A comparatiue discourse of the bodies natural and politique VVherein out of the principles of nature, is set forth the true forme of a commonweale, with the dutie of subiects, and right of soueraigne: together with many good points of politicall learning, mentioned in a briefe after the preface. By Edvvard Forset.
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             A comparatiue discourse of the bodies natural and politique VVherein out of the principles of nature, is set forth the true forme of a commonweale, with the dutie of subiects, and right of soueraigne: together with many good points of politicall learning, mentioned in a briefe after the preface. By Edvvard Forset.
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           A
           COMPARATIVE
           DISCOVRSE
           OF
           THE
           BODIES
           NATVRAL
           AND
           POLITIQVE
           .
           Wherein
           out
           of
           the
           principles
           of
           Nature
           ,
           is
           set
           forth
           the
           true
           forme
           of
           a
           Commonweale
           ,
           with
           the
           dutie
           of
           Subiects
           ,
           and
           the
           right
           of
           the
           Soueraigne
           :
           together
           with
           many
           good
           points
           of
           Politicall
           learning
           ,
           mentioned
           in
           a
           Briefe
           after
           the
           Preface
           .
        
         
           By
           EDVVARD
           FORSET
           .
        
         
           LONDON
           ,
           Printed
           for
           Iohn
           Bill
           .
           1606.
           
        
      
       
         
         
         
           To
           the
           Reader
           .
        
         
           THe
           Commonweale
           with
           all
           her
           parts
           ,
           
           orders
           ,
           qualities
           ,
           and
           requisites
           whatsoeuer
           ,
           is
           (
           for
           better
           apprehension
           &
           illustration
           )
           set
           forth
           by
           sundry
           fit
           resemblances
           ,
           as
           by
           the
           architecture
           of
           an
           house
           ,
           by
           the
           swarming
           and
           cohabiting
           of
           Bees
           in
           an
           hiue
           ,
           by
           a
           ship
           floating
           on
           the
           sea
           ,
           and
           such
           like
           ;
           but
           by
           none
           more
           properly
           than
           eyther
           by
           the
           vniuersall
           masse
           of
           the
           whole
           world
           ,
           (
           consisting
           of
           all
           the
           seuerall
           subsistances
           in
           that
           great
           frame
           by
           the
           high
           wisdome
           and
           might
           of
           God
           compact
           and
           vnited
           )
           or
           else
           by
           the
           body
           of
           man
           ,
           being
           the
           lesser
           world
           ,
           
           euen
           the
           diminitiue
           and
           modell
           of
           that
           wide
           extending
           vniuersall
           .
           And
           (
           by
           the
           way
           )
           it
           were
           a
           paynes
           well
           bestowed
           ,
           to
           obserue
           the
           good
           correspondence
           betweene
           euery
           the
           particular
           parts
           or
           faculties
           in
           man
           ,
           and
           the
           other
           distinct
           parts
           ,
           powers
           ,
           and
           operations
           of
           that
           bigger
           bulke
           :
           which
           seemeth
           to
           haue
           beene
           both
           sweetly
           and
           soundly
           conceaued
           by
           that
           thrice
           renowmed
           Philosopher
           
             Trismegistus
             ,
          
           
           when
           he
           imagined
           an
           huge
           and
           mightie
           Gyant
           ,
           whose
           head
           was
           aboue
           
           the
           firmament
           ,
           his
           necke
           ,
           shoulders
           ,
           and
           vpper
           parts
           in
           the
           heauens
           ,
           his
           armes
           and
           hands
           reaching
           to
           East
           and
           West
           ,
           his
           belly
           in
           the
           whole
           spaciousnesse
           vnder
           the
           Moone
           ,
           his
           legges
           and
           feet
           within
           the
           earth
           .
           But
           for
           that
           the
           discourse
           or
           discouery
           of
           this
           secret
           ,
           with
           the
           agreeable
           references
           to
           arise
           therof
           ,
           falleth
           not
           within
           the
           line
           wherwith
           I
           haue
           listed
           and
           bounded
           this
           Treatise
           ;
           I
           wil
           only
           from
           this
           obseruation
           of
           Gods
           owne
           imitating
           of
           himselfe
           in
           the
           likenesse
           of
           the
           lesse
           with
           the
           greater
           ,
           
