A miscellany of sundry essayes, paradoxes, and problematicall discourses, letters and characters; together with politicall deductions from the history of the Earl of Essex, executed under Queen Elizabeth. / By Francis Osborn Esquire.
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             A miscellany of sundry essayes, paradoxes, and problematicall discourses, letters and characters; together with politicall deductions from the history of the Earl of Essex, executed under Queen Elizabeth. / By Francis Osborn Esquire.
             Osborne, Francis, 1593-1659.
          
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           A
           MISCELLANY
           OF
           SUNDRY
           
             Essayes
             ,
             Paradoxes
          
           ,
           AND
           Problematicall
           Discourses
           ,
           Letters
           and
           Characters
           ;
           Together
           with
           Politicall
           Deductions
           from
           the
           HISTORY
           of
           the
           Earl
           of
           Essex
           ,
           Executed
           under
           Queen
           ELIZABETH
           .
        
         
           By
           FRANCIS
           OSBORN
           Esquire
           .
        
         
           LONDON
           ,
           Printed
           by
           
             John
             Grismond
          
           ,
           1659.
           8.
           9.
           
        
      
       
         
         
         
           To
           my
           Vertuous
           ,
           no
           lesse
           then
           in
           all
           things
           else
           deserving
           Neece
           ,
           Mrs.
           
             Elizabeth
             Draper
          
           .
        
         
           
             Deare
             Neece
             ,
          
        
         
           IT
           is
           on
           all
           hands
           confest
           ,
           that
           some
           things
           here
           may
           be
           thought
           as
           unsuitable
           to
           
             my
             Years
          
           ,
           as
           
             your
             Education
          
           (
           not
           yet
           removed
           from
           a
           
             vertuous
             Mother
          
           ,
           )
           By
           those
           are
           not
           acquainted
           with
           the
           
             externall
             Impulse
          
           which
           makes
           their
           Publication
           to
           the
           world
           unavoidably
           Necessary
           ,
           in
           reference
           to
           the
           preventing
           a
           
             false
             Impression
          
           ;
           no
           lesse
           Then
           that
           more
           Inward
           of
           
             naturall
             affection
          
           to
           you
           (
           not
           knowing
           but
           this
           may
           be
           my
           
           last
           opportunity
           )
           to
           do
           right
           to
           Gratitude
           .
           So
           as
           if
           any
           
             expression
             here
          
           should
           be
           of
           force
           to
           
             make
             you
             blush
          
           ,
           it
           would
           by
           augmenting
           your
           Beauty
           prove
           a
           
             Good
             Effect
          
           of
           a
           cause
           at
           the
           worst
           but
           respectively
           Evil
           ;
           and
           only
           in
           reference
           to
           such
           a
           
             Superlative
             goodness
          
           as
           you
           are
           indowed
           withall
           :
           whose
           apprehension
           of
           Ill
           results
           rather
           from
           Admonition
           and
           Prudence
           ,
           then
           Experience
           or
           Consent
           .
           Faults
           already
           become
           in
           many
           
             ripe
             for
             punishment
          
           ,
           being
           not
           yet
           arrived
           within
           the
           Circle
           of
           your
           thoughts
           .
           Wherefore
           (
           since
           the
           worst
           can
           be
           found
           in
           these
           pa-Pers
           ,
           if
           candidly
           taken
           ,
           does
           not
           
           come
           short
           of
           some
           of
           the
           best
           are
           daily
           made
           vendible
           ,
           )
           I
           desire
           you
           to
           vail
           your
           Judgement
           with
           Charity
           ;
           known
           in
           
             remoter
             Relations
          
           so
           extensive
           as
           to
           cover
           more
           Levity
           ,
           then
           I
           hope
           is
           
             extant
             here
          
           :
           Orif
           bleered
           by
           Interest
           ,
           I
           should
           mistake
           no
           lesse
           in
           its
           
             own
             desert
          
           ,
           then
           the
           acceptance
           of
           the
           VVorld
           ,
           it
           can
           not
           disparage
           your
           Name
           long
           ;
           which
           no
           doubt
           will
           sodainly
           be
           changed
           ,
           and
           you
           left
           free
           ,
           either
           to
           own
           or
           reject
           what
           is
           here
           presented
           :
           unlesse
           God
           for
           the
           punishment
           of
           the
           
             present
             Age
          
           will
           make
           
             men
             unwilling
          
           ,
           because
           unworthy
           to
           approch
           so
           much
           
           virtue
           ,
           and
           other
           excellencies
           as
           are
           naturall
           in
           you
           ;
           the
           repetition
           of
           which
           would
           not
           onely
           call
           up
           the
           bloud
           into
           
             your
             face
          
           ,
           but
           
             confound
             mine
          
           ,
           were
           I
           guilty
           of
           half
           the
           infidelity
           in
           your
           Sex
           that
           
             ignorance
             ,
             folly
          
           and
           malice
           hath
           voted
           to
           my
           share
           :
           who
           am
           so
           zealous
           through
           the
           
             mediation
             of
             your
             perfections
          
           in
           the
           vindication
           of
           women
           ,
           that
           I
           am
           not
           onely
           ready
           to
           become
           a
           Convert
           ,
           but
           a
           Martyr
           ,
           rather
           then
           appeare
           any
           thing
           but
           ,
        
         
           Dear
           Neece
           ,
        
         
           
             Your
             Servant
             FRANCIS
             OSBORN
             .
          
        
      
       
         
         
           A
           generall
           account
           of
           what
           is
           contained
           in
           the
           Book
           ensuing
           .
        
         
           
             THe
             Preface
             .
          
           
           
             
               An
               Essay
            
             on
             such
             as
             condemn
             all
             they
             understand
             not
             a
             reason
             for
             .
          
           
             p.
             1.
             
          
           
             
               An
               Essay
               upon
            
             Prov.
             8.
             
               chap.
               v.
            
             30.
             
             Give
             me
             neither
             poverty
             nor
             riches
             :
          
           
             p.
             9.
             
          
           
             A
             Contemplation
             of
             Adam's
             Fall.
             
          
           
             p.
             22.
             
          
           
             Sundry
             Conjecturall
             Paradoxes
             concerning
             Reason
             ,
             Learning
             ,
             &c.
             
          
           
             p.
             55.
             
          
           
             A
             Character
             of
             Honour
             .
          
           
             p.
             119.
             
          
           
             Valour
             and
             Cowardice
             .
          
           
             p.
             125.
             
          
           
             A
             Letter
             writ
             to
             disswade
             Mr.
             —
             from
             a
             Duell
             .
          
           
             p.
             134.
             
          
           
             A
             Letter
             to
             Mr.
             —
             in
             hope
             to
             disswade
             him
             from
             going
             a
             Colonel
             under
             Count
             Mansfield
          
           
             p.
             141.
             
          
           
             A
             Letter
             to
             Mr.
             
               W.
               P.
            
             concerning
             dependences
             upon
             great
             men
             .
          
           
             p.
             153.
             
          
           
             —
             Another
             to
             the
             same
             person
             .
          
           
             p.
             157.
             
          
           
             A
             Copy
             of
             Verses
             to
             ---
             who
             had
             translated
             Virgil
             into
             English.
             
          
           
             p.
             162.
             
          
           
             A
             Letter
             perswading
             ---
             to
             marry
             .
          
           
             p.
             163.
             
          
           
             Verses
             upon
             sundry
             occasions
             .
          
           
             p.
             169.
             
          
           
             A
             Letter
             to
             two
             S
             sters
             ,
             the
             one
             black
             ,
             the
             other
             faire
          
           
             p.
             171.
             
          
           
           
             With
             Verses
             .
          
           
             p.
             172.
             
          
           
             A
             Letter
             to
             ---
             After
             the
             death
             of
             his
             Lady
             .
             An
             Epitaph
             on
             —
          
           
             p.
             173.
             
          
           
             The
             Authours
             own
             Epitaph
             .
          
           
             p.
             175.
             
          
           
             A
             Letter
             to
             disswade
             ---
             from
             marrying
             a
             rich
             ,
             but
             ugly
             and
             deform'd
             —
          
           
             p.
             176.
             
          
           
             With
             Verses
             to
             the
             same
             effect
             .
          
           
             p.
             180.
             
          
           
             A
             Letter
             in
             reference
             to
             a
             Coy
             Lady
             .
          
           
             p.
             182.
             
          
           
             The
             Petition
             .
          
           
             p.
             186.
             
          
           
             A
             Character
             on
             a
             deboshed
             Souldier
             .
          
           
             p.
             187.
             
          
           
             A
             Letter
             to
             Dr.
             
               C.
               H.
            
             Chap.
             to
             
               W.
               E.
            
             of
             Pem.
             
          
           
             p.
             191.
             
          
           
             With
             Verses
             .
          
           
             p.
             194.
             
          
           
             On
             a
             Cook.
             
          
           
             p.
             195.
             
          
           
             A
             Character
             of
             an
             Host.
             
          
           
             p.
             197.
             
          
           
             With
             Verses
             .
          
           
             p.
             200.
             
          
           
             Deductions
             from
             the
             History
             of
             the
             Earl
             of
             Essex
             .
          
           
             p.
             201.
             
          
           
             Essay
             on
             Court-factions
             .
          
           
             p.
             240.
             
          
           
             Essay
             ,
             that
             the
             condition
             of
             men
             in
             power
             is
             to
             be
             guided
             by
             their
             servants
             .
          
           
             p.
             253.
             
          
        
      
       
         
         
           THE
           AUTHOUR
           TO
           THE
           READER
           .
        
         
           REaders
           in
           the
           generality
           do
           not
           study
           (
           especially
           in
           reference
           to
           contemporaries
           )
           what
           may
           benefit
           themselves
           ,
           but
           blemish
           the
           present
           Authours
           repute
           .
           So
           as
           the
           Pillars
           of
           Fame
           and
           Protection
           ,
           that
           led
           our
           Fathers
           through
           the
           dark
           Wilderness
           of
           Ignorance
           ,
           into
           the
           glorious
           
             Land
             of
             the
             Living
          
           
           (
           where
           they
           still
           inhabit
           ,
           though
           under
           no
           more
           
             authentick
             Charter
          
           then
           that
           of
           Prescription
           ,
           being
           in
           all
           other
           evidences
           of
           
             worth
             matched
          
           ,
           if
           not
           exceeded
           by
           
             younger
             men
          
           :
           )
           are
           clouded
           through
           reproches
           ,
           and
           forced
           to
           correspond
           for
           the
           Integrity
           of
           every
           Line
           by
           Truths
           most
           capitall
           enemies
           ,
           
             Hypocrisie
             ,
             Superstition
          
           and
           solly
           :
           And
           before
           such
           partiall
           and
           weak
           Tribunalls
           as
           are
           subarned
           no
           lesse
           then
           guided
           by
           Interest
           ,
           and
           an
           awfull
           reverence
           towards
           the
           most
           deformed
           Antiquity
           ;
           from
           whence
           the
           Pen
           (
           accounted
           by
           Caesar
           a
           decent
           Companion
           for
           the
           Scepter
           )
           is
           now
           become
           the
           Bubble
           of
           the
           Rabble
           :
           Forgetting
           that
           though
           it
           may
           be
           so
           in
           the
           management
           of
           Fools
           ,
           yet
           that
           no
           
             vertuous
             acts
          
           can
           be
           registred
           ,
           or
           
             Learning
             maintained
          
           but
           through
           
             her
             mediation
          
           :
           Nor
           is
           the
           progress
           of
           
             conjecturall
             propositions
          
           to
           be
           obstructed
           ,
           but
           rather
           indulged
           in
           reference
           to
           the
           credit
           of
           a
           Nation
           .
           The
           first
           Idea
           often
           owning
           the
           glory
           of
           the
           
             whole
             design
          
           ;
           manifest
           in
           Germany
           ,
           that
           may
           not
           unpossibly
           stand
           more
           obliged
           
           for
           her
           rare
           Inventions
           to
           the
           Liberty
           she
           gives
           ,
           and
           an
           Indulgence
           the
           Inhabitants
           have
           for
           any
           Novelty
           ,
           though
           too
           weak
           to
           extend
           probability
           beyond
           the
           fantaste
           of
           the
           
             first
             projector
          
           ;
           Then
           any
           
             naturall
             fertility
          
           inherent
           in
           the
           place
           ,
           appeares
           in
           the
           perfection
           they
           receive
           from
           
             politer
             Regions
          
           ;
           Being
           themselves
           so
           farre
           from
           casting
           Dirt
           or
           Ink
           in
           the
           face
           of
           the
           party
           ,
           that
           in
           the
           least
           case
           of
           likelihood
           they
           do
           all
           lend
           assistance
           :
           contrary
           to
           the
           
             baser
             practice
          
           of
           England
           ,
           where
           if
           a
           Spirit
           be
           found
           so
           prevalent
           in
           Reason
           as
           to
           be
           proof
           against
           any
           reply
           ,
           it
           is
           usuall
           for
           the
           opposers
           of
           Knowledge
           to
           impetrate
           their
           revenge
           from
           some
           weak
           
             administrator
             of
             the
             power
             of
             Ignorance
             .
          
        
         
           Sir
           
             Walter
             Raleigh
          
           was
           the
           first
           (
           as
           I
           have
           heard
           )
           that
           ventured
           to
           tack
           about
           ,
           and
           sail
           aloof
           from
           the
           beaten
           track
           of
           the
           Schools
           :
           who
           upon
           the
           discovery
           of
           so
           apparent
           an
           error
           as
           
             a
             Torrid
             Zone
          
           ,
           intended
           to
           proceed
           
           in
           an
           inquisition
           after
           
             more
             solid
             Truths
          
           :
           Till
           the
           mediation
           of
           some
           whose
           Livelihood
           lay
           in
           hammering
           shrines
           for
           this
           
             superannuated
             study
          
           ,
           possessed
           
             Queen
             Elizabeth
          
           ,
           that
           such
           Doctrine
           was
           against
           God
           no
           lesse
           then
           
             her
             Fathers
             Honour
          
           ,
           whose
           Faith
           (
           if
           he
           owed
           any
           )
           was
           grounded
           upon
           School-Divinity
           .
           Whereupon
           she
           chid
           him
           :
           who
           was
           (
           by
           his
           own
           confession
           )
           ever
           after
           branded
           with
           the
           title
           of
           an
           Atheist
           ,
           though
           a
           known
           assertor
           of
           God
           and
           providence
           .
        
         
           A
           
             like
             censure
          
           fell
           to
           the
           share
           of
           venerable
           Bacon
           ,
           till
           over-balanced
           by
           a
           greater
           weight
           of
           glory
           from
           Strangers
           :
           Nor
           could
           desert
           and
           the
           name
           of
           the
           
             English
             Jewel
          
           ,
           given
           Selden
           beyond
           Sea
           ,
           free
           him
           from
           a
           
             like
             imputation
          
           at
           home
           .
           Wherefore
           
             Br.
             Ca.
             Di.
             Ho.
             Ha.
             Hi.
             St.
             Ta.
          
           and
           a
           
             number
             more
          
           that
           have
           Imbellished
           this
           
             doting
             Age
          
           with
           new
           notions
           ,
           may
           apprehend
           comfort
           from
           
             this
             contemplation
          
           ,
           that
           Fame
           is
           no
           
           lesse
           eternall
           then
           Detraction
           is
           Mortall
           .
           Though
           it
           may
           be
           thought
           strange
           why
           any
           farthaer
           prosecution
           of
           truth
           should
           be
           persocuted
           amongst
           men
           not
           yet
           fully
           resolved
           what
           
             it
             is
          
           :
           when
           nothing
           redounded
           more
           to
           the
           
             Protestants
             honour
          
           ,
           then
           the
           
             free
             passage
          
           they
           have
           alwayes
           given
           to
           Books
           of
           controversies
           ,
           whereas
           the
           reading
           of
           them
           is
           a
           
             mortall
             Sinne
          
           in
           Rome
           ,
           and
           
             at
             best
          
           ,
           liable
           to
           the
           Inquisition
           :
           not
           to
           be
           imputed
           to
           any
           thing
           but
           the
           invincible
           Reason
           we
           have
           
             on
             our
             side
          
           ,
           So
           well
           managed
           by
           
             Mr.
             Chillingsworth
          
           ,
           as
           the
           sluent
           mouthes
           of
           the
           Jesuites
           were
           stopped
           till
           his
           death
           ,
           and
           some
           time
           after
           .
           There
           being
           nothing
           but
           
             Mathematicall
             demonstrations
          
           able
           to
           drive
           them
           from
           the
           
             ambiguous
             interpretations
          
           they
           put
           both
           upon
           Scripture
           and
           Fathers
           ,
           behind
           which
           the
           Papacy
           hath
           for
           many
           Centuries
           played
           at
           Bo-peep
           with
           State
           and
           Church
           .
           And
           yet
           how
           this
           
             poor
             man
          
           was
           abused
           at
           his
           death
           ,
           is
           more
           for
           
           the
           Nations
           credit
           to
           conceal
           ,
           then
           publish
           .
           Neither
           is
           this
           frenzy
           capable
           of
           any
           reall
           Reformation
           ,
           since
           those
           pretend
           to
           a
           power
           of
           garbleing
           things
           brought
           to
           the
           Presse
           ,
           are
           not
           all
           of
           one
           and
           the
           same
           Judgement
           :
           and
           from
           whose
           divisions
           new
           Books
           run
           the
           fortune
           of
           the
           middle-aged
           man
           in
           the
           Fable
           ,
           that
           became
           bald
           ;
           by
           an
           endeavour
           to
           gratifie
           the
           humours
           of
           persons
           inconsiderable
           for
           weight
           or
           number
           .
           I
           know
           censures
           do
           not
           all
           fall
           within
           the
           Circuit
           of
           one
           Meridian
           ,
           yet
           am
           as
           certain
           ,
           that
           no
           Dispute
           can
           be
           maintained
           ,
           but
           where
           half
           ,
           if
           not
           the
           most
           curious
           part
           ,
           is
           supported
           by
           Conjecture
           .
           And
           that
           our
           best
           
             Physicall
             Conclusions
          
           have
           been
           deduced
           out
           of
           
             meere
             mistakes
          
           :
           which
           the
           World
           (
           though
           never
           so
           long-lived
           )
           is
           not
           likely
           to
           want
           ,
           and
           therefore
           improbably
           proclaimed
           at
           her
           
             farthest
             extent
          
           of
           Knowledge
           :
           which
           if
           true
           ,
           few
           would
           give
           ,
           or
           increase
           the
           stipends
           of
           Arts
           ;
           it
           being
           incongruous
           to
           expect
           new
           
           Honour
           from
           those
           confesse
           themselves
           not
           able
           to
           augment
           their
           own
           ,
           and
           so
           farre
           dissident
           of
           an
           ability
           to
           match
           the
           ancients
           ,
           as
           they
           take
           the
           indeavour
           not
           only
           for
           impossible
           ,
           but
           a
           high
           if
           not
           a
           
             damnable
             presumption
          
           :
           Wherefore
           it
           suites
           University-Interest
           to
           indulge
           such
           as
           bring
           
             fresh
             notions
          
           to
           their
           Mill
           ,
           though
           smutted
           with
           some
           errors
           :
           It
           being
           usuall
           for
           
             wages
             to
             cease
          
           ,
           and
           an
           Ingine
           to
           be
           neglected
           ,
           upon
           the
           first
           discovery
           that
           the
           work
           is
           finished
           :
           Not
           to
           be
           denyed
           to
           follow
           an
           opposing
           what
           is
           already
           
             arrived
             to
             a
             generall
             acceptance
          
           .
           Especially
           in
           an
           Age
           when
           God
           and
           the
           Magistrate
           lies
           blasphemed
           on
           
             every
             Stall
          
           .
           Nor
           is
           the
           knavery
           of
           obscure
           Stationers
           a
           small
           Remora
           to
           desert
           :
           that
           in
           envy
           to
           those
           of
           their
           
             own
             Trade
          
           ,
           and
           to
           debauch
           the
           esteem
           of
           Books
           ,
           do
           incourage
           ,
           if
           not
           hire
           ,
           foul-mouthed
           Ballad-makers
           to
           
             rufsle
             ,
             doggs-eare
          
           ,
           and
           contaminate
           by
           
             base
             Language
          
           and
           spurious
           censures
           the
           
             choysest
             
             leaves
          
           .
           Yet
           the
           Blasphemers
           against
           the
           Spirit
           of
           Knowledge
           become
           vendible
           in
           reference
           to
           
             their
             names
          
           they
           pretend
           in
           their
           Title-page
           to
           confute
           ,
           sometime
           the
           Trade
           of
           
             Al.
             Ro.
          
           who
           used
           to
           skirmish
           (
           though
           only
           armed
           with
           a
           
             blunt
             quill
          
           ,
           and
           a
           
             duller
             Reason
          
           )
           the
           Worthies
           of
           our
           Nation
           by
           Troops
           .
           Nor
           is
           it
           probable
           any
           farther
           attempt
           upon
           our
           English
           affaires
           should
           be
           purchased
           cheaper
           then
           at
           the
           Writer's
           prejudice
           :
           Since
           so
           honest
           an
           endeavour
           as
           the
           proving
           ,
           It
           was
           the
           Father
           that
           eat
           the
           
             sower
             Grapes
          
           ,
           and
           not
           the
           Son
           ,
           whose
           teeth
           were
           set
           an
           edge
           ,
           is
           by
           some
           so
           farre
           perverted
           .
           Now
           in
           reference
           to
           this
           ,
           or
           any
           thing
           else
           may
           relate
           
             to
             me
          
           ,
           If
           my
           Years
           and
           Infirmities
           that
           stand
           ready
           at
           the
           gate
           to
           hurry
           me
           out
           of
           this
           World
           ,
           nor
           the
           many
           lines
           I
           have
           drawn
           suitable
           to
           the
           
             generall
             phantasies
          
           ,
           with
           a
           protestation
           never
           to
           trespasse
           again
           upon
           Love
           or
           History
           ,
           cannot
           shroud
           me
           from
           the
           pelting
           of
           Tongues
           ,
           Let
           me
           humbly
           
           implore
           this
           favour
           of
           both
           Sexes
           ,
           that
           such
           as
           do
           it
           ,
           would
           imitate
           the
           candor
           of
           a
           Carnaval
           ,
           wherein
           (
           though
           all
           Italy
           appear
           but
           one
           intire
           Bedlam
           )
           nothing
           is
           throwne
           ,
           but
           what
           savours
           more
           of
           Musk
           then
           Malice
           .
           But
           if
           I
           am
           born
           to
           be
           aspersed
           ,
           I
           could
           wish
           it
           might
           be
           with
           such
           Ink
           as
           may
           at
           least
           beautifie
           the
           Writer
           ,
           and
           not
           contaminate
           us
           both
           :
           it
           being
           an
           injury
           ,
           though
           farre
           below
           the
           
             sufferer's
             revenge
          
           ,
           to
           be
           pinched
           between
           the
           
             nasty
             finger
          
           and
           thumb
           of
           a
           
             brawny
             Ignorance
          
           .
           Which
           heightens
           greatly
           the
           obligation
           to
           him
           that
           
             for
             my
             sake
          
           undertook
           so
           
             unworthy
             an
             Antagonist
          
           :
           Whose
           want
           of
           a
           
             true
             knowledge
          
           of
           me
           hath
           led
           him
           into
           as
           great
           an
           excesse
           in
           reference
           to
           
             my
             Commendations
          
           ,
           As
           the
           like
           defect
           may
           not
           unpossibly
           have
           exposed
           me
           to
           a
           censure
           of
           ungratitude
           ,
           or
           made
           me
           (
           as
           verily
           I
           believe
           I
           am
           )
           too
           
             sparing
             in
             his
          
           :
           A
           fault
           I
           promise
           to
           amend
           upon
           the
           least
           intimation
           of
           an
           occasion
           .
        
         
         
           Now
           being
           compel'd
           to
           own
           what
           followes
           ,
           or
           to
           venture
           having
           it
           layd
           at
           
             my
             door
          
           with
           all
           the
           Imperfections
           so
           many
           
             Adulterated
             Transcriptions
          
           have
           Deformed
           it
           with
           ;
           I
           thought
           it
           lesse
           Dishonourable
           to
           trespass
           upon
           Gravity
           (
           a
           Defect
           in
           Nature
           ,
           or
           at
           best
           but
           a
           Ceremony
           resulting
           from
           the
           Morosity
           of
           Age
           )
           then
           to
           offer
           violence
           to
           Prudence
           ,
           (
           the
           most
           
             signall
             advantage
          
           deducible
           from
           Time
           :
           )
           By
           denying
           my
           hand
           to
           the
           emendation
           of
           a
           
             subreptitious
             Copy
          
           ,
           which
           I
           verily
           believe
           my
           Youth
           (
           though
           foolish
           enough
           )
           was
           not
           in
           probability
           likely
           to
           have
           been
           guilty
           of
           ;
           yet
           must
           have
           had
           my
           abilities
           now
           measured
           by
           it
           .
           For
           the
           sufficiency
           of
           which
           I
           shall
           not
           correspond
           ,
           having
           been
           led
           through
           Necessity
           and
           others
           perswasions
           ,
           rather
           then
           my
           own
           ,
           to
           think
           that
           though
           they
           are
           
             out
             of
             Fashion
          
           with
           me
           ,
           they
           may
           become
           decent
           for
           others
           to
           follow
           ,
           or
           avoid
           .
           Being
           in
           every
           respect
           else
           à
           meere
           Patient
           ,
           and
           no
           otherwayes
           
           active
           then
           at
           the
           request
           ,
           and
           for
           satisfying
           the
           Stationer
           ,
           to
           whose
           care
           I
           leave
           you
           ,
           without
           any
           other
           Complement
           ,
           Then
           that
           
             the
             losse
             will
             not
             be
             great
             to
             the
             buyer
             ,
             nor
             the
             shame
             much
             to
             me
             ,
          
           should
           they
           prove
           
             waste
             paper
          
           ,
           as
           I
           ever
           till
           now
           esteemed
           them
           .
           And
           in
           answer
           to
           those
           shall
           think
           some
           expressions
           here
           too
           serious
           to
           face
           such
           stuffe
           as
           comes
           .
           〈◊〉
           they
           may
           be
           pleased
           to
           know
           I
           〈◊〉
           first
           intend
           to
           insert
           some
           ●oti●…
           which
           discretion
           hath
           since
           thought
           inconvenient
           .
        
      
       
         
         
         
           THE
           PREFACE
           .
        
         
           THE
           PROEM
           .
        
         
           IF
           ,
           contrary
           to
           the
           Mode
           of
           such
           as
           lose
           their
           Thoughts
           in
           the
           
             open
             Aire
          
           where
           they
           were
           conceived
           ;
           I
           have
           ,
           with
           more
           Diligence
           ,
           regestred
           Mine
           ;
           it
           was
           out
           of
           no
           Opinion
           they
           deserve
           a
           
             longer
             life
          
           ,
           but
           to
           prevent
           Idleness
           ,
           with
           a
           Concourse
           of
           some
           more
           Tedious
           ,
           if
           not
           Sinful
           :
           which
           in
           the
           Vacancy
           of
           Imployment
           ,
           are
           apt
           to
           intrude
           themselves
           ,
           under
           pretence
           of
           a
           more
           ancient
           and
           
             Familiar
             Acquaintance
          
           .
           Nor
           can
           I
           yet
           find
           Cause
           ,
           to
           repent
           of
           the
           paynes
           ,
           
           Since
           it
           hath
           confirm'd
           me
           ,
           in
           this
           Truth
           ;
           That
           the
           World
           is
           not
           the
           worse
           ,
           nor
           My self
           much
           better
           ,
           for
           Age
           and
           Continuance
           .
           From
           whence
           I
           have
           learned
           ,
           (
           though
           I
           confess
           ,
           none
           more
           apt
           to
           Forget
           )
           
             Not
             to
             Complain
          
           of
           Governours
           ,
           for
           their
           Oppression
           ,
           or
           
             upbraid
             Youth
          
           ,
           with
           its
           Vices
           :
           Since
           in
           the
           best
           Times
           ,
           Tyranny
           hath
           been
           moderated
           ,
           rather
           through
           Fear
           ,
           then
           Goodness
           .
           As
           the
           most
           seemingly
           -
           Holy
           ,
           do
           ,
           at
           the
           highest
           ,
           but
           palliate
           ,
           not
           Divest
           heir
           Humane
           Infirmity
           .
           And
           from
           hence
           ,
           we
           may
           be
           taught
           with
           St.
           Peter
           ,
           Not
           to
           call
           anything
           Polluted
           or
           Defiled
           :
           All
           Men
           ,
           at
           long-running
           ,
           meeting
           with
           the
           same
           Market
           ,
           either
           in
           reference
           to
           their
           own
           
             Depraved
             Will
          
           ,
           or
           Performance
           .
           Wherefore
           ,
           I
           should
           Conclude
           ,
           (
           considering
           
             My
             own
          
           ,
           and
           Others
           visible
           Lapses
           )
           That
           Sanctity
           lies
           more
           in
           Repentance
           ,
           then
           Innocency
           .
           Which
           is
           the
           Chief
           Advantage
           ,
           
           if
           not
           all
           the
           Difference
           disoernable
           ,
           between
           Those
           we
           terme
           Wicked
           ,
           and
           the
           Just.
           Now
           if
           any
           One
           (
           a
           Thing
           I
           have
           forneerly
           been
           very
           chary
           of
           )
           shall
           read
           
             These
             Papers
          
           ,
           under
           the
           Notion
           of
           Approbation
           ;
           He
           can
           no
           more
           make
           Me
           Proud
           ,
           then
           such
           as
           Dispraise
           them
           ,
           Angry
           :
           (
           It
           being
           the
           guise
           of
           All
           ,
           to
           
             applaud
             Those
          
           of
           
             Their
             own
             Opinion
             :
          
           )
           Of
           which
           there
           is
           none
           more
           Mine
           ,
           then
           that
           every
           Thing
           is
           of
           a
           
             Mixed
             Nature
          
           ,
           carrying
           a
           Face
           like
           That
           in
           a
           
             pleated
             Picture
          
           ,
           suitable
           to
           the
           Situation
           and
           Light
           the
           
             Beholder
             stands
             in
          
           ,
           or
           is
           
             guided
             by
          
           .
        
         
           And
           in
           reference
           to
           one
           -
           over-Severe
           ,
           I
           may
           have
           this
           to
           say
           ,
           That
           not
           a
           few
           ,
           now
           Wiser
           then
           us
           both
           ,
           have
           pleased
           Themselves
           ,
           as
           much
           ,
           in
           
             Drawing
             Anticks
          
           ,
           with
           a
           Coal
           ,
           upon
           a
           Wall
           ,
           as
           Others
           do
           in
           their
           endeavours
           ,
           to
           match
           Apelles
           .
           All
           I
           seek
           ,
           is
           to
           sind
           Imployment
           for
           a
           Spirit
           that
           
           would
           
             Break
             the
             Vessel
          
           ,
           had
           it
           nothing
           to
           Work
           upon
           ,
           but
           it
           Self
           .
           Nor
           is
           it
           less
           true
           ,
           That
           I
           might
           justly
           be
           blamed
           for
           
             Some
             things
          
           here
           ,
           Had
           more
           Time
           been
           employed
           about
           them
           ,
           then
           God
           in
           his
           Mercy
           ,
           or
           to
           punish
           my
           Former
           Negligence
           ,
           hath
           afforded
           me
           Liberty
           to
           spare
           .
           Who
           can
           be
           accountable
           to
           Posterity
           ,
           for
           nothing
           in
           this
           kind
           :
           being
           from
           my
           Birth
           ,
           uncapable
           to
           receive
           the
           Rich
           Talent
           of
           Learning
           ,
           look'd
           upon
           ,
           as
           
             The
             onely
             Key
          
           of
           Knowledge
           :
           which
           if
           obtayned
           ,
           had
           been
           Little
           Advantage
           ,
           since
           I
           want
           a
           Memory
           ,
           wherein
           to
           Hoord
           up
           what
           I
           had
           stollen
           .
           And
           so
           the
           
             Acquired
             Groat
          
           ,
           might
           not
           unpossibly
           have
           spoiled
           ,
           and
           adulterated
           the
           more
           
             Natural
             Shilling
          
           .
           Wherefore
           ,
           if
           a
           Chymistry
           might
           be
           found
           ,
           able
           to
           Extract
           any
           thing
           useful
           towards
           the
           Conduct
           of
           Man
           ,
           out
           of
           such
           
             Ordinary
             Simples
          
           as
           These
           ,
           They
           were
           
             highly
             to
             be
             esteemed
          
           ;
           
           And
           in
           likelyhood
           ,
           
             more
             suteable
          
           to
           every
           Tast
           ,
           as
           Fresh-gathered
           from
           the
           Tree
           of
           Experience
           ,
           then
           those
           Sophisticated
           by
           the
           Schools
           ,
           or
           of
           a
           
             Narrower
             interest
          
           ,
           then
           That
           ,
           of
           
             The
             whole
             Society
             of
             Man.
          
           
        
         
           And
           ,
           if
           any
           draw
           benefit
           from
           These
           ,
           they
           are
           most
           likely
           to
           be
           Friends
           :
           It
           being
           onely
           the
           property
           of
           Love
           ,
           to
           look
           upon
           that
           with
           Delight
           ,
           which
           cannot
           be
           discovered
           to
           another
           without
           Shame
           .
           And
           to
           such
           I
           could
           be
           content
           ,
           to
           leave
           them
           ,
           as
           the
           Idea
           of
           a
           Mind
           was
           no
           less
           Cordially
           imploy'd
           ,
           in
           advancing
           the
           Good
           of
           Others
           ,
           then
           of
           my
           Patience
           ,
           in
           receiving
           Injuries
           from
           the
           same
           hands
           .
           This
           is
           not
           said
           to
           wound
           Providence
           ,
           under
           the
           Shadow
           of
           Fortune
           .
           Since
           I
           have
           hitherto
           not
           onely
           been
           blest
           ,
           beyond
           my
           Desert
           ,
           but
           Expectation
           .
           And
           have
           seen
           my
           
             unnatural
             Oppressours
          
           perish
           ,
           and
           languish
           ,
           through
           as
           
           Miraculous
           means
           ,
           as
           I
           have
           been
           Preserved
           .
           And
           by
           which
           ,
           I
           am
           brought
           to
           the
           Contemplation
           of
           higher
           ,
           and
           more
           
             permanent
             Pleasures
          
           ,
           then
           
             the
             poor
             and
             despicable
             Consideration
          
           of
           Profit
           is
           able
           to
           reach
           .
           Nor
           could
           any
           contrary
           Endeavour
           of
           mine
           ,
           hide
           this
           from
           the
           Eyes
           of
           the
           World
           ,
           to
           whose
           Judgement
           ,
           I
           was
           for
           a
           long
           time
           not
           so
           Impudent
           ,
           or
           Imprudent
           ,
           as
           to
           present
           more
           of
           my Self
           ,
           then
           I
           must
           needs
           ;
           Because
           ,
           Experience
           still
           finds
           Her
           in
           the
           Arms
           of
           Curiosity
           ,
           and
           Prejudice
           .
           Into
           whose
           Den
           ,
           though
           I
           have
           been
           of
           late
           cast
           ,
           (
           by
           
             what
             Hand
          
           of
           Fate
           I
           know
           not
           ,
           and
           so
           as
           it
           were
           Blindfold
           ;
           )
           yet
           I
           have
           
             come
             off
          
           with
           more
           Favour
           ,
           from
           before
           this
           
             Tyrannical
             Tribunal
          
           ,
           then
           divers
           known
           of
           far
           greater
           Desert
           .
        
         
           Nor
           should
           I
           but
           for
           a
           through
           Essay
           of
           
             my
             own
          
           Fortune
           ,
           and
           the
           Readers
           Candor
           ,
           venture
           such
           Stuff
           as
           is
           
           likely
           to
           Follow.
           Which
           though
           produced
           long
           since
           ,
           I
           am
           not
           able
           to
           
             Better
             now
          
           .
           And
           if
           Capable
           of
           Acceptance
           ,
           the
           World
           is
           not
           likely
           to
           want
           it
           .
        
         
           But
           it
           is
           contrary
           to
           my
           own
           Aph●…●isme
           ,
           to
           debosh
           what
           I
           present
           ,
           by
           saying
           it
           was
           writ
           before
           I
           was
           Twenty
           :
           From
           whense
           would
           result
           ,
           such
           an
           easie
           Inference
           ,
           That
           surely
           ,
           I
           am
           
             no
             Wiser
             now
          
           ,
           (
           which
           I
           wish
           heartily
           I
           were
           able
           to
           confute
           )
           else
           I
           should
           Mend
           ,
           or
           Conceal
           them
           .
           Nor
           can
           I
           think
           it
           Wisdom
           ,
           or
           Convenience
           ,
           to
           say
           ,
           
             They
             were
             produced
             in
             a
             shorter
             space
             ,
             then
             Nature
             requires
             in
             the
             production
             of
             Rarities
          
           ;
           Though
           not
           seldome
           Casual
           ;
           (
           As
           I
           observed
           in
           a
           Flint
           ,
           presented
           to
           King
           Charles
           ,
           that
           bore
           the
           perfect
           Figure
           of
           a
           Man.
           )
           It
           boing
           the
           Custom
           of
           some
           Heads
           ,
           to
           afford
           the
           
             greater
             Reason
          
           ,
           the
           less
           they
           are
           pumped
           .
           Such
           as
           is
           Clearest
           ,
           running
           commonly
           
           quickest
           ,
           and
           most
           Fluent
           ;
           whereas
           ,
           the
           Deeper
           requires
           Straining
           ,
           and
           so
           becomes
           Heavyer
           ,
           and
           of
           a
           
             lesse
             sprightful
             Tast.
          
           I
           will
           not
           say
           ,
           Mine
           is
           of
           that
           Temper
           ,
           to
           avoyd
           Prejudice
           .
           Nothing
           being
           
             held
             in
             esteeme
          
           ,
           is
           easily
           come
           by
           .
           Wherefore
           ,
           having
           found
           so
           many
           condemned
           ,
           upon
           the
           Evidence
           they
           bring
           against
           Themselves
           in
           Print
           ,
           I
           have
           laboured
           to
           
             conceal
             my
             Name
          
           ;
           esteeming
           it
           more
           Pleasant
           (
           if
           not
           more
           Naturall
           )
           to
           beget
           then
           father
           .
           But
           finding
           it
           ,
           as
           impossible
           to
           hide
           ,
           as
           it
           is
           unsutable
           to
           my
           present
           Condition
           to
           be
           idle
           ,
           and
           no
           lesse
           then
           
             unbecoming
             Civility
          
           ,
           to
           neglect
           the
           Importunity
           of
           such
           Friends
           ,
           as
           desire
           a
           Publication
           of
           
             this
             Piece
          
           ,
           (
           which
           being
           a
           mixture
           of
           
             all
             things
          
           ,
           may
           not
           improbably
           ,
           like
           the
           
             huge
             Dishes
          
           now
           in
           fashion
           ,
           feast
           the
           Appetites
           of
           some
           one
           ,
           or
           other
           )
           I
           shall
           once
           again
           venture
           into
           the
           Presse
           ,
           (
           as
           
           too
           many
           do
           )
           more
           out
           of
           Confidence
           then
           Wit.
           Yet
           ,
           let
           my
           Defects
           be
           what
           they
           will
           ,
           I
           have
           ever
           considered
           it
           as
           a
           
             Flatulent
             Impertinency
          
           ,
           to
           Court
           the
           Reader
           ;
           or
           think
           to
           raise
           a
           Party
           ,
           in
           the
           behalf
           of
           any
           thing
           ,
           weares
           not
           the
           
             indubitable
             Character
          
           of
           Reason
           and
           Truth
           .
           Against
           which
           ,
           Ignorance
           and
           Hypocrisie
           have
           maintained
           so
           long
           and
           unnaturall
           a
           Rebellion
           ,
           as
           Security
           is
           no
           other
           way
           attainable
           ,
           but
           by
           Silence
           ,
           or
           Complyance
           .
           The
           continuall
           Wrastlings
           against
           a
           
             Rationall
             Evidence
          
           ,
           having
           brought
           the
           World
           into
           so
           multilated
           ,
           and
           unsteady
           a
           Creede
           ,
           as
           in
           many
           Places
           ,
           she
           is
           observed
           to
           halt
           ,
           between
           the
           
             uneasie
             wayes
          
           of
           Hope
           and
           Feare
           .
           The
           Contemplation
           of
           which
           ,
           doth
           so
           stagger
           such
           as
           delight
           in
           Painting
           their
           Opinions
           upon
           Paper
           ,
           that
           they
           know
           not
           what
           side
           to
           take
           ,
           out
           of
           a
           Dread
           to
           fall
           under
           the
           Notion
           of
           Traytors
           or
           Malignants
           ,
           
           Atheists
           or
           Fools
           .
           
             And
             amongst
             others
             ,
             this
             may
             passe
             for
             a
          
           Cause
           ,
           why
           these
           (
           
             formerly
             looked
             upon
             as
             wast
          
           )
           Sheets
           ,
           
             have
             received
             this
          
           Resurrection
           
             out
             of
             the
          
           Dust
           ;
           
             It
             being
             in
          
           ill
           Times
           ,
           
             safer
             to
             appear
          
           wanton
           ,
           then
           serious
           .
           
             Or
             like
          
           Brutus
           ,
           a
           Foole
           ,
           
             then
             a
          
           Censor
           .
           
             Of
             what
             is
          
           in
           me
           ,
           
             I
             make
             as
          
           good
           use
           
             as
             I
             can
             ,
             but
          
           hate
           
             to
             borrow
             any
             thing
             ;
             being
             more
             willing
             to
             appear
             ,
             with
             all
             my
          
           Defects
           
             about
             me
             ,
             then
          
           Glorious
           ,
           and
           Splendid
           ,
           
             through
             the
          
           Spoiles
           of
           others
           .
           
             Under
             the
             same
          
           Odium
           ,
           (
           
             in
             my
             Conceit
          
           ,
           )
           
             lyes
             a
          
           Supercilious
           Gravity
           ;
           
             by
             which
             I
             should
             interrupt
             all
          
           Commerce
           
             with
             those
             of
             my
          
           own
           Coat
           ;
           
             And
             expose
          
           my Selfe
           
             to
             the
          
           Judgement
           
             of
             some
          
           more
           wise
           ,
           
             who
             cannot
             but
             see
             through
             that
          
           unnaturall
           Vayle
           ,
           the
           poorness
           
             of
             the
          
           Trash
           
             is
             carried
          
           under
           it
           :
           
             There
             being
             ,
             really
             ,
             no
          
           nakedness
           ,
           
             but
             in
             relation
             to
          
           others
           ,
           
             since
             all
             have
             the
          
           Patience
           
           
             to
             look
             upon
             their
          
           own
           Imperfections
           ,
           without
           blushing
           .
           
             Which
             the
          
           oftner
           
             it
             is
             done
             ,
             the
          
           better
           
             may
             be
          
           learned
           ,
           
             How
             to
          
           prize
           others
           ,
           and
           value
           our Selves
           .
           
             There
             appearing
             ,
             no
             way
             readier
             ,
             to
             demonstrate
             to
             a
             Man
             his
             particular
             weakness
             ,
             then
             by
             admitting
             him
             full
             leave
             to
          
           try
           his
           strength
           .
           
             Wherefore
             ,
             so
             long
             as
             no
             body
          
           saw
           me
           ,
           
             I
             was
             not
             capable
             of
             blame
             ,
             If
             wanting
             the
             Engines
             of
          
           Learning
           ,
           
             I
             endeavoured
             ,
             to
             shake
             the
          
           Pillars
           
             of
             the
          
           Schooles
           .
           
             For
             though
             the
          
           Attempt
           ,
           
             is
             not
             very
             likely
             ,
             to
             afford
             any
          
           Benefit
           to
           others
           ;
           
             yet
             ,
             I
             cannot
             but
             remain
             ,
             the
          
           stronger
           
             for
             it
             ,
             and
             the
             more
             agile
          
           My Selfe
           :
           
             As
             such
             do
             ,
             that
          
           swing
           ;
           
             though
             the
          
           Beame
           
             stirrs
             not
             ,
             at
             which
             they
          
           tugge
           ,
           
             It
             being
             natural
             to
          
           honest
           Labour
           ,
           
             still
             to
             be
             followed
             ,
             by
          
           Wisdom
           or
           Reward
           .
           
             For
             ,
             though
             the
             Generality
             of
             Readers
             ,
             are
             scandalized
             at
             all
             is
             not
          
           mouldy
           through
           Age
           ,
           or
           guilded
           with
           Novelty
           ;
           
           yet
           ,
           I
           remember
           ,
           to
           have
           heard
           from
           Sir
           
             William
             Cornewallis
          
           ,
           (
           esteemed
           
             none
             of
             the
          
           meanest
           Witts
           ,
           in
           his
           Time
           )
           That
           
             Mountaign's
             Essay's
          
           ,
           was
           the
           likelyest
           Book
           ,
           to
           advance
           Wisdom
           :
           because
           ,
           The
           
             Authours
             own
          
           Experiences
           ,
           is
           the
           
             Chiefest
             Argument
          
           in
           it
           .
           For
           as
           
             St.
             Augustine
          
           saith
           ,
           of
           Short
           and
           
             Holy
             Ejaculations
             ;
             That
             they
             pierce
             Heaven
          
           as
           soon
           ,
           if
           not
           quicker
           ,
           then
           more
           
             Tedious
             Prayers
          
           :
           So
           ,
           I
           have
           reaped
           greater
           Benefit
           ,
           from
           concise
           and
           
             Casuall
             Meditations
          
           ,
           on
           severall
           Topicks
           ,
           then
           long
           and
           
             voluminous
             Treatises
          
           ,
           relating
           meerly
           to
           one
           and
           the
           
             same
             thing
          
           :
           Many
           Scholars
           being
           of
           so
           vast
           an
           Extension
           ,
           in
           the
           prosecution
           of
           any
           ,
           (
           though
           but
           a
           
             seeming
             )
             Errour
          
           ,
           as
           they
           will
           leave
           no
           Argument
           unurged
           ,
           be
           it
           never
           so
           weake
           .
           Forgetting
           ,
           That
           a
           Triumph
           is
           easier
           obtained
           ,
           then
           a
           Victory
           so
           
             Discreetly
             moderated
          
           ,
           as
           may
           give
           
           no
           occasion
           ,
           to
           think
           it
           either
           Tedious
           ,
           or
           over-severe
           .
           It
           being
           a
           work
           ,
           impertinently
           superstuous
           ,
           to
           give
           
             two
             Blowes
          
           ,
           where
           one
           may
           suffice
           .
           This
           is
           the
           Cause
           ,
           That
           only
           such
           are
           esteemed
           ,
           that
           bring
           the
           
             strongest
             Reasons
          
           ,
           and
           commit
           the
           
             smallest
             waste
          
           upon
           the
           Readers
           Time
           ,
           or
           the
           Adversaries
           Repute
           .
           Nor
           are
           any
           to
           be
           Commended
           ,
           as
           Civill
           ,
           or
           Wise
           ,
           that
           prosecute
           a
           Contrary
           Practise
           :
           Too
           frequent
           amongst
           us
           ,
           where
           the
           Abuse
           of
           the
           Person
           ,
           is
           Clinched
           ,
           and
           Riveted
           so
           close
           ,
           with
           the
           Confutation
           ,
           as
           unquestioned
           Charity
           is
           not
           seldom
           lost
           ,
           in
           the
           vindication
           of
           a
           more
           
             Dubious
             Truth
          
           .
           And
           from
           hence
           ,
           I
           have
           taken
           occasion
           ,
           to
           Calculate
           the
           Meridian
           ,
           of
           such
           
             Hot
             Heads
          
           ,
           as
           can
           suffer
           no
           Opinions
           but
           
             Their
             own
          
           ,
           to
           stand
           quietly
           by
           them
           .
           Forgetting
           ,
           There
           is
           as
           
             much
             variety
          
           ,
           in
           the
           Dissemblances
           of
           
             Mens
             Mindes
          
           ,
           as
           Experience
           and
           Commerce
           
           
             do
             observe
             ,
             in
             their
          
           Bodies
           .
           
             Which
             may
             conclude
             it
             ,
             as
             great
          
           Folly
           ,
           to
           condemn
           one
           
             of
             a
          
           contrary
           Judgement
           ,
           
             as
             to
          
           Implead
           
             another
             ,
             because
             his
          
           Nose
           is
           shorter
           ,
           or
           longer
           ,
           then
           Theirs
           .
           
             Nor
             is
             it
             in
             the
          
           Reach
           
             of
             any
             thing
             but
          
           Restraint
           ,
           
             to
             make
             People
          
           unanimous
           .
           
             No
             lesse
             ,
             against
             the
          
           Freedom
           of
           Nature
           ,
           
             then
             it
             is
             sutable
             to
          
           Custom
           ,
           and
           Experience
           ,
           
             to
             finde
             the
             Contrary
             in
          
           Practice
           ,
           
             where
             all
             are
             left
             to
             their
          
           Own
           Election
           .
           
             As
             manifest
             in
          
           WiseGreece
           &
           Rome
           ,
           
             as
             in
             those
          
           Nations
           ,
           
             esteemed
             both
             by
          
           Them
           &
           Us
           more
           Barbarous
           .
           
             Nor
             can
             it
             but
             be
             reckoned
             amongst
             the
          
           Causes
           
             of
             the
          
           Catholicks
           Unity
           ,
           That
           every
           one
           ,
           may
           addresse
           their
           Prayers
           ,
           
             to
             what
          
           Saint
           
             they
             please
             .
             ---
             Now
             to
          
           vindicate
           my
           Selfe
           from
           their
           Folly
           ,
           Esteeme
           the
           Foulest
           
             of
             their
          
           Writings
           
             a
             fit
          
           Copy
           
             for
             the
          
           World
           ,
           whose
           Heads
           ake
           like
           Jupiters
           ,
           
             till
             delivered
             of
             those
          
           Palla's
           :
           
             though
             so
          
           
           Flat
           and
           Deformed
           ,
           
             as
             if
             conceived
          
           in
           their
           Thumbs
           .
        
         
           I
           may
           safely
           say
           ,
           That
           heretofore
           ,
           (
           However
           it
           is
           with
           me
           now
           ,
           grown
           perhaps
           through
           Custom
           more
           
             Impudent
             )
             I
             was
             not
             ambitious
             to
             appeare
             in
             publick
             :
          
           Since
           some
           of
           my
           Acquaintance
           can
           attest
           ,
           That
           divers
           pieces
           ,
           
             of
             late
             published
          
           ,
           were
           
             long
             agoe
          
           as
           Compleate
           ,
           as
           ever
           I
           have
           been
           able
           to
           make
           them
           since
           .
           The
           
             First
             Cause
          
           of
           their
           projection
           ,
           being
           rather
           ,
           for
           the
           intent
           to
           While
           my Selfe
           ,
           then
           Busie
           others
           .
           Nor
           shall
           I
           prosecute
           this
           Trade
           ,
           longer
           then
           it
           continues
           acceptable
           to
           the
           Generality
           ,
           and
           Beneficiall
           to
           the
           Stationer
           .
           Whose
           Operation
           ,
           hath
           been
           more
           Effectuall
           ,
           in
           this
           Midwifrey
           ,
           then
           any
           Delight
           I
           can
           take
           ,
           in
           finding
           my
           Selfe
           rated
           ,
           according
           to
           the
           Value
           of
           
             every
             Judgement
          
           :
           commonly
           Forestalled
           by
           Opinion
           ,
           a
           farre
           neerer
           Friend
           to
           things
           of
           this
           Nature
           ,
           then
           the
           
             Highest
             Desert
          
           .
        
         
         
           At
           the
           Foot
           of
           whose
           Tribunall
           ,
           I
           should
           never
           have
           fallen
           ,
           but
           to
           redeem
           the
           World
           out
           of
           a
           
             Common
             Errour
          
           ,
           by
           shewing
           ,
           Men
           are
           not
           so
           unhappy
           in
           the
           
             Absence
             of
             Learning
          
           ,
           as
           Scholars
           pretend
           .
           —
           Whose
           First
           Question
           is
           ,
           
             What
             University
             you
             are
             of
          
           ?
           And
           their
           Last
           ,
           if
           answered
           ,
           None
           :
           For
           then
           ,
           they
           consider
           the
           Party
           as
           irrationall
           ,
           and
           
             below
             Conversation
          
           .
           Forgetting
           ,
           That
           though
           Books
           may
           produce
           a
           few
           
             rough
             Materialls
          
           ;
           it
           is
           only
           in
           the
           power
           of
           Experience
           ,
           and
           
             Naturall
             Parts
          
           to
           Build
           up
           and
           Burnish
           a
           
             Perfect
             Man.
          
           
        
      
    
     
       
         
           
             
             
               
                 ESSAY
                 On
                 such
                 as
                 Condemn
                 All
                 they
                 understand
                 not
                 a
                 Reason
                 for
                 .
              
               
                 THeir
                 Presumption
                 is
                 no
                 lesse
                 uncivill
                 ,
                 then
                 Prodigious
                 ,
                 That
                 having
                 nothing
                 else
                 to
                 warrant
                 them
                 ,
                 but
                 a
                 Pettish
                 and
                 Solitary
                 Opinion
                 of
                 their
                 own
                 ,
                 will
                 undertake
                 ,
                 to
                 arraigne
                 ,
                 the
                 Truth
                 of
                 all
                 they
                 cannot
                 apprehend
                 ,
                 or
                 is
                 not
                 quite
                 arrived
                 within
                 the
                 
                   Perfect
                   Cognizance
                
                 of
                 
                   their
                   Reason
                
                 .
                 And
                 by
                 this
                 Impudence
                 ,
                 do
                 not
                 only
                 ,
                 proclaim
                 themselves
                 Judges
                 of
                 the
                 present
                 
                 understandings
                 ;
                 but
                 present
                 ,
                 the
                 scanty
                 measure
                 of
                 
                   their
                   own
                
                 ,
                 as
                 an
                 
                   unquestionable
                   Standard
                
                 ,
                 for
                 all
                 may
                 succeed
                 .
                 Forgetting
                 ,
                 to
                 what
                 base
                 Offices
                 they
                 have
                 put
                 such
                 Conceits
                 ,
                 and
                 Results
                 to
                 ,
                 upon
                 a
                 more
                 
                   serious
                   Consideration
                
                 ;
                 which
                 at
                 their
                 
                   first
                   Conception
                
                 ,
                 they
                 esteemed
                 Authentick
                 ,
                 and
                 not
                 misbecoming
                 the
                 Cabinet
                 of
                 a
                 Prince
                 .
                 And
                 if
                 thus
                 Capable
                 of
                 Deceit
                 from
                 Themselves
                 ;
                 What
                 Security
                 are
                 they
                 able
                 to
                 give
                 for
                 the
                 
                   Spurious
                   Censures
                
                 they
                 passe
                 upon
                 Others
                 ,
                 that
                 one
                 day
                 they
                 shall
                 not
                 be
                 taken
                 off
                 from
                 
                   Wisdom's
                   File
                
                 ,
                 and
                 some
                 
                   more
                   True
                
                 and
                 Honourable
                 placed
                 in
                 their
                 room
                 ,
                 to
                 the
                 
                   Eternall
                   Insamy
                
                 of
                 such
                 ,
                 as
                 are
                 scandalized
                 at
                 any
                 thing
                 ,
                 formerly
                 ,
                 a
                 Stranger
                 in
                 the
                 Schools
                 ?
                 Nor
                 is
                 this
                 Humor
                 the
                 Continent
                 of
                 a
                 lesse
                 Malignity
                 ,
                 then
                 what
                 hath
                 been
                 Capable
                 heretofore
                 ,
                 (
                 Nor
                 is
                 it
                 lesse
                 
                   busie
                   now
                
                 )
                 to
                 obstruct
                 ,
                 and
                 Discourage
                 
                 all
                 farther
                 prosecution
                 after
                 Knowledg
                 ,
                 by
                 
                   branding
                   Reason
                
                 with
                 an
                 Imputation
                 of
                 Atheism
                 :
                 and
                 Hanging
                 what
                 they
                 
                   understand
                   not
                
                 ,
                 under
                 the
                 Notion
                 of
                 Witchcraft
                 ;
                 as
                 Foster
                 ,
                 a
                 Country
                 -
                 Parson
                 ,
                 did
                 the
                 Weapon-Salve
                 :
                 Against
                 which
                 ,
                 he
                 Conjured
                 up
                 not
                 onely
                 the
                 
                   Fathers
                   ,
                   Schoolmen
                
                 ,
                 &c.
                 but
                 (
                 so
                 far
                 as
                 his
                 
                   Weak
                   Talent
                
                 could
                 extend
                 )
                 did
                 suborne
                 Philosophy
                 to
                 attest
                 against
                 Her Self
                 .
                 Nor
                 had
                 this
                 
                   mad
                   Duel
                
                 between
                 Him
                 ,
                 and
                 Dr.
                 LLoyde
                 ,
                 (
                 who
                 being
                 both
                 of
                 no
                 great
                 Strength
                 did
                 weaken
                 the
                 Nations
                 repute
                 abroad
                 )
                 been
                 parted
                 ,
                 but
                 That
                 Authority
                 (
                 to
                 vindicate
                 the
                 
                   usual
                   cure
                
                 of
                 the
                 
                   Kings
                   Evil
                
                 from
                 being
                 an
                 Operation
                 of
                 the
                 Divel
                 )
                 did
                 step
                 in
                 betwixt
                 Them.
                 The
                 First
                 ,
                 gaining
                 the
                 Opinion
                 of
                 as
                 High
                 an
                 Impudence
                 ,
                 for
                 Beginning
                 ;
                 as
                 the
                 Other
                 ,
                 did
                 of
                 Folly
                 ,
                 for
                 maintaining
                 so
                 impertinent
                 a
                 Quarrel
                 .
              
               
                 It
                 was
                 the
                 Custom
                 of
                 King
                 James
                 ,
                 
                 (
                 and
                 no
                 question
                 ,
                 of
                 no
                 small
                 Improvement
                 to
                 his
                 Understanding
                 )
                 to
                 Discourse
                 during
                 Meals
                 ,
                 with
                 the
                 Chaplain
                 that
                 said
                 Grace
                 ,
                 (
                 or
                 
                   Other
                   Divines
                
                 )
                 Concerning
                 some
                 point
                 of
                 Controversie
                 in
                 Philosophy
                 .
                 And
                 falling
                 one
                 Day
                 upon
                 Atheism
                 ,
                 He
                 did
                 by
                 undenyable
                 Arguments
                 maintain
                 ,
                 
                   No
                   Man
                   could
                   be
                   found
                   so
                   Irrational
                   ,
                   as
                   to
                   deny
                   a
                   First
                   Cause
                   :
                
                 (
                 which
                 could
                 be
                 no
                 other
                 then
                 that
                 Power
                 we
                 call
                 God.
                 )
                 And
                 
                   Therefore
                   ,
                   no
                   such
                   thing
                   in
                   Nature
                   ,
                
                 as
                 an
                 Atheist
                 .
              
               
                 What
                 his
                 Judgement
                 was
                 of
                 Witchcraft
                 ,
                 you
                 may
                 ,
                 in
                 part
                 ,
                 find
                 by
                 His
                 Treatise
                 on
                 that
                 Subject
                 ,
                 and
                 Charge
                 he
                 gave
                 the
                 Judges
                 ,
                 to
                 be
                 Circumspect
                 in
                 Condemning
                 those
                 ,
                 Committed
                 by
                 
                   Ignorant
                   Justices
                
                 ,
                 for
                 
                   Diabolical
                   Compacts
                
                 .
                 Nor
                 had
                 he
                 Concluded
                 his
                 Advice
                 in
                 a
                 
                   Narrower
                   Circle
                
                 ,
                 (
                 as
                 I
                 have
                 heard
                 )
                 Then
                 the
                 Denyal
                 of
                 any
                 
                   such
                   operations
                
                 ,
                 but
                 out
                 of
                 Reason
                 of
                 State
                 :
                 and
                 to
                 
                 gratifie
                 the
                 Church
                 ,
                 which
                 hath
                 in
                 
                   no
                   Age
                
                 ,
                 thought
                 fit
                 to
                 explode
                 out
                 of
                 the
                 Common-peoples
                 minds
                 ,
                 An
                 Apprehension
                 of
                 Witchcraft
                 .
                 The
                 greatest
                 Miracles
                 ,
                 now
                 extant
                 ,
                 making
                 their
                 Apparitions
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 
                   Dark
                   Corners
                
                 of
                 this
                 
                   clouded
                   Imagination
                
                 .
                 Into
                 whose
                 Cause
                 I
                 shall
                 not
                 presume
                 further
                 to
                 peep
                 ;
                 as
                 esteeming
                 it
                 more
                 Dangerous
                 then
                 Terrible
                 .
                 Yet
                 ,
                 for
                 the
                 better
                 Vindication
                 of
                 such
                 Innocents
                 ,
                 as
                 are
                 daily
                 observed
                 ,
                 to
                 pass
                 out
                 of
                 this
                 
                   Back-gate
                   of
                   Injustice
                
                 ,
                 to
                 
                   another
                   World
                
                 ,
                 (
                 Whose
                 Posterns
                 are
                 the
                 Ignorance
                 of
                 Judges
                 ,
                 and
                 Folly
                 of
                 our
                 Lawes
                 )
                 I
                 will
                 here
                 relate
                 a
                 Story
                 of
                 my
                 
                   own
                   Knowledge
                
                 ,
                 which
                 if
                 too
                 Weak
                 to
                 refel
                 this
                 
                   Common
                   Errour
                
                 ,
                 cannot
                 be
                 divested
                 of
                 Strength
                 enough
                 ,
                 to
                 perswade
                 more
                 Discretion
                 ,
                 and
                 Charity
                 ,
                 then
                 is
                 ordinarily
                 imployed
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 Tryal
                 of
                 such
                 
                   poor
                   Creatures
                
                 ,
                 That
                 are
                 first
                 made
                 mad
                 ,
                 as
                 Solomon
                 saith
                 ,
                 through
                 
                 Poverty
                 ,
                 and
                 Affliction
                 ;
                 and
                 
                   After
                   Hanged
                
                 ,
                 for
                 being
                 no
                 
                   better
                   advised
                
                 ,
                 then
                 to
                 Confess
                 what
                 they
                 
                   never
                   did
                
                 ,
                 or
                 any
                 Flesh
                 and
                 Blood
                 was
                 ever
                 
                   able
                   to
                   do
                
                 .
              
