Thērologia, The parly of beasts, or, Morphandra, queen of the inchanted iland wherein men were found, who being transmuted to beasts, though proffer'd to be dis-inchanted, and to becom men again, yet, in regard of the crying sins and rebellious humors of the times, they prefer the life of a brute animal before that of a rational creture ... : with reflexes upon the present state of most countries in Christendom : divided into a XI sections / by Jam. Howell, Esq. Howell, James, 1594?-1666. 1660 Approx. 368 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 94 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2004-03 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A44756 Wing H3119 ESTC R5566 13208443 ocm 13208443 98502 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. 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Keying and markup guidelines are available at the Text Creation Partnership web site . eng Allegories. 2003-12 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2003-12 Aptara Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2004-01 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2004-01 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2004-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion Heic tutus obumbrer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THE PARLY OF BEASTS ; OR MORPHANDRA Queen of the INCHANTED ILAND : Wherein Men were found , who being transmuted to Beasts , though proffer'd to be dis-inchanted , and to becom Men again ; yet , in regard of the crying sins , and rebellious humors of the Times , they prefer the Life of a Brute Animal before That of a Rational Creture : Which Fancy consists of various Philosophicall Discourses , both Morall , Metaphysicall , Historicall , and Naturall , touching the Declinings of the World , and late Depravation of Human Nature ; With Reflexes upon the present State of most Countries in Christendom . Divided into a XI Sections . By JAM HOWELL Esq Senesco , non Segnesco . The First TOME . London , Printed by W. Wilson for William Palmer , at the Palm-Tree in Fleet-street near Dunstan's Church , 1660. MORPHANDRA , OR QUEEN OF THE Inchanted Iland . m I am Morphandra can turn Man to Brute , And Brutes to Human Nature re-transmute . p And I Pererius whom the gods did send This Rare Admired Princesse to attend . In formas mutata novas mens dicere gestit Corpora , & in primas iterum transversa Figuras , Dii faveant coeptis — The Scope and Substance of the ensuing SECTIONS . PErerius , a wandring Prince , after many traverses of Fortune , and Tempests in his long Pererrations at Sea , arriv'd at a strange Northwest Iland , where ther reign'd a Queen call'd Morphandra , descended of the High-born Circe , daughter of Sol , who ( according to the Etymology of her name ) had power to transmute and metamorphose Men to Beasts ; Pererius having obtain'd leave of her to see and speak with divers of them , viz , an Otter , an Asse , an Ape , a Hinde , a Mule , a Fox , a Boar , a Wolf , a Goat , a Soland-Goose , a Hive of Bees , &c. Morphandra infusing the Faculty both of Reson and Ratiocination into Them during that intervall of time ; As also full and full and free election to resume the shapes of Men , and so return unto their own Countries and Callings : Pererius attempted to perswade them therunto , but in regard of the rebellious Humors , the horrid Sacriledges , the new-fangled Opinions , and gingling Extravagances that Human brains are subject unto , specially this last doting and vertiginous Age of the World , with the nomberles Indispositions wherunto the Bodies of Men as well as their Brains are expos'd , They did choose rather to continu still in the state and species of Brute Animals , than become Rational Cretures again : At last Prince Pererius mingling speech with a Hive of Bees , who had bin formerly a Monastery of Nuns , He prevail'd so far by his melting perswasions , and high discours of the prerogatives and excellencies of the Human Soul , that He induc'd Them to take on their first Natures again , and so return to their Cloysters ; These Discourses are divided into eleven Sections , every Section carrying with it a new Fancy and Matter . Touching the Etymologies of the feigned Words throughout the whole Work , appropriated to the quality of every Country , Climat , and Peeple , the Roots of them must be fetched from the Greek Toung . He is the tru Author who creates a Fancy . To the Great Ornament of her Sex , both for Choice Intellectualls , and High Morall Vertues , The right Honorable , and excellent Lady , My Lady MARIE de la FONTAINE . MADAME , THis Fancy bearing in the Front the name of a Rare Female , I thought it might well stand with the rules of Congruity to make the Dedication correspond with the Title ; And after many revolutions of Thoughts who shold be most proper for my designe , the contemplation of your Honor did cast such strong influences upon Them , that at last They fixed there ; Nor will any Discerning Reder question my judgment herein , your Ladiship being so able and fit ( as I have the honour to know by experience ) to receive this Admired Queen , and give her a suitable entertainment ; Therfore , Madame , if you please to admit Morphandra into your Closet , I believe she will afford you severall sorts of divertisements , And she haply may work somtimes a Metamorphosis in your Self , for she can transmute Passions as well as Persons , she can turn Melancholy to Mirth , and Pensivenes to Plesure ; For as it is in the French ( of which Language you are so great a Mistresse ) Les Morts font revivre les Vivants , The Dead enliven the Living , wherby is meant ; that Books , though the Authors therof be dead and rotten many Ages before , can beget new spirits in the living Reder . Now , such is the state of Mankind , that the foresaid Passions will have their interchangable turns , they will follow one another as duly as Night succeeds Day in any Human Creture , be the Humors therof never so equally poiz'd ; It is denied to Man to be always at Home within himself , and it will be so to the world's end as long as He is compos'd of the four Elements , and as long as the Naturall humors within Him sympathize with the said Elements , who are in restles mutation and motion among themselfs for mastery , which made one break out into this excesse of speech , that if the four Humors were ballanc'd aright in the human body , he wold live easily many thousands of years upon earth ; Now , that person may be said to be the wisest among mortalls who can rule and controul those Humors , It being a Principle among the Philosophers , That as the conduct of the Passions ( which arise from the Humors ) is the greatest prudence , so the conquest of them is the gretest pro●●●sse , when they grow rebelli●us : The ensuing Work hath divers glances upon this subject , and variety of things besides , for every Section affords a new Fancy and Matter . It remains now , Madame , that I shold humbly desire , your Honor would please to interpret this Deditory Addresse as a small argument of my great Acknowledgment of your so many noble Civilities , for which I stand so truly oblig'd ; And this Acknowledgment standing upon so public a Record , the Ages to come as well as the present will testifie , how much I am and was , My highly Honored Lady , Your most humble and devoted Servant , JAM HOWELL . To the Severer sort OF REDERS . SOm of the Antient Sages , who were rank'd among the Philosophers of the Upper House , had a Speculation , That the World was but one huge Animal or Living Creture , compos'd of innumerable members and parts , som Homogeneous or similar , others Heterogeneous or dissimilar ; And in order to that they held , That God Almighty was the Great Soul which did inform and actuat the whole Bulk with motion and life , with vertu and vigor , for every part to perform its peculiar function towards the preservation of the Whole : According to this Doctrin an Argument may be drawn by way of Induction , That if the parts begin to impair , the Whole must be in a declining condition ; It hath been a Truth which hath pass'd from all times without controul , that Mankind is one of the prime parts of the Universe and Paramount of the Sublunary World , which is demonstrable by that Dominion which was given him over all his fellow-Cretures in Aire , Water , or Earth ; He can make the towring Eagle stoop to his Lure from the middle Region ; He can make the vast Leviathan , though a hundred times bigger than himself , to flounce from the deep to do him homage on the Shore ; He can make the Elephant , though forty times stronger than himself , to draw up his Ships on the Carine , and do other drudgeries ; This appears also out of that Awe , which by a kind of naturall instinct all other Animals use to shew Him ; Insomuch that tryall hath been made , how if a Man should go naked and with a confidence through the Arabian Desarts , where the gretest concours of wild Beasts useth to be , ther 's none will assault him , but in a gazing and awfull kind of posture they will keep their distance : Now , if Man , who is so considerable a part of the world , doth decay in his Species , 't is a shrewd symptom that the Whole is en decadence , in a declining state ; Now , that Man doth impair as well in his Intellectualls and the Faculties of his Soul , as in the motions and affections of his heart , this present Age can afford more pregnant proofs than most of the Ages before ; For touching the First , What fond futilous new Opinions have bin hatch'd of late times , both in Divinity and in the Idaeas of holy things , as well as in all other Sciences , specially in the Art of Policy , wherin such poor Sciolists are crept up , that wold turn antient Monarchies into new popular Common-wealths , and so set a Hydra's head upon an old Lion's neck , or make a Child's shoo to fit a Giant 's foot . Touching the motions of the Heart , ther 's nothing of that love and offices of Humanity which were used to be , not onely among private persons and neighbours , but that Allegiance and Love which Subjects were us'd to shew towards their lawfull Prince decaies more and more , whereof ther have been strange examples of late years ; In Aethiopia , a large antient Empire , the common peeple did rise up with a petty Companion against their Soveraign , and kill'd him with his two Sons in open field ; In Constantinople , two Gran Signors were thrust out of the world by their own Slaves , yet they went not to that heighth of Impudence as to arraign Them before a Barr of Iustice ; The Swed hath quite revolted from the Pole , the Portugues from the Spaniard , and so Naples wold have done ; What a huge Army did the Basha of Aleppo raise lately ? And in the Kingdom of Morocco a mean Fellow , under the seeming shew of Sanctity , what a crew of riff-raff stuff did he drag after him against his lawfull King ? But touching these Northwest Ilands , they have out-gon all the rest : These metamorphos'd Animals do point at all these , and other degenerations of the Human Creture : Nor is it the first time that Beasts did speak , for we read of one in the Sacred Code who spoke ; and besides , Solomon sends in to som of Them for Instruction : The Phrygian Fabler was one of the first who taught them their Abcee , then Anian , Barlandus , and others taught Them Their Primer , and the two ingenious Florentines , Poggius and Gelli may be said to have taught Them their Grammer : But these transmuted Beasts speak in a louder Dialect , who having tryed both Natures , they tell the Human Creture his own , and how he growes daily from bad to worse , according to the Propheticall Lyric Poet , Aetas Parentum , pejor avis , tulit Nos nequiores , mox daturos Progeniem Vitiosiorem . Made English thus . Our Fathers who worse than our Gransires were Got Us worse than Themselfs ; And We , I fear , Will get worse than Them both : Such a sad curse Hangs on Mankind to grow from Bad to Worse . 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ; 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ; Poema Tempestivum . TRees spake before , now the same strength of Art Makes Beasts to cunn the Alphabet by heart , And cutt their Breaths to sounds Articulat , Discoursive congruous accents to prolate , For Speech is Breath , breath Air let in and out , But 't is the Mind that brings the work about ; Such a rare Charter the World's Architect Vouchsaf'd to give the Human Intellect To create Words , for 't is Mankind alone Can Language frame , and syllabize the Tone . But here Beasts speak , they mone , chide , and complain , And at the Barr of Justice Men arraign ; Such are our crying sins , that Beasts resent Our miseries , and wretched case lament : Nor let it seem a wonder , because now Wonders and Monsters so familiar grow , This is an Age of Wonders , every Clime Abounds with Prodigies , Ther is no Crime , Not a notorious Villany or Fact , No foul Infandous Thing , or ugly Act That ever Adam's sons did perpetrate , But we have flagrant Instances of late . For Sacrilege , and horrid Blasphemies , Base Lies , created Fears , and Perjuries , For Scripture-pride , Extorsion , Avarice , ( The root of all our Ills , and leading Vice ) For public Fraud , false Lights , & fatuous Fires , Fanatic Fancies clad in Faith's attire ; For Murther , and the crying sin of Blood , The like but One was never since the Flood . In summ , We may for these and thousands more Vye Villanies with any Age before ; Which shews the World is Hecticall , and near Its Gran and Fatal Climacteric year ; The whole Creation mourns , and doth deplore The ruthfull state of Human kind ; Therfore If Men can not be warn'd when Men do Teach , Then let them hearken here what Beasts do Preach . In Formas mutata novas Mens dicere gestit Corpora , & in primas iterum transversa Figuras . Diî faveant coeptis — J.H. THE CONTENTS Of the severall SECTIONS . SECT . I CONSISTS of divers Interlocutions 'twixt Morphandra , Pererius , and an Otter , who had bin first an Amstelian Mariner , and being proffer'd to be retransmuted to his first nature by Morphandra , and to be transported by Pererius to his own Country , yet he wold hearken to neither , alledging the strange Chimeras , and extravagant Opinions which Human Brains have been subject unto in this latter Age of the World , &c. SECT . II Contains an Interlocutory Discours 'twixt Morphandra , Pererius , and an Asse , who had bin once an Artonian Peasan , wherin ther are som glances upon the Country it self , and upon the present Government therof ; But though Prince Pererius us'd all the perswasions he could , and re-inforc'd Argument upon Argument to induce him to re-assume Human shape , and so return to his Country , Calling , and Kindred , yet the Asse utterly refus'd it , and his Resons why , &c. SECT . III Consists of a Dialog ' tiwxt Morphandra , Pererius , and an Ape , who had bin once a Preachman in Gheriona , who having bin carried away with every wind of Doctrin , and folling any fanatic new-fangled Opinion , was transmuted to that Mimicall shape ; In which Dialog ther is an account given of the sad case and confusion wherin Gheriona is involv'd at present . SECT . IV A Colloquy 'twixt Morphandra , Pererius , and a Hind , who had bin once one of the gretest Beauties in Marcopolis , and for som youthfull levities and wildnes was transmuted to that shape ; In this Section ther are various Discourses of the state and nature of Women pro & con , &c. SECT . V. Discourses 'twixt Morphandra , Pererius , and a Mule , who in his Manhood had bin a Doctor of Physic in Tumontia , whom for som Quacking tricks he had plaid , and for som other Resons , Morphandra metamorphos'd into a Mule ; In this Section ther be discourses of the Art of Physic , of the various complexions of Mankind , and of the nomberles diseases of body , and distempers of mind that are incident to the Human Creture , &c. SECT . VI Consists of Interchangeable Discourses 'twixt Morphandra , Pererius , and a Fox , who had bin a Saturnian born , whom for his cunning dealings and Mountebankish wily tricks , she transformed from a Merchant to that Species ; This Section treats of divers things , and particularly how the Art of tru Policy is degenerated , and what poor Sciolists or Smatterers therin are cryed up of late years , &c. SECT . VII . A Dialog 'twixt Morphandra , Pererius , and a Boar , wherein ther are various Discourses , and particularly of the rare Sympatheticall Powder that is lately found out , which works sudden and certain Cures without any topicall applications of Medicines to the part affected , &c. SECT . VIII . A Dialog 'twixt Morphandra , Pererius , and a Wolf , who had bin a Cuprinian Soldier , whom for his Plundrings , Rapines , and Spoils she transfigur'd to that shape , &c. SECT . IX . A discourse 'twixt Morphandra , Pererius , and a Goat , consisting of many speculations both Naturall and Metaphysicall , with other Criticisms , &c. SECT . X. A Dialog 'twixt Morphandra , Pererius , and a Soland-Goose , a Carboncian born , who was transmuted to that shape for his foolishnes in rebelling against his own Conterranean King , and so jugling himself into a Slavery from that Free-Government he was formerly under , &c. SECT . XI Consists of a Dialog 'twixt Morphandra , Pererius , and a Hive of Bees , who had bin once a Monastery of Nuns , and were transmuted to those small Insects , because that after a years Probation , and their own praevious free Election , they murmur'd at that Reclus'd Claustrall life , and wish'd Themselfs uncloyster'd again ; In this Section ther be divers Discourses of the Immortality and high prerogatives of the Human Soul , as also of the Hevenly Hierarchy , and Ioyes Eternall , &c. Bibliopola Lectori . If you will ope this Work with ease , You must from Greece go fetch your Keys . M P F Barlowe 〈◊〉 R Gaywood fecit A KEY To enter more easily into the Sense of MORPHANDRA , OR , The Parly of Beasts THe Otter represents a Dutch Skipper , or Mariner . The Ass represents a French peasan . The Ape represents an English Preachman . The Mule represents a Spanish Doctor of Physick . The Fox represents a Genoa or an Italian Merchant . The Boar represents a German Count. The Wolf represents a Swedish Captain , or Freebotter . The Goat represents the Old Britain , or Inhabitant of Wales . The Soland Goose represents a Scotchman . The Hind represents a Venetian Courtisan . The Hive of Bees represents a Monastery of Nuns . An Etymologicall Derivation of som Words and Anagrams in the Parly of Beasts , according to the ALPHABET . A AEtonia , the Eagles Countrey , represents High Germany , of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 aquila . Alpiana represents Savoy , being a Countrey indented among the Alps. Artonia , the Countrey of Bread and Wine , represents France , of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 panis & 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vinum . C Carboncia , the Coale-Countrey , represents Scotland . Cuprinia , the Copper-Countrey , represents Swethland . The Cinqfoyl Portugal Cardinal Mazarine , p. 21 The Coppices represents the common Peeple . Cerano , the Anagram of Nocera , an ancient town in Italy . D Diogenes , p. 56 Sir Kenelm Digby , 148 Dr. Harvey , 141 G Gheriona , the Countrey of Wool , represents England , of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 terra & 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 lana . H Hydraulia , the Countrey of Waters , represents Holland , with the Confederate Provinces , of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Aqua , and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 populus . Hebrinia , Ireland , being Hibernia , anagrammatiz'd . The City of Hereford , p. 122 The Hollanders are meant , P. 72 L Laroni , the D. of Lorrain . London Prentices , p 44. M Marcopolis , the City of S. Mark , represents Venice of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 civitas & 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . Morphandra , a Queen that can transmute Men into Beasts , of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 formo & 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hominem . N Nopolia , Polonia , anagrammatiz'd . O Orosia , a Mountainous Countrey , represents Wales , of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mons. Oxford & Cambridge , p. 38 P Pererius , a wandring Prince of pererrando . Polyhaima , the City of Bloud , represents London , of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 civitas & 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sanguis . The Phrygian King , Mydas . The Phrygian Fabler , Aesop . The late K. of Engl. p. 35 The present K. Ch. p. 39 Q The Queen of Sweden , p. 114 Queen Elizabeth , p. 57 R Rinarchus , the Palsgrave of the Rhine , of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , princeps , &c. Rugilia , the State of Genoa , the Anagram of Liguria , the ancient appellation of that Territory . Rainsborough , and Admirall Dean , 40 Roundheads variously tormented in Hell , ibid. Rovena , the City of Verona in Lombardy , anagrammatiz'd . S Saturnia represents Italy , Cilisia , Sicilia , ana grammatiz'd . The Standels represent the Nobles and Gentry . Selenians , or half-Moon men , represent the Turks ; of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , Luna . T Tumontia , a Countrey swelling with huge Hills , represents Spain Tomanto Empire , the Dominions of the Great Turk ; Tomanto being Ottoman , anagrammatiz'd . Tarragon , Catalunia in Spaine , the ancientest town whereof is Tarragona . Therlu , the Anagram of Luther . Therologia , the language of Beasts ; of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , fera ; & 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , sermo . V Volganians , the Moscovits , of the huge River Volga . W The West-Indies , p. 70 Z Zundanians , the Peeple of Denmark . 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . The First Section . Consisting of divers Interlocutions 'twixt Morphandra , Pererius , and an Otter , who had been first an Amstelian Mariner , and being proffer'd to be transmuted to his first nature by Morphandra , and to be transported by Pererius to his own Countrey , yet he would hearken to neither , alledging the strange Chimeraes , and extravagant Opinions which Human brains have been subject unto , in this latter Age of the World , &c. Pererius , Morphandra , an Otter . Pererius . MAy those starres be ever propitious which guided my cours to this coast ! may those Winds be ever prosperous which fill'd my sayls , any blew me to this rare Iland , this Theater of Wonders ! May this day be ever held Festival , and bear one of the chiefest Rubriques in the Almanack of Time , that makes me so happy with the sight of Morphandra , the divine Morphandra ! And truly so , being descended in so direct a line from the high-born Circe , daughter of Sol , the admired Queen Morphandra ! who useth to make Nature her self not only succumbent and passive to her desires , but actually subservient and pliable to her Transmutations and Changes . Morphandra . Prince Pererius ( for so I understand your quality and appellation to be ) ; Touching the first part of your speech , which reflects upon this place , we shall endeavour to make it good by the hospitality and entertainment we shal command to be given You and your Train , as also by the rare Objects which you shall see : But as for the second part of your speech , which relates to my self , and to the power of Transmutations ; I must tell you , that what I act this way , is by a special dispensation from above , for the punishment of Humane vice in an analogical or sympathetic way , according to the quality thereof , and the humors of the men : I say , it is by the permission and Fiat of the Almighty , the great God of Nature , that I do operat , not by any prestigious charmes , or confederacy with Cacodaemons ; not by fascinations or philtres , by spels or sorceries , as the shallow-pated common people imagine I do , and so traduce me of Witchcraft , and Negromancy ; yet , I confess , 't is by way of Magick I act ; for Magick was the first Philosophy among those acute Nations which are neerest the rising Sun , so that Magus or Magitian signified nothing else but a Wiseman , which afterwards came to be traduced , and taken in an ill sense ; As it hath been the fate of Tyrant , Sophister , and other words besides , to incurre the same destiny , and I pray the same destiny may not befall the word Parlement . Pererius . Most excellent Queen , now that my Starrs have made me so fortunat , as to conduct me hither , let it not be held to great a presumption , if for the enriching of my knowledge , and satisfying my curiosity , I humbly desire to see some of those Human Cretures that you have anthropomorphos'd , and transform'd to brute Animals . Morphandra . I shall willingly comply with your curiosity and desire in this kind ; for you shall not only be brought to the sight of them , but you shall mingle speech with them , and interrogat what you shall think fitting concerning their present condition . Pererius . But , Madam , how can that be ? how can I expect that they should be capable of what I speak , and consequently What answers or replies shall I hope to receive from them , while they continue in the shapes of brute cretures ? Morphandra . Let that be your least care ; for during that intervall of time , I shall re-infuse into them the faculty both of Reson and Ratiocination , whereby you may confer and discourse freely with them by interlocutions ; Nor only so , but for a further argument of the great esteem I have of you Prince Pererius , and for the heightning of your welcom to my Court , as also that you may make som reall returns of your voyage hither , if you can induce and fairly perswade any of them to reassume the shapes of Human cretures , and to be invested again in their former condition , I shall give my free and full assent thereunto ; nay , to oblige you yet further , I shall give way that you take them a shipboard with you , and transport them to their own Country , or whither you please besides ; Provided that it be a spontaneous act , and that you have their voluntary election to this effect ; for the universal Law tells us , that Volenti non fit injuria , An unforc'd will cannot be wronged . Pererius . Most admired Princess , you engage me beyond all measure or meanes of retaliation , beyond all degrees of gratitude , and me-thinks by these high civilities you have wrought a sudden kind of transformation in me , for I find my self all transformed to admiration , to a thing of wonder , by these unparallel'd favours . All that I can say for the present is , that , what air soever I breath ; under what climat soever blessed Heavens shall shed their influences upon me , I shall blazon forth your nobleness for such transcendent favors all the world over . Morphandra . We use not such Complements under this Meridian , such a distance doth not use to be 'twixt the Heart and the Tongue ; they are neerer Relatives here . But , before you go to exchange words with these Animals , take this Advertisement before-hand , that ther are no wild or ferocious devouring cretures within the Circumference of this Ile ; they live all in a gentle and general community , in an innocuous freedom , and sociableness : The Panther , Bear , and Tyger , put off their belluine fierce nature here ; the Lamb will play with the Lion without any apprehensions of fear ; the Hart fears not the Hound , nor the Hare the Greyhound , nor the Bore the Lime-hound ; the silly Sheep fear not the Wolf or the Butcher's knife ; nor Fish nor Fowl fear here the Dragnet or Tramell : but all Animals , both of Air , Earth , and Water , live in an innocent security ; the reason being , that we neither kill , much lesse feed upon any Creture here that hath blood , and a sensitive life , but upon fruits , pulse , roots , rice , with other nourishing and manducable things , that come forth gently , by the general benignity of indulgent Nature , from the bowels of our common Mother the Earth ; And though we make Butter sometimes our aliment , we abhorre Cheese , because the cawle of a sensitive kill'd creture serv'd for the Rennet . Pererius . Oh blissful Region ! Truly Madam , I am of opinion , that this Iland is a part , or some promontory of Paradise it self before Adam's fall , which , being slented off , and so got loose , was transported and fixed here ; at least , there are some grains of that mettal which went to the composition of the Golden Age of the world still remaining here unconsumed . Morphandra . Well , that I may acquit my self of the promise I made unto you , Prince Pererius , let us fetch a walk in those flowry fields towards the banks of that River , to take in the freshness of the air , with the fragancy of those Vegetals : And now , in a favourable conjuncture of time , I spy a metamorphosed Creture among those seggs , fit for your purpose ; It is an Otter , whom I remember to have transmuted from a Mariner or Seaman , for his deboshments here ; and I observe , ther are no people so given to excesses as Seamen when they come ashore ; which yet may be somwhat excused , for it is to recompence the hardships they endured at Sea : Nor was it an improper change for me to metamorphos the Hydraulian Mariner to that shape ; for as the Otter is a kind of Amphibious creture , living partly by water , and partly by land , so a Mariner , Navigator , or Fisherman , useth to do : but there was another reson which induced me to this transmutation , for it related to the quality of the Countrey whence he sprung , which is so inlayed , and every where so intercutt , and indented with the Sea , or fresh navigable Rivers , that one cannot tell what to call it , either water or land ; besides , the Inhabitants dwell so low , that they lye lower than the Sea in some places . And now you may make your approaches , and parly with him accordingly , while I walk up the River to visit my Nymphs . Pererius . Otter , Otter ! I conjure thee , as thou wast once a Man , let me interchange som words with thee , and I may chance bring thee som news from thy Countrey , and Kinred . Otter . How is this ? I not only hear , but I understand the voice of a Man , oimee ! I am afraid that Morphandra hath a purpose to re-transform me , and make me put on human shape again : Well , Sir , What 's your will with me ? Pererius . Let it not give any offence , if I desire to know What Countreyman you were , when you were a Rational Creture ? Otter . I came first into the World in Hydraulia , not farr from Amstena , and was a Mariner by my Profession . Pererius . Well , the most gracious Queen Morphandra hath been pleased to promise me the favor , as to turn you into Man again , if you have a mind to it ; and , from that groveling quadrupedal shape , to make you an erect , and a rational Creture once again . Otter . Sir , you bid me to my losse , for I live farr more to my contentment in this species , wherein my heart and eyes are horizontal , than when I was in an upright shape . Pererius . Consult better with your thoughts , for Morphandra hath not only promised to re-convert you to Man , but also she hath given me leave and liberty to carry you aboard of me , and transport you to your Countrey again ; And I have a tite lusty Vessel in the Road , wherein you shall be accommodated with a Cabbin to your contentment , and all things necessary . Otter . These civilities might haply deserve thanks from an other , but not from me , in regard you proffer to reduce me from better to worse ; for if Experience be the touchstone of Truth , I find farr more quietude and contentation in this figure of body , than I did formerly ; therefore with this shape , I have put on also a resolution never to turn Man or Mariner again . Pererius . I extremely wonder at this blindness , and unnatural obstinacy of yours : but now that Queen Morphandra hath , during this time of discours betwixt us , re-indowed you with the faculty of Reson and speech , I pray impart unto me the cause of your strange aversion thus , to become Man again . Otter . Truly , Sir , though Man doth vaunt , and cry up himself , to be the Epitome and Lord Paramount among all sublunary Cretures , though he vainly entitle himself , the Microcosm , yet I hold him to be the most miserable of all others ; Go to his prime faculty , Reson , which , as he saith , is the specifical difference that distinguisheth him from us , I have found , that it fills his brain full of distraction , of extravagant opinions , and whimseys , of pining griefs , panting doubts , and pannick fears , of violent fancies and imaginations , which oftentimes turn to phrensies ; it tortures him with vexation and inquietude of spirit , insomuch , that som of the profoundest Philosophers , as I have heard , affirmed , that the Rational Soul was given to Man for his Self-punishment and Martyrdom ; he may be said to be his own Tormentor , and the greatest Tyrant to himself ; nay , these cruciatory passions do operat somtimes with such a violence , that they drive him to despair , and oftentimes to murther and destroy himself , before Nature hath exspird her due cours in him , all which , we , that are guided only by sense , are not subject unto ; We only look upon the present object before our eyes , and take no other care but for shelter , and food , and to please our appetit only . Pererius . 'T is true , that all these turbulences , and perplexities of spirit proceed from the Rational faculty ; but , in compensation thereof , we have by this Faculty the prerogative to know our Creator , to contemplat his works , and the fair fabrique of the World ; by this , we have a dominion and Empire over all other Elementary Cretures , both of Air , Earth , and Water ; by the reach of this , Man with his crampons and harping-irons can draw ashore the great Leviathan ; He can make the Dromedary and Camel to kneel down , and take up his burden ; He can make the fierce Bull to endure his yoke ; He can bring down the Vulture from his nest ; by this he can ride upon the back of the vast Ocean , and with his winged Coursers ride post from one Pole to the other , as you know well by your own Profession , when you were Man and Mariner . Otter . Yet these advantages com short , in my judgment , to countervail those calamities that are incident to the Rational Creture , which makes him come puling , crying , & sometimes weeping into the world , as foreteling his future miseries . But now that I have partly displayed the discomposures and vexations of his mind , I will give a touch of those infirmities that his Body is subject unto , which is no other than a Magazin of malignant humors ; a hull , wherein is stow'd a cargazon of numberless diseases , of putrid and ugly corruptions , insomuch that , as , in his life time , whiles he sleeps in the bosom of his causes within the Womb , ther 's no Creture lies neerer the excrementitious parts , so ther is none whose excrements are more faetid , and stinking ; the fewmets of a Deer , the lesses of a Fox , the crotells of a Hare , the dung of a Horse , and the spraints that I use to void backward , are nothing so foetid ; which may be the cause why , after Man's death , ther 's no carcase so gastly and noisom as his , so that Toads and Serpents engender often in his scull ; nor is his cadaver good for any thing when life is gone . 'T is tru , Mummy may be made of it , but it must be don by embalment , and great expence of Spices . But many things in our carcases after death , serve for divers uses , as particularly in mine ; my Liver , reduced to powder , is good against the Flix and Cholic ; my Stones or testicles against the Palsie ; and my Skin is of such value , that the fairest Ladies will be glad to wear it , &c. Pererius . 'T is a great truth what you speak of Human bodies , but all this comes accidentally ; it proceeds from variety of viands , esculents , and beverages , not from the primitive plastick vertu , and ordinance of nature : Moreover , that which makes them so subject to putrefaction , is , because they abound in heat and humidity more than other bodies , which oftentimes makes som parts of the Compositum rott , before life and motion leaves them . But let not these thoughts avert you from a return to your first Beeing , whereby , when this transitory life is ended , you may be made capable to live in the Land of Eternity ; whereas all brute Animals , whose Souls soar no higher than the sense , are born to have a being only in this World : Therefore take on a manly resolution to be redintegrated into your first Principles , & so return to your own Country , and Kinred , to go on still in your Calling , which is a useful and thriving Profession , in the practise whereof you may see the Wonders of the Deep , and therby have oportunity more often to invoke your Creator , than in any other Trade . Otter . I cannot deny , but the common saying is , that He who cannot pray , must go to Church at Sea ; yet I have often known , and I have tryed it in my self , that a Mariner in a storm is a Saint , but when the storm is over he is a Mariner again ; witness He , who in a dangerous tempest made a Vow to offer a Wax-taper as big as his Main-mast unto Saint Nicolas , if he would preserve him from shipwrack ; but being com safe ashore , a Rush-candle did serve the turn ; so that , nautical piety is of no longer duration than the danger . Pererius . Without question , to be a Mariner or Navigator , as it is a necessary and noble Vocation , so it affords more frequent opportunities to improve a Man's devotion to Heven , if one makes right use of it ; which cannot be don more properly , than by comparing the frail Vessel wherein he sayls to his own Body ; If he contemplat , within the theater of his thoughts , that the Sea whereon he tumbles , is the World ; waves and surges are his passions ; anger , choler , and discontentments , are the storms and tempests ; his body is the bulk or hull of the ship , his neck is the stemm , the keel is his back , the planks are his ribs , the beams his bones , the pintel and gudgeons are his gristles and cartilages , the several seams of the ship are his arteries , veins , and nerfs , his bowels are the ballast , his heart the principal hold , his stomack the cook-room , his teeth the chopping-knives , his lungs the bellows , concoction is the cauldron , hunger the sauce , his belly the lower deck , his kidneys the close cabbins or receptacles , his arms and hands the can-hooks , his midriff the bulk-head , his scull the steerage-room with the round-house , his ears are the two chief scuttles , his eyes are the pharols , the stowage is his mouth , his lips are the hatches , his nostrils serve as gratings to let in air , the beak-head is his chin , his face and forehead the upper deck , Reson is the rudder , the anchor is resolution , constancy the capstane , prudence the pilot , the prow-misen and main-masts , are faith , hope , and charity , which last , reacheth above the Firmament : The owner of the ship is God Almighty , and Heven the haven to which he steers his course , &c. Therefore recollect your self , and think seriously upon it ; shake off this brutish shape , and repair to the bosom of your own dear Countrey , and Calling . Otter . Truly , Sir , to deal freely with you , I am quite out of conceit with , both : Touching the first ; for me to remove hence thither , were to go from a fair flowry field into a great bogg , or a kind of quagmire , for such a thing my Countrey may be called , if you have regard to the quality of the soil , in comparison of This : It is , for the most part , a foggy cobwebb'd air ; so canopied over , as it were , with thick fuliginous clowds , as if it were but one great Brew-house ; they fence out both the Aquatical Creatures from their right habitations , and the true Prince of the Countrey from his hereditary possessions ; insomuch , that some do not stick to call them double Usurpers : It is one of the most infimous and lowest part of the terrestrial Globe ; which made one say , that they were the neerest confederats and neighbors to Beelzebub . And this may be inferred also out of their natures and disposition : for openly or covertly , they have blown the bellows of all the Warrs ( now Warr is a fire , struck always in the Devil's tinder-box ) that have happen'd round about them , ever since their Revolt from Tumontia , and since they invol'd Artonia , & Gheriòna in their quarrell , who first rais'd them to a Free-State ; though I believe they have repented of it since . Add hereunto that som do doubt , Whether God and Nature did ever design that lump of coagulated Earth for the Mansion of Mankind ; for of it self it produceth neither Bread to eat , nor Stone to build , nor Wool or Silk to cloath him , nor Wood or Cole , or other combustible stuff , for fuel ; but the Inhabitants use to fish for Fire in the Water , for ( fresh ) Water in the Air , and for Air out of Foggs ; insomuch , that if ever any Countrey may be call'd a Noun Adjective , surely 't is that , for it cannot stand by it self . I remember , while I woar the shape of Man in that dull Clime , me-thought my blood was like so much Bonny-clabber within my Body , which I find now to be more quick , spriteful , and hot ; though my bloud in statu quo nunc be observed , I confess , to be the coldest of any Quadrupedals . Moreover , I found that Mammon and Gain was their chiefest God , and Gold their greatest Idol : but for the public Religion which they profess , they have it but in a luke-warm degree ; ther 's scarce any heat of holiness , and devotion among most of them . Pererius . I find now that you are of a tru Brutish Nature , so to beray your own Nest , and bespatter the native Soyl wherein you first received life . 