           gather
           and
           infer
           that
           which
           giueth
           groundworke
           vnto
           my
           purpose
           :
           That
           the
           incōprehensible
           wisdome
           of
           God
           ,
           in
           the
           composing
           &
           ordering
           of
           his
           works
           in
           nature
           ,
           hath
           so
           dignified
           them
           with
           all
           perfection
           ,
           as
           that
           they
           be
           left
           vnto
           vs
           as
           eminent
           and
           exemplary
           patterns
           ,
           as
           well
           for
           the
           consolidating
           ,
           as
           for
           the
           beautifying
           of
           that
           wee
           worke
           by
           arte
           or
           policie
           ;
           as
           well
           for
           conioyning
           of
           all
           discordances
           into
           firmenesse
           ,
           as
           also
           for
           the
           applyablenesse
           of
           particulars
           in
           their
           many
           seruices
           ,
           for
           the
           vse
           and
           benifit
           of
           the
           whole
           .
           It
           is
           beyond
           the
           compasse
           of
           any
           contradiction
           ,
           that
           in
           the
           morall
           vertues
           Christes
           actions
           are
           our
           instructions
           ;
           and
           no
           lesse
           may
           the
           like
           rule
           hold
           ,
           that
           in
           the
           contriuing
           of
           a
           prudent
           gouernment
           ,
           the
           impressions
           and
           footsteps
           of
           Gods
           wisdome
           (
           which
           in
           things
           naturall
           wee
           contemplate
           by
           study
           )
           be
           in
           the
           poynt
           of
           regiment
           ,
           our
           directories
           for
           imitation
           .
           Wherefore
           seeing
           that
           the
           vttermost
           extent
           of
           mans
           vnderstanding
           ,
           can
           shape
           no
           better
           forme
           of
           ordering
           the
           affayres
           of
           a
           State
           ,
           than
           by
           marking
           and
           matching
           of
           the
           workes
           of
           the
           finger
           of
           God
           ,
           eyther
           in
           the
           larger
           volume
           of
           the
           vniuersall
           ,
           or
           in
           the
           abridgement
           thereof
           ,
           the
           body
           of
           man
           :
           I
           account
           these
           two
           to
           be
           the
           two
           great
           lights
           for
           enquiry
           and
           meditation
           concerning
           this
           businesse
           ,
           and
           doe
           worthily
           omit
           all
           other
           worthlesse
           presidents
           ,
           as
           inferiour
           starrelights
           ,
           which
           oftentimes
           seduceth
           
           by
           their
           dimnesse
           ,
           and
           at
           their
           best
           are
           but
           deriuatiue
           and
           subalterne
           vnto
           these
           .
           And
           of
           these
           two
           also
           (
           as
           not
           daring
           to
           gaze
           too
           much
           vpon
           the
           Sunne
           ,
           
           and
           vnable
           in
           mine
           own
           weakenesse
           to
           run
           the
           round
           of
           such
           a
           large
           cōpasse
           )
           I
           haue
           made
           my
           choyce
           to
           pursue
           only
           those
           applyances
           ,
           which
           from
           the
           so
           skilfull
           workemanship
           of
           God
           in
           man
           ,
           may
           bee
           well
           apted
           to
           the
           ciuill
           gouernment
           of
           the
           assemblies
           of
           men
           :
           which
           being
           of
           more
           facilitie
           to
           bee
           vnderstood
           (
           as
           deduced
           from
           a
           more
           familiar
           example
           )
           and
           equalling
           the
           other
           both
           in
           dignitie
           (
           hauing
           the
           same
           authour
           )
           and
           in
           certayntie
           (
           respecting
           the
           fitnesse
           of
           their
           relation
           )
           may
           also
           sort
           both
           agreeably
           with
           other
           mens
           likings
           (
           as
           bred
           in
           their
           bosomes
           )
           and
           with
           mine
           intentions
           ,
           which
           seeketh
           wholy
           a
           demonstratiue
           plainenesse
           .
        