               
                 Sir
                 
                   Humphry
                   Winch
                
                 ,
                 (
                 none
                 of
                 the
                 least
                 Honest
                 ,
                 and
                 
                   Conscientious
                   Itinerant
                   Judges
                
                 of
                 his
                 Time
                 ,
                 )
                 was
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 
                   Northern
                   Circuit
                
                 presented
                 with
                 this
                 Evidence
                 ,
                 against
                 Three
                 Silly
                 Women
                 ,
                 
                   That
                   they
                   had
                   out
                   of
                   propense
                   Malice
                   ,
                   not
                   onely
                   bewitched
                   divers
                   Cattle
                   ,
                   and
                   Children
                   to
                   Death
                   :
                
                 But
                 the
                 
                   principal
                   Cause
                
                 of
                 their
                 Commitment
                 ,
                 arose
                 from
                 the
                 
                   Son
                   of
                   a
                   Gentleman
                
                 ,
                 that
                 was
                 supposed
                 to
                 have
                 
                   layn
                   divers
                   Moneths
                
                 under
                 their
                 Fascination
                 ;
                 who
                 at
                 certain
                 Times
                 ,
                 would
                 Contract
                 his
                 whole
                 Body
                 ,
                 within
                 the
                 Compass
                 of
                 a
                 Joyn'd-stool
                 ,
                 and
                 write
                 in
                 Hebrew
                 ,
                 and
                 
                   Greek
                   Characters
                
                 ,
                 though
                 not
                 knownto
                 be
                 skilled
                 in
                 those
                 tongues
                 ;
                 That
                 a
                 Spirit
                 came
                 then
                 into
                 
                 him
                 ,
                 sent
                 by
                 
                   these
                   poor
                   Wretches
                
                 ,
                 by
                 which
                 he
                 was
                 so
                 Tormented
                 ,
                 as
                 he
                 did
                 ,
                 in
                 his
                 
                   Fits
                   ,
                   foame
                
                 at
                 the
                 Mouth
                 .
                 Nor
                 was
                 there
                 a
                 greater
                 ,
                 and
                 more
                 probable
                 Evidence
                 wanting
                 ;
                 For
                 ,
                 that
                 Night
                 the
                 Judges
                 entred
                 the
                 Town
                 ,
                 One
                 of
                 the
                 Witches
                 ,
                 did
                 privately
                 desire
                 the
                 Jaylour
                 ,
                 to
                 bring
                 Her
                 into
                 a
                 room
                 
                   by
                   her Self
                
                 ,
                 where
                 without
                 any
                 Compulsion
                 ,
                 (
                 a
                 thing
                 not
                 omitted
                 by
                 our
                 
                   Witch
                   Finders
                
                 )
                 She
                 told
                 Him
                 ,
                 she
                 used
                 a
                 Familiar
                 ,
                 together
                 with
                 the
                 Rest
                 ;
                 And
                 that
                 they
                 had
                 joyned
                 to
                 bewitch
                 the
                 said
                 Boy
                 ;
                 but
                 did
                 humbly
                 beseech
                 Him
                 ,
                 her
                 Fellows
                 might
                 not
                 know
                 it
                 ,
                 nor
                 she
                 be
                 returned
                 to
                 the
                 same
                 lodging
                 ,
                 for
                 fear
                 ,
                 
                   They
                   should
                   torment
                   Her
                
                 :
                 And
                 within
                 few
                 Hours
                 dyed
                 .
                 Now
                 upon
                 the
                 
                   Keepers
                   Evidence
                
                 ,
                 and
                 others
                 of
                 like
                 Nature
                 ,
                 the
                 Two
                 were
                 found
                 guilty
                 ,
                 and
                 Condemned
                 to
                 be
                 Hang'd
                 .
                 But
                 under
                 this
                 Proviso
                 ,
                 That
                 in
                 Case
                 they
                 continued
                 
                 obstinate
                 in
                 the
                 Denyal
                 of
                 the
                 Fact
                 ,
                 The
                 Sheriff
                 should
                 remand
                 them
                 back
                 ,
                 where
                 they
                 were
                 to
                 live
                 ,
                 till
                 the
                 Progress
                 ,
                 which
                 was
                 to
                 be
                 Northward
                 ,
                 that
                 Summer
                 .
                 The
                 King
                 being
                 gratified
                 by
                 nothing
                 more
                 ,
                 then
                 an
                 Opportunity
                 to
                 shew
                 his
                 Dexterity
                 in
                 Discovering
                 an
                 Imposture
                 ,
                 (
                 at
                 which
                 ,
                 I
                 must
                 confess
                 Him
                 ,
                 The
                 Promptest
                 Man
                 Living
                 )
                 upon
                 his
                 Arrival
                 convented
                 
                   The
                   Boy
                
                 .
                 Where
                 ,
                 before
                 Him
                 ,
                 (
                 possibly
                 daunted
                 at
                 his
                 Presence
                 ,
                 or
                 Terrified
                 by
                 his
                 Words
                 )
                 he
                 began
                 to
                 faulter
                 ,
                 so
                 as
                 
                   The
                   King
                
                 discover'd
                 a
                 Fallacy
                 .
                 And
                 did
                 for
                 a
                 further
                 Confirmation
                 ,
                 send
                 him
                 to
                 Lambeth
                 ;
                 where
                 the
                 Servants
                 of
                 
                   George
                   Abbot
                
                 ,
                 did
                 in
                 a
                 few
                 Weeks
                 ,
                 discover
                 the
                 Whole
                 Deceit
                 .
                 And
                 He
                 was
                 sent
                 back
                 to
                 his
                 Majesty
                 ,
                 before
                 the
                 end
                 of
                 the
                 Progress
                 .
                 Where
                 upon
                 a
                 Small
                 Entreaty
                 ,
                 He
                 would
                 repeat
                 all
                 his
                 Tricks
                 oftentimes
                 in
                 a
                 Day
                 .
                 Nor
                 did
                 He
                 
                   do
                   and
                   
                   suffer
                
                 all
                 this
                 ,
                 for
                 a
                 more
                 Serious
                 Cause
                 ,
                 
                   Then
                   to
                   prevent
                   a
                   present
                   Whipping
                   ,
                
                 and
                 avoyd
                 going
                 to
                 School
                 .
                 Amongst
                 other
                 Prancks
                 ,
                 he
                 lived
                 in
                 an
                 Orchard
                 a
                 Week
                 ,
                 upon
                 Apples
                 onely
                 .
              
               
                 I
                 shall
                 make
                 no
                 Paraphrase
                 ,
                 nor
                 pursue
                 the
                 Argument
                 further
                 ,
                 to
                 avoyd
                 Prolixity
                 ,
                 no
                 less
                 ,
                 then
                 Offence
                 .
                 The
                 Doctrine
                 of
                 such
                 &c.
                 Being
                 a
                 Diana
                 ,
                 out
                 of
                 Which
                 ,
                 no
                 small
                 Profit
                 is
                 made
                 ,
                 and
                 Credit
                 purchased
                 ,
                 in
                 reference
                 to
                 Opinions
                 ,
                 otherwise
                 Ridiculous
                 ,
                 and
                 Untenable
                 .
              
               
                 Give
                 me
                 neither
                 Poverty
                 nor
                 Riches
                 ,
                 
                   Prov.
                   8.
                   30.
                
                 
              
               
                 From
                 this
                 
                   Wise
                   Kings
                   Prayer
                
                 ,
                 we
                 may
                 Learn
                 the
                 Danger
                 that
                 resides
                 ,
                 in
                 these
                 two
                 
                   Gulphs
                   ,
                   Poverty
                
                 and
                 Riches
                 .
                 The
                 
                   Latter
                   ,
                   alluring
                
                 no
                 less
                 to
                 Pride
                 ,
                 then
                 the
                 
                   First
                   tempts
                
                 ,
                 if
                 not
                 Compels
                 towards
                 Atheism
                 ,
                 and
                 
                 Infidelity
                 .
                 Both
                 gathering
                 Strength
                 and
                 Aggravation
                 ,
                 from
                 the
                 Complexion
                 ,
                 and
                 Education
                 of
                 the
                 patient
                 ;
                 So
                 as
                 if
                 Abundance
                 proves
                 the
                 Lot
                 of
                 a
                 
                   Mean
                   Birth
                
                 ;
                 and
                 Want
                 ,
                 the
                 Companion
                 of
                 one
                 bred
                 in
                 Plenty
                 and
                 Eminency
                 ;
                 it
                 elevates
                 the
                 First
                 ,
                 as
                 far
                 above
                 the
                 Sphaere
                 of
                 Moderation
                 ,
                 as
                 it
                 dejects
                 the
                 
                   Other
                   ,
                   below
                
                 the
                 Centre
                 of
                 
                   Patience
                   .
                   Pride
                   despising
                
                 Gods
                 power
                 ,
                 no
                 less
                 then
                 
                   Poverty
                   distrusts
                
                 it
                 .
                 For
                 as
                 a
                 perfect
                 and
                 Harmonious
                 Joy
                 comes
                 neerest
                 to
                 that
                 pleasure
                 and
                 Content
                 ,
                 assured
                 us
                 in
                 Heaven
                 :
                 So
                 Anxiety
                 and
                 Discontent
                 are
                 a
                 representation
                 of
                 
                   Hell.
                   Melancholly
                
                 being
                 the
                 worst
                 of
                 Humours
                 ,
                 because
                 the
                 Devils
                 ;
                 (
                 if
                 he
                 may
                 be
                 thought
                 ,
                 to
                 participate
                 of
                 any
                 )
                 who
                 apprehends
                 all
                 ill
                 about
                 Him
                 ,
                 and
                 cannot
                 but
                 despair
                 of
                 better
                 .
                 Wherefore
                 Poverty
                 must
                 be
                 allowed
                 
                   the
                   most
                   dangerouus
                   Condition
                
                 ,
                 because
                 infested
                 with
                 all
                 those
                 
                 
                   prodigious
                   Effects
                
                 ,
                 this
                 
                   Diabolicall
                   Passion
                
                 is
                 lyable
                 to
                 produce
                 .
                 Which
                 are
                 ,
                 in
                 a
                 manner
                 ,
                 all
                 we
                 do
                 in
                 this
                 World
                 ,
                 either
                 Punish
                 ,
                 or
                 
                   Admire
                   :
                   Sin
                
                 being
                 a
                 Result
                 of
                 Want
                 ;
                 from
                 whence
                 it
                 becomes
                 so
                 far
                 more
                 Illegal
                 ,
                 then
                 Unnatural
                 ,
                 as
                 S.
                 Paul
                 owns
                 the
                 Law
                 ,
                 for
                 the
                 most
                 
                   Manifest
                   Original
                
                 ,
                 and
                 exactest
                 measure
                 of
                 his
                 prevarioations
                 .
              
               
                 I
                 know
                 Abundance
                 hath
                 been
                 by
                 
                   Good
                   men
                
                 ,
                 prized
                 below
                 Want
                 ,
                 when
                 offered
                 to
                 be
                 made
                 the
                 Wages
                 of
                 Iniquity
                 ;
                 though
                 None
                 besides
                 
                   Our
                   Saviour
                
                 ,
                 was
                 ever
                 found
                 ,
                 able
                 to
                 grapple
                 with
                 the
                 Enemy
                 of
                 Mankind
                 being
                 Hungry
                 and
                 in
                 Want
                 ,
                 as
                 He
                 was
                 in
                 the
                 Wilderness
                 .
                 Which
                 remains
                 none
                 of
                 the
                 Weakest
                 Effects
                 ,
                 left
                 us
                 ,
                 of
                 his
                 Divinity
                 :
                 And
                 rather
                 inserted
                 ,
                 as
                 a
                 Mark
                 of
                 his
                 own
                 Power
                 ,
                 then
                 an
                 Example
                 for
                 our
                 Immitation
                 .
                 Yet
                 such
                 
                   Monastical
                   persons
                
                 ,
                 as
                 endeavour
                 to
                 come
                 neerest
                 to
                 it
                 ,
                 
                 have
                 enough
                 to
                 Satisfie
                 ,
                 though
                 possibly
                 ,
                 not
                 to
                 
                   pamper
                   Nature
                
                 .
                 The
                 Name
                 of
                 
                   Voluntary
                   Hope
                   of
                   Merit
                
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 
                   Worldly
                   Respect
                
                 it
                 brings
                 ,
                 bearing
                 most
                 of
                 the
                 Charges
                 belonging
                 to
                 it
                 .
                 Nor
                 have
                 they
                 Wives
                 and
                 Children
                 ,
                 which
                 
                   looked
                   through
                
                 ,
                 do
                 like
                 
                   Opticks
                   ,
                   multiply
                
                 the
                 Bulk
                 of
                 Want.
                 
              
               
                 When
                 
                   Others
                   (
                   not
                   wilfully
                
                 )
                 Sick
                 of
                 this
                 
                   Loathsom
                   Plague
                
                 ,
                 as
                 if
                 it
                 were
                 Infectious
                 ,
                 are
                 not
                 onely
                 Forsaken
                 of
                 All
                 ,
                 but
                 exposed
                 to
                 the
                 Tyranny
                 of
                 
                   Every
                   Hand
                
                 desires
                 to
                 oppress
                 them
                 .
                 Law
                 it Self
                 ,
                 (
                 a
                 Friend
                 to
                 all
                 else
                 )
                 being
                 so
                 heavy
                 an
                 Enemy
                 to
                 the
                 
                   poor
                   Beggar
                
                 ,
                 as
                 it
                 seeks
                 to
                 Discharge
                 the
                 
                   Common
                   wealth
                
                 of
                 Them
                 ,
                 with
                 no
                 less
                 industry
                 ,
                 then
                 the
                 Phisitian
                 ,
                 doth
                 the
                 Body
                 of
                 man
                 ,
                 from
                 
                   Humours
                   putrid
                   and
                   noxious
                
                 to
                 its
                 Health
                 .
                 I
                 know
                 Some
                 make
                 a
                 Trade
                 of
                 Want
                 ;
                 and
                 by
                 it
                 ,
                 are
                 able
                 to
                 live
                 ,
                 not
                 one'y
                 Idly
                 ,
                 but
                 in
                 an
                 
                   Unbridled
                   
                   Luxury
                
                 ;
                 Whereas
                 ,
                 Those
                 here
                 meant
                 ,
                 
                   Consume
                   their
                   Bodies
                
                 ,
                 by
                 Labour
                 ,
                 or
                 which
                 is
                 more
                 Painful
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 Study
                 of
                 the
                 Mind
                 ;
                 yet
                 cannot
                 obtain
                 so
                 much
                 ,
                 as
                 to
                 purchase
                 bread
                 sufficient
                 ,
                 to
                 
                   stop
                   the
                   Mouths
                   of
                   their
                   Family
                   ,
                   from
                   Barking
                   at
                   Heaven
                   ,
                   and
                   tearing
                   God
                   under
                   the
                   Vail
                   of
                   Fortune
                   ,
                   for
                   pouring
                   upon
                   others
                   ,
                   without
                   Limitation
                   ,
                   what
                   is
                   denyed
                   to
                   them
                   in
                   the
                   Meanest
                   Proportion
                   .
                
                 Indeed
                 the
                 
                   Ancient
                   Stoicks
                
                 ,
                 no
                 less
                 ,
                 then
                 the
                 more
                 
                   Modern
                   Divines
                
                 have
                 ,
                 and
                 do
                 still
                 continue
                 their
                 endeavours
                 ,
                 to
                 vindicate
                 this
                 
                   unequal
                   Distribution
                
                 from
                 the
                 
                   Tincture
                   of
                   Partiality
                
                 ;
                 but
                 have
                 in
                 my
                 mind
                 ,
                 left
                 it
                 more
                 Ambiguous
                 .
                 Onely
                 our
                 Saviour
                 in
                 his
                 Answer
                 penned
                 for
                 Dives
                 ,
                 seems
                 (
                 no
                 less
                 then
                 in
                 other
                 Places
                 of
                 his
                 Gospel
                 )
                 to
                 assign
                 Heaven
                 ,
                 meerly
                 for
                 an
                 Inheritance
                 ,
                 to
                 such
                 ,
                 as
                 
                   Want
                   here
                
                 ;
                 and
                 Hell
                 for
                 Those
                 that
                 abound
                 :
                 As
                 he
                 that
                 marks
                 the
                 Words
                 ,
                 cannot
                 
                 but
                 imagine
                 ,
                 Nor
                 dare
                 I
                 apply
                 the
                 Figure
                 of
                 Hyperbole
                 ,
                 to
                 any
                 Saying
                 of
                 His.
                 Which
                 exactly
                 weighed
                 ,
                 is
                 but
                 a
                 Salvo
                 for
                 a
                 Mistake
                 ,
                 An
                 
                   Indefinite
                   Number
                
                 or
                 Quantity
                 ,
                 suiting
                 better
                 the
                 Mouth
                 of
                 an
                 
                   Ignorant
                   Man
                
                 ,
                 then
                 the
                 
                   Immense
                   Knowledg
                
                 of
                 our
                 
                   Blessed
                   Redeemer
                
                 .
                 Wherefore
                 (
                 under
                 the
                 Correction
                 of
                 a
                 
                   more
                   perfect
                   Light
                
                 )
                 I
                 think
                 the
                 Simile
                 of
                 a
                 Camel
                 ,
                 (
                 or
                 Cable
                 )
                 and
                 the
                 Eye
                 of
                 a
                 
                   Needle
                   justly
                   and
                   Mathematically
                
                 proportioned
                 ,
                 to
                 the
                 Salvation
                 of
                 a
                 
                   Rich
                   man
                
                 ,
                 who
                 is
                 uncapable
                 of
                 it
                 ,
                 without
                 a
                 more
                 
                   Miraculous
                   Extension
                
                 of
                 the
                 Mercy
                 of
                 our
                 Maker
                 ,
                 then
                 is
                 by
                 Himself
                 best
                 known
                 to
                 Suffice
                 such
                 ,
                 as
                 in
                 this
                 World
                 ,
                 have
                 not
                 enjoy'd
                 so
                 much
                 Plenty
                 .
              
               
                 And
                 ,
                 That
                 
                   an
                   Observation
                
                 of
                 the
                 Law
                 is
                 not
                 Enough
                 ,
                 seems
                 to
                 appear
                 ,
                 by
                 Christs
                 bidding
                 Him
                 that
                 had
                 Done
                 it
                 ,
                 To
                 
                   Sell
                   All
                   that
                   he
                   Had
                   ,
                   &c.
                
                 as
                 the
                 
                   thing
                   most
                   acceptable
                   to
                   God.
                
                 
              
               
               
                 Wherefore
                 I
                 could
                 wish
                 ,
                 That
                 this
                 Tithing
                 the
                 Minth
                 and
                 Cummin
                 of
                 
                   Others
                   Errours
                
                 and
                 Opinions
                 ,
                 were
                 not
                 so
                 nicely
                 performed
                 ,
                 and
                 Charity
                 with
                 her
                 
                   Concomitance
                   Probity
                
                 (
                 the
                 
                   Whole
                   performance
                
                 of
                 the
                 Commandements
                 )
                 so
                 quite
                 neglected
                 .
                 Which
                 no
                 doubt
                 ,
                 is
                 the
                 great
                 Occasion
                 of
                 
                   so
                   much
                   Indigence
                
                 ,
                 as
                 may
                 be
                 observed
                 now
                 ;
                 and
                 so
                 Contrary
                 to
                 That
                 in
                 
                   Christs
                   Time
                
                 ,
                 as
                 it
                 rather
                 hinders
                 ,
                 then
                 Facilitates
                 ,
                 the
                 Wayes
                 to
                 Heaven
                 :
                 So
                 as
                 it
                 appears
                 ,
                 That
                 the
                 Devil
                 himself
                 had
                 never
                 experimented
                 so
                 much
                 power
                 in
                 any
                 Person
                 ,
                 as
                 was
                 able
                 to
                 resist
                 the
                 Temptation
                 of
                 
                   Misery
                   and
                   Want
                
                 ,
                 till
                 he
                 met
                 with
                 Job
                 .
                 Which
                 gave
                 him
                 the
                 boldness
                 to
                 wager
                 (
                 as
                 it
                 were
                 )
                 with
                 God
                 ,
                 That
                 in
                 case
                 ,
                 he
                 removed
                 the
                 Hedge
                 ,
                 his
                 Love
                 had
                 placed
                 about
                 him
                 ,
                 He
                 would
                 Curse
                 him
                 to
                 his
                 Face
                 .
              
               
                 Wherefore
                 ,
                 it
                 cannot
                 be
                 esteemed
                 ,
                 
                 a
                 
                   slight
                   provocation
                
                 was
                 the
                 
                   Greatest
                   ,
                   Mans
                   Enemy
                
                 could
                 invent
                 .
                 Had
                 he
                 onely
                 touched
                 his
                 Health
                 ,
                 the
                 Means
                 of
                 Recovery
                 might
                 have
                 remayned
                 :
                 But
                 his
                 Livelyhood
                 being
                 lost
                 ,
                 nothing
                 continued
                 ,
                 but
                 
                   Lean
                   Patience
                
                 ;
                 far
                 too
                 weak
                 wholly
                 to
                 ward
                 this
                 Blow
                 ,
                 though
                 it
                 may
                 dissemble
                 the
                 taking
                 it
                 ,
                 or
                 Cover
                 the
                 Wound
                 for
                 a
                 Season
                 .
              
               
                 It
                 is
                 no
                 less
                 Wholesome
                 then
                 Decent
                 ,
                 to
                 travel
                 on
                 Foot
                 ,
                 with
                 a
                 Horse
                 in
                 thy
                 Hand
                 ;
                 but
                 to
                 the
                 Destitute
                 of
                 a
                 like
                 ease
                 ,
                 Tedious
                 .
                 Wherefore
                 Seneca
                 may
                 make
                 Demonstration
                 of
                 Wit
                 ,
                 and
                 
                   prescribe
                   Rules
                
                 ,
                 for
                 the
                 more
                 quiet
                 enduring
                 of
                 Penury
                 ,
                 but
                 deserves
                 the
                 less
                 Credit
                 ,
                 because
                 
                   writ
                   at
                   a
                   time
                
                 ,
                 when
                 himself
                 had
                 occasion
                 to
                 use
                 more
                 Moderation
                 ,
                 then
                 Patience
                 ;
                 Which
                 makes
                 me
                 believe
                 ,
                 his
                 Mind
                 (
                 together
                 with
                 the
                 rest
                 of
                 the
                 
                   Puritanical
                   Stoicks
                
                 )
                 was
                 far
                 averse
                 from
                 their
                 Doctrine
                 ;
                 since
                 a
                 
                 
                   decent
                   Frugality
                
                 out
                 of
                 the
                 Society
                 of
                 a
                 more
                 
                   Sordid
                   Covetousness
                
                 ,
                 could
                 not
                 have
                 accumulated
                 so
                 immense
                 a
                 Treasure
                 ,
                 as
                 Tacitus
                 reports
                 ,
                 was
                 found
                 about
                 Him.
                 Yet
                 Concludes
                 his
                 Documents
                 ,
                 with
                 a
                 
                   Peremptory
                   Advise
                
                 ,
                 rather
                 
                   to
                   Die
                
                 ,
                 then
                 abide
                 in
                 so
                 
                   little
                   Ease
                
                 ,
                 as
                 this
                 ,
                 and
                 far
                 less
                 
                   intollerable
                   Earthly
                   Inconveniences
                
                 are
                 observed
                 to
                 bring
                 with
                 them
                 .
                 Which
                 indeed
                 were
                 more
                 to
                 the
                 purpose
                 ,
                 Could
                 Christianity
                 make
                 use
                 of
                 this
                 his
                 
                   last
                   Receipt
                
                 :
                 Who
                 is
                 prescribed
                 by
                 her
                 Institutes
                 ,
                 to
                 Tide
                 it
                 out
                 ,
                 although
                 the
                 Stream
                 of
                 its
                 
                   Inconveniences
                   runs
                
                 never
                 so
                 strong
                 against
                 the
                 Nature
                 of
                 Man.
                 So
                 as
                 if
                 God
                 had
                 set
                 any
                 
                   lower
                   precipice
                
                 ,
                 as
                 the
                 Bottom
                 of
                 the
                 Leap
                 ,
                 then
                 
                   Eternal
                   Damnation
                
                 ,
                 I
                 think
                 none
                 so
                 pusillanimous
                 ,
                 as
                 would
                 not
                 rather
                 once
                 take
                 it
                 ,
                 then
                 to
                 remain
                 still
                 under
                 the
                 Weight
                 ,
                 of
                 so
                 heavy
                 and
                 unsociable
                 a
                 Calamity
                 ,
                 that
                 produceth
                 all
                 
                 things
                 Hurtful
                 or
                 Hateful
                 to
                 Nature
                 ,
                 For
                 when
                 God
                 mans-out
                 his
                 Hosts
                 ,
                 the
                 Poor
                 are
                 found
                 in
                 the
                 
                   Forlorne
                   Hope
                
                 ;
                 and
                 Famine
                 takes
                 up
                 her
                 Head-Quarters
                 under
                 
                   Their
                   Roof
                
                 .
                 Nor
                 doth
                 the
                 Pestilence
                 find
                 a
                 more
                 Convenient
                 place
                 ,
                 to
                 hatch
                 her
                 Malignities
                 in
                 ,
                 then
                 the
                 Bosom
                 of
                 the
                 Indigent
                 .
                 And
                 when
                 the
                 Sword
                 is
                 so
                 Noble
                 ,
                 as
                 to
                 spare
                 him
                 ,
                 it
                 is
                 not
                 so
                 much
                 out
                 of
                 Mercy
                 as
                 Contempt
                 .
                 He
                 being
                 
                   in
                   this
                
                 onely
                 Happy
                 ,
                 That
                 his
                 Condition
                 is
                 not
                 in
                 a
                 capacity
                 to
                 become
                 worse
                 ,
                 no
                 more
                 then
                 in
                 any
                 great
                 probability
                 of
                 Amendment
                 ;
                 Since
                 in
                 a
                 general
                 Felicity
                 ,
                 he
                 only
                 is
                 unhappy
                 .
                 Because
                 Want
                 renders
                 her
                 Owners
                 uncapable
                 of
                 Trust
                 ,
                 By
                 creating
                 Suspicion
                 ,
                 before
                 any
                 Fault
                 is
                 Committed
                 :
                 For
                 where
                 Necessity
                 abounds
                 ,
                 there
                 Theft
                 and
                 Deccit
                 are
                 supposed
                 ,
                 as
                 an
                 
                   Infallible
                   Consequence
                
                 .
                 When
                 a
                 Felony
                 ,
                 or
                 Murther
                 is
                 committed
                 ,
                 the
                 next
                 
                   Poor
                   Houses
                
                 
                 are
                 ordinarily
                 searched
                 .
                 
                   Where
                   the
                   lesse
                   is
                   found
                   of
                   their
                   own
                   ,
                
                 the
                 greater
                 Suspicion
                 is
                 conceived
                 of
                 what
                 belongs
                 
                   to
                   others
                
                 .
                 And
                 so
                 Loathsom
                 is
                 a
                 Beggar
                 esteemed
                 ;
                 as
                 he
                 that
                 is
                 so
                 Charitable
                 as
                 to
                 make
                 him
                 Drink
                 ,
                 is
                 yet
                 ,
                 thus
                 uncivil
                 towards
                 Him
                 ,
                 as
                 to
                 
                   shut
                   the
                   Door
                
                 ,
                 and
                 wash
                 the
                 Cup
                 after
                 Him
                 :
                 as
                 if
                 it
                 were
                 impossible
                 for
                 a
                 Person
                 in
                 want
                 ,
                 either
                 to
                 be
                 True
                 or
                 Wholsom
                 .
                 Being
                 shunned
                 of
                 the
                 Herd
                 ,
                 as
                 
                   one
                   struck
                
                 by
                 the
                 severest
                 arrow
                 of
                 his
                 
                   Makers
                   vengeance
                
                 ;
                 and
                 left
                 nothing
                 to
                 accompany
                 him
                 ,
                 but
                 Misery
                 .
                 --
                 Yet
                 none
                 may
                 possibly
                 apprehend
                 him
                 so
                 wretched
                 ,
                 as
                 
                   He
                   thinks
                   Himself
                
                 .
                 Being
                 for
                 the
                 most
                 part
                 ,
                 deprived
                 not
                 only
                 of
                 Terrestriall
                 ,
                 but
                 
                   Future
                   Comforts
                
                 .
                 For
                 if
                 Conscious
                 of
                 Ill
                 ,
                 (
                 as
                 what
                 meanes
                 hath
                 he
                 of
                 living
                 by
                 ,
                 or
                 doing
                 any
                 thing
                 else
                 but
                 Evill
                 ?
                 )
                 through
                 Death
                 (
                 the
                 only
                 way
                 to
                 lead
                 him
                 out
                 of
                 his
                 
                   transitory
                   Misery
                
                 )
                 he
                 apprehends
                 
                   one
                   
                   prepared
                
                 for
                 him
                 that
                 is
                 Eternall
                 .
                 The
                 Indigent
                 person
                 like
                 the
                 
                   flying
                   Fish
                
                 ,
                 being
                 not
                 only
                 persecuted
                 in
                 his
                 
                   Own
                   Element
                
                 ,
                 by
                 those
                 more
                 Mighty
                 ;
                 But
                 upon
                 leaving
                 it
                 ,
                 falls
                 into
                 their
                 
                   terrible
                   Clawes
                
                 ,
                 to
                 whom
                 is
                 assigned
                 the
                 Dominion
                 of
                 the
                 Ayr.
                 This
                 Crosse
                 having
                 wrought
                 so
                 strongly
                 with
                 some
                 Complexions
                 ,
                 as
                 to
                 purge
                 away
                 all
                 
                   Belief
                   of
                   Providence
                
                 ,
                 and
                 revive
                 that
                 
                   Old
                   damnable
                   Opinion
                
                 ,
                 of
                 a
                 
                   Double
                   Nature
                
                 in
                 God.
                 Now
                 though
                 our
                 
                   Blessed
                   Saviour
                
                 is
                 not
                 found
                 
                   above
                   twice
                
                 ,
                 to
                 sustain
                 his
                 Followers
                 a
                 
                   miraculous
                   way
                
                 ,
                 and
                 that
                 in
                 the
                 Desart
                 ,
                 where
                 Nature
                 failed
                 ;
                 yet
                 ,
                 by
                 making
                 the
                 Rich
                 to
                 divide
                 with
                 the
                 Poore
                 ,
                 he
                 supplyed
                 that
                 Defect
                 ,
                 this
                 uneven-Distribution
                 occasions
                 in
                 the
                 World.
                 And
                 ,
                 that
                 no
                 small
                 stress
                 of
                 
                   Christian
                   Wisdom
                
                 lay
                 in
                 it
                 ,
                 may
                 seem
                 to
                 appear
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 
                   severer
                   Punishment
                
                 inflicted
                 by
                 S.
                 Peter
                 (
                 in
                 many
                 places
                 styled
                 the
                 Prince
                 of
                 
                 
                   The
                   Apostles
                
                 )
                 upon
                 Ananias
                 and
                 Sapphira
                 ,
                 then
                 ever
                 was
                 observed
                 to
                 attend
                 such
                 ,
                 as
                 
                   whipped
                   ,
                   stoned
                
                 ,
                 and
                 
                   persecuted
                   Christ
                
                 ;
                 not
                 onely
                 in
                 his
                 own
                 person
                 ,
                 but
                 
                   that
                   of
                   his
                
                 Followers
                 .
                 Wherefore
                 ,
                 
                   if
                   those
                
                 thus
                 
                   set
                   upon
                
                 ,
                 do
                 daily
                 fall
                 into
                 Heterodox
                 Opinions
                 ,
                 or
                 are
                 ,
                 not
                 seldom
                 observed
                 ,
                 To
                 hang
                 up
                 their
                 Sheild
                 of
                 Faith
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 Temple
                 of
                 Despair
                 ;
                 and
                 Convert
                 the
                 Study
                 of
                 
                   unrewarded
                   Vertue
                
                 ,
                 into
                 the
                 more
                 
                   Thriving
                   Opportunities
                   ,
                   Deceit
                
                 affords
                 :
                 they
                 ought
                 to
                 receive
                 
                   pitty
                   from
                   us
                
                 ,
                 because
                 lyable
                 to
                 the
                 like
                 Lapses
                 our
                 Selves
                 ,
                 who
                 through
                 Excess
                 are
                 found
                 to
                 rob
                 the
                 Poor
                 ,
                 more
                 then
                 Necessity
                 dares
                 do
                 the
                 Rich
                 ,
                 out
                 of
                 Feare
                 of
                 the
                 Iron-teeth
                 of
                 the
                 Law
                 ;
                 in
                 
                   all
                   Nations
                
                 farre
                 more
                 severe
                 ,
                 then
                 those
                 of
                 Christ.
                 Who
                 ,
                 by
                 not
                 reproving
                 his
                 Disciples
                 for
                 
                   Taking
                   the
                   Eares
                   of
                   Corn
                
                 ,
                 gives
                 the
                 
                   Hungry
                   Belly
                
                 a
                 
                   Larger
                   Charter
                
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 enjoyment
                 of
                 
                   Earthly
                   Blessings
                
                 ,
                 
                 then
                 the
                 Tyranny
                 of
                 Power
                 is
                 willing
                 to
                 subscribe
                 ;
                 it
                 being
                 no
                 small
                 Augmentation
                 of
                 the
                 
                   Needy's
                   Misery
                
                 ,
                 and
                 one
                 of
                 the
                 greatest
                 torments
                 in
                 Hell
                 ,
                 to
                 see
                 
                   All
                   Plenty
                   about
                
                 Him
                 ,
                 and
                 
                   want
                   within
                
                 .
                 To
                 Conclude
                 ,
                 all
                 further
                 Discourse
                 ,
                 on
                 this
                 
                   Tragicall
                   Calamity
                
                 ,
                 I
                 shall
                 say
                 ,
                 (
                 but
                 not
                 peremptorily
                 )
                 If
                 Sampson
                 found
                 Mercy
                 that
                 destroyed
                 Himselfe
                 ,
                 for
                 the
                 Gratification
                 of
                 his
                 Revenge
                 ;
                 what
                 reason
                 is
                 there
                 ,
                 in
                 denying
                 it
                 to
                 These
                 ,
                 upon
                 the
                 
                   Greater
                   Provocation
                   of
                   want
                
                 ?
              
            
             
               
                 A
                 Contemplation
                 on
                 Adams
                 Fall.
                 
              
               
                 SUch
                 as
                 think
                 Gods
                 first
                 Injunction
                 Trivial
                 ,
                 in
                 prohibiting
                 Adam
                 ,
                 to
                 eat
                 of
                 the
                 
                   Forbidden
                   Fruit
                
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 Temptation
                 to
                 break
                 
                 this
                 
                   Commandement
                   ,
                   easie
                
                 to
                 be
                 avoided
                 ,
                 Do
                 not
                 Consider
                 ,
                 that
                 Man
                 in
                 his
                 Innocency
                 ,
                 had
                 no
                 use
                 of
                 any
                 Externall
                 thing
                 ,
                 but
                 Meat
                 :
                 nor
                 other
                 Capacity
                 of
                 improving
                 his
                 Intellects
                 ,
                 save
                 in
                 Knowledge
                 .
                 A
                 Desire
                 ,
                 so
                 diffused
                 throughout
                 the
                 whole
                 Masse
                 of
                 Humanity
                 ,
                 that
                 such
                 as
                 are
                 too
                 weak
                 to
                 apprehend
                 Reason
                 of
                 State
                 ,
                 will
                 pry
                 into
                 the
                 Causes
                 of
                 their
                 
                   Land
                   Lords-Actions
                
                 ;
                 or
                 ,
                 that
                 failing
                 ,
                 raise
                 Tumults
                 ,
                 amongst
                 Themselves
                 ,
                 by
                 a
                 too
                 neare
                 inspection
                 ,
                 and
                 Revelation
                 of
                 the
                 Newes
                 of
                 each
                 others
                 Miscarriages
                 .
                 And
                 this
                 being
                 the
                 most
                 universall
                 
                   Humour
                   now
                
                 ,
                 may
                 render
                 it
                 more
                 probable
                 to
                 
                   Have
                   been
                
                 the
                 same
                 did
                 accompany
                 Man
                 at
                 the
                 
                   First
                   :
                   Nature
                
                 remaining
                 Depraved
                 ,
                 not
                 Eradicated
                 .
                 Wherefore
                 this
                 Prohibition
                 ,
                 was
                 placed
                 ,
                 according
                 to
                 Prudence
                 ,
                 upon
                 that
                 Side
                 ,
                 our
                 Parents
                 were
                 weakest
                 on
                 ;
                 and
                 so
                 ,
                 more
                 fit
                 to
                 receive
                 a
                 
                 Caution
                 .
                 For
                 ,
                 had
                 God
                 forbidden
                 them
                 Theft
                 ,
                 or
                 Murther
                 ,
                 they
                 could
                 not
                 have
                 apprehended
                 his
                 Meaning
                 :
                 Nothing
                 but
                 
                   Will
                   corrupted
                
                 by
                 Passion
                 ,
                 being
                 able
                 to
                 bring
                 forth
                 ,
                 such
                 
                   uncooth
                   Sins
                
                 into
                 Action
                 ,
                 which
                 having
                 once
                 fallen
                 ,
                 within
                 the
                 Compasse
                 of
                 Experience
                 ,
                 They
                 ,
                 
                   by
                   Consequence
                
                 ,
                 came
                 within
                 the
                 Notion
                 of
                 Knowledge
                 ,
                 nothing
                 being
                 yet
                 presented
                 to
                 their
                 Imaginations
                 ,
                 but
                 what
                 was
                 already
                 arrived
                 within
                 the
                 Circuit
                 of
                 their
                 Senses
                 .
                 The
                 
                   First
                   Man
                
                 appearing
                 
                   to
                   me
                
                 ,
                 no
                 better
                 furnished
                 with
                 Knowledge
                 ,
                 then
                 an
                 Infant
                 in
                 his
                 
                   Primitive
                   Innocency
                
                 ;
                 but
                 That
                 ,
                 his
                 Organs
                 being
                 made
                 Perfect
                 ,
                 he
                 was
                 Capable
                 to
                 apprehend
                 all
                 things
                 ,
                 with
                 the
                 same
                 Dexterity
                 ,
                 his
                 Senses
                 were
                 able
                 to
                 feed
                 his
                 Fancy
                 :
                 In
                 which
                 they
                 might
                 take
                 so
                 much
                 Pleasure
                 ,
                 (
                 since
                 Nothing
                 is
                 more
                 Tastfull
                 to
                 Humanity
                 ,
                 then
                 Understanding
                 )
                 That
                 to
                 make
                 ,
                 this
                 
                 Spring
                 of
                 Knowledge
                 more
                 fluent
                 ,
                 he
                 swallowed
                 the
                 Apple
                 ,
                 the
                 Fountain
                 of
                 his
                 Infelicity
                 ;
                 which
                 instead
                 of
                 gratifying
                 his
                 Tast
                 and
                 Desire
                 ,
                 depraved
                 both
                 .
                 If
                 he
                 gave
                 Names
                 to
                 the
                 Creatures
                 ,
                 suitable
                 to
                 the
                 
                   Sinfull
                   Use
                
                 ,
                 was
                 after
                 to
                 be
                 made
                 of
                 them
                 ,
                 He
                 did
                 not
                 only
                 
                   Prophesie
                   Their
                
                 future
                 misery
                 ,
                 but
                 
                   His
                   own
                
                 :
                 And
                 
                   if
                   foreseen
                
                 ,
                 why
                 did
                 he
                 not
                 prevent
                 it
                 ?
                 Wherefore
                 the
                 Fault
                 must
                 ly
                 ,
                 either
                 upon
                 his
                 Ignorance
                 ,
                 or
                 Will.
                 For
                 till
                 his
                 Fall
                 ,
                 he
                 seemes
                 ,
                 to
                 have
                 as
                 little
                 need
                 ,
                 of
                 the
                 Elephant's
                 Docility
                 ,
                 or
                 the
                 Oxes
                 Industry
                 ,
                 as
                 it
                 is
                 improbable
                 ,
                 but
                 that
                 They
                 were
                 both
                 made
                 for
                 Imployment
                 :
                 which
                 had
                 been
                 
                   quite
                   lost
                
                 ,
                 together
                 with
                 all
                 
                   the
                   Trades
                
                 ,
                 the
                 Blessing
                 [
                 of
                 
                   Encrease
                   and
                   Multiply
                
                 ]
                 is
                 sustained
                 by
                 ;
                 had
                 not
                 Adam
                 fallen
                 from
                 his
                 
                   Originall
                   Integrity
                
                 .
                 This
                 makes
                 me
                 wonder
                 ,
                 to
                 finde
                 Eve
                 willing
                 ,
                 or
                 at
                 leasure
                 ,
                 to
                 Chat
                 and
                 Gossip
                 it
                 with
                 the
                 
                   Serpent
                   ;
                   
                   the
                   most
                   remote
                   in
                   Symmetry
                   ,
                
                 from
                 her
                 own
                 glorious
                 Form
                 ,
                 if
                 not
                 in
                 Nature
                 ,
                 from
                 her
                 Temper
                 and
                 Complexion
                 ;
                 Especially
                 ,
                 having
                 so
                 much
                 the
                 more
                 Excellent
                 and
                 adapted
                 Companion
                 ,
                 as
                 her
                 Husband
                 neere
                 her
                 to
                 
                   Converse
                   with
                
                 .
                 Which
                 might
                 give
                 Credit
                 to
                 their
                 Opinion
                 ,
                 That
                 the
                 Fall
                 was
                 
                   long
                   after
                
                 the
                 Transgression
                 :
                 but
                 that
                 the
                 Impossibility
                 of
                 her
                 Conceiving
                 a
                 
                   Contaminated
                   Issue
                
                 ,
                 whilest
                 pure
                 in
                 Themselves
                 offers
                 more
                 then
                 a
                 probable
                 Confutation
                 .
                 It
                 not
                 being
                 likely
                 ,
                 they
                 should
                 Forget
                 ,
                 for
                 any
                 
                   Considerable
                   time
                
                 ,
                 to
                 neglect
                 one
                 of
                 their
                 principall
                 Errands
                 ,
                 which
                 lay
                 ,
                 in
                 performing
                 the
                 Blessing
                 ,
                 of
                 Diffusing
                 his
                 Like
                 :
                 The
                 most
                 
                   Rationall
                   Cause
                
                 such
                 can
                 produce
                 ,
                 as
                 attribute
                 their
                 Prevarication
                 ,
                 to
                 an
                 Excesse
                 in
                 Concupiscence
                 ;
                 through
                 which
                 ,
                 the
                 Tree
                 growing
                 in
                 the
                 midst
                 of
                 the
                 Garden
                 ,
                 became
                 Contaminated
                 .
                 But
                 to
                 Bury
                 this
                 
                 Conjecture
                 ,
                 (
                 no
                 lesse
                 ,
                 then
                 the
                 Opinion
                 of
                 Josephus
                 ,
                 
                   That
                   the
                   Serpent
                   had
                   ,
                   together
                   with
                   all
                   Creatures
                   else
                   ,
                   before
                   the
                   Fall
                   ,
                   an
                   Articulate
                   voyce
                   )
                
                 in
                 the
                 more
                 certain
                 Relation
                 of
                 Moses
                 ;
                 (
                 though
                 in
                 nothing
                 more
                 Concise
                 ,
                 and
                 Abstruse
                 ,
                 then
                 about
                 the
                 Beginning
                 ;
                 not
                 unpossibly
                 ,
                 That
                 he
                 might
                 preserve
                 Truth
                 ,
                 at
                 the
                 least
                 prejudice
                 to
                 Tradition
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 Preservation
                 of
                 which
                 ,
                 the
                 
                   People
                   of
                   God
                
                 ,
                 were
                 extreame
                 ,
                 if
                 not
                 Superstitiously
                 Tender
                 .
                 )
                 I
                 shall
                 modestly
                 propose
                 ,
                 That
                 if
                 the
                 Serpent
                 ,
                 was
                 really
                 active
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 seducing
                 of
                 Man
                 :
                 (
                 as
                 may
                 seem
                 to
                 appear
                 ,
                 by
                 the
                 Curse
                 layd
                 upon
                 him
                 no
                 lesse
                 Diffusive
                 ,
                 in
                 reference
                 to
                 
                   this
                   World
                
                 ,
                 then
                 Ours
                 ,
                 it
                 reaching
                 the
                 
                   whole
                   Species
                
                 ;
                 observed
                 at
                 this
                 Day
                 ,
                 to
                 (
                 rawle
                 upon
                 the
                 Ground
                 )
                 Whether
                 we
                 may
                 not
                 inferre
                 ,
                 That
                 this
                 -
                 now-Despicable-Creature
                 ,
                 was
                 the
                 First
                 that
                 went
                 about
                 to
                 infringe
                 the
                 Ordinance
                 of
                 
                 God
                 :
                 Since
                 those
                 that
                 make
                 the
                 Serpent
                 ,
                 only
                 Instrumentall
                 ,
                 to
                 the
                 
                   Devils
                   Activity
                
                 ,
                 Borrow
                 it
                 ,
                 from
                 Conjecture
                 ,
                 not
                 Reason
                 ,
                 which
                 was
                 never
                 observ'd
                 to
                 punish
                 the
                 Sword
                 ;
                 but
                 the
                 Hand
                 that
                 did
                 manage
                 it
                 to
                 Destruction
                 .
                 Wherefore
                 ,
                 if
                 it
                 was
                 the
                 
                   Devils
                   Sin
                
                 ,
                 nothing
                 but
                 the
                 
                   Serpents
                   Consent
                
                 in
                 making
                 it selfe
                 Instrumentall
                 ,
                 could
                 procure
                 a
                 Punishment
                 :
                 No
                 more
                 then
                 to
                 the
                 Winds
                 that
                 through
                 his
                 incitation
                 ,
                 destroyed
                 the
                 Children
                 of
                 Job
                 .
                 Which
                 put
                 together
                 ,
                 may
                 crowd
                 a
                 roome
                 for
                 this
                 Conjecture
                 ,
                 That
                 the
                 
                   Devill
                   possessed
                
                 the
                 Serpent
                 with
                 
                   Envy
                   First
                
                 ,
                 at
                 so
                 glorious
                 a
                 Creature
                 as
                 Man
                 was
                 :
                 And
                 After
                 ,
                 gained
                 its
                 Consent
                 ,
                 to
                 be
                 Instrumentall
                 in
                 our
                 Destruction
                 ,
                 and
                 so
                 a
                 
                   Cooperator
                   with
                   Satan
                
                 ,
                 and
                 a
                 Fellow
                 in
                 his
                 Sin.
                 For
                 if
                 it
                 be
                 thought
                 unpossible
                 ,
                 the
                 Serpent
                 should
                 do
                 so
                 ungratefull
                 a
                 Service
                 ,
                 to
                 
                   Humane
                   Nature
                
                 ,
                 upon
                 
                   its
                   own
                
                 Instigation
                 ,
                 it
                 
                 appears
                 as
                 unreasonable
                 ,
                 why
                 it
                 should
                 bear
                 all
                 the
                 Penalty
                 ;
                 The
                 Divel
                 having
                 augmented
                 ,
                 if
                 not
                 Begun
                 ,
                 his
                 Rebellion
                 ,
                 against
                 his
                 Maker
                 ,
                 by
                 seeking
                 to
                 destroy
                 ,
                 this
                 his
                 Handy-Work
                 .
              
               
                 These
                 seeming
                 Contradictions
                 ,
                 together
                 with
                 the
                 Appellation
                 of
                 an
                 Evening
                 and
                 a
                 Morning
                 before
                 the
                 Luminaries
                 (
                 the
                 onely
                 Dividers
                 of
                 Time
                 )
                 were
                 made
                 ,
                 might
                 tempt
                 Philo
                 the
                 Jew
                 ,
                 to
                 dress
                 in
                 the
                 Life
                 of
                 Moses
                 ,
                 The
                 Story
                 of
                 the
                 Creation
                 in
                 an
                 Allegory
                 ,
                 or
                 Fable
                 :
                 Who
                 standing
                 Neerest
                 those
                 Times
                 ,
                 and
                 in
                 a
                 
                   Better
                   Light
                
                 ,
                 may
                 be
                 thought
                 by
                 such
                 as
                 love
                 to
                 be
                 Sceptical
                 ,
                 most
                 probable
                 .
                 But
                 since
                 the
                 Ancient
                 and
                 
                   Apostolical
                   Church
                
                 (
                 To
                 whose
                 Creed
                 ,
                 so
                 far
                 ,
                 as
                 my
                 
                   Darker
                   Infidelity
                
                 ,
                 will
                 give
                 me
                 leave
                 ,
                 I
                 shall
                 submit
                 my
                 Judgement
                 in
                 all
                 Humility
                 )
                 hath
                 Accommodated
                 it
                 to
                 
                   Another
                   Sense
                
                 ,
                 I
                 think
                 it
                 ,
                 as
                 far
                 from
                 Prudence
                 ,
                 as
                 
                 Christianity
                 ,
                 to
                 oppose
                 ,
                 or
                 in
                 the
                 least
                 ,
                 Contradict
                 it
                 .
              
               
                 Though
                 Apt
                 to
                 Consent
                 ,
                 That
                 the
                 Lapsed-Angels
                 might
                 entertain
                 more
                 Commerce
                 upon
                 Earth
                 ,
                 before
                 the
                 Promise
                 of
                 our
                 Saviour
                 ,
                 and
                 whilst
                 Man
                 stood
                 upon
                 his
                 
                   own
                   Legs
                
                 ;
                 then
                 after
                 God
                 had
                 taken
                 him
                 into
                 his
                 Protection
                 ;
                 as
                 not
                 thinking
                 it
                 meet
                 to
                 trust
                 such
                 Frailty
                 ,
                 with
                 so
                 
                   Potent
                   an
                   Enemy
                
                 .
                 Wherefore
                 he
                 confined
                 the
                 Devil
                 into
                 Holes
                 and
                 obscure
                 places
                 ,
                 out
                 of
                 which
                 upon
                 his
                 own
                 Instigation
                 ,
                 or
                 Imitation
                 of
                 the
                 Prophets
                 of
                 the
                 Lord
                 ,
                 he
                 gave
                 his
                 
                   ambiguous
                   Oracles
                
                 ,
                 till
                 by
                 the
                 brighter
                 Apparition
                 of
                 the
                 Star
                 of
                 Jacob
                 ,
                 they
                 were
                 struck
                 as
                 irrecoverably
                 Dumb
                 ,
                 as
                 they
                 were
                 Blind
                 before
                 :
                 Averred
                 by
                 Plutarch
                 in
                 his
                 Morals
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 Genius
                 ,
                 or
                 Ghost
                 of
                 Socrates
                 .
                 And
                 he
                 that
                 would
                 find
                 a
                 Reason
                 ,
                 Why
                 our
                 
                   First
                   Parents
                
                 were
                 Ashamed
                 of
                 their
                 Nakedness
                 ,
                 must
                 not
                 
                 seek
                 it
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 Nature
                 they
                 Conveyed
                 to
                 us
                 ,
                 where
                 Bashfulness
                 is
                 a
                 Result
                 of
                 Custom
                 ,
                 but
                 from
                 the
                 Contemplation
                 of
                 some
                 creature
                 then
                 in
                 
                   sight
                   really
                
                 ,
                 or
                 seemingly
                 more
                 beautiful
                 then
                 Themselves
                 :
                 There
                 being
                 no
                 Occasion
                 for
                 shame
                 ,
                 but
                 in
                 respect
                 of
                 a
                 more
                 
                   Transcendent
                   Perfection
                
                 .
                 It
                 remaining
                 indubitable
                 ,
                 
                   That
                   Children
                
                 with
                 us
                 ,
                 and
                 Men
                 and
                 Women
                 amongst
                 the
                 Indians
                 ,
                 (
                 not
                 to
                 be
                 denyed
                 the
                 
                   Exactest
                   Followers
                
                 of
                 the
                 
                   primitive
                   Dictates
                
                 of
                 
                   pure
                   Nature
                
                 ,
                 )
                 are
                 no
                 more
                 Sensible
                 of
                 Shame
                 ,
                 in
                 relation
                 to
                 those
                 
                   Parts
                   Adam
                
                 and
                 Eve
                 are
                 said
                 to
                 have
                 Covered
                 ,
                 then
                 the
                 Europeans
                 express
                 ,
                 when
                 found
                 
                   Bare-Faced
                   .
                   Blushing
                
                 being
                 a
                 
                   silent
                   Confession
                
                 of
                 a
                 Fault
                 ;
                 not
                 to
                 be
                 found
                 ,
                 amongst
                 The
                 Works
                 of
                 God
                 :
                 Nor
                 any
                 where
                 ,
                 till
                 the
                 Law
                 had
                 stamped
                 the
                 Figures
                 of
                 Reward
                 and
                 Punishment
                 ,
                 upon
                 such
                 
                   Humane
                   Actions
                
                 ,
                 as
                 do
                 Advance
                 ,
                 or
                 Depress
                 the
                 
                 general
                 
                   Felicity
                   .
                   Custom
                
                 being
                 so
                 exact
                 a
                 Disposer
                 of
                 the
                 Conveniency
                 ,
                 if
                 not
                 Consent
                 of
                 Mankind
                 ,
                 as
                 to
                 make
                 
                   Divers
                   Wives
                
                 in
                 Turkey
                 ,
                 lye
                 quietly
                 ,
                 under
                 one
                 and
                 the
                 same
                 Covering
                 .
                 So
                 as
                 it
                 requires
                 more
                 then
                 an
                 
                   Ordinary
                   Intelligence
                
                 ,
                 to
                 distinguish
                 ,
                 between
                 the
                 
                   Free
                   Government
                   of
                   Nature
                
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 
                   Imperious
                   Tyranny
                
                 ,
                 if
                 I
                 may
                 not
                 call
                 it
                 Anarchy
                 (
                 for
                 it
                 is
                 not
                 in
                 
                   all
                   places
                
                 alike
                 )
                 of
                 Education
                 .
                 But
                 lest
                 I
                 should
                 appear
                 rather
                 a
                 Disciple
                 of
                 Plato
                 ,
                 then
                 Moses
                 ,
                 I
                 shall
                 pass
                 by
                 the
                 Rabbys
                 no
                 less
                 then
                 the
                 
                   Modern
                   Philosophers
                
                 ,
                 that
                 Consume
                 more
                 time
                 ,
                 in
                 Hunting
                 after
                 the
                 Original
                 of
                 the
                 Disease
                 ,
                 then
                 the
                 Means
                 to
                 Cure
                 it
                 ,
                 Not
                 to
                 be
                 found
                 but
                 in
                 
                   Jesus
                   Christ.
                
                 Yet
                 ,
                 as
                 I
                 said
                 before
                 ,
                 Since
                 no
                 Heart
                 is
                 empty
                 of
                 the
                 Humour
                 of
                 Curiosity
                 ,
                 The
                 Beggar
                 being
                 as
                 attentive
                 in
                 his
                 Station
                 ,
                 to
                 an
                 Improvment
                 of
                 Knowledge
                 ,
                 as
                 the
                 Prince
                 ;
                 It
                 is
                 not
                 unlikely
                 ,
                 
                 to
                 have
                 been
                 the
                 Primary
                 and
                 
                   Centrical
                   Sin
                   ;
                   from
                   whence
                
                 The
                 Lines
                 of
                 
                   All
                   Humane
                   Vanities
                
                 are
                 drawn
                 ,
                 and
                 to
                 which
                 they
                 are
                 Fastned
                 .
                 For
                 if
                 our
                 
                   Latter
                   Artists
                
                 think
                 it
                 no
                 ill
                 Argument
                 ,
                 to
                 prove
                 the
                 Basis
                 of
                 the
                 
                   Earth
                   Magnetical
                
                 ,
                 because
                 the
                 Loadstone
                 is
                 in
                 all
                 Clymates
                 found
                 :
                 Why
                 may
                 it
                 not
                 be
                 Concluded
                 from
                 as
                 great
                 a
                 Diffusion
                 ,
                 That
                 A
                 
                   too
                   Dilated
                   Desire
                   of
                   Inspection
                
                 into
                 things
                 was
                 
                   Original
                   Sin
                
                 ?
                 Since
                 not
                 onely
                 Observable
                 in
                 Solomon
                 himself
                 ;
                 but
                 in
                 the
                 picture
                 of
                 the
                 Fool
                 he
                 draws
                 ,
                 who
                 ran
                 after
                 Variety
                 :
                 Which
                 is
                 onely
                 
                   New
                   Knowledge
                
                 of
                 a
                 
                   Strange
                   Woman
                
                 .
                 And
                 if
                 I
                 am
                 not
                 deluded
                 by
                 those
                 
                   More
                   Learned
                
                 ,
                 One
                 Word
                 in
                 the
                 Original
                 is
                 taken
                 for
                 Both.
                 But
                 to
                 Proceed
                 :
                 When
                 Eve
                 saw
                 the
                 Fruit
                 ,
                 she
                 did
                 covet
                 ;
                 And
                 Concupiscence
                 is
                 enough
                 ,
                 Now
                 to
                 Condemn
                 us
                 ,
                 though
                 nor
                 then
                 .
                 The
                 Text
                 placing
                 the
                 Transgression
                 
                 in
                 Eating
                 ,
                 not
                 Desiring
                 :
                 That
                 remayning
                 impossible
                 to
                 be
                 
                   prevented
                   ,
                   All
                   things
                
                 till
                 Contaminated
                 by
                 Sin
                 ,
                 being
                 in
                 so
                 high
                 a
                 Degree
                 of
                 Perfection
                 ,
                 as
                 they
                 did
                 enforce
                 a
                 Coveting
                 in
                 all
                 did
                 Behold
                 them
                 :
                 
                   It
                   appearing
                   ,
                   too
                   low
                   a
                   Sacrament
                   of
                   Duty
                   in
                   Man
                   the
                   Supreme
                   Vice-Gerent
                   of
                   The
                   Almighty
                   ,
                   To
                   have
                   for
                   a
                   Testimony
                   of
                   Obedience
                   ,
                   onely
                   abstained
                   from
                   What
                   was
                   in
                   it self
                   but
                   meerly
                   Indifferently
                   Good.
                   
                
              
               
                 It
                 is
                 not
                 likely
                 ,
                 He
                 covered
                 his
                 Nakedness
                 ,
                 with
                 Leaves
                 of
                 the
                 
                   same
                   Tree
                
                 ,
                 from
                 whence
                 he
                 gathered
                 his
                 Destruction
                 :
                 As
                 those
                 imagine
                 ,
                 who
                 suppose
                 the
                 
                   Indian
                   Fig
                
                 to
                 be
                 
                   the
                   Forbidden
                   Fruit
                
                 :
                 For
                 how
                 should
                 he
                 Dare
                 to
                 Touch
                 that
                 a
                 
                   Second
                   time
                
                 ,
                 had
                 Wounded
                 him
                 ,
                 at
                 
                   First
                   ,
                   quite
                   through
                   Himself
                
                 ,
                 and
                 his
                 Posterity
                 ?
                 Though
                 Confess'd
                 ,
                 a
                 perfect
                 Representation
                 of
                 Guilt
                 .
                 One
                 Root
                 being
                 so
                 Diffusive
                 ,
                 as
                 by
                 a
                 Gum
                 that
                 distills
                 
                 from
                 the
                 Boughs
                 ,
                 to
                 dilate
                 it Self
                 into
                 the
                 
                   Vast
                   Shade
                
                 of
                 a
                 Desart
                 ,
                 sufficient
                 to
                 cover
                 an
                 Host
                 of
                 Men.
                 
              
               
                 Nor
                 is
                 Curiosity
                 ,
                 and
                 a
                 
                   Lickorish
                   Desire
                
                 of
                 enjoying
                 
                   That
                   we
                   never
                   Tryed
                
                 ,
                 (
                 though
                 known
                 to
                 be
                 the
                 cloud
                 ,
                 in
                 which
                 all
                 the
                 Storms
                 impending
                 Life
                 are
                 engendred
                 ,
                 )
                 yet
                 Cured
                 in
                 us
                 .
                 
                   Who
                   by
                   Retail
                   ,
                   drop
                   into
                   the
                   same
                   Errour
                   ,
                   we
                   Consider
                   in
                   Him
                   ,
                   as
                   the
                   Highest
                   and
                   
                     most
                     Impertinent
                     Folly.
                  
                   The
                   Apple
                   of
                   a
                   
                     Wandring
                     Eye
                  
                   ,
                   not
                   being
                   Seldom
                   found
                   able
                   to
                   
                     Over-ballance
                     the
                     Wisdom
                  
                   of
                   Solomon
                   ,
                   and
                   the
                   Piety
                   of
                   David
                   .
                
              
               
                 Wherefore
                 it
                 is
                 time
                 to
                 give-over
                 upbraiding
                 those
                 Names
                 of
                 Adam
                 and
                 Eve
                 :
                 All
                 things
                 we
                 never
                 saw
                 ,
                 or
                 Knew
                 ,
                 being
                 
                   Empty
                   sounds
                
                 ,
                 and
                 
                   Impertinent
                   Appellations
                
                 .
                 Not
                 seldom
                 Loaden
                 out
                 of
                 Ignorance
                 in
                 the
                 Contents
                 of
                 their
                 Story
                 ,
                 (
                 as
                 a
                 number
                 of
                 other
                 
                   Dead
                   Voyces
                
                 are
                 ,
                 )
                 
                 with
                 
                   insignificant
                   Praise
                
                 or
                 Blame
                 .
                 Especially
                 ,
                 since
                 Moses
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 Prophets
                 are
                 not
                 heard
                 to
                 Condemn
                 them
                 ;
                 As
                 
                   Conscious
                   to
                   Themselves
                
                 ,
                 they
                 either
                 would
                 ,
                 or
                 could
                 not
                 but
                 have
                 done
                 the
                 Like
                 .
                 Yet
                 we
                 may
                 Safely
                 say
                 ,
                 That
                 between
                 the
                 Suspension
                 of
                 the
                 Promise
                 and
                 The
                 Fall
                 ,
                 (
                 which
                 might
                 possibly
                 Answer
                 the
                 time
                 ,
                 Christ
                 remained
                 on
                 the
                 Cross
                 )
                 Adam
                 endured
                 
                   greater
                   Agonies
                
                 ,
                 then
                 e're
                 was
                 matched
                 ,
                 but
                 by
                 
                   God
                   and
                   Man
                
                 :
                 Who
                 onely
                 ,
                 knew
                 the
                 Way
                 to
                 untread
                 the
                 Maze
                 ,
                 in
                 which
                 Man
                 had
                 lost
                 Himself
                 ,
                 and
                 All
                 that
                 should
                 Succeed
                 ;
                 If
                 so
                 Wicked
                 as
                 to
                 harbour
                 a
                 desire
                 of
                 
                   dilating
                   himself
                
                 ,
                 and
                 bringing
                 an
                 Off-spring
                 into
                 a
                 like
                 Dilemma
                 ,
                 in
                 which
                 ,
                 he
                 saw
                 nothing
                 for
                 the
                 Present
                 ,
                 but
                 Horrour
                 ,
                 joyned
                 with
                 a
                 Fearful
                 Expectation
                 of
                 Worse
                 to
                 come
                 .
                 Not
                 having
                 so
                 much
                 ,
                 as
                 the
                 
                   Weak
                   Twig
                
                 of
                 Hope
                 to
                 sustain
                 him
                 from
                 falling
                 into
                 Despair
                 .
                 
                 Which
                 could
                 not
                 spring
                 but
                 from
                 the
                 Root
                 of
                 an
                 Experience
                 ,
                 arising
                 from
                 a
                 
                   Former
                   Experimented
                   Mercy
                
                 :
                 The
                 Garden
                 having
                 not
                 yet
                 produced
                 any
                 Fruit
                 so
                 Lateward
                 .
                 There
                 being
                 as
                 little
                 Marks
                 of
                 Forgiveness
                 ,
                 as
                 there
                 was
                 a
                 
                   Dismal
                   Example
                
                 of
                 Justice
                 ,
                 stamped
                 upon
                 the
                 
                   Disobedient
                   Angels
                
                 .
                 Whose
                 condition
                 was
                 yet
                 ,
                 so
                 far
                 better
                 ,
                 then
                 Mans
                 ,
                 as
                 an
                 
                   already
                   Determined
                   Judgement
                
                 is
                 more
                 tollerable
                 ,
                 then
                 One
                 that
                 re
                 .
                 mayns
                 still
                 Arbitrary
                 ,
                 at
                 the
                 Will
                 of
                 an
                 
                   Omnipotent
                   power
                
                 ;
                 And
                 in
                 this
                 
                   
                     miserable
                     anxiety
                     ,
                     God
                  
                   saves
                   Adam
                   ,
                   whom
                   ,
                   
                     nothing
                     else
                  
                   was
                   so
                   merciful
                   ,
                   as
                   to
                   kill
                   .
                