'T is true , ther 's no Nation that hath not their peculiar humors ; but touching those you speak of in your Countreymen , they have many signal Vertues that make a compensation for them ; for they are one of the most industrious race of People upon Earth ; so that the whole Countrey may be compar'd to a Hive of Bees , or Bank of provident Ants : They are the only Men that do Miracles now adayes ; they are those , who put boundaries to the raging Ocean , and by rare repercussions beat back his turgid and overwhelming billows , yet they reserve a power to command him in , at pleasure ; they are those Men , who know the true Mysteries of Commerce , and how to regular it so , as to bring Trade and Policy to a Science , and certain Principles . How much are they to be commended for their neatness ? Go to their Ships , they may be said to be as cleanly as a milking-pail ; in their Kitchins , the outside of their Utensils are as bright as the inside ; ther 's never a room in their house , where so much dust may be found as to draw the name of Slutt upon it : There is no Countrey where there are fewer sorts of indigent and poor people , or where they who are poor are better lodg'd , and provided for . 'T is true , they are somwhat heavy in motion , and dullish , which must be imputed to the quality of the Clime ; but this dulness is recompenc'd with a grave advisedness , and circumspection in their Counsels ; with a constancy , and perseverance afterwards , in their Actions . In fine , they are a peeple who truly understand their own Interest , which may be said to be the prime Principle of Wisdom , whereby they have fought themselves , from a company of Fishermen , into a High and Mighty Common-wealth . Otter . Truly , Sir , 't is pitty that you had not a better subject to spend your Oratory upon . Now , Sir , concerning my former Profession , let me tell you , that to be a Mariner , or Tarpaling , is one of the most servile and slavish condition of life that can be , it is the most expos'd to hardship and hazard ; He was no fool , who made a question , Whether he should number a Seaman 'twixt the Living or the Dead , being not much above two inches distant from death , viz. the thickness of a rotten plank : It may be also doubted , Whether he be a Free-man , or Prisoner , being so coop'd up within so narrow a compass all the while . Touching the hardship and toylsomness of this trade , let me tell you , that to plow , dig , delve , or thresh , are but exercises of ease , compar'd to our labor in distress of wether : How many times , when I went a fishing , did I carry isicles of frost at my nose , and fingers-ends ? How oft did I eat Bisket , so mouldy , that danc'd up and down with ugly Maggots ? How oft did I stop my nostrils while I drunk stinking Beverage ? How oft did the stench of the Pump strike me into a swoon ? But I thank the Fates , and Queen Morphandra , I am now in a condition that I need not fear hunger or cold , I have a good warm Coat about me , that will last me all my life long , without patching or mending ; which kind of fences against the injuries of Time , and tyranny of the Meteors , indulgent Nature provides for us sensitive Creatures , before we com into the World : whence may be inferr'd , that She takes more care for Our preservation than she doth of Mankinds ; Beasts , have skins , Fish have scales , Birds have feathers , but Man comes naked and wawling into the World , and cloaths himself afterwards with our spoils : Nor hath he any habitation or ready food , provided him by Nature ; whereas other Animals find the Table layed , and the Buttry open for them as soon as they are born , and come out of the bosom of their Causes ; whence it may be concluded , that they are the nobler Cretures . Pererius . It is given for granted , that Man comes naked into the World , yet he hath the mastery and command , he hath the breaking , daunting , and disposing of all other Cretures for his own turn , both in Air , Earth , & Water , to cloath and feed him , according to his free election and plesure ; for all other elementary Cretures are made for his use , and principally to that end . Now 't is a true Maxim , that the end is more noble than the mediums that serve for that end , therefore in that point ther can no comparison be made between us . Otter . It is an experimental Truth , that You make use of other Cretures to array and nourish you , but much labor and toyl must be used , before you can bring them to serve your turn ; What a deal of work must precede , ere the Tanner and Furrier can make our Skins fit for your wear ? What huge varieties of labors must go before , ere Wheat come to be made Bread , and Barly Drink ? Ther must be ploughing , harrowing , sowing , weeding , reaping , sheafing , stacking , barning , threshing , winnowing , sacking , grinding , bolting , fermenting , and baking , before you can get a bit of Bread to keep you from starving : What a deal of stirr must be us'd , before you can get a Shirt on your back , or a handkercher to wipe your noses withall ? There must be planting , cutting down , hundling , watring , rippling , braking , wingling , and heckling of Hemp ; which laberinth of labors and fatigues , we sentiant Cretures are free from . Pererius . It is without controversie tru , that Man is born to sundry sorts of labors , but it is principally to exercise his spirits , and the faculties of the intellect , and so preserve him from the rust of idleness , which makes the greatest Princes and Potentates among men to have som manual Trade , wherewith to passe away som part of their time . But , Otter , let us word away time no longer ; let me know positively , whether you will make use of this singular favor , now offered you by Morphandra , with my proposal , and advice , to reassume your former nature , wherein you may so serve & praise your Creator , that may make you capable of Eternity . In your whole life you cannot meet with so fair an opportunity ; for I have a Ship to transport you , and you shall be well cloth'd , and cover'd , with accomodation of all things els accordingly ; therefore take Time by the Foretop , for he is bald behind , and you cannot take hold of him . Otter . You may as soon wash white a Negro , or blanch an Ethiop , as soon as make me turn Man or Mariner again ; therefore you do but beat the Air all this while by your perswasions ; and whereas you speak of Eternity , it may be an Eternity of torments as well as of bliss , I 'le none of that . But one of the greatest Peeple among Mankind , I mean the Selenians , or half-Moon-men , as also the Banians , do believe , that we also sensitive Cretures have a better World provided for us , after we have run out our cours here ; for we likewise have Souls in us , and certain expressions that countervail Speech , which is only understood by the Great God of Nature himself , whom we do not use to offend by any transgression of Laws , as you do . But I feel the Sun dart his rays somwhat quick , therfore I will go to refresh and solace my self in the gentle strems of that River . 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . The Second Section : Containing an Interlocutory Discourse 'twixt Morphandra , Pererius , and an Asse , who had bin once an Artorian Peasan ; wherin ther are some glances upon the Country it self , and upon the present Government thereof . But though Prince Pererius us'd all the perswasions he could , and re-inforc'd Argument upon Argument , to induce him to re-assume Human shape , and so return to his Country , Kindred , and Calling : Yet the Asse utterly refus'd it , and his reasons why , &c. Morphandra , Pererius , and an Asse . Pererius . INcomparable Lady , you have dilated my heart with a great deal of contentment , by admitting me to the sight of that transmuted Animal I spoke withall last , and that you made him capable all the while to entertain discours with me pro & con , in so admirable a manner . Morphandra . I have my share of that contentment you speke of : But what successe have you had in your design , of working upon his inclinations to becom Man again , and so return to his Country and Calling ? Pererius . Madame , I have had conference with him of both , but he seems to undervalue , or rather abhorr the one , as much as the other , preferring the Species , and present state he lives in under your Dominion , to the state and former essence of a Man. Yet I am confident , that if you please to extend your favor further towards me , that I may mingle discours with som other , and put him in a capacity to hear , understand , and answer me , I am confident , I say , that I shall prevail with him , to be re-invested in his first Beeing . Morphandra . I espie upon the flank of that hillock an Asse , whom I remember to have transmuted from an Artonian Peasan to that figure you see him in , whom I will re-indue with Reson and Ratiocination to hearken unto your perswasions accordingly : And if you can prevail with him , he shall put on his first Nature again ; But as the power comes from me , so the will must proceed from himself to work this effect . Pererius . Madame , you will perform hereby the part of an Angel , for I never heard of any Asse that ever spoke ( unlesse it were in Fables ) but of one , and that was at the appearance of an Angel , which was by way of tru Miracle . Morphandra . Yet I have been told , that one of your greatest Philosophers Ammonius Alexandrinus , whose Disciple Origen was , hath it upon record , That an Asse was once an Auditor of Wisdom . But touching that Asse you mentioned before , I hear , the Lawyers of your Country have somthing of his nature in them , for they will not speak unlesse Angels appear unto them . Pererius . 'T is a great truth , Madam , for our Lawyers toungs are said to be of an humor , contrary to the Axle-tree of a new Cart , in regard we use to annoint that , because it may keep no creaking or noise , but the Lawyers toungs must be annointed , and oil'd with an Unguentum Rubrum , that they may make more noise , and to have their tongues more glibb . Morphandra . The more is the foolishnesse of men discover'd in this point , who somtimes out of a pride , malice , or envy , somtimes out of a meer litigious humour , use to exhaust their estates , and impoverish themselfs , to enrich others by this means ; As I remember to have heard a facetious passage of a wealthy Lawyer , who having built a fair Palace of Free-stone , with Marble intermix'd , and having invited a knowing friend of his to take a view of the new house , and observe the symmetry , proportion , & conveniencies of the fabric , He asked his friend at last , what he thought that House was built of ? He answered , I see 't is built of good Free-stone and Marble , The Lawyer replied , No , Sir , 't is a deceptio visûs in you , for this house is made of Asses heads and Fools sculls , meaning the multitude of Clients he had had . To such the proverb may sometimes be applied , that as the Asse oftentimes carries gold on his back , yet feeds on thistles , so many poor Clients carry gold in their pockets to feed their Lawyers , yet they fare hard themselfs , and are ready to famish . But to leave off these impertinences , you may please to go on in the pursute of your enterprise , to try whether yonder long-ear'd metamorphos'd Animal will bring your intent home to your aim , and turn Man. Pererius . I most humbly kisse your hands , and will towards him . Poor stupid creture , how camest thou to be so unhappily transform'd , or deform'd rather , by assumption of this shape ? For I understand by Queen Morphandra , that thou wa'st once a Man. How much do I pitty thy condition , compar'd to that which thou wa'st formerly of . Asse . Sir , you may reserve your pitty for others , in regard I need it not ; for I thank the Fates , and Queen Morphandra , I enjoy my self , and the common benefits of nature , viz. Air , Earth , and Water , which are the staple commodities of all sublunary cretures , I say , I enjoy all these more than ever I did , Fenell excepted , which is my onely enemy . 'T is tru , I was once a Man , an Artonian born , my profession was both a Vineyard-man , and a Roturer , a poor Peasan I was , who for all my labour and toil , could hardly gain what could bear up the two columns of life in me , viz. the Radicall moysture and Naturall heat , much lesse to maintain my wife and family in any vigor . Pererius . How could that be in so rich and plentifull a country as Artonia is known to be ? where , according to her name , Ceres is said to have her chief Granary , and Bacchus his prime Cellars ; where Neptune hath also his principle Salt-pits , and whence Venus commonly useth to fetch her smocks ? Asse . 'T is granted , that Artonia in fecundity and self-sufficiency , yields to no other Region under the Sun , which makes some call her a Noun substantive , that can stand by it self ; yet it may well be said , that ther 's is no Country under the cope of Heaven , where there 's lesse want , and more beggars , or more people , and fewer men ; The reson of the first , to my grief I speak it , is , that the common stock and wealth of the Country is by Mal-administration so unequally proportion'd , and distributed among the Native Inhabitants thereof ; for the Court and the Clergy suck the greatest part of the fat , whence grew the Proverb , What the Cheque takes not , the Church takes . I speak not this , because I repine at any acts of piety towards the holy and decent worship of God Almighty , and Legacies left by sweet devoted souls . Touching the first , 't is too well known , that the very Tallies , besides the Demeans of the Crown , and the Customs , amount communibus annis to near upon twenty millions of Crowns , wherof 't is tru , that about four millions were remitted in the year 1648. Then the Gabell of Salt amounts to about seven millions every year , which is look'd unto so narrowly , that a poor Peasan cannot carry a pocket or purse-full of salt home to his poor wife , but he must be searched . Then ther are the Taillons , Aydes , Droits , with divers other Impositions and Taxes , which though at first they were pretended to be impos'd for the present necessity of the times , yet Soveraign Princes are known to have the gift of making Temporary things Eternall in this kind ; Neverthelesse , if this immense tresure went to the King's tresure alone , for the common defence and honour of the State , it would not so much trouble them that pay it ; but three parts of four are drunk up among hungry Officers , whence grew the proverb , that the King's cheese goes away three parts in parings . Touching the second , by a late computation that was made , the Clergy hath in annuall Revenue a hundred and six millions of Crowns , and no wonder , ther being in that Country , besides Cardinals , and fifteen Archbishops , a hundred and fifty Suffragan Bishops , and I know not how many fat Abbots , with other Dignitaries , Monks , and Monasteries without number . Then comes in the Noblesse , or Gentry , which have all the rest ; Insomuch that betwixt these three , the poor Commoner , who yet makes up the bulk of the Nation , useth to be grinded as betwixt so many milstones , whence grew this saying , that the Artonian Peasans are born with Chains : Yet they are the supporters of all the other three , and whence they have their subsistence ; Insomuch that Artonia may be compar'd to a stately Palace , born up by mud-pillars ; While the poor toyling peasan melts the hoar frost with the sweat that trickles down his cheeks , others by good fire-sides drink carowses in the wine which he plants , while he with his panting breath and anhelation thickens the air befor him , others with Carrolls and wanton musicall Catches do attenuat it . Concerning the second point I spoke of , viz. That no Country hath more peeple and fewer men then Artonia , 't is a truth too well known ; and the reson is , that the oppressed Commons do so languish and groan under the insupportable burdens of the foresaid Exactions , and heavy Rents besides to their Landlords , that they use to grow so dejected , pusillanimous , and heartless , their spirits come to be so cowed and cowardiz'd , that not one in twenty hath the courage of a man in him , or is found fit to shoulder a Musket , to trail a Pike , or perform any other military or manly service . Pererius . 'T is an apparent truth , that the Artonian Gentry are so numerous , and use to rack the Peasantry so , that it makes them very abject and heartlesse ; for herein the Politicall body may be faid to be like the Naturall ; wherein if the blood and spirits were drawn all up into the upper parts , the supporting members below , as the legs and thighs , cannot have that proportion of naturall heat and vigor to quicken themselfs , the blood being all engross'd by the parts above . If the Standells be planted too thick in a Coppice , ther cannot be clean Underwoods , for they will turn all to dwarfish Shrubs . But the common peeple of Artonia may thank their own volatil humors and nature for this , which is so instable , and still so covetous of change , that if they were fed high , and pamper'd with too much plenty , they wold ever and anon rush into civill commotions and tintamarrs , they wold winch , and go about to shake off the reins of Government , and overthrow their Rider ; Therfore being so fiery-mouth'd , 't is fit they should be ridden with a bitt or curb , nor can it be tearm'd Tyranny , or any Soloecism in Government , that they are us'd so . Asse . Sir , under favour you put the saddle on the wrong horse 't is not the Commonalty , but the Gentry , and they who are in high blood , that have such tumultuous boyling spirits within them , they are those who cause feavers and convulsions in the bowells of their own Country , which I confesse are frequent , whence som observe , that though the air of Artonia be not so hot as that of her next neighbour Tumontia , yet she is more subject to distempers , Calentures , and Tovardillios ; Therefore 't is one of the prime policies of Artonia to find her Gentry some work abroad , and employ them ever and anon in forraign Warrs ; And ther have been of late two fiery Flamines , one after the other , who have put this policy in practise to some purpose , their sanguin humors symbolizing with the colour of their habit , wherby nere upon a million of souls have perished within these few years . Touching the second of these , his father little dreamt when he sold hatts in Silicia , that his son should mount so high as to wear the Red-corner'd Cap , and give the Law to all Artonia ; wherby some hold it to be no small disparagement to so gallant a Nation , and subtle a Clime as Artonia is known to be , to have none of her own children that had brain enough to sit at the helm of her Government , but to suffer a Forrener to lead all her Nobles by the nose , as also to incorporat his family with the Blood-Royall of Artonia and Alpiana . Pererius . Well , let us leave these digressions , for as the proverb runs in your country , We have leapt from the Cock to the Asse all this while , we have gone astray from the matter , let 's return to the first subject of our discours , and to my main design ; Poor long-ear'd patient beast , wilt thou shake off this thy il-favoured braying nature , and the species of a brute , to becom perfect Man again ? Asse . Sir , though I were acertain'd to be one of Artonia's Peers , I wold not do it ; But , Sir , touching my Ears , you need not take me by them in so reproachfull a manner : for you know a Phrygian King did wear once an Asse his ears , and he was the richest that ever was among Mortalls ; Besides , my Ears have a prophetic vertu , for when I prick them up , 't is an infallible presage of foul wether ; Touching my braying , it is the tone which Nature hath given me , and all the Individualls of my kind , and you must grant , that Nature the handmaid of God Almighty doth not use to do any thing ill-favouredly ; But in lieu of our braying you have a passion , and as I remember your Philosophers call it the proper passion of man , that is a far more distorting and ridiculous violent posture , 't is your Laughter , which happens when your pleasure hath the liberty to scatter it self abroad , and that the senses bear a share therin , for then it causeth such an agitation , that the whole physiognomy of the face is changed , it begins to sparkle in the eyes , and mingleth it self oft-times with forc'd tears , the fore-head stretcheth it self , the lips grow redd , they tremble and slaver often-times , the voice becomes grosser then ordinary , and resounds , the rest of the body is subject to this agitation , an unusuall heat and vapor shedds it self through all its parts , which swells , and gives a new color , the eye-brows decline , the lidds contract themselves , and all the skin about them becomes uneven , and wrinkles it self all over , the eyes extenuat , they half shut themselfs , and grow humid , the nose crumples up , and growes sharp , the lipps retire and lengthen , ther is an ill-favor'd kind of gaping , and discovery of the teeth , the cheeks lift up themselfs and grow more stiff , they have pitts digg'd in them during the time , the mouth is forc'd to open , and discovers the tremblings of the suspended toung , it thrusts out an obstreperous interrupted sound , and oftentimes ther is a stopping of breath , the neck swells and shortens it self , all the veins grow greter , and extended , an extraordinary hue disperseth it self over all the face , which grows reddish , the brest is impetuously agitated , and with sudden reiterated shakes , that it hinders respiration , the perfect use of speech is lost , and it is impossible to swallow during the fit , a pain rises in the flanck , the whole body bends , and as it were wreaths and gathers it self together , the hands are set on the sides , and presse them forcibly , sweat gets up on the face , the voice is lost in hickocks , and the breath is stifled with sighs ; somtimes this agitation gets to so high an excesse , that it produceth the same violent effect as medicaments use to do , which is to put the bones so out of joynt that it causeth syncopes ; The head and the arms suffer the same throws , with the brest and the thighs , the body hurles it self with precipitation and disorder , and is cast from one side to the other ; The hands becom feeble , the leggs cannot support themselves , and the body is constrained to fall , and tumble , nay it causeth sometimes dangerous syncopes in the heart , and so brings death . Weeping also the counter-passion hath many of these ill-favor'd motions , what an odd kind of face doth an infant make assoon as he is born ? how som of ripe age will screech , cry and howle in so many disordered notes , and singultient accents ? Whereas we by our braying hold up our heads only , and so breath out our passions into the open aire , without any forc'd tones , or such variety of distorted postures . Pererius . 'T is tru , that Laughter produceth sundry motions and pleasing violences in the human body , but they are recompenced by the joy that accompanieth it , which useth to rowse and raise up our slumbring spirits , and melancholly thoughts with an unusuall mirth and complaceny , whence it comes , that after those two , Doctor Diet , and Doctor Quiet , Doctor Merriman is requisit to preserve health ; Touching the other passion Sorrow , and the various emissions of it , it is an ease also to the spirits , which without such ventings would be subject to strangulations ; But , poor Asse , do not let slip this fair opportunity which gracious Queen Morphandra offers thee , by my intervention , to be redintegrated and made a Rational creture again . Asse . I told you before but of the outward servitude and exigents that I endured when I was a Man , which were incident onely to the body : I have not spoken to you any thing of the perturbations of the brain , and the inward agonies of the mind , which did trouble and torment me much more ; How was I perpetually vex'd not onely to pay the common Taxes , and other pecuniary erogations , with my domineering Landlords Rents , but to find daily bread , sustenance , and cloathing for my wife and children ; Now children is one of the greatest encumbrances that belong to mankind ; for as the proverb goes , Children are a certain care , and an incertain comfort ; But they of my species at present are exempt from this , and a thousand inconveniencies more which are entayl'd upon mankind : 'T is tru , touching our off-springs while they are young , and unable to do for themselfs , we are indulgent of them , and that for a short time , but afterwards we lose all care of them , being able to shift for themselfs . Pererius . Yes , and with your care you lose all affections unto them besides , but such is the noblenesse of Man's nature , that both continu in him during life unto the third and fourth generation ; Therefore without further ado , think upon thy first Beeing , and to be restored thereunto : Otherwise thou wilt be more foolish than that poor baffled Asse in the Fable , who when a Horse came unto him , and out of wantonnes had desired him to lift up his left hinder leg , and take out a stone that had got into his foot , as soon as he had lifted up the legge , the Horse fell a kicking him ill-favourelly on the face , and almost dasht out his brains ; Or thou wilt be as foolish as the Asse , who seeing a Spaniell sawn upon his Master , and getting into his lap , where he was stroked , the Asse thought to do so too , but instead of being stroked , he was struck and bastinadoed away for his sawcinesse , which shews that an Asse is a more contemptible thing than a Dogge . Asse . As contemptible as we are , there are two of us who have a bright place in Heaven , as the Constellation of Cancer will shew you ; As contemptible as we are , some of your gretest Philosophers have held grave disputes of our very shadow , and Apuleius's golden Asse makes him famous to eternity ; As contemptible as we are , the strongest man that ever was , made use of the jaw-bone of one of us to destroy thousands of his enemies ; The great Empresse Poppaea us'd our milk to make her skin the whiter , and you know what a Soveraign thing that milk is against Consumptions , and Dysenteries ; nay our very Urine is found to be good against Tilers or Morphews in Ladies faces ; Lastly , you know who made his entry into Ierusalem upon one of Us , for which we carry the Crosse upon our sholders as the badg of a blessing to this day , which made a zealous Tumontian break out into these lines upon the sight of that History of Palm-sunday , neer a Church dore . Asno quien a Dios lleuays Oxala yo fuera vos , Supplico os Dios me hagays Como el Asno en que vays , y dizen que le oyò Dios. O happy Asse who God do'st bear , Such as Thou art , O wold I were . 'T is said the man did pray so hard That prayer and person both were heard . Pererius . Poor besotted beast , yet thou knowest ther can be no comparison 'twixt the best of Brutes and the basest of human cretures , who by the faculty of Reson can tame and reduce to his subjection the strongest of other Animals , though never so fierce and corpulent , and make them know that He is their Lord and Master . Asse . Whereas you speak of fiercenesse , truly Sir I think ther 's no Animal so fierce and ferocious , so savage and intractable as Man : for whereas all other cretures can be rul'd , daunted , and broken , easily govern'd in time , the Art of governing Men is the most difficult of any , because of their various fancies and imaginations , their crosse-grain'd humors and pride , all which proceeds from the faculty of Reson you speak of ; Therefore I was very glad to be rid of it by this transfiguration , and the time seems tedious unto me that I have the use of it now so long to parly with you , for I remember when I was a Man , it fill'd the cells of my brain ever and anon with turbid and turbulent cogitations , with strange chimera's and crochets , which disquieted the tranquillity and calm of my mind ; And as for my Body , this shape which I now bear is more healthfull farr and neat , for now I am not subject to breed Lice and other Vermin ; And whereas this pedicular disease , with a nomberlesse sort of other maladies and distempers , attend Mankind , ther 's but one onely disease that our Species is subject unto , which the Veterenarians or Farriers call Malila , and that is onely in the head , when som unusuall defluxion of rheume falls thence into the nostrills , which being stopp'd turns to the improvement of health , but if once it falls upon the lungs we are gone : And observable it is , that being dead , we have cleaner carcases than Men , and divers medicinall things are found in them , as our Liver , Hoofs , or Bones being reduc'd to powder are good , as the Naturalists note , against the Epilepsy or Comitiall sicknesse , with other diseases ; Nor do any crawling nasty worms grow out of our Cadavers , but Beetles , and other airy Insects , which are not so noisome ; But I have spent too much time with you , I will therefore go now to browze upon the green leafs of that Bramble . Pererius . Well , I find here two Proverbs verified , the one is a homely one , viz. Chanter a un Asne , il vous donnera un pet , Sing to an Asse and he will give you a Bum-crack The other , that one may bring an Asse to the water , but not make him drink unlesse he list himself . Asse . 'T is very tru , I remember well they are proverbs us'd in our Country , but the last shews much the temperance of our Species , for we do not eat or drink but when we are a thirst or hungry , for the restauration of the parts that are lost , that is when nature requires it ; But you use to gourmandize it upon full stomacks , to force carowses and Whole-ones untill you be full up to the very throat , and so transform your selves to worse then Asses , so that oft-times neither hand nor foot can do their duty : which we never do . Pererius to himself . It is a strange and strong incantation that holds this poor Animal in this brutality , I will by the favor of Morphandra try a conclusion next upon som other of a quicker apprehension , and one who had liv'd in a more plentifull and contented train of life whiles he was Man. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . The Third Section . Consisting of a Dialog 'twixt Morphandra , Pererius , and an Ape , who had been once a Preachman in Gheriona , who having been carried away with every wind of Doctrine , and following any fanatic new-fangl'd opinion , was transmuted to that mimicall shape ; In which Dialog ther is an account given of the sad case and confusion , wherein Gheriona is involv'd at present , &c. Morphandra , Pererius , an Ape . Morphandra . I Saw you somwhat earnest in banding arguments with that Asse , but how have you sped ? doth he desire to be disasinated , and becom Man again , as I promised he should be , provided his will concurred therunto ? Pererius . Truly , Madame , I find the old proverb tru , that he who washeth an Asse's head doth lose both time and sope ; But , these two Animalls I have treated withall , liv'd in a poor ignorant condition when they were Men : I humbly desire I may mingle speeches with some transmuted Animals , who when they were Rationall cretures did live in plenty , and at ease , and who were bred up in knowledg . Morphandra . You shall have your desire , and in that Grove I spie an Ape , who was once a prick-ear'd Preachman in Gheriôna , whom for his mimicall foolish humour , and following any new fond fatuous opinion , I thought it proper to transmute to that shape ; Besides , I turn'd him to that long-tail'd beast , because they of his country are called Stertmen that is men with long-tailes , for which ther is both Tradition and Story ; He came hither Chaplain to a Frigot , and had not the ship quickly tack'd about and got away , I had transfigur'd all the rest . Ape . By the earnestnes of your looks and gazing , I believe you would speak with me , therefore I pray what 's your pleasure ? Pererius Poor Ape , thou art an object of much pitty ; Queen Morphandra hath been pleased to discover unto me that thou wa'st once a man , and born in Gheriona , a noble Country , and a Nation of no lesse esteem . Ape . 'T is tru , the Country is good , but she may be said to be now like Lucian's sick Eagle , shot and pittifully wounded with shafts of her own feathers , Gheriona never shewed she had in her as much to make her happy , as she shews now to make her self unhappy ; I fear me , there be som further dreadfull judgments , as the Famine and the Pestilence hanging over her : for it hath been observed that those three scourges of Heven , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , the Famine , the Plague , and the civill Warrs are consecutif , and use to follow one another , though the last hath got the start of the other two ; But concerning the peeple , I verily believe ther were never any so far degenerated since the Devill had to do with mankind , never any who did fool and puppifie themselfs into such a perfect slavery ▪ and confusion ; You seem to pitty my transfiguration from Man to Ape , but their case is to be much more resented , for they are turned from Men to Wolfs , if you go to their humours , ther 's a tru Lycanthropy among them , els they wold never worry and devour one another in so savage a manner ; All which proceeds from a sad disease which hath seiz'd upon many thousands of them , it is a pure Scotomia , an odd kind of Vertigo that reigns amongst them , which turns the head round , and fills it with new chimera's ever and anon ; 'T is tru that my country-men were ever observ'd to be inconstant in the fashion of their cloathing , in their outward comportment and garbs , which proceeded from Imitation more then naturall Inclination ; But this mimicall apish humor hath extended of late years not onely to their externall habits , but to the inward habitudes of their minds , and taken hold of their Intellectualls , by being carried away with every wind of Doctrine , and fanaticall new-fangled opinions , blown over from other Countreys , and then multiplying amongst them ; For though my countrey-men have not any great Genius to invent , yet 't is observ'd they have a faculty to add to any new invention ; and if any new odd opinion in Holy things hath once taken footing among them , they will make it run upon more feet ; Now it is in Divinity as in Philosophy , Uno absurdo dato sequuntur mille , One absurdity being granted a thousand will follow , as Aristotle the Philosophers-Pope doth affrim , for Errors like ill weeds do grow apace ; And truly I must confesse , that this apish humor had seiz'd strongly upon me , which made me distrub the peace of the holy Church wherin I was born , baptized , and bred , which made Queen Morphandra to transform me justly to this shape you see , being entertain'd Chaplain to a Man of War that arriv'd at this Island , though I had been sensible of mine own errors a good while before . Pererius . I know well that there was in Gheriona a comely face of a Church ; Ther were such solemnities , venerations , and decencies us'd , that might discover som piety in the practice of holy duties ; Ther was a public Liturgy that link'd the souls of the whole Nation in an unanimity , wherin ther were such pithy patheticall prayers that reached all occasions , and searched every crany in the conscience ; The Sacraments were administred with a fitting posture of reverence , and genuflexion , yet far from any superstition ; God's houses were kept neat , cleanly , and in repair ; There was such a prudent handsom Government , such degrees of promotion , such possessions annex'd to the Church , that made them of that holy function not onely to be esteem'd and reverenc'd , but to be able to do deeds of charity ; But now I hear ther 's crept up such a nasty race of miscreants , who have no more esteem of God Almighty's House than of a Pig-sty , who have turn'd a pretended Superstition to a palpable Prophanenes , who have plunder'd all that belong'd to pious uses , who have nothing of that veneration , that sweetnes , and comfort that useth to attend tru devotion , which is turn'd to a giddy zeal , or a kind of lust still after more learning , as if Christianity had no consistence or certainty , no sobriety ; or end of knowledg , wherin the inward man might acquiesce ; These poor simpletons pretending to imitate the Apostles time wold have the same form of Discipline and Mode to govern whole Nations , as it did at first a Chamber-full of men in the Infancy of the Christian Church ; They wold mak the same coat serve our Saviour at five and twenty years , as fitted him at five : But you were speaking of other dreadfull judgments that you believe were hanging over Gheriona , and what are the resons that induce you to that belief ? Ape . I remember when I had a human shape I was much addicted to the reading of History , which is a profitable knowledge , for the observation of former actions may serve to regulat the future ; I took notice of a world of examples that the two nefandous crimes of Sacrilege and Perjury never went unpunished without some signall judgments ; Among divers other these two do reign and rage in Gheriona more then they ever did in any Country under the cope of Heven , and must she not then expect the vialls of a just vengeance to fall down upon Her from above ? But that you may better understand the state of that calamitous Country , that Country of confusion , I will recount to you what befell me before my transmutation . Perertus . You will oblige me beyond measure , if you impart unto me what you intend , and I shall listen unto you with much patience , and no lesse contentment . Asse . It chanc'd one night I had a strange unusuall Dream , I had fallen into so sound a sleep , as if the Cinq-ports ( my five outward senses ) had been trebly lockt up ; My Animula vagula blandula , my little wandring soul made a sally out of Morpheus Horn-gate , as she uses to do often , and fetch vagaries apart , to practise how she may live by her self after our dissolution , when she is separated from the Body and becom a Spirit ; I had all night long a world of visions , and strange objects appeerd unto me , which return now fresh into my memory ; During the said time I thought I was transported to the remotest place , and of the greatest distance that possibly could be from Heven , me thought I was in the Infernall pit , in the kingdom of darknesse , in Hell it self among the devills and damned spirits , I had neither that golden branch , nor the help of a Sybilla Cumana to conduct me up and down as the Trojan Prince had , but a spirit did lead me gently and softly all along untill I came to Pluto's Palace , where a speciall Councell was held to take a strict examination what service the three infernall Furies , Alecto , Tisyphone , and Megaera , with other inferiour Fiends that were their assistants , had done upon earth towards the advancement of the kingdom of darknesse since their last mission thither , which was presently upon the appeerance of the last blazing Star 1618. Pluto vouchsafed to be present at this solemn Councell , and to be President or Chair-man himself , to which purpose he had a strong Legion of Cacodaemons for his gard , but the busines was prepar'd and facilitated for his hearing before hand by a speciall Committee appointed of purpose for that end ( whence I observed , that Committees were first hatch'd in Hell ) The three gastly Daughters of Night appeered with fiery conntenances before the Stygian King , in lieu of air they evaporated huge flakes of fire which they took in , and let out with the accents of their words , huge bunches of Vipers hung