         
           This
           similitude
           was
           both
           fitly
           and
           fortunatly
           enforced
           by
           
             Menenius
             Agrippa
             ,
          
           
           who
           being
           imployed
           in
           the
           appeasing
           and
           persuading
           of
           the
           seditious
           reuoulting
           commons
           of
           Rome
           ,
           did
           by
           a
           very
           tale
           of
           this
           proportionable
           respectiuenes
           of
           the
           parts
           in
           mans
           body
           ,
           and
           the
           mutualitie
           of
           kindnes
           and
           ayd
           afforded
           from
           each
           to
           other
           ,
           so
           sensibly
           shew
           them
           their
           errour
           ,
           that
           surseasing
           their
           malignant
           enuy
           wherewith
           they
           were
           inraged
           against
           their
           rulers
           (
           whom
           they
           accounted
           as
           the
           idle
           belly
           that
           swallowed
           the
           labors
           of
           their
           hands
           )
           they
           discerned
           at
           the
           last
           ,
           that
           their
           repining
           against
           ,
           and
           their
           pining
           of
           that
           belly
           ,
           whence
           was
           distributed
           vnto
           them
           their
           bloud
           and
           nourishment
           ,
           necessarily
           tended
           to
           their
           owne
           destruction
           ;
           and
           were
           thereuppon
           forthwith
           reclaymed
           into
           their
           bounds
           of
           obedience
           .
           The
           like
           comparison
           is
           most
           diuinely
           enlarged
           by
           a
           much
           better
           Orator
           ,
           
           and
           in
           a
           much
           more
           important
           poynt
           of
           the
           vnseparable
           vnion
           of
           the
           members
           of
           Christ
           with
           their
           head
           ,
           and
           of
           the
           necessary
           communion
           of
           their
           distinct
           gifts
           and
           works
           amongst
           
           themselues
           ;
           yea
           ,
           it
           hath
           pleased
           God
           himselfe
           for
           the
           manifestation
           in
           some
           measure
           of
           his
           vnmeasurable
           infinitenesse
           ,
           &
           the
           incomprehensible
           nature
           of
           his
           dietie
           ,
           to
           vouchsafe
           vnto
           vs
           as
           it
           were
           some
           glimse
           thereof
           ,
           by
           this
           selfe
           same
           well
           agreeing
           semblance
           ,
           drawne
           and
           borrowed
           from
           our
           weak
           ,
           mortall
           ,
           and
           sinfull
           bodies
           .
           His
           omni-science
           is
           set
           forth
           by
           an
           all-seeing
           eye
           ,
           his
           omnipotencie
           by
           a
           mightie
           and
           outstretched
           arme
           ,
           his
           mercy
           by
           the
           cheerefulnesse
           of
           a
           louing
           countenance
           ,
           his
           bountie
           by
           the
           opening
           of
           his
           hand
           ,
           and
           filling
           of
           all
           things
           with
           his
           blessings
           :
           by
           which
           so
           apt
           tipes
           he
           openeth
           for
           our
           more
           easie
           vnderstanding
           ,
           the
           profoundnesse
           of
           his
           attributes
           ,
           and
           (
           as
           I
           may
           say
           )
           the
           mysteries
           of
           his
           essence
           .
        
         
           I
           need
           not
           spend
           any
           speech
           in
           the
           praise
           of
           such
           familiar
           and
           well
           pleasing
           illustrations
           :
           
           looke
           but
           vpon
           that
           exsuperant
           and
           not
           attainable
           by
           humane
           powers
           wisdome
           of
           
             Salomon
             ,
          
           is
           not
           the
           brightest
           apparance
           thereof
           in
           comparatiue
           parables
           ?
           but
           behold
           a
           greater
           than
           
             Salomon
             ,
          
           who
           without
           parables
           spake
           nothing
           to
           them
           ;
           as
           if
           both
           the
           depth
           and
           delicacie
           of
           wits
           inuention
           for
           either
           prouing
           or
           persuading
           ,
           consisted
           chiefely
           in
           such
           equipolling
           and
           Parabolicall
           applications
           .
           It
           remayneth
           that
           before
           I
           proceed
           to
           the
           producing
           or
           presenting
           vpon
           the
           Stage
           of
           State
           the
           similitudes
           themselues
           ,
           to
           be
           scanned
           and
           considered
           of
           ,
           (
           which
           I
           wish
           may
           proue
           themselues
           right
           paralele
           )
           I
           do
           for
           aduantage
           enterline
           first
           a
           Caution
           ,
           then
           a
           Limitation
           :
           My
           Caution
           is
           ,
           