              
               
                 Now
                 I
                 can
                 do
                 no
                 less
                 ,
                 Then
                 predicate
                 here
                 ,
                 a
                 more
                 
                   charitable
                   Opinion
                
                 ,
                 then
                 Theirs
                 That
                 Conclude
                 the
                 
                   Greatest
                   proportion
                   of
                   men
                   Lie
                   under
                   the
                   Kingdom
                   of
                   Satan
                   :
                
                 By
                 which
                 ,
                 the
                 Promise
                 of
                 Redemption
                 comes
                 to
                 be
                 Restrained
                 ,
                 and
                 so
                 the
                 Truth
                 of
                 
                 its
                 
                   performance
                   Obstructed
                
                 .
                 It
                 being
                 no
                 where
                 observable
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 Dignity
                 of
                 Reason
                 ,
                 That
                 a
                 
                   Superlative
                   power
                
                 ,
                 should
                 go
                 less
                 ,
                 or
                 Beneath
                 its
                 Word
                 in
                 relation
                 to
                 Good.
                 It
                 exceeding
                 the
                 Reach
                 of
                 the
                 most
                 
                   Riged
                   Distinction
                
                 ,
                 or
                 
                   Strictest
                   Interpretation
                
                 ,
                 to
                 find
                 a
                 Parity
                 ,
                 or
                 
                   Equal
                   proportion
                
                 between
                 the
                 Head
                 and
                 the
                 Heel
                 :
                 If
                 any
                 were
                 discoverable
                 ,
                 between
                 crushing
                 and
                 biting
                 .
                 
                   This
                   makes
                   me
                   Tremble
                   at
                   their
                   Presumption
                   ,
                   who
                   Carry
                   Breath
                   in
                   their
                   Nostrils
                   ,
                   yet
                   ,
                   are
                   not
                   affraid
                   to
                   Affirm
                   That
                   
                     all
                     things
                     so
                     Dear
                     to
                     our
                     Maker
                     ,
                     as
                     to
                     be
                     capable
                     of
                     a
                     Future
                     Happiness
                     ,
                     are
                     not
                     to
                     be
                     found
                     out
                     of
                     the
                     Pale
                     of
                     Christendom
                     ,
                     This
                     ,
                     or
                     That
                     Church
                     ,
                     or
                     rather
                     Chappel
                     .
                  
                
                 No
                 Single
                 Profession
                 extant
                 ,
                 carrying
                 a
                 greater
                 Proportion
                 ,
                 with
                 the
                 
                   whole
                   World
                
                 then
                 a
                 
                   peculiar
                   Parish
                
                 ,
                 doth
                 to
                 a
                 Province
                 .
                 As
                 if
                 the
                 Fountains
                 of
                 
                   Gods
                   mercy
                
                 were
                 not
                 as
                 ingenious
                 ,
                 and
                 his
                 
                 
                   seven
                   Spirits
                
                 as
                 Diffusive
                 as
                 those
                 of
                 Nilus
                 ;
                 by
                 which
                 the
                 Want
                 not
                 the
                 Neglect
                 of
                 Rain
                 is
                 supplied
                 in
                 Egypt
                 .
                 Nor
                 can
                 it
                 be
                 imagined
                 with
                 any
                 Salvo
                 ,
                 to
                 the
                 
                   Dignity
                   ,
                   Pitty
                   ,
                   Wisdom
                   ,
                   Omnipotency
                   ,
                
                 and
                 the
                 Promise
                 of
                 God
                 First
                 made
                 ,
                 and
                 therefore
                 likely
                 to
                 be
                 most
                 inviolably
                 kept
                 ,
                 
                   (
                   he
                
                 not
                 being
                 as
                 man
                 ,
                 that
                 he
                 should
                 repent
                 )
                 For
                 ,
                 
                   That
                   the
                   Earth
                   is
                   the
                   Lords
                   ,
                   and
                   all
                   that
                   therein
                   is
                   ,
                   the
                   Fulness
                   thereof
                   ,
                
                 cannot
                 be
                 True
                 ,
                 if
                 Hell
                 swallow
                 up
                 the
                 
                   major
                   part
                
                 .
                 And
                 that
                 Christ
                 his
                 Son
                 should
                 be
                 found
                 ,
                 at
                 the
                 last
                 Assizes
                 ,
                 with
                 a
                 
                   smaller
                   Trayn
                
                 (
                 let
                 their
                 Glory
                 be
                 never
                 so
                 Great
                 )
                 then
                 his
                 ,
                 shall
                 march
                 in
                 the
                 head
                 of
                 those
                 
                   miserable
                   Souls
                
                 ,
                 cloathed
                 with
                 the
                 Wrath
                 of
                 God.
                 Can
                 any
                 in
                 Prudence
                 ,
                 if
                 in
                 Equity
                 ,
                 think
                 That
                 the
                 Malice
                 of
                 his
                 Enemy
                 should
                 be
                 more
                 Disfusive
                 in
                 relation
                 to
                 particulars
                 ,
                 then
                 the
                 mercy
                 of
                 our
                 
                   Blessed
                   Saviour
                
                 ?
                 who
                 did
                 not
                 like
                 the
                 
                   Divel
                   Fall
                
                 for
                 
                 our
                 Destruction
                 ,
                 but
                 Rise
                 for
                 our
                 Justification
                 .
                 There
                 now
                 lives
                 not
                 a
                 greater
                 Infidel
                 ,
                 then
                 S.
                 Thomas
                 was
                 :
                 yet
                 the
                 Apostles
                 do
                 not
                 excommunicate
                 him
                 ,
                 nor
                 
                   Christ
                   reject
                
                 him
                 ,
                 but
                 cure
                 him
                 through
                 a
                 
                   palpable
                   manifestation
                
                 of
                 those
                 wounds
                 ,
                 the
                 Greatest
                 part
                 of
                 the
                 
                   World
                   have
                   not
                
                 nor
                 
                   ever
                   had
                
                 any
                 Knowledge
                 of
                 :
                 Nor
                 those
                 most
                 Reserved
                 ,
                 any
                 Inspection
                 into
                 ;
                 but
                 what
                 they
                 make
                 through
                 so
                 smal
                 a
                 Faith
                 ,
                 as
                 doth
                 not
                 answer
                 the
                 Proportion
                 ,
                 of
                 a
                 
                   grayn
                   of
                   mustard-seed
                
                 ;
                 Else
                 they
                 would
                 remove
                 those
                 mountains
                 that
                 shadow
                 Truth
                 .
                 And
                 if
                 so
                 single
                 an
                 Attestation
                 as
                 mine
                 ,
                 might
                 be
                 allowed
                 the
                 boldness
                 to
                 appear
                 ,
                 against
                 such
                 a
                 
                   Cloud
                   of
                   witnesses
                
                 ,
                 as
                 have
                 found
                 the
                 Turk
                 and
                 Pope
                 guilty
                 in
                 person
                 ,
                 of
                 the
                 Title
                 of
                 Anti-Christ
                 ,
                 I
                 should
                 reverse
                 the
                 Sentence
                 ;
                 and
                 pronounce
                 it
                 rather
                 against
                 That
                 Order
                 of
                 Men
                 ,
                 or
                 
                   Discipline
                   ,
                   that
                   put
                   the
                   Forgiveness
                   of
                   
                   God
                   under
                   a
                   Bushel
                   ,
                
                 (
                 which
                 according
                 to
                 his
                 Dignity
                 and
                 Promise
                 ,
                 ought
                 to
                 Diffuse
                 it self
                 over
                 all
                 the
                 Nations
                 of
                 the
                 World
                 )
                 rendring
                 by
                 this
                 means
                 ,
                 the
                 
                   inexhaustible
                   Treasure
                
                 of
                 Mercy
                 ,
                 like
                 the
                 
                   Philosophers
                   stone
                
                 :
                 (
                 of
                 which
                 some
                 have
                 made
                 
                   the
                   Gospel
                   of
                   Jesus
                   Christ
                
                 but
                 an
                 Allegory
                 )
                 onely
                 attainable
                 by
                 a
                 People
                 ,
                 thus
                 
                   Scituated
                   ,
                   Instructed
                
                 and
                 qualified
                 :
                 Whereas
                 None
                 that
                 
                   Call
                   upon
                   the
                   Name
                
                 of
                 God
                 (
                 a
                 custom
                 appears
                 by
                 Genesis
                 not
                 to
                 have
                 begun
                 
                   till
                   after
                   Adam
                
                 )
                 are
                 exempted
                 out
                 of
                 the
                 
                   primitive
                   Grant.
                
                 The
                 Fault
                 of
                 the
                 Angels
                 ,
                 if
                 compared
                 with
                 that
                 of
                 Man
                 ,
                 will
                 not
                 be
                 found
                 ,
                 upon
                 a
                 true
                 Survey
                 ,
                 much
                 Different
                 .
              
               
                 The
                 First
                 endeavouring
                 to
                 Equal
                 their
                 Maker
                 in
                 his
                 Power
                 ;
                 the
                 Latter
                 in
                 his
                 Wisdom
                 .
              
               
                 It
                 is
                 harder
                 to
                 find
                 a
                 Reason
                 for
                 the
                 
                   Angels
                   Sin
                
                 against
                 God
                 ,
                 then
                 their
                 Malice
                 to
                 Man
                 :
                 It
                 being
                 usual
                 for
                 Malefactours
                 to
                 hate
                 their
                 Judge
                 ,
                 
                 and
                 after
                 Sentence
                 ,
                 to
                 endeavour
                 the
                 Hindrance
                 of
                 its
                 Execution
                 ,
                 and
                 to
                 bring
                 Others
                 ,
                 (
                 at
                 least
                 those
                 they
                 know
                 he
                 Favours
                 )
                 into
                 a
                 
                   like
                   Condemnation
                
                 ;
                 Having
                 Themselves
                 no
                 better
                 Condition
                 ,
                 to
                 Hope
                 for
                 ,
                 nor
                 Worse
                 to
                 Fear
                 .
                 Like
                 the
                 Wicked
                 of
                 this
                 World
                 ,
                 which
                 seek
                 that
                 Ease
                 amongst
                 Company
                 ,
                 they
                 are
                 not
                 able
                 to
                 
                   find
                   Alone
                
                 .
                 Wherefore
                 the
                 preventing
                 Satans
                 further
                 Triumph
                 ,
                 may
                 not
                 improbably
                 be
                 numbred
                 amongst
                 
                   the
                   Causes
                   why
                   God
                   shewed
                   Mercy
                   to
                   Men
                
                 ;
                 in
                 the
                 Salvation
                 of
                 whom
                 ,
                 had
                 he
                 been
                 
                   so
                   sparing
                
                 as
                 some
                 imagine
                 ,
                 
                   His
                   Justice
                
                 would
                 appear
                 more
                 prevalent
                 ,
                 then
                 his
                 Mercy
                 .
                 And
                 so
                 run
                 out
                 into
                 such
                 a
                 
                   Dishonorable
                   Extreme
                
                 ,
                 as
                 cannot
                 be
                 matched
                 in
                 the
                 Practise
                 of
                 the
                 
                   Greatest
                   Tyrants
                
                 that
                 ever
                 were
                 :
                 Which
                 are
                 not
                 found
                 to
                 make
                 a
                 
                   Temporal
                   Punishment
                
                 to
                 extend
                 to
                 a
                 
                   Major
                   part
                
                 ,
                 much
                 less
                 one
                 Eternal
                 .
              
               
               
                 What
                 ever
                 the
                 Text
                 may
                 seem
                 to
                 import
                 to
                 our
                 Dull
                 Capacities
                 ,
                 There
                 was
                 no
                 Likelyhood
                 That
                 Adam
                 would
                 have
                 in
                 this
                 Condition
                 (
                 if
                 he
                 rightly
                 understood
                 Himself
                 )
                 Eat
                 of
                 the
                 
                   Tree
                   of
                   Life
                
                 :
                 But
                 rather
                 have
                 swallowed
                 Poyson
                 ,
                 (
                 had
                 that
                 Place
                 afforded
                 it
                 .
                 )
                 Who
                 by
                 Catching
                 at
                 the
                 shadow
                 of
                 Divinity
                 ,
                 lost
                 the
                 
                   Real
                   Substance
                
                 of
                 Humanity
                 ;
                 at
                 the
                 suggestion
                 of
                 the
                 Devil
                 :
                 who
                 seeing
                 God
                 forme
                 a
                 Governour
                 ,
                 out
                 of
                 the
                 Dust
                 ,
                 the
                 most
                 Despicable
                 part
                 of
                 his
                 Government
                 ,
                 yet
                 a
                 more
                 Honourable
                 beginning
                 then
                 His
                 ,
                 (
                 
                   Any
                   thing
                
                 being
                 better
                 then
                 Nothing
                 )
                 he
                 might
                 look
                 upon
                 it
                 ,
                 with
                 Disdain
                 ,
                 as
                 unworthy
                 the
                 sentence
                 of
                 Goodness
                 .
                 Neither
                 might
                 this
                 Humour
                 of
                 Pride
                 be
                 provoked
                 ,
                 if
                 he
                 be
                 admitted
                 so
                 much
                 Inspection
                 into
                 
                   Future
                   Success
                
                 ,
                 as
                 to
                 see
                 the
                 Creature
                 he
                 despised
                 ,
                 should
                 not
                 onely
                 inherit
                 the
                 Glory
                 he
                 was
                 fallen
                 from
                 ,
                 but
                 Exceed
                 the
                 Angels
                 
                 that
                 Continued
                 in
                 Integrity
                 .
                 Thus
                 the
                 Serpent
                 growing
                 Fruitfull
                 in
                 Presumption
                 ,
                 endeavours
                 to
                 frustrate
                 his
                 
                   Makers
                   Intention
                
                 ,
                 by
                 labouring
                 to
                 Deface
                 his
                 Image
                 in
                 Man.
                 
              
               
                 But
                 Omnipotency
                 struck
                 Light
                 ,
                 out
                 of
                 Darknesse
                 ,
                 by
                 making
                 the
                 Prince
                 of
                 it
                 ,
                 Instrumental
                 to
                 the
                 Production
                 of
                 his
                 Son.
                 And
                 these
                 
                   Joyful
                   Tydings
                
                 ,
                 That
                 
                   the
                   seed
                   of
                   the
                   Woman
                   should
                   prevail
                   against
                   the
                   gates
                   of
                   Hel
                   ,
                
                 God
                 brings
                 Himself
                 as
                 a
                 Token
                 that
                 he
                 meant
                 to
                 performe
                 it
                 in
                 his
                 
                   own
                   Person
                
                 .
                 Neither
                 is
                 it
                 to
                 be
                 passed
                 without
                 Notice
                 ,
                 That
                 ,
                 he
                 saith
                 ,
                 
                   The
                   seed
                   of
                   the
                   Woman
                
                 onely
                 .
                 For
                 by
                 that
                 ,
                 might
                 be
                 prefigured
                 the
                 
                   miraculous
                   Conception
                
                 of
                 our
                 
                   Blessed
                   saviour
                
                 without
                 a
                 Man
                 ;
                 Noless
                 ,
                 Then
                 the
                 Perversness
                 of
                 
                   Depraved
                   Nature
                
                 .
                 For
                 though
                 Adam
                 had
                 thus
                 offended
                 and
                 felt
                 an
                 Effect
                 of
                 the
                 Punishment
                 in
                 his
                 present
                 Apprehension
                 ,
                 
                 yet
                 he
                 was
                 
                   not
                   able
                   to
                   Lay
                
                 hold
                 on
                 the
                 
                   Weak
                   Vertues
                
                 of
                 Repentance
                 and
                 Acknowledgement
                 ;
                 the
                 
                   Lawfull
                   Daughters
                
                 of
                 Hope
                 ,
                 with
                 whom
                 ,
                 yet
                 he
                 had
                 
                   no
                   Acquaintance
                
                 ,
                 much
                 less
                 Interest
                 ,
                 before
                 The
                 Promise
                 of
                 Christ.
                 But
                 instead
                 of
                 these
                 Tokens
                 of
                 Grace
                 ,
                 he
                 wanted
                 not
                 the
                 Impudence
                 ,
                 to
                 lay
                 the
                 Fault
                 on
                 God
                 ;
                 as
                 if
                 the
                 Woman
                 had
                 been
                 made
                 and
                 given
                 him
                 ,
                 for
                 his
                 Destruction
                 .
                 And
                 in
                 this
                 
                   Eves
                   sin
                
                 was
                 Lesse
                 ,
                 and
                 her
                 Manners
                 more
                 ;
                 
                   For
                   though
                   She
                   would
                   not
                   take
                   it
                   to
                   herself
                   ,
                   but
                   Cast
                   it
                   on
                   the
                   Serpent
                   ,
                   yet
                   She
                   doth
                   not
                   upbraid
                   God
                   ,
                   with
                   the
                   Making
                   of
                   it
                   .
                
              
               
                 Now
                 by
                 Gods
                 
                   mild
                   Answer
                
                 in
                 this
                 no
                 less
                 then
                 in
                 his
                 Colloquie
                 held
                 with
                 Cain
                 ,
                 after
                 the
                 murther
                 of
                 his
                 Brother
                 ,
                 we
                 may
                 find
                 ,
                 He
                 is
                 not
                 Angry
                 according
                 to
                 the
                 mode
                 of
                 men
                 ,
                 or
                 as
                 some
                 represent
                 him
                 with
                 Thunder
                 continually
                 in
                 his
                 Hand
                 .
                 As
                 if
                 our
                 
                 Prevarications
                 and
                 Miseries
                 had
                 
                   Created
                   passions
                
                 in
                 our
                 Maker
                 ,
                 and
                 taught
                 him
                 to
                 be
                 Angry
                 ,
                 or
                 Mercifull
                 .
                 Since
                 if
                 ever
                 he
                 had
                 been
                 Capable
                 of
                 Fury
                 ,
                 it
                 had
                 Now
                 appeared
                 ,
                 when
                 he
                 found
                 
                   Malice
                   ,
                   Ingratitude
                   ,
                   Folly
                
                 ,
                 and
                 Pride
                 laid
                 all
                 in
                 the
                 way
                 ,
                 to
                 interrupt
                 his
                 Work
                 ,
                 which
                 his
                 Justice
                 must
                 have
                 ruined
                 ,
                 had
                 it
                 not
                 been
                 quenched
                 by
                 Love
                 :
                 A
                 Vertue
                 taken
                 out
                 of
                 the
                 Hidden
                 Fountain
                 of
                 his
                 Goodnesse
                 ;
                 which
                 till
                 then
                 ,
                 he
                 was
                 not
                 pleased
                 to
                 reveal
                 .
              
               
                 And
                 Here
                 his
                 passing-by
                 all
                 Notice
                 ,
                 of
                 the
                 Devils
                 operation
                 ,
                 in
                 
                   Adams
                   Transgression
                
                 may
                 Colour
                 
                   their
                   Opinion
                
                 That
                 think
                 
                   Sin
                   did
                   Then
                   ,
                   and
                   Now
                   doth
                   proceed
                   from
                   Our selves
                   .
                
              
            
          
        
      
       
         
           
             
             
               Conjecturall
               QUERES
               ,
               OR
               
                 Problematicall
                 Paradoxes
              
               Concerning
               Reason
               ,
               Speech
               ,
               Learning
               ,
               Experiments
               ,
               and
               other
               Philosophical
               Matters
               .
            
             
               BY
               FRANCIS
               OSBORN
               Esquire
               .
            
             
               LONDON
               ,
               
                 Printed
                 by
              
               J.
               Grismond
               ,
               1659.
               
            
          
           
             
             
             
               To
               his
               very
               worthy
               Friend
               ,
               Mr.
               
                 Ro.
                 VVo.
              
               of
               Linc.
               Coll.
               in
               Oxon.
               
            
             
               
                 SIR
                 ,
              
            
             
               DID
               I
               own
               the
               Wisdome
               and
               Wealth
               of
               Seneca
               ,
               as
               truly
               as
               I
               do
               the
               highest
               Affection
               he
               pretends
               to
               in
               his
               Epistles
               :
               This
               had
               contained
               Matter
               no
               lesse
               sutable
               to
               the
               Greatnesse
               of
               your
               Judgement
               ,
               then
               the
               Obligation
               I
               must
               ever
               acknowledge
               I
               owe
               to
               your
               Goodnesse
               .
            
             
               But
               since
               I
               am
               restrained
               from
               the
               First
               by
               Birth
               ,
               as
               I
               am
               from
               the
               Latter
               by
               Fortune
               ,
               You
               may
               yet
               be
               wooed
               
               to
               a
               more
               charitable
               acceptance
               upon
               this
               Consideration
               ,
               That
               though
               the
               Present
               be
               small
               ,
               it
               was
               not
               filched
               from
               Epicurus
               ,
               or
               any
               other
               Magazin
               of
               Knowledge
               ,
               then
               what
               lyes
               included
               within
               my
               own
               Invention
               .
               Which
               proves
               This
               I
               send
               you
               ,
               as
               absolutely
               mine
               ,
               as
               ever
               it
               was
               Theirs
               (
               if
               any
               such
               be
               )
               that
               may
               have
               Discovered
               it
               before
               I
               was
               born
               .
               For
               being
               acquitted
               by
               my
               Conscience
               of
               all
               Theft
               in
               this
               kinde
               ,
               I
               take
               the
               Recitements
               of
               
                 others
                 Opinions
              
               ,
               as
               relating
               to
               no
               greater
               a
               Shame
               in
               me
               ,
               then
               those
               are
               Obnoxious
               to
               ,
               who
               enriched
               us
               with
               Guns
               and
               Printing
               ,
               because
               some
               maintain
               they
               were
               used
               in
               China
               many
               Thousand
               Yeares
               before
               .
               The
               ranconter
               being
               no
               lesse
               Happy
               then
               his
               that
               stumbled
               on
               it
               at
               first
               .
            
             
               I
               confess
               I
               have
               been
               so
               basely
               abused
               by
               Books
               ,
               as
               that
               I
               entertain
               none
               but
               upon
               high
               Commendations
               .
               And
               those
               rather
               New
               then
               Old
               ,
               however
               
               the
               world
               is
               pleased
               to
               look
               a
               squint
               upon
               them
               ,
               as
               lesse-deserving
               ,
               though
               some
               have
               appeared
               of
               late
               to
               Admiration
               ,
               and
               so
               farre
               Transcendent
               as
               I
               feare
               our
               Period
               is
               neere
               .
               Ignorance
               and
               Barbarisme
               ,
               being
               commonly
               the
               last
               subdued
               before
               a
               generall
               Destruction
               .
            
             
               Knowledge
               hath
               been
               ever
               taken
               for
               an
               infallible
               Portent
               of
               Ruine
               found
               ,
               
                 So
                 busie
                 a
                 Companion
              
               ,
               as
               she
               leaves
               nething
               unpryed
               into
               ,
               in
               Heaven
               or
               Earth
               towards
               the
               Heights
               and
               Depth's
               of
               which
               she
               is
               not
               continually
               rolcing
               her
               Conjectures
               and
               casting
               her
               Darts
               ;
               tenable
               through
               no
               Opinions
               long
               ,
               but
               what
               she
               remaines
               feuer'd
               to
               with
               the
               strong
               Chaynes
               of
               the
               Mathematicks
               I
               Study
               no
               lesse
               Naturall
               then
               Necessary
               .
               The
               imployment
               of
               Children
               ,
               in
               their
               exactest
               Innocency
               ,
               being
               to
               make
               Howses
               and
               
                 raise
                 Pyes
              
               of
               Dirt.
               So
               as
               if
               this
               inclination
               were
               
               encouraged
               ,
               and
               supported
               through
               the
               Direction
               of
               discreete
               Teachers
               ,
               These
               Buds
               might
               come
               in
               Future
               to
               yeeld
               (
               without
               tormenting
               and
               subduing
               their
               Spirits
               )
               more
               
                 wholesom
                 Fruite
              
               ,
               then
               the
               crueller
               Culture
               of
               the
               Schoole
               was
               ever
               found
               yet
               able
               to
               produce
               .
            
             
               But
               I
               hold
               it
               no
               Prudence
               here
               to
               give
               a
               Second
               blow
               ,
               by
               which
               the
               Idolaters
               of
               
                 Former
                 Customes
              
               may
               be
               tempted
               to
               a
               like
               Severity
               in
               case
               I
               should
               mistake
               ;
               as
               't
               is
               very
               possible
               I
               may
               .
               The
               Land-skip
               I
               endeavour
               to
               draw
               being
               darkned
               through
               
                 Ignorance
                 ,
                 Superstition
              
               ,
               and
               what
               is
               more
               dreadful
               ,
               a
               thick
               and
               obscure
               Cloud
               of
               
                 different
                 Judgements
              
               so
               long
               embraced
               for
               the
               
                 Goddesse
                 of
                 Truth
              
               ,
               as
               none
               can
               prosecute
               the
               Contrary
               ,
               though
               never
               so
               farre
               off
               ,
               under
               hope
               of
               a
               milder
               penalty
               ,
               then
               to
               be
               sent
               away
               Naked
               ,
               and
               Wounded
               ,
               which
               cannot
               but
               be
               thought
               an
               uncivil
               kind
               of
               
               Justice
               ,
               and
               unsuteable
               to
               the
               Primitive
               and
               
                 richer
                 ages
              
               of
               the
               world
               :
               Where
               then
               as
               few
               were
               denyed
               to
               search
               as
               we
               sinde
               now
               able
               to
               determine
               .
               Every
               Sect
               of
               Philosophers
               domineering
               in
               his
               Station
               .
            
             
               Yet
               rather
               then
               betray
               
                 Naturall
                 Reason
              
               into
               their
               hands
               who
               desire
               to
               cut
               off
               all
               farther
               Traffick
               with
               the
               Land
               of
               Knowledge
               ,
               I
               shall
               leave
               these
               
                 Paradoxes
                 ,
                 Problems
                 ,
                 Queres
                 ,
                 Conjectures
                 ,
              
               or
               what
               you
               please
               to
               call
               them
               ,
               wholly
               to
               your
               Disposure
               .
               Being
               resolved
               neither
               to
               be
               dejected
               ,
               nor
               elated
               through
               their
               Destruction
               or
               Preservation
               .
               Onely
               I
               am
               consident
               if
               they
               can
               passe
               with
               the
               smallest
               degree
               of
               
                 Your
                 Approbation
              
               ,
               it
               may
               prove
               a
               safe
               Conduct
               in
               Justice
               against
               the
               severest
               Censures
               of
               others
               ,
               No
               lesse
               then
               a
               perpetuall
               testimony
               that
               I
               am
            
             
               
                 Your
                 faithful
                 Friend
                 and
                 Servant
                 .
              
            
          
        
         
           
             
             
             
               Conjecturall
               Paradoxes
               CONCERNING
               Reason
               ,
               Speech
               ,
               Learning
               ,
               Experiments
               ,
               &c.
               
            
             
               MOst
               Philosophy
               lies
               clouded
               by
               Disputes
               ,
               and
               the
               
                 Magisteriall
                 Determinations
              
               of
               the
               Schooles
               ,
               from
               whence
               it
               hath
               till
               of
               late
               ,
               been
               thought
               Presumption
               to
               appeal
               ;
               Though
               
                 Manifest
                 Errours
              
               do
               appear
               in
               what
               they
               have
               already
               judged
               :
               And
               many
               as
               materiall
               things
               passed
               by
               under
               Silence
               or
               Restraint
               ,
               that
               cannot
               be
               denyed
               as
               fit
               to
               be
               known
               .
               Nor
               are
               any
               so
               likely
               to
               discover
               new
               Truths
               
               as
               such
               as
               march
               
                 by
                 themselves
              
               ,
               and
               out
               of
               the
               
                 beaten
                 Track
              
               of
               others
               .
               
                 Curious
                 Ideas
              
               being
               like
               
                 Precious
                 Stones
              
               ,
               sooner
               stumbled
               upon
               ,
               and
               found
               in
               places
               least
               looked
               for
               ,
               then
               Started
               by
               the
               Direction
               of
               any
               that
               went
               before
               ;
               who
               have
               left
               onely
               Discouragement
               ,
               or
               at
               least
               but
               a
               Negative
               or
               such
               a
               
                 perplexed
                 Knowledge
              
               ,
               as
               renders
               their
               Understanding
               that
               rest
               in
               it
               more
               Offuscated
               and
               Gloomy
               then
               the
               most
               stupid
               Ignorance
               it self
               .
            
             
               Which
               together
               affords
               me
               cause
               enough
               to
               think
               our
               rare
               Inventions
               
                 and
                 
                   pregnant
                   wits
                   stifle
                   their
                   own
                   Naturall
                   Fertility
                   through
                   a
                   too
                   long
                   and
                   frequent
                   Commerce
                   with
                   Books
                   ;
                   Not
                   seldom
                   of
                   a
                   contrary
                   Complexion
                   and
                   Style
                   to
                   the
                   Readers
                   :
                   yet
                   forced
                   out
                   of
                   Custome
                   to
                   be
                   conversant
                   in
                   them
                   .
                
              
               By
               which
               he
               is
               brought
               to
               Stammer
               and
               become
               so
               Diffident
               of
               himself
               (
               such
               Learnning
               
               lying
               in
               Memory
               the
               most
               pedantical
               part
               of
               Knowledge
               )
               as
               he
               dares
               not
               deliver
               his
               own
               Opinion
               out
               of
               Reverence
               to
               Antiquity
               or
               any
               Authors
               else
               ,
               but
               in
               the
               
                 same
                 words
              
               he
               finds
               it
               written
               .
               The
               doting
               upon
               
                 Forraign
                 Authority
              
               keeping
               us
               still
               at
               a
               stand
               :
               like
               the
               Body
               of
               
                 Joabs
                 Brother
              
               ,
               beyond
               which
               the
               Israelites
               would
               not
               pass
               out
               of
               a
               vain
               reverenceto
               their
               General
               .
            
             
               And
               thus
               all
               further
               
                 Prosecution
                 of
                 Knowledge
              
               and
               
                 Conquest
                 over
                 Ignorance
              
               is
               obstructed
               ,
               and
               Schollars
               tyed
               to
               Cultivate
               and
               confine
               their
               Travels
               within
               the
               Circuit
               of
               a
               barren
               Wilderness
               ,
               stocked
               with
               
                 insignificant
                 Termes
              
               and
               such
               
                 crabbed
                 Allusions
              
               and
               
                 improbable
                 Conclusions
              
               ,
               that
               have
               no
               better
               Plea
               for
               their
               Authority
               then
               the
               exorbitant
               veneration
               which
               Tradition
               rather
               then
               Merit
               ,
               hath
               awarded
               Antiquity
               above
               the
               equal
               ,
               if
               not
               
                 better
                 Judgements
              
               found
               
               in
               
                 our
                 Age.
              
               Nor
               is
               there
               hope
               of
               any
               further
               or
               more
               happy
               progress
               till
               these
               
                 rotten
                 Carcasses
              
               be
               removed
               out
               of
               the
               way
               ,
               or
               covered
               from
               their
               Eyes
               that
               want
               not
               Hearts
               and
               abilities
               to
               jogge
               on
               better
               without
               them
               .
            
             
               The
               
                 First
                 Man
              
               could
               have
               at
               the
               Beginning
               but
               this
               Advantage
               of
               a
               Child
               ,
               that
               his
               Organs
               were
               immediately
               fitted
               and
               prepared
               to
               receive
               no
               less
               then
               
                 retain
                 Knowledg
              
               .
               Which
               in
               an
               Infant
               are
               Obstructed
               through
               Want
               of
               Room
               ,
               or
               too
               great
               a
               Redundancy
               of
               Phlegm
               or
               Moisture
               .
            
             
               For
               if
               Adam
               was
               furnished
               with
               more
               ,
               it
               must
               be
               Supernatural
               ,
               and
               so
               far
               above
               humane
               apprehension
               ,
               as
               it
               is
               to
               imagine
               how
               he
               should
               
                 Know
                 his
                 Goods
              
               ,
               or
               the
               use
               of
               what
               he
               never
               had
               seen
               or
               tryed
               ,
               unlesse
               we
               conceive
               he
               brought
               an
               Inventory
               or
               Herball
               into
               the
               world
               with
               him
               .
            
             
               Wherefore
               ,
               according
               to
               humane
               
               understanding
               ,
               Reason
               like
               Fire
               was
               at
               the
               beginning
               but
               a
               Spark
               ,
               till
               through
               a
               confluence
               of
               all
               Events
               happenable
               to
               Man
               it
               ,
               received
               Augmentation
               ,
               as
               the
               other
               did
               from
               the
               Supplement
               of
               Matter
               ;
               And
               having
               once
               
                 caught
                 Paper
              
               did
               illuminate
               the
               World.
               
            
             
               Now
               though
               so
               much
               Knowledge
               is
               not
               unlikely
               to
               be
               found
               in
               the
               Creature
               ,
               as
               that
               with
               the
               same
               Advantages
               to
               increase
               it
               ,
               they
               might
               become
               more
               intelligent
               then
               still
               to
               remain
               Slaves
               :
               Yet
               I
               find
               room
               for
               a
               Quere
               ,
               
                 
                   Whether
                   this
                   Defect
                
                 (
                 if
                 capable
                 of
                 that
                 Title
                 )
                 
                   doth
                   not
                   proceed
                   rather
                   from
                   the
                   Want
                   of
                   Speech
                   ,
                   then
                   perception
                   ?
                
                 Or
                 
                   Whether
                   Humanity
                   that
                   arrogates
                   so
                   high
                   ,
                   as
                   to
                   proclaim
                   it self
                   Lord
                   over
                   all
                   may
                   not
                   be
                   found
                   in
                   some
                   Persons
                   and
                   Places
                
                 (
                 as
                 it
                 might
                 not
                 impossibly
                 have
                 been
                 in
                 the
                 Rest
                 )
                 
                   little
                   more
                   Rationall
                   ,
                   had
                   it
                   no
                   greater
                   
                   stock
                   of
                   Experiments
                   ,
                   to
                   traffick
                   with
                   ,
                   then
                   every
                   respective
                   individuall
                   is
                   able
                   to
                   glean
                   up
                   of
                   himself
                   ?
                
              
               Our
               advantages
               proceeding
               from
               Commerce
               ,
               whose
               Wheel
               once
               set
               a
               work
               did
               quickly
               manifest
               on
               which
               Side
               Gain
               or
               Losse
               lay
               ,
               the
               
                 Primitive
                 Knowledge
              
               of
               Good
               and
               Evill
               ,
               and
               before
               whose
               door
               Sin
               was
               first
               found
               .
            
             
               And
               this
               
                 Inspection
                 into
                 things
              
               at
               the
               beginning
               dim
               and
               modest
               ,
               became
               by
               handing
               from
               one
               generation
               to
               another
               ,
               so
               huge
               a
               Mountain
               in
               their
               estimation
               who
               presumed
               to
               have
               made
               a
               full
               and
               exact
               Survey
               of
               the
               Land
               of
               Knowledge
               ;
               That
               with
               the
               Gyants
               of
               old
               ,
               they
               did
               not
               onely
               rant
               it
               over
               mens
               Persons
               and
               Consciences
               ,
               by
               proportioning
               what
               extent
               of
               Worship
               befitted
               the
               Gods
               ,
               but
               erected
               their
               Pillars
               upon
               the
               borders
               of
               Philosophy
               under
               such
               an
               
                 Imperious
                 Injunction
              
               ,
               as
               none
               ,
               till
               of
               
               late
               have
               ventured
               to
               discover
               any
               thing
               beyond
               them
               ;
               Though
               found
               in
               other
               Descriptions
               and
               Relations
               very
               False
               ,
               by
               multiplying
               such
               poor
               Advantages
               as
               Man
               hath
               acquired
               ,
               and
               depressing
               greater
               which
               do
               naturally
               belong
               to
               the
               Creature
               ,
               who
               is
               inspired
               with
               the
               same
               breath
               ,
               inhabits
               the
               same
               Earth
               ,
               is
               more
               Healthfull
               and
               Strong
               ;
               Onely
               he
               seems
               to
               come
               short
               in
               Reason
               .
               The
               Originall
               of
               which
               I
               shall
               make
               my
               further
               endeavour
               to
               discover
               .
               And
               if
               it
               prove
               in
               the
               abstract
               more
               adventitious
               then
               Naturall
               ,
               and
               
                 lesse
                 beneficiall
              
               ,
               then
               the
               Senses
               ,
               upon
               whose
               ruines
               she
               hath
               built
               her
               foundation
               ,
               I
               hope
               it
               may
               hold
               forth
               an
               Use
               of
               Humility
               unto
               us
               ,
               if
               not
               move
               pitty
               towards
               the
               Creature
               ,
               who
               the
               Apostle
               justly
               saith
               groans
               for
               its
               Deliverance
               .
            
             
               It
               is
               on
               all
               hands
               confessed
               without
               the
               least
               whisper
               of
               Contradiction
               ,
               
               That
               ,
               
                 
                   Luxurious
                   ,
                   idle
                   and
                   vitious
                   Nations
                   are
                   most
                   pregnant
                   and
                   happy
                   in
                   the
                   richest
                   Endowments
                   of
                   the
                   Mind
                   .
                
                 And
                 ,
                 That
                 
                   it
                   is
                   ordinary
                   with
                   diverse
                   in
                   Extasies
                   ,
                   Feavers
                   ,
                   acute
                   Diseases
                   ,
                   and
                   during
                   the
                   storms
                   of
                   Love
                   ,
                   Fear
                   ,
                   &c.
                   to
                   have
                   their
                   Inventions
                   soare
                   higher
                   then
                   in
                   a
                   more
                   entire
                   Health
                   they
                   have
                   been
                   found
                   after
                   able
                   to
                   reach
                   .
                
              
               From
               whence
               it
               is
               deducible
               ,
               that
               Reason
               (
               for
               ought
               we
               know
               )
               may
               be
               but
               the
               Effect
               of
               those
               
                 Corporeall
                 infirmities
              
               from
               which
               without
               Question
               it
               receives
               Augmentation
               .
               Since
               Wisdom
               is
               not
               found
               frequently
               mingled
               with
               Strength
               and
               Beauty
               .
               The
               richest
               endowments
               
                 unsophisticated
                 Nature
              
               appears
               to
               own
               in
               all
               things
               living
               besides
               ;
               Whereas
               some
               ,
               if
               not
               the
               generality
               of
               men
               outwardly
               Crooked
               and
               Deformed
               utter
               Inventions
               most
               
                 neatly
                 composed
              
               .
               The
               Losse
               and
               Defect
               in
               one
               externall
               Sense
               or
               Part
               
               making
               a
               treble
               Compensation
               in
               the
               Mind
               .
               Contrary
               to
               Beasts
               ,
               amongst
               whom
               those
               of
               the
               
                 exactest
                 Features
              
               are
               most
               usefull
               and
               Docile
               .
            
             
               Nor
               is
               it
               probable
               but
               such
               Variety
               of
               Food
               separated
               from
               the
               blood
               by
               Fire
               ,
               and
               compounded
               with
               
                 Sugar
                 ,
                 Spices
                 ,
                 Salt
                 ,
                 Sawces
                 ,
                 Perfumes
                 ,
              
               with
               all
               sorts
               of
               Viands
               relating
               to
               the
               
                 High
                 Tast
              
               ,
               which
               eaten
               are
               convertible
               into
               our
               own
               Bodies
               ,
               should
               alter
               and
               adde
               to
               the
               Faculties
               of
               the
               Mind
               ,
               and
               fill
               us
               in
               the
               Day
               with
               some
               of
               those
               
                 Rationall
                 Raptures
              
               we
               apprehend
               from
               the
               vapours
               they
               raise
               so
               palpably
               during
               Sleep
               :
               Not
               to
               be
               denyed
               the
               Effects
               of
               a
               
                 Distempered
                 Brain
              
               ,
               and
               strangers
               to
               such
               Creatures
               and
               Persons
               as
               are
               of
               more
               
                 Naturall
                 Dyets
              
               ,
               or
               make
               their
               Repast
               on
               Herbs
               and
               
                 lesse
                 sophisticated
                 meats
              
               through
               which
               Flegme
               is
               increased
               ,
               so
               known
               a
               Retarder
               of
               understanding
               as
               to
               
               protract
               the
               maturity
               of
               Children
               ,
               till
               by
               a
               
                 Dryer
                 Aliment
              
               and
               
                 unnaturall
                 Heat
              
               they
               are
               exposed
               to
               (
               especially
               their
               Heads
               )
               it
               is
               consumed
               ,
               A
               
                 concurrent
                 cause
              
               of
               this
               
                 rationall
                 Advantaze
              
               we
               pretend
               to
               have
               over
               Beasts
               That
               wanting
               the
               use
               of
               Fire
               are
               necessarily
               more
               replenished
               with
               
                 Fluid
                 Humours
              
               ,
               and
               so
               by
               Consequence
               
                 Lesse
                 Wise
              
               ,
               though
               far
               
                 more
                 Agill
                 ,
                 Healthful
                 and
                 strong
                 .
              
               Whereas
               those
               to
               whom
               we
               allow
               the
               largest
               proportion
               of
               Understanding
               ,
               are
               
                 Weak
                 ,
                 Meager
              
               ,
               and
               still
               under
               some
               Course
               of
               Physick
               ,
               which
               may
               passe
               for
               
                 another
                 Cause
              
               of
               Knowledge
               ;
               The
               Operations
               of
               the
               Mind
               being
               most
               prevalent
               in
               
                 Decrepit
                 Bodyes
              
               .
            
             
               The
               same
               is
               incident
               to
               Wine
               ,
               that
               doth
               not
               seldom
               inspire
               a
               Clown
               with
               Civility
               ,
               a
               Coward
               with
               Valour
               ,
               the
               most
               sordidly
               Covetous
               with
               Liberality
               ;
               And
               (
               what
               is
               most
               conducible
               to
               the
               Assertion
               in
               hand
               )
               a
               Fool
               
               with
               a
               larger
               proport
               on
               of
               Wit
               then
               he
               had
               ,
               though
               unable
               to
               reduce
               it
               into
               a
               Habit
               ,
               by
               reason
               of
               some
               Obstruction
               or
               Leakage
               in
               his
               Organs
               .
               From
               whence
               it
               is
               as
               apparent
               That
               Fancy
               and
               Conceit
               may
               be
               gratisied
               at
               the
               prejudice
               of
               the
               Senses
               ,
               no
               lesse
               then
               by
               the
               usuall
               practise
               of
               
                 Students
                 ,
                 Poets
              
               ,
               and
               Accomptants
               that
               use
               all
               endeavours
               to
               exclude
               and
               stifle
               the
               Ideas
               both
               of
               their
               Eyes
               and
               Eares
               ,
               whose
               Diversions
               they
               can
               by
               no
               means
               admit
               without
               hazarding
               the
               happy
               Successe
               of
               all
               they
               are
               in
               labour
               to
               bring
               about
               .
               Whereas
               Beasts
               ,
               by
               reason
               of
               their
               continuall
               Fears
               find
               leasure
               to
               be
               attentive
               to
               nothing
               but
               sense
               .
               Like
               a
               
                 Town
                 Besieged
              
               wherein
               all
               other
               A
               t
               s
               cease
               ,
               but
               what
               may
               contribute
               to
               Releif
               and
               Preservation
               ,
               because
               Hearing
               and
               Smelling
               are
               their
               chiefest
               out-Guards
               ,
               and
               without
               which
               they
               cannot
               in
               safety
               gather
               
               their
               Food
               .
               Nor
               doth
               their
               Care
               extend
               beyond
               this
               for
               want
               of
               that
               Spur
               of
               Necessity
               (
               formed
               through
               the
               Mediation
               of
               their
               own
               Arts
               and
               Nature
               )
               with
               which
               Men
               are
               pricked
               on
               to
               
                 New
                 Inventions
              
               .
               Being
               at
               better
               Leisure
               &
               more
               Security
               .
               Able
               (
               standing
               in
               little
               awe
               but
               of
               their
               own
               Species
               )
               to
               consume
               those
               Spirits
               in
               
                 internall
                 Contemplations
              
               ,
               through
               which
               both
               themselves
               and
               their
               Fellow
               -
               Creatures
               are
               rendred
               more
               miserable
               then
               by
               Nature
               ,
               without
               this
               improvement
               (
               of
               what
               they
               call
               Wisdom
               )
               they
               needed
               to
               have
               been
               ;
               Whilst
               the
               other
               Animalls
               are
               forced
               to
               dissipate
               them
               amongst
               their
               Senses
               onely
               to
               purchase
               Food
               and
               Safety
               .
               Yet
               the
               Knowledge
               so
               much
               boasted
               of
               ,
               is
               no
               more
               Ours
               ,
               then
               Honey
               is
               the
               Bees
               ,
               before
               picked
               up
               out
               of
               the
               
                 Lesse-erring
                 Practises
              
               of
               the
               more
               
                 innocent
                 Creatures
              
               ,
               from
               
               whence
               they
               have
               deduced
               their
               best
               principles
               to
               the
               very
               Arts
               used
               by
               themselves
               in
               the
               Preservation
               or
               Destruction
               of
               their
               own
               Kind
               .
               And
               these
               hoarded
               up
               in
               
                 Memory
                 ,
                 the
                 Magazin
                 of
                 By-past
                 Events
                 ,
              
               though
               possibly
               at
               first
               no
               more
               retentive
               in
               
                 man's
                 Head
              
               then
               Beasts
               ,
               till
               by
               the
               Fumes
               of
               the
               former
               mentioned
               Excesse
               ,
               Ours
               become
               so
               Oyly
               like
               a
               Pot-lid
               ,
               and
               apt
               for
               Receipt
               ,
               as
               nothing
               worthy
               observation
               could
               escape
               without
               leaving
               an
               Impression
               behind
               it
               .
               And
               in
               this
               mould
               with
               the
               help
               of
               Fire
               ,
               and
               a
               continuall
               Refining
               through
               Time
               ,
               the
               
                 purest
                 Reason
              
               ,
               so
               much
               relyed
               on
               by
               Statists
               and
               Politicians
               came
               at
               first
               to
               be
               Cast.
               
            
             
               And
               that
               this
               is
               not
               obtruded
               upon
               Belief
               under
               a
               single
               Testimony
               ,
               it
               may
               be
               found
               the
               Opinion
               of
               the
               
                 French
                 Nation
              
               ,
               where
               they
               have
               not
               a
               more
               Apposite
               expression
               
               for
               a
               Fool
               ,
               then
               ,
               that
               ,
               
                 His
                 Head
                 is
                 ill
                 made
              
               .
               No
               weak
               argument
               of
               an
               universall
               Belief
               ,
               That
               Midwives
               skill
               doth
               highly
               conduce
               to
               an
               advancement
               or
               depression
               of
               Wisdom
               in
               a
               Child
               .
               And
               from
               hence
               I
               have
               been
               led
               to
               this
               wish
               ,
               That
               the
               like
               office
               might
               be
               performed
               on
               the
               behalf
               of
               a
               
                 young
                 Ape
              
               (
               of
               the
               Kingdom
               of
               Congo
               ,
               of
               which
               some
               years
               since
               I
               saw
               one
               in
               England
               ,
               that
               bare
               a
               Symmetry
               if
               not
               throughout
               like
               to
               ,
               yet
               very
               little
               differing
               from
               a
               Childs
               )
               whose
               Skull
               being
               kept
               from
               a
               too
               sudden
               closing
               by
               
                 Heat
                 ,
                 Swathing
              
               ,
               and
               the
               rest
               of
               the
               Ligations
               used
               by
               Nurses
               to
               Infants
               might
               not
               unpossibly
               acquire
               reason
               ,
               which
               once
               attained
               ,
               The
               Impediments
               to
               Speech
               ,
               (
               whose
               principall
               Cunning
               lyes
               in
               a
               
                 musicall
                 Division
              
               or
               
                 mincing
                 a
                 continued
                 sound
                 into
                 articulate
                 Notes
              
               )
               would
               be
               no
               sooner
               discovered
               then
               removed
               :
               
               We
               enjoying
               many
               things
               under
               the
               Favour
               and
               endeavours
               of
               Reason
               ,
               far
               more
               difficult
               and
               remote
               from
               the
               Confines
               of
               Nature
               ,
               then
               the
               
                 Coynage
                 of
                 Languages
              
               rendred
               apparent
               through
               the
               multitude
               of
               them
               met
               with
               in
               the
               world
               .
               And
               this
               once
               acquired
               ,
               though
               by
               chance
               and
               not
               altogether
               consonant
               to
               the
               exact
               pattern
               of
               
                 Nature
                 ,
                 Custom
              
               ,
               assisted
               by
               Imagination
               might
               render
               diffusive
               for
               the
               Future
               .
               As
               I
               believe
               not
               onely
               many
               of
               our
               new-purchased
               Qualities
               but
               diverse
               of
               those
               
                 mans
                 curiosity
              
               hath
               imprinted
               upon
               his
               
                 Own
                 Kind
              
               or
               Others
               ,
               are
               already
               become
               Manifest
               in
               a
               
                 Succession
                 of
                 Doggs
                 whelped
                 without
                 Tayles
                 .
              
               To
               which
               mutilation
               (
               at
               first
               no
               question
               purely
               humane
               or
               meerly
               accidentall
               )
               Nature
               hath
               been
               so
               indulgent
               already
               ,
               as
               insteed
               of
               an
               unsightly
               Bob
               ,
               to
               forme
               a
               sharp
               comely
               Bone
               like
               the
               Scut
               of
               a
               Deer
               .
            
             
             
               Now
               since
               we
               are
               able
               to
               adde
               to
               ,
               or
               Diminish
               from
               Natures
               work
               ,
               both
               in
               reference
               to
               Body
               and
               Mind
               ,
               it
               cannot
               appear
               improbable
               That
               many
               Alterations
               (
               perhaps
               greater
               then
               we
               are
               able
               to
               imagine
               ,
               or
               ready
               to
               believe
               )
               have
               had
               their
               Flux
               and
               Reflux
               often
               repeated
               or
               changed
               since
               the
               Beginning
               .
               Which
               may
               render
               it
               no
               
                 improbable
                 Opinion
              
               ,
               (
               but
               as
               true
               as
               formerly
               it
               hath
               been
               common
               )
               That
               
                 Apes
                 were
                 of
                 the
                 seed
                 of
                 Cham
                 ,
              
               or
               else
               the
               
                 by-blowes
                 of
                 some
                 wild
                 stock
                 of
                 Humanity
                 :
              
               the
               Characters
               of
               whose
               kind
               remaining
               no
               lesse
               manifest
               in
               their
               Bodies
               ,
               then
               Affections
               to
               Women
               :
               of
               which
               there
               are
               so
               many
               living
               Witnesses
               ,
               as
               it
               were
               superfluous
               to
               endeavour
               to
               prove
               it
               .
               Onely
               this
               may
               be
               added
               as
               a
               further
               Testimony
               :
               That
               my Self
               have
               seen
               
                 two
                 Monkies
              
               that
               for
               many
               years
               did
               not
               fail
               to
               have
               duly
               a
               
                 Lunary
                 Purgation
              
               .
            
             
             
               Nor
               is
               this
               any
               rare
               Discovery
               ,
               but
               cited
               as
               a
               Report
               by
               the
               
                 Lord
                 Mountayne
              
               in
               his
               Essayes
               ,
               No
               lesse
               then
               we
               find
               it
               the
               usuall
               practise
               of
               the
               Almighty
               in
               the
               Scriptures
               ,
               To
               
                 '
                 Punish
                 a
                 Sin
                 in
                 the
                 Succession
                 of
                 a
                 '
                 Family
                 ,
              
               as
               he
               did
               some
               with
               
                 short
                 Life
              
               ,
               others
               with
               Leprosie
               ,
               &c.
               
               The
               Recitall
               of
               which
               I
               will
               fully
               omit
               ,
               it
               being
               my
               Taske
               rather
               to
               Propose
               then
               Determine
               .
            
             
               And
               if
               any
               understand
               what
               is
               said
               here
               in
               a
               more
               positive
               Sense
               ,
               They
               abuse
               themselves
               no
               lesse
               then
               wrong
               me
               ;
               Who
               have
               no
               Stronger
               Assertions
               to
               justifie
               this
               ,
               Then
               my
               Weak
               Conjecture
               ,
               which
               is
               ,
               That
               
                 if
                 God
                 layd
                 the
                 Deprivation
                 of
                 Reason
                 upon
                 these
                 Monsters
              
               (
               For
               other
               they
               cannot
               appear
               to
               be
               ,
               bearing
               a
               shape
               and
               owning
               Gestures
               as
               various
               from
               the
               rest
               of
               Animals
               ,
               as
               their
               Conceptions
               are
               remote
               from
               the
               Prudence
               of
               a
               man
               )
               
               
                 
                   for
                   any
                   peculiar
                   Offence
                
                 ,
                 or
                 that
                 
                   humane
                   Lust
                   did
                   cause
                   it
                   ,
                   by
                   casting
                   Seed
                   into
                   an
                   irrationall
                   and
                   improper
                   Soyle
                   ,
                   There
                   lyes
                   no
                   Cure
                   for
                   this
                   Bestiality
                   ,
                   if
                   not
                   in
                   Heat
                   .
                
              
               Cold
               being
               a
               heavy
               Enemy
               to
               Activity
               of
               the
               mind
               though
               a
               try'd
               Friend
               to
               Strength
               ,
               and
               a
               Continuer
               of
               Perfection
               .
               As
               Heat
               on
               the
               contrary
               melts
               and
               refines
               the
               Spirits
               into
               a
               more
               
                 Rationall
                 Temper
              
               .
               The
               first
               of
               which
               is
               exemplified
               in
               Sheep
               and
               Kine
               ,
               which
               though
               usefull
               ,
               cannot
               be
               excluded
               the
               Catalogue
               of
               the
               most
               Simple
               :
               For
               exposing
               their
               
                 new
                 fallen
                 Young
              
               to
               the
               injury
               of
               the
               weather
               ,
               their
               Pores
               become
               sealed
               up
               so
               close
               as
               the
               Grosse
               and
               Flegmatick
               strangle
               the
               
                 Purer
                 Spirits
              
               onely
               capable
               of
               that
               Vivacity
               and
               Cunning
               found
               in
               those
               Creatures
               forced
               to
               use
               Stratagems
               in
               the
               gayning
               of
               their
               Food
               ,
               whose
               Whelps
               are
               housed
               in
               Dennes
               and
               Thickets
               .
               
               Nor
               are
               the
               
                 Foggy
                 Humours
              
               in
               those
               Creatures
               rarifi'd
               by
               Sweat
               ,
               most
               proper
               to
               the
               Heads
               of
               Men
               ,
               That
               in
               Horses
               being
               rather
               squeezed
               out
               by
               Labour
               ,
               then
               distilled
               gently
               by
               Drops
               ,
               through
               which
               Nature
               obtains
               an
               opportunity
               to
               pick
               and
               Choose
               ,
               who
               uncompelled
               will
               part
               with
               nothing
               but
               what
               is
               Bad
               or
               Superfluous
               .
            
             
               Now
               if
               the
               Head
               be
               capable
               of
               moulding
               into
               one
               Figure
               more
               apt
               for
               the
               production
               of
               reason
               ,
               then
               another
               (
               as
               it
               is
               on
               the
               side
               of
               common
               experience
               confessed
               )
               then
               can
               as
               little
               doubt
               be
               made
               but
               that
               it
               must
               needs
               have
               been
               litt
               upon
               in
               a
               far
               lesse
               revolution
               of
               Time
               then
               the
               World
               hath
               already
               passed
               over
               ,
               if
               certain
               of
               her
               own
               Chronologie
               ,
               which
               some
               have
               extended
               
                 many
                 Thousand
              
               of
               Yeares
               beyond
               what
               by
               Faith
               we
               are
               obliged
               to
               believe
               .
               And
               Wisdom
               once
               attained
               could
               
               never
               be
               lost
               ;
               Since
               (
               as
               it
               is
               reported
               of
               the
               Elixar
               )
               she
               receives
               Augmentation
               and
               Improvement
               from
               every
               Event
               .
               And
               because
               our
               greater
               Security
               and
               Variety
               of
               Food
               hath
               suffocated
               and
               abated
               so
               much
               of
               our
               Sense
               as
               it
               is
               in
               no
               proportion
               able
               to
               find
               imployment
               for
               our
               Fancie
               ,
               (
               against
               whose
               Nature
               it
               is
               to
               be
               Idle
               )
               as
               That
               more
               entire
               may
               do
               in
               the
               
                 Creature
                 ;
                 Man
              
               is
               continually
               ruminating
               of
               what
               is
               Past
               ,
               or
               Attentive
               on
               what
               is
               Present
               ,
               and
               by
               Comparing
               of
               these
               ,
               is
               in
               some
               Mediocrity
               taught
               to
               determine
               of
               the
               Future
               .
               Having
               Wisdome
               or
               Folly
               objected
               to
               him
               ,
               according
               as
               the
               Conjecture
               doth
               quadrate
               with
               Truth
               ,
               and
               the
               Concurrence
               of
               a
               
                 Happy
                 Successe
              
               .
               Whereas
               the
               rest
               of
               Animals
               not
               being
               able
               to
               estate
               their
               Young
               ,
               and
               such
               as
               succeed
               in
               their
               dear-bought
               Experiences
               ,
               (
               if
               not
               for
               want
               of
               memory
               the
               
                 mint
                 of
                 
                 Knowledge
              
               ,
               yet
               out
               of
               an
               Incapacity
               for
               Discourse
               ,
               and
               Disability
               to
               employ
               such
               Arts
               as
               are
               only
               proper
               to
               Societies
               limited
               by
               Lawes
               )
               become
               stunted
               in
               their
               Knowledge
               ;
               and
               without
               Improvement
               ,
               not
               owning
               a
               larger
               Stock
               then
               the
               Brevity
               of
               a
               
                 Turbulent
                 Life
              
               is
               able
               to
               accumulate
               ,
               for
               want
               of
               Words
               ,
               which
               coyned
               into
               Questions
               and
               Answers
               ,
               are
               only
               able
               to
               Barter
               our
               own
               ,
               and
               
                 purchase
                 the
                 Wisdom
              
               belonging
               to
               Others
               .
            
             
               Now
               if
               any
               think
               people
               were
               born
               Wise
               at
               the
               First
               ,
               (
               I
               mean
               in
               relation
               to
               the
               understanding
               now
               currant
               )
               they
               cannot
               but
               alter
               their
               Opinion
               upon
               Contemplation
               of
               the
               vast
               Improvement
               one
               Age
               makes
               of
               what
               went
               before
               ,
               and
               how
               many
               New
               and
               more
               
                 usefull
                 Arts
              
               are
               now
               as
               it
               were
               daily
               invented
               .
            
             
               And
               as
               the
               
                 want
                 of
                 Words
              
               is
               a
               totall
               Eclipse
               ,
               of
               any
               nearer
               dawne
               or
               
               further
               progresse
               in
               the
               Creature
               towards
               Reason
               ;
               so
               we
               finde
               the
               
                 Confusion
                 of
                 Languages
              
               no
               small
               Remora
               to
               the
               enlargement
               of
               Mans
               :
               The
               which
               (
               as
               is
               observable
               in
               some
               Plagues
               else
               )
               though
               immediately
               poured
               on
               us
               by
               God
               for
               Sin
               ,
               have
               their
               radicall
               Cause
               yet
               extant
               in
               Nature
               it selfe
               :
               So
               a
               Variety
               in
               Dialects
               may
               by
               such
               probabilities
               as
               these
               seem
               to
               be
               occasioned
               ,
               Speech
               being
               but
               an
               Appellation
               of
               Things
               of
               which
               Providence
               hath
               bestowed
               many
               in
               
                 one
                 place
              
               ,
               denyed
               to
               Others
               ,
               a
               
                 Diversity
                 of
                 Languages
              
               must
               needs
               attend
               as
               a
               necessary
               Consequence
               .
               Made
               yet
               more
               various
               and
               lesse
               intelligible
               from
               Moysture
               and
               Drowth
               ;
               Through
               whose
               Mediocrity
               or
               Excesse
               ,
               Sound
               is
               rendered
               either
               Liquid
               or
               Mute
               proportionate
               to
               the
               Contraction
               or
               Extension
               of
               their
               Organs
               who
               do
               ,
               or
               may
               hereafter
               inhabit
               the
               place
               .
               That
               cannot
               but
               naturally
               
               own
               the
               Causes
               of
               such
               Effects
               .
               Some
               Pumping
               their
               Words
               out
               of
               their
               Throats
               ,
               others
               Lower
               .
               As
               I
               knew
               a
               tall
               Scotchman
               allow'd
               a
               Pension
               from
               
                 King
                 James
              
               ,
               That
               could
               frame
               a
               Voice
               at
               the
               Mouth
               of
               his
               Lungs
               ,
               seeming
               to
               be
               remote
               from
               the
               Eares
               of
               the
               nearest
               By-stander
               .
               A
               Fallacy
               no
               lesse
               likely
               to
               be
               in
               practice
               with
               the
               Priests
               of
               Apollo
               then
               the
               Originall
               of
               many
               
                 miraculous
                 Narrations
              
               of
               Old.
               And
               through
               this
               
                 variety
                 of
                 Tone
              
               and
               Pronunciation
               it
               often
               comes
               to
               passe
               ,
               That
               an
               Englishman
               is
               not
               able
               readily
               to
               converse
               with
               a
               Stranger
               in
               one
               and
               the
               same
               Latine
               .
               From
               whence
               we
               may
               modestly
               observe
               that
               Nature
               had
               the
               Confusion
               of
               
                 Tongues
                 în
                 Potentia
              
               before
               God
               reduced
               it
               into
               an
               
                 Actuall
                 Plague
              
               .
               Who
               did
               not
               then
               create
               it
               anew
               ,
               no
               more
               then
               he
               did
               the
               
                 Rain
                 -
                 Bow.
              
               But
               did
               only
               accommodate
               
               this
               Punishment
               to
               his
               present
               purpose
               .
            
             
               Now
               though
               the
               Multiplicity
               of
               Idioms
               may
               in
               some
               part
               Cloud
               our
               Knowledge
               from
               the
               Experiences
               to
               be
               gain'd
               by
               Strangers
               ,
               yet
               the
               Time
               usually
               spent
               ,
               and
               the
               Hardship
               indured
               at
               Schoole
               to
               dissipate
               these
               Mediums
               ,
               &
               to
               learn
               to
               see
               through
               them
               ,
               may
               not
               unpossibly
               be
               heavier
               and
               more
               tedious
               then
               the
               Curse
               it selfe
               .
            
             
               It
               being
               likelier
               to
               have
               been
               the
               voyce
               of
               Custome
               then
               Reason
               that
               Fonted
               a
               bare
               Knowledge
               in
               Tongues
               with
               the
               Title
               of
               Learning
               .
               In
               the
               prosecution
               of
               which
               the
               Spirits
               of
               Children
               are
               blunted
               ,
               and
               Wit
               exchanged
               for
               
                 Insignificant
                 Termes
              
               ,
               and
               a
               Stupid
               Ignorance
               of
               all
               things
               else
               ,
               under
               the
               Tyrannicall
               Regiment
               of
               an
               Ignorant
               Pedagogue
               .
               Who
               if
               good
               for
               any
               thing
               ,
               that
               Art
               must
               needes
               go
               so
               averse
               to
               the
               
               grayne
               of
               his
               Understanding
               ,
               as
               he
               cannot
               but
               be
               a
               meere
               Empericke
               in
               it
               .
               Apparent
               in
               the
               most
               ,
               because
               seldom
               undertaken
               ,
               but
               as
               a
               
                 Last
                 Reserve
              
               ,
               and
               after
               more
               easie
               and
               thriving
               Professions
               have
               been
               tryed
               .
               Where
               if
               the
               Salary
               prove
               not
               more
               necessary
               to
               his
               Fortune
               ,
               then
               so
               unmanly
               an
               Erudition
               doth
               to
               the
               miserable
               Child
               ,
               't
               is
               easie
               to
               guesse
               who
               drove
               the
               Bargain
               .
               And
               this
               Plague
               past
               some
               to
               bayle
               themselves
               out
               of
               the
               Deserts
               of
               Want
               ,
               and
               the
               Sonnes
               of
               others
               lesse
               needy
               to
               attain
               an
               insight
               into
               such
               Tongues
               ,
               as
               our
               Ancestors
               Folly
               ,
               not
               Reason
               ,
               prompted
               them
               to
               ,
               preferre
               before
               Experience
               the
               Dialect
               of
               the
               World
               ,
               and
               with
               which
               you
               may
               travaile
               further
               and
               in
               more
               Security
               then
               with
               all
               the
               Learning
               in
               Europe
               .
            