dangling and wavring about their heads , having their tayls rooted in their sculls ; A furious clash fell betwixt them who should be Prolocutrix , but in regard that Alecto and Tisyphone had given account of their former missions , the one of the League in Artonia , the other of the Revolt of the Hydraulian , which was about the appearance of the Comet in the tayl of Cassiopaea , it came now in due turn that Megaera should have the priority of speech ; So the youngest of the Tartarean girls began as followeth . May it please your high phlegetontic Majesty to understand , that since the last happy Comet Anno 1618. which by the parallax was found to be in the Heven it self above the Elementary world , we have for forty years together been more active and eager in your Majesty's service than ever we were ; We have stirred the humors of the foolish Inhabitants of the earth to insurrections , to warr and praeliation ; To effect which , our practise hath been to bring on the beggarliest and toughest peeple upon the nicest and softest , we brought the Cuprinian upon the Aetonian , and the Zoundanian , the Tarragon , and Cinqfoyl upon the Tumontian , the Tartar upon the Chinois , the Selenian upon the Marcopolist , the Cosaque upon the Pole , the Carboneian upon the Gherionian ; We have continued a bloody lingring Warr in the bowells of Artonia for thirty years together , we have thrust divers Princes out of their antient Inheritances , among others the Duke of Laroni and Rhinarchos , we brought two gran Selenian Emperours to be strangled by their own slaves , we have often puzzled Vinalia , we have made the Kings of Artonia and Tumontia to bandy so fiercely one against the other , as if the one had been an Infidell the other a Iew , though each of them had one another's sister abed with him every night . But may it please your Acherontic Majesty to be inform'd , that the most advantageous and signall services we have done , have bin in the lsles of Gheriona and Hebrinia , for whereas we divided our selfs before , and went singly among other peeple , we went joyntly thither all three , and brought a Regiment of fiery red-coated Cacodaemons to guard us , because we might be sure to bring our great work home to your Majesty's aime ; The Nation fittest for our turn at first were the Carboncian , who have bin so obedient to their Kings , that of above a hundred they brag of , scarce two parts of three died in their beds , but were made away violently ; We did incite them first against their own Country-man and Native King , and to appear in a daring high hostile manner before him upon the borders ; At which time it cost us a great deal of artifice so to besot the Gherioniams , and to abase their courage , so to entangle them with Factions , having sure Confidents to that end among them , that they durst not present Battle to the Carboncian at that time ; And this , Sir , was an important piece of service , for had they fought then , or had they bin sensible afterwards of the dishonour they received at that time , their King being then amongst them in person , with the flower of his Nobility and Gentry , and consequently had they stuck to him afterwards to have vindicated that rebellious affront , all those we have fomented since might have bin prevented . We shortly after transmitted the same spirit of Insurrection into Hebrinia , who being encouraged by the good successes of the Carboneian , who got then what tearms he listed , yet could he not sit quiet ; and the Hebrinian Commissioners being but harshly entertain'd by the great Councell of Gheriona , who intended to send them over a Governour that should pinch them more than they were before in their consciences , and for divers other provocations , we caus'd the Hebrinian also to rise in blood , which he did to som purpose ; Then came we to work upon the Gherionian , whom we found as fit to receive our impression as flax is to receive fire , in regard of their long Furseit of peace and plenty ; We broke up one great Assembly upon a suddain , because the members therof were not for our turn , But then we call'd another which was fit for our purpose , and we steer'd their courses all the while with a great deal of care ; The first thing we did was to endue them with a faculty to create fears and jealousies , whereof we made excellent use , and although those fears and jealousies appeared afterwards to every common man as plain as the nose on his face to be but meer forgeries , and supposititious things , yet we did still so intoxicat their intellectualls , that we made them to adore still the coyners of them ; And to give your Stygian Majesty among divers others , one most pregnant and undeniable demonstration what firm footing we got in that Island , we did raise in few years more Pythonesses , which the ignorant vulgar call Witches there , then ever were in that Country since your Majesty tempted Eve ; and we enabled our said Pythonesses to send their inferiour Imps abroad upon our service ; We stood at the King's elbow when he pass'd the Act of continuance , wherein a Carboncian was our chief Engineer ; But the great City Polihaima stood us in most excellent steed to compasse our designes , we made the riffraff and rakehells of that wanton City , whom som call'd Myrmidons , others their Bandogs , to rabble the King out of Town , we brought also thither the silly Swains of the Country like a flock of Geese to gaggle up and down the streets with papers in their hats they knew not about what ; We managed the businesse afterwards so dextrously , and did aggravate things by degrees , that we made their credulous King , because he was so profess'd an enemy to your Majesty , to go disguis'd in serving-man's habit to his Country-men the Carboncians , with whom we prevail'd so far , that they delivered him over as a Sacrifice , and betraid him Iudas like to the Gherionians , who crucified him sufficiently afterwards by tossing and tumbling him up and down , by depriving him of the comfort of all things that use to be dear unto man , as his wife , children , friends , and servants , by working upon his conscience in a compulsatory way , and stretching it upon the very tenter ; In summe , we have reduc'd that Country to a conformity with this of your Majesties , to a perfect Chaos of all confusion , we have brought the sway into the common peeples hands , making all the Nobility and Gentry to crouch and cringe unto them ; And never did common peeple more truly act the part , and discover the genius of a common peeple more lively , whose nature is still thirsting after novelties , and Utopian Reformations , though oftentimes they fool themself thereby into a a baser kind of slavery , finding when 't is too late those specious idaea's , and confus'd forms of Government they apprehended at first , and hugg'd in their own conceits , to be at last but meer absurdities , when they com to the application and practise therof . And , Sir , the most advantageous instruments we have us'd to bring all this about have bin the Pulpit and the Presse , by these we diffus'd those supposititious fears and jealousies , formerly spoken of , to distract the brains of the silly vulgar ; Instead of Lights we put Firebrands in their Churches , who , according as we did dictat unto them , did baul out nothing but sedition , war , and blood ; We have made som of them to have as good an opinion of the Alchoran as of their own Liturgy ; We made new Ordinances to batter down all the antient Canons of the Church , we have made them to un-saint all those who were call'd Apostles , to prophane and plunder all places that were consecrated , we brought som of them to put a division 'twixt the Trinity it self , we have brought them to keep their Fasts more solemnly than the Sabboth , upon which day we made them usually not onely to sit in Councell , but to put in execution their chief designs of blood ; To work all this , the main and most materiall thing we made use of was spirituall pride your Majesty's old acquaintance , which pride we have infus'd into the mind of every Mechanic , or Country-Swain , who will boldly now undertake to expound any Text of Scripture new or old upon the warrant of his own giddy brain ; Insomuch that we have made that Book which they call the Bible , that was ordained for the Charter of their Salvation , to be the chiefest instrument of their Damnation ; We have brought those exotic words Plundring and Storming , and that once abominable word Excise to be now familiar among them , they are all made free Denizens , and naturaliz'd among them ; We have made those who came petitioners for peace to the great Councill to be ill intreated , and som of them to be murther'd , but those that came for warr to be countenanc'd and thank'd ; We made the mother to betray her child , the child the father , the husband the wife , and the servant his master ; We have brought a perfect Tyranny over their souls and bodies , upon the one , by tedious imprisonments and captivity , with a forfeiture of all their livelihoods before conviction , or any preceding charge , upon the other , by forcing them to take contradictory Oaths , Engagements , and Protestations ; On that foolish superstitious day of Christmas , with other Festivals , we have brought them to shut up their Churches , and to open their Shops and Shambles , so that in time they will forget the very memory of the Incarnation of their Saviour ; We have brought them to have as little reverence of their Temples as of their Tap-houses , and to hold the Church to be no more than a Charnell-house of rotten bones ; And though they still cringe and stand bare-headed before any wrangling Bench of common pleading , yet we have so stiffned their joynts , and made their heads so tender in that which they call God's House , that there , they can neither bow the one , nor scarce uncover the other ; We have made the fundamentall Laws to be call'd but meer formalities ; We have made that which was call'd their Great Charter to be torn to a thousand flitters , and stretcht the priviledge of the Commons so wide , that it hath quite swallowed the Royall Prerogative , and all other priviledges ; We have grub'd up , and cast away those hopefull Plants that grew in their two Seminaeries of Learning , and set in them graffs of our own choice ; We have made the wealth of Town and Country , of Poor and Rich , to shine in plunder upon the Souldiers backs ; We have made them command free-quarter of those , that were more sitting to ask alms of them ; We have made them rifle the Monuments of the dead , to rob the very Lazaretro , to strip the Orphan and Widow ; We have made them offer violence to the very Vegetables and inanimat Stones , to violat any thing that was held holy , to make Socks of Surplices , to water their beasts at the Font , and feed them on the Altar , and to term the thing they cal the Sacrament to be but a two-penny Ordinary ; We have made them use on the close-stoole that Book wherein the public Devotion of the whole Nation consisted ; In fine , we have made them turn supposed superstition to gross prophaness , preaching to prating , praying to raving , government to confusion , and freedom to fetters ; We have so intoxicated that dear daughter of yours Polihaima , that she knows not what way to turn her self ; And whereas her Apprentices did rise up like so many Cubs of Tygers against their lawfull Prince , they are now becom as came as so many silly sheep against the Souldiery ; We have puzzled their Pericranium with vertiginous fancies , and fears among themselfs , that one neighbour dare not trust the other ; To conclude , we have eclipsed the glory of that Nation , we have made them by all peeple far and neer that ever had knowledg , correspondence , or any commerce with them , to be pittied by som , to be laugh'd at by others , to be scorn'd of all , and to becom the very tail of all Nations ; In fine , Sir , we have brought that Country to such a passe of confusion , that it is a fit place onely for your infernall Majesty to keep your Court in , for ther 's never a Crosse there to fright you now : 'T is tru they retain it still upon their coines of gold and silver , in honour of your Plutonian Highnesse as you are Dis and god of riches . Megaera having thus given up an account in behalf of her self and her two sisters , they all bowed their snaky heads down to their very feet , which were toed with Scorpions , before the black Throne of Beelzebub , who giving such a humm that made all Hell to tremble , answered thus , My pretious and most trusty Tartarean daughters , we highly approve of the super-erogatory service you have don us for the propagation of our Empire upon Earth , and specially in Gheriona ; we have sued a long time to have a lease of that Iland , and we hope to obtain it , touching Carboncia 't is not worth the while ; Therfore when you have visited those of that Nation whom you have sent hither already to peeple this pit , I would have you return thither , and prepare that place for one of our principall habitations , never leave them till you have thrust out Religionem ex solo as well as Regem ex solio ; make Law , Religion , Allegiance , and every thing els Arbitrary , let not one government last long , but shuffle the Cards so that a new Trump may be turnd up often , create still new fears , and foment fresh divisions among them ; let the son seek the fathers throat , let brothers sheath their swords in one anothers bowells , let the Country clash with the Towns , the Towns one against the other , and the Sea with both , till that the whole Nation be at last extinguished that one may not be left to pisse against a wall ; Let not a Church or Chappell , Hospitall or Colledge stand in the whole Isle . I intend to have a new Almanack of Saints at my comming , for I have som Star-gazers there fit for my purpose ; Make haste therefore , and acquit your selfs of your duty for fear a peace be shuffl'd up , and that Artonia and Tumontia appeer in the busines , and espouse the quarrell of young Caroloman ; And if you carry your selfs well in this employment , I may chance give you Carboncia for your reward . The three Lethean Futies with a most profound reverence replied , May it please your Majesty , your Ferriman Charon is continually so pestered with such multitudes of Gherionian and Carboncian passengers , that we were forc'd to stay a long time ere we could be transported hither , and we fear we shall be so hindred again . Therfore we most humbly desire for our better expedition , that you would vouchsafe to give us a speciall Mandamus that we may be serv'd first , with a non obstante , when we com to the banks of Styx . You shall dear daughters , said Pluto , and my Warrant shall be addrest to som Gherionian Tarpalins , wherof ther are abundance these few years past , whom Charon hath entertaind for his journey-men . Having listned all this while unto what pass'd 'twixt Pluto and his Furies , my guiding spirit did lead me up and down Hell to see the various sorts of torments that are there , which indeed are innumerable both old and new ; The first I beheld was Ixion who was tyed with ugly Vipers to a wheel that whirl'd about perpetually , and I might perceive a multitude of lesser wheels newly made therabouts , wherunto great nombers of Gherionians , and divers of my acquaintants were bound in like manner ; I might discern also hard by a huge company of new Windmills , and bodies tyed with black-spotted Snakes at every wing turning round perpetually ; A little further ther were a great many broken by Milstones who were whirl'd with them about incessantly ; In another place I might see black Whirlpools full of tormented souls turning still round , I asked what was the reson of so many whirling tortures ? My good Spirit answered , All these , except Ixion's wheel , are new torments appointed for Gherionian Sectaries , who had destroyed from top to bottom all Government both of Church and State , And as their brains turn'd round upon earth after every wind of Doctrine , so their souls turn here in perpetuall torments of rotation . A little further I spied Prometheus removed thither from Caucasus , with a ravenous Vulture tearing and feeding upon his liver , which as one part was eaten , renewed presently after , and abundance of new commers were tormented in the same manner , these I was told they were Gherionians also that were punishd like Prometheus , because as he was tortured so for stealing fire from Heven , by which was meant for prying too far into the secrets of the gods , so those fiery Zelots of Gheriona were tortured , for offring to dive too far into the high points of Predestination , Election , and Reprobation , being not contented sapere ad sobrietatem , but were gaping ever and anon after new lights , and flashes of illuminations to pry into the Book of Life . Then I came to the bottomles Tub which Danaus daughters were a filling , a nomberles company of other such tubs were there , and Gherionian women and men were incessantly labouring to fill them up with the stenchy black waters of Acheron ; I was told that they were those over-curious peeple in Gheriona which wold be never satisfied with spirituall knowledg , having no other devotion than to be alwaies learning , and never comming to the truth , as these poor restlesse fillers could never come to any bottom . Then I beheld the most horrid tortures of those Giants who wold have pulld Iupiter out of his Throne , and a world of Gherionians among them , who partaked of the same tortures , because they had conspir'd on earth to destroy their lawfull King. Not far further I might spy dazling my eyes fiery glowing tubs made Pulpit-like , and I was told they were prepared for those prophane presumptuous Mechanicks , and other lay-men who use to preach , and so abuse the sacred Oracles of God ; And Uzza was not far off , who lay in torments there for being too bold with the Holy Ark. Not far distant I saw hoops of iron that were made Garter-like of hot candent steel , I was told that they were design'd for the perjur'd Knights of that Order in Gheriona to wear upon their legs when they com thither , for breaking in the late war the solemn Oath they had taken at their Installment , to defend the Honour and Quarrells , the Rights and Dignities of their Soverain , &c. Nere unto them I might see brasse hoops glowing with fire , and they were Scarfs-like , I was told they were ordained for those Knights of the Bath to wear for Ribbands next their skins when they came thither , for infringing that sacred Sacramentall Oath they took at their election , which was , To love their Soverain above all earthly creture , and for his Right and Dignity to live and die . A little beyond I saw a Copper-table with chairs of the same , all candent hot , I was told that those were for perjur'd Privy-Councellors who had broke their Oath to their King , which obliged them to be tru and faithfull servants unto him , and if they knew or understood any manner of thing to be attempted , done , or spoken against his Majestie 's Person , Honour , Crown , or Dignity , they swore to lett and withstand the same to the uttermost of their power , and cause it to be revealed either to Himself , or any other of his Privy Councill . Hard by I saw a little Furnace so glowing hot , that it lookt of the colour of a Ruby or Carbuncle , I was told that it was to clap in the Master of a King's Jewell-house when he comes thither , for being so perfidious and perjurious to his Master . Not far off I might see a huge brasse Caudron full of molten lead , with som Brewers cruelly tormented therein , for setting their own Country on fire . I was curious to know , whether ther were any other infernall tortures besides those of fire ; Yes , I was answered , for to speak of fire to a peeple habituated to a cold Climat were not onely to make them slight Hell , but to have a mind to go thither ; So my Spirit brought me a little Northward , and shewed me a huge Lough , where ther were frosted Mountains up and down , and I might discover amongst them a world of Blew-caps lying in beds of yce , with their noses and toes nipt , the isicles stuck to their fingers ends like horns , and a bleak hispid wind blew incessantly upon them , they made the most pitteous noise that me-thought I had heard in all Hell , for they wawl'd , screech'd , and howl'd out ever and anon this dismall note , Wea is me , wea is me that ever I betraid my gid King. Among all those damned souls I desired to see what punishment an Atheist had , my Spirit was ready to answer me , that ther were no Atheists in Hell at all ; 't is tru they were so upon Earth before they came hither , but here they sensibly find and acknowledge ther is a God by his justice and judgments , for ther is here poena sensûs and poena damni , ther is inward and outward torture , The outward torments you behold are nothing so grievous as the inward regrets and agonies the souls have , to have lost Heven wherof they were once capable , and to be eternally forsaken by their Creator the Lord of Light , their chiefest Good ; Add hereunto that they know these torments to be endlesse , easelesse , and remedilesse ; Besides these qualities which are incident to the damned souls , they have neither patience towards themselfs in their own suffrances , nor any pitty towards others , but their natures is so accursed that they wish their neighbours torments were still greter then their own ; Moreover their torments never lessen , or have any mitigation by tract of time , or degrees of sense , but they persevere alwaies in the same heighth , they are still fresh , and the soul made stronger to bear them ; I saw that everlasting Villain who committed one of the first sacriledges we read of , by burning the Temple of Diana , whose torments were so fresh and cruciatory upon him , as they were the first day he was hurl'd in thither ; Iudas was in the same degree and strength of torture as he was the first moment he fell thither ; Iack Cade , Wat Tyler , Iack Straw , and Ket the Tanner did fry as fresh as they did that very instant they were tumbled down thither ; Amongst whom it made my heart to melt within me when I saw som of their new-com'd Country-men amongst them , wherof I knew divers ; And though society is wont to be some solace to men in misery , yet they conceived no comfort at all by these fresh companions . It is high time for us now , said my good guiding Spirit , to be gone to the other world , so we directed our cours towards the Ferry upon Styx ; But Lord what a nomber of lurid and ugly squalid countenances did I behold as I pass'd ; There was one sort of torment I had not seen before , ther were divers that hung by their toungs upon posts up and down , I asked what they were , answer was made , that they were prick-ear'd Preachmen , Iudges , and Lawyers , who against their knowledg as well as against their consciences , did seduce the ignorant peeple of Gheriona and Carboncia , and incite them to war ; And ther was a new tenter-hook provided for one gran Villain , who pronounced Sentence of death against his own Soverain Prince , whose Subject he was , and whom by a sacred Oath of Allegiance he was tyed to obey . A little further I might see multitudes of Committee-men and others , slopping up drops of molten lead in lieu of French Barly-broth , with a rabble of Apprentices sweeping the gutters of Hell , with brooms tufted with ugly Adders and Snakes , because they running into the Wars and leaving their wares , had therby broke their Indentures with their Masters , and their Oaths of Allegiance to their lawfull Prince . Passing then along towards the Ferry , a world of hideous shapes presented themselfs unto my sight ; There I saw corroding cares , pannick fears , pining griefs , ugly rebellion , revengefull malice , snaky discord , oppression , tyranny , disobedience , perjury , sacriledge , and spirituall pride ( the sin that first peepled Hell ) put to exquisit torments ; Couches of Toads , Scorpions , Asps , and Serpents were in a corner hard by ; I asked for whom they were prepared , I was answered , for som Evangelizing Gherionian Ladies , which did egg on their husbands to War ; So having as I thought by a miraculous providence charm'd three-headed Cerberus , by pointing at him with the signe of the Crosse upon my fingers , we passed quietly by to the Ferry , where being com I found tru what Pluto had said before , that ther were divers Gherionian Tarpalins entertain'd by Charon , but they were in most cruell tortures , for their bodies were covered all over very thick and close with canvases pitch'd and tarr'd , which continually burnt and flam'd round about them . Herewith I got awake again about the dawning of the day , and it was high time to do so ; For lo , the golden Orientall gate Of gray-fac'd Heven 'gan to open fair , And Phoebus like a Bridegroom to his Mate Came dancing forth , shaking his dewy hair , And hurls his glittring beams through gloomy air . So Rest to Motion , Night to Day doth yield , Silence to Noise , the Starrs do quit the field , My Cinq-ports all fly ope , the phantasy Gives way to outward objects , Ear and eye Resume their office , so doth hand and lip ; I hear the Carrmans wheel , the Coachmans whip , The prentice ( with my sense ) his shop unlocks , The milkmaid seeks her pail , porters their frocks , All cries and sounds return , except one thing , I heard no bell for Mattens toll or ring . Being thus awak'd , and staring on the Light Which silverd all my face and glaring sight , I clos'd my eyes again to recollect What I had dreamt , & make my thoughts reflect Upon themselfs — I say , that having after such a long noctivagation , and variety of horrid visions , return'd to my perfect expergefaction , I began by a serious recollection of my self to recall to my thoughts by way of reminiscence those dismall and dreadfull objects that had appeerd unto me , for though I was in Hell , yet I did not taste of Lethe all the while , insomuch that I did not forget any thing which I had seen ; All the said objects presented themselfs unto me so reall , that if I had bin transported with that opinion wherof many great Clerks have bin , viz. That Devills are nothing els but the ill affections , the exorbitant passions and perturbances of the minde ; I say , if I had bin plac'd in such an opinion , this trance wold have convinc'd me ; You may easily imagin what apprehensions of horror these Apparitions left in my brain behind them , just as a River when by an inundation she hath swel'd out of her wonted channell , doth use to leave along the neighbouring medowes seggs and other weeds with much riffraff stuff behind her upon her return to her former bed ; so did this Vision after that deluge of objects wherwith my brain was overwhelm'd for the time , leave behind them black sudds , and many a ghastly thought within me , which after some ruminations wrought in me a perfect change and detestation of those mimicall giddy opinions wherwith I was carried away before , but while I delayed the time of declaring my self that way , I was suddenly surprized , and justly transmuted to this shape and species . Pererius . You may perceive by the effects of this visional Dream the excellency and high prerogatives of the Human Soul , who by the ministry of the Imagination can make such sallies abroad , that leaving the grosse tabernacle of the body she can at plesure climb up to the skies , and make a Scale of the stars to conduct her to the Empyrean Heven ; she can also descend in a trice to the great Abysse , and take a survey of the kingdom of darknes , And though it be a common Maxim that , ab Orco nulla redemptio , ther is no returning from Hell the passage thence being irremeable , yet the Rational soul while she informs the body hath this priviledg , that she can make egresses and regresses , she can enter and come off clear from Hell it self , when she list , and all this in an instant ; Wherin she may be said to participat of that admired quality which is inhaerent in that most comfortable of all cretures the Light , which is held the Souverain of all sensible qualities by the Philosophers , and to com neerest to the nature of a Spirit , for Light requires but an instantaneous moment or point of time to perform its office of illumination , and to dilate it self from one Pole to the other throughout the whole Hemisphere , whence some infer that Light is incorporeal , because 't is an unquestion'd principle among the Naturalists , that all bodies require a succession of time in their motion , which Light needs not ; But ther is this difference 'twixt the Imagination of a human soul and Light , that ther besom places wherinto Light cannot enter , but ther is no part of the Universe so impervious where the Imagination may not make his accesses and recesses at plesure , as appeers by yours while you made that progresse during the time of that extasy ; And now me-thinks that these , and other excellencies of the Rational soul should incite you to shake off that brutish nature , which hath no other idaea or object of happines , but what sense exposeth for the present time to corporeall things onely ; I say the contemplation of what I said before shold move you to becom Man again . Ape . Man ! Truly Sir , I am sorry the shape I now bear resembleth Man so much , I could wish it were far more unlike , for the horrid and unheard-of sacrileges and perjuries of my own Nation makes me abhor the very name of Man , much more his nature ; For I dare confidently assert , that ther were never since the Devill had power to possesse poor Mortalls such Heteroclites in Religion , such a Bedlam of Sectaries , who to exalt the Kingdom of Christ wold heave it up on Beelzebub's back , for 't is the Devill 's Reformation to turn order to confusion , and certainties to incertitudes as they have done ; But these Refiners of Government will prove Quack-salvers at last , for in lieu of raising up a Common-wealth , they have pull'd down the two main Pillars which use to support all States , viz. Religion and Iustice , making both Arbitrary , and tumbling all things into a horrid disorder and hurliburly , insomuch that it may be truly said , these new sorts of Recusants did more hurt than ever the old could have don , if the subterranean plot of Nitre had taken effect ; For that had onely destroyed som few of the Royall Race , of the Prelates and Peers then in being , but these hell-hounds have wholly extinguished and blown up all the three to perpetuity , and all this onely by the stench of their pestiferous breath ; Nor have they offered violence to Religion onely , but they have affronted Reson it self , nay they have baffled Common sense ; And for all this we may thank Carboncia , and Polihaima that rotten-hearted City , who like a fat cheese is so full of Maggots ; And indeed what could be expected else from these pseudopolitians but disorder , confusion , and ataxy , considering how their first reach of policy was to throw the ball of discord 'twixt the Subject and his Souvrain , whom yet they had vowed to make the best belovedst Prince that ever was ; Insomuch that darknesse it self is no more opposit to light , as their actions were diametricall to their words , oaths , and protestations . Pererius . Truly they are stupendous things that you have told me , but touching the difference you speak of that they did put 'twixt Prince and Peeple , it was the most compendious way to bring all things to confusion and ruine , to which purpose I shall relate unto you an Apolog ; Ther hapned a shreud commotion and distemper in the Body Naturall 'twixt the Head and the Members , not onely the noble parts ( many of them ) but the common inferiour organs banded against Him in a high way of presumption ; The heart which is the source of life with the pericardium about it did swell against him , the splene and gall flowed over , the liver gathered ill blood , all the humors turned to choller against him ; the arms lifted up themselfs against him , neither back , hamms , or knees wold bow to him , nay the very feet offered to kick him ; The ribbs and reins , the hypocondrium , the diaphragma , the miseraik and emulgent veins were fill'd with corrupt blood against him , nay the hypogastrium and the bowells made an intestine warr against him ; While this feud lasted , it hapned that these tumultuary members fell out among themselfs , the hand wold have all the fingers equall , nay the toes wold be all of an even length , and the rest of the subservient members wold be Independent ; They grew so foolish that they wold have the fundament to be where the mouth is , the brest where the back , the belly where the brain , and the yard where the nose is ; The sholders shold be said to be no more backwards , nor the leggs downwards ; a bloody quarrell fell out 'twixt the heart and the liver which of them received the first formation , and whether of the two be the chiefest shop of languification , which question bred so much gall 'twixt the Aristotelians and the Galenists ; While this spleene and strange tympany of pride lasted , it causd such an ebullition and heat in the masse of blood , such a stiffnes in the cartilages and gristles , such a lanknes in the arteries , that it put the whole compositum in a high burning Feaver or kind of ravening Frenzy , which in time grew Hepticall , and so threatned a dissolution of the whole frame of the body . 'T is to be feard that the same fate attends the Politicall body of your Nation as did the Naturall I spoke of ; But matters may mend , and as you began to find a Reformation in your self before you were transmuted to this shape , so the whole Nation may come to their old temper again ; Therfore you shal do well , now that you are invited by so pregnant an opportunity , and so reall a proffer , to shake off that Apish or Monky-fac'd figure you now wear , and resume the noble erect shape of Man , to look towards Heven , and be safely transported to the bosom of your own dear Country , where you may by your advantageous holy profession , do a great deal of good offices to your deluded Compatriots , by the contribution of your endeavours and talent , to reduce them to their right wits again , and so to the temper of their famous progenitors . Ape . Sir , you may as soon Quadrat a Circle , which the Philosopher holds to be impossible , as convert a Roundhead , for I have felt his pulse so well , that when a crochet hath got once into his noddle , 't is like Quick-silver in a hot loaf , which makes it skip up and down to the astonishment of the ignorant beholder ; So when a caprichio , or some fanaticall idaea hath once entred into the pericranium of this pack of peeple , it causeth such a Vertigo , that all the Druggs of Egypt cannot cure them : Therfore , noble Prince , you may please to practise your eloquence upon som other , but as for me you spend your breath in vain , and all this while you have said as good as nothing , for I so far detest human kind , that , in the mind I am in , I had rather undergo an Annihilation , or to be reduced to a non-Entity , which is so horrid a thing to all created natures , that the very devills themselfs abhorr it , then be as I was : Therfore I am resolved never to turn Man again , much lesse a Cherionian , for , in statu quo nunc , I hold him to be not onely the prophanest sect of Christians , but the worst race of Mankind ; The wildest Moor , Arab , or Tartar is a Saint in comparison of him . But I espy an ill-favoured Snayl creeping hard by , with her house upon her back , and stretching forth her ugly horns , which base creture those of my present species do naturally loath , ther being a perfect antipathy betwixt us , as well as with all Shell-fish . 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Fourth Section . A Colloquy 'twixt Morphandra , Pererius , and a Hinde , who had bin once one of the gretest Bewties in Marcopolis , and for som youthfull levities and wildnes was transmuted to that shape ; In this Section ther are various discourses of the state and nature of Women pro & con , &c. Morphandra , Pererius , and a Hinde . Morphandra . IT seems , most princely Pererius , by that clowd I perceive waving in your countenance , that you cannot prevail with any of those transformed cretures with whom you have hitherto conferrd , to comply with your so laudable desires of wearing again the shapes of Men ; Therfore I wold wish you to try a conclusion upon a Female , which sex useth to be more soft and pliable , and ther is one just before you , That lovely white Hinde ( though she hath som black spots about her shingle ) which I see browsing upon that hedge , she was once a Woman , therfore try what you can do upon her . Pererius . Madame , By treating with this last Animal , I find the old Adage confirmd , that Simia erit Simia , quamvis induatur veste aurea , An Ape will be an Ape though he be clad with Tissue , he will never shake off his brutish nature ; But , most sagacious Queen , though Truth , as the proverb runs , begets hatred oftentimes in the minds of those to whom it is spoken , yet , knowing well that noble spirits do disdain to have one thing in the mouth , and another in the heart , I will take the boldnesse to make a free discovery of my mind , though I fear to incur therby your disfavor . Morphandra . Sir , you may frankly speak what you please , for ther is no greter a friend to generous souls than Truth . Pererius . I doubt , though you have vouchsafed the gift of Ratiotination to those Animals I have tampered withall , yet you have not bin pleased to give them the full faculty of Reson , in regard I have found them so averse to re-assume their first beeing from that of Beasts , which could not surely be if they had the full power of their former Intellect . Morphandra . Truly if I had don so , you might have justly thought your self to have been deluded by me , and that I had don you but half a courtesie or a fained promise ; Now touching promises a noble mind shold not make any , that he hath not the wil to do , or the power to perform , for the one proceeds from pure dissimulation , and the other from meer foolishnes : But know , that all that intervall of time you have held a parly with those transmuted Animals you have tried already , they had the same reach and full light of Reson as they had when they were Men. Pererius . Oh , how is it possible then that the eyes of their understanding shold not be opend , to discern their own error ? Morphandra . It may well be that they find and feel more contentment , and sweetnes in that life they now lead , wherof men have no sense or knowledg , therfore 't is no thing of wonder that they desire to continue so ; But go and poursue the point of your enterprise , for it may be you may find som other that will be conformable to your counsell herein , and 't is very probable that Hinde may do it . Pererius . 'T is observed by wise men , that they who can prescribe a way of themselfs to live contentedly and well , are to be plac'd in the first degree of vertu ; And they which cannot do it of themselfs , but are content to be directed by the counsell of wiser men , are to be plac'd in the second degree ; But they who are not capable to counsell themselfs , nor receive counsell from others , are not worthy to be rank'd in the nomber of Rational cretures ; Of this last kind those silly Animals are with whom I have held discours , therfore 't is no marvail that my perswasions could not take place with them ; But knowing it to be the greatest part of humanity for one to commiserat and help another , I will push on my endeavours in this point , and see what I can do with that lovely white Hinde , for that sex whereof she was formerly useth to be more tender , and to take impressions more easily : Gentle creture , I come to be the messenger of good tydings unto you . Hinde . O! may Heven be blessed , I understand the accents of Man , and have the strings of my toung loosned to talk again . Pererius . I hope now to have met with one fit for my purpose , for I hear her thank Heven that she is come again to the gift of speech : Give me leave to ask you , gentle Hinde , how came you to be thus so strangely transfigured ? Hinde . It was the great Queen Morphandra who hath put this shape upon me ; But , Sir , give me leave to return you a question , Wherfore are you so desirous to know the cause of my transmutation ? for I was never ask'd the reson ever since by any , nor had I my speech return'd unto me till now , ever since I went upon four leggs . Pererius . The reson that I desire to know the cause of your transfiguration is for your infinit advantage , as you shall find , therfore I pray dispence with my curiosity , if I desire to know further what country and condition you were of when you were a Rational creture . Hinde . Sir , I was born in Marcopolis that rare Maiden City , so much renowned throughout the world for the strangenes of her scituation , for her policy , riches , and power ; But though she continu still a Virgin , yet she is married once every year to Neptune whose minion she is , which makes her accounted so salacious ; There I had my first birth , and was accounted one of the Beauties of my time , till for som dissolut courses and wildnes of youth , it pleased Morphandra to give me a second kind of generation , and transmute me to this shape you behold . Pererius . You may then thank those Stars that guided me hither , for I have obtained leave of Morphandra to talk with you , nor onely so , but she hath bin pleased to promise me that she will re-invest you in you former fair nature if you desire it , therfore I quickly expect your resolution , for the sudden counsells and answers of women are observ'd to be the best , in regard that the more you think on a thing , the more your thoughts use to be intangled ; Therfore tell me whether you will be a woman again , I or no ? Hinde . No ; ther 's a short and sudden Laconicall answer for you . Pererius . 