           That
           no
           man
           in
           streyning
           too
           hard
           ,
           do
           force
           the
           bloud
           ,
           where
           he
           is
           offered
           milke
           .
           It
           is
           easie
           for
           a
           curious
           obiector
           ,
           euen
           in
           the
           fittest
           comparisons
           to
           make
           disseuerance
           by
           inferring
           different
           respects
           and
           inequallitie
           .
           The
           dissimilitudes
           of
           things
           be
           infinite
           ,
           and
           rometh
           with
           errour
           in
           the
           circumference
           ,
           where
           the
           well
           apted
           likenesse
           setleth
           in
           
           the
           center
           of
           truth
           ,
           and
           is
           compacted
           closely
           in
           one
           onely
           point
           of
           good
           congruitie
           ,
           from
           the
           which
           it
           may
           neither
           be
           drawne
           awry
           without
           wrongfull
           wresting
           ,
           nor
           enlarged
           too
           far
           without
           extreame
           torturing
           .
           It
           is
           the
           greatest
           miracle
           of
           Gods
           powerfull
           wisdome
           ,
           in
           the
           innumerable
           formes
           of
           things
           ,
           to
           make
           so
           infinite
           variation
           ;
           Then
           it
           must
           needs
           be
           a
           great
           worke
           of
           the
           wit
           of
           man
           ,
           in
           such
           multiplicitie
           of
           disference
           to
           find
           out
           the
           well
           agreeing
           semblances
           ,
           To
           knit
           and
           match
           together
           sundry
           things
           by
           an
           aptnesse
           of
           application
           ,
           is
           the
           proper
           effect
           of
           vnion
           ;
           but
           to
           disioyne
           the
           well
           coupled
           from
           their
           louely
           analogie
           of
           each
           to
           other
           ,
           is
           a
           violent
           diuorce
           and
           distraction
           :
           Therefore
           let
           such
           makebates
           (
           if
           any
           be
           )
           abate
           their
           humor
           of
           crossing
           with
           dissimilitudes
           ,
           &
           content
           their
           conceits
           with
           that
           which
           they
           shall
           discerne
           to
           be
           matched
           with
           a
           right
           mirror
           ,
           and
           representingly
           expressed
           by
           the
           shew
           of
           a
           good
           concordance
           .
        
         
           My
           Limitation
           is
           ,
           
           That
           it
           be
           not
           exacted
           or
           expected
           of
           me
           ,
           so
           mincingly
           to
           manage
           this
           matter
           ,
           as
           that
           vnto
           euery
           particuler
           part
           or
           facultie
           of
           our
           humane
           nature
           ,
           I
           must
           needs
           find
           out
           in
           the
           States
           bodie
           some
           seuerall
           members
           or
           braunches
           entirely
           matchable
           to
           the
           same
           ;
           like
           a
           picture
           to
           be
           newly
           drawne
           by
           a
           former
           patterne
           ,
           conforming
           therewith
           in
           euery
           line
           ,
           shape
           ,
           or
           shadow
           .
           We
           vse
           to
           say
           that
           one
           man
           is
           like
           an
           other
           ,
           if
           but
           the
           faces
           ,
           yea
           the
           colours
           or
           figures
           ,
           yea
           the
           frownes
           or
           smyles
           ,
           yea
           the
           casting
           of
           the
           eyes
           ,
           or
           any
           other
           shewes
           in
           their
           visages
           doe
           seeme
           to
           agree
           ,
           though
           in
           other
           respects
           or
           parts
           there
           be
           betwixt
           them
           rather
           apparant
           repugnances
           ,
           than
           any
           right
           resemblances
           ;
           Then
           let
           no
           man
           think
           that
           I
           will
           so
           be
           put
           to
           my
           shifts
           ,
           or
           that
           I
           will
           impose
           my selfe
           so
           hard
           a
           taske
           ,
           as
           (
           by
           descending
           to
           each
           singuler
           or
           indiuiduall
           )
           to
           find
           for
           it
           an
           euen
           yoak-fellow
           ,
           or
           well
           matching
           companion
           ,
           that
           may
           