             
               The
               Child
               now
               in
               his
               most
               
                 Docile
                 age
              
               to
               
                 Study
                 men
              
               ,
               and
               
                 Softest
                 Temper
              
               
               to
               take
               the
               Impression
               of
               Patience
               and
               Complyance
               ,
               is
               by
               a
               Learned
               Tutor
               and
               Brazen-fac'd
               Impudence
               gayned
               in
               the
               Schooles
               swept
               and
               garnished
               to
               receive
               a
               Seaven-fold
               more
               Wilfull
               and
               
                 Indomitable
                 Ignorance
              
               in
               relation
               to
               what
               is
               Convenient
               and
               becomming
               a
               
                 Citizen
                 of
                 the
                 World.
              
               A
               false
               Opinion
               of
               what
               he
               
                 Hath
                 not
              
               covering
               from
               his
               Apprehension
               such
               Defects
               as
               really
               he
               hath
               .
            
             
               Such
               as
               make
               Learning
               a
               full
               Imployment
               have
               their
               Judgement
               so
               over-awed
               by
               Antiquity
               ,
               that
               like
               Players
               they
               dare
               present
               nothing
               in
               publick
               but
               what
               their
               Poets
               have
               left
               them
               written
               .
               And
               if
               any
               Exception
               can
               be
               made
               against
               that
               generall
               Rule
               ,
               which
               Concludes
               
                 A
                 too
                 long
                 Continuance
                 at
                 the
                 University
                 no
                 great
                 Advancer
                 of
                 parts
                 ,
              
               it
               will
               be
               found
               amongst
               such
               as
               passed
               under
               the
               Notion
               of
               Raschalls
               and
               Libertine
               .
               
               It
               being
               obvious
               to
               Proof
               (
               if
               I
               were
               willing
               to
               register
               those
               
                 Glorious
                 Names
              
               under
               such
               a
               
                 Monstrous
                 Head
              
               )
               That
               none
               have
               graced
               Learning
               more
               then
               some
               the
               University
               hath
               exploded
               .
               Invention
               being
               an
               Art
               of
               too
               noble
               a
               nature
               ,
               to
               be
               learned
               under
               a
               Prentiship
               ,
               or
               the
               great
               Restraint
               of
               the
               Schools
               .
               That
               spoil
               and
               dead
               the
               fresh
               and
               piquant
               Tast
               of
               later
               and
               
                 New
                 Wits
              
               by
               putting
               them
               into
               
                 Old
                 Formes
              
               ,
               patched
               up
               with
               Sentences
               ,
               which
               doth
               unavoydably
               make
               a
               Rent
               in
               the
               
                 Authors
                 style
              
               .
               It
               being
               impossible
               for
               one
               to
               write
               or
               behave
               himself
               suitable
               to
               the
               gusto
               of
               all
               ,
               or
               of
               the
               Major
               part
               that
               hath
               not
               spent
               his
               time
               in
               a
               more
               
                 universall
                 Commerce
              
               then
               the
               guize
               of
               an
               Academy
               is
               able
               to
               afford
               .
               And
               if
               any
               doubt
               of
               this
               Truth
               ,
               shew
               the
               Infidel
               a
               meer-Schollar
               in
               the
               
                 Company
                 of
                 Ladies
              
               ;
               Or
               (
               that
               failing
               to
               Convert
               him
               ,
               )
               A
               
               managing
               his
               Horse
               ,
               or
               Estate
               after
               the
               old
               Idolater
               his
               Father
               or
               Uncle
               is
               dead
               ,
               Who
               thought
               no
               other
               Calves
               deserv'd
               to
               be
               Worshipfull
               that
               had
               not
               learn'd
               to
               bleat
               after
               the
               Mode
               of
               Dan
               or
               Bethel
               .
            
             
               The
               ancient
               and
               indeed
               most
               
                 Naturall
                 Tryall
              
               for
               Land
               in
               this
               Nation
               (
               since
               Strength
               and
               Valour
               measures
               out
               the
               Livelyhood
               and
               Place
               of
               Abode
               to
               every
               Creature
               )
               was
               by
               Combate
               :
               At
               this
               Day
               reduced
               into
               the
               Art
               of
               Fencing
               ,
               whose
               exactest
               Professors
               are
               not
               seldom
               confounded
               and
               beaten
               out
               of
               their
               Play
               by
               an
               
                 active
                 Country-man
              
               ,
               that
               owns
               no
               more
               Cunning
               then
               a
               
                 Robust
                 arm
              
               ,
               and
               a
               
                 quick
                 Eye
              
               is
               able
               to
               informe
               a
               Cudgell
               withall
               ,
               easily
               found
               in
               every
               Wood
               :
               Because
               managed
               contrary
               to
               a
               
                 premised
                 Method
              
               ;
               The
               practise
               of
               the
               Science
               ,
               (
               far
               easier
               call'd
               Noble
               then
               prov'd
               so
               )
               had
               onely
               acquainted
               the
               Fencer
               with
               ,
               who
               becomes
               
               further
               to
               seek
               ,
               and
               is
               put
               in
               a
               greater
               Disarray
               through
               this
               more
               Naturall
               ,
               but
               lesse
               Methodicall
               way
               ,
               then
               another
               possibly
               might
               have
               been
               ,
               that
               deals
               his
               Blowes
               by
               a
               lesse
               Artificiall
               Direction
               .
               The
               Faculties
               of
               Soul
               and
               Body
               being
               observed
               at
               long
               running
               to
               receive
               seldom
               amendment
               ,
               often
               Detriment
               from
               the
               Restrictions
               of
               Art
               :
               unlesse
               in
               things
               like
               Painting
               meerly
               Delusive
               ,
               or
               Grafting
               ,
               and
               Planting
               wholly
               Laborious
               .
               These
               being
               Imbellishers
               ,
               if
               not
               Restorers
               of
               Nature
               ,
               whereas
               the
               
                 Liberall
                 Sciences
              
               (
               as
               the
               Schools
               call
               them
               )
               Labour
               to
               Confine
               Experience
               within
               
                 Generall
                 Rules
              
               ,
               though
               found
               to
               be
               as
               Diffusive
               and
               Numberlesse
               as
               the
               Accidents
               and
               Events
               depending
               upon
               Motion
               .
               And
               through
               whose
               mediation
               alone
               Reason
               is
               capable
               of
               a
               further
               Improvement
               .
            
             
               As
               Mans
               refusing
               no
               Nourishment
               
               hath
               already
               been
               owned
               (
               and
               I
               doubt
               not
               but
               under
               the
               Favour
               of
               some
               seeming
               probability
               at
               least
               )
               for
               an
               Advancer
               of
               that
               Wisdom
               ,
               we
               transcend
               the
               rest
               of
               
                 Gods
                 Creatures
              
               in
               .
               So
               I
               presume
               it
               may
               as
               rationally
               be
               proposed
               for
               an
               Occasion
               of
               long
               Life
               :
               Since
               through
               so
               various
               a
               Change
               of
               Meates
               the
               severall
               Humours
               of
               our
               Bodies
               are
               in
               a
               continuall
               Vicissitude
               so
               stimulated
               and
               held
               in
               such
               an
               equall
               Contest
               ,
               as
               neither
               Heat
               nor
               
                 Cold
                 ,
                 Drowth
              
               nor
               Moysture
               are
               suffered
               to
               exceed
               that
               just
               Proportion
               Nature
               hath
               assigned
               to
               maintain
               all
               things
               in
               Being
               :
               Few
               Creatures
               attaining
               to
               so
               
                 long
                 a
                 Continuance
              
               as
               
                 Elephants
                 ,
                 Horses
              
               ,
               &c.
               most
               Domesticall
               with
               Men
               ,
               which
               by
               reason
               of
               the
               great
               Variety
               of
               Herbs
               they
               feed
               on
               in
               Summer
               ,
               and
               their
               
                 Dry
                 Dyet
              
               in
               Winter
               (
               Noted
               by
               
                 That
                 Honourable
                 Restorer
                 of
                 Philosophy
              
               for
               a
               great
               
                 Prolonger
                 of
                 Life
              
               )
               
               do
               not
               seldom
               reach
               the
               most
               ordinary
               Ages
               of
               Men.
               And
               amongst
               Birds
               ,
               those
               of
               
                 Prey
                 ,
                 Parrats
              
               and
               Geese
               ;
               the
               First
               feeding
               on
               all
               sorts
               of
               Flesh
               ,
               nor
               will
               they
               refuse
               Fish
               upon
               occasion
               ;
               As
               the
               Second
               of
               every
               thing
               eatable
               by
               us
               ;
               The
               Third
               upon
               what
               is
               held
               venemous
               to
               Human
               Nature
               ,
               besides
               Grasse
               and
               Corne.
               Whereas
               
                 Doves
                 ,
                 Sparrowe
              
               ,
               &c.
               are
               of
               
                 short
                 Continuance
              
               ;
               To
               which
               I
               shall
               onely
               adde
               ,
               in
               Favour
               of
               my
               former
               Assertion
               ,
               That
               the
               Fowles
               first
               mentioned
               come
               short
               in
               understanding
               of
               nothing
               that
               hath
               Wings
               .
            
             
               I
               heard
               it
               First
               affirmed
               by
               a
               
                 French
                 Student
              
               in
               Physick
               ,
               and
               known
               it
               verified
               by
               my
               own
               Experience
               in
               relation
               to
               many
               That
               all
               
                 Fowle
                 may
                 be
                 eaten
              
               ,
               (
               if
               not
               for
               Delight
               )
               in
               a
               Siege
               ,
               or
               time
               of
               Necessity
               ,
               without
               Danger
               .
               Opinion
               rather
               then
               Nature
               having
               caused
               a
               Disgust
               generally
               
               arising
               against
               some
               (
               of
               Themselves
               )
               
                 Delicate
                 Meats
              
               ,
               as
               my
               Self
               can
               attest
               for
               
                 Young-Bald-Bazzards
                 ,
                 Sparrow-Hawkes
                 ,
                 Owles
              
               ,
               &c.
               
               Together
               with
               a
               Number
               of
               Things
               more
               an
               effeminate
               Nicenesse
               hath
               exploded
               our
               Tables
               .
               Yet
               in
               the
               mean
               time
               
                 Mushromes
                 ,
                 Frogs
                 ,
                 Whelkes
                 ,
                 Snayles
                 ,
              
               &c.
               have
               crawled
               into
               the
               Dishes
               of
               Princes
               ,
               and
               are
               daily
               eaten
               in
               their
               Courts
               for
               Dainties
               ,
               which
               amongst
               other
               Viands
               not
               in
               use
               amongst
               our
               Ancestours
               are
               not
               unlikely
               to
               Occasion
               other
               Vapours
               then
               their
               more
               Unsophisticated
               Food
               did
               Alembecke
               the
               Heads
               of
               such
               orderly
               Persons
               withall
               ,
               whose
               Dreames
               if
               not
               
                 Waking
                 Imaginations
              
               must
               needs
               differ
               from
               ours
               .
               As
               I
               can
               instance
               from
               a
               repeated
               Experiment
               ofmy
               own
               ,
               Who
               encouraged
               through
               the
               former
               mentioned
               
                 French
                 man's
              
               Confidence
               ,
               did
               eat
               at
               Supper
               a
               considerable
               
               Quantity
               of
               the
               Green-woodspite
               with
               the
               Long-Tongue
               .
               After
               which
               I
               found
               my
               Sleep
               taken
               up
               with
               uncouth
               and
               (
               as
               I
               then
               apprehended
               )
               no
               
                 Impertinent
                 Fancies
              
               ,
               the
               Cause
               I
               made
               a
               Second
               Experiment
               ,
               with
               the
               like
               Successe
               .
               From
               whence
               may
               be
               deduced
               ,
               That
               if
               our
               Nourishment
               or
               any
               Outward
               or
               Inward
               Application
               or
               Disgestion
               may
               be
               of
               force
               to
               inspire
               Sleep
               with
               various
               Dreams
               ,
               which
               remembred
               waking
               seem
               not
               unworthy
               our
               own
               most
               serious
               Meditations
               no
               lesse
               then
               the
               Attention
               of
               others
               more
               Wise.
               Man
               alone
               that
               hath
               extended
               his
               Food
               over
               all
               things
               eatable
               cannot
               but
               participate
               of
               every
               Effect
               they
               are
               either
               in
               grosse
               or
               respectively
               lyable
               unto
               ,
               and
               so
               Capable
               of
               a
               more
               Diffusive
               Knowledge
               then
               the
               Creatures
               ,
               not
               able
               to
               disgest
               that
               
                 Variety
                 Custome
              
               hath
               rendred
               the
               Stomackes
               of
               Men
               familiar
               
               withall
               .
               Theirs
               being
               commonly
               of
               
                 One
                 Temper
              
               and
               without
               Mixture
               .
               
                 Ours
                 Hot
              
               and
               
                 Cold
                 ,
                 Dry
              
               and
               Moyst
               ,
               bordering
               upon
               the
               next
               Confines
               of
               Poyson
               ;
               And
               not
               seldom
               a
               Composition
               of
               all
               Contrarieties
               together
               .
               Now
               if
               our
               Bodies
               (
               as
               
                 Doctor
                 Browne
              
               no
               lesse
               wittily
               then
               truly
               saith
               )
               
                 are
                 in
                 a
                 small
                 revolution
                 of
                 Time
                 licked
                 from
                 our
                 Trenchers
                 ,
              
               why
               may
               not
               what
               we
               Eat
               ,
               work
               as
               effectually
               upon
               our
               Spirits
               as
               Flesh
               ,
               and
               as
               well
               waking
               as
               asleep
               ?
            
             
               Upon
               the
               first
               view
               of
               
                 Cornelius
                 Agrippa's
                 Vanity
                 of
                 Sciences
              
               ,
               I
               did
               applaud
               his
               Diligence
               ,
               in
               becomming
               so
               versed
               in
               every
               Profession
               ,
               no
               lesse
               then
               his
               resolute
               Detection
               of
               their
               Abuses
               :
               By
               which
               he
               confirms
               me
               in
               the
               Opinion
               ,
               That
               what
               we
               esteem
               Wisdom
               ,
               is
               of
               no
               more
               Signall
               Advantage
               (
               as
               I
               have
               often
               said
               )
               then
               what
               is
               deduceable
               out
               of
               
               the
               Weaknesse
               of
               others
               .
               Yet
               upon
               Inspection
               into
               the
               Bottom
               of
               his
               Reprehensions
               ,
               I
               find
               the
               World
               is
               held
               up
               and
               kept
               in
               plight
               meerly
               by
               Cheating
               :
               So
               as
               those
               Trades
               he
               hath
               reduced
               under
               a
               Numeration
               are
               not
               only
               Guilty
               ,
               but
               Himselfe
               and
               all
               such
               as
               make
               it
               their
               Pastime
               if
               not
               their
               business
               to
               be
               Scepticall
               in
               what
               is
               generally
               lookt
               upon
               as
               Certain
               ;
               and
               to
               fish
               for
               more
               probable
               Truths
               in
               the
               Depths
               of
               Nature
               .
               Where
               nothing
               is
               found
               pure
               without
               Mixture
               ,
               (
               if
               we
               may
               not
               with
               Reverence
               say
               Sophistication
               )
               to
               her
               very
               Products
               of
               Life
               and
               Death
               .
               Since
               the
               one
               would
               be
               as
               farre
               to
               seek
               of
               any
               Content
               in
               the
               Absence
               of
               Hope
               ,
               as
               the
               Other
               of
               Bitternesse
               out
               of
               the
               Presence
               of
               Feare
               .
               Now
               since
               the
               Mother
               of
               
                 All
                 Things
              
               useth
               such
               slights
               to
               flatter
               her
               Children
               into
               the
               Act
               of
               Generation
               ,
               for
               her
               own
               sake
               of
               Continuance
               ,
               and
               for
               the
               
               same
               hath
               represented
               Death
               in
               the
               most
               odious
               Aspect
               ,
               to
               Terrifie
               us
               out
               of
               the
               Desire
               of
               the
               Grave
               ,
               (
               which
               though
               opposite
               to
               her
               present
               Intention
               ,
               cannot
               but
               be
               as
               necessary
               to
               a
               Future
               ,
               and
               that
               which
               Religion
               teacheth
               ,
               is
               only
               Capable
               to
               make
               us
               in
               the
               least
               measure
               Happy
               )
               How
               should
               her
               Creature
               Man
               produce
               more
               usefull
               ,
               or
               gather
               more
               Lasting
               Fruit
               then
               Those
               of
               Sodom
               ,
               that
               vanish
               upon
               the
               offer
               of
               Fruition
               ,
               since
               the
               most
               beneficial
               Calling
               or
               Imployment
               is
               uncapable
               of
               affording
               a
               more
               
                 Honourable
                 Salary
              
               ,
               then
               Industry
               can
               worm
               out
               of
               the
               Wants
               of
               Others
               ?
               From
               whence
               we
               may
               safely
               affirm
               ,
               
                 That
                 Sin
              
               is
               the
               chiefest
               Task-master
               ,
               Since
               the
               most
               are
               busied
               about
               what
               is
               
                 Destructive
                 ,
                 Superfluous
              
               ,
               or
               uncertain
               .
               And
               to
               remove
               this
               from
               
                 vulgar
                 Understandings
              
               ,
               the
               best
               and
               readiest
               Chapman
               for
               all
               Things
               adulterated
               
               in
               reference
               to
               
                 Honour
                 ,
                 Profit
              
               ,
               and
               
                 Universall
                 Good
                 and
                 Tranquillity
              
               ,
               the
               Preservation
               of
               which
               hath
               diminished
               much
               of
               the
               Naturall
               Stock
               belonging
               to
               Particulars
               .
               Such
               ranting
               Termes
               as
               Agrippa
               mentions
               ,
               are
               stuffed
               into
               all
               Sciences
               .
               Through
               which
               the
               most
               Familiar
               Things
               are
               rendred
               unintelligible
               without
               a
               Lexicon
               .
               And
               in
               no
               other
               respect
               usefull
               ,
               then
               like
               
                 Gawdy
                 Shells
              
               ,
               and
               Glistering
               Stones
               to
               adorn
               the
               
                 Fountains
                 of
                 Learning
              
               towards
               the
               Gratification
               of
               their
               Eyes
               ,
               who
               led
               by
               the
               Ocean
               of
               Books
               that
               daily
               issue
               out
               ,
               come
               to
               visit
               them
               like
               the
               Heads
               of
               Nilus
               .
               Though
               such
               Cawting
               cannot
               but
               be
               Destructive
               to
               nearer
               Relations
               ,
               by
               which
               every
               Profession
               is
               furnished
               with
               an
               Opportunity
               of
               Deceit
               ,
               to
               the
               end
               of
               the
               Chapter
               of
               Trade
               .
               The
               Continuance
               of
               which
               renders
               the
               Buyer
               oftentimes
               further
               to
               seek
               in
               the
               
               Knowledge
               of
               the
               Name
               ,
               then
               the
               Thing
               .
               An
               inconvenience
               so
               visible
               and
               Epidemicall
               ,
               as
               it
               could
               never
               have
               come
               under
               my
               Pen
               ,
               had
               it
               continued
               within
               the
               Circle
               of
               Men
               obnoxious
               to
               the
               like
               Fault
               ,
               and
               not
               fallen
               so
               heavy
               upon
               Children
               ,
               whose
               misery
               no
               lesse
               then
               Losse
               of
               Time
               I
               have
               not
               yet
               forgot
               ;
               indur'd
               and
               spent
               upon
               Formes
               little
               Different
               from
               those
               of
               a
               Gally
               ,
               to
               no
               more
               Thriving
               an
               Intention
               in
               reference
               to
               the
               Publick
               ,
               Then
               Apothecaries
               paynt
               and
               adorn
               their
               Shops
               which
               is
               to
               delude
               the
               Ignorant
               ,
               and
               hide
               from
               Inspection
               such
               Arts
               as
               lye
               more
               in
               Parade
               then
               Substance
               .
               The
               Occasion
               not
               onely
               of
               a
               greater
               Expence
               of
               Yeares
               in
               this
               Lymbo
               ,
               to
               the
               losse
               of
               the
               more
               usefull
               vision
               of
               Experience
               ,
               but
               a
               smaller
               proficiency
               in
               Learning
               ,
               such
               being
               held
               so
               long
               viewing
               the
               Superscription
               ,
               as
               small
               leasure
               (
               if
               any
               
               desire
               )
               is
               left
               to
               consider
               the
               Contents
               .
               Nor
               doth
               the
               universality
               of
               this
               Abuse
               render
               it
               more
               tolerable
               then
               the
               Multitude
               ,
               as
               well
               as
               variety
               of
               Company
               can
               the
               
                 Paynes
                 of
                 Hell.
                 Learning
              
               running
               in
               this
               Course
               so
               contrary
               to
               what
               She
               professes
               ,
               which
               is
               to
               render
               
                 Reason
                 more
                 playn
              
               ,
               That
               She
               brings
               ,
               like
               Eve
               a
               
                 Totter'd
                 Apron
              
               to
               cover
               it
               .
            
             
               Though
               Chalk-Stones
               may
               appear
               of
               too
               weak
               and
               soft
               a
               Temper
               to
               perfect
               a
               Fabrick
               ,
               yet
               they
               become
               usefull
               and
               necessary
               to
               mark
               and
               delineate
               the
               
                 First
                 Grounds
              
               for
               the
               Greatest
               and
               most
               exact
               Designes
               :
               So
               Idea's
               the
               Embryo's
               of
               Knowledge
               ,
               are
               not
               seldom
               found
               in
               Heads
               apter
               for
               Conception
               ,
               then
               Production
               .
               It
               being
               a
               labour
               proper
               and
               peculiar
               to
               Jupiter
               alone
               to
               be
               at
               once
               delivered
               of
               so
               exact
               a
               Minerva
               ,
               &
               so
               strongly
               arm'd
               as
               may
               be
               proof
               against
               Detraction
               &
               Emendation
               .
               
               
                 Yet
                 rambling
                 Wits
              
               ought
               (
               in
               my
               poor
               Judgement
               )
               to
               be
               indulged
               ,
               because
               by
               Crumbling
               their
               Conjectures
               on
               all
               Subjects
               ,
               they
               have
               in
               every
               Age
               further
               inriched
               the
               World
               ,
               then
               
                 Solider
                 understandings
              
               are
               known
               to
               have
               done
               .
               Which
               may
               appear
               upon
               Tryall
               fitter
               for
               Nourses
               then
               Mothers
               ,
               whom
               in
               a
               short
               Time
               they
               teach
               their
               Children
               to
               forget
               ,
               and
               
                 Call
                 that
                 by
                 their
                 own
                 Names
                 ,
              
               never
               cost
               them
               more
               paynes
               then
               to
               Educate
               and
               (
               loath
               suteably
               to
               the
               Apprehensions
               of
               Men.
               A
               Truth
               so
               manifest
               ,
               That
               if
               all
               the
               Arts
               (
               not
               to
               mention
               the
               Altars
               )
               were
               forced
               to
               refund
               what
               hath
               been
               primitively
               borrowed
               from
               the
               Poets
               ,
               They
               would
               (
               if
               not
               be
               Naked
               )
               want
               many
               of
               their
               richest
               Ornaments
               .
               And
               if
               we
               call
               to
               Account
               who
               first
               did
               embellish
               our
               Language
               ,
               we
               shall
               not
               finde
               them
               amongst
               the
               
                 Greatest
                 Clarks
              
               ,
               but
               
               such
               as
               were
               more
               Conversant
               with
               Men
               then
               Books
               .
               For
               though
               the
               First
               like
               Flegmatick
               Cattle
               ,
               hanging
               their
               Noses
               still
               over
               their
               Tables
               ,
               may
               appear
               more
               plomp
               and
               voluminous
               ,
               yet
               such
               as
               with
               the
               Eagle
               Survay
               the
               World
               ,
               cannot
               but
               be
               more
               Active
               and
               Exemplary
               .
            
             
               Nature
               holds
               out
               proof
               against
               all
               Constraint
               .
               For
               if
               violated
               in
               one
               sense
               ,
               it
               is
               still
               for
               a
               Gratification
               of
               some
               other
               Passion
               or
               Affection
               ,
               at
               the
               present
               more
               prevalent
               .
               
                 Coneys
                 ,
                 Ferrets
              
               ,
               &c.
               do
               not
               seldom
               devoure
               their
               young
               ,
               but
               't
               is
               alwayes
               for
               want
               of
               Water
               or
               Meat
               .
               Nor
               are
               Women
               (
               out
               of
               Feare
               and
               Shame
               of
               what
               Law
               hath
               rather
               forged
               then
               found
               in
               the
               Records
               of
               Nature
               )
               lesse
               cruel
               to
               their
               Children
               ,
               when
               squeezed
               between
               the
               Bark
               of
               Reproach
               ,
               and
               the
               dreadfull
               Tree
               of
               Destruction
               ,
               they
               make
               them
               away
               .
            
             
             
               For
               though
               Nature
               hath
               placed
               Mother
               and
               Child
               in
               a
               relation
               next
               
                 in
                 blood
              
               ;
               She
               hath
               removed
               them
               many
               Degrees
               off
               in
               that
               of
               Affection
               ,
               ever
               most
               prevalent
               in
               reference
               to
               Themselves
               ;
               Especially
               when
               
                 all
                 hope
              
               determines
               as
               it
               doth
               here
               .
            
             
               To
               conclude
               ,
               Selfe-Murther
               (
               as
               we
               call
               it
               ,
               though
               reckoned
               amongst
               the
               highest
               results
               of
               Valour
               )
               being
               still
               to
               avoyd
               a
               present
               ,
               or
               put
               to
               silence
               all
               expectation
               of
               
                 Future
                 Misery
              
               ,
               esteemed
               worse
               then
               Death
               ,
               may
               no
               more
               then
               the
               rest
               be
               contrary
               to
               the
               award
               of
               this
               
                 universall
                 Mistresse
              
               ,
               whose
               highest
               intention
               is
               Well-being
               ,
               no
               more
               then
               it
               is
               against
               Reason
               
                 Of
                 two
                 Evills
                 to
                 make
                 choyce
                 of
                 the
                 Least
                 .
              
            
             
               No
               Element
               is
               found
               lyable
               to
               a
               more
               generall
               Diminution
               then
               it
               is
               subject
               to
               an
               universal
               Excesse
               .
               Manifest
               in
               the
               Sea
               ,
               that
               receives
               not
               
               any
               Augmentation
               from
               the
               greatest
               Confluence
               of
               Land-Floods
               .
               The
               Reason
               is
               ,
               That
               her
               Commings-in
               are
               Mathematically
               adjousted
               to
               her
               Layings-out
               .
               All
               possible
               Abatements
               in
               one
               place
               being
               reemburs'd
               in
               another
               ,
               by
               a
               continuall
               Bartering
               and
               Exchange
               .
               From
               whence
               through
               a
               Naturall
               Chimistry
               so
               much
               is
               Commuted
               or
               Calcin'd
               as
               onely
               makes
               good
               the
               
                 Principall
                 Stock
              
               without
               incroachment
               upon
               Superfluity
               or
               Want.
               
            
             
               Such
               as
               seek
               further
               after
               their
               own
               Originall
               ,
               or
               are
               in
               Quest
               of
               a
               remoter
               Cause
               then
               God
               ,
               prosecure
               a
               no
               lesse
               impertinent
               Study
               ,
               and
               from
               whence
               no
               more
               certain
               Solution
               can
               be
               expected
               then
               Conjecture
               is
               able
               to
               return
               their
               Curiosity
               ,
               who
               endeavour
               to
               find
               out
               what
               Mutations
               may
               succeed
               after
               Death
               hath
               determined
               their
               Speculation
               shall
               cease
               .
               It
               being
               equally
               
               impossible
               to
               discover
               our
               first
               Production
               ,
               as
               for
               a
               Child
               ,
               without
               Direction
               ,
               to
               know
               the
               Midwife
               that
               brought
               him
               into
               the
               World
               ,
               or
               the
               precise
               part
               of
               it
               whereon
               he
               was
               born
               .
               Wherefore
               out
               of
               the
               power
               of
               any
               thing
               but
               Omnisciency
               to
               extend
               a
               Pedigree
               beyond
               the
               Line
               of
               ordinary
               Generation
               .
               That
               related
               by
               Moses
               pointing
               more
               to
               Obedience
               ,
               and
               an
               exact
               Observation
               of
               the
               Sabbath
               (
               not
               till
               long
               after
               the
               Creation
               indulged
               through
               any
               reveal'd
               Practice
               )
               then
               the
               fomenting
               of
               Understanding
               not
               improperly
               alleadged
               for
               the
               Discoverer
               if
               not
               the
               Occasion
               of
               Infelicity
               ;
               Man
               remaining
               in
               a
               more
               entire
               Tranquillity
               under
               a
               Calm
               Ignorance
               then
               such
               a
               turbulent
               and
               indeterminable
               Knowledge
               .
               Which
               like
               the
               Aprons
               it
               first
               produced
               ,
               is
               patched
               up
               with
               so
               many
               Leaves
               of
               
                 Contrary
                 Operations
                 ,
                 Ends
              
               ,
               and
               Applications
               ,
               that
               
               under
               presence
               of
               a
               Covering
               for
               our
               Shame
               ,
               it
               doth
               daily
               reveal
               more
               Mischief
               ,
               and
               is
               by
               reason
               of
               a
               Subtilty
               learn'd
               from
               the
               Serpent
               ,
               able
               to
               Conceal
               greater
               
                 Malice
                 ,
                 Sin
                 and
                 Wickednesse
              
               (
               The
               Originall
               of
               Infelicity
               )
               then
               Naked-mankind
               had
               ever
               been
               Capable
               of
               without
               it
               .
               So
               as
               no
               thanks
               remaines
               due
               to
               it
               ,
               but
               what
               may
               result
               from
               the
               Abbreviation
               of
               Life
               .
               It
               being
               an
               undenyable
               Truth
               ,
               That
               the
               production
               of
               every
               Child
               ,
               is
               if
               not
               an
               Advancer
               of
               the
               
                 Monarchy
                 of
                 Reason
              
               in
               its
               own
               Person
               ,
               the
               doubted
               Subject
               of
               others
               Deceit
               ,
               and
               Oppression
               .
               Humane
               Wisdom
               being
               of
               little
               larger
               Extent
               ,
               then
               what
               it
               is
               able
               to
               purchase
               and
               find
               room
               for
               through
               an
               Incroachment
               and
               Advantage
               made
               and
               taken
               of
               others
               Folly
               and
               Defects
               .
               And
               from
               this
               the
               
                 Whole
                 World
              
               comes
               to
               be
               so
               universally
               Inhabited
               ,
               Every
               Family
               seeking
               rest
               
               by
               Evasion
               .
               It
               being
               as
               Naturall
               for
               Strife
               to
               abound
               where
               Want
               is
               as
               for
               Strength
               to
               prevail
               .
               Wherefore
               Sin
               must
               needs
               be
               an
               Effect
               if
               not
               of
               Eating
               ,
               of
               Excesse
               :
               Through
               which
               man
               out
               of
               Love
               ,
               for
               Himself
               ,
               came
               to
               Robbe
               others
               ,
               And
               to
               obviate
               the
               Differences
               ,
               could
               not
               but
               arise
               from
               Inequality
               in
               
                 Strength
                 ,
                 Appetites
              
               ,
               and
               
                 Desires
                 ,
                 Government
              
               was
               instituted
               .
               Towards
               whose
               Favour
               all
               Lawes
               both
               Civill
               and
               Divine
               are
               either
               taught
               ,
               or
               do
               naturally
               incline
               .
               Yet
               if
               any
               in
               Curiosity
               desire
               to
               make
               scrutiny
               into
               their
               own
               Originall
               ,
               I
               cannot
               but
               with
               Solomon
               send
               them
               to
               the
               Insects
               for
               their
               further
               Satisfaction
               ,
               and
               perswade
               them
               to
               be
               more
               studious
               after
               the
               Causes
               of
               such
               Animalls
               as
               the
               Sun
               doth
               yearly
               Create
               or
               regenerate
               .
               And
               to
               enquire
               whether
               matter
               may
               not
               be
               so
               prepared
               and
               adapted
               by
               us
               as
               it
               shall
               be
               Capable
               
               of
               Animation
               through
               a
               propensity
               to
               that
               regular
               and
               even
               proportion
               of
               
                 Weight
                 and
                 Measure
              
               ,
               naturally
               required
               by
               the
               
                 First
                 Agents
                 of
                 Life
              
               .
               Nor
               can
               any
               Cause
               of
               Discouragement
               be
               well
               apprehended
               in
               the
               Prosecution
               of
               
                 Life's
                 Originall
              
               ,
               through
               a
               more
               curious
               Inspection
               into
               the
               
                 Production
                 of
                 Insects
              
               ,
               which
               once
               perfectly
               survey'd
               and
               found
               out
               ,
               cannot
               but
               open
               a
               Window
               towards
               the
               prospect
               of
               
                 Our
                 own
                 beginning
              
               .
               Since
               he
               that
               hath
               discovered
               the
               Spring
               by
               which
               a
               small
               Watch
               is
               Inlived
               ,
               not
               to
               be
               denyed
               the
               neater
               workmanship
               ,
               cannot
               in
               reason
               be
               farre
               to
               seek
               what
               causeth
               and
               continues
               the
               Operations
               of
               a
               Church-Clock
               ;
               Their
               Motions
               being
               one
               and
               the
               same
               ,
               no
               lesse
               then
               their
               Engines
               ,
               though
               bound
               up
               in
               a
               smaller
               Volume
               ,
               and
               supported
               by
               more
               Leggs
               and
               Feet
               .
               Nor
               are
               there
               found
               above
               one
               or
               two
               considerable
               
               Obstructions
               lying
               in
               the
               way
               of
               this
               endeavour
               .
               And
               those
               no
               further
               binding
               then
               a
               Commission
               received
               from
               Custome
               hath
               power
               to
               oblige
               .
               Of
               which
               the
               First
               is
               an
               Implicite
               and
               blinde
               adhering
               to
               the
               Votes
               and
               Presidents
               derived
               to
               us
               from
               Antiqulty
               ,
               not
               considering
               ,
               There
               may
               not
               unpossibly
               lye
               as
               vast
               a
               World
               of
               Truth
               beyond
               this
               rotten
               Barre
               ,
               as
               Experience
               hath
               shewn
               us
               of
               Land
               and
               Nations
               ,
               which
               never
               fell
               within
               the
               Compasse
               of
               the
               
                 Old
                 Maps
              
               or
               these
               Writers
               Cognizance
               .
               And
               as
               this
               renders
               the
               further
               Indeavour
               after
               knowledge
               ,
               a
               Lost-Labour
               in
               the
               Conceit
               of
               Dunses
               ;
               So
               our
               Torrify'd
               .
               Brayn'd
               Zealots
               ,
               through
               as
               great
               a
               Mistake
               in
               Scripture
               apprehend
               it
               as
               Damnable
               .
               Yet
               the
               Reason
               of
               the
               First
               ;
               no
               lesse
               then
               the
               Consciences
               of
               the
               Latter
               might
               receive
               Satisfaction
               from
               
                 Dr.
                 Hackwells
                 Apology
              
               ,
               
               were
               they
               capable
               of
               it
               .
               To
               which
               may
               be
               added
               ,
               That
               since
               many
               Words
               and
               Actions
               recited
               of
               the
               Patriarchs
               ,
               do
               in
               all
               Judgements
               deviate
               from
               the
               exacter
               Lines
               of
               Morality
               (
               The
               Principall
               ,
               if
               not
               the
               only
               End
               of
               their
               Manifestation
               )
               What
               Caution
               can
               be
               given
               ,
               or
               Assurance
               taken
               for
               their
               Infallibility
               in
               Philosophy
               ?
               the
               inculcation
               of
               which
               was
               never
               intended
               ,
               But
               what
               is
               found
               said
               in
               Relation
               to
               it
               ,
               rather
               accommodated
               to
               the
               
                 vulgar
                 Opinion
              
               ,
               then
               any
               
                 Imperative
                 Truth
              
               .
               From
               whence
               may
               be
               gathered
               ,
               That
               
                 Joshua's
                 Bidding
                 the
                 Sun
                 stand
                 still
                 ,
              
               is
               no
               more
               Argument
               for
               the
               Motion
               of
               it
               ,
               Then
               
                 Jacob's
                 deluding
                 his
                 Brother
              
               may
               be
               pleaded
               in
               the
               Justification
               of
               Mine
               .
               Wherefore
               He
               that
               out
               of
               a
               venerable
               Esteeme
               of
               the
               
                 Sacred
                 Text
              
               ,
               gives
               Credit
               to
               a
               Prolongation
               of
               the
               Day
               ,
               and
               so
               a
               full
               performance
               of
               all
               the
               Ends
               and
               
               Purposes
               for
               which
               the
               request
               was
               made
               ,
               it
               matters
               not
               in
               relation
               to
               Faith
               ,
               whether
               it
               resulted
               from
               the
               Sun
               's
               or
               the
               
                 Earth's
                 Motion
                 .
                 Joshua
              
               being
               the
               Generall
               of
               an
               Army
               not
               a
               professed
               Philosopher
               .
               So
               no
               lesse
               uncapable
               of
               a
               Mistake
               in
               the
               Mathematicks
               then
               Elijah
               was
               in
               the
               Calculation
               of
               Gods
               Servants
               whom
               he
               summed
               up
               in
               his
               peculiar
               Person
               ,
               till
               his
               Arithmetick
               was
               better
               regulated
               by
               the
               Essence
               of
               Number
               ,
               &c.
               
               Nor
               did
               our
               Saviour
               discountenance
               this
               Opinion
               ,
               when
               He
               according
               to
               the
               usuall
               Mode
               of
               the
               Place
               ,
               Did
               lift
               up
               his
               
                 Eyes
                 towards
                 Heaven
              
               ,
               Though
               he
               did
               know
               ,
               and
               Teach
               us
               That
               the
               Father
               was
               not
               onely
               resident
               in
               Himself
               ,
               but
               together
               with
               all
               Things
               In
               and
               Under
               the
               Earth
               .
               As
               for
               
                 Other
                 Rubbs
              
               lying
               in
               the
               Way
               of
               a
               further
               
                 Inquisition
                 after
                 Knowledge
              
               (
               all
               being
               readier
               to
               cast
               Reproach
               and
               Inke
               in
               the
               Face
               of
               a
               
               Projectour
               ,
               then
               to
               assist
               for
               the
               present
               ,
               or
               help
               in
               the
               Future
               ,
               unlesse
               after
               Death
               )
               To
               Improve
               to
               the
               best
               Advantage
               what
               perhaps
               he
               has
               not
               strength
               alone
               to
               produce
               .
               I
               look
               upon
               them
               in
               Some
               as
               a
               Design
               to
               guard
               their
               Callings
               from
               Inspection
               :
               And
               in
               Others
               as
               an
               
                 Obstinate
                 Ignorance
              
               engendred
               out
               of
               Shame
               to
               Confess
               Themselves
               no
               lesse
               then
               their
               Teachers
               ,
               to
               have
               for
               so
               many
               Ages
               ,
               been
               Promoters
               of
               ,
               and
               satisfied
               With
               what
               now
               doth
               plainly
               appeare
               to
               be
               meere
               Figments
               ,
               &c.
               
            
             
               Fancy
               is
               the
               Mould
               and
               Pencill
               that
               shapes
               the
               Forme
               ,
               and
               casts
               the
               Colour
               upon
               Man
               and
               Beast
               ,
               according
               to
               the
               Pattern
               presented
               to
               it
               by
               the
               Senses
               .
               Though
               it
               may
               be
               look'd
               upon
               in
               the
               Schooles
               ,
               under
               an
               inferiour
               Notion
               ,
               where
               the
               Custom
               is
               ,
               to
               be
               most
               Fruitfull
               in
               Termes
               when
               they
               are
               most
               Barren
               
               of
               Understanding
               ,
               Tying
               Knot
               upon
               Knot
               ,
               when
               she
               findes
               her
               Nailes
               too
               short
               ,
               for
               the
               unravelling
               of
               the
               First
               .
               Especially
               upon
               hir
               Endeavours
               to
               enlarge
               
                 The
                 Excellencies
                 of
                 Man
              
               (
               whom
               in
               a
               high
               Rant
               she
               styles
               a
               
                 Little
                 World
              
               )
               above
               his
               Fellow-Creatures
               .
               And
               to
               make
               this
               good
               ,
               places
               in
               one
               part
               of
               his
               Head
               ,
               a
               receptacle
               for
               Memory
               ,
               and
               others
               for
               
                 Invention
                 ,
                 Reason
              
               ,
               &c.
               
               Besides
               a
               Number
               of
               Mansions
               more
               ,
               Scituated
               in
               the
               Heart
               for
               
                 Vertues
                 ,
                 Passions
              
               ,
               and
               Affections
               .
               Though
               upon
               a
               strict
               
                 Scrutiny
                 the
                 same
                 Goods
              
               may
               be
               found
               in
               the
               Beast
               ,
               and
               farre
               more
               useful
               ,
               and
               lesse
               Contaminated
               through
               a
               Greasie-Diet
               ,
               and
               Exorbitant
               Pursuite
               after
               Pleasure
               ,
               by
               which
               Men
               become
               worse
               then
               Beasts
               ,
               gratifying
               their
               Tast
               at
               the
               Prejudice
               of
               all
               the
               rest
               of
               the
               Senses
               ,
               the
               Naturall
               Guardes
               of
               Safety
               ,
               yet
               manifest
               amongst
               the
               
               more
               temperate
               Indians
               ,
               reported
               (
               Like
               our
               
                 English
                 Crowes
              
               )
               to
               Smell
               Gunpowder
               at
               a
               great
               Distance
               ,
               gayning
               nothing
               by
               the
               Change
               but
               an
               
                 Imperfect
                 Reason
              
               ,
               which
               with
               That
               
                 Inchanted
                 Horne
              
               blown
               by
               the
               Satyre
               ,
               doth
               terrifie
               more
               then
               Confirme
               or
               resolve
               ,
               such
               as
               own
               and
               make
               use
               of
               it
               .
               Yet
               we
               passe
               over
               in
               the
               Creature
               ,
               greater
               and
               more
               certain
               Advantages
               ,
               without
               Notice
               or
               under
               Contempt
               .
               Forgetting
               ,
               That
               if
               we
               allow
               them
               Fancy
               ,
               which
               like
               a
               Looking-Glasse
               doth
               not
               only
               retaine
               the
               Outward
               Figures
               Sense
               presents
               us
               with
               ,
               But
               doth
               reverberate
               those
               Censures
               upon
               it
               ,
               as
               are
               observed
               to
               perplex
               or
               quiet
               the
               Passions
               in
               both
               ,
               What
               huge
               Advantage
               is
               left
               Man
               to
               boast
               of
               ,
               more
               ,
               Then
               that
               it
               may
               be
               Better
               Scituated
               ,
               or
               is
               of
               a
               
                 Greater
                 Circumference
              
               in
               Us
               then
               Them
               ?
               Growing
               like
               the
               
                 Chrystalline
                 Humour
              
               in
               the
               
               Eyes
               quicker
               from
               a
               
                 Variation
                 of
                 Objects
              
               .
               And
               hence
               cannot
               be
               denyed
               to
               result
               all
               the
               Wisdom
               discernable
               in
               both
               ,
               with
               which
               by
               reason
               of
               Discourse
               ,
               We
               are
               able
               to
               make
               the
               
                 Lowder
                 Noyse
              
               ,
               though
               They
               are
               not
               found
               
                 Quite
                 silent
              
               ,
               and
               no
               lesse
               ready
               then
               able
               in
               case
               of
               
                 Danger
                 ,
                 to
                 advice
                 one
                 the
                 other
                 ,
              
               as
               every
               Fowler
               can
               upon
               his
               Knowledg
               attest
               .
               Yet
               the
               whole
               Extent
               of
               both
               our
               Capacities
               lyes
               in
               no
               larger
               a
               Circle
               ,
               then
               that
               of
               Others
               Follies
               .
               Onely
               in
               Things
               not
               yet
               fallen
               within
               the
               Compasse
               of
               Experience
               and
               in
               relation
               to
               Prognostication
               ,
               or
               Prediction
               ,
               the
               Creature
               hath
               the
               Preheminence
               ,
               out
               of
               a
               more
               accurate
               Vivacity
               in
               Sense
               .
            
             
               The
               World
               labours
               of
               a
               
                 Double
                 Quartane
              
               ,
               wherein
               the
               Number
               of
               
                 Good
                 Dayes
              
               (
               if
               any
               be
               )
               are
               far
               exceeded
               by
               The
               Bad.
               The
               Serenity
               of
               the
               Spring
               being
               overvoted
               
               through
               the
               
                 Scortching
                 Heat
              
               in
               Summer
               ,
               and
               the
               Cold
               in
               Winter
               .
               Besides
               the
               interruptions
               met
               with
               arising
               from
               her
               own
               private
               Distempers
               .
               The
               same
               dismall
               Fatality
               attends
               Youth
               and
               Age.
               In
               which
               Sicknesse
               and
               other
               Calamities
               suitable
               to
               both
               Seasons
               causeth
               in
               all
               not
               onely
               a
               Necessity
               ,
               but
               in
               some
               a
               Desire
               to
               put
               themselves
               upon
               The
               
                 Tryall
                 of
                 Death
              
               ,
               And
               return
               again
               into
               the
               Lapp
               of
               that
               Earth
               to
               and
               from
               whence
               all
               Things
               do
               in
               a
               Certain
               Vicissitude
               Go
               ,
               and
               Come
               ;
               Which
               may
               authorize
               a
               Beliefe
               
                 That
                 all
                 things
                 were
                 not
                 Created
                 for
                 their
                 Own
                 sakes
                 ,
                 but
                 the
                 meer
                 Interest
                 of
                 Nature
                 ,
                 which
                 abhors
                 to
                 be
                 Idle
                 ,
                 or
                 to
                 leave
                 any
                 in
                 an
                 Impregnant
                 Condition
                 .
              
               And
               from
               hence
               may
               arise
               another
               Conjecture
               ;
               That
               The
               Moon
               no
               lesse
               then
               the
               Stars
               may
               be
               as
               well
               replenished
               with
               Inhabitants
               as
               the
               Earth
               ,
               and
               subject
               
               to
               the
               same
               Changes
               ,
               in
               relation
               to
               What
               it
               produceth
               Though
               Stable
               and
               so
               long
               permanent
               it
               Self
               ,
               as
               God
               in
               his
               Eternall
               Decree
               hath
               determined
               they
               shall
               remain
               ,
               Being
               subject
               to
               no
               Dissolution
               ,
               but
               from
               the
               Force
               of
               that
               Command
               did
               at
               first
               establish
               them
               ,
               together
               with
               all
               things
               extant
               .
               Among
               which
               ,
               though
               some
               are
               observed
               to
               
                 Wear
                 out
                 and
                 perish
              
               ,
               they
               are
               as
               it
               were
               but
               The
               
                 Externall
                 Ornaments
              
               and
               Houshold-stuffe
               which
               within
               a
               short
               Revolution
               of
               Time
               do
               receive
               a
               fresh
               Renovation
               from
               the
               Sun
               ,
               The
               highest
               and
               most
               splendid
               result
               of
               
                 God's
                 Beauty
              
               our
               Mortall
               Eyes
               (
               unsupported
               by
               Faith
               )
               are
               able
               to
               Discern
               .
            
             
               Which
               may
               afford
               Cause
               of
               Pitty
               for
               some
               of
               the
               Heathen
               that
               made
               It
               the
               Object
               of
               Their
               Worship
               ,
               who
               finding
               it
               the
               Cause
               of
               such
               visible
               Resurrections
               presumed
               it
               might
               be
               the
               Originall
               of
               all
               Things
               .
               Imagining
               
               the
               Power
               of
               Continuance
               and
               Preservation
               equall
               to
               that
               of
               Creation
               ,
               not
               being
               able
               to
               see
               higher
               ,
               for
               want
               of
               the
               light
               of
               
                 The
                 Word
              
               of
               God.
               
            
             
               It
               may
               be
               no
               Improbable
               Paradox
               ,
               That
               where
               the
               
                 Earths
                 magneticall
                 Effects
              
               cease
               ,
               There
               some
               other
               no
               lesse
               Active
               power
               begins
               to
               operate
               with
               a
               like
               Motion
               another
               way
               .
               Which
               granted
               ,
               it
               can
               be
               no
               Prodigious
               Conjecture
               That
               such
               Birds
               as
               are
               observed
               to
               Inne
               or
               Board
               in
               this
               Clyme
               onely
               for
               some
               certain
               months
               ,
               maintain
               a
               like
               Temporary
               Commerce
               with
               other
               Planets
               ,
               as
               they
               are
               found
               to
               do
               amongst
               us
               ,
               according
               to
               the
               respective
               Advantages
               Nature
               hath
               taught
               them
               to
               make
               of
               Times
               and
               Seasons
               .
               And
               that
               their
               Passage
               is
               without
               much
               Difficulty
               may
               be
               asserted
               from
               the
               
                 Punctuall
                 Dayes
              
               they
               keep
               yearly
               to
               Come
               and
               Go
               in
               .
               
               Not
               possibly
               to
               be
               observed
               were
               they
               obnoxious
               to
               any
               Obstruction
               from
               Wind
               and
               Weather
               ,
               or
               the
               least
               other
               Contingency
               lying
               in
               their
               Rode
               :
               Which
               the
               revolution
               of
               a
               shorter
               Space
               then
               Men
               are
               found
               to
               live
               could
               not
               chuse
               but
               discover
               .
               And
               that
               the
               
                 Place
                 they
                 come
                 from
              
               relates
               to
               the
               Earth
               admits
               the
               most
               probable
               Tryall
               from
               us
               ,
               which
               being
               an
               Iland
               may
               best
               observe
               whether
               they
               do
               appear
               first
               by
               the
               Sea-side
               or
               in
               the
               Midland
               :
               and
               if
               the
               latter
               (
               as
               I
               have
               heard
               it
               often
               affirmed
               the
               Cuckow
               is
               universally
               seen
               the
               Second
               of
               Aprill
               )
               The
               Assertion
               may
               be
               allowed
               ,
               in
               reason
               ,
               the
               Sentence
               of
               Probability
               ,
               if
               not
               of
               an
               unquestionable
               Truth
               ,
               That
               Woodcocks
               are
               some
               Years
               in
               great
               plenty
               by
               the
               Shore
               in
               Norfolk
               cannotbe
               denyed
               .
               But
               yet
               it
               is
               as
               manifest
               ,
               That
               at
               the
               same
               time
               their
               Appearance
               is
               as
               numerous
               in
               the
               most
               
               
                 In
                 Land
                 Counties
              
               .
               Nor
               is
               it
               Necessary
               that
               they
               should
               all
               descend
               in
               a
               Line
               .
               Though
               Thousands
               of
               Feldefers
               and
               Thrushes
               have
               been
               seen
               within
               the
               Compasse
               of
               a
               mile
               and
               none
               round
               about
               .
               Nor
               doth
               Wearisomnesse
               appear
               about
               any
               but
               such
               as
               come
               off
               from
               the
               sea
               ;
               (
               which
               may
               not
               unpossibly
               have
               mistaken
               their
               Way
               )
               or
               any
               Signes
               of
               a
               New
               Resurrection
               ,
               their
               Plumage
               being
               Smooth
               ,
               and
               
                 Bodies
                 plump
              
               ;
               So
               that
               I
               my Self
               have
               seen
               both
               Swallowes
               and
               
                 Hobbys
                 build
              
               and
               tred
               upon
               their
               first
               Appearance
               ,
               as
               if
               they
               had
               no
               other
               businesse
               in
               this
               World
               then
               to
               Ly-in
               ;
               and
               produce
               their
               Young
               ,
               as
               Fishes
               are
               noted
               to
               change
               their
               Coast
               upon
               the
               like
               Arrand
               ,
               &c
               ,
            
             
               I
               Believe
               it
               possible
               for
               Birds
               not
               of
               the
               same
               Kinde
               and
               Plume
               to
               Engender
               with
               Success
               and
               to
               an
               huge
               
                 Imbellishing
                 of
                 Nature
              
               ,
               and
               as
               great
               
               an
               Improvement
               of
               her
               store
               .
               And
               this
               was
               by
               some
               Acquaintance
               of
               mine
               put
               under
               Experiment
               before
               these
               Wars
               ,
               that
               had
               
                 Large
                 Cages
                 of
                 Wyer
              
               wherein
               were
               put
               together
               onely
               Hens
               of
               
                 some
                 sorts
              
               ,
               and
               Cocks
               of
               another
               .
               How
               it
               did
               answer
               Expectation
               I
               know
               not
               ,
               yet
               am
               Confident
               it
               might
               succeed
               ,
               especially
               in
               reference
               to
               those
               nourished
               through
               a
               like
               Sustenance
               ,
               since
               my Self
               saw
               an
               Hawke
               owned
               the
               
                 Plume
                 and
                 shape
              
               between
               a
               Hobby
               and
               a
               Tassel-Gentle
               .
               Nor
               is
               it
               contrary
               to
               the
               grain
               of
               Probability
               to
               endeavour
               a
               Breed
               betwixt
               Hares
               and
               Coneys
               ,
               an
               
                 Ordinary
                 Cat
              
               and
               a
               Civet
               ;
               The
               Head
               of
               which
               species
               is
               by
               the
               resemblance
               of
               the
               muscles
               no
               lesse
               then
               all
               
                 signes
                 and
                 gestures
              
               of
               the
               Lyon.
               And
               between
               whom
               there
               remains
               lesse
               Difference
               in
               proportion
               then
               an
               
                 Irish-Grey
                 .
                 Houxd
              
               compared
               with
               a
               
                 Lap-Dog
                 .
                 Animals
              
               
               no
               lesse
               then
               Plants
               receiving
               notorious
               Changes
               from
               the
               Climates
               out
               of
               which
               they
               were
               at
               first
               transported
               ,
               proving
               for
               the
               most
               part
               Largest
               towards
               the
               Sun.
               Nor
               is
               it
               doubted
               but
               a
               Dog-Fox
               and
               an
               
                 Ordinary
                 Bitch
              
               will
               generate
               .
               As
               I
               heard
               the
               
                 Last
                 Marquesse
              
               of
               
                 Hambleton's
                 Father
              
               verifie
               he
               saw
               in
               Scotland
               .
               Nor
               did
               those
               Huge
               and
               
                 strang-Headed
                 Deer
              
               sent
               for
               Presents
               to
               
                 King
                 James
              
               ,
               fail
               to
               Cohabit
               with
               Ours
               and
               
                 have
                 young
              
               .
               Now
               he
               that
               would
               observe
               the
               Assinity
               in
               the
               Food
               and
               Bignesse
               of
               Beasts
               and
               Birds
               ,
               and
               put
               none
               but
               them
               together
               ,
               I
               doubt
               not
               but
               in
               the
               Absence
               of
               their
               own
               kind
               they
               might
               easily
               be
               drawn
               to
               joyn
               .
            
             
               One
               Day
               ruminating
               upon
               Pride
               ,
               and
               the
               dismall
               Effects
               it
               draws
               upon
               Mankind
               ,
               I
               had
               all
               the
               Postures
               and
               Evidences
               brought
               in
               against
               those
               arraigned
               for
               this
               
                 Diabolicall
                 
                 Passion
              
               acted
               before
               me
               by
               a
               Turkey-Cock
               .
               Who
               stood
               priding
               himselfe
               no
               lesse
               in
               the
               Sun
               and
               prosperities
               of
               the
               Spring
               then
               Nebuchadnezzar
               did
               on
               the
               Battlements
               of
               his
               Palace
               .
               From
               whence
               I
               began
               to
               Conclude
               it
               Naturall
               ,
               and
               so
               not
               radically
               Evill
               ,
               No
               more
               then
               Anger
               or
               Love.
               Therefore
               under
               the
               Notion
               of
               an
               Enquiry
               into
               the
               Advantages
               God
               hath
               given
               us
               above
               Others
               ;
               A
               perfect
               Knowledge
               of
               our
               
                 own
                 good
                 Parts
              
               is
               so
               far
               remote
               from
               Pride
               that
               it
               is
               rather
               a
               Spur
               to
               Vertue
               ,
               And
               so
               onely
               Depraved
               not
               Invented
               by
               the
               Divell
               ,
               Who
               with
               all
               his
               Chimistry
               is
               not
               able
               to
               Convert
               the
               seed
               ,
               of
               a
               Naturall
               Effect
               into
               the
               Root
               of
               Evill
               ;
               Though
               he
               hath
               perverted
               This
               ,
               as
               Many
               things
               else
               into
               
                 Malignity
                 against
                 God.
              
               The
               least
               of
               whose
               Beauty
               is
               sufficient
               to
               
               advance
               our
               Thoughts
               above
               our selves
               ,
               in
               which
               Case
               ,
               
                 It
                 is
              
               rather
               a
               Rapture
               ,
               then
               a
               sin
               .
            
          
        
      
       
         
           
             
             
             
               Characters
               &
               Letters
               ,
               &c.
               
            
             
               
                 A
                 Character
                 of
                 Honour
                 .
              
               
                 Honour
                 is
                 one
                 of
                 the
                 grand
                 Impostures
                 of
                 the
                 Earth
                 ;
                 through
                 whose
                 false
                 Splendour
                 ,
                 
                   unadvised
                   Ambition
                
                 is
                 ,
                 as
                 it
                 were
                 ,
                 Trepan'd
                 out
                 of
                 its
                 
                   Life
                   ,
                   Liberty
                
                 ,
                 &c.
                 
                 No
                 Folly
                 transcending
                 theirs
                 ,
                 esteeme
                 themselves
                 onely
                 Happy
                 in
                 a
                 vaine
                 Title
                 ,
                 or
                 Syllable
                 ;
                 at
                 the
                 beginning
                 pronounced
                 by
                 the
                 Prince
                 ,
                 and
                 after
                 reverberated
                 by
                 the
                 Meager
                 ,
                 empty
                 ,
                 and
                 hollow
                 Eccho
                 ,
                 of
                 the
                 
                   insignificant
                   Rabble
                
                 ;
                 no
                 lesse
                 ready
                 ,
                 upon
                 the
                 Change
                 of
                 
                 Fortune
                 ,
                 to
                 Murther
                 ,
                 then
                 Father
                 ,
                 all
                 Markes
                 of
                 Desert
                 ;
                 to
                 those
                 very
                 Particular
                 ones
                 ,
                 their
                 own
                 Indulgence
                 had
                 informed
                 .
                 Opinion
                 being
                 for
                 the
                 most
                 part
                 printed
                 in
                 such
                 
                   blind
                   Ink
                
                 ,
                 as
                 it
                 hardly
                 remaines
                 legible
                 ,
                 to
                 the
                 
                   Second
                   Generation
                
                 .
                 The
                 Merit
                 of
                 the
                 first
                 Proprietor
                 becomming
                 mortify'd
                 by
                 Oblivion
                 ,
                 or
                 quite
                 dissipated
                 ,
                 and
                 lost
                 in
                 the
                 
                   Wilder
                   Fields
                
                 of
                 a
                 no
                 lesse
                 Numerous
                 ,
                 then
                 Vitious
                 Posterity
                 .
                 So
                 remote
                 from
                 improving
                 any
                 Talents
                 left
                 them
                 by
                 their
                 Ancestours
                 ,
                 as
                 like
                 the
                 improvident
                 Usurer
                 in
                 the
                 Gospel
                 ,
                 they
                 do
                 not
                 only
                 expose
                 them
                 to
                 Rust
                 ,
                 and
                 Cankers
                 ,
                 but
                 waste
                 the
                 Estate
                 ,
                 with
                 all
                 other
                 glorious
                 Endowments
                 in
                 which
                 they
                 were
                 wrapped
                 .
              
               
                 The
                 Promoter
                 of
                 their
                 Family
                 ,
                 becomming
                 by
                 this
                 meanes
                 ,
                 an
                 Occasion
                 of
                 the
                 Ruine
                 of
                 it
                 .
                 It
                 lying
                 in
                 the
                 Nature
                 ,
                 no
                 lesse
                 then
                 the
                 Custom
                 
                 of
                 Honour
                 ,
                 to
                 put
                 as
                 unreasonable
                 an
                 Excize
                 on
                 the
                 Vices
                 ,
                 as
                 the
                 Vertues
                 of
                 its
                 Owners
                 .
                 I
                 never
                 thought
                 it
                 Prudence
                 ,
                 or
                 Discretion
                 ,
                 to
                 articulate
                 over-severely
                 on
                 the
                 worst
                 of
                 Modes
                 I
                 have
                 had
                 the
                 Good
                 ,
                 or
                 
                   Ill
                   Fortune
                
                 to
                 be
                 Born
                 and
                 Bred
                 under
                 ;
                 yet
                 it
                 seemes
                 to
                 Crosse
                 the
                 Grayn
                 of
                 Wisdom
                 ,
                 if
                 not
                 of
                 
                   Candid
                   Charity
                
                 ,
                 to
                 
                   arraign
                   as
                   guilty
                   of
                   Absurdity
                
                 ,
                 all
                 we
                 finde
                 in
                 ordinary
                 Practise
                 abroad
                 ,
                 though
                 on
                 the
                 other
                 side
                 the
                 Pale
                 of
                 Christianity
                 .
                 And
                 for
                 a
                 particular
                 instance
                 ;
                 That
                 ,
                 used
                 amongst
                 the
                 Turks
                 :
                 where
                 no
                 Title
                 but
                 what
                 belongs
                 to
                 the
                 Emperour
                 ,
                 is
                 made
                 Hereditary
                 .
              
               
                 
                   Honour
                   being
                   hardly
                   managable
                   within
                   the
                   Compasse
                   of
                   Decency
                   ,
                   by
                   any
                   are
                   not
                   perfect
                   in
                   the
                   Steps
                   that
                   lead
                   to
                   it
                   .
                