'T is short I confesse , but I conceive it to be as rash and inconsiderat , I hope you will think better on it , for what an infinit advantage it is to be transversed from a beast to be a noble Rational creture . Hinde . To be a Rational creture is not the thing that I am so averse unto as much as to be a Woman , which sex is so much undervalued and vilified by you , that som of your Philosophers ( or Foolosophers more properly ) have had the faces to affirm that we were not of the same species with men , and if we were , yet it was by an inferiour kind of creation , being made only for multiplication and plesure ; Others have given out , that in point of generation woman by Natures design is still meant for man , and that a female is a thing brought into the world beyond Nature's intention , either by the imperfection of seed , or some other defect ; Which absurd opinion how contrary it is to the just order of nature , is manifest to any one that hath but a crum of wit , considering how we also concur to your generation , though som of your old doting Wisards have held the contrary , holding us to be meerly passive in that point . Pererius . 'T is tru , that Aristotle who was one of the Secretaries that attended Nature's Cabinet-councell doth affirm , that in the female ther is no active principle of generation , but that she is meerly passive , affording onely blood and the place of conception , the plastic formative vertu residing in the Male's feed ; But this opinion is exploded by our modern Physitians and Naturalists , who assert that in the female also ther is an active and plastic principle of generation , with a procreative faculty , as appeers in the engendring of a Mule which is a mix'd species proceeding from the Horse and the Asse , whose whole form is made up by the concurrence of both parents , so that the Horse alone is not sufficient to produce such a creture , but the Asse must co-operat as the efficient cause . Hinde . You may well add hereunto that the child oftentimes resembleth the mother , therfore she must also be an active principle in the formation ; If it be so , what a wrong is it to the justice and rules of nature that Women shold be held but little better than Slaves ? how comes it that they shold be so vilipended and revil'd ? As that foolish Naturalist or Ninny , who wish'd ther were another way to propagat Mankind than by copulation with Women ; Another blurted out , that if men could live without the society of women , Angels wold come down and dwell among them ; But that stinking Cynick was the worst of all , who passing by a tree where a woman having been abus'd and beaten by her husband , had done her self violently away , he wished that every tree might bear such blessed fruit . Pererius . Such speeches as these proceeded from a kind of raillery or way of jesting , not from the judgment or wishes of the parties that spoke them , and it is commonly seen that they who play upon them with their wits , have them most in their wishes ; For ther is no sober-minded man but doth acknowledg them to be born for our comfort and dearest companions , and to be of equall degree with us in point of creation and excellence , as also capable of the same Beatitude . Hinde . Ther is good reson to think so , for the Creator took the first woman out of the midst of man therby to be his equall , and without any ostentation be it spoken she was made of a more refined matter , viz. of the Rib , which is a purer substance than the red slimy earth wherof Adam was fram'd ; And daily experience tells us , that We are composed of purer plasticall ingredients than You , because that if a man , be he never of so fine a paste , wash his hands with the clearest water in severall clean basons never so often , yet he will leave som foulnes and faeculence behind ; but a Woman can do so and leave the water at last so clear , so fair and limpid , as when it came from the fountain or source it self in few times washing . Pererius . 'T is tru , she was made of a Rib , but 't was a crooked one , which makes many of your sex to be so crosse-graind ; This causeth many of them to be kept under a greater servitude than otherwise they wold be . Hinde . A servitude indeed , or rather a tyranny , and we must purchase this servitude with the weight of gold , you having made that fine Law , that when any woman is to be your companion , she must bring mony with her , which you call Dower or Matrimoniall portion forsooth . Pererius . This Law is enacted for your good , for knowing that you , in regard of your in-experience and weaknes , cannot tell how to conserve your estates , the said Dower is consign'd to your husbands to improve it for your further profit , and to maintain you ; Insomuch that your husbands cannot be called Patrons of your goods , but your Procurators in conserving them , and if you chance to survive them they all return to you , and most commonly with som advantage ; In the interim we trudge and toyl without , and you within doors , onely to conserve it , which is but an easie task . Hinde . You say very well in that , for unlesse ther be a good houswife at home to keep , in vain doth the husband labour abroad to gather ; But wheras you say that we have not that prudence to manage an estate , and govern it , I pray call to mind the Kingdom of the Amazons , how long and how wisely was it governed by women ? Look upon that of Babylonia which was so much amplified by Semiramis , and that of Scythia by Tomiris , especially upon a late notable Queen in Gheriona , who rul'd triumphantly near upon 45 years ; And whereas you speak of the want of wisdom that we have , I pray what were the nine Muses the Inventrices of all Sciences ? what were the three Graces ? what were the twelve Sybills ? what are the three spirituall Vertues ? nay what was Minerva the goddesse of Wisdom , born out of the brain of Iove himself ? were they not all women ? Pererius . 'T is tru that Minerva issued out of Iupiter's brain , but she had no woman to her mother , for so she had not prov'd so wise ; And touching the Muses , Graces , and Sybills you speak of , you know as well that the three fatall Sisters , and Erynnis the mother of Discord , were all women as well , together with the three Furies of Hell ; But if you look upon Heven , you are but few there , for among the Planets ther are but two of your sex , ( viz. Venus and Cynthia ) all the rest are male . Hinde . You may as well argue , that because among the twelve Celestiall Signes ther are but three human cretures , and seven brute Animals , ( with two inanimat ) that ther are more brute Animals in Heven than Men ; But , Sir , under favour , wheras you alledg that among the Hevenly Planets ther are but two females , the rest males , it shews that men are of a more erratic and wandring humour than women ; Now Sir , touching that wisdom you speak of , you have more opportunity to get it by conversing with the world abroad , and so pourchasing Experience which is the mirroir of wisdom ; Wheras we are kept within doores , and shut up 'twixt a few walls , whence you have a saying , That that woman deserves onely respect and honour , whose actions and praises go not out of the walls of her own house : And hereunto that you put us to all the drudgery and servile offices at home , while you are joviall and feast it abroad ; nor do you onely coop us up so in a kind of prison , but you clap oftentimes a barbarous kind of lock upon us , wheras you , though you have Inclosures of your own , yet you may go abroad when you list , and , when your lust drives you , feed upon the Common without controul ; And is not this pure slavery in us , and tyranny in you ? Pererius . Concerning the first , Apelles us'd to paint a good Houswife upon a Snayl , which intimated , that she shold be as slow from gadding abroad , and when she went she shold carry her house upon her back , that is , she shold make all sure at home ; Now to a good houswife , her House shold be as the Sphere to a Star , ( I do not mean a wandring Starr ) wherin she shold twincle with neatnes as a Star in its Orb ; And how can you call that a prison wherof you keep the keys , and are commandresses in chief ? The Imperium domesticum you rule within doors , whither we bring all that we gain abroad , and it is your office to improve and augment it , though many of you are so lavish that you make the poor husband oftentimes to turn a noble to nine-pence , as is intimated by that famous picture of Polygnottus made of one Ocnus , who being a Cordwayner by his Trade , as he was making new Ropes , there was a Wisell hard by that gnawed off the Cordage , by which was meant his Wife ; For it is in the wife to husband what the man gets , according to the Poverb , Ask my wife whether I thrive or no , for if she be prodigall she will bring her poor husband quickly to thwitten a mill-post into a pudding-prick . Touching the second point , of laying artificiall restraints upon your bodies , it is because som of you can be no further trusted than you are seen ; But this ill-favoured custom I confesse is us'd onely in that Country , where women are more hot and lustfull than under other climes , for the Naturalists observe without any partiality , that your sex is more salacious than the Masculine , wherof ther might be produced a clowd of examples , I will instance onely in two , and they of the highest rank , viz. in two Empresses , the one a Roman , the other a German ; the first was so cunning in her lust , that she wold take in no passenger into her Barge ( for women are leaking vesells ) untill the Barge was freighted , for fear the resemblance of the child shold discover the tru father , and then she wold take in all commers ; The second having buried a most gallant man she had to her husband , her Confessor advised her with ghostly counsell , that for the future she shold live like a Turtle during the remnant of her life , because it was impossible to find such another Mate again among the whole masse of Mankind ; Wherto she answered , Father , since you will have me to lead the life of a Bird , why not of a Sparrow as well as of another Bird ? Hinde . I shall confront your instances by two other examples , as memorable altogether , the first of Zenebia , who wold have no carnall copulation with her husband , after she found her self once quick , but wold continue in an admired course of continence all the time of her pregnancy ; Moreover the Saint-like Empresse Bettrice , who in the verdant spring of her age after Henry her husbands death , lived ever after like a Turtle as you speak of , by immuring her self in a Monastic Cell , and burying her body alive as it were when he was gone ; But what an extraordinary rare example was that of Queen Artemisia , who living chast ever after her husband Mausolus his death , got his ashes all put in urnes , wherof she wold take down a dramm every morning fasting , and next her heart , saying , That her body was the fittest place to be a Sepulcher to her most dear husband , notwithstanding that she had erected another outward Tomb for him , that continues to this day one of the Wonders of the world : Furthermore you know , I believe , better then I , Sir , that at this day in many parts of the Orientall world , such is the rare love of wifes to their dead husbands , that they throw themselfs alive into the Funerall Pile to accompany his body to the other life , though in the flower of their years . Pererius . It is confessed that many of you have noble spirits , that marvellous rare affections lodge in you , and so you may be deservedly call'd the second part of Mankind , in regard you are so necessary for the propagation thereof , and to peeple the world . Hinde . Yet you call us the weaker vessells , but as weak as we are , we are they in whom the whole masse of both sexes is moulded ; neverthelesse some use us as Spice-bags , which when the spices are taken out are thrown away into som mouldy corner ; And though we have the mould within us wherin you are all cast , though we co-operat , and contribut our purest blood towards your generation , though we bring you forth into the world with such dolorous pangs and throwes , though you are nourished afterwards and nurs'd with our very bloods , yet our os-spring must bear onely your sirnames , as if we had no share at all in him , his memory living onely in you , though Tumontia in this point be more noble than other Countries , by giving the sirname of the Maternall line oftentimes to som of the male children . Notwithstanding all these indispensible necessities the world hath of women , yet ther is no other species of cretures wherin the female is held to be so much inferiour to the male as we are amongst you , who use to sleight , misprize , and tyrannize over us so much ; For ther is one huge race of men , I mean the Volganian , who use to beat their wife 's once a week as duly as they go to bed to them . Pererius . The reson of this is , because ther are so many of you either shrews , or light and loose in the hilts , and 't is a sad case when Viri fama jacet inter uxoris fempora ; Touching the first , ther 's an old proverb , that Every one knowes how to tame a shrew but he who hath her , and though ther might be multitude of examples produced , yet I will instance but in a few , the first two shall be Zappora and Xantippe , the one married to Moyses a holy man , the other to Socrates a great Philosopher , how cross-grain'd the one was , the Sacred Oracles wil tell , and for the other , her husband comming one day in when she was in an ill humour , she scolded him out of doors , and at his going out she whipp'd up into an upper room , and poured down a potfull of piss upon his sconce , which made the poor patient husband shake his head , and break forth into this speech , I thought that after so much thunder we should have rain . Another damnable scold having revil'd and curs'd her husband a great while , all which time she had the Devill often in her mouth , to whom she bann'd him , at last he said , Hold thy toung wife , and threaten me no more with the Devil , for I know he will do me no hurt , because I have married his Kinswoman ; This made the Epigrammatist to sing prettily , Conjugis ingentes animos linguamque domare , Herculis est decimus-tertius iste labor . Hence grew that cautious proverb , Honest men do marry , but Wise men not . Hinde . I , we use to be the common subject of your drolleries , and you would want matter for your wits to work upon were it not for us ; But , touching those humours you pointed at before which are incident to us somtimes , they proceed from the ill usage , and weaknes of the husbands , who know not how to manage a wife , which is one of the prime points of Masculine prudence ; We say proverbially , that a good Iack makes a good Gill , a discreet husband makes a good wife , though being the weaker vessell , and having no other weapon than her toung she break out somtimes into humors ; What a sad thing is it for a woman to have a thing called a husband weaker than her self ? how fullsom wold such a fool be ? such silly coxcombs as are jealous upon every sleight occasion , and restrain them so barbarously as was spoken before , deserve to wear such branch'd horns , such spilters and trochings on their heads , as that goodly Stagg bears which you see browsing among those trees , accompanied with those pretty Fawns , Prickets , Sorrells , Hemuses , and Girls , wherof som are mine which I brought into the world without any pain or help of Midwife , and quickly lost all care of them afterwards . Pererius . Well , let 's give over these impertinent altercations pro & con , and go to the main busines ; I told you that Queen Morphandra is willing , at my intercession , to restore you unto your former nature , and I have a lusty Galeon in port to convey you to Marcopolis , that renowned and rare City . Hinde . 'T is tru Marcopolis is a most famous City , having continued a pure Virgin from her infancy these twelve centuries of years and upwards , and 't is said she shall continue so still , according to the Prophecy , Untill her husband forsake her , viz. the Sea , with whom her marriage is renewed every year ; But 't was observ'd when I liv'd there , that her Husband began to forsake her , that the Adrian Sea did retire and grow shallower about her , which som interpret to be an ill Omen , and portends the losse of her Maidenhead : But , Sir , touching my former nature , truly I wold desire nothing of it again but the faculty of speech that I might talk somtimes ; In all other things I prefer by many degrees this species wherin I am now invested by Queen Morphandra , which is far more chaste and temperat , far more healthfull and longer-liv'd : Touching the first , Ther 's no creture whose season of carnall copulation is shorter , for the Rutting-time lasts but from the midst of September to the end of October , nor is there any other creture whose enjoyment of plesure is shorter in the act ; moreover when we are full , we never after keep company with the male for eight months ; Concerning the second , viz. our temperatnes , we never use to overcharge or cloy nature with excesse , besides our food is simple , those green leafs and grasse you see are our nutriment , which our common mother the Earth affords us so gently , we require no variety of Viands , which makes that our breath is sweeter than the fairest Ladies in Marcopolis , and our fewmishes with what else comes from within us is nothing so unsavoury ; Nor need we that monthly purgation which is so improperly called Flowers , it being such rank poyson that it will crack a tru crystall glass ; Nay 't is observed , that if a menstruous woman come near an alveary or hive of Bees , they forsake their food all the while , finding the aire to be infected ; Nor have we any gall within us , and herein we are like the Dove among Birds , and the Dolphin among fish ; onely there 's a kind of acid humor that nature hath put in our Singles , the smell wherof causeth our enemies , viz. the Doggs , to fly from us ; Moreover , we are not subject to abortions , and that curse which the Creator inflicted upon Woman-kind , that they shold bring forth their children with sorrow and pain , which we are free from ; And such is our love to Mankind , that when we have brought forth our young ones , we trust them rather with them than with other beasts , by putting them near high-waies , or dwelling-houses for protection ; Touching the third , which is healthfulnesse , it is far beyond that of women , as appears by our longaevity and extension of life , which is next to that of an Elephant , ( whose youth begins not till he be threescore year old ) according to the Tumontian Proverb , A Hedg lasteth three years , a Dogg three hedges , a Horse three doggs , a Man three horses , a Hart three men , an Elephant three harts ; Histories are full of admirable examples how long som of of us have liv'd , let one serve for all , When Archesilaus dwelt in Licosura , as the Arcadian Annalls relate , he took a Hinde who wore a collar , wheron was engraven , I was a Fawn when Agapenor was taken in Troy , which by the computation that then was made , was above three hundred years ; Nor had Aesculapius , that Archiatros or god of Physic , arrived to so fair an age , and to such a miraculous perfection in that Art , had he not been nurs'd with Hinde's milk ; For length of time brings experience , and wisdom with it along , and somtimes the gift of Prophesie , as was that antient Hinde of that great Captain Sertorius , whom 't was thought Diana had inspir'd with a fatidicall spirit ; Insomuch that Sertorius never gave Battle , or attempted any great designe without advising first with that Hart : Add hereunto , that when after so fair an age we come to die , ther 's nothing within and without our dead bodies but is usefull for Mankind , how much are our very skins valued ? how medicinall is that kind of bone which is found in the left ventricle of a Hart's heart against the Hemerroids ? how excellent is our marrow against the Gowt and Consumptions ? how our blood fryed with oyle , and applyed to the inferiour parts , presently ste●●●eth the loosnes of the belly , and being drunk in wine is a rare antidote against poyson ? what exquisit vertues hath the Hart's horn , with other parts of the body , as the Naturalists observe ? Wheras ther is nothing in the most noisom carcases of Women that 's good for any thing , except their hair , which is either but an excrescence , or excrement rather , usefull onely to make fantastic foolish Periwigs , and it hath bin found , that this hair being buried in som kind of dung turns to Snakes ; Therfore , under favor , ther 's none of sane judgment , considering the advantages I have by this present shape , will advise me to change it for that of a frail Woman ; If I shold do so , I wold be more foolish then that Stagg in the Fable , who seeing a Horse with rich trappings , and carrying a velvet saddle upon his back , repin'd at his happines , and wish'd he were such a creture ; The Forester taking notice of it , put the velvet-saddle upon the Stagg's back the next day , and having mounted him , he rid him divers heats up and down the Launds , till the poor Stagg began to faint , and sink under his burthen , and then he repented himself of that foolish and inconsiderat wish he had made . 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . The Fifth Section . Discourses 'twixt Morphandra , Pererius , and a Mule , who in his Manhood had bin a Doctor of Physic in Tumontia , whom for som Quacking tricks he had plaid , and for som other resons , Morphandra turn'd to a Mule ; In this Section there be discourses of the Art of Physic , of the various complexions of Mankind , and of the nomberlesse diseases that are incident unto Human Bodies , &c. Morphandra , Pererius , and a Mule. Morphandra . I Took notice that you courted and complemented that female creture more then ordinary , but how have you prevail'd ? have you made her inclinable to a resumption of her former nature ? Is she willing to go back to that Syrenian City , that great Mart of all female plesures , Marcopolis , where she slept in the bosom of her first causes ? Pererius . Madame , we have a proverbiall saying among us Soldiers , Que la Femme , & la Forteresse qui commence a parlementer , est demy gaignée , The Female and Fortresse which begins to parly is half-gain'd ; But I do not find it so here , for this Female wold have bin contented to have parlyed with me everlastingly if I had held her discourse , insomuch that she desires nothing of a Woman again but onely the faculty of talking , onely a woman's Toung , touching other parts , she is utterly alienated in her affection towards the whole Sex , alledging the inequall value that useth to be put upon Women in relation to Man , who holds himself to be of a superiour Creation : Then she spoke of the domesticall kind of captivities and drudgeries that women are put unto , with many such good-morrows ; But , Madame , in all humblenes I desire , that you wold vouchsafe to enlarge your Princely favors towards me so far , that I may mingle speech with som more solid creture . Morphandra . You shall presently be partaker of your desires , for I spy upon the brow of that hillock a Mule nibling the grasse , He was by nativity a Tumontian , and by his profession a Doctor of Physic , whom I transformed to that shape , not that he wanted understanding ( as the Horse and Mule are said to do ) for that Nation hath generally a competent proportion of that , but partly because Physitians there use to ride upon Mules to visit their Patients , as also because that Nation in generall use to be tax'd for their slow pace and phlegmatic disposition , with their dilatory proceedings in their designs and counsells . Pererius . 'T is tru that the Tumantian is tardy and slow in his counsells when he is moulding of a design , and therin he may be said to have a Saturnian motion , but when his design is ripe , and ready to be put in action , then he is nimble enough and follows the motion of Mercury ; Add hereunto , that he is not onely slow , but wonderfull secret in his counsells , insomuch that his designs may be called Mysteries while they are sur le tapis , while they are in the agitation of counsell , which makes them afterwards turn from Mysteries to Exploits . Morphandra . But ther was another reson that induced me to transmute that Tumontian Physician to a Mule , which was , that he oftentimes useth to retard the cure and sanation of his Patients for drawing more fees from them , and letting them blood in the purse , as also for other Empyricall and Mountibankish Quacking tricks he plaid , comming hither Physitian to a Carack ; Therfore you may please to make your approaches to him accordingly . Pererius . Poor stupid Animal , how camest thou to be thus so pitifully disguis'd and transform'd from thy first species , and so honourable a profession ? for among all other vocations of life , they say the Physitian is to be honoured ; Art thou desirous to be re-invested and setled in thy first Nature and Calling , in case Queen Morphandra condescend therunto ? for I have power from her to feel how thy pulse beats that way . Mule. Truly no , for I have an utter disaffection both to my first Species , to my Country , and Calling , in regard I find far more contentment in this constitution of body , and course of life ; Touching the first , I am , as I am now , free from those vexations of spirit , and perturbances of mind wherunto Mankind is so miserably obnoxious , or rather inslav'd ; I feed here upon pure simples , such as the gentle earth produceth and puts out of her prolificall womb , my stomack is never overcharg'd with surfeits , nor my brain intoxicated with strong drink and the juyce of the grape , in every berry whereof ther lurks a kind of Devill , for according to the modern proverb , From the berry of the Grape , and grain of the Barly , Comes many a sore fray and hurli-burly . Moreover , when I was a Man , my head was distracted ever and anon with strange whimseys , and extravagant opinions , which now I am free from . Pererius . 'T is tru , that human brain is like a garden , wherin sundry sorts of herbs and flowers do grow , but touching your Country-men , they are least subject of any peeple to such distractions and diversity of opinions , in regard of their exact obedience to their Spirituall and Civill Governours : But what is the cause that you are so out of conceit with your Country , where you received your first essence and existence ? Mule. First , because of the immoderat heat therof , the Sun being too lavish of his beams , which causeth such a sterility and barrennes , that in som places men live like beasts , feeding most of all upon grasse and sallets , onely they have haply a bottle of Oyl , and another of Vinegar in their houses to pour amongst them , they seldom see a loaf of bread or bit of meat , but when noon or night comes , they go abroad and gather the said grasse for their dinners and suppers , and if they chance to have a few toasted Chesnuts 't is a great banquet ; Which barrennes proceedeth not so much from the heat of the Clime , as from the paucity and lazines of the Inhabitants , who are so naturally given to ease and sloth , from cultivating the earth , and doing other parts of industry . Pererius . It must be granted that Tumontia , in point of fecundity , is inferiour to som Regions , as also for nomber of men , for if she had enough of both , she wold make a Hen of the Cock , that is , she wold be too hard for her next neighbour Artonia ; But touching the first , it carrieth som convenience with it , for it keeps the peeple more temperat , and able to endure hardship ; Then the Country is not so subject to be over-run by forren force , for in point of Invasion , an Army wold be hunger-starv'd there before they could march far : Yet I have observed , that as much as ther is of any commodity in Tumontia , it is better then what grows in other Countries , their Wines , their Flesh , their Fruits , their Horses , their Silks , their Wool , &c. is better there than in other places , and let Artonia her neighbour never vaunt so much of her plenty , yet the Tumontian carrieth a better cloak on his back , he wears better shoos on his feet , he hath a better sword by his side , he drinks better wine , eats better fruit , and hath a better horse under him , &c. than the Artonian ; And if Riches consists in Tresures , in plenty of Gold and Silver , Tumontia goes far beyond all other Countries in that particular . Mule. 'T is tru , that the Tumontian King is Master of the Mines both of Gold and Silver , yet if you go to the common peeple , one may say , Who goes worse shodd than the Shoo-maker's wife ? for by mal administration , ther is little of that gold and silver that 's current among the Inhabitants , either among Merchant , Yeoman , or Artist , but all is a base Copper-coin , which the King enhanceth or decries at plesure : That tresure you speak of is sent abroad to feed and foment wars in other countries , from which the Timontian King is never free , his sword being alwaies out of the scabbard to secure or enlarge his Territories , which makes the Artonian say , that the Tumontian Ambition hath no Horrizon , it is interminable and boundlesse . Add hereunto that the Tresure you mention is an exoticall commodity , 't is had from far , from another part of the world , where the Tumonitan is said to be a Buggerer of his common Mother ( the Earth ) more than any , for he fetches it out from her bowells somtimes 50 fathom deep , where the poor slave that digs it sees neither Sun , Moon , nor Stars once in a twelmonth , being chain'd to a kind of infernall darknesse under ground , and is as it were buried alive before Nature hath out-run her due cours in him ; And it is a sad story to relate , how many millions of human cretures were made away in the discovery and conquest of that huge Continent , what a world of blood was spilt , and innocent souls swept away ; Insomuch that if the Tresure which was got ever since , and the Blood which was shed were put in counter-scales , the latter ( as one said ) wold outpoise the first . Pererius . 'T is tru , that the reduction of that vast piece of Earth was somwhat Tragicall , but it was impossible to perform the work otherwise , and secure the Conquerors , in regard of that huge masse of Peeple and swarms of Men which were found there , who could not by fair means be brought to civility : Now it is a dubious question to determin , whether those Savages gain'd more by the Tumontian , or the Tumontian by them ; 'T is tru , that he got by them Gold , Silver , and Gemms , which 't is confessed are the most pretious productions of Nature ; But what did they receive from the Tumontian by way of exchange ? They recived Religion and vertu , civility and knowledg , government and policy ; Therfore the rest of the known World should vail to the Tumontian for this mighty Exploit , and happy Discovery , which it seems the Great God of Nature had reserved for him as a benediction from the beginning ; And certainly a mighty blessing it was , if we enter into a due contemplation of the Thing , and acknowledg it so , for therby ther was as much of the Terrestriall Globe found out , in point of extent and amplitude , as the Geometricians give out , that did very near equall all the Old World : But what a world of dangers and difficulties did the Tumontian overcome in this achievment ? At first the incertitude of the businesse , the huge distance , the perills of the tnmbling Ocean did offer themselfs ; On the other side , the Expences of the Expedition , and the despair of more provisions when the old stores were spent , as also being to take footing on a new Earth , the Inhabitants might prove stronger than the Invaders &c. It cannot be denied , but such encumbrances as these might have distracted & deterrd the highest human nature from such an incertain attempt ; But at last the Tumontian courage and magnanimity was such , that it broke through all these difficulties : And as the generous Boar , being entangled in the Toyls , doth try all possible ways , hee turns about and strugles how to get out , at last , when all will not serve the turn , he lies down 'twixt quietnes and despair , putting himself upon the mercy of the Huntsman ; So the Fortune of that great Action being tied as it were to those apprehensions of fear and doubt which did possesse it , at last she doth prostrate her self at the feet of the Tumontian valour and vertue , tying her self therunto by a perpetuall tribut ; She brings him afterwards Mines and Mountains of Gold , yea Rivers running with red Oar , Seas full of Pearl , Soiles full of Aromatical Spices , new Species of useful cretures &c. All this did that new World afford Tumontia as a gratefull return for such indefatigable labours , and constancy in poursuance of that glorious Enterprize . Mule. Noble Prince , truly Tumontia is infinitely engaged unto you for these high Elogiums you please to give of her , yet , under favor , ther is a strange fate , I am loath to say a curse , which attends that far fetch'd Tresure you magnifie so much ; For observable it is , that not long after the conquest of those harmlesse peeple , whom God and Nature had planted there from the first Creation , the revolt of Hydraulia and the confederat Provinces hapned , which consum'd of that Tresure you speak of above five and twenty hundred millions first and last , otherwise the Tumontian Kings might have pav'd their Courts , and til'd their Palaces ( as it was said else-where ) with Gold and Silver ; For as I told you before , the least part of this Tresure remains in Tumontia , and that is onely in Monasteries and other Religious Houses , the common coyne is Brasse and Copper , wherin the Hydraulian 't is thought hath don more mischief to Tumontia than any other way , for copper and brasse being cheap with her , she is so dextrous in counterfeiting the Tarmontian coyne , that whole Sows of Lead , and Masts hollowed within have been found cramm'd with that coyne among her Cargazons , when she came to the Ports of Tumontia to trade . Pererius . Well , let 's cut off these circumlocutions , and com again to the main point ; Have you a disposition of returning to your primitive Nature , to your Country , and so learned a Calling ? It is impossible for you to meet with a fairer opportunity , and let me tell you , Opportunity is the best moment in the whole extension of time . Mule. Concerning my former Nature , I gave you som touches formerly why I prefer my present condition before it , I had also som reflexes upon my Country , I could say much more of her , but that I am disswaded by the proverb , that 't is a sorry bird that beraies his own nest : Now Sir , touching my former profession , which you applaud so much , 't is tru , ther is a kind of learning and lucre that does attend it , but withall ther is a great deal of sordidnes ; I will converse no more with ulcers , cankers , and impostumes ; I will pry no more into close-stools and urinalls , or rake gold out of excrements , as the Poet tells us , Aurum Virgilius exstercore colligit Ennî , Fecit Virgilius quod facit & Medicus . No are the Fees which belong to that Profession in Tumontia any thing considerable , where Doctors of Physic use to attend a Patient , with their Mules and Foot-cloaths in a kind of state , yet they receive but two shillings for their Fee for all their gravity and pains ; Add hereunto , that ther are up and down the world so many poor Empiricks of this Trade , that it is nothing of that esteem as it was ; which makes the Brittish Epigrammatist sing wittily , Qui modò venisti nostram Mendicus in Urbem , Paulùm mutato nomine fis Medicus ; Pharmaca das Aegroto , aurum tibi porrigit Aeger , Tu morbum curas Illius , Ille tuum . Pererius . Touching the first part of your speech , it shews the exact government of Tumontia , where ther is an exact Tax laid upon the Fees both of Physician & Lawyer , which they dare not surpasse ; Touching the other part , they are but clinches and passages of Drollery , nor do Physitians much value such gingling conceits all the while they finger our coyn , for all the world doth grant , that the study of Physic is both learned and necessary , and 't is the chiefest kind of Learning , for therby a man comes to know himself ; For the Physitian can say more truly than any other , Nosco meipsum . Mule. Though Physitians know themselfs never so well and the constitution of their bodies , yet when they are sick they commonly take their Receipts by prescription of others , being distrustfull of themselfs ; And whereas you say , the practise of Physic is necessary , I remember to have read , that the point was debated before Pope Alexander the sixth , and canvased to and fro , som alledging that Physitians were superfluous and not necessary for a Common-wealth , because Rome stood and flourished many hundred years before the use of Physic was first introduc'd , during which time men never liv'd more healthfull and longer ; His Holines opinion being desired at last , he said , he was for the affirmatif , and that he held Physicians to be absolutely necessary for a Common-wealth , in regard that were it not for physicians the world wold be so thick of peeple , that one could not live for another : Intimating therby that the Physitians help to make them away . Pererius . Yet your experience tells you , that the Physicall Art is noble , and one of the seven liberall Sciences , consisting of undoubted and certain Principles , containing a world of Naturall knowledg . Mule. Ther is Therapeutic or contemplative Physic , ther is Diagnostic or knowing , and ther is Prognostic Physic ; If we consider Physic as she is a Seience , she hath most tru and certain Aphorisms , for she considers onely Universalls , which are eternall and invariable , and breed certitudes in us , because she arrives to the knowledg of things by their causes , and so she may be called Scientificall , and appertains to contemplation , whose onely scope is to discover Tnuth singly of it self ; But if we consider Physic as an Art , which proceeds from experience and action , she is incertain and fallacious in her operations , in regard of the various constitutions of human bodies , for those Drugs and Receipts which do work kindly with som bodies , find crosse operations in others , and many times the tru symptoms of the disease is not known ; Moreover we administer to others what we never take our selfs , which made a great aged Physician , being asked how he came to live so long , to answer , I have liv'd so long because never any Drug entred into my guts ; Besides , when any Pill or Potion hath a kindly operation in the Patient , it is as much by hap as by any good cunning ; What a nomber of remedies are ther for one onely disease ? whence may be inferred , that ther is not any one peculiar infallible remedy ; Insomuch that when the Physitian applies Universalls to Particulars , and administers any Purgation , Vomit , or Electuary , it is requisit that both the Physician and Patient be fortunat , ther is a kind of happines required in the busines ; Add hereunto , that the complexion of men and women are so diffring , their appetite so irregular and disordinat , that it makes all Physicall operations to be so incertain ; Now touching the species of Us Sensitive cretures , they are of so even & strong complexions , their appetites are so regular , their nutriments and food , their drinks are so simple , that they need not any physicall Drugs ; Wheras among Mankind , they make ever and anon an Apothecary's shop of their bellies , being still in a course of Physic , which makes them so miserable , for it is a tru proverb , Qui vivit medicè , vivit miserè ; Therefore a kind of Tragicall speech was that of Alexander the Great , when upon expiring his last , he cried out , being but then in the Meridian of his age , Pereo turbâ Medicorum , I perish by too many Physitians . Pererius . It begets much wonder in me that you should thus traduce your own Calling , and derogate from so learned and laudable a Profession , a Faculty that hath been always accounted to have a high kind of Divinity in it , being founded by Apollo himself . Mule. In the shape I now wear , I cannot lye nor flatter , I can neither cogg , cageòle , nor complement , as I did when I was a man , when I used ever and anon to kiss those hands which I wish'd in my thoughts had been cut off , my heart and my toung lying now more levell and even , ther 's nearer relation betwixt them ; Therfore what I told you before was truth , simple truth , wherin the Brute Animal goes beyond the Rational , who is subject to innumerable errors , dissimulations , and the humor of lying . But to enlarge my self a little further upon the former subject of Physic , which you call so learned an Art , you know that every one is a Fool or a Physitian to himself naturally , after he hath passed the Meridian of his years , therfore what great learning can ther be in this ? Pererius . 