           serue
           as
           a
           relatiue
           or
           representatiue
           vnto
           it
           ,
           by
           the
           aptnesse
           of
           propriety
           :
           The
           which
           labour
           as
           it
           would
           be
           endlesse
           in
           toile
           ,
           so
           would
           it
           be
           no
           lesse
           needlesse
           in
           vse
           ;
           and
           I
           hope
           it
           will
           suffice
           ,
           so
           to
           compare
           or
           make
           parity
           betweene
           the
           bodies
           Naturall
           and
           Politique
           ,
           that
           each
           part
           may
           be
           brought
           in
           rather
           easilie
           entreated
           ,
           than
           streiningly
           intruded
           ;
           and
           rather
           agreeing
           naturally
           ,
           than
           forced
           violently
           .
           Therefore
           omitting
           all
           industrious
           curiousity
           ,
           and
           friuolous
           affectation
           of
           following
           too
           far
           (
           where
           yet
           I
           must
           needs
           fall
           short
           ;
           )
           I
           onely
           desire
           ,
           that
           where
           I
           shall
           shew
           a
           reciprocall
           likenesse
           of
           habitude
           ,
           affection
           ,
           or
           disposition
           ;
           there
           the
           similitude
           may
           passe
           approued
           ,
           and
           induce
           assent
           :
           and
           that
           where
           these
           may
           not
           readily
           be
           had
           ,
           there
           I
           may
           find
           such
           curteous
           construction
           ,
           as
           that
           I
           may
           neither
           be
           charged
           with
           partiality
           of
           concealing
           (
           where
           it
           is
           meet
           I
           should
           be
           mute
           )
           nor
           be
           suspected
           of
           vnsufficiencie
           for
           not
           pursuing
           where
           I
           can
           find
           no
           footing
           .
        
         
           It
           is
           vnfallable
           what
           I
           propound
           for
           my
           first
           principle
           ,
           That
           in
           euery
           particular
           person
           ,
           there
           is
           both
           the
           seed
           and
           similitude
           of
           a
           State
           incorporat
           ,
           yet
           to
           imagine
           or
           seeke
           for
           in
           each
           seuered
           or
           subdeuided
           parts
           ,
           such
           affinitie
           and
           fitnesse
           betwixt
           them
           ,
           as
           may
           mutually
           illustrate
           each
           other
           ;
           were
           not
           to
           tune
           but
           to
           crack
           the
           strings
           ,
           and
           to
           make
           
             quidlibet
             ex
             quodlibet
             ,
          
           or
           ,
           
             ex
             quouis
             ligno
             Mercurium
             .
          
           Modestie
           and
           discretion
           bindeth
           vs
           to
           a
           stint
           ,
           beyond
           the
           which
           if
           we
           shall
           stretch
           or
           streine
           ,
           
           we
           may
           iustly
           be
           said
           to
           haue
           borrowed
           of
           the
           wyer-drawers
           :
           we
           must
           not
           compell
           our
           applications
           there
           to
           shake
           hands
           and
           embrace
           ,
           where
           discrepance
           of
           nature
           hath
           estranged
           and
           set
           apart
           .
           Were
           it
           not
           ridiculous
           for
           absurditie
           ,
           and
           blasphemous
           for
           impietie
           ,
           if
           in
           that
           serious
           similitude
           of
           Christs
           comming
           to
           Iudgement
           like
           a
           theefe
           in
           the
           night
           ,
           we
           should
           