                 Splendid
                 Epithets
                 ,
                 where
                 there
                 resides
                 no
                 reall
                 Ability
                 in
                 the
                 Party
                 to
                 deserve
                 them
                 ,
                 Cheating
                 the
                 Beholders
                 ,
                 by
                 an
                 Expectation
                 of
                 
                 
                   more
                   Vertue
                
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 Possessour
                 with
                 lesse
                 ,
                 then
                 his
                 Parasites
                 (
                 a
                 Vermine
                 
                   Capitall
                   Fortunes
                
                 are
                 infested
                 withall
                 )
                 may
                 have
                 possibly
                 insinuated
                 into
                 his
                 formerly
                 
                   suborned
                   imagination
                
                 .
                 But
                 to
                 descend
                 to
                 a
                 more
                 exact
                 Definition
                 of
                 Honour
                 :
                 It
                 is
                 a
                 meere
                 Ray
                 or
                 Beame
                 darted
                 from
                 the
                 Favour
                 of
                 a
                 Prince
                 ,
                 who
                 in
                 one
                 body
                 contains
                 the
                 Abstract
                 of
                 all
                 
                   Delated
                   Dignities
                
                 .
                 And
                 the
                 Reward
                 of
                 every
                 Desert
                 is
                 either
                 Reall
                 ,
                 or
                 by
                 him
                 supposed
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 Nature
                 or
                 Actions
                 of
                 those
                 he
                 thinks
                 fit
                 to
                 advance
                 :
                 Amongst
                 which
                 none
                 are
                 more
                 glorious
                 ,
                 then
                 they
                 in
                 Turky
                 ;
                 where
                 Worth
                 is
                 alwayes
                 found
                 the
                 Antecedent
                 to
                 every
                 Reward
                 .
                 Those
                 in
                 Christendom
                 ,
                 that
                 relate
                 wholly
                 to
                 the
                 Passions
                 ,
                 and
                 Affections
                 of
                 the
                 Donor
                 ,
                 not
                 appearing
                 .
                 
                   so
                   Naturall
                
                 ,
                 but
                 
                   further
                   remote
                
                 from
                 the
                 purer
                 and
                 unsophisticated
                 Elements
                 of
                 Majesty
                 ,
                 then
                 what
                 is
                 found
                 inherent
                 in
                 
                 the
                 Party
                 .
                 The
                 true
                 Cause
                 of
                 Advancement
                 amongst
                 us
                 ,
                 being
                 ,
                 commonly
                 so
                 triviall
                 ,
                 and
                 foule
                 ,
                 as
                 for
                 Shame
                 ,
                 they
                 forbore
                 to
                 recite
                 it
                 in
                 their
                 Patent
                 .
                 From
                 whence
                 ,
                 some
                 may
                 Conclude
                 ,
                 those
                 Disparities
                 amongst
                 Men
                 proceeded
                 at
                 first
                 ,
                 like
                 Hills
                 and
                 Dales
                 ,
                 from
                 the
                 
                   Deluge
                   of
                   Pride
                
                 ,
                 So
                 long
                 ,
                 a
                 Succession
                 of
                 Government
                 ,
                 hath
                 powred
                 upon
                 the
                 Face
                 of
                 the
                 
                   Earth
                   .
                   Courts
                
                 by
                 such
                 
                   Canting
                   Termes
                
                 advancing
                 their
                 particular
                 interest
                 ;
                 which
                 would
                 be
                 abated
                 ,
                 were
                 the
                 Devourers
                 ,
                 in
                 an
                 equall
                 Parallel
                 with
                 those
                 they
                 
                   feed
                   on
                
                 .
                 The
                 Rabble
                 ,
                 for
                 want
                 of
                 a
                 more
                 
                   elated
                   Prudence
                
                 ,
                 imagining
                 their
                 Governours
                 to
                 proceed
                 ,
                 like
                 the
                 
                   Gyants
                   of
                   old
                
                 ,
                 from
                 some
                 
                   Diviner
                   Extraction
                
                 then
                 their
                 Own.
                 Not
                 wise
                 enough
                 to
                 apprehend
                 ,
                 That
                 Honour
                 hath
                 no
                 advantage
                 ,
                 really
                 ,
                 in
                 it Selfe
                 ,
                 but
                 what
                 it
                 is
                 able
                 to
                 deduce
                 from
                 the
                 
                   Lower
                   Condition
                
                 ,
                 and
                 basencsse
                 of
                 
                 Others
                 .
                 All
                 Titles
                 ,
                 to
                 Those
                 relating
                 to
                 
                   God
                   Himself
                
                 ,
                 as
                 they
                 were
                 absent
                 ,
                 before
                 the
                 Creation
                 ;
                 So
                 Reason
                 informs
                 us
                 ,
                 they
                 could
                 not
                 be
                 Present
                 now
                 ,
                 were
                 there
                 no
                 Creatures
                 ,
                 endued
                 with
                 so
                 much
                 understanding
                 ,
                 as
                 to
                 be
                 able
                 to
                 pronounce
                 them
                 .
                 The
                 most
                 relucent
                 Honour
                 being
                 Offuscated
                 ,
                 and
                 blinded
                 in
                 the
                 Shades
                 of
                 Solitude
                 .
                 Wherefore
                 ,
                 if
                 it
                 had
                 a
                 Name
                 ,
                 it
                 wanted
                 an
                 Owner
                 ,
                 till
                 something
                 was
                 made
                 willing
                 to
                 promote
                 it
                 .
                 No
                 Age
                 ,
                 ever
                 represented
                 it
                 more
                 Naked
                 to
                 the
                 World
                 ,
                 then
                 This
                 we
                 live
                 in
                 .
                 Whereas
                 the
                 Jewes
                 do
                 in
                 Italy
                 ,
                 by
                 the
                 
                   Ancient
                   Roman
                   Coynes
                
                 ,
                 So
                 ,
                 the
                 
                   Grave
                   Visages
                
                 of
                 25
                 Bishops
                 have
                 been
                 struck
                 off
                 ,
                 and
                 put
                 upon
                 many
                 
                   Thousand
                   Presbyterians
                
                 ;
                 whereupon
                 the
                 Image
                 ,
                 and
                 Superscription
                 of
                 the
                 
                   Primitive
                   Church
                
                 ,
                 is
                 quite
                 defaced
                 ,
                 and
                 Obliterated
                 ,
                 through
                 the
                 Impresse
                 they
                 are
                 exchanged
                 for
                 :
                 which
                 ownes
                 no
                 
                 worth
                 ,
                 but
                 from
                 the
                 Gravity
                 of
                 the
                 First
                 .
                 Being
                 it self
                 ,
                 of
                 no
                 greater
                 Antiquity
                 ,
                 then
                 
                   John
                   Calvin
                
                 ,
                 who
                 did
                 not
                 but
                 with
                 some
                 Difficulty
                 as
                 Boyes
                 do
                 Giggs
                 ,
                 whip
                 this
                 
                   Younger
                   Government
                
                 out
                 of
                 a
                 Word
                 ,
                 taught
                 for
                 many
                 Ages
                 to
                 signifie
                 Episcopacy
                 onely
                 ;
                 making
                 it
                 currant
                 in
                 Geneva
                 .
                 Now
                 ,
                 if
                 it
                 be
                 no
                 lesse
                 frequent
                 in
                 the
                 Practise
                 of
                 Men
                 ,
                 then
                 in
                 the
                 Dialect
                 of
                 the
                 Scriptures
                 ,
                 to
                 
                   rob
                   God
                   of
                   his
                   Honour
                
                 ;
                 why
                 should
                 any
                 ,
                 but
                 meerly
                 Mortall
                 ,
                 place
                 Stability
                 in
                 it
                 ?
                 Especially
                 ,
                 since
                 the
                 Trash
                 these
                 Earthly
                 Tumours
                 swell
                 withall
                 ,
                 is
                 by
                 the
                 Basest
                 of
                 ,
                 &c.
                 render'd
                 
                   so
                   perspicuous
                
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 Valour
                 and
                 Cowardice
                 .
              
               
                 I
                 Should
                 much
                 wonder
                 how
                 Valour
                 and
                 Cowardice
                 ,
                 both
                 strangers
                 ,
                 if
                 not
                 Contrary
                 to
                 the
                 Practice
                 of
                 
                 
                   undistracted
                   Nature
                
                 ,
                 could
                 passe
                 so
                 long
                 without
                 the
                 Errata
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 Place-Book
                 of
                 virtue
                 and
                 vice
                 :
                 But
                 that
                 I
                 finde
                 it
                 ,
                 
                   The
                   Design
                
                 of
                 Policy
                 ,
                 to
                 advance
                 ,
                 or
                 abate
                 the
                 Credit
                 of
                 all
                 things
                 found
                 Useful
                 or
                 Destructive
                 to
                 her
                 own
                 ,
                 or
                 the
                 Generall
                 utility
                 :
                 And
                 ,
                 where
                 she
                 can
                 bring
                 in
                 the
                 least
                 Colour
                 for
                 
                   it
                   to
                   paint
                
                 ,
                 what
                 is
                 necessary
                 to
                 Commerce
                 ,
                 with
                 the
                 
                   gratefull
                   Approbation
                
                 of
                 Religion
                 ;
                 And
                 to
                 render
                 the
                 Contrary
                 in
                 the
                 
                   Dark
                   Sense
                
                 ,
                 and
                 
                   Black
                   Characters
                
                 of
                 Hell.
                 Allowing
                 all
                 Supports
                 as
                 Decent
                 and
                 quadrating
                 with
                 the
                 Beauty
                 of
                 Holiness
                 ,
                 though
                 Above
                 or
                 
                   Against
                   the
                   Lights
                   of
                   Reason
                
                 ,
                 if
                 found
                 ,
                 any
                 way
                 requisite
                 ,
                 to
                 sustain
                 Government
                 .
                 Of
                 such
                 force
                 is
                 Custom
                 ,
                 that
                 it
                 is
                 able
                 ,
                 through
                 the
                 Assistance
                 of
                 Credulity
                 ,
                 to
                 stifle
                 ,
                 and
                 trample
                 upon
                 the
                 Senses
                 themselves
                 .
              
               
                 Now
                 ,
                 though
                 it
                 may
                 be
                 no
                 Indiscretion
                 
                 in
                 a
                 Patient
                 ,
                 to
                 suffer
                 himself
                 for
                 his
                 Recovery
                 ,
                 to
                 be
                 deluded
                 by
                 his
                 Physitian
                 ;
                 yet
                 out
                 of
                 a
                 Panique
                 Fear
                 ,
                 or
                 effeminate
                 Nicety
                 ,
                 to
                 swallow
                 more
                 Drugs
                 ,
                 and
                 in
                 greater
                 Quantities
                 then
                 is
                 unavoydably
                 necessary
                 ,
                 may
                 appear
                 a
                 Madnesse
                 ,
                 arising
                 from
                 the
                 more
                 Dreadfull
                 ,
                 then
                 
                   Dangerous
                   Phantasmes
                
                 mustered
                 up
                 by
                 the
                 Fumes
                 of
                 a
                 formerly-suborned
                 Melancholy
                 ;
                 rather
                 then
                 the
                 
                   Substantiall
                   Dictates
                
                 af
                 an
                 
                   unsophisticated
                   Judgement
                
                 ,
                 which
                 a
                 
                   Wise
                   man
                
                 may
                 
                   retain
                   ,
                   and
                   feast
                   himself
                   with
                   ,
                
                 though
                 for
                 
                   Manners
                   sake
                
                 ,
                 and
                 to
                 avoyd
                 the
                 Danger
                 ,
                 no
                 lesse
                 then
                 Shame
                 ,
                 impending
                 
                   Singularity
                   ,
                   he
                   may
                   seem
                
                 to
                 own
                 the
                 most
                 
                   universall
                   Opinion
                
                 .
              
               
                 Now
                 to
                 shew
                 ,
                 how
                 Policy
                 ,
                 no
                 less
                 then
                 Religion
                 ,
                 imposeth
                 upon
                 frail
                 Humanity
                 ,
                 in
                 both
                 the
                 Fore-mentioned
                 Particulars
                 (
                 Though
                 
                   to
                   the
                   apprehension
                   of
                   Sense
                
                 ,
                 absolutely
                 repugnant
                 
                 one
                 to
                 the
                 other
                 )
                 they
                 are
                 scituated
                 as
                 
                   near
                   Damnation
                
                 ,
                 that
                 appear
                 Overdaring
                 in
                 the
                 prosecution
                 of
                 
                   private
                   Revenge
                
                 ;
                 as
                 such
                 who
                 out
                 of
                 Remissenesse
                 ,
                 and
                 
                   Fear
                   ,
                   betray
                   The
                   Cause
                   of
                   their
                   Country
                
                 ;
                 in
                 Defence
                 of
                 which
                 ,
                 is
                 placed
                 ,
                 under
                 all
                 Professions
                 extant
                 ,
                 the
                 
                   Highest
                   step
                   of
                   our
                   Duty
                   to
                   God
                   and
                   our
                   Neighbour
                   .
                
                 Which
                 cannot
                 be
                 denyed
                 to
                 
                   stand
                   further
                   remote
                   in
                   Nature
                
                 ,
                 then
                 what
                 really
                 Concerns
                 Our selves
                 :
                 found
                 recorded
                 in
                 Job
                 ,
                 by
                 the
                 Divell
                 ;
                 a
                 far
                 
                   Ancienter
                   Philosopher
                
                 then
                 the
                 
                   somuch-venerated
                   Aristotle
                
                 .
                 From
                 whence
                 we
                 may
                 Conclude
                 ,
                 
                   That
                   
                     Resolution
                     and
                     Dread
                     instituted
                     by
                     Nature
                     at
                     first
                     ,
                     for
                     the
                     Vindication
                     and
                     safety
                     of
                     every
                     respective
                     Individuall
                     ,
                     are
                     since
                     Tyranny
                     and
                     Propriety
                     have
                     forced
                     us
                     into
                     Communalties
                     ,
                     reduced
                     by
                     Common
                     Consent
                     of
                     Law
                     ,
                     and
                     Conveniency
                     into
                     a
                     Publiaue
                     stock
                     ,
                     for
                     the
                     Preservation
                     of
                     
                     All.
                     So
                     as
                     we
                     are
                     suffered
                     ,
                     to
                     own
                     no
                     more
                     in
                     reference
                     to
                     our selves
                     ,
                     then
                     Prudence
                     is
                     able
                     to
                     filtch
                     out
                     of
                     the
                     Treasury
                     of
                     the
                     State
                     :
                  
                
                 and
                 that
                 upon
                 no
                 slighter
                 a
                 Penalty
                 ,
                 then
                 Law
                 doth
                 inflict
                 ;
                 Which
                 found
                 too
                 dim-sighted
                 to
                 penetrate
                 further
                 ,
                 then
                 
                   Externall
                   Evidence
                
                 can
                 reach
                 ;
                 Religion
                 ,
                 whose
                 Results
                 (
                 and
                 those
                 no
                 weak
                 ones
                 )
                 lye
                 in
                 Conscience
                 ,
                 supplyes
                 the
                 place
                 of
                 a
                 Diviner-Guard
                 ;
                 Brandishing
                 like
                 the
                 Angell
                 in
                 Paradise
                 ,
                 the
                 
                   flaming
                   sword
                   of
                   Hell
                
                 :
                 Which
                 operates
                 more
                 or
                 less
                 ,
                 upon
                 the
                 Affections
                 ,
                 proportionall
                 to
                 the
                 Tincture
                 ,
                 received
                 from
                 Education
                 .
                 Not
                 seldom
                 Proof
                 (
                 as
                 we
                 find
                 in
                 Hereticks
                 )
                 against
                 the
                 
                   Dictates
                   of
                   Reason
                
                 her Self
                 ;
                 
                   Nothing
                   being
                   harder
                
                 to
                 be
                 lost
                 ,
                 or
                 Convinced
                 of
                 Falshood
                 then
                 Opinions
                 sucked
                 in
                 with
                 the
                 Nourses
                 Milk.
                 And
                 this
                 may
                 raise
                 an
                 Use
                 of
                 Caution
                 ,
                 in
                 relation
                 to
                 what
                 we
                 call
                 Pusillanimity
                 ,
                 and
                 Valour
                 .
                 
                 Which
                 in
                 a
                 Naturall
                 and
                 primitive
                 sense
                 ,
                 signifie
                 onely
                 Evasion
                 .
                 And
                 where
                 that
                 will
                 not
                 serve
                 in
                 order
                 to
                 our
                 own
                 Preservation
                 ,
                 a
                 
                   vigorous
                   and
                   stout
                   Resistance
                
                 to
                 the
                 losse
                 of
                 Life
                 it Self
                 ,
                 as
                 is
                 manifest
                 in
                 every
                 Creature
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 absence
                 of
                 hope
                 ;
                 and
                 therefore
                 impossible
                 to
                 be
                 found
                 Wanting
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 pure
                 and
                 
                   unsuborned
                   Nature
                   of
                   Man.
                
                 And
                 so
                 in
                 the
                 
                   primitive
                   Construction
                
                 uncapable
                 of
                 any
                 
                   Forreigner
                   Interpretation
                
                 ,
                 then
                 what
                 is
                 deduceable
                 from
                 our
                 own
                 judgement
                 ,
                 without
                 reference
                 to
                 Fame
                 ,
                 or
                 Reward
                 .
                 Termes
                 unintelligible
                 ,
                 during
                 the
                 
                   Originall
                   Felicity
                
                 :
                 And
                 before
                 the
                 Thirst
                 after
                 Generation
                 had
                 swelled
                 the
                 World
                 ,
                 into
                 such
                 an
                 Ocean
                 of
                 Inhabitants
                 ,
                 as
                 could
                 not
                 be
                 Kept
                 within
                 the
                 Compass
                 of
                 Moderation
                 ,
                 but
                 by
                 Mounds
                 and
                 Bancks
                 ;
                 in
                 the
                 making
                 of
                 which
                 all
                 things
                 are
                 imployed
                 that
                 own
                 the
                 power
                 
                   to
                   Terrifie
                
                 or
                 Flatter
                 
                 the
                 Rabble
                 into
                 Obedience
                 ,
                 without
                 bearing
                 any
                 
                   Nicer
                   Respect
                
                 ,
                 to
                 single
                 Individualls
                 ,
                 then
                 through
                 Evading
                 ,
                 or
                 Over-ruling
                 the
                 
                   Law
                   ,
                   Power
                
                 or
                 Prudence
                 is
                 able
                 to
                 purchase
                 to
                 themselves
                 ,
                 by
                 
                   Mastering
                   ,
                   Flattering
                
                 ,
                 or
                 
                   Contemning
                   publick
                   Fame
                
                 .
                 After
                 which
                 ,
                 it
                 may
                 be
                 sometimes
                 less
                 policy
                 to
                 run
                 ,
                 then
                 not
                 to
                 be
                 too
                 greedy
                 ,
                 to
                 give
                 it
                 welcom
                 when
                 it
                 courts
                 us
                 :
                 Opinion
                 being
                 a
                 Bird
                 oftner
                 catcht
                 by
                 Chance
                 ,
                 then
                 Endeavour
                 .
                 Nor
                 shall
                 any
                 one
                 that
                 carryes
                 her
                 on
                 his
                 First
                 ,
                 ever
                 want
                 Envy
                 ,
                 or
                 Scratching
                 by
                 Others
                 .
                 And
                 he
                 that
                 hath
                 but
                 the
                 Patience
                 ,
                 to
                 attend
                 Good
                 or
                 
                   bad
                   Report
                
                 to
                 the
                 end
                 of
                 the
                 race
                 ,
                 shall
                 observe
                 them
                 like
                 Cocks
                 to
                 change
                 their
                 Oddes
                 :
                 one
                 
                   unlucky
                   Blow
                
                 being
                 able
                 to
                 depresse
                 more
                 ,
                 and
                 draw
                 a
                 greater
                 Concourse
                 of
                 Abettors
                 to
                 the
                 
                   Other
                   side
                
                 ,
                 then
                 Twenty
                 as
                 strong
                 and
                 
                   probable
                   endeavours
                
                 ,
                 without
                 Successe
                 can
                 possibly
                 advance
                 .
                 Or
                 ,
                 
                 if
                 this
                 fail
                 ,
                 the
                 Gamesters
                 together
                 with
                 what
                 they
                 strove
                 for
                 ,
                 will
                 by
                 the
                 hand
                 of
                 Time
                 ,
                 be
                 laid
                 in
                 Oblivion
                 .
                 Whereas
                 the
                 reall
                 Wounds
                 ,
                 and
                 sensible
                 Inconveniencies
                 accruing
                 ftom
                 a
                 too
                 Serious
                 Attention
                 ,
                 and
                 exact
                 Observance
                 of
                 the
                 Various
                 Cadences
                 of
                 the
                 
                   Trumpet
                   of
                   Fame
                
                 ,
                 subject
                 to
                 be
                 put
                 out
                 of
                 Tune
                 ,
                 by
                 the
                 Change
                 of
                 every
                 Blast
                 ,
                 do
                 not
                 onely
                 exceed
                 the
                 Cure
                 of
                 the
                 Chierurgeon
                 ,
                 but
                 all
                 endeavours
                 to
                 that
                 of
                 Wisdom
                 it Self
                 .
                 Nor
                 hath
                 Policy
                 any
                 cheaper
                 Trash
                 to
                 load
                 the
                 opposite
                 Scale
                 withall
                 ,
                 then
                 Honour
                 and
                 Titles
                 ;
                 which
                 like
                 Horse-Bells
                 ,
                 onely
                 affect
                 the
                 Eare
                 ,
                 as
                 Diamonds
                 do
                 the
                 Eyes
                 ;
                 encreasing
                 ,
                 rather
                 then
                 lessening
                 the
                 Burthen
                 of
                 Life
                 :
                 which
                 ,
                 with
                 its
                 Concomitance
                 
                   Envy
                   ,
                   Danger
                
                 ,
                 and
                 Jealousie
                 signifies
                 nothing
                 ,
                 proportionable
                 at
                 least
                 ,
                 to
                 what
                 the
                 Purchase
                 requires
                 ;
                 Seldom
                 enjoy'd
                 of
                 the
                 Owner
                 long
                 ,
                 without
                 Controversie
                 ;
                 
                 unlesse
                 by
                 dying
                 in
                 Possession
                 he
                 cuts
                 off
                 all
                 contrary
                 Claims
                 .
                 Wherefore
                 such
                 as
                 have
                 the
                 Dexterity
                 ,
                 to
                 passe
                 their
                 Dayes
                 ,
                 at
                 the
                 least
                 Expence
                 of
                 Trouble
                 and
                 Conveniency
                 ,
                 may
                 be
                 truely
                 said
                 ,
                 to
                 
                   husband
                   Discretion
                
                 best
                 .
                 Nor
                 are
                 they
                 likely
                 to
                 be
                 misled
                 ,
                 in
                 such
                 a
                 
                   vast
                   number
                   of
                   Fooles
                
                 and
                 Madmen
                 ,
                 as
                 are
                 daily
                 observ'd
                 ,
                 to
                 Sacrifice
                 their
                 own
                 Ease
                 and
                 Content
                 to
                 promote
                 the
                 Ambition
                 and
                 Small
                 Plots
                 of
                 Others
                 :
                 Grounding
                 their
                 Hopes
                 upon
                 those
                 ,
                 that
                 have
                 no
                 Assurance
                 Themselves
                 .
                 But
                 this
                 runs
                 so
                 contrary
                 to
                 the
                 grain
                 of
                 Practice
                 ,
                 as
                 it
                 may
                 not
                 unpossibly
                 ,
                 set
                 such
                 Teeth
                 on
                 Edge
                 ,
                 as
                 are
                 able
                 through
                 Detraction
                 ,
                 or
                 Power
                 ,
                 to
                 blast
                 the
                 Authour
                 of
                 this
                 Advice
                 .
              
            
             
               
               
                 A
                 Letter
                 writ
                 to
                 disswade
                 Mr.
                 —
                 from
                 a
                 Duell
                 .
              
               
                 
                   Sir
                   ,
                
              
               
                 I
                 Shall
                 ,
                 at
                 this
                 time
                 ,
                 conceal
                 ,
                 what
                 I
                 apprehend
                 of
                 your
                 Quarrell
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 Circumstances
                 that
                 did
                 at
                 first
                 produce
                 it
                 :
                 Lest
                 I
                 should
                 fall
                 into
                 a
                 
                   Physitians
                   indiscretion
                
                 ,
                 who
                 comming
                 to
                 one
                 labouring
                 of
                 a
                 Fever
                 ,
                 did
                 consume
                 the
                 time
                 ,
                 In
                 telling
                 the
                 Patient
                 ,
                 The
                 Causes
                 of
                 his
                 Distemper
                 were
                 Drink
                 and
                 
                   Evill
                   Company
                
                 :
                 which
                 though
                 possibly
                 true
                 ,
                 could
                 not
                 but
                 carry
                 the
                 Figure
                 of
                 a
                 
                   Meager
                   Impertinency
                
                 ,
                 before
                 the
                 party
                 had
                 his
                 Cure
                 ;
                 since
                 no
                 place
                 is
                 now
                 Left
                 for
                 prevention
                 .
                 And
                 as
                 Physick
                 is
                 opposed
                 to
                 the
                 Defects
                 incident
                 to
                 
                   bad
                   Dyet
                
                 ,
                 and
                 Disorder
                 :
                 So
                 Counsell
                 hath
                 been
                 observed
                 ,
                 to
                 Moderate
                 ,
                 and
                 palliate
                 ,
                 though
                 not
                 Cure
                 those
                 of
                 Indiscretion
                 ;
                 arising
                 
                 for
                 the
                 most
                 part
                 from
                 an
                 Inexperience
                 in
                 the
                 
                   exact
                   knowledge
                
                 of
                 our
                 
                   own
                   Fame
                
                 ,
                 no
                 lesse
                 then
                 that
                 of
                 Others
                 ;
                 And
                 
                   where
                   it
                   may
                   be
                   ,
                   or
                   is
                   Scituated
                   ,
                
                 with
                 the
                 smallest
                 prejudice
                 to
                 Conscience
                 ,
                 or
                 giving
                 the
                 least
                 interruption
                 to
                 the
                 Prospect
                 of
                 Self-preservation
                 ,
                 the
                 
                   First
                   Result
                
                 in
                 the
                 Intention
                 of
                 Nature
                 ,
                 and
                 left
                 as
                 of
                 
                   greatest
                   Intendment
                
                 ,
                 to
                 the
                 Care
                 of
                 Prudence
                 .
                 From
                 whence
                 I
                 have
                 been
                 taught
                 ,
                 that
                 it
                 is
                 possible
                 ,
                 for
                 Physick
                 to
                 be
                 welcome
                 ,
                 though
                 Distastefull
                 ;
                 but
                 that
                 Counsell
                 seldom
                 meets
                 any
                 more
                 favourable
                 Construction
                 then
                 Scorn
                 ,
                 from
                 the
                 Receiver
                 ;
                 &
                 an
                 Opinion
                 of
                 
                   Presumption
                   in
                   Him
                
                 that
                 Ventures
                 
                   to
                   give
                   it
                
                 ;
                 especially
                 ,
                 if
                 it
                 meets
                 not
                 with
                 a
                 
                   candid
                   Nature
                
                 :
                 Which
                 hoping
                 to
                 find
                 in
                 You
                 ,
                 I
                 shall
                 so
                 much
                 transgresse
                 the
                 voyce
                 of
                 Discretion
                 ,
                 as
                 to
                 suffer
                 my Self
                 
                   in
                   Love
                
                 to
                 become
                 an
                 Arbitrator
                 ,
                 between
                 the
                 Honour
                 and
                 prudence
                 of
                 a
                 
                 Friend
                 ,
                 so
                 far
                 ,
                 as
                 to
                 maintain
                 ,
                 
                   That
                   Such
                
                 as
                 
                   animate
                   you
                
                 to
                 a
                 
                   Formall
                   Revenge
                
                 ,
                 do
                 out
                 of
                 Forgetfulnesse
                 ,
                 or
                 Want
                 of
                 Religion
                 ,
                 forbear
                 to
                 Calculate
                 the
                 Danger
                 ,
                 no
                 lesse
                 then
                 Impiety
                 ,
                 that
                 
                   for
                   ever
                
                 Cleaves
                 to
                 such
                 hands
                 ,
                 as
                 are
                 found
                 
                   once
                   polluted
                   in
                   Blood
                
                 :
                 And
                 ,
                 That
                 those
                 violate
                 the
                 Dictates
                 of
                 Piety
                 and
                 Discretion
                 ,
                 (
                 by
                 Wisdome
                 esteemed
                 the
                 most
                 Considerable
                 part
                 of
                 Manhood
                 )
                 that
                 Contradict
                 it
                 .
                 For
                 to
                 use
                 their
                 own
                 canting
                 ,
                 (
                 no
                 where
                 to
                 be
                 found
                 in
                 the
                 Dialect
                 of
                 
                   Antiquity
                   )
                   He
                
                 hath
                 given
                 you
                 an
                 Affront
                 ;
                 and
                 such
                 an
                 one
                 ,
                 as
                 may
                 not
                 decently
                 be
                 passed-by
                 ,
                 without
                 a
                 
                   Formall
                   Satisfaction
                
                 ;
                 which
                 is
                 but
                 the
                 single
                 and
                 
                   wild
                   Opinion
                
                 of
                 some
                 under-graduates
                 in
                 the
                 Arts
                 of
                 Living
                 .
                 Yet
                 ,
                 admit
                 it
                 a
                 Debt
                 ,
                 due
                 in
                 the
                 Court
                 of
                 Honour
                 ,
                 may
                 it
                 not
                 as
                 well
                 be
                 discharged
                 by
                 your
                 Friend
                 or
                 Servant
                 ,
                 as
                 Your self
                 ?
                 Parties
                 lesse
                 agitated
                 by
                 Interest
                 
                 and
                 Passion
                 ,
                 and
                 therefore
                 the
                 likelyer
                 ,
                 to
                 deal
                 a
                 Revenge
                 so
                 evenly
                 ,
                 as
                 He
                 shall
                 have
                 as
                 little
                 cause
                 to
                 bragge
                 as
                 You
                 to
                 repent
                 .
                 A
                 thing
                 you
                 can
                 never
                 promise
                 your Self
                 ,
                 if
                 contrary
                 to
                 the
                 Injunctions
                 of
                 God
                 and
                 the
                 Examples
                 of
                 the
                 most
                 
                   prudent
                   people
                
                 you
                 proportion
                 out
                 your
                 Satisfaction
                 in
                 the
                 Field
                 .
                 Where
                 you
                 cannot
                 but
                 deliver
                 into
                 the
                 Custody
                 of
                 
                   Blind
                   Fortune
                
                 ,
                 not
                 onely
                 your
                 Life
                 but
                 Estate
                 :
                 As
                 justly
                 belonging
                 to
                 posterity
                 ,
                 as
                 ever
                 your
                 Ancestours
                 made
                 it
                 yours
                 .
                 Which
                 by
                 this
                 Mad-Knight-Errantry
                 you
                 hazard
                 to
                 Undo
                 .
                 I
                 am
                 sure
                 all
                 
                   Wise
                   minds
                
                 will
                 quadrate
                 with
                 this
                 .
                 And
                 if
                 the
                 Fools
                 of
                 the
                 
                   present
                   Age
                
                 ,
                 pretend
                 to
                 any
                 Discoveries
                 of
                 Wayes
                 to
                 Honour
                 ,
                 New
                 and
                 Untrod
                 ,
                 by
                 the
                 Ancients
                 ,
                 Let
                 'um
                 follow
                 them
                 ,
                 to
                 the
                 furthest
                 Extent
                 of
                 their
                 Lives
                 or
                 Lunacy
                 .
                 Whilest
                 you
                 hearken
                 ,
                 to
                 the
                 
                   Graver
                   Advice
                
                 of
                 reason
                 .
                 Which
                 
                 may
                 
                   informe
                   you
                
                 ,
                 He
                 hath
                 offer'd
                 an
                 Abuse
                 already
                 ,
                 and
                 will
                 you
                 hazard
                 upon
                 
                   equall
                   Terms
                
                 the
                 receiving
                 a
                 Greater
                 ?
                 Indeed
                 if
                 a
                 Requitall
                 had
                 been
                 endeavoured
                 at
                 the
                 Instant
                 it
                 might
                 have
                 rendred
                 you
                 more
                 excusable
                 before
                 God
                 and
                 Man
                 :
                 But
                 that
                 opportunity
                 omitted
                 ;
                 it
                 were
                 more
                 Wrong
                 to
                 your
                 Charity
                 ,
                 then
                 Vindication
                 of
                 
                   Valour
                   ,
                   in
                   cold
                   Blood
                
                 to
                 call
                 back
                 Revenge
                 :
                 As
                 if
                 a
                 Worse
                 Christian
                 upon
                 Meditation
                 ,
                 then
                 when
                 irritated
                 by
                 Fury
                 and
                 Passion
                 .
                 Neither
                 is
                 Honour
                 to
                 be
                 purchased
                 ,
                 in
                 Single
                 and
                 self-perswading
                 Combates
                 ,
                 because
                 no
                 Marks
                 of
                 them
                 appear
                 in
                 Antiquity
                 ;
                 where
                 many
                 are
                 found
                 Dead
                 ,
                 but
                 not
                 one
                 ,
                 to
                 my
                 remembrance
                 ,
                 upon
                 so
                 impertinent
                 a
                 Quarrell
                 ,
                 as
                 Words
                 .
                 Yet
                 we
                 may
                 conclude
                 from
                 the
                 foul
                 Expressions
                 in
                 Oratours
                 ,
                 That
                 the
                 Mouthes
                 of
                 the
                 Gentry
                 were
                 then
                 none
                 of
                 the
                 Cleanest
                 .
                 He
                 that
                 Consults
                 former
                 
                 Histories
                 ,
                 may
                 find
                 ,
                 
                   That
                   some
                
                 have
                 gained
                 more
                 repute
                 from
                 a
                 Retreat
                 ,
                 then
                 others
                 could
                 obtain
                 by
                 a
                 Won-Field
                 .
                 And
                 what
                 is
                 a
                 Retreat
                 ,
                 I
                 pray
                 you
                 ,
                 but
                 a
                 
                   Fine
                   Word
                
                 for
                 
                   Running
                   away
                   ?
                   Fiercenesse
                
                 being
                 proper
                 to
                 Beasts
                 ,
                 whereas
                 a
                 
                   Neat
                   Evasion
                
                 belongs
                 peculiarly
                 to
                 Men.
                 Of
                 which
                 ,
                 I
                 shall
                 instance
                 this
                 ,
                 as
                 now
                 fresh
                 in
                 my
                 Memory
                 .
                 A
                 Gentleman
                 lying
                 ,
                 like
                 you
                 ,
                 under
                 the
                 repute
                 of
                 an
                 Injury
                 ,
                 did
                 meet
                 his
                 Enemy
                 ,
                 and
                 shot
                 him
                 with
                 a
                 Pistoll
                 stopped
                 full
                 of
                 Dung
                 ,
                 whereupon
                 he
                 cryed
                 
                   He
                   was
                   slayn
                
                 ,
                 which
                 set
                 him
                 further
                 back
                 in
                 the
                 Opinion
                 of
                 the
                 World
                 ,
                 then
                 his
                 former
                 Vapouring
                 had
                 
                   advanced
                   him
                
                 ,
                 when
                 the
                 Excrement
                 the
                 Dagge
                 was
                 loaden
                 with
                 ,
                 appeared
                 to
                 the
                 Senses
                 of
                 the
                 Standers-by
                 .
                 And
                 for
                 this
                 ,
                 the
                 Wit
                 of
                 it's
                 Deviser
                 was
                 highly
                 commended
                 .
                 Another
                 return'd
                 this
                 Answer
                 ,
                 with
                 a
                 like
                 Successe
                 ,
                 to
                 a
                 
                   Younger
                   Brothers
                   Challenge
                
                 ;
                 
                 That
                 if
                 he
                 could
                 prove
                 his
                 Losse
                 as
                 great
                 as
                 His
                 ,
                 should
                 he
                 Kill
                 or
                 be
                 Killed
                 ,
                 he
                 would
                 gladly
                 accept
                 it
                 ;
                 Otherwise
                 he
                 did
                 not
                 think
                 it
                 reason
                 ,
                 to
                 venture
                 his
                 Life
                 ,
                 against
                 one
                 did
                 want
                 Necessaries
                 ,
                 and
                 so
                 might
                 seek
                 Death
                 ,
                 no
                 lesse
                 out
                 of
                 Discontent
                 ,
                 then
                 Gallantry
                 :
                 which
                 Himself
                 ,
                 that
                 wanted
                 nothing
                 ,
                 had
                 no
                 cause
                 to
                 do
                 .
                 All
                 that
                 remaines
                 is
                 but
                 your
                 Pardon
                 for
                 this
                 Boldnesse
                 ,
                 which
                 I
                 most
                 seriously
                 Desire
                 .
                 Remaining
                 in
                 the
                 mean
                 time
                 ,
                 no
                 lesse
                 Your
                 
                   Faithfull
                   Friend
                
                 ,
                 Then
                 ,
              
               
                 
                   Sir
                   ,
                
                 
                   Your
                   ,
                   &c.
                   
                
              
            
             
               
               
                 A
                 Letter
                 to
                 Mr.
                 —
                 in
                 hope
                 to
                 disswade
                 Him
                 from
                 going
                 a
                 Colonel
                 under
                 
                   Count
                   Mansfield
                
                 .
              
               
                 
                   SIR
                   ,
                
              
               
                 I
                 Cannot
                 but
                 own
                 it
                 ,
                 for
                 a
                 high
                 Presumption
                 ,
                 to
                 offer
                 
                   such
                   suddain
                
                 and
                 
                   crude
                   Conceptions
                
                 in
                 a
                 Businesse
                 where
                 I
                 presume
                 ,
                 you
                 have
                 employed
                 ,
                 not
                 only
                 your
                 Owne
                 ,
                 but
                 the
                 most
                 
                   Serious
                   Advice
                
                 of
                 
                   Your
                   Friends
                
                 .
                 To
                 the
                 Abilities
                 and
                 Dignity
                 of
                 whom
                 ,
                 though
                 I
                 am
                 forced
                 to
                 give
                 place
                 ,
                 I
                 may
                 not
                 justly
                 be
                 accounted
                 behind
                 them
                 in
                 Affection
                 to
                 your
                 Selfe
                 ,
                 or
                 Affaires
                 .
                 Wherefore
                 having
                 received
                 so
                 great
                 an
                 encouragement
                 from
                 your
                 Commands
                 ,
                 no
                 lesse
                 then
                 a
                 Stimulation
                 from
                 my
                 particular
                 Desire
                 to
                 Serve
                 you
                 ,
                 I
                 shall
                 according
                 to
                 my
                 
                   small
                   Experience
                
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 
                   meaner
                   Abilities
                
                 
                 I
                 have
                 found
                 in
                 me
                 ,
                 to
                 employ
                 it
                 to
                 the
                 
                   best
                   Labour
                
                 ,
                 to
                 inform
                 You
                 ,
                 
                   These
                   Corrupt
                   times
                
                 have
                 rendred
                 many
                 things
                 Necessary
                 to
                 the
                 
                   German
                   Warres
                
                 ,
                 are
                 no
                 wayes
                 suteable
                 to
                 your
                 Complexion
                 ,
                 or
                 Fortune
                 ,
                 which
                 your
                 Generall
                 ,
                 being
                 a
                 Stranger
                 ,
                 cannot
                 in
                 probability
                 ,
                 advance
                 ,
                 without
                 Offending
                 his
                 own
                 ,
                 and
                 sinning
                 against
                 an
                 
                   Article
                   of
                   Policy
                
                 ,
                 and
                 Nature
                 .
                 Nor
                 shall
                 you
                 ,
                 though
                 loaden
                 with
                 the
                 Highest
                 Merit
                 ,
                 render
                 your
                 Return
                 more
                 gratefull
                 to
                 Your
                 
                   Naturall
                   Prince
                   :
                   King
                   James
                
                 having
                 alwayes
                 numbered
                 Souldiers
                 amongst
                 those
                 ,
                 he
                 esteemes
                 
                   the
                   worst
                   of
                   Men
                
                 ,
                 and
                 most
                 formidable
                 to
                 
                   His
                   Person
                
                 .
                 The
                 Expedition
                 being
                 by
                 Him
                 rather
                 Connived
                 at
                 ,
                 then
                 Approved
                 ,
                 out
                 of
                 Hope
                 ,
                 by
                 this
                 meanes
                 ,
                 to
                 facilitate
                 the
                 two
                 Treaties
                 of
                 a
                 Match
                 with
                 Spain
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 Restitution
                 of
                 the
                 Pallatinate
                 :
                 which
                 obtained
                 ,
                 (
                 according
                 to
                 the
                 Mode
                 of
                 
                 
                   Pusillanimous
                   Princes
                
                 )
                 all
                 endeavours
                 will
                 be
                 used
                 to
                 discharge
                 the
                 State
                 of
                 You
                 and
                 
                   Your
                   Companions
                
                 ,
                 as
                 a
                 Society
                 most
                 superfluous
                 
                   during
                   Peace
                
                 ;
                 the
                 only
                 Thing
                 
                   Our
                   King
                
                 doth
                 study
                 to
                 promote
                 :
                 To
                 whose
                 Eares
                 a
                 Drum
                 is
                 more
                 terrible
                 then
                 Thunder
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 Report
                 of
                 a
                 Canon
                 then
                 the
                 
                   voyce
                   of
                   God
                   Himselfe
                
                 .
                 Which
                 ,
                 (
                 if
                 
                   Our
                   Church-Men
                
                 may
                 be
                 credited
                 )
                 doth
                 at
                 this
                 Day
                 cry
                 for
                 vengeance
                 ,
                 against
                 the
                 Cruelty
                 ,
                 exercised
                 upon
                 Christians
                 ;
                 especially
                 from
                 England
                 ,
                 by
                 an
                 
                   unanimous
                   Consent
                
                 chosen
                 the
                 Head
                 of
                 the
                 
                   Protestant
                   League
                
                 ,
                 till
                 his
                 Majesty
                 had
                 forfeited
                 that
                 Honour
                 to
                 the
                 
                   brisker
                   Assistance
                
                 given
                 by
                 the
                 French.
                 Now
                 ,
                 can
                 you
                 think
                 he
                 should
                 indulge
                 valour
                 as
                 a
                 vertue
                 in
                 another
                 ,
                 when
                 nothing
                 is
                 more
                 manifest
                 ,
                 then
                 that
                 he
                 labours
                 to
                 expunge
                 all
                 Marks
                 ,
                 or
                 Occasions
                 for
                 it
                 in
                 Himselfe
                 ,
                 or
                 any
                 about
                 Him
                 so
                 
                 farre
                 ,
                 as
                 to
                 Answer
                 my
                 Lo.
                 —
                 when
                 he
                 came
                 from
                 the
                 Warres
                 ,
                 and
                 desired
                 to
                 Kisse
                 his
                 Hand
                 ,
                 That
                 he
                 feared
                 he
                 would
                 bite
                 it
                 ,
                 and
                 therefore
                 bad
                 he
                 should
                 be
                 muffled
                 ?
                 Nor
                 is
                 it
                 our
                 
                   Kings
                   mode
                
                 alone
                 ,
                 (
                 that
                 never
                 made
                 use
                 of
                 Souldiers
                 unlesse
                 to
                 slight
                 them
                 )
                 But
                 that
                 of
                 Spaigne
                 ;
                 under
                 whom
                 the
                 most
                 deserving
                 have
                 dyed
                 in
                 Disgrace
                 ,
                 if
                 not
                 by
                 Poyson
                 .
                 And
                 amongst
                 the
                 
                   Catalogue
                   of
                   Those
                
                 stand
                 
                   written
                   with
                   great
                   Characters
                
                 in
                 the
                 Kalender
                 of
                 Fame
                 ,
                 few
                 or
                 none
                 ,
                 are
                 registred
                 for
                 Saints
                 ,
                 or
                 Happy
                 .
                 It
                 being
                 past
                 Controversie
                 ,
                 That
                 ,
                 no
                 Warre
                 can
                 be
                 
                   called
                   Just
                
                 ,
                 beares
                 not
                 a
                 
                   reall
                   Tincture
                
                 of
                 Defensative
                 .
                 And
                 whosoever
                 hath
                 ,
                 or
                 shall
                 have
                 enterprized
                 the
                 Contrary
                 ,
                 though
                 his
                 Name
                 be
                 never
                 so
                 richly
                 enamelled
                 on
                 the
                 Ring
                 of
                 Fortune
                 ,
                 and
                 Himself
                 placed
                 at
                 the
                 Top
                 of
                 her
                 Wheele
                 ,
                 yet
                 he
                 is
                 but
                 the
                 Scourge
                 of
                 God
                 :
                 and
                 doth
                 for
                 the
                 
                 most
                 part
                 ,
                 fall
                 ,
                 when
                 he
                 thinks
                 himselfe
                 most
                 capable
                 of
                 standing
                 .
                 Like
                 Charles
                 the
                 5th
                 ,
                 that
                 was
                 by
                 the
                 
                   Duke
                   of
                   Saxony
                
                 ,
                 (
                 a
                 Family
                 of
                 his
                 own
                 raysing
                 )
                 beaten
                 over
                 the
                 Alps
                 ,
                 by
                 Torch-light
                 ,
                 and
                 himself
                 like
                 the
                 
                   Sword
                   of
                   Goliah
                
                 ,
                 wound
                 up
                 into
                 a
                 
                   High
                   Contempt
                
                 of
                 this
                 World
                 ,
                 and
                 layd
                 in
                 a
                 Monastery
                 .
                 The
                 Sins
                 and
                 Oversights
                 of
                 
                   Gods
                   Children
                
                 are
                 severely
                 punished
                 .
                 But
                 it
                 is
                 as
                 true
                 ,
                 That
                 nothing
                 costs
                 dearer
                 ,
                 then
                 the
                 Bloud
                 of
                 his
                 Saints
                 .
                 As
                 may
                 appear
                 by
                 such
                 Horse-Leaches
                 ,
                 as
                 have
                 been
                 applyed
                 to
                 his
                 Church
                 ;
                 from
                 whence
                 a
                 double
                 quantity
                 hath
                 been
                 drawn
                 ,
                 by
                 some
                 unexpected
                 meanes
                 .
                 But
                 if
                 these
                 Reasons
                 savour
                 too
                 much
                 of
                 Theology
                 ,
                 Consider
                 how
                 unpossible
                 it
                 is
                 to
                 do
                 any
                 thing
                 ,
                 without
                 the
                 Love
                 of
                 the
                 
                   Common
                   Souldier
                   abroad
                
                 ,
                 and
                 how
                 unsafe
                 He
                 must
                 needes
                 be
                 at
                 home
                 that
                 enjoyes
                 it
                 ;
                 There
                 being
                 nothing
                 more
                 usuall
                 
                 with
                 Princes
                 ,
                 then
                 to
                 be
                 jealous
                 of
                 their
                 Liberators
                 .
                 Manifest
                 in
                 Byron
                 ;
                 who
                 ,
                 after
                 he
                 had
                 set
                 the
                 Crown
                 upon
                 Henry
                 the
                 fourths
                 head
                 ,
                 lost
                 his
                 own
                 ,
                 out
                 of
                 a
                 no
                 more
                 pious
                 reason
                 ,
                 then
                 that
                 upon
                 a
                 
                   Contrary
                   provocation
                
                 ,
                 he
                 might
                 have
                 removed
                 it
                 to
                 another
                 .
                 And
                 to
                 shew
                 of
                 what
                 vile
                 esteeme
                 Souldiers
                 are
                 in
                 the
                 dayes
                 of
                 Peace
                 ;
                 I
                 will
                 not
                 say
                 (
                 though
                 I
                 have
                 heard
                 it
                 )
                 that
                 the
                 Judges
                 ,
                 after
                 the
                 
                   Irish
                   Warres
                
                 ,
                 were
                 given
                 it
                 in
                 Charge
                 :
                 yet
                 can
                 assure
                 you
                 ,
                 they
                 hanged
                 Souldiers
                 for
                 Faults
                 ,
                 which
                 ,
                 Others
                 (
                 thought
                 of
                 more
                 use
                 in
                 Peace
                 )
                 did
                 scape
                 ,
                 or
                 obtained
                 pardon
                 for
                 .
                 If
                 so
                 unhappy
                 ,
                 as
                 to
                 receive
                 a
                 Wound
                 in
                 your
                 Person
                 or
                 Credit
                 ,
                 it
                 remains
                 Yours
                 ,
                 without
                 the
                 least
                 Diminution
                 .
                 If
                 Honour
                 ,
                 Custome
                 shares
                 it
                 between
                 your
                 Country
                 ,
                 and
                 He
                 that
                 Commands
                 in
                 Chiefe
                 .
                 Who
                 ,
                 being
                 a
                 Forreyner
                 ,
                 is
                 not
                 unlikely
                 to
                 rob
                 you
                 of
                 your
                 due
                 ;
                 or
                 by
                 imploying
                 
                 you
                 on
                 Desperate
                 Service
                 ,
                 to
                 
                   Conclude
                   Fame
                   and
                   your
                   Life
                   together
                   .
                
                 I
                 know
                 ,
                 your
                 Resolution
                 is
                 too
                 well
                 lyned
                 by
                 Philosophy
                 against
                 the
                 Storms
                 of
                 Danger
                 ,
                 to
                 admit
                 a
                 Parly
                 with
                 any
                 Force
                 but
                 that
                 of
                 Reason
                 :
                 wherefore
                 I
                 forbear
                 to
                 Paynt
                 them
                 ,
                 lest
                 I
                 should
                 seem
                 to
                 scare
                 
                   you
                   with
                   Feares
                
                 ,
                 are
                 for
                 many
                 yeares
                 ,
                 left
                 to
                 be
                 terrible
                 to
                 my Selfe
                 .
                 Who
                 have
                 long
                 since
                 thought
                 it
                 Ridiculous
                 ,
                 to
                 
                   Court
                   Sleep
                
                 by
                 Opiums
                 ,
                 and
                 protract
                 Death
                 by
                 Cordialls
                 ;
                 which
                 is
                 but
                 the
                 Head
                 of
                 the
                 same
                 Species
                 ,
                 being
                 both
                 the
                 effect
                 of
                 an
                 
                   unavoydable
                   Lassitude
                
                 .
                 Yet
                 though
                 Life
                 is
                 imposed
                 upon
                 Mortalls
                 without
                 ,
                 if
                 not
                 against
                 their
                 Consent
                 ,
                 it
                 cannot
                 be
                 denyed
                 the
                 strongest
                 Result
                 of
                 the
                 Highest
                 Wisdom
                 ,
                 to
                 
                   Situate
                   Your Selfe
                   so
                
                 ,
                 as
                 it
                 may
                 consume
                 
                   at
                   the
                   most
                   ease
                
                 ,
                 and
                 with
                 the
                 least
                 Perturbation
                 ;
                 which
                 is
                 not
                 to
                 be
                 expected
                 from
                 such
                 a
                 Flaring
                 and
                 intemperate
                 
                 a
                 Course
                 ,
                 as
                 that
                 of
                 a
                 Souldier
                 :
                 that
                 can
                 make
                 choyce
                 of
                 no
                 Friend
                 nor
                 Enemy
                 ,
                 but
                 what
                 the
                 State
                 assignes
                 Him
                 ;
                 or
                 proportion
                 his
                 Pitty
                 or
                 Justice
                 ,
                 to
                 his
                 own
                 Morality
                 ,
                 but
                 their
                 Ambition
                 and
                 Jealousie
                 ,
                 that
                 Command
                 in
                 Chief
                 .
                 To
                 whom
                 in
                 all
                 things
                 you
                 are
                 bound
                 to
                 obey
                 ,
                 though
                 contrary
                 to
                 the
                 Grayn
                 of
                 Prudence
                 it self
                 .
                 That
                 
                   arbitrary
                   Government
                
                 you
                 so
                 much
                 complain
                 of
                 
                   at
                   home
                
                 ,
                 being
                 the
                 best
                 you
                 can
                 in
                 Reason
                 ,
                 expect
                 to
                 finde
                 ,
                 in
                 an
                 
                   Army
                   abroad
                
                 ;
                 Where
                 ,
                 the
                 Stresse
                 of
                 Discipline
                 lies
                 more
                 upon
                 the
                 Administration
                 of
                 Severity
                 ,
                 then
                 Justice
                 .
                 Such
                 as
                 are
                 reported
                 to
                 list
                 themselves
                 under
                 the
                 
                   Black
                   Prince
                   of
                   Darkn
                   sse
                
                 ,
                 draw
                 Articles
                 before
                 they
                 Consigne
                 their
                 Bloud
                 ;
                 And
                 have
                 a
                 Circle
                 enchanted
                 ,
                 with
                 a
                 
                   Power
                   to
                   protect
                   them
                
                 :
                 whereas
                 a
                 Souldier
                 hath
                 nothing
                 to
                 plead
                 for
                 ,
                 against
                 actuall
                 obedience
                 ,
                 but
                 the
                 narrow
                 
                 Circumference
                 of
                 Protection
                 ,
                 that
                 lies
                 in
                 the
                 will
                 of
                 a
                 Generall
                 .
                 To
                 whom
                 ,
                 the
                 Vertue
                 and
                 Valour
                 of
                 his
                 Officers
                 is
                 no
                 lesse
                 formidable
                 ,
                 in
                 relation
                 to
                 his
                 
                   particular
                   Jealousies
                
                 ,
                 then
                 the
                 Vices
                 and
                 Cowardice
                 ,
                 of
                 his
                 meaner
                 Souldiers
                 ,
                 are
                 thought
                 
                   pernicious
                   to
                   Successe
                
                 in
                 the
                 Field
                 .
                 Wherefore
                 no
                 Prince
                 deserves
                 such
                 
                   Honourable
                   Attendance
                
                 as
                 those
                 ,
                 that
                 Head
                 their
                 Armies
                 themselves
                 .
                 Generalissimo's
                 like
                 Stepfathers
                 ,
                 carrying
                 no
                 other
                 
                   Naturall
                   affection
                
                 ,
                 but
                 for
                 the
                 Advancement
                 of
                 their
                 own
                 Glory
                 .
                 So
                 as
                 they
                 esteem
                 ,
                 all
                 
                   inferiour
                   Merit
                
                 ,
                 as
                 an
                 Intrusion
                 upon
                 Theirs
                 :
                 It
                 being
                 ordinary
                 with
                 Custom
                 ,
                 to
                 award
                 Fame
                 to
                 such
                 as
                 have
                 least
                 deserved
                 it
                 ;
                 and
                 asperse
                 with
                 Infamy
                 ,
                 those
                 of
                 more
                 Glorious
                 Merit
                 .
                 I
                 confesse
                 Necessity
                 cannot
                 onely
                 abate
                 the
                 Edge
                 of
                 these
                 Reasons
                 ;
                 but
                 turne
                 their
                 Poynts
                 against
                 the
                 Urger
                 .
                 Yet
                 ,
                 
                 since
                 it
                 is
                 not
                 impossible
                 ,
                 but
                 that
                 the
                 Electour
                 may
                 have
                 miscarried
                 in
                 his
                 Allegeance
                 towards
                 the
                 
                   Emperour
                   ,
                   it
                   cannot
                   be
                   indiscreet
                
                 or
                 impertinent
                 to
                 mind
                 you
                 ,
                 of
                 the
                 Hazard
                 and
                 small
                 reward
                 they
                 commonly
                 are
                 capable
                 of
                 ,
                 that
                 render
                 themselves
                 Arbitrators
                 of
                 a
                 
                   Forreign
                   Difference
                   ;
                   I
                   do
                   comply
                   with
                   you
                   ,
                
                 in
                 all
                 the
                 
                   Pitty
                   ,
                   Prayers
                
                 ,
                 and
                 Contributions
                 can
                 be
                 offered
                 for
                 the
                 Restitution
                 of
                 the
                 
                   Vertuous
                   Lady
                   Elizabeth
                
                 :
                 yet
                 shall
                 reserve
                 
                   my
                   Person
                
                 to
                 bestow
                 upon
                 the
                 Preservation
                 of
                 my
                 Country
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 quarrell
                 of
                 which
                 ,
                 I
                 can
                 onely
                 justifie
                 ,
                 the
                 spilling
                 of
                 my
                 
                   own
                   Blood
                
                 ,
                 or
                 that
                 of
                 others
                 .
                 The
                 universall
                 imployment
                 of
                 a
                 
                   Souldier
                   ,
                   not
                   being
                   yet
                   legally
                   made
                   out
                   to
                   me
                   ,
                
                 by
                 any
                 Injunction
                 either
                 Morall
                 ,
                 or
                 Divine
                 .
                 The
                 Practice
                 of
                 the
                 Switzers
                 in
                 relation
                 to
                 Forreign
                 Quarrells
                 ,
                 appearing
                 as
                 remote
                 from
                 
                   Christian
                   Charity
                
                 ,
                 as
                 
                   Natural
                   Prudence
                
                 .
                 It
                 cannot
                 
                 be
                 denyed
                 ,
                 but
                 That
                 Souldiers
                 are
                 necessary
                 ,
                 during
                 the
                 Distracted
                 times
                 of
                 Invasion
                 :
                 So
                 it
                 is
                 as
                 true
                 ,
                 That
                 few
                 Callings
                 are
                 looked
                 upon
                 with
                 more
                 Disdain
                 ,
                 when
                 a
                 Nation
                 enjoyes
                 an
                 absolute
                 Tranquillity
                 .
                 Wherefore
                 it
                 can
                 be
                 no
                 Act
                 of
                 Discretion
                 ,
                 to
                 inrole
                 your
                 self
                 ,
                 under
                 a
                 Profession
                 ,
                 onely
                 in
                 esteem
                 ,
                 during
                 the
                 
                   Worser
                   Ages
                
                 ,
                 and
                 not
                 the
                 Best
                 .
                 Wherein
                 maims
                 are
                 considered
                 rather
                 as
                 marks
                 of
                 an
                 inconsiderate
                 and
                 brutish
                 Valour
                 ,
                 then
                 a
                 temperate
                 and
                 
                   advised
                   Prudence
                
                 .
                 Were
                 You
                 thrown
                 upon
                 it
                 ,
                 by
                 the
                 
                   Iron
                   Hornes
                
                 of
                 an
                 unavoydable
                 Compulsion
                 ,
                 or
                 flattered
                 into
                 it
                 ,
                 out
                 of
                 a
                 more
                 then
                 probable
                 Assurance
                 of
                 an
                 
                   Honourable
                   Advantage
                
                 ;
                 Something
                 might
                 be
                 objected
                 to
                 the
                 Prayers
                 of
                 Your
                 Friends
                 ,
                 and
                 contrary
                 Desires
                 of
                 your
                 Enemies
                 :
                 who
                 may
                 not
                 unpossibly
                 tempt
                 you
                 ,
                 into
                 this
                 
                   uncertain
                   Hope
                
                 ,
                 out
                 of
                 a
                 Design
                 ,
                 to
                 rob
                 you
                 of
                 all
                 you
                 
                   really
                   enjoy
                
                 .
                 
                 Consider
                 your
                 Education
                 ,
                 how
                 much
                 a
                 Stranger
                 it
                 hath
                 been
                 ,
                 to
                 the
                 
                   incommodious
                   Treatment
                
                 the
                 Field
                 doth
                 afford
                 :
                 Out
                 of
                 whose
                 Verge
                 ,
                 it
                 is
                 more
                 decent
                 and
                 safe
                 ,
                 still
                 to
                 preserve
                 your Selfe
                 ,
                 then
                 ,
                 at
                 any
                 time
                 to
                 retire
                 ,
                 though
                 upon
                 the
                 highest
                 Provocation
                 ;
                 of
                 whose
                 legitimacy
                 ,
                 your
                 Enemies
                 from
                 whom
                 
                   you
                   part
                
                 ,
                 will
                 be
                 the
                 Arbitrators
                 ,
                 and
                 not
                 your
                 Friends
                 ,
                 to
                 whom
                 
                   you
                   return
                   .
                   Warre
                
                 being
                 a
                 turbulent
                 and
                 
                   destructive
                   Calling
                
                 ,
                 with
                 more
                 Credit
                 and
                 Safety
                 alwayes
                 neglected
                 ,
                 then
                 at
                 any
                 time
                 
                   for
                   saken
                
                 .
                 He
                 that
                 never
                 fought
                 ,
                 receiving
                 a
                 fairer
                 Encomium
                 from
                 Charity
                 ,
                 then
                 a
                 Captain
                 that
                 hath
                 deserted
                 his
                 Poste
                 .
                 Nor
                 doth
                 a
                 Colonel
                 stand
                 for
                 more
                 ,
                 then
                 a
                 single
                 Wheele
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 Frame
                 of
                 an
                 Army
                 ,
                 where
                 the
                 Generall
                 remaines
                 Heir
                 to
                 all
                 Desert
                 .
                 —
                 The
                 rest
                 is
                 lost
                 .
              
            
             
               
               
                 A
                 Letter
                 to
                 Mr.
                 
                   W.
                   P.
                
                 
              
               
                 THe
                 continuance
                 of
                 your
                 Acquaintance
                 is
                 the
                 highest
                 Pinnacle
                 of
                 my
                 Ambition
                 .
                 And
                 from
                 whence
                 I
                 am
                 not
                 onely
                 tempted
                 ,
                 but
                 do
                 willingly
                 submit
                 to
                 the
                 lowest
                 of
                 your
                 Commands
                 .
                 In
                 the
                 pursuance
                 of
                 which
                 ,
                 I
                 came
                 on
                 purpose
                 ,
                 to
                 meet
                 you
                 at
                 B.
                 —
                 loaden
                 with
                 the
                 strongest
                 Advice
                 ,
                 so
                 weak
                 a
                 judgement
                 is
                 able
                 to
                 man-out
                 .
                 But
                 I
                 find
                 ,
                 Your
                 own
                 Wisdom
                 hath
                 given
                 me
                 the
                 Opportunity
                 ,
                 to
                 spare
                 my
                 English
                 ;
                 By
                 discovering
                 to
                 you
                 ,
                 without
                 the
                 help
                 of
                 a
                 Prospective
                 ,
                 or
                 the
                 dearer
                 prejudice
                 of
                 a
                 Tryall
                 ,
                 what
                 I
                 found
                 verified
                 through
                 many
                 Yeares
                 
                   Experience
                   ,
                   viz.
                
                 That
                 
                   Honourable
                   Persons
                
                 ,
                 like
                 
                   too
                   great
                   Fires
                
                 ,
                 may
                 warm
                 and
                 comfort
                 such
                 as
                 are
                 Content
                 only
                 to
                 serve
                 them
                 at
                 a
                 Distance
                 :
                 But
                 blast
                 the
                 Parts
                 ,
                 and
                 consume
                 
                 the
                 Fortunes
                 of
                 those
                 are
                 found
                 to
                 attend
                 them
                 in
                 any
                 
                   neerer
                   relations
                
                 .
                 Who
                 gayn
                 ,
                 for
                 the
                 most
                 part
                 like
                 the
                 Birds
                 that
                 follow
                 the
                 Crocodile
                 ,
                 no
                 richer
                 Reward
                 ,
                 then
                 the
                 Reversions
                 of
                 
                   their
                   Teeth
                
                 .
                 It
                 being
                 usuall
                 with
                 these
                 Monsters
                 in
                 Nature
                 ,
                 to
                 esteem
                 none
                 capable
                 of
                 Desert
                 ,
                 but
                 such
                 ,
                 as
                 Fortune
                 ,
                 or
                 Basenesse
                 hath
                 made
                 necessary
                 to
                 their
                 Vices
                 ,
                 or
                 Power
                 .
                 The
                 First
                 of
                 which
                 ,
                 is
                 as
                 much
                 below
                 
                   the
                   Breeding
                
                 ,
                 as
                 the
                 Other
                 ,
                 is
                 the
                 
                   Candour
                   of
                   a
                   Gentleman
                
                 :
                 To
                 whom
                 ,
                 it
                 is
                 incongruous
                 ,
                 to
                 leave
                 the
                 
                   Honour
                   he
                
                 was
                 born
                 to
                 ,
                 at
                 the
                 foot
                 of
                 that
                 Ladder
                 ,
                 he
                 hopes
                 to
                 ascend
                 by
                 ,
                 to
                 a
                 greater
                 .
                 Neither
                 ,
                 have
                 they
                 that
                 are
                 instrumentall
                 to
                 their
                 Rapine
                 ,
                 a
                 more
                 noble
                 imployment
                 ,
                 then
                 
                   those
                   Beasts
                
                 reported
                 of
                 in
                 the
                 Indies
                 :
                 who
                 hunt
                 the
                 prey
                 for
                 the
                 Lyons
                 ,
                 and
                 after
                 by
                 his
                 strength
                 they
                 are
                 subdued
                 ,
                 must
                 rest
                 satisfied
                 with
                 what
                 the
                 Covetousnesse
                 of
                 their
                 Master
                 
                 shall
                 leave
                 undevour'd
                 .
              
               
                 For
                 my
                 Selfe
                 ,
                 as
                 none
                 can
                 ,
                 with
                 Affection
                 ,
                 look
                 upon
                 the
                 Gulph
                 ,
                 hath
                 swallowed
                 up
                 his
                 Felicity
                 :
                 So
                 I
                 remain
                 in
                 so
                 high
                 a
                 Feud
                 with
                 Greatnesse
                 ,
                 as
                 ,
                 if
                 I
                 did
                 not
                 find
                 [
                 Lord
                 ]
                 in
                 my
                 
                   Daily
                   Prayers
                
                 ,
                 I
                 should
                 not
                 name
                 it
                 (
                 in
                 relation
                 to
                 Servant
                 )
                 without
                 Detestation
                 .
                 The
                 
                   which
                   Lord
                
                 ,
                 had
                 I
                 served
                 as
                 I
                 ought
                 ,
                 The
                 other
                 would
                 have
                 been
                 no
                 more
                 known
                 to
                 me
                 ,
                 then
                 
                   Leopards
                   ,
                   Wolves
                
                 ,
                 and
                 Tygers
                 ,
                 seldom
                 ,
                 if
                 ever
                 ,
                 seen
                 by
                 us
                 ,
                 but
                 in
                 Grates
                 and
                 Pictures
                 .
                 Yet
                 how
                 manifest
                 soever
                 this
                 Truth
                 is
                 ,
                 I
                 am
                 not
                 so
                 foolish
                 my Selfe
                 ,
                 or
                 think
                 Others
                 so
                 Wise
                 ,
                 as
                 to
                 esteem
                 any
                 Precept
                 ,
                 or
                 Example
                 strong
                 enough
                 to
                 restrain
                 the
                 
                   unsupported
                   Ignorance
                
                 of
                 
                   Young
                   men
                
                 from
                 falling
                 into
                 this
                 Trap
                 ;
                 bayted
                 with
                 more
                 Ease
                 ,
                 though
                 far
                 lesse
                 Assurance
                 ,
                 then
                 
                   Law
                   ,
                   Physick
                
                 ,
                 &c.
                 