'T is much truth ; I have heard of divers irrational cretures that are learned this way , who by the meer instinct and conduct of nature , can direct themselfs to things that can cure them . Mule. This cannot be denied , and therin many of them are more sagacious than men ; The Serpent goes to Fenell when he would clear his sight , or cast off his old scruffy skin to wear a new one ; The Stagg , Buck , or Doe , when they are hurt have recourse to Dittany ; The Swallow when she finds her young ones have sore eyes , makes use of Celandine , or Swallow-wort ; The Snail heals her self with Hemlock ; the Wesill , when she prepares to fight with the Mole , useth to raise her spirits by eating Rue ; The Stork heals all his infirmities with Origanum ; The wild Boar with Ivy ; The Elephant fenceth himself from the poison of the Camelion with Olive leaves ; The Bear makes use of Mandragora against Pismires ; The Patridge and wild Pidgeon do use to purge their superfluities with Bay-leaves ; The Dogg , when he feels himself indisposed in his stomack , runs to the green grasse a little bedewed , &c. But what need I detain you with more instances ? take any sensitive creture you please , and you will find , that Nature hath taught him a remedy against all infirmities that are incident unto him , not onely to the species but to every Individuall , and all this without any expence of time or tresure , without any study or labour , without any fee or reward , without any teaching or instructions from others ; Whence 't is apparent , that Nature is more carefull and indulgent of Us than of Ratinall cretures , who though they are subject to a thousand infirmities more , yet not one in a thousand knowes how to cure himself ; but he must have recourse to the Physician , and so trusts him with his life , and if he chance to work a cure upon him , he useth to give his purse a purgation also , for Though God heals , yet the Physitian carries away the Fees. Pererius . 'T is very fitting the labourer shold have his hite , and that every one shold live by his calling , but how can mony be better employed than for the recovery of Health , which is the most precious of all Jewells , without which we can neither serve God , man , or our selfs ? Mule. It is very tru that Physitians somtimes restore health , but they misse as often , how can they cure an Ague , which is call'd opporbrium Medicorum , the shame of Physitians ? besides , ther 's an Artonian proverb says , A la Goutte le Medecin ne voit goute , The Gout makes the Physitian blind ; Yet they have this privilege , that the earth covers all their faults : Now , what a world of distempers and maladies is mans body subject unto ? Ther is a common saying that says , He hath as many diseases as a horse , but 't is false , for man hath many more ; besides , a horse hath few or no diseases at all , but what the cruelty of man , doth cause in him , either when he is over-ridden , and so becoms broken-winded , when gall'd backd , founder'd , or splinter'd by the carelesnes or cruelty of the Rider , as I said before , wheras a good man should be mercifull to his beast ; But ther 's never a part of the human body , but it hath I cannot tell how many peculiar deseases belonging unto it ; Go to the Head , it hath the Cephalagia , the Hemicrania , or the Migrain , it hath the Scotomy or Vertigo , the Palsy , Convulsion , Epilepsy or Falling-sicknesse , It hath the Phrenitis , Mania or Phrenzy , Catarrs , Apoplexy , with many other ; Go to the Lungs , it hath the Astma , Pluritis , Peripneumonia , Empyema , Ptisis , Haemocrises , with sundry more ; Go to the Heart the fountain of life , it hath the Syncope or swooning , Palpitation , &c. Go to the Stomack , it hath Inappetentia , Fames Canina or the Wolf , it hath the Pica , Malacia , Singultus or the Hicock , spitting of blood , choler , Abscess●s or Impostumes , Ulcers , &c. Go to the Liver , it hath Obstruction , the Jaundies , the Dropsie , Cirrhus , Inflammation , Ulcer , Impostume , &c. Go to the Bowells , they have the Colique , Iliaca Passio or voiding excrements at the mouth , Astrictio alvi , Lineteria , or smoothnes of the guts , Caeliaca affectio or pappy stools , Diarrhaea or thin scowring , Dysenteria or the bloody-flix , Tenesmus or sorenes of the fundament , Fluxus Hepaticus , Lombrici or the Worms , the Hemerroids , Fistula , &c. Go to the Spleen , ther is Dolor lienis , Obstructio , Hypocondriacall melancholy or the Mother , &c. Go to the Reins , Bladder , and Genitalls , ther is Calculus or the Stone , Inflammatio , Mictus fanguinis , Diabete , when one voids more urine than he drinks , Incontinentia urinae , Ardor , Iscuria , when the passage is quite stopped , the Strangury , when one pisseth drop by drop , Lues Venerea , Anthony's Fire , the Chancre , and Botches , &c. Go to the Ioints , ther is Arthritis , and sundry sorts of Gouts , &c. Go to the Eye , ther is Gutta Serena , Suffusio or a Cataract with a film , Ophthalmia , Epiphola or hot rheum , Aegilops , Fistula Lachrymalis , and above twenty more ; Go to the Ear , ther is Surditas , Sonitus , Dolot aurium , &c. Go to the Nose , ther is Ozana , Ulcus , Polypus or lump of flesh , Faetor narium , Hemoragia or excesse of bleeding , Coryza or the Pose , Sternutatio , withdiversmore ; Go to the Toung , ther is Paralysis , Laesus , Gustus inflammatio , Ranula sub lingua , &c. Go to the Teeth , Throat , and Gums , ther is Angina or the Squinzy , ther is fluxus , Uvulae relaxatio , with sundry more ; Ther is also abundance of peculiar diseases that are incident to Women , ther is Chlorosis or the Green-sicknesse , Cancers in the breasts , Suppressio mensium , Fluor muliebris , Fluor uterinus , Histerica passio , Inflammatio , Ulcus uteri , Cirrhus uteri , Cancer uteri , Gangraena uteri , Hydrops uteri , Clausura uteri , Sterilitas , Obortus , Partus diffioilis , Faetus mortuus , Secundina retenta , Proscidentia , with many more ; Out of these premises the conclusion follows , that Human bodies both male and female are nought else but frail Vessells , or Bottoms wherin are slowed all manner of perishable Commodities ; But these which I have spoken of are corporeall , and most of them outward diseases that attend the body of mankind , wherof I have not enumerated the twentieth part ; But if you go to his Rationall Soul , she hath also her distempers , the indisposition of the inward man is greater , the anxieries and agonies of the mind , the racking torments of the thoughts are more violent , the enchanting passions of love transports him to frenzies . Incertitudes of holy things , and fits of despair work somtimes so powerfully , that he becomes Felo de se , making him to destroy himself , and cut off the threed of his life before Lachesis hath wound it half up ; And were ther a Physician that could cure the discomposures and sicknesses of the human soul , he wold be the rarest among mortalls ; And were I sure I could have a faculty to do that , I wold turn Man and Physician again . Pererius . Ther are other kind of Physicians for those maladies , viz. the Ghostly Fathers of the Church , acts and exercises of piety are the lenitifs for such distempers , and preservatifs against them ; For he who is in peace with Heven , and useth to convers with his Creator , is free from such discomposures , from all tumultuary confusions and perturbances of thoughts ; 'T is confess'd , ther 's no human creture has his humors so evenly pois'd within him , that he is always the same , he is somtimes Ioviall and merry , he is somtimes Saturnin and melancholy , and it must be so while the Starrs poure different influxes upon us , but especially while the humors within us have a symbolization with the four Elements , who are in restles conflict among themselfs who shall have the mastery , as the humors do in us for predominancy ; Insomuch that the humors or passions may be said to be to the soul as strings to a musicall Instrument , which somtimes use to jarre , sometimes to go in a tru harmony ; and this the Physitian who is Natures Student , hath more advantage to know than others : But let us spin out time no longer , for 't is a tru as well as a trite proverb , that Spinning out of time never made good cloth ; At a word , will you embrace this comfortable proffer I make you from the gratious Queen Morphandra , and turn Tumontian again ? Mule. Truly Sir I have neither mind nor maw to it , for in the state wherin I am setled , I use to exercise the operations of nature with more freedom , and much lesse encumbrance , following onely the dictats of sense , and being solely guided therby . Pererius . But what are the dictats of sense , compar'd with the intellectuall powers of the human soul ? what is the Sense which trades alone with grosse bodies , and qualities emergent thence , compar'd with Reson , a faculty wherby the soul converseth with blessed Angels and immateriat Beeings , and by Metaphysicall and sublime notions wings her self up into the arms of Him who breath'd her first into the body of man ? In the upper Court of the Soul's residence , we may compare the Soul to an Empresse , wisely restraining or giving freedom to the misguided affections , according to the exact rules of Reson ; Here we have Man ruling in Man , dressing and manuring Man as another Paradise , wherin is all possible variety , yet no confusion , no disorder , no unruly passions tyrannizing over Reson , no disturbance of mind , no distemper of body , but a most admirable harmony of all things in the whole Universe of Man ; Reson is that Diadem wherby the soul doth rule and regulat the will , and the affections , the Chancellor which doth moderat the motions of both ; Reson is that Rod wherwith the Soul is kept in awe to obey , without any servile fear , her Creator and chiefest Good ; By Reson the Soul discerns ther is a God , deducing arguments from the Creation of the fair fabric of the world , which had either existence from it self , or was produced by another ; but it could not give a first beeing to it self , in regard 't is repugnant to the principles of Nature , that any thing should be the cause of it self ; Therfore the Inference is undeniable , that the world was made by another which was pre-existent , and such another that was the Efficient cause therof , not produced by any other former efficient cause , but was of Himself , and by Himself from eternity , which can be no other than God ; Another argument the Soul drawes from the necessary dependance of a finit Beeing upon an Infinit , for all created natures are finit , both in respect of their essence , and operations ; Now , every thing that is finit must necessarily be limited by another , seeing it is impossible that any thing shold give bounds to it self ; And ther being not in things finit a progresse to Infinity , We must at length come to some certain Independent Beeing , which is not circumscrib'd or limited by another , but is of it self essentially and virtually infinit , which can be no other than God Almighty ; A third argument is drawn from the necessary dependance of a Secondary cause upon a First , for unlesse we do here also grant a progresse to Infinity , which is absurd in mounting up the scale of subordination of causes , we must at length meet with one primary both Efficient and Finall cause , that hath no other cause superiour or precedent unto it , which is onely God : Another argument the Soul draweth , still by the ministry of Reson , to prove a Deity , is the constant cours of the Starrs , those glorious Luminaries , and the continued order of all things else in their first station , through all the vicissitudes of corruption and generation , which doth forcibly intimat an ubiquitary Providence , a wise Rector , Governor , and Commander , upon whose direction all things depend ; No sooner doth the Soul by such reaches of Reson throughly satisfie her self that ther is a God , but she mounts yet higher , endeavouring to know what God is ; But such is the transcendent refulgence of his Majesty , that she finds it impossible to look God in the face , or to know him à priori ; yet though she is not able to behold his face , yet she hath leave granted to know him à posteriori , though she cannot define the incomprehensible Deity , yet she may still , guided by light of Reson , describe him by an aggregation of Attributes ? To know God by his Attributes is a near approach to his Deity ; Yet the Rationall soul goes still nearer , first prying into his Essence , then returning to her self , and contriving which way she should know more , at length she says within her self , Operatio sequitur Esse , Action follows its Being ; Then she busies her self in the contemplation of Gods Actions , which she finds either immanent and inward , or transient and outward ; The immanent actions of God are such as are performed intrinsecally within Himself , without any externall respect to the creture , wherby he is said to contemplat , to know , and love Himself ; Here the Soul takes notice of a reflection of the Deity upon it self , and so is heightned to the supposition of a Trinity , the cardinall and abstrusest point , the highest pitch she can soar unto ; She proceeds to argue , that wheras God doth conceive and know Himself , he doth beget a perfect Image of Himself , from which issueth a perfect Love of Himself , and a complacency ; Now , seeing ther is nothing in God which is not God , both the Image of God , and the Love of God seem to be distinct Subsistences of the same Essence with Him from whom they proceed , as when an Eye doth see it self , ther is first the Eye seeing , secondly , the Eye seen , or at least the Image of the eye seen , from which action of seeing her arises a desire of enjoyment ; This comparison doth in some sort adumbrat the blessed Trinity ; First , ther is the Eye ; Secondly , ther is a Reflection or Image of the Eye ; Thirdly , ther is a love or complacency which proceeds from both ; The first is God the Father , the Second is God the Son , and the third is God the Holy Ghost ; Now , although these three Subsistencies be all concentred in the Deity , yet they are distinct each one from the other in their operations ad extra , though in immanent , or in actions ad intra , they are individuall : Thus the Human Soul ascends to the knowledge of her Eternall Good , by the ministry and reaches of Reson , therfore me-thinks you should have an Ambition to be endued with that divine Faculty again , and so return to your native soyl from this society of irrationall brute Animals , and be a subject to so great a Monarch as the Tumontian King is , your naturall liege Lord and Prince , whose Dominions are of such a vast expansion that they reach to the very Antipodes , the other Hemisphere of the world , whereby he may say , that the Sun never sets , but shines upon som part or other of his Territories every hour of the naturall day , all the while Apollo fetches a carreer about the world . Mule. Touching the first part of this your last discours , wherin you so much magnifie the faculty of Reson , and that therby you arrive to the notion of heavenly things , truly Sir , I am of his opinion who held , that all the knowledg which man hath of his Creator is but one degree above blindnesse ; What the eye of a Batt is to the Sun in its Meridian , the same is the most perspicacious eye of man's understanding if he look upon his Maker : In the state that now I live do not puzzle my brain with such presumptuous reserches and incertain speculations , but am contented with the doctrin and dictamens of Sense onely , which are more infallible . Concerning the last part of your speech , it cannot be denied but that the Tumontian King is one of the greatest Potentats that ever was upon earth , if his Dominions were contiguous and united , but ther is such an unsociable distance between them , that the Artonian will tell you , His Monarchy is like a great Cloak made up of patches ; Moreover , I have no great comfort to be his subject now , because he hath gon down the wind for many years , having bin so shreudly shaken in the saddle , most of that Country you spoke of which reacheth to the Antipodes being revolted from him , and he hath very lately disgorged many a good bit to Artonia : Add hereunto , that his peeple in Tumontia are grown miserably poor of late years by such insupportable Taxes , and drainings of men for the Warrs , insomuch that ther are scarce enough left to cultivat the earth : Yet such is the rare obedience , and the phlegmatic humor of the Tumontians , that they are still as awfull , they are as conformable and quiet , as if ther King were as vertuous , as victorious , and the least exacter the ever Prince was ; But this they do for their own advantage , for if there were another Governor set up , it wold inevitably hurl the whole Country into civill tumults and combustion , & so the remedy wold be worse than the disease . Pererius . They shew themselfs a prudent peeple in that , for it is in Governments as it is in choice of wifes , Seldom comes a better ; But the Tumontian hath other commendable qualities , for besides his constant obedience to his Prince , He is also constant to his Religion , he is in perpetuall enmity with the common enemy of the Crosse , Moreover he never serves any Prince in the warrs but his own , nor goes he to trade abroad into and Country but to his own Masters Territories : And are not you desirous to be one of that brave Nation again ? Therfore let me advise you now once for all , to shake off that dull despicable shape , which useth , in naturall production to have no better mother then an Asse . Mule. Truly Sir , you may please ( as the proverb runs ) to keep your breath to cool your pattage , and spend it no longer upon me , for I am resolved to live and die in this shape ; But wheras you brand it with the term of despicable , I wold have you know , that our bodies have more vertues far in them than Man's , and wherof Man makes common use towards his health : Our very foam drunk in warm wine is good against pursines ; Som of our hairs mingled with those of an Asse and dried , and so put to a perfume , are good against the Epilepsie , The milt of one of us is good against the Falling-evill , nay the very dust wherin one of us hath tumbled , is good to mitigate the ardors of Love , being sprinkled upon the body ; But take heed how you anger us , for our bitings are poysonous : We have sundry other medicinall vertues , which I will here pretermit ; Therefore whereas you call this species of ours despicable , we deserve rather more respect considering the said vertues ; Insomuch that if I should exchange this shape for man's , I should prove a greater fool than that Mule in the Fable , who seeing a goodly barb'd Horse going to the Warrs , and saying within himself , It may be that gallant Horse and I had the same mother , therfore why shold not I have so much courage and stoutnes in me ? I wold I had such a rider , such a great saddle , trappings and arms to try my courage ; But seeing the Horse led back in the evening all bloody and wounded , he repented himself of his former foolish wish . 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . The Sixth Section . Consisting of interchangeable Discourses 'twixt Morphandra , Pererius , and a Fox , who had been a Saturnian born , whom for his cunning dealings , and Mountebankish wily tricks , she transform'd from a Merchant to that species ; This Section treats of divers things , and particularly how the Art of tru Policy is degenerated , and what poor Sciolists or Smatterers are cried up in that Art of late years , &c. Morphandra , Pererius , and a Fox . Pererius . MOst admired Queen , I render you my most humble acknowledgments for the continuance of your great favors towards me , which I am now in half-despair that I shall not be able to make use of for perfecting my designs upon these brute Animals ; Touching this last , I find in him also an aversnes both to his first Constitution , to his Country , and to his Culling ; Concerning the first , he complains of the nomberles diseases which are incident to every part of that Microcosm of Man , as also the various and violent distempers of the mind , with the stings of conscience , which brute Animals are not subject unto , &c. Touching the second , viz. his Country , he inveighs against the craggy swellings of it , the excesse of heat , and consequently the sterilities of it , which is such , that ther is not a competency of bread ( which is the staff of life ) for the twentieth man that breaths in it , &c. Touching the third , viz. His former Calling , he complains of the incertainties , the sordidnesse , and a kind of Atheism that it is subject unto , for while the Physician tampers so much with second causes , it brings him to a forgetfulness of the first , &c. But , Madame , I desire to try conclusions upon som nimbler and wittier creture than that lumpish mongrell Mule. Morphandra . You shall be partaker of your desires presently , for I espy a Fox near that hedge who was a Saturnian Merchant , born in Rugilia , whom for his cunningnes in negotiating , and for som Hocos-pocos and Mountebankish tricks I transformed to a Fox , who you know is the most politic , the wittiest and wiliest of all Quadrupedalls , wherof ther are multitudes of examples ; One time he cosen'd the Crow , who having got a morsell of green cheese , and being perch'd upon the bough of an Oak to eat it , a Fox perceiving it went under the tree , and stood gazing upon the Crow , saying , What a base lying thing is common fame , who saies that thou art a black ill-favour'd Bird ? truly methinks thou art the fairest that ever I saw , and couldst thou but sing as others do , thou deserv'st to be Queen of Birds ; The Crow being tickled with these praises fell a opening her beak , so down fell the cheese , and the Fox made merry with it ; But he was more wily with the Wolf , for a Fox having got into a Farmers yard , and skulking up and down in a Moon-shine night , ther being a well in the yard he peep'd into it , and the reflex of the Moon being in the water , he thought it was a new cheese , therupon he whip'd into one of the buckets , and down he went to feed upon it ; Being in that plunge , it chanc'd that a Wolf came also skulking therabouts for his prey , and looking into the well , the Fox cries out , O brother Wolf , her 's most dainty cheer , and ther 's enough for us both ; so the Wolf leaping into the other bucket drew up the Fox , who being got on the top , and he in the bottom of the well said , Farewell brother wolf , and much good may the new cheese do unto you , so he got free , leaving another in his room ; He was also too hard for the Lion , who as he is King of Quadrupedalls , having put forth a Proclamation , that all horned beasts shold give attendance at Court on such a day to a great Feast , ( though his plot was to prey on them ) the Ass meeting with a Fox said , Come let 's go to Court to see the great shew , for if ther shold be any danger we are free from it , in regard we have no horns , though sufficient ears ; I , quoth the Fox , but if the Lion saies that our ears be horns , they must be horns ; Moreover I have observ'd the tracks of many beasts going into the Lion's Cave but none comming back : This was onely caution , but it was a trick of wit that the Fox plaid with the Eagle , who having got one of his young Cubbs , and carried it to the top of a high tree where his nest was , to prey upon it , the Fox got a brand or two of fire and put it to the trunck of the tree , which so scar'd the Eagle , that he brought down the young Cubb and laid it in the place he found it ; How commonly doth the Fox cosen both Huntsman and Dogg , when being poursued he useth to get into a plowed field , and stretching himself all along in a furrow he often scapes , his skin and the earth being of a colour ; Therfore you may make triall now upon a brute Animal that hath some sagacity and wit , as well as activity . Pererius . I will towards him ; Signor Fox , you need not stare so much nor startle , for I am com neither to hunt you , nor hurt you any way , rather I am com upon a busines that will tend hugely to your advantage ; But I desire first to be informd how you came to be transform'd or deform'd rather , from the noble shape of Man to this grovling brutish figure . Fox . I was once a Rugilian Merchant , and born in that proud City , ( for that 's her Epithet above all other Cities ) where , according to the proverb , ther are Mountains without Wood , Seas without Fish , Men without Faith , and Women without Shame ; where also the horned husbands are said to get their wife 's with child a hundred miles off ; And being com hither upon a gallant ship , with a Cargazon of divers Commodities , I was transmuted to this shape you behold , for my over-cunning and cautelous dealings . Pererius . Well , have you a disposition to be redintegrated into your first Beeing , for Queen Morphandra hath bin pleased to promise me you shold be , if your will concur with my desire ; Therfore tell me freely if you have a mind to see Saturnia again , your native soyle , the Mistresse of the world , the Source of all civility , the Nourse of tru noblenesse and vertu , the prime Propagatresse of Religion and Learning ; Where Nature hath her chiefest Magazins of Silk , Bacchus his Inner-cellars of sweet Wines , Flora her prime Garden of Flowers , and Pomona her principall Orchard of Fruits ; where Pandora hath her choisest Residence , Policy hath her chiefest School , where Arms and Arts have their chiefest Academy ; Have you a desire to be transported to this your dainty and dear Country , and put on the habit and habitudes of Man again ? Fox . Truly no , for here I live in a better Country , in a better Condition , and in better Company , then I did in Saturnia . Pererius . Do not deceive your self , for you will never be able to prove that , though you had all the Logic that ever Athens taught . Fox . Touching the first , wheras you magnifie Saturnia so much for her fertility , let me tell you , that to my knowledg ther be divers parts of her so barren and desolat , that you shall not meet with a house in twenty miles riding ; Rugilia , that part wherin I came first into the world , may be call'd nothing else but a Conventicle of Rocks and Craggs ; In som places you may see three Marquisses on one tree gathering Figgs to keep them from starving : They bragg of a River that hath Junkets in her , som Comfits , some Plumms , som Cinnamon , but these Junkets are but white stones bearing the shape of all these ; Ther 's no Country hath more Tempests , more Tremblings and Earthquakes , wherof ther have been very lately such formidable examples of utter desolation and subversion of twenty Towns ; There is part of the Country which is under a perpetual shadowy darknesse or adumbration , whence the whole Province takes its denomination ; Ther 's no Clime under the convex of Heven where Meteors and fulgurations are more impetuous and violent . Touching the second , which was my former Condition , ther 's a thing called Conscience which us'd to tyrannize and torture me when I was a Man , I often found within me a gnawing worm , I often felt sore stings , sore pricks , and remorses of the said Conscience , which the Theologues call Synteresis , that ever and anon did discompose the quietude of my thoughts , and disturb me in my gaining profession ; But in this state I am free from such perplexities , for now , though I suck the blood of twenty Geese a day , and destroy whole roosts of Hens , the thing call'd Conscience never troubles me . Moreover , besides this rack of Conscience , ther is a vice call'd Covetousnes that Man is subject unto , and when all other vices grow old in him , this vice growes younger and younger . I remember I was slavishly addicted hereunto , I would have flayed a louse could I have made benefit of her skin , but now I am free from that fordid vice , from that kind of idolatry , for according to the saying , he is the worse Idolater who adores Gold , for he may be said therby to worship the Devil , for Pluto is the god of Riches ; In the shape I bear , I covet no more but what wil satisfie nature only : Ther is another cursed and cruciatory humor call'd Iealousie which much afflicts Mankind , and it reigns more amongst that Nation I was once of than among any other ; Jealousie among the thoughts is like Batts among birds , it doth mightily discompose the whole inward man , and disturb the tranquillity of his mind , nay it hurls him often upon desperat and bloody attempts . Touching the third , which is Company , I have now far better , conversing with these innocuous and simple Animals . The society of men is much more dangerous , specially of my quondam Country-men , for upon any occasion of distast one is in danger of a Saturnian Figg , or to be poyson'd by the smoak of a candle , by the suavity of a flower , or by a glove or handkerchief ; For four or five Duckets reward , one may be master of any man's life in som places of Saturnia , for he will find a mercenary instrument to murther any body ; Add hereunto , that my Country-men are full of revenge , and vindicatif in the highest degree , they will seldom suffer one to do them a second wrong , but dispatch him away to the other world , which is the occasion of a saying , Take heed of a slow Foe in Saturnia , and of a sudden Friend in Artonia ; I could give you many examples hereof , but I will produce onely two ; In Marcopolis , the greatest Mart of the Western world , ( though two of her chiefest be but brittle Commodities , viz. Lasses and Glasses ) ther were two rich Merchants who had been partners a long time , it chanced that one of them knowing the other to be over familiar with his wife , he dissembled his passion a great while , till his thoughts had contriv'd and concluded a revenge upon him , so he solemnly invited his partner to a Feast , and after dinner he led him to a Garden that he had by the Sea-side , being there alone together he brought him to an Arbor , where among divers other rarities ther was a curious new large Chari made with such artifice , that when one had put himself to sit in it , ther were certain gins and vices wold suddenly rise up and clasp in his body both arms and thighs ; His Partner being thus lockt fast in the Chair , he presently gaggs him , and having lockt the Garden dore , he drew a great double-edg'd knife , and being upon the point of stabbing him , the Partner said , Oh be not so inhuman and barbarously cruell as to kill me before confession , therfore have som commiseration on my soul ; Well , replied the murtherer , if thou wilt do one thing , I may spare thee thy life , which is , If thou wilt defie the holy Trinity , and renounce all hopes of salvation in it , &c. The Partner ( in hopes of future repentance to expiat his offence ) repeated those words three times , and the third time as soon as he had done repeating them , he stabb'd him in the breast , and cleft his heart in two , and so threw his body into the Sea to make food for Hadocks ; But a while after his body being retreev'd and taken up in a fisher-net just under that wall , the murther was discover'd , and the murtherer being put upon the Strapado he confessed all , and going up the Gibbe to be executed , he broke out into a great fit of laughter ; His ghostly Father and Confessor telling him , that he was now going to give account of that horrid murther he had committed before the great Judge of the world , therfore that passion of laughter did not becom him ; Oh , said he , whensoever I think upon that full revenge I had of that villain , my heart danceth within me for joy , for I was not onely reveng'd upon his body but also upon his soul , in which humor he breath'd his last . Another was as bloody , if not more ; In the antient City of Cerano , ther was a Prince who left three sons behind him , Conradus , Caesar , and Alexander ; Conradus was us'd to come from his palace in the Country to his Castle in Cerano , where he had appointed a Governour , and a Garrison of souldiers ; The Governor having a comly Lady to his wife , the young Prince was struck in love with her , and at last enjoyed her ; The Governour having knowledge therof did meditat upon a revenge , therupon he sent to Conradus ( his Lord and Master ) that he had lately discover'd two or three wild Boars in the Forest of Cerano , therfore if his Highnesse would please to com thither together with his two brothers , ther wold be very Princely sport for them , and he wold prepare all things ready for the Game ; Hereupon the young Prince and his second Brother comming thither expresly for that sport , it chanced that Alexander the youngest brother was then out of the way ; So the Governor of the Castle having provided a plentifull supper for the two Princes and their Retinue , being both gone to bed , he calls his Officers together , and told them , Gentlemen , what does he deserve , who for many good services and hospitalities done unto him , doth in lieu of thanks abuse ones wife , and defiles his bed ? They all cried out , He deserves death ; Truly Gentlemen , thus hath Prince Conradus us'd me ; They cried out again , Let him die , and we will stick unto you , and be faithfull ; So the Governor taking som of those Officers with him in the dead of night , they broke suddenly into the chamber where Conradus was asleep , and heaving up the bed-cloaths , they first cut off his privy-members , then they chop'd off his head , then they quarter'd his body , and strewed them up and down the chamber ; So all was hush'd that night ; Prince Caesar comming to wait on his Brother the next morning , the Governor usher'd him in , and seeing his Brother's head bleeding on the window , and his limbs scatter'd up and down the room , he said , Oh! is this the wild Boar you writ to him of ? Yes , said the Governour , and I remember I writ of two or three ; Hereupon he was also knock'd down , and us'd in the same manner ? The Tragedy being acted thus far , he takes his Officers , and going upon the Castle walls , he sent to speak with the Syndic and Burgesses of the Town , unto whom he made a Speech , that they had been a long time in servitude or a kind of slavery to Conradus and that Family , and now ther was a fair opportunity offered for them to redeem their liberties , for he had Conradus and his Brother in his custody , and the Officers with the rest of the Garrison were inclin'd to do them away , if the Town wold joyn with them ; But the Town shewing an aversnes , or rather a detestation of such disloyalty and treason , sent to Prince Alexander the youngest Brother , and the Citizens of Cerano joyning with the forces he brought with him to expiat his Brother's bloods , they beleaguer the Castle round ; Therupon the Governor taking his wife and children with him to the top of the highest Turret , he first threw down headlong his wife , then his three children , and last of all he precipitates himself , and so the Tragedy ended . Pererius . A Tragedy indeed , and one of the direfullest that ever I heard of ; It must be granted , that the Saturnian spirit is much bent upon revenges , he is in the extreams commonly , Quod vult valde vult , quod odit valde odit ; vertues and vices are there in the Superlative degree : But truly if the vertues and vices of that noble Nation were weighed in a ballance , I am confident the first wold out-poise the second , for ther might be more instances of actions of high vertu produced , than of vice ; I will make mention of one , and that a very modern one , and no Romance ; Ther was in the antient Amphitheatricall City of Rovena a young Marquis , who fell desperatly in love with a Merchant's wife , he courted her a long time but could not prevail , at last , the Merchant having a Villa or Country-house , whither he was gone a while for divertisment , the Marquis went a Hawking therabouts one day , and letting his Hawk fly of purpose into the Merchant's Orchard , he and his men rid luring after her , and retreeved her in the Orchard where the Marquis himself was entred , having obtain'd leave before ; The Hawk being found , the Merchant invites the Marquis to a Treatment , where his wife was present , and very officious to please ; Being departed , she asks her husband who he was ? He answer'd , 'T is the Marquis of such a place , one of the gallantest and most hopefull young Noblemen in all Saturnia , a person full of transcendent parts and high perfections , &c. These praises making deep impressions in his wife , and the Marquis poursuing still his design , he at last prevailed , and being admitted to her chamber by a back Garden-dore , he found her a bed , and in a fit posture to receive him ; so unbracing himself to go to her , and having put off his doublet , she told him smilingly , Do you know whom you may thank most for this courtesie ? It is my husband , who ▪ after the late Treatment you had , fell a long time into such high commendations of you , that I never heard him speak so nobly of any : The Marquis being put to a sudden stand hereby , and struck with a kind of astonishment , put on his doublet again and his cloak , saying , Shall I abuse so worthy a friend , and such noble affections ? No , I will die first ; So taking his leave of the Lady in civill and thankfull posture , he departed the same way he was let in , and never attempted her again . Fox . Truly it cannot be denied , but this was a most signall example of continence , and no lesse of gratitude , to restrain himself so in the height of such a lust . Pererius . Well , will you conform your self to my advice , and turn Man , and Merchant , to converse again with such a noble Nation , a Nation that may prescribe rules of prudence and policy to all Mankind ? Fox . Sir , you speak of Policy , ther is no tru policy practised now adaies in the world , it is degenerated together with the nature of man into subtlety and craft ; If ther be any left 't is in Marcopolis , where ther are the truest Patriots and most public Souls that I have known remaining amongst men , otherwise she had never been able to tugg so long with the huge Tomanto Empire , and other the greatest Potentats , upon earth ; Yet somtimes she hath us'd to sow such another Tail as mine to her Lions skin , and proceed by craft as well as by strength ; Now , though Policy and Craft agree in their Ends , yet they differ in the Means conducing to their Ends ; The one proceeds by honourable and gallant manly waies to attain her ends , the other by dishonourable and base subdolous ways , she cares not what Oaths she swallows and breaks afterwards , she cares not what lies , fears , and jealousies she creates to amuse the silly vulgar , and therby to incite them to Arms and Rebellion , for tearing the bowells of their own Country , and to loose all allegiance to their natural Prince ; She makes no scruple or conscience to make Religion her Mantle to palliat all her designs , and by a horrid kind of prophanenes and blasphemy to make God Almighty the Author of all Rebellions and Sedition : As was lately practised in Gheriona more then in any other Country that ever was under the cope of Heven ; And now ther 's a company of poor Sir politic Woodbies or Wise-akers , that wold put a Cats head upon a Lions neck , they wold make a petty Common-wealth such as