrangut againjl Thylo- 
 
 fophicli Toveay 107 
 
 s 
 
 Sacred tlingspjoiild not be alienated 
 toprophanctifcs ^ 10 
 
 San£lityis oj great worth in Learned 
 men 83, Seemtib better iviibout 
 learning 79 
 
 Scipio African , 5o,iio 
 
 Selecting and appropriating others 
 fludiei Ycqnircs judgment 3^z 
 
 Seneca the Thylofo^'h. iij7 4,^^598, 
 11^,157,332 
 
 ShipParalo? lo, Argo 9,15^, 0/ 
 Magf^llanes39,iii, 0/ India 50 
 
 tick^fjfemofi tokrableto mfe-mcn^ 
 and why 71 
 
 B L F. 
 ^ilva,or CoUeSiion, ncccffayyprepa' 
 
 rativeto writing Boofis ^4q 
 
 SVc'mcrus commendation for difcove" 
 
 ring the Theory oj the Solar fpots i $6 
 Socrares bis commendation ^^c, 34, 
 
 5^^)493803113,149,280,287 
 
 Solitude praifcd 6^,6^,& infra. 
 
 Sordid to praife »hy own mitings 25-1 
 
 Souls oj Wife have the body for a. 
 
 Houfc, thofc of the lg?ir,rar4 for a. 
 
 Tiifon 57. Souls have individnd 
 
 pcr]eCiH)?is whereby they excel each 
 
 other zji 
 
 Souldi-rsin ephiion offomefhould be 
 
 Kude, not Learned loj 
 
 Spheres Celeftial are harmonious ly 
 
 Sphere oj King €00-065985 Of fii- 
 
 chimedcs 3^3, 0/Alcrcator 3^4 
 
 S^amm their CiiUomci,&c. n^^ 
 
 Il8,i7j 
 
 'Staficratej ofcred to Grave Alexan- 
 der in mount Athos 105 
 Statue oj Alexander, difgraced by 
 Gilding ^ 588 
 Stephen Monachus/J'iii/f^ 82 
 Study oj things unprofitable is foolifh 
 
 31S 
 
 Style contra [led pralfed byfome 379 
 'Difpraijed by others 381, Ij over 
 concife faiiifitb neither jifftSiiom 
 ^88, nor Re af on 38^ 
 
 Syb:inici a UrmKh Tcople 4^,270 
 
 T 
 
 Temcr.ty oj thofc who not comprehen- 
 ding Natural Caufcs would yet bif 
 ihem evince fupern.it ural 2 {< 
 
 Temples JGrmeyly confi m*d in order 
 of Anhiteelure to th; nature of their 
 Deity 
 
The 
 Deity iS^ 
 
 Themifteclcs chofe not a Son in law 
 for Riches 117 
 
 Tyhci IMS Cx^irs charade/ 32-1,312 
 
 Time fhort therefore pecidus to the ' 
 Ancients , z^i,z66 
 
 Truth never barren of new iiotions 
 
 Turinus hin -reward for Bribery 3 2 ^ 
 
 V 
 
 Varro his avidity of jliidy 312, 
 
 Vertue lutle valued in the iVorld i 
 \X\\'&tshisCbara5te^ 5fji^i3*43 
 Veftals of three Orders 33 j 
 
 w 
 
 Mfeanfwcrofan SmpeyoifT ^ 91 
 wife fitk^mdn^ isjtrong in tMhd 66 
 
 T A B L a 
 
 ivife ancients covetous of time iS6 
 
 Oblig ed^ 1 ban'ifhment 4^ 
 
 mt and J:idgme7it rarely united 3 oa- 
 
 Sharpiiid by provoca'ions zzf 
 
 ivks^ whence their variety 3 00 
 
 hdve their equals., fo that they need 
 
 not defpife others r^o, Sow wits 
 
 apt for every thing 196, Obfcure 
 
 through cxccffe of ifii 34^, How 
 
 different i^^y T'/oud nftbemfdves 
 
 Z43 , PrOfte 1,0 detrailion x u 
 
 X 
 
 Xenoc rates dhybfopbi his ChaTa- 
 aer U3,»35,^?^ 
 
 z 
 
 Zeno Smie, his Character 46, i$j 
 
 F 1 
 
 
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