           (
           beyond
           the
           ge●●inall
           agreeablenesse
           of
           their
           vnlooked
           for
           stealing
           vpon
           vs
           )
           in
           other
           most
           vngodly
           sences
           linke
           in
           Christ
           in
           likenesse
           with
           a
           theefe
           ?
           Or
           if
           that
           other
           notable
           parable
           of
           the
           vniust
           Steward
           ,
           were
           (
           from
           the
           commendation
           of
           his
           prouident
           preuention
           )
           racked
           with
           other
           references
           ,
           to
           make
           his
           deceiptfulnesse
           also
           praise-worthy
           ;
           who
           would
           not
           conuince
           such
           vnfit
           and
           lefthanded
           handling
           ,
           both
           of
           wildnesse
           in
           wit
           ,
           and
           wickednesse
           of
           hart
           ?
           To
           conclude
           ,
           I
           will
           knit
           vp
           this
           point
           thus
           ,
           That
           in
           the
           knitting
           and
           according
           of
           things
           diuers
           into
           one
           point
           of
           agreement
           ,
           (
           making
           by
           such
           their
           enterchangeable
           lendings
           of
           like
           reason
           and
           respect
           ,
           a
           lightsomnesse
           of
           proofe
           and
           vnderstanding
           )
           we
           must
           auoid
           their
           diuersities
           as
           sands
           and
           rocks
           ,
           and
           keep
           the
           right
           channell
           of
           an
           allowed
           likenesse
           ;
           which
           will
           conduct
           vs
           both
           safely
           and
           delightsomly
           in
           this
           course
           of
           comparing
           .
        
         
           Farewell
           .
        
      
       
         
         
           ¶
           A
           Briefe
           of
           such
           points
           as
           are
           comparatiuely
           handled
           in
           the
           Discourse
           following
           .
        
         
           
             WHat
             is
             meant
             in
             the
             saying
             of
             
               Pithagoras
               ,
            
             that
             man
             is
             the
             measure
             of
             all
             things
             ,
             and
             how
             this
             measure
             may
             serue
             in
             the
             matching
             of
             the
             state
             thereunto
             .
          
           
             Folio
             1.
             
          
           
             In
             euery
             state
             ,
             Soueraigntie
             the
             soule
             ,
             Alleageance
             the
             bodie
             .
          
           
             3.
             
          
           
             In
             euerie
             ciuill
             state
             there
             must
             be
             the
             ruling
             ,
             and
             the
             ruled
             .
          
           
             ibid.
             
          
           
             Impugners
             of
             magistracie
             refuted
             .
          
           
             ibid.
             
          
           
             Of
             the
             good
             that
             subiects
             haue
             by
             gouernment
             ,
             with
             the
             end
             thereof
             .
          
           
             3.
             
          
           
             Mutuall
             offices
             betweene
             soueraigne
             and
             subiect
             .
          
           
             ibid.
             
          
           
             Good
             gouernment
             the
             states
             happinesse
             .
          
           
             4.
             
          
           
             No
             gouernment
             without
             law
             .
          
           
             ibid.
             
          
           
             Soueraignes
             loue
             to
             their
             subiects
             .
          
           
             5.
             
          
           
             Soueraignes
             care
             of
             their
             subiects
             well
             doing
             .
          
           
             ibid.
             
          
           
             The
             excellencie
             of
             soueraigntie
             ,
             and
             how
             they
             be
             ordained
             of
             God
             ,
             and
             what
             thereof
             is
             inferred
             .
          
           
             5.
             
             &
             6.
             
          
           
             Against
             ambition
             .
          
           
             7.
             
          
           
             Soueraignes
             haue
             a
             waightie
             charge
             full
             of
             labours
             and
             cares
             .
          
           
             8.
             
          
           
             They
             deuide
             part
             of
             their
             care
             and
             worke
             to
             inferiour
             magistrats
             ,
             and
             be
             wronged
             by
             their
             negligence
             .
          
           
             8.
             
          
           
             All
             commaund
             and
             power
             in
             the
             state
             deriued
             from
             the
             soueraigne
             .
          
           
             8.
             
          
           
             Supremacie
             is
             maintained
             against
             the
             Pope
             ,
             or
             any
             other
             without
             or
             within
             the
             Realme
             .
          
           
             9.
             
          
           
             The
             rights
             of
             Soueraignes
             not
             too
             far
             to
             bee
             extended
             ,
             nor
             too
             much
             to
             be
             restrained
             .
          
           
             10.
             
          
           
             Of
             soueraigntie
             .
          
           
             11
          
           
             The
             soule
             set
             forth
             in
             his
             seuerall
             powers
             ,
             and
             then
             the
             soueraignty
             compared
             to
             the
             same
             .
          