                 For
                 
                   this
                   Course
                
                 often
                 neglected
                 ,
                 ni
                 which
                 Hundreds
                 perish
                 for
                 One
                 
                 that
                 thrives
                 ;
                 who
                 is
                 yet
                 found
                 to
                 be
                 more
                 imperious
                 then
                 the
                 Master
                 himself
                 .
                 Since
                 the
                 powerful
                 
                   Word
                   of
                   God
                
                 assisted
                 by
                 the
                 Rhetorick
                 of
                 Divines
                 ,
                 is
                 not
                 of
                 Efficacy
                 sufficient
                 to
                 keep
                 them
                 from
                 following
                 
                   Pride
                   ,
                   Lust
                
                 ,
                 and
                 Drunkenness
                 ,
                 though
                 Hell
                 be
                 assigned
                 for
                 the
                 Conclusion
                 .
                 But
                 ,
                 if
                 yo
                 udesire
                 a
                 more
                 full
                 ,
                 and
                 elegant
                 prosecution
                 of
                 this
                 Theame
                 ,
                 I
                 refer
                 you
                 to
                 Lucian
                 :
                 Having
                 already
                 exceeded
                 my
                 First
                 intention
                 ,
                 which
                 was
                 only
                 to
                 
                   Kisse
                   your
                   Hands
                
                 ,
                 and
                 in
                 fewer
                 words
                 ,
                 to
                 assure
                 you
                 that
                 I
                 am
              
               
                 
                   Sir
                   ,
                
                 
                   Your
                   Servant
                   .
                
              
            
             
               
               
                 Another
                 to
                 the
                 Same
                 .
              
               
                 
                   
                     Sir
                     ,
                  
                
                 
                   HAd
                   you
                   not
                   assur'd
                   me
                   you
                   were
                   not
                   well
                   ,
                   I
                   should
                   easily
                   have
                   guessed
                   it
                   my Self
                   ;
                   from
                   the
                   
                     Commendation
                     your
                  
                   Letter
                   gave
                   to
                   mine
                   .
                
                 
                   Which
                   cannot
                   but
                   be
                   rather
                   the
                   effect
                   of
                   a
                   Fever
                   ,
                   then
                   your
                   Judgement
                   .
                   To
                   which
                   ,
                   though
                   I
                   am
                   so
                   highly
                   obliged
                   for
                   the
                   present
                   ,
                   as
                   to
                   gain
                   a
                   more
                   honourable
                   esteem
                   in
                   your
                   Fancy
                   ,
                   then
                   ,
                   without
                   the
                   like
                   Mediation
                   ,
                   I
                   could
                   possibly
                   have
                   attained
                   :
                   Yet
                   I
                   do
                   not
                   onely
                   abhor
                   this
                   ,
                   but
                   all
                   
                     Advantages
                     else
                  
                   ,
                   That
                   own
                   the
                   least
                   semblance
                   of
                   a
                   Prejudice
                   to
                   you
                   .
                   So
                   as
                   I
                   could
                   not
                   have
                   been
                   thus
                   Romantique
                   ,
                   but
                   that
                   the
                   
                     last
                     Line
                  
                   ,
                   prov'd
                   a
                   Cordiall
                   to
                   the
                   First
                   ;
                   By
                   expunging
                   all
                   fear
                   of
                   
                     Future
                     Danger
                  
                   ,
                   in
                   respect
                   of
                   your
                   
                   Health
                   .
                   And
                   for
                   Prudence
                   ,
                   I
                   find
                   it
                   by
                   the
                   Elegancy
                   of
                   your
                   Style
                   ,
                   and
                   the
                   
                     Solidity
                     of
                     Matter
                  
                   ,
                   so
                   far
                   rather
                   increased
                   ,
                   then
                   diminished
                   ,
                   as
                   I
                   am
                   confident
                   your
                   opinion
                   is
                   ,
                   by
                   this
                   time
                   ,
                   alter'd
                   in
                   reference
                   to
                   my
                   Desert
                   :
                   Though
                   I
                   am
                   willing
                   to
                   flatter
                   my Self
                   ,
                   That
                   your
                   Love
                   continues
                   .
                   But
                   whether
                   the
                   Horse
                   follows
                   the
                   Chariot
                   ,
                   or
                   the
                   Chariot
                   the
                   Horse
                   ,
                   Persons
                   of
                   Parts
                   are
                   found
                   to
                   make
                   so
                   great
                   a
                   Descent
                   ,
                   which
                   submit
                   themselves
                   to
                   this
                   
                     Course
                     of
                     Servitude
                  
                   ,
                   That
                   they
                   waken
                   the
                   
                     Admiration
                     of
                     Lookers-on
                  
                   ,
                   much
                   more
                   ,
                   then
                   the
                   Apprehensions
                   of
                   those
                   ,
                   that
                   ,
                   like
                   me
                   ,
                   have
                   ,
                   so
                   apparently
                   ,
                   suffered
                   in
                   their
                   particular
                   Interests
                   :
                   It
                   being
                   impossible
                   to
                   imagine
                   a
                   greater
                   Lunacy
                   ,
                   Then
                   to
                   cast
                   away
                   
                     Time
                     ,
                     Freedom
                  
                   ,
                   and
                   
                     Fortune
                     after
                     such
                  
                   ,
                   as
                   so
                   little
                   regard
                   it
                   ,
                   That
                   they
                   esteem
                   it
                   Reward
                   sufficient
                   for
                   the
                   most
                   of
                   their
                   Servants
                   ,
                   
                   If
                   they
                   have
                   an
                   Opportunity
                   to
                   observe
                   the
                   Basenesse
                   of
                   their
                   Natures
                   ,
                   For
                   what
                   is
                   gotten
                   by
                   them
                   ,
                   belongs
                   rather
                   to
                   their
                   own
                   Impudence
                   ,
                   or
                   Importunity
                   ;
                   then
                   the
                   Bounty
                   ,
                   or
                   Goodnesse
                   of
                   their
                   Masters
                   :
                   Since
                   he
                   that
                   remains
                   Defective
                   ,
                   in
                   one
                   of
                   these
                   
                     Two
                     Court-Vertues
                  
                   ,
                   shall
                   be
                   compell'd
                   to
                   make
                   a
                   Third
                   of
                   
                     pure
                     Necessity
                  
                   .
                   Let
                   a
                   man
                   consume
                   A
                   Prentiship
                   with
                   a
                   Citizen
                   :
                   At
                   the
                   end
                   of
                   the
                   Time
                   ,
                   It
                   is
                   his
                   own
                   Fault
                   ,
                   if
                   he
                   be
                   not
                   able
                   to
                   Live.
                   But
                   when
                   a
                   Trades-man
                   (
                   Like
                   one
                   of
                   his
                   Majesties
                   
                     Antique
                     Statues
                  
                   )
                   is
                   taken
                   out
                   of
                   a
                   base
                   Cellar
                   or
                   Vault
                   ,
                   (
                   no
                   Prodigy
                   in
                   our
                   Dayes
                   )
                   and
                   set
                   up
                   at
                   Court
                   ;
                   It
                   is
                   his
                   least
                   care
                   to
                   provide
                   for
                   his
                   Servants
                   ,
                   unlesse
                   necessary
                   to
                   his
                   Vices
                   ,
                   or
                   the
                   Infirmities
                   that
                   proceed
                   from
                   them
                   .
                   Such
                   being
                   able
                   to
                   Ride
                   him
                   where
                   they
                   please
                   ;
                   either
                   ,
                   over
                   their
                   Fellows
                   ,
                   or
                   Strangers
                   ,
                   by
                   way
                   of
                   Terrour
                   ,
                   or
                   
                   Disdain
                   :
                   Or
                   Curvet
                   ,
                   and
                   prance
                   with
                   his
                   Complements
                   ,
                   in
                   token
                   of
                   Respect
                   .
                   They
                   resembling
                   ,
                   for
                   the
                   most
                   part
                   ,
                   Oranges
                   ,
                   that
                   yeild
                   nothing
                   but
                   upon
                   squeezing
                   .
                   I
                   confesse
                   ,
                   the
                   Dependance
                   on
                   a
                   Monster
                   of
                   this
                   kind
                   ,
                   may
                   be
                   of
                   excellent
                   use
                   for
                   Protection
                   ,
                   in
                   these
                   
                     Fat
                     all
                     Times
                  
                   ,
                   where
                   Innocency
                   is
                   found
                   too
                   weak
                   for
                   Deceit
                   :
                   Could
                   it
                   be
                   obtain'd
                   without
                   a
                   greater
                   Losse
                   .
                   But
                   as
                   in
                   a
                   Contract
                   with
                   the
                   Divell
                   ,
                   the
                   First
                   thing
                   parted
                   with
                   ,
                   is
                   Hope
                   of
                   
                     Future
                     Felicity
                  
                   :
                   So
                   a
                   Secretary
                   must
                   quit
                   his
                   Freedom
                   ,
                   or
                   Imployment
                   ;
                   being
                   tyed
                   to
                   so
                   strict
                   an
                   Attendance
                   ,
                   as
                   his
                   Lord
                   is
                   no
                   more
                   able
                   to
                   spare
                   him
                   ,
                   then
                   his
                   own
                   Brains
                   ,
                   or
                   Thumbs
                   .
                   By
                   which
                   ,
                   the
                   Slavery
                   becomes
                   so
                   great
                   ,
                   as
                   it
                   can
                   receive
                   no
                   Compensation
                   from
                   Profit
                   .
                   Wherefore
                   such
                   as
                   are
                   wisest
                   ,
                   retain
                   onely
                   The
                   Acquaintance
                   of
                   
                     Great
                     men
                  
                   :
                   whom
                   I
                   have
                   observed
                   to
                   thrive
                   better
                   then
                   their
                   
                     Meniall
                     
                     Servants
                  
                   .
                   It
                   being
                   usuall
                   with
                   them
                   ,
                   to
                   bestow
                   benefits
                   on
                   those
                   that
                   least
                   deserve
                   .
                   And
                   to
                   him
                   ,
                   they
                   have
                   injured
                   by
                   denying
                   a
                   
                     just
                     Reward
                  
                   ,
                   it
                   is
                   their
                   mode
                   ,
                   to
                   become
                   an
                   Enemy
                   .
                   As
                   I
                   have
                   found
                   most
                   certainly
                   true
                   ,
                   who
                   am
                
                 
                   
                     Sir
                     ,
                  
                   
                     Your
                     Servant
                     .
                  
                
              
               
                 
                   POSTSCRIPT
                   .
                
                 
                   I
                   Have
                   sent
                   you
                   this
                   to
                   serve
                   as
                   a
                   Black-Patch
                   ,
                   or
                   Foyle
                   ;
                   to
                   set
                   out
                   the
                   
                     Beauty
                     of
                     your
                     Virgil.
                  
                   And
                   therein
                   you
                   may
                   observe
                   the
                   strength
                   of
                   Affection
                   :
                   which
                   for
                   your
                   sake
                   is
                   able
                   to
                   raise
                   in
                   me
                   the
                   Enthusiasmes
                   of
                   a
                   Poet
                   ;
                   from
                   whose
                   Inspiration
                   ,
                   this
                   Oracle
                   is
                   pronounced
                   .
                
                 
                   
                   
                     THis
                     Work
                     is
                     finish'd
                     so
                     ,
                     as
                     no
                     Supply
                  
                   
                     Can
                     be
                     expected
                     from
                     Posterity
                     .
                  
                   
                     Nor
                     could
                     thy
                     
                       Authour's
                       Laurell
                    
                     match
                     thy
                     Btyes
                     ,
                  
                   
                     Hadst
                     thou
                     appear'd
                     with
                     him
                     ,
                     in
                     Caesar's
                     dayes
                     .
                  
                   
                     Yet
                     ,
                     he
                     that
                     this
                     Translation
                     dares
                     to
                     slight
                     ,
                  
                   
                     Must
                     not
                     admire
                     to
                     see
                     a
                     Moore
                     wash'd
                     white
                     ,
                  
                   
                     And
                     chan'gd
                     to
                     English-Beauty
                     :
                     losing
                     none
                  
                   
                     Of
                     what
                     was
                     Hers
                     ;
                     But
                     adding
                     of
                     
                       his
                       owne
                    
                     .
                  
                   
                     If
                     that
                     our
                     
                       Northern
                       Paint
                    
                     be
                     not
                     so
                     good
                     ,
                  
                   
                     'T
                     is
                     not
                     thy
                     Fault
                     :
                     whose
                     Pencil
                     understood
                  
                   
                     No
                     lesse
                     then
                     any
                     Roman's
                     .
                     And
                     this
                     shall
                  
                   
                     Struggle
                     for
                     Fame
                     with
                     the
                     Originall
                     :
                  
                   
                     And
                     waste
                     more
                     
                       Bloud
                       ,
                       &
                       Inck
                    
                     ,
                     then
                     in
                     the
                     strife
                  
                   
                     Between
                     those
                     States
                     who
                     first
                     gave
                     Homer
                     Life
                     ,
                  
                   
                     Which
                     will
                     be
                     Justice
                     .
                     For
                     he
                     did
                     undo
                  
                   
                     By
                     writing
                     then
                     ,
                     what
                     Wit
                     entayl'd
                     
                       thee
                       to
                    
                     .
                  
                   
                     Like
                     to
                     an
                     Elder-Brother
                     that
                     is
                     Curst
                  
                   
                     In
                     all
                     things
                     else
                     :
                     yet
                     priz'd
                     for
                     
                       comming
                       First
                    
                     .
                  
                
                 
                   
                     But
                     to
                     Conclude
                     the
                     wishes
                     of
                     my
                     Heart
                     ,
                  
                   
                     Oh
                     that
                     my
                     Prayse
                     could
                     equall
                     thy
                     Desert
                     ,
                  
                
              
            
             
               
               
                 A
                 Letter
                 perswading
                 —
                 .
                 —
                 to
                 marry
                 .
              
               
                 THough
                 your
                 Contexture
                 makes
                 me
                 confident
                 ,
                 you
                 will
                 not
                 hazard
                 the
                 Dansing
                 Couranios
                 with
                 Apes
                 in
                 Hell
                 :
                 yet
                 it
                 is
                 none
                 of
                 the
                 least
                 Modern
                 Miracles
                 ,
                 why
                 you
                 stay
                 so
                 long
                 unmarried
                 .
                 As
                 if
                 you
                 had
                 an
                 Antidote
                 to
                 repell
                 Age
                 ,
                 and
                 were
                 proof
                 against
                 the
                 Weapons
                 of
                 Time
                 ;
                 or
                 had
                 a
                 Receipt
                 to
                 recover
                 his
                 Locks
                 worn
                 off
                 ,
                 by
                 such
                 ,
                 as
                 neglect
                 to
                 lay
                 hold
                 on
                 the
                 present
                 Occasion
                 :
                 which
                 you
                 would
                 never
                 do
                 ,
                 had
                 you
                 seriously
                 consider'd
                 the
                 present
                 Condition
                 of
                 your
                 Mother
                 ;
                 (
                 whose
                 youth
                 is
                 said
                 ,
                 so
                 blasphemous
                 is
                 Tradition
                 ,
                 rather
                 to
                 have
                 exceeded
                 ,
                 then
                 come
                 short
                 of
                 your
                 present
                 Beauty
                 :
                 )
                 How
                 a
                 few
                 Yeares
                 hath
                 changed
                 Alabaster
                 into
                 Wainscot
                 ,
                 and
                 ruffled
                 her
                 Neck
                 like
                 a
                 walking
                 Buskin
                 :
                 So
                 that
                 
                 such
                 ,
                 as
                 would
                 once
                 have
                 crossed
                 Seas
                 ,
                 but
                 for
                 an
                 apparition
                 of
                 her
                 ,
                 cannot
                 but
                 now
                 think
                 it
                 Ominous
                 ,
                 to
                 meet
                 her
                 Fasting
                 .
                 If
                 you
                 resolve
                 upon
                 none
                 ,
                 till
                 you
                 pattern
                 the
                 Character
                 your
                 Fancy
                 presented
                 me
                 ,
                 (
                 when
                 I
                 had
                 last
                 the
                 Honour
                 to
                 kisse
                 your
                 Hands
                 ,
                 and
                 heard
                 the
                 Scorn
                 wherewith
                 you
                 received
                 the
                 Offer
                 of
                 —
                 I
                 must
                 be
                 bold
                 to
                 tell
                 you
                 ,
                 I
                 took
                 it
                 rather
                 as
                 a
                 Copy
                 of
                 your
                 Countenance
                 ,
                 then
                 any
                 thought
                 could
                 take
                 its
                 Originall
                 from
                 the
                 Discretion
                 I
                 ever
                 own'd
                 you
                 Lady
                 of
                 )
                 you
                 may
                 as
                 well
                 expect
                 a
                 
                   New
                   Creation
                
                 .
                 Since
                 ,
                 so
                 much
                 perfection
                 ,
                 as
                 your
                 Language
                 did
                 then
                 paynt
                 ,
                 is
                 not
                 to
                 be
                 found
                 out
                 of
                 a
                 Romance
                 ;
                 or
                 the
                 short
                 Entertainment
                 ,
                 during
                 a
                 
                   Lovers
                   Passion
                
                 ;
                 which
                 once
                 ,
                 throughly
                 cured
                 ,
                 by
                 Fruition
                 ,
                 is
                 not
                 found
                 rarely
                 to
                 recoyle
                 into
                 as
                 great
                 ,
                 a
                 Contrary
                 Extreame
                 .
                 I
                 confess
                 ,
                 
                   Wise
                   ,
                   Constant
                
                 ,
                 
                 and
                 
                   Compleate
                   Servants
                
                 may
                 be
                 had
                 ;
                 but
                 few
                 such
                 Husbands
                 ,
                 whose
                 mindes
                 are
                 no
                 lesse
                 altered
                 by
                 Marriage
                 ,
                 then
                 
                   Drunken
                   Men
                
                 are
                 by
                 Sleep
                 :
                 but
                 become
                 like
                 them
                 ,
                 weary
                 and
                 sick
                 ,
                 of
                 what
                 they
                 formerly
                 took
                 delight
                 in
                 ;
                 upon
                 the
                 Apprehension
                 ,
                 That
                 he
                 which
                 yokes
                 himself
                 to
                 a
                 Woman
                 ,
                 forfeits
                 
                   his
                   Prudence
                
                 ,
                 no
                 lesse
                 ,
                 then
                 She
                 doth
                 hazard
                 her
                 Repute
                 ,
                 who
                 incircles
                 a
                 Man
                 in
                 her
                 Arms
                 before
                 Enchanted
                 by
                 the
                 Priest
                 ,
                 through
                 Custome
                 and
                 Shame
                 made
                 farre
                 more
                 necessary
                 to
                 you
                 ,
                 then
                 Men.
                 Wherefore
                 finding
                 that
                 Time
                 is
                 uncessantly
                 nibling
                 at
                 youth
                 ,
                 and
                 Beauty
                 the
                 baite
                 of
                 your
                 Trap
                 :
                 And
                 that
                 it
                 is
                 unlikely
                 with
                 no
                 stronger
                 Engines
                 ,
                 To
                 catch
                 one
                 that
                 is
                 Wise
                 :
                 Be
                 nimble
                 ,
                 and
                 lay
                 hold
                 on
                 this
                 that
                 is
                 Rich.
                 Who
                 is
                 confess'd
                 none
                 of
                 the
                 
                   Seven
                   Wise
                   Masters
                
                 ;
                 and
                 therefore
                 with
                 more
                 Ease
                 to
                 be
                 Governed
                 .
                 The
                 Felicities
                 
                 of
                 Marriage
                 ,
                 perishing
                 in
                 the
                 Conflict
                 arising
                 between
                 
                   Man
                   and
                   Wife
                
                 ,
                 Of
                 equall
                 Spirits
                 and
                 understanding
                 .
                 It
                 being
                 impossible
                 there
                 should
                 want
                 Contests
                 ,
                 where
                 both
                 lay
                 claym
                 to
                 a
                 Capacity
                 fit
                 onely
                 to
                 be
                 obeyed
                 .
                 Which
                 ,
                 if
                 you
                 have
                 him
                 ,
                 will
                 by
                 all
                 ,
                 be
                 conceded
                 on
                 your
                 side
                 .
                 So
                 that
                 ,
                 instead
                 of
                 being
                 a
                 Ward
                 ,
                 (
                 a
                 Tenure
                 every
                 
                   Married
                   Woman
                
                 holds
                 from
                 
                   the
                   Award
                
                 of
                 her
                 Maker
                 )
                 you
                 shall
                 be
                 Guardian
                 of
                 the
                 Person
                 and
                 Estate
                 of
                 your
                 Husband
                 .
                 Now
                 ,
                 in
                 relation
                 to
                 other
                 things
                 ,
                 upon
                 the
                 Score
                 of
                 which
                 you
                 may
                 reckon
                 
                   stronger
                   Felicities
                
                 ;
                 They
                 will
                 be
                 found
                 ,
                 after
                 enjoyment
                 ,
                 to
                 vanish
                 into
                 
                   Cyphers
                   .
                   Learning
                
                 becomming
                 as
                 unsociable
                 for
                 Ladies
                 ,
                 as
                 
                   Half-witted
                   Men
                
                 are
                 Wilfull
                 and
                 Jealous
                 ;
                 Rocks
                 that
                 the
                 softness
                 of
                 his
                 Head
                 gives
                 sufficient
                 caution
                 for
                 ,
                 So
                 that
                 ,
                 under
                 this
                 Conjunction
                 ,
                 you
                 may
                 ,
                 without
                 interruption
                 ,
                 
                 follow
                 what
                 Inclinations
                 you
                 please
                 .
                 Wherefore
                 ,
                 if
                 you
                 resolve
                 to
                 marry
                 ,
                 no
                 Husband
                 is
                 more
                 proper
                 ;
                 whose
                 Folly
                 you
                 may
                 Exchange
                 for
                 Wisdom
                 ,
                 when
                 you
                 please
                 .
                 And
                 to
                 renounce
                 it
                 quite
                 ,
                 were
                 ,
                 besides
                 burying
                 your
                 Talent
                 in
                 the
                 Ground
                 ,
                 and
                 robbing
                 of
                 the
                 World
                 ,
                 which
                 you
                 ought
                 to
                 leave
                 as
                 Rich
                 as
                 you
                 found
                 it
                 :
                 You
                 should
                 fall
                 into
                 the
                 Condition
                 of
                 an
                 
                   old
                   Mayd
                
                 ,
                 then
                 which
                 nothing
                 is
                 more
                 Despicable
                 :
                 who
                 is
                 acceptable
                 in
                 no
                 Company
                 .
                 Not
                 daring
                 to
                 come
                 amongst
                 Women
                 ,
                 for
                 fear
                 of
                 declaring
                 more
                 Knowledge
                 then
                 she
                 can
                 ,
                 with
                 reference
                 to
                 
                   Honesty
                   own
                
                 :
                 Or
                 approach
                 Men
                 out
                 of
                 the
                 danger
                 of
                 Contempt
                 .
                 The
                 Morall
                 of
                 Andromeda
                 ,
                 is
                 a
                 History
                 of
                 your
                 present
                 Condition
                 .
                 Where
                 ,
                 the
                 
                   Barren
                   Rock
                
                 She
                 was
                 tyde
                 too
                 ,
                 is
                 Virginity
                 .
                 The
                 Monster
                 that
                 came
                 to
                 devour
                 her
                 ,
                 Time.
                 And
                 he
                 reported
                 to
                 deliver
                 
                 her
                 ,
                 some
                 witty-Spark
                 ,
                 that
                 perswaded
                 her
                 ,
                 to
                 take
                 a
                 
                   Rich
                   ---
                   &c.
                
                 to
                 her
                 Husband
                 ,
                 might
                 warrant
                 the
                 Accesse
                 of
                 one
                 more
                 acceptable
                 .
                 Oh
                 ,
                 let
                 Him
                 have
                 this
                 
                   Honour
                   Faire
                   Lady
                
                 ,
                 who
                 is
              
               
                 
                   Madam
                   ,
                
                 
                   Your
                   Servant
                   .
                
              
            
             
               
               
                 
                   On
                   a
                
                 Looking-Glasse
                 .
              
               
                 
                   DEar
                   Glasse
                   ,
                   tell
                   me
                   ,
                   by
                   what
                   Art
                   ,
                
                 
                   Thou
                   bean'st
                   Her
                   Image
                   without
                   break
                   -
                
                 
                   When
                   the
                   same
                   doe's
                   crack
                   my
                   
                     Heart
                     ,
                     (
                     ing
                  
                   ?
                
                 
                   Just
                   as
                   I
                   am
                   now
                   a
                   speaking
                   .
                
              
            
             
               
                 On
                 another
                 which
                 she
                 said
                 did
                 Flatter
                 .
              
               
                 
                   BLame
                   not
                   your
                   Glasse
                   ,
                   that
                   doth
                   her
                   Duty
                   .
                
                 
                   Nor
                   can
                   it
                   Flatter
                   so
                   much
                   Beauty
                   .
                
                 
                   But
                   for
                   the
                   rest
                   ,
                   in
                   Policy
                   ,
                
                 
                   It
                   shewes
                   
                     them
                     Fairer
                  
                   then
                   they
                   be
                   .
                
                 
                   Since
                   if
                   they
                   saw
                   their
                   
                     Faces
                     true
                  
                   ,
                
                 
                   This
                   ,
                   would
                   be
                   broke
                   ;
                   and
                   envy'd
                   you
                   .
                
              
            
             
               
                 Another
                 .
              
               
                 
                   DEar
                   Glasse
                   ,
                   joyn
                   with
                   her
                   Eyes
                   ;
                   and
                   both
                   (
                   concurre
                
                 
                   To
                   Note
                   more
                   worth
                   
                     in
                     me
                  
                   ,
                   and
                   less
                   
                     in
                     Her
                  
                   ,
                
              
            
             
               
                 A
                 Song
                 .
              
               
                 
                   THe
                   Graces
                   are
                   ,
                   by
                   Custom
                   ,
                   bound
                
                 
                   Once
                   in
                   an
                   
                     Age
                     ,
                     All
                     to
                     be
                     sound
                  
                
                 
                   In
                   
                     One
                     creature
                  
                   :
                   There
                   to
                   shew
                
                 
                 
                   All
                   the
                   Beauties
                   they
                   do
                   owe
                   ,
                
                 
                   And
                   now
                   having
                   fix'd
                   on
                   Thee
                
                 
                   Be
                   not
                   Proud
                   :
                   Since
                   ,
                   you
                   may
                   see
                   ,
                
                 
                   Time
                   allowes
                   them
                   not
                   to
                   stay
                   ,
                
                 
                   But
                   to
                   meet
                   ,
                   and
                   go
                   away
                   .
                
                 
                   Yet
                   though
                   whilst
                   these
                   Guests
                   be
                   here
                   ,
                
                 
                   You
                   do
                   rate
                   their
                   Lodging
                   dear
                   :
                
                 
                   If
                   you
                   suffer
                   me
                   to
                   take
                   it
                   ,
                
                 
                   I
                   'le
                   not
                   break
                   ,
                   when
                   they
                   forsake
                   it
                   .
                
                 
                   The
                   terms
                   ,
                   of
                   Fair
                   and
                   Good
                   ,
                   do
                   not
                   express
                
                 
                   Thy
                   Worth
                   ,
                   no
                   more
                   ,
                   then
                   theirs
                   ,
                   call
                   
                     Princes
                     fine
                  
                   ,
                
                 
                   When
                   deck'd
                   in
                   Diamonds
                   ,
                   like
                   the
                   Stars
                   they
                   shine
                   :
                
                 
                   Nay
                   ,
                   I
                   'le
                   maintain
                   Their
                   folly
                   to
                   be
                   less
                   ;
                
                 
                   Since
                   such
                   a
                   Sight
                   hath
                   oft
                   before
                   been
                   seen
                   :
                
                 
                   Whilst
                   he
                   that
                   would
                   inform
                   a
                   shape
                   like
                   thine
                   ,
                
                 
                   
                   Prometheus-like
                   must
                   filtch
                   from
                   things
                   Divine
                   .
                
              
            
             
               
                 On
                 a
                 Picture
                 .
              
               
                 
                   THough
                   this
                   be
                   drawn
                   exactly
                   forth
                   ,
                
                 
                   It
                   doth
                   no
                   more
                   retain
                   her
                   Worth
                   ,
                
                 
                   Then
                   the
                   Shadow
                   of
                   a
                   Rose
                
                 
                   Can
                   the
                   Scent
                   of
                   one
                   that
                   growes
                   .
                
              
            
             
               
                 Another
                 .
              
               
                 
                   BEtween
                   This
                   ,
                   &
                   her
                   Mind
                   ,
                   there
                   is
                   that
                   odds
                   ,
                
                 
                   As
                   is
                   in
                   Mans
                   frail-workmanship
                   and
                   Gods.
                   
                
              
            
             
               
               
                 A
                 Letter
                 to
                 two
                 Sisters
                 the
                 one
                 Black
                 the
                 other
                 Fair.
                 
              
               
                 
                   Ladyes
                   ,
                
              
               
                 IT
                 is
                 Design
                 ,
                 and
                 ,
                 I
                 hope
                 ,
                 no
                 Presumption
                 in
                 me
                 ,
                 to
                 joyn
                 you
                 in
                 one
                 :
                 That
                 ,
                 besides
                 the
                 opportunity
                 of
                 presenting
                 the
                 highest
                 of
                 my
                 Respects
                 ,
                 I
                 might
                 comprize
                 in
                 a
                 single
                 Letter
                 ,
                 the
                 totall
                 Summe
                 of
                 all
                 the
                 perfection
                 extant
                 in
                 Woman-Kind
                 .
                 Black
                 and
                 White
                 ,
                 being
                 the
                 unquestioned
                 Originall
                 ,
                 of
                 that
                 infinite
                 Variety
                 of
                 Beauty
                 ,
                 (
                 the
                 mint
                 of
                 Nature
                 )
                 through
                 which
                 is
                 maintained
                 her
                 Necessary
                 Commerce
                 of
                 Generation
                 .
                 And
                 ,
                 in
                 this
                 equall
                 
                   Distribution
                   ,
                   Fortune
                
                 hath
                 shewn
                 no
                 small
                 Ingenuity
                 ,
                 (
                 who
                 is
                 more
                 Wanton
                 ,
                 and
                 Inexorable
                 ,
                 then
                 Blind
                 or
                 Carelesse
                 )
                 in
                 assigning
                 ,
                 that
                 of
                 least
                 Duration
                 ,
                 the
                 Fewest
                 Years
                 .
                 For
                 if
                 you
                 did
                 not
                 Wither
                 alike
                 ,
                 Art
                 and
                 
                 Opinion
                 (
                 the
                 Limmers
                 and
                 Carvers
                 of
                 all
                 Excellency
                 ,
                 )
                 would
                 have
                 tempted
                 ,
                 if
                 not
                 Constrained
                 every
                 one
                 ,
                 to
                 serve
                 ,
                 and
                 adore
                 that
                 Sister
                 onely
                 ,
                 whose
                 beauty
                 had
                 survived
                 .
                 By
                 which
                 ,
                 sweet
                 Variety
                 had
                 been
                 lost
                 ;
                 and
                 Perfection
                 reduced
                 into
                 one
                 Monarchy
                 ,
                 Which
                 ,
                 now
                 ,
                 martch
                 in
                 your
                 Two
                 glorious
                 Regiments
                 .
                 To
                 both
                 which
                 ,
                 I
                 remain
                 an
                 Equall
                 Captive
                 .
                 Being
                 ,
              
               
                 
                   Ladyes
                   ,
                   &c.
                   
                
              
            
             
               
                 
                   BEauty
                   is
                   writ
                   in
                   severall
                   
                     Characters
                     ;
                     (
                     All
                  
                   ?
                
                 
                   None
                   but
                   are
                   skil'd
                   in
                   some
                   :
                   Who
                   finds
                   out
                
                 
                   Which
                   votes
                   them
                   mad
                   ,
                   do
                   say
                   ,
                   that
                   this
                   man
                   errs
                
                 
                   Because
                   his
                   choice
                   is
                   Black
                   ,
                   or
                   Low
                   ,
                   or
                   Tall
                   ;
                
                 
                   Nature
                   would
                   have
                   all
                   pleas'd
                   :
                   And
                   such
                   as
                   fall
                
                 
                   On
                   
                     Ordinary
                     Features
                  
                   ,
                   are
                   less
                   learn'd
                   :
                
                 
                   The
                   Indian
                   Beauties
                   are
                   as
                   plain
                   discern'd
                
                 
                   By
                   those
                   do
                   know
                   their
                   Figure
                   ,
                   as
                   the
                   White
                   .
                
                 
                   Nor
                   can
                   Expression
                   render
                   it
                   so
                   right
                   ,
                
                 
                   As
                   may
                   force
                   others
                   to
                   approve
                   the
                   Text.
                
                 
                   Reason
                   with
                   
                     Tast
                     ,
                     &
                     Love
                  
                   ,
                   should
                   not
                   be
                   vext
                   .
                
              
            
             
               
               
                 A
                 Letter
                 to
                 —
                 —
                 After
                 the
                 Death
                 of
                 his
                 Lady
                 .
              
               
                 
                   SIR
                   ,
                
              
               
                 I
                 Know
                 ,
                 I
                 need
                 not
                 minde
                 you
                 ,
                 That
                 all
                 Sublunary
                 things
                 are
                 Transitory
                 :
                 Dansing
                 like
                 the
                 Atomes
                 (
                 the
                 ancient
                 Philosophers
                 imagined
                 the
                 World
                 not
                 onely
                 to
                 be
                 made
                 of
                 ,
                 but
                 stuffed
                 withall
                 )
                 between
                 one
                 Condition
                 ,
                 and
                 another
                 .
                 Life
                 seeming
                 to
                 be
                 lent
                 ,
                 to
                 keep
                 Death
                 in
                 Imployment
                 .
                 And
                 Generation
                 ,
                 to
                 serve
                 onely
                 for
                 the
                 production
                 of
                 Bodies
                 ;
                 that
                 the
                 
                   Fatall
                   Sisters
                
                 might
                 not
                 weave
                 in
                 vain
                 ,
                 or
                 want
                 Creatures
                 to
                 vayl
                 with
                 their
                 Garments
                 of
                 Mortality
                 .
                 But
                 it
                 is
                 time
                 to
                 give
                 over
                 ,
                 at
                 least
                 ,
                 to
                 turn
                 down
                 a
                 Leafe
                 ;
                 and
                 refer
                 the
                 Inculcation
                 of
                 this
                 Morality
                 ,
                 till
                 some
                 fitter
                 time
                 ;
                 For
                 fear
                 of
                 falling
                 into
                 their
                 Indiscretion
                 ,
                 are
                 found
                 to
                 wake
                 a
                 
                 Sick
                 Friend
                 ,
                 by
                 an
                 Impertinent
                 Inquisition
                 after
                 his
                 Condition
                 ,
                 or
                 the
                 unseasonable
                 Administration
                 of
                 a
                 Direction
                 which
                 way
                 to
                 dispose
                 of
                 his
                 Body
                 .
                 Since
                 none
                 can
                 Calculate
                 his
                 Ease
                 better
                 ,
                 then
                 the
                 Patient
                 :
                 
                   Sorrow
                   it selfe
                   not
                   being
                   destitute
                   of
                   its
                   Voluptuousnesse
                   .
                
                 Which
                 ,
                 hoping
                 you
                 will
                 not
                 ,
                 too
                 farre
                 exceed
                 :
                 Give
                 me
                 leave
                 ,
                 to
                 Conclude
                 That
                 Manners
                 exacted
                 this
                 ;
                 and
                 Discretion
                 no
                 more
                 but
                 to
                 assure
                 you
                 ,
              
               
                 I
                 am
                 ,
                 &c.
                 
              
            
             
               
               
                 AN
                 EPITAPH
                 .
              
               
                 
                   STone
                   ,
                   so
                   long
                   as
                   thou
                   dost
                   last
                   ,
                
                 
                   Let
                   the
                   Reader
                   know
                   thou
                   hast
                
                 
                   The
                   Drosse
                   of
                   Her
                   ,
                   once
                   own'd
                   a
                   Mind
                
                 
                   Contayn'd
                   the
                   worth
                   of
                   Woman-kind
                   .
                
                 
                   But
                   no
                   more
                   :
                   Who
                   speaks
                   her
                   Glory
                   ,
                
                 
                   Must
                   have
                   for
                   every
                   Dust
                   a
                   Story
                   .
                
              
            
             
               
                 The
                 Authours
                 EPITAPH
                 upon
                 Himselfe
                 .
              
               
                 
                   I
                   Envy
                   not
                   such
                   Graves
                   as
                   take
                   up
                   room
                   ,
                
                 
                   Meerely
                   with
                   
                     Jet
                     &
                     Porphyry
                  
                   ;
                   since
                   a
                   Tomb
                
                 
                   Adds
                   no
                   
                     Desert
                     :
                     Wisdom
                  
                   ,
                   thou
                   
                     thing
                     divine
                  
                   :
                
                 
                   Convert
                   my
                   humble
                   Soul
                   into
                   thy
                   Shrine
                   .
                
              
               
                 
                   And
                   then
                   this
                   Body
                   though
                   it
                   want
                   a
                   Store
                   ,
                
                 
                   Shall
                   dignifie
                   
                     all
                     places
                  
                   where
                   't
                   is
                   throwne
                   .
                
              
            
             
               
               
                 
                   A
                   Letter
                   to
                   disswade
                   —
                   from
                
                 Marrying
                 a
                 Rich
                 ,
                 but
                 ugly
                 and
                 deformed
                 ,
                 &c.
                 
              
               
                 VVHen
                 I
                 heard
                 at
                 first
                 ,
                 you
                 went
                 a
                 Wooing
                 to
                 —
                 I
                 thought
                 it
                 a
                 Trick
                 put
                 upon
                 you
                 by
                 Enemies
                 :
                 but
                 finding
                 it
                 Seconded
                 ,
                 And
                 seeing
                 the
                 fearfull
                 Examples
                 of
                 Those
                 ,
                 who
                 out
                 of
                 Discontent
                 ,
                 and
                 a
                 Desire
                 to
                 Change
                 their
                 present
                 Condition
                 ,
                 are
                 found
                 to
                 
                   Cast
                   away
                   Themselves
                
                 ;
                 I
                 begin
                 to
                 take
                 your
                 Danger
                 to
                 Heart
                 .
                 And
                 do
                 here
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 Sincerity
                 of
                 Affection
                 ,
                 offer
                 my
                 Hand
                 ,
                 to
                 stay
                 the
                 Tying
                 of
                 that
                 Knot
                 ,
                 with
                 which
                 you
                 go
                 about
                 to
                 strangle
                 your
                 future
                 Felicity
                 .
                 For
                 ,
                 though
                 I
                 confesse
                 the
                 Party
                 may
                 not
                 unpossibly
                 be
                 very
                 Rich
                 ,
                 yet
                 it
                 is
                 as
                 likely
                 ,
                 
                   The
                   Things
                
                 required
                 to
                 Dead
                 the
                 Apprehension
                 of
                 such
                 A
                 
                   Loathsome
                   Companion
                
                 ,
                 will
                 prove
                 
                   So
                   
                   Chargeable
                
                 ,
                 as
                 in
                 a
                 short
                 time
                 ,
                 
                   Her
                   Gold
                
                 will
                 be
                 spent
                 ,
                 and
                 nothing
                 left
                 ,
                 but
                 
                   The
                   Foul
                   Beast
                
                 that
                 brought
                 it
                 .
              
               
                 Yet
                 suppose
                 you
                 finde
                 so
                 much
                 ,
                 as
                 may
                 beare
                 the
                 Expence
                 of
                 
                   Mad
                   Company
                   ,
                   Whores
                
                 and
                 
                   Drink
                   ,
                   (
                   Wicked
                   Cordialls
                
                 ,
                 though
                 
                   Generally
                   used
                
                 ,
                 to
                 Correct
                 such
                 Poyson
                 )
                 Can
                 you
                 
                   Divest
                   Humanity
                
                 so
                 farre
                 ,
                 as
                 to
                 make
                 
                   Her
                   Partner
                
                 in
                 a
                 Bed
                 ,
                 is
                 able
                 to
                 render
                 you
                 
                   so
                   much
                
                 an
                 Enemy
                 to
                 Womankind
                 ,
                 as
                 to
                 exchange
                 it
                 for
                 Sodomy
                 ?
                 if
                 not
                 Bestiality
                 it self
                 ?
                 For
                 though
                 you
                 may
                 not
                 be
                 punished
                 by
                 Law
                 ,
                 The
                 Act
                 will
                 be
                 severely
                 Condemned
                 ,
                 and
                 esteemed
                 Brutish
                 ,
                 by
                 all
                 the
                 
                   Rationall
                   part
                   of
                   the
                   World
                
                 ;
                 It
                 not
                 lying
                 in
                 the
                 Gender
                 or
                 Kind
                 ,
                 but
                 Forme
                 ,
                 to
                 render
                 a
                 
                   Creature
                   Monstrous
                
                 and
                 Abominable
                 to
                 the
                 Nature
                 of
                 Commerce
                 .
                 —
                 I
                 am
                 so
                 Charitable
                 ,
                 (
                 yet
                 in
                 Confidence
                 of
                 
                   Others
                   Vertue
                
                 ,
                 rather
                 then
                 
                   Her
                   owne
                
                 )
                 as
                 to
                 believe
                 She
                 is
                 a
                 Virgin
                 ,
                 in
                 reference
                 
                 to
                 Man
                 :
                 Who
                 in
                 that
                 Action
                 ,
                 might
                 with
                 more
                 Justice
                 ,
                 be
                 punished
                 for
                 a
                 Deflowrer
                 of
                 Himselfe
                 ,
                 then
                 Her.
                 Wherefore
                 you
                 will
                 have
                 no
                 more
                 reason
                 ,
                 to
                 Brag
                 of
                 this
                 Priviledge
                 ,
                 Then
                 He
                 ,
                 that
                 
                   First
                   Descended
                
                 into
                 Hell.
                 Of
                 whose
                 
                   Superlative
                   Uglinesse
                
                 (
                 though
                 her
                 Body
                 be
                 so
                 composed
                 ,
                 As
                 the
                 Divell
                 need
                 not
                 alter
                 the
                 Best
                 of
                 her
                 Features
                 ,
                 to
                 make
                 her
                 resemble
                 the
                 Foulest
                 of
                 his
                 Fiends
                 ;
                 yet
                 )
                 it
                 may
                 be
                 Numbered
                 amongst
                 the
                 Questions
                 ,
                 least
                 Capable
                 of
                 Decision
                 ;
                 Whether
                 ,
                 That
                 ,
                 or
                 
                   Her
                   Mind
                
                 ,
                 be
                 most
                 Crooked
                 ?
                 And
                 to
                 cover
                 this
                 ,
                 (
                 yet
                 none
                 of
                 the
                 worst
                 of
                 her
                 Imperfections
                 ,
                 )
                 She
                 is
                 supported
                 ,
                 like
                 Tyranny
                 ,
                 by
                 Steele
                 .
                 From
                 whence
                 ,
                 her
                 Breath
                 is
                 become
                 so
                 Noysome
                 ,
                 as
                 no
                 Venomous
                 thing
                 can
                 live
                 ,
                 in
                 her
                 Presence
                 :
                 Nor
                 any
                 Person
                 sick
                 of
                 the
                 Mother
                 ,
                 miscarry
                 .
                 Now
                 what
                 Effects
                 her
                 Embraces
                 will
                 work
                 upon
                 your
                 Selfe
                 ,
                 
                 may
                 be
                 guess'd
                 ,
                 by
                 Groomes
                 :
                 —
                 who
                 in
                 a
                 small
                 time
                 ,
                 come
                 to
                 
                   Out-stink
                   the
                   very
                   Beasts
                
                 they
                 are
                 Conversant
                 with
                 .
                 --
                 And
                 what
                 is
                 said
                 ,
                 is
                 so
                 farre
                 ,
                 from
                 Hyperbolicall
                 ,
                 As
                 ,
                 it
                 resembles
                 Truth
                 more
                 then
                 she
                 does
                 a
                 Woman
                 .
                 Yet
                 all
                 this
                 ,
                 is
                 but
                 a
                 
                   slender
                   Security
                
                 ,
                 to
                 warrant
                 Posterity
                 upon
                 ,
                 should
                 such
                 a
                 Monster
                 Confute
                 Philosophy
                 ,
                 in
                 producing
                 her
                 Like
                 ,
                 For
                 ;
              
               
                 If
                 Money
                 be
                 so
                 prevalent
                 ,
                 as
                 to
                 make
                 you
                 sell
                 your
                 Liberty
                 ;
                 why
                 may
                 it
                 not
                 Hire
                 another
                 ,
                 to
                 become
                 so
                 much
                 a
                 Slave
                 ,
                 as
                 to
                 do
                 
                   your
                   Drudgery
                
                 ?
                 Who
                 ,
                 cannot
                 be
                 ,
                 upon
                 serious
                 thoughts
                 ,
                 thus
                 Singular
                 ;
                 As
                 ,
                 to
                 preferre
                 ,
                 
                   The
                   absolute
                   Possession
                
                 of
                 a
                 Dung-Boat
                 ,
                 before
                 ,
                 
                   The
                   having
                   a
                   Partner
                
                 in
                 a
                 
                   Tall
                   Ship.
                
                 But
                 if
                 so
                 fond
                 of
                 Wealth
                 ,
                 as
                 to
                 break
                 through
                 these
                 Considerations
                 :
                 Teach
                 Her
                 to
                 Cover
                 her
                 Face
                 ,
                 and
                 not
                 Salute
                 your
                 Friends
                 .
                 Or
                 ,
                 if
                 she
                 must
                 be
                 
                 Kiss'd
                 ,
                 (
                 The
                 Strongest
                 Complement
                 was
                 ever
                 used
                 )
                 Let
                 her
                 Disrobe
                 Her
                 —
                 not
                 possible
                 to
                 be
                 more
                 Noysome
                 ,
                 then
                 her
                 Mouth
                 .
                 If
                 Prose
                 be
                 not
                 Tart
                 enough
                 ,
                 to
                 weane
                 you
                 ,
                 from
                 so
                 Childish
                 a
                 Resolution
                 ;
                 For
                 the
                 Feare
                 of
                 Poetry
                 desist
                 :
                 which
                 may
                 make
                 you
                 the
                 Subject
                 of
                 a
                 Comedy
                 .
                 And
                 Guesse
                 by
                 these
                 Verses
                 of
                 a
                 Friend
                 ,
                 what
                 Enemies
                 may
                 say
                 .
              
               
                 
                   CAn
                   you
                   but
                   think
                   ,
                   the
                   Antient
                   Blindness
                   Great
                   ,
                
                 
                   When
                   Men
                   made
                   Gods
                   ,
                   of
                   that
                   which
                   we
                   make
                
                 
                   Or
                   wonder
                   those
                   by
                   Nile
                   ,
                   could
                   offer
                   
                     Fat
                     (
                     Meat
                  
                   ?
                
                 
                   And
                   
                     goodly
                     Oxen
                  
                   ,
                   to
                   an
                   ugly
                   Cat
                   ?
                
                 
                   Yet
                   you
                   (
                   
                     no
                     lesse
                     advised
                  
                   )
                   to
                   a
                   Witch
                
                 
                   Will
                   sell
                   your
                   Fate
                   ,
                   in
                   hope
                   for
                   to
                   be
                   Rich.
                
                 
                   Who
                   like
                   the
                   Idolls
                   ,
                   in
                   a
                   Pagan
                   Feast
                   ,
                
                 
                   Carries
                   a
                   
                     Monkeys
                     Face
                  
                   ,
                   upon
                   her
                   Breast
                   ,
                
                 
                   Shadow'd
                   with
                   Shoulders
                   :
                   under
                   which
                   ,
                   doth
                   stay
                
                 
                   A
                   
                     Bonnet
                     crouching
                  
                   ,
                   like
                   a
                   
                     Hill
                     at
                     Sea.
                  
                
                 
                   Nor
                   may
                   her
                   Bosome
                   fayle
                   of
                   a
                   Device
                   ,
                
                 
                   To
                   hatch
                   an
                   Egge
                   into
                   a
                   Cockatrice
                   .
                
                 
                   Or
                   turn
                   
                     Men
                     Atheists
                  
                   ,
                   who
                   believe
                   no
                   Elves
                
                 
                   Can
                   now
                   be
                   found
                   ,
                   but
                   what
                   we
                   make
                   our
                   Selves
                   .
                
                 
                 
                   Were
                   She
                   in
                   India
                   ,
                   where
                   they
                   serve
                   the
                   Devill
                   ,
                
                 
                   Not
                   out
                   of
                   Hope
                   of
                   Good
                   ,
                   but
                   
                     Feare
                     of
                     Evill
                  
                   ,
                
                 
                   They
                   would
                   
                     adore
                     Her
                  
                   :
                   Lest
                   her
                   
                     Sun-like
                     Nose
                  
                
                 
                   Should
                   Burn
                   ,
                   and
                   
                     Smoke
                     Tobacco
                  
                   ,
                   as
                   it
                   growes
                   .
                
                 
                   Or
                   ,
                   lest
                   the
                   Venom
                   of
                   her
                   
                     loathsom
                     Breath
                  
                   ,
                
                 
                   Might
                   blow
                   some
                   soule
                   Contagion
                   ore
                   the
                   Earth
                   .
                
                 
                   Or
                   ,
                   That
                   the
                   Spaniards
                   ,
                   by
                   her
                   malice
                   taught
                   ,
                
                 
                   Might
                   learn
                   more
                   Cruelty
                   ,
                   then
                   ere
                   they
                   thought
                   .
                
                 
                   Yet
                   amongst
                   all
                   the
                   People
                   ,
                   worst
                   misted
                   ,
                
                 
                   None
                   ever
                   took
                   a
                   Fiend
                   into
                   his
                   Bed.
                
                 
                   Which
                   proves
                   ,
                   that
                   Nature
                   doth
                   abhor
                   your
                   Deed
                
                 
                   In
                   offering
                   to
                   a
                   
                     Demon
                     ,
                     Human
                     Seed
                  
                   .
                
                 
                   And
                   what
                   will
                   be
                   your
                   Issue
                   ,
                   joyn'd
                   with
                   Her
                   ,
                
                 
                   None
                   can
                   resolve
                   you
                   ,
                   but
                   a
                   Conjurer
                   .
                
                 
                   For
                   while
                   She
                   is
                   in
                   Labour
                   ,
                   You
                   may
                   heare
                
                 
                   The
                   Good-wives
                   skreak
                   :
                   and
                   some
                   Physitian
                   sweare
                
                 
                   It
                   is
                   a
                   Child
                   .
                   And
                   that
                   he
                   findes
                   in
                   writ
                   ,
                
                 
                   Such
                   Births
                   ;
                   Before
                   ,
                   the
                   Priest
                   dares
                   Christen
                   it
                   .
                
              
               
                 
                   Now
                   if
                   this
                   cannot
                   Move
                   you
                   ,
                   May
                   your
                   Taske
                   ,
                
                 
                   Be
                   to
                   beget
                   a
                   Compleate
                   Anti-Mask
                   .
                
              
            
             
               
               
                 A
                 Letter
                 in
                 Reference
                 to
                 a
                 
                   Coy
                   LADY
                
                 .
              
               
                 THough
                 I
                 confesse
                 ,
                 The
                 Lady
                 you
                 recommended
                 ,
                 may
                 prove
                 a
                 Pleasure
                 to
                 Others
                 ,
                 are
                 at
                 Leasure
                 wholly
                 to
                 intend
                 
                   Making
                   Love
                
                 :
                 (
                 No
                 Hare
                 being
                 better
                 provided
                 of
                 Muces
                 and
                 Shifts
                 to
                 put
                 off
                 Followers
                 then
                 She
                 )
                 yet
                 ,
                 so
                 Dull
                 a
                 Soul
                 as
                 mine
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 Apprehension
                 of
                 the
                 Difference
                 ,
                 between
                 
                   One
                   Individuall
                   Beauty
                
                 ,
                 and
                 Another
                 ,
                 is
                 still
                 ready
                 ,
                 with
                 the
                 Màyor
                 of
                 London
                 to
                 Lose
                 all
                 the
                 Pleasure
                 of
                 Hunting
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 Insignificant
                 (
                 though
                 
                 perhaps
                 to
                 
                   Others
                   Eares
                
                 pleasant
                 )
                 Cry
                 of
                 the
                 Hounds
                 .
                 Catching
                 of
                 Larkes
                 and
                 Sparrowes
                 lesse
                 Chargeable
                 and
                 Troublesome
                 ,
                 being
                 more
                 Acceptable
                 and
                 gratefull
                 to
                 some
                 Complexions
                 ,
                 then
                 Hawking
                 at
                 the
                 Heron.
                 The
                 latter
                 being
                 too
                 full
                 of
                 
                   Splendour
                   ,
                   Noyse
                   ,
                   Delayes
                
                 ,
                 and
                 Impertinent
                 Complements
                 for
                 a
                 Person
                 ,
                 that
                 
                   like
                   me
                
                 ,
                 is
                 not
                 born
                 with
                 the
                 Patience
                 To
                 run
                 after
                 A
                 
                   Flying
                   Beauty
                
                 ;
                 Or
                 spend
                 time
                 in
                 Beating
                 for
                 that
                 ,
                 another
                 will
                 
                   Find
                   to
                   ●●y
                   Hand
                
                 ,
                 for
                 a
                 
                   Smaller
                   Summe
                
                 ,
                 then
                 may
                 Compense
                 ,
                 The
                 tearing
                 my
                 Repute
                 ,
                 or
                 Burthening
                 my
                 Conscience
                 with
                 Vaine
                 and
                 
                   Fallacious
                   Oathes
                
                 and
                 Covenants
                 .
                 In
                 the
                 Administration
                 of
                 which
                 ,
                 She
                 is
                 as
                 Punctuall
                 ,
                 as
                 the
                 
                   Calydonian
                   Commissioners
                
                 .
              
               
                 Yet
                 I
                 cannot
                 deny
                 ,
                 but
                 That
                 ,
                 She
                 is
                 richly
                 Worth
                 the
                 Purchase
                 ,
                 of
                 ●ny
                 that
                 Own
                 the
                 Knack
                 of
                 such
                 
                 
                   Amorous
                   Zelots
                
                 ,
                 as
                 have
                 
                   The
                   Patience
                
                 ,
                 to
                 continue
                 still
                 Whining
                 ,
                 where
                 they
                 Know
                 ,
                 through
                 the
                 Consciousnesse
                 of
                 their
                 own
                 Unworthinesse
                 ,
                 That
                 they
                 are
                 not
                 Likely
                 to
                 be
                 Heard
                 .
                 Making
                 a
                 Sincere
                 profession
                 of
                 Love
                 and
                 Respect
                 ,
                 when
                 Their
                 Chiefest
                 Intent
                 is
                 onely
                 to
                 plunder
                 ,
                 What
                 I
                 fear
                 ,
                 
                   This
                   Lady
                
                 ,
                 is
                 to
                 Seek
                 of
                 ,
                 already
                 ;
                 or
                 else
                 fouly
                 bely'd
                 .
                 None
                 Keeping
                 Their
                 Avenues
                 more
                 
                   strictly
                   Barred
                
                 ,
                 then
                 Such
                 as
                 have
                 been
                 Robb'd
                 already
                 
                   in
                   this
                   Kind
                
                 .
                 Wherefore
                 having
                 Cast
                 up
                 
                   by
                   my Self
                
                 the
                 whole
                 Value
                 of
                 the
                 Adventure
                 ;
                 I
                 finde
                 it
                 no
                 more
                 then
                 I
                 can
                 truck
                 for
                 ,
                 neerer
                 home
                 ,
                 and
                 with
                 greater
                 Ease
                 ,
                 and
                 Conveniency
                 to
                 my Self
                 .
              
               
                 Yet
                 ,
                 before
                 I
                 break
                 out
                 into
                 an
                 
                   Open
                   Rebellion
                
                 against
                 so
                 Soveraign
                 and
                 
                   Absolute
                   a
                   Beauty
                
                 ,
                 I
                 will
                 Present
                 her
                 with
                 
                   This
                   inclosed
                   Petition
                
                 .
                 To
                 which
                 ,
                 If
                 she
                 gives
                 not
                 a
                 Satisfactory
                 
                 and
                 
                   Full
                   Answer
                
                 ,
                 I
                 am
                 resolved
                 to
                 break
                 off
                 all
                 further
                 Addresse
                 .
                 And
                 to
                 proclaim
                 Her
                 a
                 Tyrant
                 .
                 And
                 her
                 
                   Subjects
                   absolved
                
                 from
                 their
                 Oathes
                 and
                 Obedience
                 .
                 So
                 ,
                 as
                 for
                 the
                 Future
                 it
                 may
                 be
                 lawfull
                 for
                 them
                 ,
                 to
                 inrole
                 Themselves
                 under
                 the
                 Red
                 and
                 
                   White
                   Colours
                
                 of
                 any
                 Other
                 Mistresse
                 they
                 esteem
                 more
                 Debonaire
                 .
              
               
                 
                 
                   The
                   Petition
                   .
                
                 
                   I
                   Pray
                   Dispatch
                   my
                   Suit
                   ,
                   or
                   else
                   Deny
                   it
                   ;
                
                 
                   For
                   if
                   I
                   spend
                   more
                   Time
                   ,
                   I
                   dearly
                   Buy
                   it
                   :
                
                 
                   If
                   you
                   distrust
                   my
                   Truth
                   ,
                   I
                   do
                   protest
                   ,
                
                 
                   By
                   That
                   which
                   binds
                   Men
                   most
                   ,
                   I
                   Love
                   you
                   best
                   .
                
                 
                   —
                   It
                   is
                   not
                   our
                   of
                   Fear
                   ,
                   That
                   I
                   should
                   Tell.
                
                 
                   You
                   never
                   heard
                   me
                   Brag
                   ,
                   when
                   I
                   did
                   well
                   .
                
                 
                   Or
                   is
                   't
                   t'
                   engage
                   Me
                   more
                   ,
                   that
                   you
                   delay
                   it
                   ?
                
                 
                   None
                   better
                   knows
                   the
                   Grant
                   ,
                   nor
                   how
                   to
                   pay
                   it
                   .
                
                 
                   Is
                   it
                   the
                   Sin
                   you
                   fear
                   Which
                   None
                   can
                   Guesse
                   ?
                
                 
                   Cutting
                   off
                   Oathes
                   ,
                   and
                   Time
                   ,
                   you
                   make
                   it
                   Lesse
                   .
                
                 
                   Nay'tis
                   no
                   Fault
                   in
                   you
                   ,
                   to
                   lessen
                   Mine
                   .
                
                 
                   Better
                   once
                   Drunk
                   ,
                   then
                   still
                   
                     to
                     thirst
                  
                   for
                   wine
                   .
                
                 
                   —
                   Hath
                   Nature
                   made
                   a
                   ●●ot
                   below
                   your
                   Z●ne
                   ?
                
                 
                   My
                   Love
                   would
                   cover
                   it
                   ,
                   and
                   count
                   it
                   None
                   .
                
                 
                   Have
                   you
                   a
                   Servant
                   ,
                   that
                   you
                   think
                   ,
                   is
                   true
                   ?
                
                 
                   I
                   have
                   a
                   Mistresse
                   too
                   :
                   And
                   yet
                   ,
                   
                     Love
                     you
                  
                   .
                
                 
                   I
                   you
                   can
                   adde
                   to
                   these
                   Objections
                   more
                   ,
                
                 
                   Pay
                   Me
                   for
                   what
                   is
                   past
                   ,
                   and
                   I
                   'le
                   give
                   o're
                   .
                
              
            
             
               
               
                 A
                 Character
                 on
                 a
                 deboshed
                 Souldier
                 .
              
               
                 HE
                 carries
                 no
                 Signe
                 of
                 Reputation
                 but
                 in
                 his
                 Mouth
                 ;
                 and
                 that
                 he
                 suffers
                 to
                 run
                 over
                 ,
                 with
                 tedious
                 Stories
                 of
                 his
                 own
                 Valour
                 :
                 to
                 justifie
                 which
                 ,
                 he
                 hath
                 wished
                 his
                 Damnation
                 so
                 often
                 ,
                 as
                 it
                 is
                 now
                 sure
                 ;
                 rendring
                 him
                 uncapable
                 of
                 any
                 other
                 
                   Peace
                   of
                   Conscience
                
                 ,
                 but
                 what
                 he
                 findes
                 in
                 Drink
                 ,
                 or
                 the
                 operation
                 of
                 no
                 
                   Diviner
                   Spirit
                
                 ,
                 then
                 that
                 incites
                 to
                 Lust
                 and
                 Revenge
                 ;
                 his
                 Religion
                 being
                 so
                 farre
                 of
                 his
                 
                   owne
                   making
                
                 ,
                 as
                 he
                 imagines
                 God
                 ,
                 like
                 his
                 
                 
                   Old
                   Host
                
                 ,
                 best
                 pleased
                 ,
                 by
                 the
                 
                   Largest
                   Reckonings
                
                 .
                 With
                 his
                 Tongue
                 he
                 desires
                 Warres
                 ,
                 but
                 is
                 in
                 Heart
                 at
                 peace
                 with
                 All
                 ,
                 but
                 his
                 Maker
                 .
                 He
                 had
                 rather
                 be
                 thought
                 behind-hand
                 for
                 Money
                 ,
                 then
                 Word
                 :
                 and
                 will
                 sooner
                 ,
                 satisfie
                 an
                 Enemy
                 ,
                 then
                 a
                 Friend
                 ,
                 being
                 readier
                 to
                 requite
                 ,
                 what
                 he
                 receives
                 in
                 Anger
                 ,
                 then
                 
                   Love
                   ;
                   Injuries
                
                 ,
                 then
                 
                   Good
                   Turns
                
                 .
                 Rendring
                 himself
                 a
                 Slave
                 to
                 
                   Martiall
                   and
                   arbitrary
                   Justice
                
                 for
                 a
                 small
                 Salary
                 ,
                 under
                 the
                 improbable
                 pretence
                 of
                 
                   Freeing
                   Others
                
                 .
                 Nor
                 dares
                 this
                 Gladiatour
                 ,
                 that
                 rants
                 so
                 high
                 in
                 Taverns
                 ,
                 and
                 on
                 the
                 Ale-bench
                 ,
                 oppose
                 any
                 thing
                 but
                 Patience
                 ,
                 to
                 the
                 highest
                 Affront
                 ,
                 a
                 Superiour
                 Officer
                 is
                 pleased
                 to
                 put
                 upon
                 him
                 .
                 Though
                 no
                 Papist
                 ,
                 he
                 abhorres
                 the
                 Church
                 .
                 And
                 like
                 some
                 of
                 our
                 Reformists
                 ,
                 carries
                 no
                 more
                 Marks
                 of
                 a
                 Protestant
                 ,
                 then
                 what
                 is
                 legible
                 in
                 
                   Perjury
                   ,
                   &c.
                
                 yet
                 brags
                 more
                 of
                 his
                 
                   Whoring
                   
                   and
                   Drinking
                
                 ,
                 then
                 any
                 Catholick
                 doth
                 of
                 his
                 
                   Good
                   Works
                
                 .
                 Who
                 is
                 thus
                 farre
                 Happy
                 ,
                 that
                 though
                 he
                 wants
                 Faith
                 to
                 make
                 him
                 a
                 
                   True
                   Saint
                
                 ,
                 he
                 ownes
                 not
                 so
                 much
                 Hypocrisie
                 ,
                 as
                 to
                 
                   appear
                   so
                
                 .
                 And
                 therefore
                 more
                 capable
                 of
                 Repentance
                 ,
                 then
                 those
                 that
                 Plunder
                 and
                 Murther
                 others
                 ,
                 under
                 a
                 secret
                 Pretence
                 ,
                 of
                 Honouring
                 that
                 God
                 ,
                 
                   he
                   openly
                   prophanes
                
                 .
                 He
                 brags
                 much
                 of
                 his
                 Scarres
                 ,
                 which
                 truly
                 examined
                 ,
                 prove
                 rather
                 the
                 Effects
                 of
                 Intemperance
                 ,
                 then
                 Marks
                 of
                 Valour
                 :
                 his
                 Face
                 bearing
                 the
                 
                   Hideous
                   Impresse
                
                 of
                 Pots
                 and
                 Glasses
                 ,
                 received
                 not
                 in
                 the
                 Fields
                 of
                 Mars
                 ,
                 but
                 the
                 easier-entred
                 Sconces
                 of
                 Bacchus
                 .
                 Whose
                 Discourse
                 ,
                 though
                 it
                 travell'd
                 still
                 betwixt
                 one
                 
                   besieged
                   place
                
                 ,
                 or
                 Leaguer
                 ,
                 to
                 another
                 ,
                 yet
                 it
                 was
                 alwayes
                 Tedious
                 .
                 And
                 if
                 you
                 altered
                 the
                 Subject
                 ,
                 
                   his
                   understanding
                
                 appeared
                 proof
                 against
                 
                   all
                   Sense
                
                 .
                 