that of Hydraulia , of that antient spacious Monarchy with the Crowns thereunto annexed , Kingdoms which have lasted thousands of years without any Interregnums at all till now ; And observable it is , that among other benefits ( or plagues rather ) which Gheriona hath received from Hydraulia for raising her first to a Common-wealth from obedience to her hereditary Prince , one is , that she hath poysoned Gheriona in her Policy as well as in her Religion ; For now she hath the fate to have such Wise-askers in Government that can see afar off no farther than to the tips of their noses ; They wold take down the Royal Saddle , and clap a pair of Panniers on Gheriona's back , never looking forward what will follow , viz. an everlasting Warr ; Nor do they fall to any account what a disparagement it will be , that so large and noble a Kingdom shold be cast into so petty a mould as that of Hydraulia , who is above thirty times inferiour to Gheriona in extent of Territory , and more then forty times in point of Plenty . Pererius . It is a clear truth what you affirm , that tru Policy is much sophisticated in this latter age , and touching the hints you give of Gheriona in point of Government , and the present designes that are afoot to transverse it , I know to Country full well ; It may be a feasable thing to turn the great City Polihaima to a kind of Common-wealth , for she hath smelt a great while of a Hans in regard of her many Corporations , which may be said to be petty Republiques of themselfs ; but for Gheriona her self , it will be a hard confused task to reduce her to such a Government , it being incompatible both with the Genius of the Peeple , the Posture of the Country , and Politicall Constitutions established there for so many Ages ; They who make inspections into the influxes and vertu of Heavenly Bodies , find , that Mars is the Planet predominant over Gheriona , and 't is observed , that where he predominats , that Clime and Country is fit for no other Government than Monarchall ; Whereas those Countries where the Moon is predominant , as Marcopolis and others , are naturally fittest to be made Republiques ; Therefore let those men , who have now the vogue of Power and Counsell in Gheriona , beat their brains never so much , let them scrue up their wits , and stretch all the policy they have as far as possibly they can , yet they will never be able to constitute a lasting durable Government , or settle a firm and generall Peace without a King , that kind of Supream Officer is congeniall with the Nation it self , which will never be fixed till then ; Therfore , as I said before , let those men who are now upon the Stage of Power , winde up their wits as high as they can , without this they will be still at a losse , their consultations will be like a skein of ravell'd silk , they will be in a labyrinth of confusions , and the end of one will be still the beginning of another . Now , ther is no Art so incertain , so subject to difficulties , as the Art for Man to rule Man ; Ther be many poor Sciolists in Gheriona , who of late years have shot at rovers in prescribing Rules of Government , they take the ashes of the Iudaicall , the Greek , and Roman Common-wealths to apply them to the present times , wheras those Nations were of another temper , of other Religions , and consequently of other kind of Intellectualls , and diffring Idaeas to the present Age ; They shold rather produce examples from Gheriona's own Historians , which wold be far more suitable ; But go to the chiefest Politians , Antient or Modern , that ever writ of Governments , you will find all their opinions concenter in this point , That ther is no Government which hath a nearer analogy with that of Heven , that is more lasting upon earth , that is more regular , or that hath any certain principles , but Monarchy ; That great Chair-man or Grandee among Philosophers , Aristotle , in his Politiques , upon which ther is such a world of Comments , speaks of sundry species of Governments , as Aristocracy , Democracy , Oligarchy , and Stratocracy , but he puts no Rules for any , onely he hath this assertion , that Aristocracy or Optimacy allows no Artificer or Mechanick to be a Cittizen or Counsellor ; Much of his discourse is of the first Founders of Common-wealths , then he proceeds to correct the errors of Common-wealths , before he tells us what a Common-wealth is ; Moreover , in handling the kinds of Government in generall , he flies forward and backward in a disorderly way , but when he descends to particular forms , he is full , not onely of confusion , but contradictions and inconstancies to himself ; In som places he seems to deny any naturall Right , much more any Majesty to be in the People , whom he holds to be little inferiour to Beasts ; Wheras else-where he affordeth a liberty to every City to set up what Government they please , either by Force or Craft , which in effect is to allow the Peeple to do what they list , if they be able . Now this high-reaching Philosopher cannot much be censured for roving up and down in so incertain a subject , it being impossible for any human brain to prescribe any infallible universall Rules for Government , that may quadrat with the nature of all Climes and Seasons , and be appliable to the humors of all Peeple ; Other Sciences have Demonstrations , and undeniable Principles , but the Art of Government hath no such Maxims , in regard of a thousand sort of contingencies that attend human negotiations , as also for the various dispositions of peeple , som Nations are so fiery mouth'd , that they must be ridd with a Bitt , if not with a Curb and Martingale , but a small Bridle will serve others , nor are the same Constitutions fit for a Continent that are proper for an Iland , nor those of a Maritim Continent fit for a Mediterranean Country , who know not what salt-water is . Fox . Touching those modern Smatterers in Policy you speak of , the times abound with such , such that while they take upon them to give Precepts for Government , they amuse the Reader with Universalls , ( and commonly ther is deceit in Universalls ) or rather they lead him to a labyrinth of distinctions , wherby they render the Art of mastring Man to be more difficult and distracted , then it is in its own nature ; But , under favour , the main cause that ther are such difficulties and incertitudes in prescribing generall Rules to govern the Human Creture , is the perturbances of his mind , his variety of humors , his seditious disposition , his inconstancies , and an itching still after innovations ; And herein we Irrationall Animals are more obedient , more gentle and docile ; But touching the policy you mention , ther be som certain Maxims that may extend to the whole masse of Mankind in point of Government ; One is , That the common peeple be kept still in such an awe , that they may not have any power to rise up in Arms , or be sharers in the Government , and so be their own Caterers to chuse what Laws they please ; Secondly , That ther be a visible standing effectif military strength still in being , to keep them in such an awe , as well to curb them as to conserve them ; It being the greatest Soloecism that can be in Government to rely meerly upon the affections of the Peeple , in regard there is not such a wavering windy thing , not such an humorsom crosse-grain'd Animal as the common Peeple , ther is not such a Tyrant in the world if once he get on Horse-back ; And all Authors that have pretended any thing to policy , either old or new , affirm so much in their Writings ; If the Governour in chief hath not such a constant visible Power , and moveable upon all occasions , the common Peeple will use him as the Froggs in the Fable us'd the Logg of wood whom Iupiter , at their importunity , had dropt down among them for their King , to whom they stood a while in som awe and dread , but afterwards finding no motion in him , they leapt and skipt upon him in contempt and derision ; There is another certain principle of policy , That public Traitors and Rebells to their Prince and Country shold be dispatched to the other world without mercy , for if they be but half punished , they will like Snakes get and cling together again , therfore 't is a good rule , and that may be a proverb hereafter , A Rebell and mad Dogg knock in the head , They will not bite when they are dead . Pererius . Had you not told me before , yet I shold have judg'd you a Saturnian by the wisdom of your Discours , your Compatriots being accounted the prudentest men upon earth , for whereas others are said to be wise after the Act , others in the Act , you are said to be wise before , in , and after the Act ; Moreover , whereas the Artonian is said to be wiser than he seems to be , the Tumontian not to be so wise as he seems , the Saturnian is wise , and seems to be so ; Therfore will you return to that noble Country , and becom Man and Merchant again ? of which profession ther are Princes in your Country , you well know . Fox . Ther are so , yet I enjoy my self more contentedly in this shape and species , I have now a more constant health , and if I find my self illish at any time , which is seldom , I eat a little of the gumm of that Pine-tree and it cures me ; But I am nothing so subject to distempers of body or mind in this condition . Touching the first , when Nature hath finished her course in me , I will leave it for a Legacy to my friends , for 't is good and medicinall for many uses , my Brain is good against the Falling-sicknesse ; my Blood against the Stone , and the Cramp ; my Gall instill'd with Oyle takes away the pain in the ears ; my Toung worn in a chain is good for all diseases in the Eyes ; my Fatt healeth the Alopecia , or falling off of the hair ; my Lights , Liver , and Genitalls are good against the Spleen ; my very Dung pounded with Vinegar is a certain cure against the Leprosie ; my Milt is good against Tumors ; and touching my Skin , which is so much valued by the fairest Beauties , I will bequeath it to the admired Queen Morphandra to make her a Muff , as a small Heriot for her protection of me under her Dominion . 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . The Seventh Section . A Dialog 'twixt Morphandra , Pererius , and a Boar , wherin ther are various Discourses , and particularly of the rare Sympatheticall Powder that is lately found out , which works sudden and certain Cures without any topicall application of Medicines to the part affected , &c. Morphandra , Pererius , and a Boar. Morphandra . HOw came you off from that cunning Merchant you dealt withall last ? hath he accepted of the Bill of Exchange you presented unto him ? Pererius . Truly , Madame , I may say , according to the homely proverb , that I have received a flapp with a Fox tail , he hath plaid the cunning Sophister with me , he hath protested against that Bill of Exchange , nor will he upon any tearms resume his former shape , but retain that which he hath , alledging that he is now free from those stings of conscience , from those corroding black jealousies , from that vindicatif humor wherunto Mankind is subject , specially those of his Nation , with other molestations of mind ; He saith , that in this feature he is also more healthfull ; He braggs likewise how many medicinall vertues are in his body after its dissolution from the sensitive soul , and how much his skin is valued amongst the fairest Ladies , which he intends to bequeath as a Legacy to your Majesty to make you Muffs of when he hath payed Nature the last debt ; And truly , Madame , by his acute answers and replies , I found that he had the full use of the faculty of human Reson , though appeering in that brutish shape , which makes me more and more admire your power . Morphandra . This power the great Architect of the world hath given me , I derive this prerogative meerly from Him , not , as I intimated to you before , from any compact or consultation with ill Spirits , although the flat and shallow-braind vulgar think I do it so , by Magicall and Negromantic means . Pererius . I know full well , Madame , the ignorance , or rather insulsity of the common peeple to be such , that when they find any extraordinary effects produc'd , transcending the ordinary course of nature , they are presently struck with such an admiration , that they think those effects to be done by the work of the Devill , though they are operated by strength of Art , and by connexion of naturall Agents and Patients properly apply'd , as of late years ther is found out a Sympatheticall cure of wounds at a distance , without any reall application of medicines to the part affected , which kind of sanation they hold to be made by some diabolicall compact , though reverà 'tis performed by such ways that do truly agree with the due course of nature , by which she constantly works . Morphandra . I pray be pleas'd to impart unto me the mode and manner of that kind of cure , for though it be not Magicall , it must needs be a great mysterious thing . Pererius . Madame , I shall most willingly comply with your commands herein ; Touching the Sympatheticall Powder or Medicine it self , It is made of a Zaphyrian azurd salt , calcind by Solar fire into a Lunar complexion , operating principally when the Sun is in the two celestiall Signes of Leo and Cancer ; But , Madame , before I can make the thing truly understood , I must lay down som universall Laws or Maxims of nature ; First , it is tru without controul , that all actions and motions are performed by Atoms or small invisible bodies , moving to and fro after a different manner proportionable to their severall figures , all naturall things operat thus , and not by I know not what Qualities or Accidents , which have onely a notionall subsistence , and no reall being but as they inhaere in the substance ; Secondly , ther is a perpetuall constant expiration of such Atoms from all naturall bodies , caus'd by a compression of other circumambient and neighbouring bodies , driving the parts closer together , or else by the motion of other Atoms crowding into the foraminous parts of that body , interrupting as it were the quietude of the former inmates , and thrusting them out to wander in the air till they meet with som other body where they may get rest ; This effluvium or emanation of Atoms by help of autopticall Glasses , have bin sensibly discerned to flow from the Load-stone and other bodies , whose pores are more plentifull , in form of a kind of mist ; In bodies that are actually hot this atomicall expiration is sensibly perceptible by the smell , specially to cretures of an acuter sense , for the Atoms hovering in the circumambient air , or upon the ground , are sure guides to the Grey-hound while he poursues the Chace , as if the hunted creture were continually in his sight ; These expiring Atoms are also as sensibly discover'd by weight , it being experimentally found , that those Iockies who use to run Horse-races can make themselfs lighter by many pounds weight in a day or two , which proceeds by this insensible emission of Atoms ; Secondly , it is to be observ'd , that these atomicall bodies are not of one figure , nor of one grossnesse or magnitude , som being so slender and subtle that they admit of no opposition , but continu their course through all Mediums , and whatever may be seen to stop them in their journey cannot be discerned but by their effects , such are the contagious Atoms of bodies infected with the Pest , or other taking-diseases , which are not onely imparted to others by lurking in the Visitant's cloths , but being scattered in the air are transported to remote places and persons , on whom they exercise their tyranny , not discover'd till they break out into open violence ; Other Atoms are grosser , and cannot so easily passe by , but are driven back , and forced from their intended voyage , and somtimes driven into the pory parts of other bodies against their wills ; Such Atoms are apprehended by our senses , as heat , cold , color , smells , putrefactions , &c. which use to move more slowly than others ; Som are so corpulent and strong that they remove fix'd and solid bodies out of their stations , as the Wind , and many others , that are driven to and fro by the impetuosity therof , and forced therby to change their places ; These Atoms are in a manner so palpable , that we must needs confesse their reall Beeing and activity ; Thirdly , it is another undeniable truth , that all bodies desire rest , and wold still dwell in their own proper stations if they were not ejected by an intruder , for Rest is the appetite of all naturall bodies , because 't is the mother of union ; Now , ther are som places more fit than others for the receiving and retaining of the said Atoms , wherin they may lodg more conveniently , and acquiesce a longer time , this proceeds from the fashion and form of the pores wherin they are intromitted , which are proportionable and more agreeing with the figures of the Atoms which are of divers shapes , for som are angular , som cylindricall , som are branch'd , som smooth , others are sharp and rough ; Ther are in most bodies pores agreeable to these various figures , insomuch that every naturall body is apt and ready to admit such Atoms that are cognate and proportionable to their pores , and to exclude others ; Now no Atoms acquiesce any where but in such proportionat pores , they may be driven into other bodies , or they may accompany other Atoms into pores that do not exactly quadrat with their figures , but cannot take any long repose there , being still extruded by those that do better fill the place , and correspond with the capacity and proportion of those pores , whence ariseth a naturall propension and tendency towards those bodies where such pores are found ; Nor can those Atoms which are not sutable to the pores wherein they are , stay there quietly , but they are still dislodg'd and sholder'd out , or pressed to give room to those Atoms whose figures challenge a right to those pores ; Insomuch that it may be said , ther is a kind of perpetuall warr 'twixt those Atoms that are proportionat and proper to the pores they are lodg'd in , and those which usurp them ; For to have perfect rest in a place , and to claim a naturall right unto it , ther must be a cognation 'twixt the atom and the pore which may be call'd Sympathy , such as are all magneticall and attractive motions ; Fourthly , no distance hinders the motion of these Atoms towards their naturall cognate places , towards which they are perpetually travelling , and the nearer they approach to their desired home , the swifter their motion is , and the lesse resistance they find in their journey . These prolegomena or generall notions being premis'd , I com now to the operative vertue of the Sympatheticall Powder , which , as I describ'd it before , is made of a Zaphyrian salt , calcind by a celestiall fire , operating in Leo and Cancer into a Lunar complexion ( as the learned Doctor H. hath it , who discourseth like a tru Phoilosopher of these notions ) The heat here of must be such , that it may draw out all adventitious moystur , leaving it intensly dry , and in this condition it must be kept , for if it chance to meet with any humidity it loseth its energy , and must to the aetnereall furnace again ; It must be also but a competent heat , for by excesse of heat all the volatile parts and finest atoms which onely work the cure , will be evaporated , and onely the grosser saline parts remain , which neither can be rays'd to accompany the atoms of the extravenated blood , nor if they could wold they cure , but by their sharper angles grate the orifices of the capillary veins , and so procure an efflux of blood , and not a consolidation of the wound . Morphandra . Noble Prince , these are high Philosophicall Notions that you discourse of , but now that you have spoken of the substance of this rare Medicament , how must it be apply'd ? Pererius . The manner of applying it is in this manner , The blood or bloody matter being taken from the wound on a cloth , or remaining still on the wounding instrument , must be lightly covered over with this powder , kept very dry , and afterwards wrapp'd up close from the air , and so preserved in a temperat heat , it must also be kept clean , and clos'd up with neat linnen to fence it from cold , for cold hinders the expiration and breathing forth of the balsamicall Atoms , which shold drain forth the superfluous humidity , and restrain the efflux of blood ; Now , the greatest rarenes of this Sympatheticall Powder is , that by a virtuall contact it heals at a distance by the intercourse of the Atoms proceeding from the extravenated blood of the Patient , which Atoms like so many little spirits glide through the aire , and never rest till they come to their desired home , where being gladly entertained , they find an easie entrance at the cognate parts , and proportionat pores of the wound ; Being admitted there they fall to work , and first , they dilate the superfluous humid parts , and make them fit to be expell'd , then by their more then ordinary restrictive power they shrinck together the pores , and squeezing out that noxious corrupt humidity , glew together the disunited parts , and so cicatrize and cure : And truly , Madame , I could produce diverse pregnant examples of those that were healed by the atomicall energy of this Sympatheticall powder , but I desire one may serve for all ; Ther was a knowing Captain who made often use of it , and two of his Officers having drawn blood one of another in a Duell , he got their bloodied Swords and applied his balsamicall Powder , so in lesse then 24 hours they were almost cur'd ; But the Captain understanding that their animosities were such , that they were resolved to fight again , he hung the balsam'd bloodied Swords out at his window all night , so comming the next morning to visit his Patients , they told him that they were in cruell pain all night long ; And so you shall be still , quoth the Captain , untill you be perfect friends , for I hear that you will fight again ; So having made them shake hands , and perfectly reconcil'd them , he cur'd both in a very short time . Morphandra . I acknowledge it a singular favour , most gallant Prince , that you have made me understand this great Secret , and the naturall causes thereof , though the common peeple , who use to condemn all they understand not , and whereunto their short capacities cannot reach , for Magicall . But , if you persist in your desires to convert any of these metamorphos'd Animals , and proceed further in your attempts , I spy amongst those Trees a Boar who was once an Aetonian Count , whom for his deboshments and intemperancies I transmuted to that shape ; you may try what you can do upon him . Pererius . I will , by the continuance of your noble favor , make towards him ; Miserable metamorphos'd Creture ! how much do I resent the condition you are now in in comparison of the former ! for I understand by Queen Morphandra that you were before not onely a Man , but a personage of high account in Aetonia , that masculine and generous brave Country , which is so full of large flourishing Provinces , of opulent fair Cities and famous Marts , so full of magnificent Palaces , of Mines of Tresure , of fruitfull Orchards , of fragrant Gardens and fat Fields , of navigable Rivers ; so full of illustrious Families that can extract their pedigrees thousands of years past ; so ful of great Princes , wherwith Aetonia may be said to shine as the Firmament with coruscant Starrs , and the Septemvirat of Caesarean Electors are as the seven Planets ; Are you contented to return to so gallant a Country , to resume the figure of that noble personage you represented when you were Man , and live again under Caesar the Prince paramount of all others ? If you have a disposition to it , Queen Morphandra hath promised me to transmute you , and I have an accommodation for your transport ; Therfore will you shake off that wild savage shape , and becom Man again ? Boar. Savage ! Truly , Sir , I think Man is far more savage and cruell , for the wildest of our Species will not strike at Man till Man hath begun first with him , and wounded him , and all Huntsmen will tell you so ; But I could produce many horrid examples of the cruelty and tru culency of Man , and of my quondam Conterraneans in particular , but let this serve for all ; It chanced ther was one that bore malice to a woman great with child , he watching his opportunity found her alone spinning in her house , he first cuts her throat , then ripps up her womb , takes out the Embryo and carries it to the back-side where ther was a Sow ready to Farrow , he kills also the Sow , rips up her belly , and taking out the pigs , puts the child of the murther'd woman in their room , then he took the piggs and puts them in the womans belly , and so sow'd it up , proh scelus . Touching the high Encomiums you give of Aetonia , 't is tru , that she was in former times a gallant piece of the Continent , but now she is pittifully impair'd and degenerated from what she was ; Ther was a Count there who prov'd most unfortunat , both to his own Country and to himself , who aiming at a Crown made warr against Caesar , to whom he ow'd allegiance ; And to abett his cause he brought in forrein Princes for his Confederats , and so kindled a destructive lingring Warr in the bowells of his own Country , which for thirty years together did so harasse her , that to this day she is scarce come to her self ; Among others , he introduc'd a hungry Northern King who did her a world of mischief , whose Successor keeps firm footing there still , and whiles the Cuprinian hath an acre of land in Aetonia , she will never be in a durable secure peace ; Touching the multitude of illustrious Families that are in Aetonia , most of them may be said to be but mongrell Princes , for in the forenoon they are Ecclesiasticks , ( having rais'd themselfs out of the ruines of the Church ) and in the afternoon they are Laicks and Seculars ; Now , those variety of Princes are rather a weaknesse then a strength to Aetonia , as may be inferred out of that witty Emblem which the Tomanto Emperor 's Embassadors made , being present at the election of one of the Aetonian Caesars , who observing what great Princes attended him that day , wherof he was told that som of them could raise an Army of themselfs if need requir'd ; The Ambassadour smilingly said , That he doubted not of the puissance of Aetonia , but it might be said , that the Minds , Counsells , and Actions of the Aetonians were like a great Beast with many Heads and Tails , who being in case of necessity to passe through a hedge , and every Head seeking to find a severall hole to get thorough , they were a hinderance one to the other , every Head drawing after his own fancy , and so hazarded the destruction of all the Heads and Tails ; But the Tomanto Empire was like a Beast that had multitude of Tails , but one Head that govern'd all the Body , which Head being to get through any passage , all the Tayls follow him in an exact obedience without any confusion of diffring fancies or clashing of opinions . Touching that Caesar you speak of , whom you wold make Prince Paramount of all others in point of Majesty and Might , it cannot be denied but that the Imperiall Eagle , when he was at the highest pitch of power , might be said to have spread his Wings overall the then habitable Earth , he fixed his Talons upon the banks of Euphrates Eastward , upon the Nile Southward , and he had all the known Western world within his pounces ; His annuall Revenues were then computed at a hundred and fifty Millions , wherof the Salary of the Legionary Soldiers amounted to twenty Millions ; But that glorious Empire , that mighty Giantesse , is now shrunck up and shrivell'd into a Pigmey's skin , insomuch that the present Caesar may be said to have onely one of the old Eagle's feathers in his cap : He who was us'd to make the greatest Potentats pay homage unto him , is now us'd to be baffled by every petty Companion . Pererius . Such is the plesure of the All-ruling Providence , with whom the greatest Kingdoms upon Earth are but as so many kettle-pins , which he tips down when he pleases , 't is He who transvolves Empires , tumbles down Monarchies , and cantonizeth them into petty Common-wealths , whereunto the Philosopher seem'd to allude , when being ask'd what Iupiter did in Heven , he answer'd , Magnas Ollas frangit , & ex frustis earum parvulas componit , He breaks great Pots , and of their fragments makes little pitchers ; This shews the brittlenes , the lubricity , and unfixednes of all sublunary things , as well Politicall as Naturall , so that to find out a tru stability and permanence , we must travell beyond Trismegistus's Circle , and seek it in the other world : But let not this alienat your affections to visit again your own Country in human shape , and return to your Religion , wherby when this mortall life is ended you may gain Eternity . Boar. Religion I truly ther 's scarce any left in Aetonia , for since the time of Therlu , who being fallen into a lustfull love with an Abadesse , unfrock'd himself , and made Religion his Macarell to enjoy her ; I say , since that time , the Artonian fancy was never so greedy after new fashions in Apparell , as the Aetonians high and low do daily thirst after new-fangled opinions in matters of Religion , both in point of Doctrine and Discipline . Add hereunto , that ther is a bosom peculiar vice Aetonia is addicted unto , which is Intemperance , wherwith she hath infected most of her neighbours ; The Hydraulian can tell you , that the immoderat use of drink came tumbling down upon her from Aetonia like a huge , and a furious rapid Torrent , whence it found passage over with wind in poop to Gheriona ( and her subordinat Kingdoms ) which is as good at it being of an Aetonian race originally , and therfore apt to imitat ; Nay , as they say , as the Gherionian is good Inventis addere , to improve any new thing , so they go beyond the Aetonians herein , for whereas they use to pelt the brain with small shot , the Gherionian doth storm it with great Cannons , and huge carowses , for he , when he is at it , doth not sip and drink by halfs , or demur upon it by pauses , as the Aetonian doth , or by eating som salt quelque chose between , but he deals in sheer liquor , and is quickly at the bottom of his cup without any intervening talk ; Yet the Aetonian carrieth still the report to a Proverb : Hereupon they use to characterise the Aetonian to be an Animal that can drink more then he can carry , and who useth to barrell up more than he can broach in point of knowledg , because commonly he useth to have in him more than he can utter . Pererius . It seems very strange to me that you shold thus vilifie your own Country , and traduce so goodly and high-built a Nation as the Aetonian is . Boar. 'T is tru , they are bulky & built high enough , but it is observ'd , that tall men are like fabriques four or five stories high , where the garret or upper room is worst furnished , you may guesse at my meaning ; Moreover , magnitude is not the measure of worth , If the Aetonians wit and valour had been sutable to their outward bulks , the Tomanto Emperor had not carried away so many Territories from them , which mighty Emperour hath grown so powerfull by the Divisions , and so fortunat by the Vices of Aetonia . Pererius . Come , come , shake off those hispid staring bristles , and fordid skin , that useth to tumble in sloughs and mire , and return to your own noble Country , your Kindred , and that high Quality you were of formerly , for in the condition you now stand , you are , like our base Misers , good for nothing till you are dead . Boar. It is a great truth , and when we are dead ther 's nothing that 's bad in us but our Excrements , which also though , in regard of the sharpnes therof , they be not good for compost to fertilize the Earth , yet they are found good for divers sorts of Trees , as the Pomgranat and the Almond Trees , as also for divers sorts of Apple Trees to free them from worms : Our blood being so full of fibres is excellent good against Carbuncles , our brains are good against the biting of Serpents ; our lard with wonderfull celerity makes firm broken bones ; the ashes of our cheek-bone are good against Ulcers ; the liver of a Boar is good against the biting of a mad Dogg , and drowsines of spirit ; the gall of a Boar mingled with rosin and hony , is passing good against Ulcers , the Testicles good against the Falling-sicknes ; the hoofs of a boar made powder is good against the stopping of the urine ; a plaister made of Boar's dung is good against all venomous bitings , as also against the pain in the spleen , or the Sciatica ; the ankle of a boar worn about the neck is good against quartan Agues : Moreover 't is found tru by frequent experiments , that the milk of a Sow in sweet wine is good to help women in travell , and restores milk in their paps , 't is good also against the bloody flix , and the tissick ; Amber sodd in Boar's grease receives nitor , and bewty : Now , all these vertues proceed from our Bodies , because we have not so much corruption within us as Man ; Our food also being more simple and fresh , and our appetites more regular ; So , Sir , I bid you farewell , for I am going to herb it among that tuft of Trees . 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Eighth Section . A Dialog 'twixt Morphandra , Pererius , and a Wolf , who had bin a Cuprinian Soldier , whom for his Plunderings , Rapines , and Spoyles , she transfigur'd to that shape . Morphandra , Pererius , and a Wolf. Morphandra . HOw did you bear up with that Boar ? could you not get him into the toyl , and make him turn Man again ? Pererius . Truly no , he did in a manner grind his razers and tusks , and extreamly froam at his own Country-men , taxing them of divers vices ; He prickt up his bristles like a Porcupine , as if he would have darted them ; So I left him at a Bay. Morphandra . I spy another transmuted Animal in that Thicket , it is a Wolf , who was once a Soldier of Fortune , and a Cuprinian Free-booter , you may try whether you can take him by the ears , for you will find him tame enough . Pererius . I have leave from gracious Queen Morphandra to conferr with you , and know whether you have an inclination to return to your Country and Calling again ; If you have , she is ready to unlycanthropize you from this Wolfish shape to your former condition . Wolf. Touching my Country and Calling they are both alike , they are both naught , therefore I have no affection to either ; For the first , 't is a pittifull cold and coorse Country , being so remote from the Sun , which made a generous Queen lately to leave both Crown and Country ; Touching the second , 't is a profession for the devill , to be hir'd for about three shillings a week to kill men ; I was once of that Calling , and I with my Camerades did a world of mischief to the poor Boors up and down the Country , therefore it was very just that Queen Morphandra should transform me to this shape . Pererius . Yet you know , that the profession of Arms is noble , for every Soldier is a Gentleman by his profession ; And touching the coldness of your Clime , it puts mettle and the more vigor in the Combatant , for they say that a Cuprinian fights best when he sees his own breath , which is in frosty weather ; You know also what great atchievments and exploits your two last Kings have done , to their eternall glory , and the renown of your Country . Wolf. 'T is tru , the last two Kings have done some feats of Chivalry , yet the world took them to be but Usurpers ; Touching the first , he was killd in the midst of his manhood , wherby Caesar against whom he warr'd got a full revenge of him ; And for the present King , the world wonders that it was not sufficient for him to enjoy quietly the Kingdom of Cuprinia , which belongs by right to Nopolia , but he must make warr against that King , to whom he shold de jure owe allegiance ; And had he conquer'd Nopolia , his ambition had not terminated there , but he haply had visited Saturnia , and so , as the Goths and Vandalls of old , he had troubled the repose of all the Western world ; But as far as he hath gone , what miserable devastations hath he made ? how hath he ruined the flourishing Trade of those Countrys , which are so full of great Mercantile Towns both upon fresh and salt waters , so full of usefull and necessary commodities ? And had he compleated his Zundanian designe , he had given Law to all the Occidentall Princes , which Hydraulia sagaciously smelt out , and so timely prevented him . Pererius . And have not you a naturall desire rather to be again one of that warlick and adventurous Nation , than to continu in this hatefull and rapacious nature ? Wolf. Truly I may be said to be of as rapacious a nature when I was a Cuprinian , for he is us'd to pick any quarrell with those that are weaker than himself , of purpose to devour them ; As I remember to have read of the Wolf in the Fable , who finding a young Lamb , and intending to devour him , fell a coining of reasons why he would do it , and so told him , that he and his generation had don him wrong from time to time : Helas , said the Lamb , how could that be ? for I am but newly com into the world ; I but , quoth the Wolf , you eat up my grasse ; The Lamb replyed , How can that be , Sir ? for I have yet no teeth in my head ; I but you drink up my water , quoth the Wolf again ; That cannot be neither , Sir , said the Lamb , for I never knew what water is hitherto , in regard I feed altogether upon my mothers milk ; 'T is not your reasons , replied the Wolf again , can confute my appetit , for I mean to sup plentifully this night , and so devour'd him . But the same fate may attend the Cuprinian King as befell the Wolf-fish , who living in a River where all the fish were lesser then himself , they all admir'd , honor'd , and fear'd him , as if he had bin their King ; He thinking to enlarge his Dominions , thought to go to the Sea to be King there , but meeting with the Dolphin in his way he was presently devour'd ; Or as Aesop's Dogg , passing by a River with a good piece of flesh in his mouth , and the shadow of the flesh appeering in the water , he snapt at it thinking it had been real flesh , and so lost that which he had in his mouth ; So the Cuprinian King may hap to lose his own Territories , while he thinks to devour others . Pererius . Well , well , will you shake off that ugly shape , and put on Man again , and go along with me towards your own Country ? Wolf. Truly no , for I have tryed both natures , and find this to be far better , for I have now no airy aspiring desires in me , no ambitious thoughts , or other perturbances and inquietudes of mind ; Moreover , I find this shape of body to be far more healthfull , nor is this species lesse honourable ; A Wolf was the Crest of the first Arms of Rome , in regard the King who trac'd the foundation of that glorious City , and denominated her after his own name , was nurs'd up miraculously by a Wolf ; Ther have bin many famous men of that name , as Lupus Fulvius a Roman Poet , Lupus Servatus a memorable Priest , and Lupus de Oliveto a Saint-like Monk ; Ther is a kind of Holines also in this species , for they never engender but in the twelve days of Christmas ; Ther is likewise a mysterious quality in this species ; for if a Wolf sees a man first , the man grows hoarse ; If the tail of a Wolf be hung in the Cratch of Oxen , they cannot eat ; If a Horse treads in the foot-steps of a Wolf , he cleaves fast as if he were frozen ; Nay , if a Mare big with Foal tread in the place where a Wolf had trodden , it causeth abortion , and will make her presently to cast her Foal ; Lastly , strings made of VVolfs guts have that predominance in Music , that if they be put among other strings , ther wil never be any Consort . 