                 After
                 whom
                 followed
                 this
                 Epitaph
                 .
              
               
                 
                   At
                   the
                   Saracens
                   Head
                   Tom
                   powr'd
                   in
                   Ale
                   and
                   (
                   Wine
                   ,
                
                 
                   Untill
                   his
                   Face
                   did
                   represent
                   the
                   Signe
                   .
                
              
            
             
               
               
                 To
                 Dr.
                 Ch.
                 Chaplain
                 to
                 
                   W.
                   E.
                
                 of
                 Pem.
                 
              
               
                 
                   SIR
                   ,
                
              
               
                 WHilest
                 it
                 pleased
                 you
                 to
                 Communicate
                 with
                 me
                 ,
                 in
                 a
                 Stile
                 suitable
                 to
                 the
                 frailty
                 of
                 my
                 understanding
                 ,
                 I
                 took
                 infinite
                 content
                 in
                 the
                 Converse
                 ;
                 but
                 since
                 you
                 have
                 cloathed
                 your
                 Letters
                 in
                 the
                 Thundering
                 and
                 
                   Glorious
                   Ornaments
                
                 of
                 Learning
                 ,
                 I
                 am
                 not
                 able
                 to
                 cope
                 with
                 you
                 :
                 Wherefore
                 let
                 me
                 implore
                 your
                 favour
                 so
                 far
                 as
                 to
                 lay
                 these
                 advantages
                 by
                 ,
                 and
                 not
                 render
                 your
                 
                   Love
                   terrible
                
                 to
                 me
                 ,
                 who
                 did
                 never
                 question
                 your
                 Power
                 ,
                 but
                 own
                 you
                 in
                 the
                 
                   highest
                   sublimity
                
                 the
                 world
                 hath
                 (
                 being
                 prompted
                 by
                 so
                 much
                 desert
                 )
                 advanced
                 you
                 to
                 .
                 And
                 on
                 such
                 terms
                 I
                 may
                 enjoy
                 your
                 Acquaintance
                 ,
                 whereas
                 otherwayes
                 I
                 shall
                 be
                 
                 forced
                 to
                 
                   take
                   sanctuary
                
                 in
                 a
                 perpetuall
                 silence
                 .
                 Lest
                 I
                 should
                 lose
                 that
                 little
                 Reason
                 I
                 have
                 ,
                 in
                 seeking
                 to
                 Comprehend
                 the
                 infinitness
                 of
                 yours
                 .
                 And
                 to
                 avoyd
                 any
                 mis-information
                 of
                 the
                 Quarrell
                 at
                 ---
                 between
                 my
                 Lo
                 ---
                 and
                 the
                 E.
                 of
                 C
                 ---
                 It
                 was
                 teally
                 thus
                 .
                 The
                 K
                 ---
                 having
                 though
                 against
                 his
                 will
                 ,
                 prevailed
                 with
                 my
                 L.
                 to
                 go
                 into
                 the
                 West
                 ,
                 by
                 reason
                 of
                 his
                 Interest
                 in
                 those
                 parts
                 ,
                 with
                 the
                 other
                 Councellors
                 of
                 State
                 ,
                 in
                 hope
                 to
                 facilitate
                 the
                 payment
                 of
                 the
                 five
                 Subsidies
                 voted
                 ,
                 but
                 not
                 given
                 by
                 Parliament
                 ,
                 and
                 now
                 Christened
                 a
                 
                   Royall
                   ●●ne
                
                 ;
                 The
                 Commissioners
                 being
                 by
                 the
                 fire
                 ,
                 A
                 dispute
                 arose
                 between
                 the
                 two
                 former
                 Lords
                 ,
                 whether
                 it
                 was
                 possible
                 for
                 one
                 had
                 never
                 been
                 upon
                 the
                 place
                 ,
                 to
                 speak
                 and
                 understand
                 French
                 perfectly
                 .
                 The
                 L
                 ---
                 of
                 ---
                 who
                 you
                 know
                 never
                 set
                 foot
                 out
                 of
                 England
                 ,
                 maintained
                 
                 the
                 Affirmative
                 with
                 so
                 much
                 eagerness
                 ,
                 that
                 the
                 other
                 who
                 had
                 not
                 onely
                 more
                 Reason
                 on
                 his
                 side
                 ,
                 but
                 the
                 approbation
                 of
                 the
                 Company
                 ,
                 said
                 my
                 L.
                 ---
                 best
                 Argument
                 was
                 noyse
                 ;
                 a
                 speech
                 my
                 L.
                 replied
                 was
                 undecent
                 for
                 an
                 
                   Ea.
                   of
                   Complements
                
                 .
                 And
                 upon
                 this
                 ,
                 The
                 other
                 returned
                 the
                 Lie.
                 To
                 which
                 my
                 L
                 --
                 made
                 him
                 such
                 a
                 Manuall
                 Answer
                 ,
                 as
                 the
                 
                   L.
                   C.
                
                 being
                 penned
                 up
                 in
                 his
                 clothes
                 ,
                 fell
                 down
                 ,
                 whereupon
                 they
                 were
                 parted
                 ,
                 and
                 reconciled
                 ;
                 shame
                 ,
                 &
                 the
                 title
                 of
                 his
                 Majest
                 .
                 gravest
                 
                   Privy
                   Councellors
                
                 facilitating
                 the
                 Composition
                 .
                 It
                 is
                 already
                 arrived
                 at
                 the
                 
                   Spanish
                   Ambassadors
                
                 ,
                 who
                 according
                 to
                 his
                 facetious
                 mode
                 ,
                 put
                 it
                 upon
                 the
                 score
                 of
                 our
                 English
                 Valour
                 ;
                 which
                 the
                 Gravest
                 relations
                 cannot
                 make
                 them
                 to
                 forget
                 .
                 I
                 am
                 still
                 haunted
                 for
                 verses
                 from
                 our
                 
                   French
                   Coriot
                
                 ,
                 who
                 is
                 resolved
                 to
                 print
                 his
                 Book
                 in
                 English
                 :
                 Those
                 I
                 made
                 are
                 these
                 .
              
               
                 
                 
                   WHat
                   dost
                   thou
                   mean
                   my
                   friend
                   ,
                   in
                   
                     this
                     bad
                     time
                  
                   ,
                
                 
                   To
                   write
                   of
                   Vertue
                   ,
                   when
                   t
                   is
                   thought
                   a
                   Crime
                
                 
                   Not
                   to
                   be
                   Vitious
                   ?
                   such
                   a
                   Book
                   would
                   sell
                   ,
                
                 
                   Could
                   prove
                   all
                   Damn'd
                   ,
                   did
                   offer
                   to
                   
                     do
                     well
                  
                   :
                
                 
                   Or
                   find
                   that
                   Pimping
                   is
                   a
                   
                     lawfull
                     trade
                  
                   ,
                
                 
                   Because
                   that
                   Sarah
                   brought
                   her
                   Lord
                   a
                   Maid
                   ;
                
                 
                   Or
                   vindicate
                   what
                   Origen
                   hath
                   cast
                   ,
                   (
                   last
                   ;
                
                 
                   That
                   Court
                   and
                   Hell
                   shall
                   meet
                   in
                   Heaven
                   at
                
                 
                   Or
                   prove
                   that
                   Incest
                   is
                   a
                   
                     Veniall
                     Sin
                  
                   ,
                
                 
                   Because
                   that
                   Lot
                   defil'd
                   his
                   
                     neerest
                     Kin.
                  
                
                 
                   O
                   could'st
                   thou
                   maintain
                   this
                   ,
                   then
                   thou
                   should'st
                   be
                
                 
                   Rais'd
                   to
                   high
                   place
                   for
                   thy
                   Divinity
                   .
                
                 
                   Then
                   lose
                   no
                   time
                   ,
                   let
                   Goodnesse
                   take
                   her
                   chance
                   ,
                
                 
                   Whil'st
                   you
                   comply
                   with
                   Sin
                   and
                   Ignorance
                   .
                
              
            
             
               
               
                 On
                 a
                 Cook.
                 
              
               
                 A
                 Cook
                 is
                 a
                 Baud
                 to
                 the
                 Mouth
                 .
                 That
                 Kills
                 his
                 own
                 Stomack
                 ,
                 to
                 quicken
                 his
                 Master's
                 .
                 Who
                 Lives
                 like
                 a
                 Bear
                 by
                 licking
                 his
                 Fingers
                 .
                 Before
                 a
                 Feast
                 ,
                 he
                 in
                 his
                 
                   White
                   sleevs
                
                 ,
                 and
                 Apron
                 resembles
                 the
                 Ephod
                 of
                 a
                 Priest
                 ;
                 and
                 seems
                 to
                 be
                 preparing
                 rather
                 a
                 Sacrifice
                 ,
                 then
                 a
                 Supper
                 .
                 In
                 which
                 ,
                 the
                 Grand-Sallat
                 may
                 justly
                 be
                 thought
                 to
                 personate
                 an
                 Idoll
                 .
                 His
                 office
                 is
                 a
                 representation
                 of
                 hell
                 :
                 where
                 all
                 sorts
                 of
                 Creatures
                 are
                 tormented
                 in
                 Flames
                 ,
                 to
                 satisfie
                 the
                 depraved
                 and
                 Various
                 Nature
                 of
                 the
                 Tastes
                 of
                 men
                 .
                 Whose
                 Pleasures
                 ,
                 and
                 highest
                 Contentments
                 ,
                 are
                 no
                 otherwayes
                 to
                 be
                 compleated
                 ,
                 but
                 at
                 the
                 prejudice
                 of
                 their
                 
                   Fellow
                   Animalls
                
                 :
                 
                 Over
                 which
                 ,
                 Reason
                 ,
                 not
                 Strength
                 ,
                 hath
                 purchased
                 them
                 the
                 Soveraignty
                 ,
                 So
                 much
                 abused
                 in
                 this
                 world
                 ,
                 as
                 may
                 render
                 the
                 worst
                 of
                 punishments
                 ,
                 just
                 ,
                 in
                 
                   the
                   next
                
                 .
                 His
                 profession
                 somthing
                 quadrates
                 with
                 Heraldry
                 :
                 Varying
                 no
                 lesse
                 in
                 Sawces
                 ,
                 then
                 they
                 do
                 in
                 
                   Colours
                   ,
                   Bendes
                   ,
                   Fesses
                
                 and
                 metalls
                 ;
                 And
                 are
                 as
                 much
                 puz'led
                 about
                 marshalling
                 the
                 Dishes
                 ,
                 and
                 calculating
                 the
                 precedency
                 ,
                 at
                 the
                 Table
                 ,
                 of
                 a
                 Wood-Coek
                 ,
                 or
                 Wigeon
                 ;
                 a
                 Gull
                 ,
                 or
                 Gosling
                 ,
                 as
                 ,
                 the
                 other
                 are
                 ,
                 in
                 placing
                 Lords
                 ,
                 and
                 Ladyes
                 .
                 But
                 this
                 ,
                 and
                 all
                 the
                 rest
                 of
                 his
                 Learning
                 ,
                 and
                 Industry
                 ,
                 concludes
                 as
                 I
                 do
                 ,
                 in
                 an
                 Excrement
                 :
                 which
                 I
                 wish
                 in
                 his
                 —
                 &c.
                 
                 And
                 so
                 ,
                 leave
                 him
                 to
                 Blaspheme
                 in
                 the
                 Kitchin
                 :
                 or
                 Cooling
                 his
                 Tongue
                 in
                 the
                 Cellar
                 .
              
            
             
               
               
                 A
                 Character
                 of
                 an
                 Host.
                 
              
               
                 AN
                 Host
                 is
                 one
                 who
                 Thrives
                 with
                 Drinking
                 ,
                 and
                 growes
                 Rich
                 by
                 Entertainments
                 .
                 He
                 is
                 of
                 
                   vast
                   Acquaintance
                
                 ,
                 but
                 can
                 number
                 
                   Few
                   Friends
                
                 :
                 besides
                 Those
                 resulting
                 from
                 Travaile
                 ,
                 or
                 Necessity
                 .
                 His
                 Conversation
                 is
                 alike
                 to
                 
                   All
                   men
                
                 ,
                 that
                 he
                 may
                 gain
                 the
                 more
                 Money
                 .
                 Being
                 ,
                 equally
                 Hospitable
                 ,
                 to
                 every
                 Religion
                 he
                 can
                 save
                 by
                 .
                 Giving
                 his
                 Guest
                 the
                 best
                 Content
                 
                   or'e
                   Night
                
                 ,
                 out
                 of
                 hope
                 to
                 please
                 himself
                 
                   in
                   the
                   morning
                
                 .
                 The
                 Government
                 of
                 his
                 house
                 is
                 Tyrannicall
                 ,
                 all
                 Taxes
                 being
                 Arbitrary
                 ,
                 at
                 the
                 will
                 of
                 
                 his
                 Wife
                 ,
                 who
                 sits
                 Regent
                 in
                 the
                 Kitchin.
                 Yet
                 every
                 one
                 that
                 enters
                 ,
                 takes
                 his
                 Chamber
                 ,
                 for
                 the
                 time
                 he
                 stayes
                 ,
                 as
                 
                   his
                   own
                
                 ,
                 With
                 no
                 lesse
                 assurance
                 ,
                 then
                 
                   Don
                   Quixot
                
                 did
                 the
                 whole
                 Mansion
                 ,
                 for
                 an
                 
                   Enchanted
                   Castle
                
                 .
                 He
                 ventures
                 ,
                 that
                 reason
                 he
                 hath
                 ,
                 in
                 all
                 Companyes
                 .
                 And
                 in
                 Defiance
                 of
                 any
                 Drink
                 the
                 weary
                 Travelour
                 pleaseth
                 to
                 call
                 for
                 ,
                 which
                 if
                 said
                 to
                 be
                 mingled
                 ,
                 or
                 adulterate
                 ,
                 He
                 calls
                 the
                 Name
                 of
                 God
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 person
                 of
                 the
                 Drawer
                 to
                 attest
                 the
                 Contrary
                 .
                 The
                 Signe
                 is
                 the
                 Scheme
                 ,
                 by
                 which
                 ,
                 you
                 may
                 take
                 the
                 Ascendent
                 of
                 his
                 Understanding
                 .
                 And
                 his
                 Half-peck
                 ,
                 the
                 Measure
                 of
                 his
                 Conscience
                 ;
                 of
                 which
                 his
                 Osteler
                 is
                 Chancellour
                 ,
                 and
                 keeps
                 the
                 Key
                 :
                 Making
                 no
                 more
                 of
                 Cheating
                 a
                 Strangers
                 Horse
                 ,
                 then
                 his
                 Mistresse
                 doth
                 in
                 Over-reaching
                 both
                 .
                 If
                 her
                 Husband
                 be
                 grown
                 into
                 his
                 
                 perfect
                 Symmetry
                 ,
                 his
                 Belly
                 bears
                 the
                 exact
                 proportion
                 ,
                 of
                 the
                 
                   biggest
                   Jugg
                
                 .
                 And
                 his
                 Face
                 of
                 That
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 
                   First
                   Edition
                   of
                   Frier
                   Bacon's
                   Works
                   .
                
                 He
                 suits
                 his
                 Discourse
                 ,
                 as
                 Fidlers
                 do
                 their
                 songs
                 ,
                 to
                 the
                 Eares
                 of
                 the
                 Hearers
                 :
                 choosing
                 rather
                 to
                 offend
                 Truth
                 ,
                 then
                 his
                 Company
                 .
                 And
                 ,
                 in
                 case
                 ,
                 any
                 
                   ride
                   double
                
                 ,
                 he
                 proclaims
                 them
                 Man
                 and
                 Wife
                 :
                 as
                 far
                 more
                 willing
                 to
                 foment
                 Bawdery
                 ,
                 then
                 foule
                 two
                 pair
                 of
                 sheets
                 .
                 He
                 is
                 seldome
                 far
                 out
                 of
                 the
                 way
                 ,
                 though
                 Drunk
                 or
                 Hang'd
                 :
                 The
                 First
                 ,
                 being
                 as
                 neer
                 the
                 Road
                 of
                 his
                 Profession
                 ,
                 as
                 the
                 Latter
                 is
                 of
                 that
                 of
                 his
                 Desert
                 .
              
            
             
               
               
                 
                   
                     YOuth
                     ,
                     wit
                  
                   ,
                   and
                   Beauty
                   ,
                   like
                   a
                   
                     painted
                     Sign
                  
                
                 
                   May
                   stay
                   a
                   Stranger
                   :
                   but
                   't
                   is
                   sprightfull
                
                 
                   wine
                   ,
                
                 
                   And
                   decent
                   welcom
                   makes
                   him
                   
                     '
                     light
                  
                   and
                   Dine
                   ;
                
                 
                   For
                   who
                   will
                   pass
                   his
                   time
                   in
                   such
                   a
                   place
                   ,
                
                 
                   Where
                   nought
                   appeares
                   ,
                   of
                   moment
                   ,
                   but
                   a
                
                 
                   Face
                   ?
                
              
            
             
               
               
                 
                   Deductions
                   from
                   the
                   History
                   of
                   the
                   Earl
                   of
                
                 Essex
                 ,
                 
                   who
                   was
                   executed
                   for
                
                 Treason
                 ,
                 
                   under
                   the
                   Reign
                   of
                
                 Queen
                 Elizabeth
                 ;
                 
                   with
                   a
                   modest
                   Answer
                   to
                   Sir
                
                 Henry
                 Wotton
                 .
              
               
                 THe
                 Love
                 of
                 a
                 People
                 ,
                 may
                 be
                 observed
                 ,
                 of
                 no
                 lesse
                 dangerous
                 a
                 consequence
                 for
                 a
                 Subject
                 to
                 trust
                 to
                 ,
                 then
                 their
                 hatred
                 proves
                 to
                 such
                 Princes
                 as
                 are
                 so
                 unwary
                 as
                 to
                 neglect
                 it
                 .
                 For
                 after
                 that
                 Sir
                 
                   Robert
                   Cecil
                
                 had
                 prevailed
                 so
                 farre
                 upon
                 his
                 own
                 Brother
                 ,
                 the
                 
                   Earl
                   of
                   Exceter
                
                 (
                 most
                 else
                 refusing
                 the
                 imployment
                 ,
                 out
                 of
                 Love
                 or
                 feare
                 )
                 as
                 to
                 proclaim
                 Essex
                 Traitor
                 :
                 He
                 appeared
                 ,
                 deserted
                 by
                 all
                 ,
                 but
                 
                 some
                 few
                 unfortunate
                 Gentlemen
                 ,
                 whose
                 Lives
                 out
                 of
                 Gratitude
                 ,
                 or
                 Want
                 ,
                 depended
                 wholly
                 on
                 his
                 .
              
               
                 Nor
                 is
                 the
                 Affection
                 of
                 a
                 Prince
                 ,
                 lesse
                 permanent
                 ,
                 then
                 their
                 Anger
                 deadly
                 .
                 And
                 in
                 the
                 first
                 of
                 these
                 the
                 Queen
                 was
                 unconstant
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 latter
                 inexorable
                 .
                 Wherefore
                 ,
                 if
                 during
                 so
                 long
                 a
                 reign
                 ,
                 no
                 great
                 quantity
                 of
                 Blood
                 was
                 spilt
                 ,
                 it
                 rather
                 resulted
                 from
                 her
                 
                   Subjects
                   Innocency
                
                 ,
                 then
                 any
                 
                   propensity
                   to
                   forgiveness
                
                 ,
                 inherent
                 
                   in
                   her
                   Nature
                
                 .
                 Nothing
                 comming
                 so
                 hardly
                 from
                 her
                 ,
                 as
                 a
                 pardon
                 ;
                 I
                 mean
                 of
                 such
                 faults
                 ,
                 as
                 concerned
                 her self
                 .
                 And
                 in
                 this
                 she
                 shewed
                 a
                 rare
                 prudence
                 ,
                 in
                 becoming
                 able
                 to
                 raise
                 a
                 
                   prositable
                   use
                
                 out
                 of
                 a
                 
                   Naturall
                   defect
                
                 ,
                 for
                 (
                 born
                 of
                 that
                 sex
                 ,
                 allowed
                 by
                 all
                 as
                 the
                 weakest
                 in
                 Judgement
                 )
                 she
                 lay
                 more
                 obnoxious
                 to
                 a
                 Censure
                 of
                 insufficiency
                 ,
                 then
                 that
                 of
                 Tyranny
                 :
                 the
                 sternnesse
                 of
                 whose
                 looks
                 ,
                 hath
                 in
                 all
                 ages
                 
                 scared
                 away
                 contempt
                 ,
                 the
                 inseperable
                 Companion
                 of
                 a
                 cheap
                 and
                 effeminate
                 Nature
                 .
              
               
                 So
                 as
                 neither
                 
                   Leicester
                   ,
                   Hatton
                
                 ,
                 nor
                 any
                 other
                 Minion
                 ,
                 could
                 ever
                 extract
                 so
                 much
                 favour
                 from
                 her
                 ,
                 as
                 might
                 serve
                 their
                 Lands
                 or
                 Heires
                 ,
                 from
                 refunding
                 what
                 their
                 Fathers
                 had
                 mis-spent
                 :
                 Her
                 favours
                 keeping
                 no
                 Servant
                 company
                 ,
                 beyond
                 the
                 
                   Land
                   of
                   the
                   Living
                
                 .
                 The
                 most
                 apparent
                 reason
                 why
                 the
                 
                   Lady
                   Elizabeth
                   Hatton
                
                 cast
                 her selfe
                 into
                 the
                 contaminated
                 arms
                 of
                 
                   Atturny
                   Cook
                
                 Nor
                 could
                 her
                 disposition
                 to
                 severlty
                 be
                 in
                 any
                 thing
                 more
                 manifest
                 ,
                 then
                 the
                 extraordinary
                 meanes
                 used
                 but
                 to
                 defer
                 the
                 execution
                 of
                 the
                 Earl
                 of
                 Southampton
                 ,
                 who
                 had
                 besides
                 pity
                 ,
                 the
                 enemies
                 of
                 Essex
                 to
                 plead
                 for
                 him
                 :
                 yet
                 she
                 continued
                 inflexible
                 towards
                 mercy
                 ,
                 till
                 the
                 same
                 hand
                 that
                 led
                 her
                 into
                 the
                 temptation
                 ,
                 did
                 like
                 the
                 Divels
                 ,
                 
                 shew
                 her
                 the
                 glory
                 she
                 was
                 fallen
                 from
                 already
                 ,
                 in
                 her
                 Subjects
                 opinion
                 ,
                 by
                 quenching
                 his
                 ,
                 and
                 their
                 enemies
                 malice
                 with
                 the
                 Blood
                 of
                 their
                 Darling
                 .
                 Nor
                 was
                 this
                 hard-extracted
                 Mercy
                 unsuitable
                 to
                 the
                 emergency
                 of
                 the
                 present
                 occasion
                 ,
                 for
                 (
                 as
                 I
                 have
                 been
                 often
                 told
                 )
                 not
                 onely
                 those
                 that
                 did
                 in
                 the
                 peoples
                 opinion
                 ,
                 contribute
                 to
                 the
                 murther
                 (
                 as
                 many
                 called
                 it
                 )
                 of
                 the
                 Earle
                 :
                 But
                 the
                 Queen
                 herself
                 ,
                 was
                 exposed
                 to
                 some
                 publique
                 affronts
                 .
                 The
                 spectators
                 she
                 passed
                 through
                 in
                 every
                 town
                 ,
                 (
                 especially
                 in
                 London
                 )
                 becomming
                 far
                 thinner
                 and
                 muter
                 then
                 formerly
                 they
                 were
                 .
              
               
                 Some
                 Princes
                 love
                 not
                 that
                 Child
                 is
                 in
                 order
                 to
                 succeed
                 them
                 :
                 but
                 all
                 abominate
                 a
                 stranger
                 lyes
                 under
                 that
                 notion
                 ;
                 the
                 cause
                 that
                 she
                 ,
                 contrary
                 to
                 the
                 well-being
                 of
                 the
                 Subject
                 ,
                 no
                 lesse
                 then
                 the
                 priviledge
                 of
                 Parliament
                 ,
                 Committed
                 Pigot
                 and
                 
                 Wentworth
                 ,
                 for
                 moving
                 to
                 know
                 the
                 Man
                 ,
                 and
                 beheaded
                 Essex
                 ,
                 but
                 for
                 making
                 a
                 smal
                 demonstration
                 of
                 offering
                 himself
                 :
                 Though
                 the
                 later
                 
                   Roman
                   Tyrants
                
                 took
                 that
                 little
                 security
                 they
                 did
                 enjoy
                 ,
                 from
                 a
                 quite
                 contrary
                 course
                 .
                 But
                 this
                 was
                 at
                 a
                 time
                 when
                 the
                 
                   blood
                   Royall
                
                 lay
                 extinct
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 possession
                 of
                 the
                 crown
                 fell
                 to
                 his
                 share
                 had
                 the
                 
                   Keenest
                   Sword
                
                 and
                 strongest
                 head-piece
                 :
                 In
                 which
                 case
                 the
                 most
                 probable
                 way
                 to
                 secure
                 the
                 Prince
                 ,
                 was
                 the
                 declaring
                 his
                 Successour
                 ,
                 who
                 to
                 preserve
                 his
                 own
                 dignity
                 ,
                 was
                 likely
                 to
                 take
                 revenge
                 on
                 any
                 should
                 assassinate
                 him
                 in
                 the
                 throne
                 before
                 ,
                 a
                 thing
                 very
                 ordinary
                 in
                 those
                 depraved
                 times
                 ;
                 not
                 so
                 in
                 England
                 ,
                 where
                 during
                 her
                 Reign
                 ,
                 there
                 were
                 no
                 lesse
                 then
                 fourteen
                 titles
                 ,
                 good
                 and
                 bad
                 ,
                 which
                 by
                 her
                 Silence
                 were
                 all
                 kept
                 quiet
                 .
                 For
                 till
                 she
                 made
                 a
                 publique
                 declaration
                 ,
                 none
                 had
                 a
                 just
                 cause
                 to
                 
                 complain
                 .
                 And
                 in
                 case
                 any
                 endeavoured
                 to
                 have
                 succeeded
                 by
                 force
                 ,
                 she
                 had
                 a
                 fair
                 choice
                 out
                 of
                 the
                 rest
                 to
                 make
                 opposition
                 ,
                 none
                 being
                 free
                 from
                 some
                 considerable
                 defect
                 or
                 other
                 .
                 The
                 Parliament
                 remaining
                 wholly
                 at
                 her
                 devotion
                 ,
                 and
                 no
                 Ill-willers
                 to
                 Essex
                 ;
                 The
                 Commons
                 being
                 as
                 fearfull
                 of
                 the
                 Regiment
                 of
                 a
                 Stranger
                 ,
                 as
                 the
                 Peerage
                 were
                 jealous
                 of
                 the
                 house
                 of
                 Harford
                 ,
                 or
                 any
                 else
                 deducible
                 out
                 of
                 their
                 own
                 Body
                 .
                 Fortune
                 appearing
                 then
                 in
                 all
                 particulars
                 so
                 strong
                 on
                 Essex
                 side
                 ,
                 as
                 she
                 seemed
                 rather
                 unable
                 ,
                 then
                 unwilling
                 to
                 bear
                 out
                 the
                 charge
                 of
                 his
                 folly
                 ,
                 who
                 put
                 her
                 upon
                 such
                 Impertinent
                 errands
                 ,
                 as
                 the
                 Dutch
                 youth
                 do
                 fooles
                 on
                 the
                 second
                 of
                 Aprill
                 :
                 Through
                 which
                 she
                 became
                 so
                 far
                 tired
                 ,
                 as
                 she
                 was
                 forced
                 at
                 last
                 to
                 return
                 him
                 a
                 Block
                 and
                 a
                 Hatchet
                 .
                 This
                 unconstant
                 Deity
                 ,
                 being
                 in
                 the
                 number
                 of
                 such
                 
                   giddy
                   Auxiliaries
                
                 ,
                 
                 as
                 none
                 can
                 be
                 sure
                 what
                 side
                 she
                 will
                 take
                 ,
                 and
                 therefore
                 not
                 to
                 be
                 trusted
                 by
                 a
                 wise
                 man.
                 The
                 most
                 steady
                 if
                 not
                 signall
                 events
                 ,
                 having
                 been
                 brought
                 about
                 without
                 any
                 other
                 mediation
                 of
                 hers
                 ,
                 but
                 what
                 is
                 unpossible
                 to
                 be
                 avoided
                 ;
                 in
                 which
                 sense
                 she
                 is
                 rather
                 capable
                 of
                 the
                 title
                 of
                 Providence
                 ,
                 then
                 Luck
                 .
                 Fortune
                 resembling
                 a
                 cane
                 ,
                 which
                 no
                 wise
                 man
                 ,
                 but
                 in
                 an
                 unavoidable
                 necessity
                 will
                 hazard
                 the
                 weight
                 of
                 his
                 whole
                 rest
                 upon
                 .
                 Wherefore
                 the
                 
                   Earl
                   of
                   Essex
                
                 ,
                 if
                 he
                 had
                 not
                 been
                 befated
                 with
                 a
                 strong
                 Opinion
                 of
                 success
                 in
                 all
                 his
                 actions
                 ,
                 (
                 though
                 built
                 on
                 the
                 weakest
                 foundation
                 )
                 would
                 never
                 have
                 referred
                 his
                 life
                 &
                 future
                 well-being
                 to
                 the
                 sole
                 arbitration
                 of
                 Chance
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 unconstant
                 guidance
                 of
                 a
                 
                   Womans
                   Affection
                
                 :
                 which
                 being
                 onely
                 skin-deep
                 ,
                 could
                 not
                 but
                 in
                 a
                 Court
                 ,
                 furnish
                 a
                 person
                 of
                 far
                 lesse
                 magnitude
                 then
                 a
                 Soveraign
                 power
                 
                 with
                 choice
                 enough
                 :
                 Especially
                 after
                 his
                 enemies
                 ,
                 for
                 their
                 own
                 security
                 ,
                 had
                 so
                 far
                 Indulged
                 his
                 ,
                 as
                 to
                 furnish
                 him
                 with
                 an
                 Army
                 paid
                 by
                 the
                 Queen
                 ,
                 and
                 chosen
                 by
                 himself
                 .
                 Nor
                 were
                 the
                 greatest
                 families
                 then
                 in
                 Rebellion
                 in
                 Ireland
                 ,
                 (
                 rendred
                 by
                 the
                 most
                 probable
                 reports
                 )
                 lesse
                 obedient
                 to
                 him
                 then
                 his
                 respective
                 Officers
                 :
                 And
                 if
                 these
                 advantages
                 had
                 been
                 too
                 little
                 to
                 have
                 set
                 the
                 Crown
                 upon
                 his
                 head
                 ,
                 after
                 the
                 decease
                 of
                 his
                 Mistrisse
                 ,
                 he
                 might
                 have
                 had
                 any
                 men
                 ,
                 or
                 mony
                 from
                 the
                 most
                 
                   Catholick
                   King
                
                 ;
                 who
                 would
                 have
                 advanced
                 his
                 designes
                 ,
                 or
                 any
                 naturall
                 English
                 Subjects
                 else
                 ,
                 that
                 had
                 but
                 opposed
                 the
                 Scottish
                 Succession
                 .
                 Which
                 was
                 formerly
                 projected
                 by
                 Leicester
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 onely
                 visible
                 occasion
                 he
                 managed
                 the
                 English
                 force
                 in
                 the
                 Netherlands
                 with
                 so
                 little
                 care
                 ,
                 and
                 worse
                 successe
                 ,
                 who
                 immediately
                 
                 began
                 to
                 prosper
                 upon
                 his
                 remove
                 .
                 But
                 Essex
                 had
                 Religion
                 and
                 Fidelity
                 ,
                 inherent
                 in
                 his
                 Nature
                 ,
                 Humours
                 known
                 so
                 Incompatible
                 with
                 Ambition
                 ,
                 as
                 it
                 was
                 no
                 lesse
                 unsafe
                 for
                 him
                 to
                 court
                 a
                 Crown
                 ,
                 then
                 it
                 did
                 after
                 prove
                 Incongruous
                 and
                 mis-becomming
                 ,
                 for
                 his
                 more
                 frigid
                 Son
                 to
                 make
                 Love
                 ,
                 and
                 Importune
                 Ladies
                 .
                 Nor
                 is
                 this
                 a
                 conjecture
                 of
                 my
                 own
                 ,
                 but
                 what
                 I
                 have
                 often
                 heard
                 averred
                 by
                 the
                 friends
                 of
                 Sir
                 
                   Charles
                   Danvers
                
                 ,
                 whose
                 youngest
                 Sister
                 married
                 my
                 eldest
                 Brother
                 .
                 And
                 that
                 the
                 Honesty
                 of
                 Essex
                 (
                 never
                 denied
                 to
                 exceed
                 his
                 Discretion
                 )
                 might
                 for
                 the
                 present
                 moderate
                 his
                 Ambition
                 :
                 But
                 how
                 he
                 would
                 have
                 behaved
                 himself
                 in
                 the
                 company
                 of
                 an
                 
                   absolute
                   power
                
                 ,
                 may
                 be
                 safer
                 now
                 disputed
                 by
                 us
                 ,
                 then
                 at
                 that
                 time
                 experimented
                 by
                 the
                 
                   Queen
                   .
                   Successe
                
                 in
                 those
                 that
                 wear
                 it
                 ,
                 expunging
                 like
                 
                   Aqua
                   Fortis
                
                 all
                 former
                 marks
                 of
                 
                 Allegiance
                 or
                 Probity
                 .
                 For
                 though
                 his
                 first
                 thoughts
                 might
                 be
                 of
                 no
                 larger
                 extent
                 ,
                 then
                 to
                 remove
                 Cecil
                 ,
                 and
                 other
                 declared
                 enemies
                 ,
                 under
                 the
                 notion
                 of
                 evil
                 Counsellers
                 ,
                 that
                 powred
                 into
                 her
                 Eares
                 such
                 tales
                 as
                 were
                 disadvantagious
                 to
                 the
                 true
                 Religion
                 ,
                 and
                 Policy
                 of
                 the
                 State
                 :
                 Yet
                 that
                 point
                 gained
                 ,
                 he
                 could
                 not
                 from
                 a
                 lower
                 Station
                 then
                 a
                 Throne
                 ,
                 have
                 satisfied
                 so
                 many
                 ,
                 wiser
                 men
                 then
                 himself
                 ,
                 whose
                 clearer
                 insight
                 into
                 the
                 advantages
                 he
                 was
                 then
                 in
                 possession
                 of
                 ,
                 had
                 tempted
                 to
                 be
                 adventurers
                 with
                 him
                 .
                 So
                 as
                 all
                 the
                 favour
                 could
                 have
                 accrued
                 to
                 his
                 Mistris
                 from
                 a
                 more
                 happy
                 success
                 then
                 befell
                 the
                 Earl
                 ,
                 exceeded
                 not
                 the
                 Complement
                 of
                 continuing
                 her
                 in
                 his
                 lap
                 ,
                 (
                 a
                 place
                 not
                 likely
                 to
                 sute
                 long
                 with
                 her
                 Age
                 ,
                 or
                 his
                 occasions
                 .
                 )
                 Queen
                 Elizabeths
                 Reign
                 ,
                 having
                 been
                 too
                 reserved
                 ,
                 quietly
                 to
                 have
                 indured
                 from
                 an
                 Administrator
                 
                 (
                 she
                 remaining
                 yet
                 in
                 being
                 )
                 so
                 profuse
                 an
                 expence
                 of
                 honour
                 and
                 Riches
                 ,
                 as
                 was
                 expedient
                 to
                 be
                 thrown
                 to
                 such
                 a
                 needy
                 party
                 ,
                 as
                 had
                 already
                 Imbarqued
                 themselves
                 in
                 his
                 service
                 ,
                 whose
                 fidelity
                 and
                 strength
                 (
                 the
                 Nurslings
                 of
                 
                   hope
                   ,
                   reward
                   and
                   preferment
                
                 )
                 was
                 requisite
                 to
                 maintain
                 him
                 on
                 the
                 Stage
                 .
                 For
                 though
                 possibly
                 ,
                 
                   his
                   desires
                
                 might
                 terminate
                 in
                 a
                 removall
                 of
                 
                   his
                   Enemies
                
                 ;
                 They
                 had
                 no
                 
                   honester
                   design
                
                 then
                 to
                 raise
                 themselves
                 ,
                 without
                 much
                 reference
                 had
                 to
                 the
                 meanes
                 .
                 From
                 whence
                 it
                 is
                 easie
                 to
                 contemplate
                 the
                 prodigious
                 Disparities
                 in
                 Rebellion
                 ;
                 which
                 though
                 begun
                 upon
                 never
                 so
                 
                   just
                   ,
                   moderate
                
                 ,
                 or
                 Religious
                 pretences
                 ,
                 
                   necessity
                   ,
                   ambition
                
                 ,
                 and
                 
                   Humane
                   frailty
                
                 will
                 interject
                 so
                 many
                 new
                 and
                 unexpected
                 pretences
                 ,
                 and
                 events
                 ,
                 as
                 it
                 rarely
                 concludes
                 ,
                 without
                 the
                 ruine
                 of
                 it self
                 ,
                 or
                 the
                 Commonwealth
                 ;
                 which
                 once
                 
                 suffered
                 to
                 grow
                 intemperate
                 and
                 run
                 over
                 ,
                 it
                 doth
                 like
                 a
                 Pot
                 consume
                 its
                 own
                 fat
                 ,
                 and
                 loseth
                 its
                 former
                 strength
                 and
                 Glory
                 ,
                 by
                 raising
                 the
                 drosse
                 and
                 dregs
                 of
                 her
                 Subjects
                 ,
                 uppermost
                 .
              
               
                 One
                 cause
                 of
                 his
                 presumption
                 was
                 ,
                 The
                 fond
                 Opinion
                 he
                 had
                 ,
                 that
                 she
                 would
                 not
                 rob
                 her
                 eyes
                 of
                 the
                 great
                 delight
                 she
                 took
                 in
                 his
                 Person
                 .
                 A
                 fantasticall
                 over-weening
                 of
                 himself
                 ,
                 and
                 womans
                 Affection
                 ,
                 to
                 whom
                 ,
                 no
                 single
                 mans
                 perfections
                 was
                 ever
                 yet
                 found
                 
                   continually
                   Gratefull
                
                 .
              
               
                 Now
                 such
                 as
                 wonder
                 ,
                 how
                 she
                 durst
                 bring
                 him
                 to
                 the
                 Scaffold
                 ,
                 for
                 fear
                 of
                 her
                 own
                 Honour
                 ,
                 are
                 not
                 throughly
                 studied
                 in
                 the
                 boldnesse
                 of
                 Princes
                 (
                 whose
                 faces
                 are
                 continually
                 steeled
                 with
                 the
                 varnish
                 of
                 a
                 
                   grosse
                   Flattery
                
                 ,
                 put
                 upon
                 their
                 
                   worst
                   Actions
                
                 )
                 no
                 more
                 then
                 the
                 compunctions
                 of
                 Dying
                 Men
                 ,
                 who
                 desire
                 
                   rather
                   to
                   clear
                
                 themselves
                 
                   towards
                   
                   God
                
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 world
                 ,
                 then
                 impertinently
                 to
                 
                   accuse
                   others
                
                 :
                 Besides
                 ,
                 a
                 hope
                 of
                 Pardon
                 ,
                 not
                 to
                 be
                 
                   cut
                   off
                
                 but
                 with
                 his
                 Head
                 ,
                 was
                 a
                 sufficient
                 Reason
                 to
                 restrain
                 him
                 from
                 breaking
                 out
                 into
                 any
                 intemperate
                 ranting
                 against
                 his
                 Prince
                 :
                 As
                 Biron
                 of
                 France
                 ,
                 did
                 not
                 long
                 after
                 ,
                 most
                 Imprudently
                 fall
                 into
                 ,
                 in
                 reference
                 to
                 his
                 King
                 ,
                 
                   Henry
                   the
                   Fourth
                
                 ,
                 Dying
                 in
                 the
                 opinion
                 of
                 the
                 generality
                 ,
                 rather
                 like
                 a
                 
                   mad
                   man
                
                 ,
                 then
                 a
                 Christian.
                 Yet
                 had
                 Essex
                 unloaded
                 his
                 bosome
                 of
                 all
                 it
                 did
                 contain
                 ,
                 it
                 might
                 possibly
                 not
                 have
                 swelled
                 to
                 so
                 great
                 a
                 bulk
                 ,
                 as
                 did
                 then
                 appear
                 in
                 the
                 Opinion
                 of
                 the
                 most
                 :
                 or
                 that
                 it
                 may
                 after
                 be
                 blown
                 up
                 to
                 by
                 flatulent
                 Posterity
                 (
                 seldom
                 endued
                 with
                 so
                 
                   even
                   a
                   fortune
                
                 ,
                 as
                 to
                 have
                 truth
                 and
                 falshood
                 weighed
                 to
                 it
                 in
                 an
                 
                   equall
                   Ballance
                
                 )
                 manisest
                 in
                 a
                 number
                 of
                 Relations
                 extant
                 at
                 home
                 ,
                 and
                 abroad
                 .
                 The
                 Bloud
                 she
                 inherited
                 ,
                 no
                 lesse
                 then
                 her
                 
                   Father's
                   
                   humour
                
                 ,
                 having
                 procured
                 her
                 no
                 good
                 opinion
                 from
                 the
                 Church
                 ,
                 according
                 to
                 whose
                 Dialect
                 the
                 generality
                 did
                 heretofore
                 ,
                 out
                 of
                 Ignorance
                 ,
                 or
                 reverence
                 ,
                 tune
                 their
                 belief
                 .
              
               
                 Had
                 he
                 been
                 true
                 to
                 his
                 
                   first
                   Principles
                
                 ,
                 moulded
                 by
                 some
                 more
                 dexterous
                 heads
                 then
                 his
                 own
                 ,
                 which
                 was
                 to
                 spin
                 out
                 his
                 time
                 ,
                 together
                 with
                 the
                 Irish
                 war
                 ,
                 till
                 a
                 certain
                 report
                 of
                 the
                 
                   Queen's
                   sickness
                
                 ,
                 or
                 death
                 had
                 come
                 to
                 him
                 ,
                 from
                 such
                 an
                 unquestioned
                 number
                 of
                 his
                 own
                 Confidents
                 ,
                 as
                 were
                 able
                 to
                 have
                 
                   assured
                   belief
                
                 ;
                 It
                 might
                 in
                 reason
                 have
                 presented
                 him
                 with
                 his
                 wish
                 ,
                 or
                 at
                 worst
                 so
                 much
                 power
                 ,
                 as
                 would
                 have
                 made
                 him
                 arbitrator
                 of
                 the
                 
                   next
                   succession
                
                 .
                 But
                 hast
                 ,
                 proceeding
                 from
                 a
                 
                   Naturall
                   Impatience
                
                 to
                 live
                 out
                 of
                 England
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 
                   contrary
                   advice
                
                 received
                 from
                 some
                 neer
                 about
                 him
                 (
                 suborned
                 to
                 destroy
                 him
                 )
                 rendered
                 
                 all
                 addle
                 :
                 By
                 perswading
                 his
                 return
                 
                   without
                   an
                   Army
                
                 ,
                 upon
                 a
                 
                   false
                   report
                
                 raised
                 of
                 her
                 
                   Majesties
                   Death
                
                 ,
                 the
                 time
                 assigned
                 ,
                 wherein
                 to
                 shew
                 himself
                 .
                 And
                 to
                 this
                 end
                 ,
                 the
                 Warres
                 in
                 Ireland
                 were
                 prolonged
                 ,
                 with
                 no
                 weaker
                 endeavours
                 ,
                 then
                 Montjoy
                 used
                 after
                 to
                 conclude
                 them
                 ,
                 Owner
                 of
                 no
                 other
                 project
                 but
                 the
                 reducing
                 of
                 that
                 Province
                 unto
                 obedience
                 :
                 Essex
                 presuming
                 so
                 farre
                 upon
                 the
                 peoples
                 affections
                 ,
                 that
                 he
                 thought
                 the
                 sound
                 of
                 his
                 coming
                 able
                 to
                 raise
                 an
                 Army
                 whereever
                 he
                 came
                 .
              
               
                 Essex
                 ,
                 if
                 he
                 had
                 been
                 master
                 of
                 parts
                 strong
                 enough
                 to
                 have
                 mounted
                 him
                 into
                 the
                 Saddle
                 of
                 Soveraignty
                 ,
                 might
                 have
                 found
                 by
                 the
                 beating
                 of
                 the
                 Parliament
                 (
                 a
                 true
                 pulse
                 of
                 the
                 Nation
                 )
                 That
                 there
                 was
                 no
                 probability
                 to
                 raise
                 any
                 advantagious
                 distemper
                 for
                 him
                 ,
                 during
                 the
                 life
                 of
                 the
                 Queen
                 :
                 The
                 people
                 apprehending
                 
                 little
                 other
                 cause
                 of
                 discontent
                 ,
                 but
                 what
                 might
                 arise
                 from
                 the
                 thought
                 ,
                 that
                 their
                 present
                 felicity
                 depended
                 only
                 on
                 the
                 continuance
                 of
                 an
                 
                   Old
                   Lady
                
                 ;
                 After
                 whom
                 ,
                 they
                 expected
                 more
                 
                   dismall
                   dayes
                
                 ,
                 then
                 their
                 Love
                 could
                 ever
                 have
                 imagined
                 from
                 the
                 Government
                 of
                 Essex
                 .
              
               
                 Wherefore
                 to
                 lay
                 the
                 Sceane
                 of
                 any
                 thing
                 carried
                 but
                 the
                 vizard
                 of
                 a
                 Rebellion
                 in
                 London
                 (
                 at
                 that
                 time
                 abounding
                 with
                 riches
                 and
                 felicity
                 )
                 was
                 an
                 act
                 savouring
                 of
                 so
                 great
                 Imprudence
                 ,
                 as
                 I
                 wonder
                 his
                 enemies
                 should
                 
                   bring
                   him
                   to
                   it
                
                 ,
                 or
                 his
                 Friends
                 suffer
                 him
                 to
                 prosecute
                 :
                 As
                 I
                 have
                 often
                 told
                 some
                 at
                 that
                 time
                 neer
                 about
                 him
                 ,
                 who
                 made
                 me
                 no
                 other
                 answer
                 ,
                 but
                 that
                 he
                 perished
                 between
                 his
                 own
                 presumption
                 ,
                 and
                 others
                 Infidelity
                 .
                 His
                 security
                 might
                 have
                 been
                 more
                 ,
                 and
                 losse
                 lesse
                 ,
                 had
                 he
                 gone
                 into
                 Wales
                 ,
                 when
                 he
                 passed
                 
                 through
                 London
                 ,
                 where
                 he
                 had
                 great
                 love
                 both
                 by
                 Inheritance
                 from
                 his
                 Father
                 (
                 a
                 
                   good
                   Landlord
                
                 )
                 and
                 his
                 own
                 purchase
                 ,
                 alwayes
                 of
                 a
                 
                   liberall
                   Nature
                
                 .
                 Nor
                 did
                 he
                 fail
                 to
                 wear
                 a
                 Leek
                 on
                 St.
                 David's
                 day
                 ,
                 but
                 besides
                 ,
                 would
                 upon
                 all
                 occasions
                 vindicate
                 the
                 Wetch
                 Inhabitants
                 ,
                 and
                 own
                 them
                 for
                 his
                 Countrymen
                 ,
                 as
                 
                   Queen
                   Elizabeth
                
                 usually
                 was
                 wont
                 ,
                 upon
                 the
                 first
                 of
                 March.
                 And
                 by
                 this
                 the
                 Earl
                 grew
                 so
                 popular
                 amongst
                 these
                 people
                 (
                 especially
                 such
                 as
                 had
                 
                   little
                   to
                   lose
                
                 ,
                 )
                 that
                 without
                 all
                 question
                 ,
                 so
                 many
                 would
                 have
                 appeared
                 in
                 his
                 favour
                 ,
                 as
                 might
                 have
                 procured
                 him
                 audience
                 from
                 her
                 Majesty
                 ,
                 and
                 not
                 improbably
                 the
                 removall
                 of
                 his
                 enemies
                 ,
                 under
                 that
                 notion
                 hated
                 by
                 the
                 generality
                 ,
                 no
                 lesse
                 then
                 those
                 linked
                 to
                 him
                 ,
                 under
                 a
                 more
                 strict
                 friendship
                 .
                 Or
                 if
                 this
                 had
                 been
                 too
                 hard
                 a
                 task
                 ,
                 their
                 strength
                 and
                 meanes
                 was
                 not
                 likely
                 to
                 want
                 
                 power
                 ,
                 to
                 land
                 him
                 again
                 in
                 Ireland
                 ,
                 from
                 whence
                 he
                 had
                 been
                 drawn
                 by
                 his
                 
                   own
                   folly
                
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 wisdom
                 of
                 his
                 maligners
                 ;
                 where
                 not
                 onely
                 the
                 English
                 ,
                 but
                 the
                 natives
                 (
                 to
                 those
                 in
                 actuall
                 Rebellion
                 )
                 were
                 his
                 reported
                 servants
                 .
                 The
                 Catholiques
                 ,
                 till
                 they
                 were
                 better
                 Cajoled
                 by
                 the
                 
                   Scotish
                   Kings
                
                 Confidents
                 ,
                 not
                 obstructing
                 his
                 Designes
                 .
                 And
                 how
                 secure
                 he
                 would
                 have
                 been
                 ,
                 in
                 that
                 Province
                 ,
                 may
                 be
                 guessed
                 by
                 Tyrone
                 ,
                 the
                 Capitall
                 Rebell
                 ,
                 who
                 notwithstanding
                 more
                 impartial
                 indeavours
                 then
                 the
                 
                   Lord
                   Lieutenant
                   Essex
                
                 had
                 used
                 ,
                 did
                 obtain
                 his
                 Pardòn
                 ,
                 in
                 a
                 manner
                 maugre
                 the
                 
                   English
                   forces
                
                 .
              
               
                 Essex
                 was
                 
                   too
                   honest
                
                 to
                 have
                 removed
                 every
                 Impediment
                 lying
                 in
                 the
                 way
                 to
                 Soveraignty
                 ,
                 nothing
                 but
                 death
                 being
                 able
                 to
                 gagg
                 a
                 person
                 robb'd
                 of
                 a
                 Crown
                 .
                 Yet
                 her
                 Successour
                 met
                 with
                 no
                 opposition
                 ,
                 though
                 bred
                 in
                 an
                 ayre
                 ever
                 Pestiferous
                 
                 to
                 this
                 Nation
                 ;
                 which
                 wisely
                 considered
                 ,
                 might
                 have
                 tempted
                 a
                 people
                 to
                 have
                 disputed
                 his
                 entrance
                 ,
                 till
                 caution
                 given
                 .
                 But
                 the
                 Riches
                 and
                 felicities
                 injoyed
                 ,
                 during
                 the
                 incomparable
                 Reign
                 of
                 
                   Queen
                   Elizabeth
                
                 ,
                 hung
                 yet
                 like
                 
                   holy
                   dayes
                
                 at
                 their
                 fingers
                 ends
                 ,
                 by
                 which
                 they
                 were
                 become
                 so
                 effeminate
                 ,
                 and
                 unadvised
                 ,
                 as
                 to
                 choose
                 rather
                 to
                 fall
                 into
                 an
                 
                   Incurable
                   Consumption
                
                 ,
                 then
                 hazard
                 a
                 little
                 the
                 shaking
                 by
                 a
                 few
                 fits
                 of
                 a
                 Fever
                 ;
                 which
                 if
                 chosen
                 ,
                 might
                 not
                 unlikely
                 have
                 proved
                 as
                 
                   wholesome
                   Physick
                
                 for
                 
                   King
                   James
                
                 as
                 England
                 ;
                 Who
                 wanting
                 a
                 
                   Legall
                   pretext
                
                 ,
                 had
                 nothing
                 left
                 him
                 in
                 safety
                 strong
                 enough
                 to
                 refell
                 the
                 Brazen-faced
                 Impudence
                 of
                 his
                 Countrymens
                 Importunity
                 .
                 But
                 the
                 last
                 Scene
                 of
                 Princes
                 ,
                 like
                 the
                 Catastrophe
                 of
                 a
                 Play
                 ,
                 is
                 so
                 hudled
                 up
                 ,
                 and
                 every
                 one
                 so
                 intent
                 upon
                 his
                 own
                 particular
                 Interest
                 ,
                 (
                 being
                 muffled
                 
                 by
                 hope
                 or
                 fear
                 )
                 as
                 that
                 is
                 left
                 meerly
                 to
                 the
                 disposition
                 of
                 Fortune
                 ,
                 which
                 ought
                 onely
                 to
                 be
                 intrusted
                 with
                 Prudence
                 her self
                 .
                 Nor
                 did
                 the
                 readiness
                 of
                 the
                 Scots
                 to
                 Arm
                 ,
                 (
                 in
                 hope
                 of
                 so
                 much
                 plunder
                 ,
                 as
                 this
                 Nation
                 might
                 afford
                 ,
                 shrouded
                 under
                 the
                 specious
                 pretence
                 of
                 Henry
                 the
                 7s.
                 eldest
                 daughter
                 )
                 portend
                 less
                 in
                 the
                 ears
                 of
                 the
                 unresolved
                 ,
                 then
                 a
                 possibility
                 of
                 Conquest
                 ,
                 the
                 most
                 
                   ungratefull
                   sound
                
                 to
                 the
                 formerly
                 
                   free
                   People
                
                 of
                 England
                 .
                 Neither
                 did
                 these
                 conjectures
                 receive
                 small
                 aggravation
                 from
                 those
                 formerly
                 suborned
                 ,
                 to
                 promote
                 the
                 entrance
                 of
                 the
                 Stuarts
                 ,
                 who
                 if
                 Essex
                 had
                 remained
                 true
                 to
                 his
                 principles
                 ,
                 might
                 have
                 been
                 saluted
                 on
                 the
                 borders
                 ,
                 by
                 an
                 Army
                 strong
                 enough
                 to
                 have
                 moderated
                 the
                 Scots
                 conditions
                 ,
                 or
                 advanced
                 his
                 own
                 .
                 Though
                 it
                 was
                 the
                 universall
                 Opinion
                 ,
                 that
                 
                   Essex's
                   Ambition
                
                 ,
                 did
                 like
                 the
                 great
                 
                 Earl
                 of
                 Warwick's
                 ,
                 terminate
                 in
                 a
                 desire
                 to
                 bring
                 in
                 James
                 on
                 his
                 own
                 score
                 .
              
               
                 It
                 is
                 not
                 probable
                 the
                 Earle
                 carried
                 any
                 evill
                 meaning
                 towards
                 the
                 Common-wealth
                 ,
                 because
                 neither
                 his
                 enemies
                 ,
                 nor
                 friends
                 are
                 found
                 to
                 mention
                 any
                 endeavour
                 in
                 him
                 to
                 call
                 in
                 a
                 Forreigner
                 :
                 Wherefore
                 if
                 the
                 Crown
                 was
                 his
                 Mistresse
                 ,
                 he
                 used
                 the
                 most
                 decent
                 way
                 of
                 wooing
                 her
                 ,
                 which
                 was
                 onely
                 through
                 the
                 Mediation
                 of
                 her
                 
                   native
                   Subjects
                
                 .
                 Yet
                 I
                 doubt
                 whether
                 he
                 had
                 justly
                 calculated
                 the
                 weight
                 of
                 this
                 Circumstance
                 ,
                 That
                 
                   Conscience
                   is
                   as
                   dangerous
                   in
                   an
                   Usurper
                   ,
                   as
                   Cruelty
                   ,
                   and
                   excesse
                   is
                   deadly
                   ,
                   and
                   undecent
                   ,
                   in
                   him
                   doth
                   Legally
                   succeed
                   .
                
              
               
                 I
                 have
                 heard
                 it
                 ,
                 though
                 looked
                 upon
                 by
                 me
                 as
                 a
                 Paradox
                 ,
                 that
                 Essex
                 would
                 have
                 vindicated
                 the
                 
                   English
                   freedom
                
                 ,
                 by
                 reviving
                 such
                 
                   ancient
                   Priviledges
                
                 as
                 had
                 been
                 pretermitted
                 ,
                 
                 during
                 the
                 Tyrannicall
                 reigns
                 of
                 the
                 two
                 last
                 Henries
                 ;
                 And
                 no
                 wayes
                 indulged
                 by
                 
                   Queen
                   Elizabeth
                
                 ,
                 which
                 not
                 extending
                 all
                 her
                 time
                 beyond
                 a
                 few
                 particulars
                 ,
                 was
                 then
                 less
                 discernable
                 .
                 No
                 act
                 of
                 hers
                 being
                 registred
                 so
                 contrary
                 to
                 the
                 grain
                 of
                 her
                 own
                 people
                 ,
                 as
                 the
                 death
                 of
                 this
                 man
                 ;
                 the
                 
                   Queen
                   of
                   Scots
                
                 being
                 looked
                 upon
                 as
                 a
                 Catholick
                 ,
                 which
                 in
                 the
                 generall
                 dialect
                 of
                 England
                 at
                 
                   that
                   time
                
                 ,
                 signified
                 no
                 less
                 then
                 a
                 
                   sworn
                   enemy
                   to
                   God
                   and
                   the
                   Prince
                   ,
                
                 (
                 so
                 zealous
                 ,
                 if
                 I
                 may
                 not
                 say
                 surious
                 ,
                 are
                 
                   all
                   changes
                
                 )
                 that
                 it
                 was
                 passed
                 over
                 ,
                 without
                 any
                 apprehension
                 of
                 honour
                 ,
                 or
                 pitty
                 ,
                 as
                 justified
                 by
                 the
                 cruell
                 Massacre
                 committed
                 not
                 long
                 before
                 upon
                 the
                 
                   French
                   Hugenots
                
                 ,
                 at
                 the
                 instigation
                 of
                 that
                 
                   Kings
                   Mother
                
                 .
                 An
                 Act
                 through
                 which
                 the
                 Integrity
                 of
                 Princes
                 was
                 much
                 ahated
                 .
                 But
                 whether
                 his
                 nation
                 by
                 reason
                 of
                 her
                 
                   divers
                   
                   titles
                
                 ,
                 and
                 
                   disparity
                   in
                   estates
                
                 ,
                 was
                 capable
                 of
                 that
                 
                   absolute
                   freedom
                
                 ,
                 hath
                 since
                 been
                 fancied
                 by
                 some
                 ,
                 I
                 leave
                 to
                 the
                 Arbitration
                 of
                 greater
                 Polititians
                 .
              
               
                 Onely
                 this
                 I
                 am
                 confident
                 of
                 ,
                 that
                 no
                 fair
                 capitulation
                 could
                 have
                 disobliged
                 
                   King
                   James
                
                 ,
                 who
                 lay
                 under
                 too
                 many
                 doubts
                 ,
                 and
                 strong
                 desires
                 ,
                 to
                 have
                 refused
                 so
                 peaceable
                 an
                 entry
                 as
                 he
                 found
                 ,
                 upon
                 any
                 
                   lawfull
                   limitations
                
                 ;
                 manifest
                 in
                 the
                 advice
                 given
                 to
                 his
                 Son
                 ;
                 Wherein
                 are
                 more
                 
                   Popular
                   rules
                
                 ,
                 then
                 himself
                 was
                 ever
                 observed
                 to
                 follow
                 .
              
               
                 By
                 the
                 vast
                 quantity
                 of
                 teares
                 let
                 fall
                 from
                 the
                 Multitude
                 upon
                 his
                 Grave
                 ,
                 may
                 be
                 noted
                 ,
                 how
                 far
                 easier
                 it
                 is
                 to
                 find
                 pitty
                 ,
                 then
                 protection
                 ,
                 Though
                 his
                 friends
                 if
                 united
                 ,
                 would
                 have
                 proved
                 the
                 
                   major
                   part
                
                 .
                 Who
                 for
                 want
                 of
                 a
                 
                   good
                   head-piece
                
                 to
                 follow
                 ,
                 this
                 
                   universall
                   affection
                
                 ,
                 like
                 
                   floting
                   Atomes
                
                 ,
                 made
                 onely
                 a
                 
                   world
                   
                   of
                   Calamity
                
                 for
                 himself
                 and
                 his
                 party
                 .
                 But
                 this
                 blow
                 past
                 recalling
                 ,
                 set
                 the
                 peoples
                 teeth
                 so
                 much
                 an
                 edge
                 ,
                 as
                 all
                 the
                 Queen
                 did
                 after
                 ,
                 was
                 thought
                 bitter
                 ,
                 and
                 her
                 Government
                 too
                 peevish
                 and
                 effeminate
                 for
                 so
                 warlike
                 a
                 Nation
                 :
                 Nor
                 did
                 she
                 decline
                 lesse
                 in
                 the
                 opinion
                 of
                 the
                 Court
                 it self
                 ,
                 no
                 counsel
                 daring
                 after
                 to
                 appear
                 ,
                 but
                 what
                 was
                 sutable
                 to
                 the
                 
                   Cecilian
                   gusto
                
                 .
              
               
                 Here
                 may
                 be
                 noted
                 ,
                 with
                 what
                 Circumspection
                 Princes
                 ought
                 to
                 play
                 their
                 Game
                 ,
                 since
                 Counsellors
                 ,
                 their
                 Card-holders
                 ,
                 are
                 not
                 seldom
                 Cheaters
                 ,
                 and
                 intend
                 more
                 particular
                 Interests
                 then
                 their
                 Masters
                 :
                 As
                 appeared
                 in
                 the
                 remove
                 of
                 Essex
                 ,
                 a
                 man
                 thought
                 farre
                 more
                 necessary
                 to
                 the
                 Queen's
                 Service
                 ,
                 and
                 Englands
                 safety
                 ,
                 then
                 such
                 as
                 purchased
                 his
                 ruine
                 .
                 The
                 banding
                 of
                 two
                 factions
                 ,
                 being
                 the
                 most
                 probable
                 way
                 to
                 keep
                 ,
                 this
                 already
                 
                   superannuated
                   
                   Princes
                
                 from
                 falling
                 into
                 contempt
                 .
                 For
                 such
                 Commands
                 ,
                 as
                 under
                 
                   both
                   parties
                
                 would
                 have
                 been
                 readily
                 obeyed
                 ,
                 were
                 after
                 one
                 had
                 got
                 the
                 
                   absolute
                   disposure
                
                 of
                 affairs
                 ,
                 wholly
                 neglected
                 .
                 Essex's
                 return
                 (
                 which
                 no
                 question
                 would
                 have
                 been
                 indeavoured
                 ,
                 upon
                 the
                 least
                 discontent
                 of
                 her
                 Majesty
                 )
                 appearing
                 of
                 so
                 dismall
                 a
                 consequence
                 to
                 his
                 enemies
                 ,
                 as
                 nothing
                 might
                 procure
                 it
                 ,
                 was
                 thought
                 safe
                 ,
                 or
                 what
                 did
                 obstruct
                 it
                 ,
                 dangerous
                 .
                 Nor
                 was
                 it
                 possible
                 for
                 this
                 planet
                 ,
                 so
                 neer
                 its
                 declension
                 ,
                 to
                 Influence
                 another
                 party
                 :
                 None
                 daring
                 to
                 run
                 the
                 Hazard
                 of
                 an
                 unavoydable
                 future
                 Ruine
                 upon
                 the
                 contemplation
                 of
                 a
                 year
                 or
                 two's
                 power
                 ;
                 which
                 was
                 more
                 then
                 her
                 age
                 ,
                 and
                 
                   present
                   weaknesse
                
                 did
                 in
                 any
                 probability
                 promise
                 .
              