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Ninth Section . A Dialog 'twixt Morphandra , Pererius , and a Goat , consisting of many quaint Discourses both Naturall and Metaphysicall , with other Criticisms , &c. Morphandra , Pererius , and a Goat . Pererius . MAdame , I could not take that VVolf by the ears to lead him home to his own Country , which he bitterly inveighs against ; and against the humor of the peeple , as also against his former profession of a Souldier , tacitly intimating , that War is the chiefest seminary of Theeves , according to the proverb , La guerre fait les larrons , & la paix les ameine au gibet , War makes the Thief , and peace brings him to the gallows ; Therfore he prefers rather to passe his life peaceably under your Government , than to be in Cuprinia , where of late years men are so press'd for the Warrs to serve the ambition of their Kings , that the whole Country is so drain'd , that ther 's scarce any left but women , old men , and children ; Therfore he is very well pleas'd with this lycanthropy . But , Madame , I spy a bearded Animal nibling upon the brow of that crag , I desire by your favour to have som discours with him , for by his long beard he shold have bin som Philosopher , and so have more wit in him than other animals . Morphandra . You shall very willingly , but I will tell you what he was before ; He was an Orosian born , and I transform'd him to that shape for being a Mountaineer , and for having aspiring thoughts , with other resons . Pererius . I 'le go and accost him ; Sir , will you please to come down hither into the plain , for I have very good news to impart unto you that will make you skip for joy . Goat . I pray excuse me , it is against my nature to descend , if I did , I should haply prove more foolish than the Goat in the Fable , who being invited and perswaded by the fair speeches of the Lion to come down and feed in the medow where he was , being come down the hungry Lion devoured him presently . Pererius . You need not apprehend any such fears here , but I will come to you ; Queen Morphandra tells me , that you were an Orosian born , a very antient and noble Nation ; Have you a disposition to return thither , to resume the shape of Man , and to be again the child of Reson ? Goat . What do you mean by Reson ? I think the shape and species I now am in are capable of Reson , for we can distinguish 'twixt good and bad , 'twixt what is noxious or profitable for us , we have also the same organs , the same cells and receptacles in the brain as man hath for to lodg Reson , and the celestiall bodies pour the same influences upon us as they use to do upon the human Creture . Pererius . It cannot be denied but you have an Instinct that acts according to Reson , and it may be call'd Instinctive Reson ; But the Reson that Beasts have is limited to corporeall objects , to the necessities onely of life , to find out food and shelter , and bring up their young ones , it s onely direct Reson that 's capable of Singulars , it s restrain'd to an opinionative faculty , it s a meer shadow of ours , much like the objects that our fancy represents to us in sleep ; And this Instinct in Beasts is as much inferiour to Reson in Man , as Reson in man is inferiour to Intelligence and Intuitions in the blessed Angells . Goat . Yet , Sir , it must be granted , that actions whose successes are so well ordered , actions which have so well regulated a progresse , and concatenation so exactly tying the Mediums to the End , must needs be performed by the guidance and light of tru Reson , and such actions you know sensitive cretures daily perform ; With what art do Birds build their nests , the Fox his hole , the Badger his chamber , with what caution do they preserve their young ones , and fence them from the injury of the Hevens ? how punctually do they keep their haunts ? But what do you think of Pliny's Elephant repeating his Lesson at Moon-shine , or of Ptolomey's Stagg that understood Greek , of Plutarch's Dogg who could counterfeit the very convulsions of death , of the Ape that could play at Chesse , and another that had learnt som touches on the Guittern ? What think you of Caligula's Horse who was made Consul ? had not he Reson in him ? What think you of the Asse , who being us'd to carry burdens of Salt over a Foord was us'd to stumble and fall constantly in such a place , that therby the salt melting away into water his burden might be the lighter , but his Master lading him with a tadd of Wool , he fell at his usuall place , but being helped up again , and he feeling the pack of wool heavier in regard of the water that got in , he never stumbled any more in the Foord after that time ; What think you of the Crow , that in the time of a great drowth finding water in the bottom of a barrell , and being fearfull to go down , carried so many stones in her beak , that letting them fall down , they forc'd the water to rise upwards towards the top , and so she dranck safely and at ease ? I pray were not all these not onely Instinctive but Discoursive Resons ? Pererius . I confesse that he who denies a kind of Reson and Resoning also to brute Animals , may be questiond whether he be master of Reson himself , yet this Reson and Resoning looks upon present and particular notions onely ; But human Reson extendeth to universall notions out of the reach of sense , which cannot be without abstractions , and som reflections it hath on it self , which Beasts cannot attain ; This Reson that is conversant with Universalls is the tru specificall difference 'twixt Man and Beasts ; It is the portion and property of Man alone , whereby he hath the Soverainty over all over his fellow-cretures throughout all the Elementary World ; Ther is Intuitive , ther is Discoursive , and ther is Instinctive Reson , the first is proper to Angels , the last to Brute Animals , and the second to Man , who can contemplat and discourse of generalls and things absent ; And these three differ in excellency as the three degrees of Comparison . Goat . Yet though you excell us as you say in this kind of Reson , ther 's many of us that surpasse you in strength and quicknesse of sense , as the Eagle in seeing , for he can look upon the Sun in the Meridian with full open eyes , and not be dazzled ; the Hare can hear better , and the Dogg goes far beyond you in smelling , as also the Stagg , therefore when he is removed from one Park to another , you use to muzzle him , and carry him in close Carts that he may not smell the way back again ; And there be examples to admiration of this kind . Pererius . Though som Beasts smelling be beyond ours in respect of celerity , and way of reception , yet in point of dijudication , & differencing the variety of smels which proceeds from the Rationall Soul , we surpasse them ; Therfore though we cannot see as Eagles , nor hear as Hares , nor smel as well as Doggs , yet Hands , Speech , and Reson makes amends for all ; The composition also of the body being Erect is advantagious , the caus of which Erection ( after the beholding of Heven ) is the exercise Arts , which cannot be done in another figure ; Mans body is likewise the most copious of organs , and though born naked , yet this nakednesse cuts out work for Reson ; It abounds also more with Animal spirits and heat , it hath long feet that the body might be more steedy , and his head is built upward like a Castle or Watch-tower in the upper Region . Goat . This faculty of discoursive Reson you glory of , that Man is endued withall , though in som respects it be a benefit unto him , and given as a recompence for his frailties , nakedness and weakness , yet in som kind it it may be said to be a disadvantage unto him , for it makes him subject to a thousand vexations of spirit , it fills him with inquisitive thoughts and scruples touching his salvation , it makes him a tyrant to himself by sundry sorts of perplexities and molestations of mind , for I have known it by experience , let the threed of a man's life be never so well spun , yet it cannot be without bracks and thrumbs : Ther is no creture so troublesome to himself as man , for as rust adheres naturally to Copper , so ill affections and obliquities adhere to human nature : Moreover , you , like us , are but raggs of mortality , yet you are so vain in magnifying your own species , that you make Man the epitome and complement of all created natures ; Nay , som have prophanely affirmed , that if all the Angells in Heven had bin a thousand years a forming man , they could not have made him in greater perfection , and yet when I seriously oftentimes did contemplat Man , and fell into a tru account of his imbecillities , and that world of weaknesses which use to attend his body and mind , I have often cryed out , Eheu nos miseri quàm totus Homuncio nil est ! What nomberles diseases is his frail body , which is the socket of his soul , subject unto ? how short are his plesures , and what black sudds commonly they leave behind them ? insomuch that they may be said to have wings and stings , for sadnes succeeds his joys as punctually as night follows the day . Pererius . Well , well , give over these Satyricall excursions , and think on your dear Country , the healthfullest Country on earth . Goat . It may well be said to be so , for of late years ther were cull'd out within three miles compasse ten men that were a thousand years between them , one supplying what the other wanted of a hundred years apiece , and they danc'd the Morris divers hours together in the Market-place , with a Taborer before them 103 years old , and a Maid Mariam 105. But Orosia is much degenerated from what she was by the Gherionian Sectaries , who have infected the Inhabitants with so many pseudodoxall and gingling opinions , which is the recompence she receives from Gheriona for converting her first from an Infidell to be a Christian , yet she hath the impudence lately as to call her Heathenish ; Moreover , she twits her ever and anon with Leeks and Cheese , though both tend , the one to the commendation of the Nation , the other of the Country ; For wheras the Orosian doth use to wear the first in his hat constantly upon such a day , it is to a commemorat the time that a famous Battle was fought , wherein other Nations that werein the Army ran away , but the Orosians stood to their ground , and got the day ; Now , to signalize and distinguish themselfs from the Fugitifs , they took Leeks in their caps which grew in a Garden hard by ; Besides , 't is known how one of the acutest Nations on earth ador'd the Leek as one of his gods : Touching the other , to have Cheese enough is the mark of a fruitfull Country , and good pasture ; This makes me tell you a facetious Epigram , To make a pure Orosian thirst for blisse , And daily say his prayers on his knees , Is to perswade Him that most certain 't is The Moon is made of nothing but green Cheese , And then he 'l ask of God no greter boon Then place in Heven to feed upon the Moon . Now , during the late combustions in Gheriona , which were causd by a fatuous fire that took hold of som frantic spirits , 't is well known that the Orosian stood firm both to his Prince and Principles , till he was o'repower'd by multitudes . Pererius . Well , will you put off that rammish and foetid carcase , and return to your first Principles of Nature , and I will safely conduct you towards your first home ? Goat . Rammish and foetid ! As rammish and foetid as we are , we are of a far more wholsom constitution than Man , let the rare qualities which are in our bodies be judg ; 'T is known by daily experience how our blood hath such an energy in it that it can dissolve Diamonds , it also scowreth iron better then any file , and being fryed and drunck with wine it cures the bloody-flix ; The Load-stone rub'd with Garlick loseth its attractive vertu , but being dipt in Goats milk it recovers : Ther 's no creture hears more perfectly then a Goat , for he hath not onely Ears , but an Acousticon Organ also in the throat : Our hair burnt driveth away Serpents , and cureth decayed genitalls ; The marrow of a Goat is singular good against Aches ; The gall mixed with hony good to clear and fortifie the sight ; The very trindles drunck in wine are good against the Jaundise , and to stay Female-fluxes , as also gargariz'd good against old coughs ; The fatt sodden with Goats dung is good if applied to the Gout ; The butter of the fatt of a male Goat is good for an old sore for Kibes , the Kings-Evill , and Fellons , or mixed with hony or oyl of Brambles 't is good against deafnes ; The gall makes white hair grow on a horse ; Goats milk is excellent against Consumptions , and you know how the famous Aegistus was nurs'd by that milk . To conclude , ther 's nothing within us or without us but it is cordiall or medicinall ; Our entralls , livers , ashes , horns , milt , spleen , urine , fine hairs , marrow , hoofs , gall , dung , sewet , trindles , milk , and blood , &c. The Tenth Section . A Dialog 'twixt Morphandra , Pererius , and a Soland-Goose , a Carboncian born , who was transmuted to that shape for his foolishnes in rebelling against his own Conterranean King , and so by jugling himself into a Slavery from that Free Government he was formerly under , &c. Morphandra , Pererius , a Goose. Morphandra . I Saw you in hot discourse a good while with that bearded Beast , how did you feel his pulse beat ? will he return to live among those Mountains where he first breath'd air , and put on his primitive nature again ? Pererius . Madame , I find he hath no list or lust at all to either , one of his resons is , that the Gherionian his confining neighbour hath so intoxicated his Country-men with such fond fanatic opinions , & made them deviat from their tru service and allegiance , both to the King of Heaven , and to his Vicegerent their King upon Earth ; He gave me also some acute resons , both Morall and Metaphysicall , why he wold not turn Man again , alledging at last that the shape he now wears is farr more sound and healthfull , abounding more with naturall heat , which makes his body , and all the parts thereof within and without , to have such medicinall vertues in them , whereas human carcases , though they had bin Tabernacles to a far nobler Soul , are good for nothing when she parts with them but to feed and feast worms ; Therfore truly , Madame , I am in half despair of prevailing with any of these metamorphos'd Animals , they live so peaceably under your Dominions , and so contentedly in these shapes . Morphandra . You have treated hitherto onely with Terrestriall Creturs , try what you can do upon that Volatil , that sooty-clour'd Soland-Goose , who was by the first institution of nature a Carboncian born , but had liv'd in great plenty and honor in the Gherionian Court , yet out of a crosse-grain'd foolish humor he kick'd against his own King and Country-man , and so fell to be a slave to a new race of Governours , from being a free-born Subject before . Pererius . Poor Goose , you need not gaggle , nor fear any thing , for I bring you good tydings , and the best that possibly can befall you ; Queen Morphandra by my mediation is pleased to retransfigure you to human shape , and let you go again to Carboncia , your native Soyl and dear Country . Goose. Truly , Sir , I have lost all affections to both , I am onely out of conceit with the one , but I abhor the other , I had rather turn Cacodaemon than a Carboncian again ; What a pittifull coors cold Clime is Carboncia ? it hath neither the warm Sun nor Gods blessing , it were a punishment for the worst peeple upon earth to be removed thither ; Rather then I shold return to Carboncia , my wishes shall be that of the Poet , Pone me pigris ubi nulla campis Arbor aestiva recreatur aurâ , Quod latus mundi , nebulae , malusque Jupiter urget . Let me to those black boggy Heaths repair Where Tree was ne're refresht by Vernall Air , That side of earth where Jove himself is bad , And with dark squalid Clowds goes always clad . Yet the Clime is good enough for the Inhabitants were it worse ; They brag of a hundred and odd Kings , but of these Kings above the one half came to violent deaths , judg you then of the disposition of the Peeple ; And for their two last Kings , they sold and sent away one to the fatall Block , and made a sacrifice of him to the Gherionian for a summ of mony ; And for the other , before they wold Crown him their King , they propos'd that he shold acknowledg his Father a Tyrant , and his Mother an Idolatresse , a thing so abhorring to Nature . Pererius . I find you are extreamly incens'd against your own Country , and your Conterraneans , I pray what 's the reson of this strange and violent aversion ? Goose. I told you partly before , but I will enlarge my self further , and deduce matter from their first rise ; Carboncia and Gheriona were in a sweet and sound peace , with affluences of all felicities , when som Carboncian Soldiers of Fortune return'd from the Cuprinian Warrs richly laden with spoils , they came strutting into the Gherionian Court , the Aetonian plunder shining upon their backs in gold and silver lace ; These military Commanders expecting to receive som honors from the Gherionian King for their services in Aetonia , though none of them had received any Commission from him , nor fought on his score ; Others looking for som office at Court , and missing their aim that way , som of them went to Carboncia discontented , and fearing the stock they had got in the Cuprinian Warr wold quickly consume , and having no other trade but fighting , they fell to devise a way how to cast a bone 'twixt Gheriona and Carboncia , that they might have employment ; Therfore they set on som prick-ear'd hot-pated Preachmen ( who were in a kind of subjection unto them for their Stipends ) to give out , That Gheriona was on her way to Antichrist again ; thus the Pulpits did ring of invectives and calumnies against Gheriona's Church-Government ; Yet all this while there was not matter enough for an actuall Insurrection , or to fire the Beacons , till by wily artifices of som of the said discontented Great ones Gheriona's Liturgy was sent among them to be put in practise ; This was cryed up to be the gretest Idoll that ever came to their Kirk , and so the common peeple in a furious unheard-of manner outrag'd those who read it ; The King having notice hereof , sent a gracious Declaration , That wheras he had onely commended unto them , not commanded that public form of divine Worship , wherin he himself did punctually and publickly twice a day perform his duty to Heven , he did it out of a pious intention to beget an Uniformity as well as an Unanimity of public Devotion in all his Dominions , and as it was already practis'd in Gheriona and Hebrinia , so he desir'd it shold be us'd also in That his Native Country ; But since he understood it produc'd such tumultuous consequences , he was contented absolutely to revoke it , for it was never his intent to presse the practise therof upon any conscience , &c. Therfore he requir'd that every one shold return to his former obedience , offring an Amnestia for what had pass'd ; But this wold not serve the turn , for ther was a further designe in it , which was to destroy the Hierarchy , and so make havock of the Patrimony of the Church ; Hereupon the whole Country put it self in Arms , and so those Soldiers of Fortune spoken of before brought their work about , and got employment ; For Soldiers in time of Peace are like Chimneys in Summer ; They thought to rush into Gheriona with an Army , yet they gave it out to the world they came as Petitioners ; So the Carboncian shewed Subjects the way to present Petitions to their Souverain upon the Pikes point , to bring a Supplication in one hand , and a Sword in the other , or as one said , the Bible in the left , and the Blade in the other hand . Pererius . This was an odious Rebellion in the highest degree , for Subjects to right themselfs by Arms , and wage Warr with their own Souvrain Prince ; It is very observable , that when God pleased to punish any of the Kings of Israel , he did not do it with the Iews their own Subjects , but with the Philistines , and other forrain Nations , whence it may be strongly inferr'd , that it was never allow'd by the Laws of God or Man , that Subjects shold rise up in Arms against their lawfull King. Goose. Yet the Carboncian rush'd thrice into Gheriona against their own native King ( having therby a greter share in him ) in the compasse of lesse then two years , and he was dismissed Fidler-like , with meat , drink , and mony ; Though in former times Gheriona was us'd to dismis the Carboncians ( whensoever they infested her borders ) with other kind of metalls , viz. with good steel and iron in lieu of gold and silver . Pererius . These were strange and uncouth hateful traverses , that a Nation shold prove so perfidious to their own Prince , a Prince born in the bowells of their own Country , whose Father , besides Himself , had obliged and laden them with so many signall and singular favors ; Therefore ther was here a complication of many ugly things , ther was Rebellion , ther was Ingratitude , and Unnaturalnes , for had he bin born elsewhere , I shold not have so much wondred at it . Goose. Nay , I will tell you more , when their said King had made a long tedious journy of 600 miles going and comming to visit them , he was so gracious , that they did but ask and have any thing ; He gave amongst them those antient Demeans that went to maintain the Mitre so many hundred years by the pious donation of Progenitors ; He conferr'd honors abundantly upon them of all kinds , and did other wondrous acts of grace , for which the great Councill in Gheriona use to give a supply of Tresure to their Souvrain by way of an humble correspondence , but he did all this to the Carboncian gratis ; Yet they proved afterwards the gretest monsters of ingratitude that ever were , for they not onely sided with his Gherionian Insurrectors against him , but when by crosse successes and corrupt counsells he was brought to such an exigent , that he went away in a mean disguise to the Carboncian Army , they most basely for a sum of mony delivered him over to the plesure of his Gherionian enemies , who tormented him afterwards beyond expression by hurrying him from prison to prison , and chopp'd off his head at last . Pererius . One wold have thought , that the Carboncians wold have valu'd it for a mighty honor , to have their own King in the heighth of his distreses to throw himself thus into their arms , and to put so rare a confidence in them ; But who were the chiefest instruments in doing all this ? Goose. The unlucky Kirk-men , who as if they had bin so many of the Devills Chaplains , preach'd nothing but Warr , and against the receiving of the King in Carboncia in this his extremity ; But ther were never so many quick and apparant judgments fell upon any Nation as have tumbled one upon the neck of another in a few yeers upon this ; First , ther hapned an outragious Plague in their chief City , which in one yeers compasse swep'd away the Inhabitants by thousands ; What a huge nomber of Witches have bin arraign'd and executed ? How many thousand Carboncians were bought and sold for slaves to be hurried over to furnish forrain Plantations ? What nombers of them were starv'd , and som tumbled into their graves alive ? How , while they thought to get into the upper-bed , they may be now said to lye upon hard matts on the flat ground , the truckle-bed they lay in afore being taken away from them ; And truly it is fit they shold still lie so low , it being the best policy Gheriona can use to keep that cold northern dore bolted up , whence so many bleak hispid winds and tempests have broke out upon her . Pererius . It is wholsome Policy indeed , if it be so as you say , to keep under such a crosse-grain'd and stubborn inconstant peeple . Goose. I will yet go further , this Rebellion in Carboncia caus'd another in Hebrinia her neighbour , as one firebrand doth use to kindle another ; Examples move , and make strong impressions upon the fancy , Precepts are not so powerfull as Precedents to work upon human nature ; The said example of the Carboncians did wonderfully operat upon the imagination of the Hebrinians , and fill'd them with thoughts of emulation , that they merited to have as good usage as the Carboncian , their Country being far more beneficiall , and consequently more importing the Gherionians , wherof many thousands had made firm and plentifull fortunes in her ; Add hereunto , that the Hebrinians had far more grievances than the Carboncians ( who really had none at all ) for they were threatned to be more pinch'd in the exercise of their Religion ; There was new Plantations intended to be made ther of Carboncians and Hydraulians ; There was every day a scrutiny made of conceal'd Lands and dark defective Titles ; There were new Imposts laid upon them ; they remain'd incapable of any preferments in Church and State , whereas the Carboncians had Advancements and Offices every day in the Gherionian Court , and som of them admitted to sit at the Council-Table ; These motifs impell'd the Hebrinians also to rise up in Arms , hoping they might speed as well as the Carboncian , who obtain'd what he pleas'd ; So they rise up to som purpose , for many cruentous and horrid Massacres hapned on both sides , which took away hundreds of thousands ; Now , all these things considered , will you have me return among the Carboncians again ? Pererius . My principall proposall unto you is to turn Man again , and the Globe of the Earth is large , you may live in what Country you please ; You may plant your self in Gheriona , a cheerfull and plentifull Country , and so be neerer the Sun. Goose. 'T is tru , that Gheriona abounds with all things that Air , Earth , or Water can afford ; But it may be said , that all things are good in her except one , which is that Creture who speaks ; It hath bin an antient saying all the world over , in nature of a proverb , That Gheriona is a good Country , but the Peeple are bad , insomuch that her King hath bin call'd the King of Devills ; If this hath bin said of her now , in former times , much more may it be said of her now , most of the Nation being so much deprav'd and degenerated from what they were ; Therfore if I were man again I wold be loth to go thither ; But to tell you truly , Sir , I am grown a tru Misanthropos , a hater of men , I had rather continu in this shape then be Virbius again ; In this shape I have far more variety of plesure , I fish for my food in the Water , I sleep on Earth , and I solace my self in the Hevens , in the Airy Region where I am now to fly . The Eleventh Section . Consisting of a Dialog 'twixt Morphandra , Pererius , and a Hive of Bees , who had bin once a Monastery of Nuns , and were transmuted to those small Insects , because that after a yeers Probation , and their own praevious free Election , they murmur'd at that Reclus'd Claustrall life , and wish'd themselves uncloyster'd again , &c. Morphandra , Pererius , a Bee. Morphandra . I Belive your perswasions could prevail little with that Volatil Creture , that Soland-Goose , in regard I observ'd how she took wing , and flutter'd away from you in a kind of hast . Pererius . Truly ; Madame , I may say , that all this while according to the old proverb , I have bin shooing of Goslings , I have spent my labor and breath to little purpose in order to my main designe , yet I cannot deny but that I have gain'd a great deal of rare knowledg by communicating with these transmuted Animals , and truly they have made me better acquainted with my self , and with the state of Mankind in generall ; But for this last transform'd thing , none of all the rest did brand his own Country-men so bitterly : He lays to their charge originally all those fearfull calamities , those horrid confusions , those cataracts of blood which fell of late years both in Hebrinia and Gheriona ; And he said , that all that they have purchased therby , is , to have foold themselves into a perfect slavery , and to have brought themselfs under an Iron Rod in lieu of that Golden Scepter under which they liv'd formerly . And now , Madame , I have no hopes to do any good , for Hope is like Butter , which the Physicians say is Gold in the morning , Silver at noon , and Lead at night , in relation to the stomack ; So I had golden hopes at first to redeem and carry along with me som of these transmuted Animals , that are in such an unnaturall captivity , but my hopes are now turn'd perfect Lead , I am in utter despair to prevail with any ; Therfore , most admirable Queen , now that the winds blow fair I must think of a departure , and touching those most Princely civilities , & sublime inexpressible favours you have bin pleased to shew , since the happy Fates brought me to take footing in this your rare Island , I will make the whole world witnes of my gratitude , and to ring out Morphandra's glory wheresoever I passe ; Nay I will procure your most rare and transcendent vertues , which are beyond the power of mortalls , to be engraven with indelible characters of the most burnish'd gold in the Temple of Immortality . Morphandra . Most accomplish'd and heroick Prince , those civilities and treatments you have received here were due unto you by the common Laws of Hositality , and you might therby have claim'd them as a Right ; But truly I shold be very well contented if you were made partaker of your so laudable desires , as to have som of these metamorphos'd Animals re-transmuted , that so you might carry with you som reall returns of your Voyage ; Therfore you may please to try one conclusion more , and I spy a fit subject for you to work upon , in yonder great hollow Oak you shall meet with a Swarm of Bees , who have built up their Cells there , wherof I will capacitat som with a perfect faculty of Reson and Ratiocination to interweave discourse with you ; They were formerly a Cloyster of Nuns , who though after a due probation , and their own spontaneous free choice , they undertook that austere , yet pious and plentifull train of life , yet they fell a murmuring and a humming at the solitude and hardships of that holy Profession , and to think too often on Man with inordinat desires to be discloysterd , and lead a more dissolut and free unbridled life ; Yonder they are , therfore you may please to make towards them , and you cannot tell what successe you may have with those small airy Insects . Bee. What are you , Sir , that dare approach this Hive , this precious Cell , and Confectionary of Nature ? Pererius . Gentle Bees , I come hither for no hurt , but for your infinit advantage ; I understand by Queen Morphandra that you were once Intellectuall Cretures , and the children of Reson ; nay , you were a degree above ordinary human happines , being in a contemplative and sweet sacred cours of life , wherin you had secluded your selfs from the world with the vanities therof , and espoused your selfs to your Creator , by keeping the perpetuall pure fire of Virginity . Bee. 'T is tru , we kept that ceremonious outward fire , but within us we felt too often such flamings , such furnaces or Mongibells of fires , such violent affections and impetuous desires , that made us half mad for the time , the sense of our restraint making these fires far more raging and vehement , for though in externall appeerance and habits , we shew'd som symptoms of mortification , yet we could never extinguish the sparks of the concupiscible appetite , which is so naturally inherent in every body . Pererius . I thought that by performance of so many penances , by your temperat diet , by your abstemious use and choice of meats , by your so frequent fastings , by your hard lodgings having matts for your beds , and stones for your pillows , by your early risings , by being always employ'd in somthing or other to avoid idlenes , which is the Devills couch ; I say , by the practise of these austerities , I thought you had quench'd those concup iscentiall flames . Bee. The operations of nature can hardly be quite suppress'd , but their motions are irresistible ; nor are these naturall motions given by the Creator to our sex to be a torment unto us , but for delight , and being lawfully and moderatly us'd , they are destinated for the propagation of Mankind : Moreover ther is a saying , who fights against Nature fights against God himself , she being his Hand-maid . Pererius . I cannot deny but that Naturam sequi , est Deo obseque , to follow Nature is to obey God , yet as our gretest prudence is seen in the conduct of our naturall passions , so our gretest prowesse is seen in the conquest of them , when they grow exorbitant and rebellious ; We need not seek for enemies abroad to exercise our valour upon , we have too too many within dores , we have enough of domestic and inmate enemies to cope withall . Bee. And will you have us to put on that nature again ? But , Sir , besides what we spoke of before , ther was another thing that did torture us in that Monastic life , it was the apprehension of our captivity , being sequester'd and cut off as it were from the society of Mankind , & in a manner from the Living , 'twixt whom and us ( in that state ) ther was this difference , that they were to die before buriall , but we were buried before death ; Now , ther is nothing so tedious to all natures as imprisonment , which we shew'd when we slept in the bosom of our Causes in our mothers wombs , whence we broke out to get liberty , and to be a Nun is as it were to go into a kind of womb again . Pererius . I , but ther you were in a kind of Angelicall condition amongst those walls , you learnt there how to lead the life 's of Angels upon earth , you were as so many fixed Starrs which being the higher are more noble , and nearer the throne of the Almighty , than the Planets , which wandring up and down never keep the same distance betwixt them . Bee. Sir , under favor , we are not of that opinion ; For you know the Sun and the Moon are called the Great Luminaries in Heven , therfore they must be the more noble , specially the Sun , wherin God himself is said to have his habitation , or Imperiall Throne , whence he sees the motion of the Universe , and over-looks all his cretures throughout the world ; Now , these noble Erratic Starrs are in a perpetuall progresse , which the Moon finisheth in twenty nine daies , Mercury in four-score , Venus nine months , the Sun in a year , Mars in two , Iupiter in twelve , and Saturn in thirty years . Pererius . The fixed Starrs have also a motion within their own Orbs , and the Convent wherein you were before might be called a Constellation of fixed Starrs , which I say do move within the circumference of their own Spheres , as you did within the walls of your Monastery amongst your selfs . Bee. But by the condition wherin we are now stated , we may be said to have a larger Beeing , for we have turn'd our Convent to a Common-wealth , or rather our Monastery to a Monarchy , wherin we have as exact an oeconomy , and politicall rules of Government , as ever we had in our Monastery ; We have a Souvrain King , who although he hath no sting as all the rest have , yet he carrieth such a Majesty that makes us all exactly obedient to his commands ; Nor , though he bear no arms himself , was ther ever heard of any Rebellion amongst us against our lawfull Prince , as is so frequent amongst Mankind ; It being a principle from the very instinct of nature amongst us , that it is both detestable and damnable for Subjects to rise up against their supream Governour , and go about to right themselfs by Arms ; I say , that in this state we have a very regular Government , we have a King , we have privy Counsellors , we have Commanders in the War , and gregarian Soldiers ; We keep close in Winter , and have then our Centinells ; We go not abroad till Beans do blossom , and then , if the weather permit , ther 's never a day passeth in idlenesse ; We first build our Cells and Combs , then make Hony , and then engender ; We make our Wax and Hony of the freshest and most fragrant flowers , and abhor withered or stinking vegetalls ; When the flowers are spent in one place , we have our harbingers abroad to find out another ; being surprised by night in our expeditions , we sleep in a supine posture with our bellies upward , to preserve our wings from the falling dew ; Betimes in the morning we are awakned by our Drummer , who punctually performs his office that way ; Then , if the day be mild , we fally forth in a great body , and we have an instinct to foresee winds , tempests , and rain , which makes us keep often within ; When we go abroad to work , every one hath his task , and the younger are put to the hardest , while the elder labour within dores ; We all feed together , and if we be surprised abroad with a sudden wind , we take up a stone 'twixt our feet to give weight to our bodies , that they may not be blown away ; Ther is among us a Censor of manners , and som Officers that watch those which are slothfull , who are afterwards punish'd with death , and for the Drones , which are a spurious kind of brood , we quite banish them ; Ther 's not the least foulnes seen in our Alvearies or Hives , for we abhor all immundicities and sordidnes ; When 't is towards night , our hummings lessen by degrees , till an Officer fly about and command silence and sleep , which is instantly done ; We first build houses for our Workmen and Plebeans , and then palaces for the Nobles and the King ; We punish sloth without mercy ; we faithfully obey our King , being always about him like a guard , and He in the midst ; When the peeple are at work , He goes about and cherisheth them , He onely being exempt from labour ; He hath always his Officers ready to punish Delinquents ; When He goes forth , the whole Swarm attends him , if He chance to be weary , we bear him upon our sholders ; Whersoever He rests , there the generall Randevous is ; Wasps , Hornets , and Swallows are enemies to us ; We bury our dead with great solemnity ; At the Kings death ther is a generall mourning and fasting , with a cessation from labour , and we use to go about his body with a sad murmur for many daies ; When we are sick we have attendants appointed us , and the symptoms when we be sick are infallible , according to the honest plain Poet , If Bees be sick ( for all that live must die ) That may be known by signes most certainly , Their bodies are discoloured , and their face Looks wan , which shews that death comes on apace ; They carry forth their dead , and do lament , Hanging o' th' dore , or in their Hives are pent : Hunger and cold consumes them , you shall find They buzz as doth t'th ' woods the Southern wind , Or as the Sea when as the waves return , Or fire clos'd up in vaults with noise doth burn . Nor are we profitable onely in our life 's unto Mankind , by that pretious Hony we confect for their use , which though for the rare vertues and sweetnes therof som held to be the gelly of the Starrs , others the sweat of the Hevens , others the quintessence of the Air , though really it be but our Chylus at the third digestion ; I say , that we are not onely in our lifes beneficiall to mankind , who receives the fruits of our labours , but after death also ; Our bodies pounded and drunck with wine , or any other diareticall thing , cures the Dropsie , Stone , and Strangury ; The hony scrapt off our dead bodies is extraordinary good against divers diseases ; Moreover we have a kind of transmigration among us , one into the other ; Out of our brains , marrow , and chine-bones , Kings and Nobles are bred , out of the rest of our bodies ordinary Bees . Pererius . Gentle Bee , you have spoken as much as can be for the advantage of your condition , yet nevertheles you are but fleshles poor sensitive Insects onely , of a short and a kind of ephemeran subsistence ; You want that spark of Immortality , the noble Rational Soul , wherby the human Creture goes as far beyond you , as an Angel goes beyond him . Bee. I remember when I was a Nun I heard many characters given of the Rational Soul , as were somwhat transcendent , if not presumptuous ; The Theolog or Divine call'd her , The Image of God Almighty ; The Philosopher call'd her , The Queen of Forms ; And you call her now , A Spark of Immortality ; Yet you know not how , nor where this Spark enters into you , nor where it resides in any particular place above other Souls , nor are you agreed whether she enters into you by divine infusion , or by traduction from the parentall seeds . Pererius . I shall endeavour to satisfie you touching these particulars ; It must be consider'd , that Man may be call'd the great Amphybium of nature ; First , he is a confus'd lump of dead matter , lying as it were upon the lees in the womb , where the vegetable Soul enters first , making it capable of extension and growth ; Then the Sensitive Soul follows , who by the plasticall vertu falls a forming the members or the organs ; Then comes the noblest of all the three , the Rationall Soul , who swayes o're the other two , and is — Divinae particula aurae , she is breath'd from the Creator himself , and which no other creture in Heven or earth can say , she is capable of a spirituall Regeneration afterwards , as the Body is of a Resurrection ; At last , when she hath shaken off the slough of flesh , she becomes a Spirit either good or bad , she becomes a Saint or a Devill , and so receives eternall beatitude or torments ; By these degrees observable it is , that Man hath potentially in himself all created natures , first or last , both in Heven , Earth , and Hell ; All which may be compris'd in this Poem , which , though short , containeth the whole story of Mankind from first to last . Man is that great Amphybium in whom lye Three distinct Souls by way of trigony ; He runs through all creations by degrees , First , He is onely Matter on the lees , Whence he proceeds to be a Vegetal , Next Sensitive , and so Organical ; Then by divine infusion a third Soul , The Rational doth the two first controul ; But when this Soul comes in , and where she dwells Distinct from others , no Dissector tells , And ( which no creture else can say ) that state Enables her to be Regenerat : She then becomes a Spirit , and at last A Saint or Devill , when that she hath cast The clogg of flesh , which yet she takes again , To perfect her beatitude or pain : Thus Man is first or last allied to all Cretures in Heven , in Earth , or Hells black Hall. Bee. Whereas you alledg , that the Intellectuall or Rationall Soul enters by Divine infusion , I remember when I was a Nun , that divers learned men were of opinion , that she was ( like the other two Souls , viz. the vegetal and the Sensitive ) propagated and traduc'd by the seed and sperm of the parents , and that this was done by the hereditary vertu of that gran universall Benediction , pronounced by God himself to all his cretures , Encrease and multiply ; Then they proceeded to urge the common Axiom , that like begets the like ; Now , the great God of Nature did constitut all other species perfect in their own kinds , with a procreative power to beget their like by a compleat generation ; And why shold Man , in whom the ideas of all other created natures are collectively resplendent ? Why shold he , I say , com short of this perfection and priviledge ? for without it he may be ranck'd among those mutilat defective cretures , who are destitut of power to procreat an Individuum like themselfs . Pererius . This shews the eminency of the human Soul above others in point of extraction , for if she were made of such poor frail ingredients as the seeds of the parents , she wold be perishable with the Body , wheras the is created to be heir of Eternity . Bee. I remember the reply to this , That the excellency of the human Soul is not to be derived from her creation and first materialls , but from the Fiat , or eternall Decree , and particular blessing of the Creator , who endowed her from the beginning with such a prerogative , out of his free will and plesure , to be capable of eternity : But wheras you aver , that the parentall feeds are too grosse ingredients to produce so noble a Soul , I remember ther are great modern Doctors and Physitians who hold , that neither the seed of mother or father go to the impregnation , but that the Female conceives onely by a virtuall contact , as the Loadstone draws Iron , and that she is made pregnant by conceiving the generall Idaea without matter ; To make this new assertion good , they compare the womb to the brain , and that what the phantasma or appetit is in the brain , the same phantasma or its analogy is excited in the womb , for both of them are call'd Conceptions . Pererius . This is a wild extravagant opinion , for one may believe with more reson , that the Tumontian Mares are impregnated , and made to conceive by the South-west winds . Bee. I remember another argument that was urged for the traducible generation of the human Soul , which was , that the Rationall Soul begins to operat in the prolificall seed the very first moment of conception , as soon as the prolificall emissions of both sexes are blended by mutuall fermentation , for then the conformative and proper operations of the Rational Soul begin upon the Embryo , who proceeds to majoration and augmentation accordingly ; And it is no lesse then an absurdity to think , that the Infant after conception shold be majorated by the influence of any other Soul then that from whom he received his formation ; Now , that this formation begins instantly after the conception , appeers by the early activity of nature , which hath bin sensibly discover'd in abortive Embryo's by autopicall observations , wherby it hath bin visibly found , that a Septenary Slip put into clear water , a subtle Inspector through a magnifying Glasse may discern all the rudiments of the organicall parts ; Ther may be seen there the generall conformative faculty in the seed , wherin will visibly appeer three small bubling conglobations , which are the materialls of the noblest parts , viz. the Brain , the Heart , and the Liver ; ther will appeer also two small black Orbs , or atomicall points , which are the rudiments of the Eyes : Whence may be strongly inferred , that if organization , and the conformation of the Infant begins in the very punctillio or first moment of the conception , that the Rationall Soul then works in the seed , as being the most vigorous part of it ; From hence it follows , that Man doth absolutely procreat Man , which could not be if the Genitor did not communicat the Human Soul unto his Issue ; For since Man is compos'd of Soul and Body , if the parent cannot cannot impart both to his ofspring , he may be said to be inferiour to Beasts , who have intrinsic active principles , and power in themselfs to propagat , and beget Individiums of their own species , without the concurrence of extrinsecall causes . Pererius . These are neotericall fancies , and derogatory to the noblenes of the Rational Soul , who hath a far more sublime and spirituall extraction . Bee. But to let passe this Quaere , how and when the Rational Soul informs and actuats the Embryo , ther have bin great researches and indagations made , whether this Soul being so distinct from the Vegetal and Sensitive in her operations , whether , I say , she hath any particular domicile or cell within the human body for her own residence . Pererius . It was never found yet by any inspections which the Naturalists and Anatomisers have made , that the Rationall Soul hath any peculiar lodging , proper onely to her self , and differing from other Animals ; But being indivisible , inextensive , and without parts , she is tota in toto & tota in qualibet parte , she is all in the whole , and whole in every part of the compositum , she is diffus'd up and down the whole masse or fabric of flesh , ther being no movement at all without her ; For as the beams or light of the Sun displayeth it self every where through the whole Hemisphere , yet hath it no particular mansion in any place more then another , so the Rationall Soul , which is a beam of Immortality , diffuseth her self through the whole Microcosm of Man to quicken it , yet she hath no particular residence in any part ; 'T is tru , that she is radically in the heart , and principally in the brain , which is as it were her Capitol , and the seat of the Animal-spirits ; Thence she issueth forth her commands , and dividing her Empire into a Triarchy , she governs by three Viceroys , the three Faculties , who though they are absolutely distinct by their Commissions , and keep their Courts in severall Regions , yet are they united by so indissoluble a league , and sympathetic alliance , that the prosperitie of one enlargeth the principalities of the other , and the detriment of each threatens the integrity of the whole ; The Natural or Vegetal Faculty claims superiority of time in order of procreation , as being Governesse of our Minority , commanding the third part of our lises ; The Vital hath preheminence in order of necessity , keeping her Court chiefly in the Heart , which is the first part that lives , and the last that dies ; thence she transmits a souvrain and conservatory influence through all the members , without which the whole Man must in the fleetest article of time be but a Cadaver ; The Animal Faculty challengeth supermacy in order of eminence , as regulating the sublimer actions , as Sense and Motion , togegether with the Memory , Understanding , and Imagination , to which , as to their perfection , the two former are design'd . Therefore , gentle Bees , think speedily on the free proposall I have made , and of the fair opportunity you have offered you to be reinform'd with Rational Souls , and to return to the Religious Convent you came from , where being wean'd from the frail world , together with the cares and encumbrances therof ; Where , by the constant practise of holy duties night and day , you may act the parts of Angels upon earth , and afterwards of tru Angels in the land of Eternity : Therfore shake off this despicable poor humming condition , and go again to sing Hymns and Halleluiahs to your Creator . Bee. Know , Sir , that we have also a Religion , as well as so exact a Government among us here ; Our Hummings you speak of are as so many Hymns to the great God of Nature ; And ther is a miraculous example in Caesarius Cisterniensis , how som of the holy Eucharist being let fall in a medow by a Priest , as he was returning from visiting a sick body , a Swarm of Bees being hard by took it up , and in a solemn kind of procession carried it to their Hive , and there erected an Altar of the purest Wax for it , where it was found in that form , and untouch'd . But whereas you spoke of Angels , how do the separated Souls of good men , when they are exalted to Heven , differ from the Angels ? Pererius . As they agree , so they differ in many things ; Angels and separated Souls agree , in that both of them are Spirits ; Both of them are Intellectuall and Eternall Cretures ; They both behold the beatificall Vision ; Both of them are Courtiers of Heven , and act meerly by the understanding , &c. Lastly , They both are Parishioners of the Church Triumphant : Now , as the blessed Angels and Souls separat do thus agree , So they differ in many things ; They differ in their Essentialls , for the principles of Angels are meerly Metaphysicall , viz. Essence and Existence ; but a separated Soul continues still part of that Compositum which formerly consisted of matter and form , and is still apt to be reunited therunto ; Till then , she is not absolutely completed , for all that while she changeth not her nature , but her state of life : Moreover , they differ in the exercise of the Understanding , and manner of knowledge , for a Soul separat knows still by discours and ratiotination , which an Angell doth not but by Intuition ; They also differ in dignity of Nature , for Angels have larger Illuminations , At the first instant of their Creation they beheld the Beatific Vision , the summe of all happines , yet separated Souls are capable to mount up to such a height of glory by degrees as to be like them in all things , both in point of Vision , Adhaesion , and Fruition . Bee. Now , Sir , that you speak of Angels , what degrees are ther of them in the Celestiall Hierarchy ? Pererius . They are divided into three Hierarchies , and in every Hierarchy ther are three Orders ; The first consists of Seraphims , the second of Cherubims , the third of Thrones ; The second consists of Dominations , of Vertues , and Powers ; The third consists of Principalities , of Angells , and Archangells ; Now , those of the supremest Hierarchy partake of divine Illuminations in a greter mesure : And you were all born , gentle Bees , to be members of any of these glorious Hierarchies . Bee. I remember when I was a Nun , that som presumptuous spirits would preach , that Angels were created for Man , and that Man was of so high a creation that he was little inferiour unto them , if not their equall , and that their chief ministeriall function was to guard Him , &c. Pererius . They were presumptuous indeed , and in a high degree of prophanenes , as you shall find in these Stanza's of comparison , though som of them are familiar , and too low for so high a subject . 1. Such as the meanest Star in Sky Is to the Sun in Majesty ; What a Monk's Cell is to high Noon , Or a new Cheese unto the Moon ; No more is Man , if one should dare Unto an Angel Him compare . 2. What to the Eagle is a Gnat , Or to Leviathan a Sprat ; What to the Elephant a Mouse , Or Shepherd's Cott to Caesar's House ; No more is Man , if one should dare Unto an Angell Him compare . 3. What to a Pearl a peeble Stone , Or Cobler's Shop unto a Throne ; What to the Oak the basest Shrub , Or to Noah's Ark a Brewer's Tub ; No more is Man , if one shold dare Unto an Angel Him compare . 4. Then let not Man , half child of night , Compare with any Hevenly Wight , He will appeer on that account A Mole-hill to Olympus Mount ; Yet let this still his comfort be , He hath a capability To be of Heven Himself , but on this score , If he doth not make Earth his Heven before . Bee. Noble Prince , you pleas'd to give divers touches of the Immortality of the human Soul , I pray be pleas'd to illuminat and rectifie our understandings touching that point . Pererius . Concerning the immortality and incorruptiblenes of the Rational Soul in the World to com , not onely Christian Divines , but the best of Pagan Philosophers , Poets , and Orators , have done her that right , as is evident in their works ; Moreover , the Intellectuall Human Soul doth prove her self to be immortall , both by her desires , her apprehensions , and her operations ; Touching the first , Her desires are infinit we know , and never satisfied in this world ; Now , it is a Maxim among the School-men , That ther is no naturall passion given to any finit creture to be frustraneous ; Secondly , Her apprehensions or longings after eternall Truths , which are her chiefest employments , and most adaequat objects , declare her Immortall ; Thirdly , from her operations , 't is known , that all corruption comes from matter , and from the clashing of contraries ; Now , when the Soul is sever'd from the Body , she is elevated beyond the sphere of matter , therfore no causes of mortality can reach her , wherby her state and operations pronounce her immortall , which operations she doth exercise without the ministery of corporeall organs , for they were us'd to be a clog to her ; Add hereunto , that she useth to spiritualize materiall things in the Intellect , to abstract Idaeas from Individualls ; She can apprehend negations and privations , she can frame collective notions , all which actings conclude her immateriality , and as 't was pointed at before , where no matter is found ther 's no corruption , and where ther 's no corruption ther 's no mortality ; Now , her prime operations being without the ministery of Matter , she may be concluded immortall by that common principle , Modus operandi , sequitur modum essendi , Operations are according to the essence of every thing ; Now , in the World to com , the Soul shall be in a state of pure independent Beeing , for ther will be neither action or passion in that state ; Whence may be inferr'd , she shall never perish , in regard that all corruption comes from the action of another thing upon that which is corruptible , therfore that thing must be capable to be made better or worse ; Now , if a separat Soul be plac'd in her ultimat and utmost state , that she can be made neither , it follows , that she can never lose the Beeing she hath ; Besides , since the egress out of the body doth not alter her nature , but onely her condition , it must be granted , that she was of the same nature while she continued incorporated , though in that kind of imprisonment she was subject to be forg'd as it were by the hammer of materiall objects beating upon her , yet so , as she was still of her self what she was ; Therefore when she goes out of the passible ore wherein she suffer'd , by reson of the foulnes and impurity of that ore , she immediately becomes impassible , and a fix'd subject of her own nature , viz. a simple pure Beeing ; Both which ( as a most noble Knight Sir. K. D. hath it ) may be illustrated in some mesure by what we find passeth in the coppilling of a fixed metall , which as long as any lead or drosse or any allay remains with it , continueth still melting , flowing , and in motion under the muffle ; but as soon as they are parted from it , and that 't is become pure , defaecated , without mixture , and single of it self , it contracts it self to a narrower room , and instantly ceaseth from all motion , it grows hard , permanent , and resistent to all force of fire , admitting no change or diminution in its substance by any externall violence ; In like manner it may be said , when the Rational Soul departs from the drossy ore of the Body , and comes to be her single self , she is like exalted Gold , and reduc'd to the utmost perfection ; She can be no more liable to any diminution , to action or passion , or any kind of alteration , but continues fix'd for ever in the full fruition of unconceivable blisse and glory . Bee. Excellent Prince , these are high abstracted notions , transcending the reach of vulgar capacities ; But you were pleased to reflect somwhat upon the blisfulnes and joys of the human Soul in the other world , I pray be pleas'd to enlarge your self upon this Theme . Pererius . These joys , as they are beyond expression , so they are beyond all imagination ; That vast Ocean of Felicity which the separat Soul is capable to receive cannot flow into her , untill those banks of earth , viz. the corporeall walls of flesh be removed ; Those infinit joys which the human Soul shall be ravish'd withall in Heven are unmeasurable , and beyond any mathematicall reaches ; They have length without points , breadth without lines , depth without surface ; They are even and uninterrupted joys , but to go about to expresse them in their perfection were the same task , as to go about to measure the Ocean in Cockle-shells , or compute the nomber of the sands with peeble stones ; Touching these faint and fading plesures among the Elements , we use to desire them when we need them , and when we have them , the desire presently languisheth in the fruition ; Moreover , we use to love earthly things most when we want them , and lesse when we have them ; The daintiest meats and drinks nauseat after fulness ; Carnall delights cause sadnes after the enjoyment ; All plesures breed not onely a satiety but a disgust , and the contentment terminats with the act : 'T is otherwise with Celestiall things , they are most lov'd when they are enjoy'd , and most coveted when they are had ; They are always full of what is desir'd , and the desire still lasteth , but it is a co-ordinat desire of complacency and continuance , not an appetit after more , because they are perfect of themselfs ; Yet ther is still a Desire , and a Satiety , but the one finds no want , nor can the other breed a surfet ; The higher the plesure is , the more full and intense is the fruition , and the oftner 'tis repeted the more the appetit encreaseth ; Whence this conclusion follows , that ther can be no proportion at all betwixt the joys of a separat Soul , and those of a Soul embodyed ; For the least dram of the spirituall joyes in Heven is more than the whole Ocean of fleshly contentments ; One drop of those abstracted , those pure , permanent ; & immarcescible delights is infinitly more sweet , than all those mix'd and muddy streams of corporeall and mundan plesures , then all those no other then Utopian delights of this transitory world , were they all cast into a Limbeck , and the very Elixir of them distill'd into one vessell . Bee. Incomparable Prince , you have conquer'd us with such strong Herculean Resons , you have raised our spirits with such high raptures , and so illuminated our understandings , that by the gracious Fiat of the great God of Nature , and the favour of Queen Morphandra his handmaid in this particular , we are willing to resume our first shapes , and so return to our dear Country and Cloysters , where the remembrance of this transfiguration , we hope , will turn to our advantage ; In the interim , we render you most humble and hearty thanks in the highest degree that can be imagin'd , for your flexanimous and hevenly perswasions , which we found so melting and sweet , that we may justly think Bees sat upon your lips , as they did upon Plato's , in your cradle , or that you might be nurs'd with Hony in lieu of Milk , as Pindarus the Prince of Lyricks was ; And because Poesie is the gretest light whereby the Rational Soul may be discerned to be a Ray of Divinity , we will conclude with som Enthusiasms to blissfull Heven and the Hierarchies therof in this graduall Hymn , beginning with our Creator . Natures great God , the Cause of causes , be Ador'd and prais'd to all Eternity , That supream Good , that quintessentiall Light , Which quickens all that 's hidden , or in sight ; Who breaths in Man the Intellectuall Soul , Therby to rule all Cretures , and controul What Water , Earth , or Air ; &c. 1. O holy Souls , O heavenly Saints , Who from corruption and the taints Of flesh and blood , from pain and tears , From pining cares , and panting fears , And from all passions , except Love ( Which onely reigns with you above ) Are now exempt , and made in endlesse Blisse Free Denizons , and Heirs of Paradis . 2. O glorious Angels who behold The Lord of Light from Thrones of Gold , Yet do vouchsafe to look on Man , To be his Guide and Guardian , Praying always that He may be Partner of your felicity ; O blisfull Saints and Angells , may yee still The Court of Heven with Halleluiahs fill . 3. Seraphick Powers , Cherubs , Thrones , Vertues and Dominations , Supernall principalities , Glories , and Intelligencies , Who guide the cours of Starrs in sky , And what in their vast Concaves lye : May ye for ever great Jehovah's will , And His commands throughout the world fulfill . 4. Archangels who the most sublime degree Do hold in the Triumphant Hierarchy , And can endure to see , and face alone The glorious Beatific Vision , A joy which all joys else transcends so far As doth a morning Sun the meanest Star. Archangels , Angels , Saints , Souls sever'd , may yee stil The Empyrean Court with Halleluiahs fill . Infantium Cerebri Sextus Post Quadraginta . Gloria laùsque Deo saeCLorVM in saecVla sunto . A Chronogrammaticall Verse , which includes not onely this year 1660. but hath Numericall Letters enow to reach above a thousand years further , untill the year 2867. — Heic Terminus esto . AN ADVERTISEMENT Relating to ORTOGRAPHY . THer is a Saying , that hath gain'd the repute of a Proverb , ( though it be also a kind of Reproach ) That the French neither sings as he pricks , nor thinks as he speaks , nor speaks as he writes ; The first proceeds from abundance of spirits , and his volatil airy nature ; The second from his Exces of Complements ; The third , because he wold have his Language retain still of the Romand or Latin Toung ; Therfore when he writes Temps , Corps , Estoille , Advocats , &c. which com from Tempus , Corpus Stella , Advocati , he pronounceth them , Tan , Cors , Etoilis , Avocà ; The English may be said to be as guilty hereof , for if the French writes , Apres la tempeste vient le beau temps , and pronounceth , Apre la tampete vien le bou tan , After a Storm comes a Calm ; If the French writes , Les Advocats bastissent leuers maisons de testes de fols , and pronounceth , Les avocà batisset leur mesons de tete de fous , Lawyers build their houses of Fools heads , ( viz. Clients ) The English comes not short of him , for wheras he writes , God give you good Evening , he often saies , Godi godin ; Wheras he writes , Much good may it do unto you , he often pronounceth , Musgiditty : The French do labor daily to reform this , and to bring both Writing and Pronounciation to be consonant , by retrenching the superfluous letters , for wheras they were used to write , Les Epistres que les Apostres ont Escrit , they now write as they pronounce , Les Epitres que les Apotres ont ecrit : It hath bin the aim of the Author in this Book ( and others ) to do the like , ( though the Presse did not observe his Ortography so punctually ) . Now , Strangers use to quarrel with our Language , and throw away the Book in a chase somtimes , because our writing and pronunciation are so differing ; For when a stranger meets with treasure , measure , feature , reader , weather , people , &c. he pronounceth tre-asure , me-asure , fe-ature , re-ader , we-ather , pe-ople ; When he meets with witnesse , sicknesse , wittie , prettie , pittie , starre , warre , &c. he pronounceth witness-e , sickness-e , witti-e , pretti-e , pitti-e , starr-e , warr-e , &c. Wheras if we wold write them as wee pronounce them , viz. Tresure , mesure , feture , reder , wether , peeple , witnes , sicknes , witty , pretty , pitty , star , war , &c. ( which gives altogether as full a prolation ) strangers wold not find such a difficulty and distast in learning our Language ; It hath bin , and is still the endevor of the Author to reform this , as also to bring those words which are derived from the Latin Toung to follow her Ortography rather then the French , wherby divers Letters are sav'd , as Magic , Tysic , Colic , Favor , Lahor , &c. not Magique , Physique , Cholique , Favour , Labour , &c. For as it is a Principle in Philosophy , Encia non sunt frustra multiplicanda , Entities are not to be multiplied in vain , so it may as well hold in Ortography , That Letters are not to he multiplied to no purpose ; Add hereunto the Topicall Rule , ( as the Author observes els-where ) Frustra sit per plura quod fieri potest per pauciora , More is waste , whe●… fewer will serve one turn . THE INDEX . A more particular Account of the Ingredients that went to the Composition of this Work. A Fol. THe Art of governing Man the most difficult . 26 An Asse's body medicinall for many things after death . Ibid. The Antipathy 'twixt an Ape and a Snail . 50 Aristotle , Secretary of Nature's Cabinet-Councell . 55 Ambition hath no Horizon . 70 Aristotle held , that in the Female there was no active principle of Generation . 55 Confutation of the said Opinion . Ibid. Apelles painted a good huswife standing upon a Snail . 58 Aristotle inconstant to himself where he treats of Policy . 98 The Affections of the Peeple an imperfect security to a Prince . 99 Of Atoms . 103 The Activity of Atoms . 104 The Application of the Sympatheticall Powder . 106 Aetonia characteriz'd . 108 Aetonia full of mongrell Princes . 109 The advantages of the Human body . 120 An Asse cannot abide Fennell . 18 Artonia a Noun Substantive that can stand by it self . ibid. The Artonian Peasan born in chains . 19 Of Artonia with the plenty and beggery thereof . 18 Of the great Artonian Favorit . 21 The Austerities of Nuns . 134 B Bees , how usefull after death . 138 Bees bodies pounded good against many diseases . ibid. The Books of the Dead enliven the Living . In the Epist. Brute Animals more easie to be govern'd than Mankind . 99 Of the Beast with many heads , viz. the Common peeple . ibid. The Brains of a Fox good against the Falling sicknes . 100 The Blood of a Fox good against the Stone and the Cramp . ibid. A dead Boar hath nothing bad in him but his Excrements . 112 The Brains of a Boar good against the bitting of Serpents . ibid. The Blood of a Boar good against Carbuncles . ibid. Boar's liver good against the biting of a mad Dogg . ibid. Boar's lard good to make broken bones firm . ibid. Boar's testicles good against the Falling sicknesse . ibid. Boar's dung good against all venomous bitings , as also against the pain of the Spleen and Sciatica . ibid. A Boar being dead hath many vertues , and why ? ibid. How Beasts go in many things beyond Man. 120 The Carboncian sells his King. 129 A Bees Hive , the chief Confectionary of Nature . 134 C The Conduct of the Passions the greatest prudence , and the Conquest of them the greatest prowesse . In the Epist. Children a certain care , but an incertain comfort . 24 Comparisons 'twixt the Body Politic and the Natural . 48 Censures pro & con of Tumontia . 69 A rare comparison of the holy Trinity . 83 A City in Saturnia where husbands use to get their wife 's with child a hundred miles off . 88 A Character of Saturnia . 89 Of the gripes of Conscience . 90 Of Covetousnes . ibid. The Common peeple a cross-grain'd Animal . 99 A Comparison touching the Tomanto Empire . 109 The Character of an Aetonian . 111 Of Cuprinia . 114 The Cuprinian compar'd to a Wolf. 115 The Cuprinian had vast designes . 114 A Carboncian turn'd to a Soland-Goose , and the resons why . 125 Carboncia a coors Country . ibid. Carboncia's brag of her Kings . 126 Carboncia's late story . ib. Carboncia found Fidlers fare in Gheriona . 128 The Country of Gheriona good , but the peeple bad . 131 A high Complement . 135 Concupiscence not given to Mankind for a torment , but for delight . ibid. F A Description of the Morning . 48 A Discours of Woman-kind . 56 A Devill lurks in every berry of the Grape . 68 Divers medicinall vertues in a dead Deer . 64 Of the Discovery of the New World. 71 The Doctor of Physicks Fee but two shillings in Tumontia . 73 A Discours of Physic , and the Art thereof pro & con . 74 Diseases belonging to all the parts of Human body . 78 Distempers of the mind more cruciatory than those of the body . 80 A Discours touching the Sense and the Soul. ibid. A Discours of Aetonia , and how she is impair'd , 109 What Nation is the gretest Drunkard . 111 A Discours of the Instinctive Reson that Beasts have . 119 What a damnable thing it is for Subjects to rise up in Arms against their King. 128 A Discourse of Nuns . 134 A Discourse whether the Human Soul be by Infusion or Traduction . 140 The Degrees of the Celestiall Hierarchy . 145 A discourse of the Immortality of the Soul. 147 E Experience the touchstone of Truth . 6 Of the English Liturgy . 30 Examples pro & con touching the chastity of Women . 59 An Emblem of a lavishing wife . ibid. Every one knows how to tame a shrew but he who hath her . 61 Examples of notable scolds . ibid. Examples of the rare Longaevity of Deer . 64 The Elephant begins his youth at threescore years . ibid. How pittifully the Empire is decay'd . 111 Of Aesop's Dogg . 115 The fearfull and sudden judgment which fell upon the Carboncians for their Rebellion . 129 Of the fixed Starrs and the Planets , touching their motion . 136 Exact Obedience among Bees . ibid. Exact Government among Bees . ibid. An Epitome of the late confusions in Gheriona . 33 An Epitome of the confusions throughout the world for forty years . ibid. F Fable of an Ass. 24 Of a foolish Naturalist , who wish'd ther were another way to propagat Mankind than by Women . 55 The Fable of the Stagg . 65 A Facetious answer of a Pope touching Physitians . 74 The Foam of a Mule drunk in warm wine good against Pursines . 85 The Fable of the Mule. ib. Divers Fables of the Fox . 87 The Fable of the Frogs . 99 A Fox toung carried in a chain good against sore eyes . 101 Fables 'twixt the Wolf and the Lamb applied . 105 The Fable of the Goat and the Lion. 118 The Fable of the Horse and the Ass. 24 The Fable of the Ass and the Spaniel . ibid. G God heals , but the Physitian takes the Fee. 77 No Government so wise that can fit all Countries , and why ? 98 The genitalls , lights , and liver of a Fox , good against the Spleen . 101 The Gum of a Pine-tree eaten by the Fox when he is ill . 100 Goat's blood dissolves Diamonds , and scours better then any file . 123 Goat's milk recovers a Load-stone , when being rub'd with Garlick it hath lost its vertu . ibid. Goat's marrow good against aches . ibid. Goat's trindles drunk in wine good against the Iaundies , &c. ibid. Goat's liver , entralls , ashes , horns , milt , spleen , urine , marrow , hoofs , gall , dung , trindles , sewet , &c. all medicinall . ibid. Gheriona censur'd . 131 H A graduall Hymn to God and his Angels . 150 if the Humors were fix'd in Man's body , he might live eternally . In the Epist. History a profitable study . 31 The horridnes of Annihilation . 49 Honest men use to marry , wise men not . 62 The hardship the Tumontian endures . 69 Health , the most precious of Iewels . 77 The high prerogatives of Reson . 81 A horrid kind of Revenge . 92 Another Hellish revenge in Saturnia . 93 A late History of ten Morris-dancers in Orosia that made above a 1000 years betwixt them . 122 The Horrid Ingratitude of the Carboncian against their native King. 128 The Horrid Insurrections in Hebrinia took rise from Carboncia . 130 Hope like Butter , gold in the morning , silver at noon , and lead at night . 135 I In som places of the Indies the living wife throws her self into the pile with her husband . 60 Iealousie among Thoughts like Bats among Birds . 90 The Insulsity of the common peeple to think any rare effect to be Magicall . 102 Of Instinctive Reson . 118 Ill humors adhere to human nature as rust to copper . 121 Of the Infirmities of Mankind . ibid. Idlenes the Devils couch . 154 K The highest knowledge a man hath of his Creator but half blindnesse . 83 A cruel horrid murder . 103 The Kirk-mens horrid ingratitude . 128 The Kings Cheese goes away three parts in pairings in Artonia . 19 Why the King of Artonia keeps the common peeple so low . 20 The King of Artonia's huge taxes . 19 The King of Bees hath no sting . 136 The King of Bees hath a solemn Funerall . 189 L A Lawyer like Balaam's Asse , he will not speak unlesse an Angell appear . 16 Of Lawyers . 17 Lawyers build fair houses of Fool 's heads . 17 Of Laughter . 22 Of the long age of Deer . 64 Laughter a passion that hath the most variety of action . 22 The Laws of the Kingdom of Bees . 136 M Mirth and sadnes follow one another in human bodies as night succeeds day . The Epist. Magic the first Philosophy . 2 Man Paramount of all the sublunary cretures . 7 Man a tyrant to himself . ib. Man's body compar'd to a ship . 10 A Mariner's life . 12 Man the most intractable of all cretures . 26 Of the great maiden-City Marcopolis . 63 Man hath more diseases than a horse , or any other creture . 98 Of M●rchants . 70 Marther strangely discover'd . 92 The marvellous continence of a Saturnian . 94 Of Monarchy . 98 Som generall Maxims of Policy may extend to all Countries . 99 The mode of raaking the Sympatheticall Powder . 103 Man more savage then any Beast . 108 Of the Method of Providence . 110 A Miser and a Hog good for nothing till after death . 112 Man tax'd of presumption . 121 The Miser like an Ass , that carrieth gold but feeds on thistles . 17 The motions of Nature irresitible . 135 Mans gretest foes are within himself . ibid. Man the gretest Amphibyum of Nature for having three souls . 159 N Of Navigation . 9 A notable proverb touching long life . 49 The noble gratitude of a Saturnian . 94 Not such a Tyrant in the world as the common peeple . 99 The Naturall and Politicall body compar'd . 20 A notable Fable of the Ass and the Horse applied . 24. Nuns a degree higher the the ordinary cours of happines . 134 Nature abhors captivity . 135 O Of fading earthly joys . 149 Of hevenly joys . ibid. Otter's stones good against the Palsie . 8 Otter's liver reduced to powder good against the Stone and Cholic . ibid. Of old age . 64 Of the perturbances of human brains . 68 Opportunity the best moment in the whole extention of Time. 72 Of Physitians . 87 The odd life of a Soldier . 114 Orosia vindicated . 122 The Orosian faithfull to his King. 123 Orosia corrupted by the Gherionian Sectaries . 124 Of the three Souls in Man. 159 New Opinions , that the seeds of the Parents go not to impregnation , but the Female conceives by virtuall contact . 141 Of the three Faculties of the Soul. 143 P The Prerogatives that Man hath over other cretures . 7 The Partridge and Pidgeon purge themselfs with Bay-leafs . 76 Policy how degenerated of late days . 95 The truest Patriots are the Marcopolits . 95 Policy and Craft distinguished . ibid. The poor Politicians of Gheriona . 96 A false Policy that makes Religion her mask . 95 Policy or the Art of governing Man the hardest . 97 Proverbs of severall Nations . Who preach War are the Devil's Chaplains . 129 The best Policy Gheriona can use is to keep the Carboncian low . ibid. The Periodicall motions of the Planets . 136 Potentially , Man hath in him all created natures . 159 A Poem , containing the whole History of Man. 14 The Prerogative of Angels above Man in a Poem . 145 Q Queen Morphandra descended of a Divine race . In the Prolog . Queen Morphandra did perform all her Transmutations , not by any Magicall ways , but by the Power and Fiat of God. Of Queen Artemesia , who rear'd a wonderfull Monument for her husband Mausolus , and besides made her own Body his Tomb , by taking a doss every morning of his ashes . 60 R Reson the specificall difference that distinguisheth Man from Beast . 7 The high prerogatives of Reson . ibid. Of Roundheads . 49 Rebells and mad Doggs must be knock'd in the head . 100 Rebels but half punish'd , like Snakes cut in few pieces they will cling again together . ib. A rare Cure wrought by the Sympatheticall Powder . 107 The Reson that Beasts have is onely Direct , and capable of Singulars . 118 Reson distinguished . 120 The Rational Soul the Image and Breath of God Almighty . 139 The Rational Soul the Queen of Forms . ibid. The Rational Soul a Spark of Immortality . ibid. The Rational Soul hath no particular place of residence in Man , but is diffusive through all parts . ibid. Resons alledg'd , that the Rational Soul is traducible . 141 A Rare example of the Devotion of Bees . 144 S Of a Sea-faring life . 9 A Strange horrid dream . 32 Of the servitude and ill usage of Women . 58 The Serpent cures himself with Fennel . 76 Of the Sagacity of som Beasts . ibid. The Stagg cures himself with Dittany . ibid. The Snail heals her self with Hemlock . ibid. The Stork heals himself with Origanum . ibid. Spinning out of Time never made good Cloth. 80 The Sun never sets on the Tumontian Dominions . 83 A strange story of two Saturnian Merchants . 91 The Saturnian in the extreams of Love and Hatred , of Vertu and Vices . 94 The Saturnians may prescribe rules of Prudence to all Mankind . 95 Of late Smatterers in Policy . 99 Of the Sympatheticall Powder , and the rare vertues thereof . 103 The Saturnian more subject to jealousie and revenge then other Nations . 102 Strings made of Wolf's guts spoil all Music. 116 Strange things of the Wolf. ibid. Soldiers in Peace like Chimneys in Summer . 127 Symptoms when Bees are sick . 138 Some hold Hony to be the sweat of the Hevens , others the gelly of the Starrs , others the quintessence of the Air. ibid. How a Swarm of Bees built an Altar . 144 T The Torments of Hell. 40 Two notable Sayings in disparagement of Women . 55 Two famous Examples of the gallantry of Women . 60 Talk , one of the gretest delights of Women . 66 The Tumontian in his Councels follows the motion of Saturn , in his actions of Mercury . 67 The Tumontian excus'd for the blood he spilt in conquering the New World. 70 The Tumontian Monarchy like a Cloak made up of patches . 84 The Tumontian serves no Prince but his own . ibid. The Tumontian trades no where but into his own Kings Country . ibid. The Tumontian in perpetuall Feud with the common Enemy . ibid. A Town in Saturnia where there are Mountains without Wood , Sea without Fish , Men without Faith , and Women without shame . 88 Tall men like houses five stories high , the upper room worst furnished . 111 A strange Tale of an Ass. 119 A Tale of a Crow . ibid. Though the Threed of a man's life be never so well spun , yet it hath many bracks . 121 Till Beans blossom , Bees never go abroad . 137 The difference 'twixt separated Souls and Angels , and how they agree . 145 V Of the vexations and perturbances of spirit that Man is subject unto . 7 The Variety of labors that go to make Bread. 14 The Vexation of spirit Mankind is subject unto above other cretures . 68 The Volganians beat their wife 's duly once a week . 68 The Virtues of Deer . 63 When all Vices grow old , Covetousness grows young in Man. 90 Of the Vices in Saturnia . 91 Of the Vices of Aetonia . III The high Vanities of Man. 145 A Visionall Dream . 32 The Various torments of Hell. 40 Variety of new torments in Hell. ibid. W The Wisest of Mortalls is he who controuls his humors . In the Epist. Warr a a Fire struck in the Devil's Tinder-box . 10 Women of purer stuff then Men. 56 Of rare Women . 57 Of good and bad Women . 58 The Woman and Fortresse which begin to parly are half won . 66 Women held by som to be of an inferior Creation , and not the same species . 54 A Woman can wash her hands so long in a Bason of clear water that she cannot foul , Man not . 56 Women praised and dispraised . 57 The Warrs with Hydraulia cost the Tumontian a hundred and twenty millions of Tresure . 72 The Ways Hydraulia found out to counterfeit the Tumontian Coyn. ibid. The VVild Boar heals himself with Ivy. 76 VVhat the Eye of a Batt is to the Sun , the Understanding of Man is to God. 83 The great VVilines of a Fox in sundry Fables . 88 Of the VVeaknesses and frailties of Man. 121 These severall Books are Printed , and are to be sould by William Palmer at the Palm-Tree in Fleet-street . 1. 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