               
                 This
                 proves
                 ,
                 it
                 had
                 been
                 the
                 Queen's
                 better
                 policy
                 ,
                 to
                 have
                 conceded
                 the
                 Life
                 of
                 the
                 Earle
                 to
                 the
                 
                 teares
                 ,
                 and
                 vowes
                 of
                 the
                 people
                 ,
                 through
                 which
                 their
                 Love
                 had
                 not
                 onely
                 been
                 
                   preserved
                   intire
                
                 ,
                 but
                 (
                 what
                 was
                 next
                 considerable
                 )
                 so
                 great
                 a
                 restraint
                 put
                 upon
                 the
                 
                   contrary
                   Cabal
                
                 ,
                 as
                 might
                 contain
                 them
                 within
                 the
                 compasse
                 of
                 Obedience
                 ;
                 out
                 of
                 fear
                 she
                 should
                 have
                 let
                 loose
                 this
                 Lyon
                 ,
                 who
                 to
                 that
                 end
                 she
                 might
                 have
                 kept
                 in
                 the
                 Tower
                 ,
                 his
                 death
                 not
                 being
                 probable
                 ,
                 as
                 her
                 Subjects
                 stood
                 affected
                 ,
                 to
                 have
                 countervalued
                 the
                 advantage
                 of
                 his
                 Life
                 .
                 And
                 this
                 oversight
                 was
                 the
                 more
                 inexcusable
                 ,
                 because
                 the
                 Ancestours
                 of
                 the
                 Earl's
                 chiefest
                 enemies
                 had
                 by
                 the
                 same
                 arts
                 rendred
                 her
                 ungratefull
                 to
                 the
                 People
                 of
                 England
                 ,
                 in
                 a
                 like
                 case
                 of
                 severity
                 towards
                 the
                 Duke
                 of
                 Norfolk
                 .
              
               
                 Nor
                 did
                 she
                 apprehend
                 till
                 it
                 was
                 too
                 late
                 ,
                 the
                 wound
                 given
                 her
                 
                   own
                   Power
                
                 ,
                 through
                 the
                 mediation
                 of
                 the
                 Hangman
                 in
                 the
                 death
                 of
                 Essex
                 ;
                 
                 Not
                 being
                 able
                 ever
                 after
                 ,
                 to
                 moderate
                 the
                 Insolency
                 of
                 those
                 ,
                 that
                 now
                 did
                 not
                 stick
                 to
                 slight
                 her
                 ,
                 and
                 story
                 openly
                 in
                 her
                 ears
                 the
                 necessity
                 she
                 lay
                 under
                 ,
                 to
                 declare
                 the
                 
                   Scotch
                   King
                
                 her
                 Successor
                 ,
                 lest
                 the
                 Parl.
                 should
                 be
                 (
                 for
                 their
                 own
                 safety
                 )
                 compelled
                 to
                 
                   do
                   it
                   themselves
                
                 ;
                 which
                 had
                 not
                 been
                 omitted
                 ,
                 but
                 (
                 as
                 I
                 have
                 been
                 told
                 )
                 to
                 endear
                 
                   King
                   James
                
                 more
                 to
                 some
                 
                   particular
                   families
                
                 ,
                 of
                 which
                 the
                 
                   most
                   noble
                
                 for
                 birth
                 ,
                 found
                 afterwards
                 little
                 cause
                 to
                 applaud
                 their
                 Designe
                 .
                 Neither
                 were
                 other
                 reports
                 wanting
                 ,
                 which
                 being
                 usuall
                 at
                 the
                 Death
                 of
                 all
                 Princes
                 ,
                 I
                 shall
                 here
                 wilfully
                 omit
                 ,
                 as
                 quite
                 unsatisfied
                 of
                 their
                 truth
                 .
                 Nor
                 had
                 I
                 said
                 this
                 ,
                 but
                 that
                 there
                 hath
                 been
                 from
                 the
                 beginning
                 of
                 the
                 
                   uncivill
                   wars
                
                 (
                 wherein
                 none
                 were
                 masters
                 of
                 what
                 they
                 had
                 )
                 diverse
                 
                   imperfect
                   Copies
                
                 of
                 my
                 own
                 hand
                 left
                 in
                 the
                 custody
                 of
                 one
                 did
                 print
                 some
                 of
                 them
                 ,
                 under
                 
                 a
                 
                   namelesse
                   Author
                
                 ,
                 though
                 very
                 false
                 ,
                 And
                 might
                 have
                 done
                 this
                 ,
                 if
                 not
                 timely
                 prevented
                 .
              
               
                 Nor
                 did
                 this
                 blow
                 terminate
                 only
                 in
                 the
                 ruine
                 of
                 the
                 
                   Earls
                   friends
                
                 ,
                 but
                 extended
                 to
                 the
                 disadvantage
                 of
                 his
                 Maligners
                 themselves
                 ,
                 apparent
                 in
                 Sir
                 
                   Walter
                   Raleigh
                
                 ,
                 who
                 wanting
                 Strength
                 ,
                 though
                 not
                 Wit
                 to
                 be
                 the
                 
                   treasurers
                   Corrivall
                
                 ,
                 Perished
                 because
                 not
                 thought
                 to
                 own
                 humility
                 enough
                 to
                 be
                 his
                 Servant
                 :
                 it
                 being
                 
                   more
                   safe
                   at
                   Court
                   to
                   have
                   many
                   Enemies
                   of
                   equall
                   power
                   ,
                   then
                   one
                   false
                   ambitious
                   friend
                   ,
                   that
                   hath
                   attained
                   to
                   the
                   absolutenesse
                   of
                   Command
                   .
                
                 The
                 agitations
                 and
                 tempests
                 ,
                 arising
                 from
                 
                   considerable
                   factions
                
                 in
                 the
                 houses
                 of
                 Princes
                 ,
                 (
                 resembling
                 some
                 winds
                 at
                 sea
                 ,
                 by
                 which
                 men
                 are
                 driven
                 though
                 by
                 contrary
                 means
                 ,
                 to
                 one
                 and
                 the
                 same
                 end
                 )
                 would
                 of
                 necessity
                 have
                 miscarried
                 ,
                 or
                 perished
                 ,
                 had
                 any
                 
                   single
                   party
                
                 prevailed
                 .
                 The
                 one
                 
                 still
                 thinking
                 it
                 honourable
                 to
                 preserve
                 and
                 advance
                 what
                 the
                 other
                 esteems
                 safe
                 to
                 suppresse
                 and
                 destroy
                 .
                 And
                 this
                 Raleigh
                 was
                 often
                 heard
                 to
                 say
                 ,
                 he
                 did
                 not
                 apprehend
                 ,
                 Before
                 his
                 Genius
                 had
                 dictated
                 it
                 to
                 him
                 ,
                 as
                 he
                 came
                 in
                 a
                 Boat
                 from
                 the
                 execution
                 of
                 the
                 Earl
                 of
                 Essex
                 ,
                 which
                 was
                 done
                 at
                 the
                 Tower.
                 Nor
                 could
                 the
                 wisest
                 of
                 his
                 endeavours
                 free
                 him
                 from
                 the
                 
                   dire
                   effects
                
                 of
                 this
                 Portent
                 ,
                 or
                 to
                 name
                 it
                 more
                 properly
                 ,
                 a
                 necessary
                 cause
                 of
                 such
                 events
                 ,
                 as
                 did
                 after
                 befall
                 him
                 .
              
               
                 The
                 Death
                 of
                 Essex
                 like
                 a
                 Melancholy
                 cloud
                 ,
                 did
                 shade
                 the
                 prospect
                 of
                 her
                 peoples
                 affection
                 ,
                 from
                 being
                 so
                 discernable
                 at
                 the
                 
                   shutting
                   of
                   her
                   dayes
                
                 ,
                 as
                 it
                 was
                 during
                 the
                 Dawning
                 and
                 Meridian
                 of
                 her
                 reign
                 .
                 Yet
                 if
                 Essex
                 had
                 been
                 try'd
                 by
                 a
                 Peerage
                 of
                 Angels
                 ,
                 they
                 would
                 have
                 passed
                 a
                 like
                 sentence
                 upon
                 him
                 ,
                 or
                 exposed
                 Monarchy
                 to
                 contempt
                 .
                 
                 Wherefore
                 Prudence
                 cannot
                 lay
                 the
                 fault
                 at
                 the
                 door
                 of
                 her
                 Justice
                 ,
                 but
                 the
                 ill-management
                 of
                 her
                 Mercy
                 ,
                 as
                 not
                 knowing
                 how
                 to
                 imploy
                 it
                 ,
                 towards
                 the
                 best
                 advantage
                 of
                 her
                 future
                 Affairs
                 .
                 But
                 after
                 an
                 
                   Impartiall
                   Reflection
                
                 made
                 ,
                 in
                 reference
                 to
                 private
                 persons
                 averseness
                 towards
                 any
                 apprehension
                 of
                 defect
                 ,
                 we
                 may
                 possibly
                 learn
                 to
                 wonder
                 ,
                 why
                 she
                 made
                 no
                 better
                 provision
                 against
                 contempt
                 ,
                 till
                 
                   that
                   hower
                
                 a
                 meer
                 stranger
                 to
                 this
                 Princess
                 ,
                 who
                 had
                 all
                 her
                 sails
                 continually
                 fill'd
                 with
                 flattery
                 or
                 success
                 .
              
               
                 Now
                 to
                 vindicate
                 her
                 Majesty
                 from
                 the
                 obvious
                 aspersion
                 I
                 have
                 so
                 often
                 heard
                 her
                 prudence
                 upbraided
                 withall
                 ,
                 (
                 for
                 neglecting
                 the
                 Italian
                 mode
                 quite
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 removall
                 of
                 Mary
                 the
                 
                   Scottish
                   Queen
                
                 ,
                 and
                 Dowager
                 of
                 France
                 ,
                 so
                 much
                 the
                 more
                 undecent
                 ,
                 as
                 the
                 hand
                 of
                 a
                 Hangman
                 is
                 less
                 honourable
                 then
                 that
                 of
                 a
                 
                   Physitian
                   .
                
                 )
                 I
                 may
                 say
                 ,
                 That
                 since
                 those
                 ,
                 
                 who
                 for
                 their
                 
                   own
                   sakes
                
                 as
                 well
                 as
                 their
                 Soveraigns
                 ,
                 thought
                 it
                 not
                 safe
                 to
                 be
                 left
                 undone
                 ,
                 wanted
                 the
                 skil
                 or
                 spirit
                 to
                 do
                 it
                 a
                 
                   clandestine
                   way
                
                 ,
                 i
                 was
                 more
                 discretion
                 then
                 folly
                 to
                 refuse
                 ejecting
                 one
                 so
                 uncouth
                 herself
                 ;
                 such
                 a
                 lesson
                 being
                 easier
                 learned
                 then
                 forgotten
                 ,
                 &
                 might
                 have
                 been
                 afterward
                 practised
                 to
                 her
                 personall
                 disadvantage
                 .
              
               
                 And
                 if
                 reports
                 on
                 all
                 hands
                 were
                 not
                 mistaken
                 ,
                 little
                 thanks
                 is
                 due
                 to
                 those
                 who
                 made
                 the
                 
                   Nation
                   accessary
                
                 through
                 this
                 solemn
                 Try
                 all
                 to
                 the
                 Death
                 of
                 her
                 mother
                 they
                 meant
                 next
                 to
                 set
                 up
                 .
                 Nor
                 can
                 an
                 undoubted
                 desire
                 in
                 the
                 Scots
                 to
                 have
                 her
                 removed
                 ,
                 the
                 better
                 to
                 facilitate
                 the
                 Succession
                 of
                 their
                 King
                 (
                 who
                 did
                 more
                 indulge
                 his
                 Patience
                 then
                 Honour
                 ,
                 in
                 passing
                 unrevenged
                 those
                 houses
                 ,
                 sprinkled
                 by
                 
                   her
                   blood
                
                 )
                 justifie
                 their
                 discretions
                 ,
                 that
                 could
                 not
                 but
                 know
                 all
                 Obligation
                 was
                 more
                 likely
                 to
                 be
                 lost
                 in
                 the
                 shame
                 ,
                 then
                 
                 found
                 in
                 any
                 
                   gratefull
                   acknowledgment
                
                 of
                 such
                 actions
                 as
                 these
                 .
                 And
                 if
                 their
                 Posterity
                 taste
                 of
                 the
                 like
                 Justice
                 ,
                 they
                 may
                 sacrifice
                 repentance
                 to
                 such
                 nets
                 ,
                 as
                 themselves
                 spread
                 to
                 insnare
                 this
                 Queen
                 first
                 ,
                 and
                 then
                 Essex
                 ;
                 the
                 fault
                 of
                 the
                 last
                 being
                 in
                 reference
                 to
                 the
                 Innocent
                 driving
                 on
                 the
                 designe
                 ,
                 as
                 far
                 
                   below
                   such
                   severity
                
                 ,
                 as
                 the
                 majesty
                 of
                 the
                 other
                 was
                 
                   above
                   it
                
                 .
              
               
                 Nothing
                 commends
                 the
                 goodness
                 of
                 
                   Queen
                   Elizabeths
                
                 reign
                 more
                 ,
                 then
                 that
                 she
                 and
                 her
                 Subjects
                 should
                 have
                 one
                 and
                 the
                 same
                 Minion
                 ,
                 as
                 happened
                 in
                 Essex
                 :
                 whereas
                 the
                 hatred
                 of
                 the
                 people
                 ,
                 proved
                 after
                 an
                 undoubted
                 consequence
                 of
                 her
                 
                   Successor's
                   Love
                
                 ,
                 remaining
                 no
                 less
                 confident
                 of
                 the
                 choyce
                 of
                 the
                 one
                 ,
                 than
                 diffident
                 of
                 the
                 others
                 .
                 The
                 Queen
                 wanting
                 no
                 medium
                 to
                 nterpose
                 between
                 her
                 and
                 their
                 fury
                 :
                 from
                 whence
                 grew
                 a
                 confidence
                 ,
                 
                 that
                 she
                 would
                 not
                 countenance
                 an
                 unworthy
                 man.
                 Neither
                 was
                 it
                 a
                 small
                 advancement
                 to
                 this
                 general
                 complyance
                 ,
                 that
                 the
                 people
                 appeared
                 not
                 at
                 the
                 cost
                 to
                 raise
                 him
                 .
                 It
                 being
                 the
                 custom
                 of
                 this
                 thrifty
                 Prince
                 ,
                 to
                 let
                 her
                 Favorites
                 taste
                 ,
                 not
                 surfet
                 ,
                 on
                 the
                 wealth
                 of
                 the
                 Nation
                 ,
                 conveying
                 her
                 Largesses
                 by
                 Spoons
                 ,
                 not
                 Buckets
                 :
                 The
                 names
                 of
                 Monopolies
                 ,
                 and
                 
                   extrajudiciall
                   Taxes
                
                 ,
                 not
                 being
                 intelligible
                 to
                 experience
                 all
                 her
                 days
                 .
                 Neither
                 were
                 her
                 ears
                 stopped
                 against
                 her
                 peoples
                 complaints
                 ,
                 ever
                 thought
                 by
                 her
                 just
                 ,
                 and
                 so
                 fit
                 to
                 receive
                 a
                 present
                 redresse
                 ;
                 the
                 cause
                 her
                 Parliaments
                 were
                 no
                 further
                 inquisitive
                 then
                 she
                 was
                 pleased
                 to
                 informe
                 them
                 .
              
               
                 Had
                 her
                 Successor
                 retained
                 the
                 like
                 Moderation
                 ,
                 the
                 power
                 of
                 our
                 Representative
                 had
                 never
                 fallen
                 under
                 the
                 malleation
                 of
                 so
                 extensive
                 a
                 dispute
                 ,
                 which
                 hath
                 raised
                 mens
                 
                 minds
                 up
                 to
                 so
                 impetuous
                 a
                 Billow
                 ,
                 as
                 it
                 is
                 questioneble
                 ,
                 whether
                 that
                 which
                 supported
                 her
                 power
                 ,
                 may
                 not
                 through
                 a
                 contrary
                 application
                 
                   utterly
                   ruine
                
                 those
                 may
                 succeed
                 .
                 Queen
                 Elizabeth
                 being
                 not
                 onely
                 fortunate
                 in
                 her
                 conduct
                 at
                 home
                 ,
                 but
                 able
                 to
                 diffuse
                 peace
                 and
                 plenty
                 over
                 such
                 Neighbour-Nations
                 ,
                 as
                 she
                 was
                 advised
                 by
                 true
                 
                   Reason
                   of
                   State
                
                 ,
                 to
                 maintain
                 in
                 strength
                 and
                 
                   good
                   plight
                
                 .
                 Not
                 suitable
                 to
                 the
                 late
                 practise
                 of
                 a
                 Prince
                 ,
                 that
                 first
                 brake
                 with
                 Spain
                 ,
                 then
                 France
                 ,
                 and
                 after
                 was
                 hardly
                 restrained
                 from
                 kindling
                 a
                 fire
                 in
                 the
                 Netherlands
                 ,
                 which
                 lyes
                 in
                 a
                 manner
                 in
                 the
                 bosom
                 of
                 England
                 .
              
               
                 Now
                 I
                 should
                 conclude
                 here
                 ,
                 but
                 that
                 I
                 find
                 Sir
                 
                   Henry
                   Wotton
                
                 (
                 late
                 Provost
                 of
                 Eaton
                 ,
                 and
                 a
                 long
                 time
                 before
                 Ambassadour
                 with
                 the
                 most
                 Illustrious
                 State
                 of
                 Venice
                 )
                 hath
                 published
                 a
                 Manuscript
                 amongst
                 his
                 
                 friends
                 ,
                 and
                 may
                 since
                 be
                 made
                 more
                 generall
                 ;
                 where
                 he
                 offers
                 to
                 compare
                 the
                 Duke
                 of
                 Buckingham
                 with
                 the
                 Earl
                 of
                 Essex
                 ;
                 much
                 to
                 the
                 disadvantage
                 of
                 the
                 latter
                 ,
                 who
                 laying
                 this
                 action
                 by
                 ,
                 did
                 never
                 own
                 the
                 doing
                 any
                 thing
                 so
                 ungratefull
                 ,
                 as
                 might
                 make
                 him
                 fear
                 the
                 Anger
                 ,
                 or
                 beg
                 the
                 favour
                 of
                 a
                 Parliament
                 ,
                 much
                 less
                 owe
                 his
                 Life
                 to
                 the
                 dissolution
                 of
                 one
                 already
                 called
                 .
                 He
                 is
                 not
                 charged
                 with
                 many
                 deeds
                 of
                 Improbity
                 ,
                 unless
                 Women
                 be
                 cast
                 upon
                 his
                 account
                 ,
                 not
                 in
                 Justice
                 to
                 be
                 done
                 ,
                 the
                 other
                 standing
                 by
                 .
                 The
                 awe
                 he
                 bare
                 to
                 the
                 Religion
                 then
                 Professed
                 was
                 discernable
                 by
                 his
                 Death
                 ,
                 which
                 in
                 the
                 Opinion
                 of
                 many
                 ,
                 reached
                 something
                 below
                 the
                 Garb
                 of
                 a
                 Souldier
                 ;
                 so
                 busie
                 are
                 Criticks
                 (
                 that
                 like
                 Flyes
                 spare
                 nothing
                 savours
                 of
                 Fame
                 or
                 Infamy
                 )
                 to
                 the
                 Grave
                 it self
                 .
              
               
                 That
                 he
                 was
                 thought
                 no
                 instrument
                 
                 of
                 Tyranny
                 or
                 Oppression
                 ,
                 appears
                 manifest
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 Monument
                 of
                 Love
                 ,
                 remains
                 still
                 undemolished
                 in
                 the
                 hearts
                 of
                 most
                 Englishmen
                 :
                 whereas
                 the
                 Duke
                 retains
                 the
                 generall
                 tincture
                 of
                 ,
                 &c.
                 
                 Nor
                 can
                 his
                 well-known
                 bounty
                 to
                 Friends
                 and
                 Servants
                 expunge
                 it
                 ,
                 because
                 drained
                 from
                 the
                 people
                 ,
                 or
                 taken
                 out
                 of
                 the
                 
                   publique
                   Treasure
                
                 ,
                 if
                 not
                 from
                 the
                 
                   generall
                   safety
                
                 of
                 the
                 Nation
                 .
                 Whereas
                 Essex
                 obliged
                 his
                 Confidents
                 out
                 of
                 his
                 
                   own
                   store
                
                 ,
                 or
                 by
                 other
                 so
                 
                   innocent
                   wayes
                
                 ,
                 as
                 the
                 Subject
                 had
                 no
                 just
                 cause
                 to
                 be
                 scandalized
                 at
                 it
                 .
              
               
                 The
                 Earles
                 Naturall
                 parts
                 were
                 as
                 good
                 as
                 the
                 Dukes
                 ,
                 his
                 Learning
                 and
                 
                   Birth
                   higher
                
                 ,
                 the
                 one
                 being
                 of
                 an
                 honourable
                 ,
                 the
                 other
                 at
                 best
                 but
                 of
                 a
                 
                   Gentile
                   extraction
                
                 .
                 Nor
                 can
                 so
                 inconsiderate
                 an
                 Action
                 ,
                 that
                 in
                 charity
                 rather
                 deserves
                 the
                 title
                 of
                 a
                 Riot
                 then
                 of
                 a
                 Treason
                 ,
                 come
                 up
                 to
                 so
                 
                 great
                 an
                 Ingratitude
                 and
                 Indignity
                 to
                 the
                 Nation
                 ,
                 as
                 Buckinghams
                 proceedings
                 at
                 Rochell
                 ,
                 calculated
                 after
                 the
                 
                   French
                   account
                
                 ,
                 the
                 summe
                 of
                 which
                 I
                 leave
                 for
                 more
                 voluminous
                 Pens
                 to
                 cast
                 up
                 ;
                 onely
                 I
                 shall
                 assume
                 the
                 boldness
                 to
                 say
                 ,
                 That
                 the
                 Duke
                 shewed
                 no
                 less
                 folly
                 in
                 accumulating
                 so
                 great
                 a
                 hatred
                 of
                 the
                 people
                 ,
                 then
                 Essex
                 did
                 in
                 mis-applying
                 their
                 Love.
                 And
                 if
                 his
                 shadows
                 were
                 left
                 exact
                 to
                 posterity
                 ,
                 he
                 was
                 not
                 behind
                 him
                 in
                 handsomness
                 ,
                 the
                 sole
                 and
                 primary
                 cause
                 of
                 Villers
                 advancement
                 .
                 Onely
                 in
                 this
                 Essex
                 came
                 short
                 ,
                 in
                 having
                 a
                 Mistresse
                 would
                 be
                 attentive
                 to
                 Reason
                 ,
                 from
                 whence
                 soever
                 it
                 came
                 ,
                 whether
                 through
                 the
                 Organs
                 of
                 Friendship
                 or
                 Malice
                 .
                 Whereas
                 the
                 Dukes
                 fortune
                 depended
                 on
                 
                   two
                   Princes
                
                 ,
                 That
                 in
                 reference
                 to
                 
                   their
                   own
                   weakness
                
                 or
                 
                   his
                   strength
                
                 ,
                 remained
                 
                   deaf
                   to
                   all
                   complaints
                
                 else
                 ,
                 but
                 what
                 were
                 presented
                 
                 through
                 
                   his
                   own
                   mediation
                
                 ,
                 or
                 those
                 of
                 his
                 Creatures
                 ,
                 with
                 which
                 he
                 was
                 ever
                 made
                 first
                 acquainted
                 ,
                 under
                 no
                 slighter
                 a
                 penalty
                 then
                 his
                 displeasure
                 ,
                 so
                 much
                 
                   more
                   heavier
                
                 then
                 the
                 Kings
                 ,
                 as
                 his
                 
                   memory
                   was
                   better
                
                 ,
                 and
                 
                   Interest
                   more
                
                 .
              
               
                 Concerning
                 their
                 Deaths
                 ,
                 I
                 can
                 attest
                 ,
                 the
                 Dukes
                 did
                 occasion
                 no
                 
                   less
                   joy
                
                 ,
                 then
                 the
                 other
                 did
                 sorrow
                 ,
                 not
                 matched
                 by
                 the
                 saddest
                 accident
                 did
                 happen
                 in
                 
                   Queen
                   Elizabeths
                
                 reign
                 ;
                 No
                 not
                 if
                 her
                 Death
                 be
                 cast
                 in
                 ,
                 though
                 
                   deplorable
                   enough
                
                 ,
                 as
                 I
                 have
                 often
                 been
                 informed
                 by
                 those
                 did
                 approve
                 the
                 Sentence
                 ,
                 but
                 not
                 the
                 so
                 
                   suddain
                   execution
                
                 of
                 it
                 .
                 Nor
                 was
                 the
                 Hangman
                 reported
                 to
                 be
                 willingly
                 hired
                 to
                 do
                 it
                 ,
                 whereas
                 Felton
                 seemed
                 to
                 be
                 Inspired
                 by
                 some
                 Daemon
                 ,
                 if
                 not
                 the
                 
                   Genius
                   of
                   our
                   Nation
                
                 .
              
               
                 This
                 had
                 not
                 been
                 said
                 ,
                 but
                 in
                 vindication
                 of
                 that
                 ,
                 I
                 never
                 found
                 
                 cause
                 yet
                 to
                 question
                 the
                 truth
                 of
                 ,
                 and
                 to
                 unwarp
                 their
                 judgements
                 (
                 if
                 any
                 such
                 be
                 )
                 that
                 may
                 be
                 drawn
                 aside
                 ,
                 by
                 the
                 goodness
                 of
                 Sir
                 
                   Henry
                   Woottons
                
                 parts
                 ,
                 in
                 knowing
                 mens
                 opinions
                 ,
                 much
                 contaminated
                 by
                 his
                 too
                 over-zealous
                 celebration
                 of
                 this
                 Man
                 ,
                 as
                 may
                 be
                 easily
                 found
                 in
                 the
                 Records
                 of
                 Parliament
                 ,
                 to
                 which
                 I
                 refer
                 the
                 Reader
                 ,
                 together
                 with
                 what
                 I
                 have
                 in
                 this
                 behalf
                 written
                 .
              
            
             
               
               
                 Some
                 Advantages
                 may
                 be
                 deduceable
                 from
                 Court-Factions
                 .
              
               
                 IT
                 may
                 be
                 thought
                 I
                 hope
                 no
                 less
                 impertinent
                 ,
                 then
                 what
                 went
                 before
                 ,
                 if
                 according
                 to
                 my
                 rambling
                 Method
                 ,
                 I
                 shall
                 drop
                 some
                 conjectures
                 in
                 reference
                 to
                 a
                 benefit
                 may
                 redound
                 to
                 the
                 Subject
                 from
                 Court-factions
                 :
                 All
                 which
                 
                   in
                   conclusion
                
                 will
                 reach
                 the
                 Prince
                 ,
                 who
                 cannot
                 be
                 safe
                 and
                 happy
                 ,
                 if
                 his
                 people
                 live
                 miserably
                 ;
                 Not
                 likely
                 to
                 be
                 avoyded
                 ,
                 where
                 preferments
                 depend
                 wholly
                 upon
                 the
                 mediation
                 of
                 a
                 single
                 and
                 
                   uncontroulable
                   party
                
                 .
                 In
                 which
                 case
                 the
                 oppressed
                 have
                 no
                 power
                 for
                 the
                 present
                 to
                 appeal
                 to
                 .
                 The
                 cause
                 our
                 later
                 Parliaments
                 have
                 been
                 pestered
                 with
                 Clamours
                 and
                 Complaints
                 ,
                 seldom
                 ,
                 if
                 ever
                 heard
                 of
                 in
                 the
                 
                   Golden
                   
                   dayes
                
                 of
                 
                   Queen
                   Elizabeth
                
                 .
                 And
                 from
                 
                   whose
                   root
                
                 sprung
                 those
                 branches
                 of
                 misery
                 ,
                 by
                 which
                 the
                 greatest
                 felicity
                 any
                 nation
                 ever
                 injoyed
                 ,
                 is
                 become
                 over-shadowed
                 ,
                 so
                 that
                 the
                 detection
                 of
                 corruption
                 in
                 Officers
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 gratification
                 of
                 the
                 malice
                 of
                 some
                 ,
                 and
                 Ambition
                 of
                 others
                 ,
                 in
                 their
                 expulsions
                 and
                 Punishments
                 ,
                 gave
                 them
                 at
                 last
                 the
                 boldness
                 to
                 question
                 the
                 integrity
                 of
                 the
                 Crown
                 .
              
               
                 Divers
                 persons
                 of
                 
                   equall
                   authority
                
                 ,
                 though
                 
                   both
                   wicked
                
                 ,
                 do
                 in
                 experience
                 
                   produced
                   more
                   justice
                
                 then
                 a
                 
                   greater
                   probity
                
                 in
                 a
                 
                   single
                   Individuall
                
                 ,
                 hath
                 been
                 (
                 at
                 least
                 in
                 these
                 
                   depraved
                   ages
                   )
                   heard
                   to
                   pronounce
                   :
                
                 For
                 though
                 Bribery
                 cannot
                 be
                 denyed
                 a
                 deflourer
                 of
                 equity
                 ;
                 yet
                 remaining
                 more
                 palpable
                 in
                 referencd
                 to
                 detection
                 ,
                 it
                 may
                 not
                 happily
                 be
                 of
                 so
                 bad
                 a
                 consequence
                 ,
                 as
                 the
                 effects
                 of
                 the
                 more
                 uneasily
                 detected
                 propensities
                 ,
                 found
                 to
                 follow
                 the
                 
                 inclinations
                 of
                 
                   love
                   ,
                   fear
                
                 ,
                 or
                 hope
                 :
                 as
                 it
                 is
                 easily
                 deduced
                 from
                 the
                 practise
                 usual
                 in
                 
                   private
                   families
                
                 ,
                 where
                 a
                 
                   great
                   advantage
                
                 accrues
                 to
                 the
                 
                   first
                   Delator
                
                 ,
                 and
                 prejudice
                 to
                 the
                 
                   party
                   accused
                
                 ;
                 It
                 not
                 lying
                 in
                 the
                 
                   strength
                   of
                   vertue
                
                 ,
                 if
                 in
                 any
                 
                   agility
                   of
                   defence
                
                 ,
                 to
                 keep
                 a
                 person
                 immaculate
                 from
                 the
                 blurs
                 of
                 Calumny
                 ,
                 for
                 want
                 of
                 proof
                 ,
                 or
                 an
                 
                   indifferent
                   ear
                
                 ,
                 which
                 
                   superlative
                   powers
                
                 cannot
                 be
                 at
                 leasure
                 to
                 afford
                 .
                 Nor
                 is
                 the
                 advantage
                 to
                 be
                 drawn
                 from
                 two
                 
                   equall
                   Cabals
                
                 ,
                 better
                 discerned
                 ,
                 then
                 by
                 comparing
                 the
                 tempers
                 of
                 
                   King
                   James
                
                 his
                 Parliaments
                 with
                 those
                 holden
                 under
                 the
                 Queen
                 ;
                 for
                 the
                 first
                 ,
                 being
                 wholly
                 led
                 by
                 a
                 single
                 and
                 
                   passionate
                   affection
                
                 to
                 one
                 Minion
                 ,
                 lived
                 to
                 see
                 :
                 never
                 a
                 tolerable
                 Minister
                 relating
                 to
                 the
                 Crown
                 ,
                 or
                 any
                 in
                 Authority
                 so
                 resolute
                 ,
                 as
                 not
                 to
                 prefer
                 the
                 
                   Favorites
                   Command
                
                 before
                 his
                 Masters
                 ,
                 as
                 esteeming
                 the
                 frown
                 of
                 the
                 
                 last
                 more
                 deadly
                 .
                 Now
                 the
                 
                   huge
                   rate
                
                 set
                 upon
                 places
                 of
                 Judicature
                 ,
                 taught
                 Judges
                 to
                 sell
                 their
                 votes
                 ,
                 and
                 people
                 to
                 complain
                 :
                 Who
                 by
                 devouring
                 of
                 Instruments
                 ,
                 came
                 at
                 last
                 so
                 well
                 acquainted
                 with
                 their
                 own
                 strength
                 ,
                 as
                 not
                 to
                 spare
                 the
                 principall
                 ,
                 and
                 
                   first
                   cause
                
                 .
                 One
                 Concession
                 ever
                 crouding
                 room
                 for
                 a
                 greater
                 ,
                 if
                 not
                 a
                 more
                 unreasonable
                 demand
                 .
                 Whereas
                 such
                 instruments
                 of
                 State
                 as
                 
                   Queen
                   Eli●…beth
                
                 had
                 use
                 of
                 ,
                 being
                 strained
                 through
                 the
                 double
                 and
                 
                   contrary
                   Interests
                
                 of
                 a
                 
                   divided
                   party
                
                 ,
                 no
                 vertue
                 was
                 excluded
                 ,
                 or
                 
                   vice
                   admitted
                
                 ,
                 any
                 way
                 beneficiall
                 ,
                 or
                 of
                 prejudice
                 to
                 Prince
                 or
                 people
                 ;
                 contrary
                 to
                 the
                 custom
                 of
                 later
                 times
                 ,
                 wherein
                 the
                 most
                 
                   probable
                   designs
                
                 were
                 pinched
                 and
                 miscarried
                 ,
                 through
                 the
                 smalnesse
                 of
                 their
                 parts
                 were
                 imployed
                 to
                 keep
                 them
                 
                   on
                   foot
                
                 .
                 No
                 more
                 
                   solid
                   Reason
                
                 appearing
                 in
                 the
                 advancement
                 of
                 the
                 most
                 ,
                 but
                 Mony
                 or
                 favour
                 ;
                 
                 As
                 no
                 question
                 will
                 be
                 found
                 instanced
                 in
                 a
                 
                   prodigious
                   number
                
                 of
                 examples
                 ,
                 when
                 time
                 shall
                 have
                 
                   purchased
                   impunity
                
                 ,
                 for
                 the
                 
                   manifestation
                   of
                   truth
                
                 ;
                 not
                 so
                 likely
                 to
                 have
                 proved
                 the
                 result
                 of
                 a
                 
                   divided
                   Court
                
                 ,
                 where
                 the
                 creatures
                 of
                 one
                 were
                 the
                 enemies
                 of
                 an
                 other
                 ,
                 
                   no
                   lesse
                   powerfull
                
                 ;
                 and
                 so
                 they
                 both
                 became
                 lyable
                 to
                 accusation
                 ,
                 or
                 capable
                 of
                 defence
                 .
                 And
                 from
                 the
                 sparkles
                 of
                 this
                 clashing
                 ,
                 not
                 onely
                 persons
                 and
                 actions
                 ,
                 but
                 the
                 
                   Queens
                   Councils
                
                 came
                 to
                 be
                 refined
                 from
                 the
                 rust
                 and
                 Cankers
                 ,
                 that
                 after
                 grew
                 through
                 the
                 corruption
                 of
                 
                   forraign
                   coyn
                
                 ,
                 no
                 less
                 currant
                 at
                 Court
                 all
                 my
                 time
                 ,
                 then
                 pieces
                 of
                 two
                 and
                 twenty
                 shillings
                 ,
                 Jacobuses
                 themselves
                 .
                 Now
                 though
                 Monarchy
                 may
                 (
                 whether
                 out
                 of
                 perfection
                 or
                 defect
                 I
                 shall
                 not
                 here
                 dispute
                 )
                 make
                 use
                 of
                 this
                 Recipe
                 ,
                 it
                 seems
                 dangerous
                 ,
                 if
                 not
                 mortall
                 ,
                 in
                 reference
                 to
                 a
                 
                   freer
                   
                   Government
                
                 ,
                 where
                 the
                 least
                 siding
                 is
                 a
                 step
                 towards
                 Tyranny
                 :
                 the
                 
                   weakest
                   part
                
                 being
                 as
                 apt
                 to
                 call
                 ,
                 as
                 a
                 
                   potent
                   neighbour
                
                 may
                 be
                 to
                 come
                 and
                 assist
                 ,
                 upon
                 so
                 
                   advantagious
                   an
                   errand
                
                 .
                 All
                 disparities
                 or
                 contentions
                 ,
                 but
                 
                   meerly
                   rationall
                
                 and
                 in
                 reference
                 to
                 an
                 
                   universall
                   welfare
                
                 ,
                 tending
                 to
                 popularity
                 and
                 disunion
                 ,
                 wherefore
                 above
                 all
                 things
                 to
                 be
                 avoyded
                 .
                 Nor
                 is
                 any
                 
                   neer
                   dependance
                
                 upon
                 a
                 
                   forreign
                   Prince
                
                 ,
                 more
                 mighty
                 then
                 
                   themselves
                   ,
                   compatible
                
                 with
                 Liberty
                 :
                 Which
                 renders
                 lending
                 of
                 vast
                 Summs
                 little
                 less
                 dangerous
                 then
                 borrowing
                 .
                 And
                 through
                 which
                 the
                 
                   Catholique
                   King
                
                 may
                 one
                 day
                 attain
                 Genoa
                 ;
                 it
                 being
                 naturall
                 to
                 all
                 Creditors
                 to
                 favour
                 their
                 designs
                 that
                 owe
                 them
                 mony
                 ,
                 in
                 hope
                 of
                 Payment
                 ;
                 and
                 so
                 become
                 Traitors
                 to
                 the
                 generality
                 ,
                 out
                 of
                 the
                 desire
                 of
                 a
                 
                   particular
                   reimbursement
                
                 .
                 Such
                 folly
                 lyes
                 in
                 
                   many
                   Citizens
                
                 ,
                 as
                 they
                 preferre
                 
                 
                   destruction
                   in
                   grosse
                
                 ,
                 before
                 the
                 hazard
                 of
                 their
                 
                   private
                   Interests
                
                 .
              
               
                 But
                 when
                 Power
                 is
                 Monopolized
                 in
                 a
                 single
                 person
                 ,
                 Faction
                 can
                 be
                 
                   no
                   more
                   spared
                
                 ,
                 then
                 an
                 eye
                 or
                 an
                 
                   ear
                   .
                   Kings
                
                 for
                 the
                 generality
                 ,
                 out
                 of
                 Ignorance
                 in
                 the
                 world
                 ,
                 if
                 not
                 for
                 
                   want
                   of
                   wit
                
                 ,
                 or
                 too
                 much
                 Flattery
                 ,
                 being
                 unable
                 to
                 value
                 what
                 they
                 give
                 or
                 receive
                 ;
                 or
                 whether
                 they
                 gratisie
                 or
                 
                   depresse
                   vertue
                
                 or
                 vice
                 ,
                 especially
                 if
                 they
                 have
                 no
                 other
                 information
                 ,
                 but
                 what
                 is
                 deduced
                 from
                 a
                 Minion
                 ,
                 whose
                 judgement
                 is
                 no
                 less
                 clouded
                 through
                 Pride
                 ,
                 then
                 his
                 is
                 by
                 affection
                 ,
                 and
                 a
                 supposition
                 of
                 worth
                 and
                 abilities
                 not
                 really
                 present
                 ;
                 Such
                 Servants
                 owning
                 
                   contrary
                   interests
                
                 to
                 
                   their
                   Masters
                
                 ,
                 who
                 by
                 
                   bearing
                   the
                   charges
                
                 of
                 those
                 follies
                 they
                 daily
                 commit
                 ,
                 do
                 not
                 seldom
                 prove
                 Banckrupts
                 themselves
                 of
                 all
                 ought
                 to
                 be
                 esteemed
                 dear
                 in
                 Soveraignty
                 .
              
               
                 Nor
                 are
                 those
                 
                   single
                   Trustees
                
                 of
                 
                 the
                 
                   Royall
                   assent
                
                 ,
                 found
                 by
                 practise
                 so
                 impartiall
                 in
                 the
                 distribution
                 of
                 rewards
                 and
                 punishments
                 ,
                 but
                 that
                 they
                 diminish
                 by
                 the
                 first
                 ,
                 no
                 less
                 their
                 
                   Princes
                   Love
                
                 ,
                 then
                 they
                 augment
                 in
                 the
                 latter
                 the
                 
                   peoples
                   hatred
                
                 ;
                 which
                 an
                 
                   even
                   debate
                
                 would
                 so
                 far
                 Moderate
                 ,
                 as
                 to
                 give
                 such
                 satisfaction
                 as
                 might
                 preserve
                 the
                 generality
                 in
                 obedience
                 ,
                 by
                 nothing
                 so
                 soon
                 forseited
                 ,
                 as
                 a
                 
                   continued
                   succession
                
                 of
                 
                   cruell
                   punishments
                
                 ,
                 and
                 
                   unjust
                   Censures
                
                 .
                 I
                 remember
                 after
                 Felton
                 had
                 given
                 the
                 
                   fatall
                   blow
                
                 to
                 George
                 Duke
                 of
                 Buckingham
                 ,
                 one
                 Savil
                 ,
                 a
                 lusty
                 fellow
                 ,
                 formerly
                 burnt
                 in
                 the
                 Shoulder
                 for
                 a
                 Rogue
                 (
                 finding
                 how
                 acceptable
                 the
                 news
                 was
                 ,
                 where
                 ever
                 it
                 came
                 )
                 gave
                 out
                 ,
                 he
                 was
                 the
                 man
                 that
                 did
                 it
                 :
                 And
                 that
                 though
                 an
                 
                   honourable
                   persons
                   brother
                
                 ,
                 he
                 wanted
                 mony
                 to
                 convey
                 him
                 away
                 ;
                 upon
                 which
                 he
                 was
                 apprehended
                 ,
                 and
                 though
                 not
                 
                   worth
                   a
                   groat
                
                 ,
                 fined
                 a
                 
                 considerable
                 sum
                 in
                 the
                 Star-Chamber
                 ,
                 to
                 which
                 ,
                 the
                 
                   wisdom
                   ,
                   equity
                
                 and
                 justice
                 of
                 
                   that
                   Court
                
                 ,
                 added
                 (
                 because
                 they
                 wanted
                 power
                 to
                 hang
                 him
                 )
                 this
                 
                   Corporall
                   punishment
                   ,
                   viz.
                
                 That
                 he
                 should
                 be
                 whipped
                 from
                 the
                 Fleet
                 where
                 he
                 lay
                 prisoner
                 ,
                 to
                 the
                 Pilory
                 in
                 Westminster-palace-yard
                 ,
                 there
                 to
                 be
                 for
                 two
                 hours
                 nailed
                 ,
                 &
                 after
                 to
                 lose
                 one
                 ear
                 ,
                 have
                 his
                 nose
                 slit
                 ,
                 and
                 then
                 to
                 be
                 branded
                 in
                 the
                 forehead
                 ;
                 all
                 which
                 ,
                 as
                 long
                 as
                 the
                 
                   bowels
                   of
                   humanity
                   would
                   give
                   me
                   leave
                   ,
                
                 I
                 looked
                 upon
                 :
                 Nor
                 was
                 this
                 more
                 then
                 half
                 his
                 punishment
                 ,
                 as
                 much
                 being
                 to
                 be
                 done
                 to
                 him
                 in
                 Cheapside
                 ,
                 but
                 that
                 (
                 as
                 I
                 heard
                 )
                 the
                 King
                 more
                 charitable
                 then
                 his
                 Judges
                 ,
                 did
                 pardon
                 it
                 ;
                 Though
                 his
                 perpetuall
                 residence
                 in
                 Bridewell
                 was
                 not
                 remitted
                 ,
                 till
                 for
                 another
                 thing
                 (
                 some
                 thought
                 unlikely
                 to
                 be
                 done
                 under
                 such
                 a
                 restraint
                 )
                 he
                 was
                 hanged
                 at
                 Tiburn
                 .
                 I
                 had
                 not
                 touched
                 upon
                 
                 this
                 ,
                 as
                 relating
                 to
                 a
                 time
                 which
                 none
                 can
                 remember
                 without
                 being
                 agitated
                 by
                 envy
                 ,
                 or
                 grief
                 :
                 but
                 to
                 acquaint
                 posterity
                 ,
                 with
                 the
                 opinion
                 of
                 a
                 Lord
                 ,
                 looked
                 upon
                 as
                 the
                 wisest
                 for
                 counsell
                 ,
                 (
                 however
                 he
                 might
                 have
                 failed
                 in
                 reference
                 to
                 execution
                 )
                 in
                 his
                 time
                 :
                 Who
                 at
                 dinner
                 that
                 day
                 with
                 some
                 of
                 the
                 promoters
                 of
                 the
                 
                   fore-mentioned
                   Sentence
                
                 ,
                 said
                 ,
                 that
                 though
                 he
                 hoped
                 it
                 would
                 never
                 be
                 executed
                 ,
                 yet
                 it
                 grieved
                 him
                 ,
                 a
                 president
                 of
                 that
                 high
                 nature
                 should
                 remain
                 
                   upon
                   record
                
                 ,
                 no
                 less
                 to
                 the
                 dishonour
                 of
                 their
                 Mercy
                 ,
                 then
                 the
                 Justice
                 of
                 his
                 Majesty
                 ,
                 upon
                 
                   whose
                   scoreit
                
                 might
                 not
                 unpossibly
                 one
                 day
                 
                   lye
                   heavy
                
                 :
                 Nor
                 did
                 it
                 scape
                 the
                 notice
                 of
                 the
                 next
                 Parl.
                 as
                 any
                 may
                 find
                 ,
                 can
                 procure
                 a
                 sight
                 of
                 a
                 book
                 written
                 by
                 
                   Regall
                   autority
                
                 ,
                 wherein
                 the
                 Subject
                 was
                 prohibited
                 so
                 much
                 as
                 to
                 name
                 a
                 Parliament
                 ,
                 &c.
                 
                 But
                 the
                 conclusion
                 of
                 the
                 fore-mentioned
                 
                 prudent
                 Lord
                 ,
                 was
                 to
                 prove
                 ,
                 that
                 of
                 all
                 punishments
                 death
                 was
                 
                   soonest
                   forgotten
                
                 ;
                 whereas
                 Whipping
                 and
                 Pilory
                 were
                 
                   alwayes
                   remembred
                
                 :
                 from
                 whence
                 Governours
                 may
                 observe
                 ,
                 That
                 
                   the
                   greatest
                   Cruelty
                   is
                   exercised
                   by
                   Subjects
                   have
                   had
                   their
                   foundations
                   laid
                   in
                   pitty
                   .
                
                 Nor
                 can
                 this
                 digression
                 be
                 thought
                 impertinent
                 ,
                 by
                 those
                 shall
                 consider
                 ,
                 that
                 such
                 exorbitant
                 and
                 unnaturall
                 repetitions
                 of
                 Punishments
                 ,
                 were
                 strangers
                 during
                 the
                 domination
                 of
                 
                   two
                   equall
                   factions
                
                 .
                 Through
                 the
                 percussion
                 of
                 which
                 ,
                 like
                 Flint
                 and
                 Steel
                 ,
                 all
                 things
                 came
                 to
                 light
                 ,
                 which
                 these
                 pleas
                 might
                 advance
                 ,
                 or
                 Eclipse
                 the
                 glory
                 of
                 the
                 Prince
                 .
              
               
                 Nor
                 should
                 I
                 prosecute
                 this
                 Epidemicall
                 mischief
                 of
                 Favorites
                 ,
                 at
                 this
                 time
                 common
                 with
                 France
                 and
                 Spain
                 ,
                 but
                 to
                 answer
                 such
                 as
                 plead
                 for
                 it
                 :
                 Whom
                 I
                 have
                 heard
                 so
                 impudent
                 ,
                 as
                 to
                 alledge
                 the
                 example
                 
                 of
                 our
                 blessed
                 Saviour
                 ;
                 and
                 no
                 lesse
                 foolish
                 in
                 citing
                 the
                 autority
                 due
                 to
                 the
                 Prudence
                 of
                 Italy
                 ,
                 where
                 no
                 Pope
                 lives
                 without
                 a
                 Nephew
                 :
                 Forgetting
                 the
                 whole
                 management
                 of
                 the
                 Church
                 was
                 not
                 left
                 to
                 
                   Saint
                   John
                
                 ;
                 nor
                 the
                 wise
                 Conclave
                 swayed
                 by
                 his
                 
                   Holinesse
                   Kindred
                
                 ,
                 who
                 being
                 incircled
                 on
                 all
                 sides
                 with
                 enemies
                 ,
                 and
                 destitute
                 by
                 reason
                 of
                 his
                 
                   elective
                   honour
                
                 ,
                 of
                 any
                 
                   hereditary
                   friendship
                
                 ,
                 cannot
                 
                   in
                   Reason
                
                 provide
                 better
                 for
                 his
                 safety
                 ,
                 against
                 the
                 dangers
                 have
                 for
                 many
                 Ages
                 waited
                 upon
                 the
                 Table
                 and
                 Cup
                 of
                 the
                 Pope
                 ,
                 then
                 by
                 raising
                 a
                 person
                 to
                 so
                 
                   high
                   a
                   dignity
                
                 about
                 him
                 ,
                 as
                 may
                 transcend
                 any
                 preferments
                 likely
                 to
                 be
                 offered
                 by
                 an
                 enemy
                 .
                 The
                 cause
                 he
                 that
                 is
                 stiled
                 his
                 Nephew
                 ,
                 values
                 his
                 preservation
                 equally
                 with
                 
                   his
                   owne
                
                 .
                 And
                 he
                 that
                 shall
                 
                 yet
                 seek
                 further
                 satisfaction
                 ,
                 may
                 finde
                 it
                 in
                 the
                 unhappy
                 management
                 of
                 such
                 Princes
                 affairs
                 ,
                 as
                 have
                 suffered
                 themselves
                 to
                 be
                 ingrossed
                 by
                 Minions
                 ,
                 taken
                 onely
                 upon
                 the
                 bare
                 recommendations
                 of
                 their
                 
                   private
                   Affections
                
                 .
              
            
             
               
               
                 It
                 is
                 the
                 condition
                 of
                 those
                 in
                 Power
                 to
                 be
                 guided
                 by
                 Servants
                 .
              
               
                 THey
                 say
                 of
                 the
                 Whale
                 that
                 she
                 is
                 steered
                 in
                 her
                 course
                 through
                 the
                 guidance
                 of
                 a
                 far
                 
                   smaller
                   Fish
                
                 ,
                 and
                 a
                 lesser
                 then
                 that
                 is
                 reported
                 to
                 alter
                 the
                 Naturall
                 gale
                 of
                 a
                 Ship
                 ;
                 looked
                 upon
                 as
                 wonders
                 in
                 the
                 deep
                 ,
                 though
                 few
                 things
                 are
                 more
                 usuall
                 and
                 Familiar
                 upon
                 Land.
                 All
                 our
                 State
                 -
                 Leviathans
                 being
                 so
                 far
                 guided
                 by
                 their
                 
                   Servants
                   ,
                   Wives
                   ,
                   Mistresses
                
                 or
                 Favorites
                 ,
                 that
                 in
                 a
                 true
                 sense
                 there
                 is
                 no
                 Monarchy
                 ,
                 all
                 things
                 for
                 the
                 most
                 part
                 succeeding
                 according
                 to
                 the
                 perswasions
                 of
                 others
                 ,
                 if
                 not
                 contrary
                 to
                 the
                 will
                 of
                 the
                 Prince
                 :
                 A
                 Mischief
                 not
                 to
                 be
                 quite
                 obviated
                 ,
                 but
                 at
                 the
                 perill
                 of
                 falling
                 into
                 Obstinacy
                 ,
                 (
                 as
                 great
                 if
                 
                 not
                 a
                 more
                 prejudiciall
                 extream
                 )
                 nor
                 hath
                 any
                 King
                 under
                 my
                 experience
                 ,
                 been
                 able
                 to
                 drive
                 on
                 his
                 Affayres
                 ,
                 without
                 grating
                 upon
                 one
                 of
                 these
                 excesses
                 .
                 So
                 as
                 a
                 Nation
                 like
                 that
                 of
                 Egypt
                 ,
                 is
                 not
                 seldome
                 governed
                 by
                 a
                 Stranger
                 or
                 a
                 Jew
                 .
                 There
                 being
                 no
                 such
                 thing
                 in
                 an
                 unlimited
                 sense
                 ,
                 as
                 an
                 
                   Absolute
                   Government
                
                 ,
                 or
                 if
                 possible
                 to
                 be
                 found
                 ,
                 it
                 must
                 be
                 in
                 that
                 as
                 improperly
                 stiled
                 Free.
                 Which
                 proves
                 there
                 is
                 no
                 reall
                 Liberty
                 ,
                 or
                 Power
                 totally
                 Arbitrary
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 nature
                 of
                 Things
                 .
                 For
                 though
                 the
                 Incomparable
                 Prudence
                 of
                 the
                 
                   State
                   of
                   Venice
                
                 ,
                 hath
                 compounded
                 for
                 most
                 of
                 the
                 errours
                 committed
                 by
                 the
                 Senators
                 of
                 Carthage
                 ;
                 And
                 Queen-Elizabeth
                 shunned
                 the
                 greatest
                 Rocks
                 of
                 Tyranny
                 (
                 though
                 as
                 free
                 from
                 compulsion
                 ,
                 as
                 ever
                 any
                 Prince
                 stood
                 ;
                 )
                 yet
                 the
                 Jurisdiction
                 of
                 either
                 was
                 as
                 remote
                 from
                 being
                 purely
                 or
                 totally
                 Absolute
                 ,
                 as
                 
                 the
                 condition
                 of
                 their
                 Subjects
                 is
                 uncapable
                 of
                 the
                 name
                 of
                 Freedom
                 .
                 They
                 being
                 both
                 too
                 inestimable
                 Jewels
                 to
                 be
                 intrusted
                 with
                 
                   passion
                   ,
                   single
                
                 ,
                 and
                 without
                 any
                 mediation
                 from
                 Counsell
                 or
                 Law.
                 I
                 confess
                 the
                 
                   Grand
                   Signior
                
                 can
                 strangle
                 whom
                 he
                 please
                 ;
                 but
                 it
                 is
                 seldom
                 done
                 at
                 his
                 own
                 suit
                 ,
                 no
                 more
                 then
                 any
                 desert
                 is
                 gratified
                 :
                 I
                 my self
                 have
                 known
                 many
                 ,
                 so
                 far
                 Strangers
                 to
                 what
                 was
                 convenient
                 ,
                 as
                 they
                 would
                 scarce
                 concede
                 or
                 deny
                 any
                 thing
                 ,
                 out
                 of
                 the
                 presence
                 of
                 their
                 Secretary
                 .
                 And
                 this
                 proceeded
                 not
                 seldom
                 from
                 a
                 distrust
                 there
                 was
                 no
                 cause
                 for
                 :
                 Manifest
                 in
                 the
                 Earl
                 of
                 Somerset
                 ,
                 who
                 though
                 himself
                 owner
                 of
                 a
                 competent
                 sufficiency
                 ,
                 was
                 so
                 Inchanted
                 with
                 an
                 opinion
                 of
                 Sir
                 
                   Thomas
                   Overburies
                
                 parts
                 ,
                 that
                 he
                 preferred
                 him
                 from
                 a
                 Servant
                 to
                 such
                 an
                 intimate
                 friendship
                 ,
                 as
                 he
                 could
                 think
                 nothing
                 well-educated
                 
                 for
                 imployment
                 in
                 his
                 Office
                 ,
                 that
                 had
                 not
                 passed
                 his
                 Correction
                 ,
                 nor
                 secret
                 safe
                 laid
                 up
                 ,
                 but
                 in
                 his
                 Bosom
                 :
                 which
                 swelled
                 him
                 to
                 such
                 a
                 Monstrosity
                 in
                 pride
                 ,
                 that
                 I
                 have
                 heard
                 (
                 not
                 being
                 my self
                 then
                 neer
                 the
                 
                   English
                   Court
                
                 )
                 how
                 he
                 offered
                 to
                 rant
                 at
                 his
                 Servants
                 ,
                 and
                 did
                 once
                 beat
                 the
                 Coach-man
                 ;
                 for
                 putting
                 his
                 Commands
                 under
                 an
                 inferiour
                 expostulation
                 to
                 his
                 Masters
                 .
                 And
                 through
                 this
                 intolerable
                 arrogance
                 in
                 him
                 ,
                 and
                 remissness
                 in
                 the
                 Earl
                 ,
                 the
                 sparks
                 first
                 flew
                 ,
                 that
                 kindled
                 the
                 ruine
                 of
                 them
                 both
                 :
                 friendship
                 being
                 no
                 more
                 able
                 to
                 maintain
                 its
                 interest
                 against
                 a
                 
                   feminine
                   Affection
                
                 ,
                 then
                 so
                 great
                 a
                 Pride
                 was
                 to
                 confine
                 it self
                 within
                 the
                 tedder
                 of
                 Moderation
                 .
                 The
                 Minions
                 of
                 my
                 time
                 (
                 an
                 epidemicall
                 mischief
                 over
                 all
                 the
                 great
                 Nations
                 of
                 Christendom
                 where
                 Monarchy
                 swayes
                 )
                 did
                 ,
                 during
                 that
                 Fortune
                 ,
                 so
                 far
                 transcend
                 
                 their
                 
                   Patrons
                   felicity
                
                 ,
                 as
                 they
                 could
                 gratifie
                 all
                 the
                 rest
                 of
                 their
                 Passions
                 (
                 quite
                 exempt
                 from
                 fear
                 or
                 danger
                 )
                 being
                 screened
                 from
                 both
                 by
                 the
                 person
                 of
                 their
                 Prince
                 ,
                 whom
                 in
                 reason
                 they
                 ought
                 to
                 defend
                 ;
                 It
                 having
                 been
                 often
                 averred
                 in
                 my
                 experience
                 ,
                 that
                 all
                 the
                 Kings
                 I
                 have
                 known
                 ,
                 were
                 found
                 to
                 do
                 more
                 for
                 their
                 Favorites
                 ,
                 then
                 they
                 could
                 be
                 tempted
                 to
                 have
                 done
                 for
                 themselves
                 .
                 Which
                 may
                 serve
                 for
                 a
                 proof
                 of
                 this
                 Assertion
                 ,
                 
                   that
                   
                     the
                     greatest
                     are
                     not
                     Free
                     ,
                     but
                     led
                     intriumph
                     by
                     the
                     Affections
                     of
                     others
                     ,
                     through
                     the
                     mediation
                     of
                     their
                     own
                     ,
                  
                
                 by
                 which
                 means
                 Women
                 come
                 to
                 Govern
                 ,
                 and
                 Children
                 to
                 dispose
                 of
                 Common-wealths
                 .
                 And
                 thus
                 the
                 hand
                 of
                 Providence
                 ,
                 though
                 steady
                 in
                 it self
                 ,
                 doth
                 out
                 of
                 a
                 desire
                 to
                 appear
                 various
                 (
                 and
                 so
                 more
                 beautifull
                 )
                 not
                 onely
                 remove
                 the
                 great
                 men
                 ,
                 but
                 the
                 paunes
                 so
                 occultly
                 ,
                 
                 in
                 this
                 huge
                 Chesse-board
                 of
                 the
                 world
                 ,
                 as
                 they
                 seem
                 to
                 our
                 giddy
                 apprehensions
                 ,
                 to
                 be
                 dandled
                 in
                 the
                 Lap
                 of
                 a
                 contingent
                 Successe
                 .
                 Though
                 good
                 or
                 bad
                 Luck
                 are
                 meerly
                 Imaginary
                 ,
                 like
                 the
                 Articke
                 and
                 Antarticke
                 Poles
                 ,
                 on
                 which
                 the
                 world
                 ,
                 as
                 on
                 the
                 two
                 ends
                 of
                 an
                 Axletree
                 ,
                 are
                 feigned
                 to
                 depend
                 .
                 Wherefore
                 the
                 apparent
                 Reason
                 why
                 great
                 men
                 are
                 ruled
                 by
                 more
                 obscure
                 fools
                 ,
                 is
                 want
                 of
                 Judgement
                 or
                 Sufficiency
                 .
                 The
                 hidden
                 Justice
                 of
                 God
                 upon
                 the
                 Nation
                 in
                 generall
                 ,
                 or
                 persons
                 in
                 particular
                 ,
                 who
                 are
                 naturally
                 unworthy
                 through
                 disobedience
                 ,
                 or
                 have
                 rendred
                 themselves
                 so
                 ,
                 by
                 a
                 Male-administration
                 of
                 Affairs
                 :
                 The
                 cause
                 their
                 Power
                 is
                 shared
                 with
                 meaner
                 People
                 ,
                 first
                 sought
                 to
                 in
                 all
                 Suits
                 incident
                 to
                 their
                 Places
                 .
                 And
                 this
                 Custom
                 hath
                 brought
                 into
                 such
                 
                 credit
                 amongst
                 men
                 ,
                 as
                 forgetting
                 how
                 much
                 it
                 savours
                 of
                 weakness
                 ,
                 they
                 labour
                 to
                 make
                 it
                 Necessary
                 in
                 the
                 
                   Court
                   of
                   Heaven
                
                 .
                 As
                 if
                 God
                 were
                 more
                 Importuned
                 ,
                 or
                 less
                 affected
                 by
                 our
                 immediate
                 Addresses
                 ,
                 then
                 when
                 we
                 offer'd
                 our
                 Prayers
                 through
                 the
                 intercession
                 of
                 the
                 
                   blessed
                   Virgin
                
                 ,
                 or
                 some
                 other
                 Saint
                 :
                 Consonant
                 to
                 a
                 Memorable
                 Answer
                 to
                 a
                 Catholick
                 ,
                 made
                 by
                 
                   King
                   James
                
                 ,
                 
                   That
                   the
                   Ruler
                   of
                   all
                   things
                   was
                   not
                   subject
                   to
                   dote
                   like
                   him
                   .
                
              
               
                 Yet
                 wise
                 men
                 Govern
                 in
                 their
                 own
                 persons
                 ,
                 as
                 Ioseph
                 is
                 said
                 to
                 rule
                 Egypt
                 ;
                 for
                 had
                 not
                 his
                 Servants
                 used
                 to
                 afford
                 more
                 obedience
                 then
                 advice
                 ,
                 so
                 dishonest
                 an
                 action
                 in
                 outward
                 appearance
                 ,
                 could
                 never
                 have
                 passed
                 without
                 expostulation
                 ,
                 as
                 the
                 putting
                 the
                 Cup
                 in
                 
                   Benjamins
                   Sack.
                
                 To
                 end
                 this
                 Discourse
                 ,
                 nothing
                 plausible
                 
                 ought
                 to
                 be
                 referred
                 to
                 a
                 Servant's
                 dispatch
                 ,
                 nor
                 that
                 whichis
                 less
                 Popular
                 done
                 by
                 a
                 Master
                 ;
                 since
                 he
                 that
                 is
                 used
                 to
                 rake
                 in
                 dirt
                 must
                 imploy
                 an
                 Instrument
                 ,
                 lest
                 the
                 filth
                 should
                 stick
                 too
                 apparently
                 on
                 his
                 fingers
                 .
                 Thus
                 Princes
                 juggle
                 by
                 Confederacy
                 ,
                 whilest
                 meaner
                 men
                 rule
                 in
                 their
                 own
                 persons
                 .
              
            
             
               FINIS
               .