           
             ibid.
             
          
           
             Soueraigntie
             in
             his
             vegetable
             powers
             .
          
           
             13.
             
          
           
             Soueraigntie
             in
             his
             sensitiue
             and
             intellectuall
             parts
             .
          
           
             14.
             
          
           
             Councellors
             .
          
           
             15.
             
          
           
             Fauorites
             .
          
           
             ibidem
             .
          
           
             Whether
             the
             Soueraignes
             will
             may
             stand
             for
             law
             .
          
           
             16.
             
          
           
             Misinforming
             of
             Soueraignes
             .
          
           
             17.
             
          
           
             The
             Soueraignes
             yeelding
             to
             the
             customes
             and
             inclinations
             of
             the
             people
             .
          
           
             ibid.
             
          
           
             The
             soueraigne
             may
             not
             admit
             different
             sects
             of
             resolution
             .
          
           
             ibid.
             
          
           
             The
             soueraigne
             helped
             or
             wronged
             by
             obedience
             or
             disobedience
             of
             the
             people
             .
          
           
             ibid.
             
          
           
             
             Soueraignes
             sometimes
             suppressed
             by
             Rebels
             .
          
           
             18.
             
          
           
             The
             soueraigne
             troubled
             with
             Courtiers
             suits
             .
          
           
             19.
             
          
           
             The
             soueraigne
             troubled
             with
             Male
             contents
             .
          
           
             ibid.
             
          
           
             All
             offenders
             haue
             their
             pretences
             ;
             Especially
             Traytors
             .
          
           
             ibid.
             
          
           
             The
             soueraignes
             records
             ;
             And
             of
             the
             embezilling
             or
             falsifying
             of
             them
             .
          
           
             20.
             
          
           
             Soueraignes
             prerogatiues
             .
          
           
             ibid.
             
          
           
             Soueraignes
             not
             to
             be
             euill
             spoken
             of
             vppon
             supposall
             of
             any
             faults
             in
             them
             .
          
           
             21.
             
          
           
             Soueraignes
             called
             gods
             ,
             and
             what
             thereof
             inferred
             .
          
           
             23.
             
          
           
             The
             large
             extent
             of
             Soueraigntie
             ,
             by
             comparison
             thereof
             to
             God
             and
             the
             Soule
             .
          
           
             ibid.
             
          
           
             Whether
             it
             is
             better
             for
             the
             Soueraigne
             to
             be
             much
             or
             seldome
             seene
             of
             the
             people
             .
          
           
             25.
             
          
           
             Soueraignes
             compared
             to
             the
             head
             .
          
           
             26.
             
          
           
             In
             the
             plantation
             of
             ciuill
             people
             ,
             the
             head
             the
             root
             .
          
           
             27.
             
          
           
             The
             excellencie
             of
             the
             head
             ;
             It
             dearely
             loueth
             all
             the
             parts
             ;
             And
             it
             againe
             〈…〉
             .
          
           
             ibid.
             
          
           
             The
             diseases
             of
             the
             head
             caused
             from
             the
             bodie
             ,
             therefore
             to
             be
             borne
             with
             .
          
           
             28.
             
          
           
             No
             repugnancie
             of
             the
             parts
             against
             the
             head
             .
          
           
             ibid.
             
          
           
             How
             there
             should
             be
             no
             opposing
             ,
             nor
             deposing
             of
             soueraignes
             .
          
           
             ibid.
             
          
           
             Good
             Subiects
             oft
             take
             vpon
             them
             the
             faults
             committed
             by
             their
             soueraigne
             .
          
           
             ibid.
             
          
           
             Soueraignes
             ,
             in
             what
             sence
             they
             be
             likened
             to
             the
             hart
             .
          
           
             29.
             
          
           
             Their
             commaund
             and
             force
             .
          
           
             ibid.
             
          
           
             Their
             bountie
             and
             benefits
             ,
             binding
             subiects
             to
             all
             dutie
             .
          
           
             30.
             
          
           
             Their
             loue
             of
             vertue
             .
          
           
             ibid.
             
          
           
             Soueraignes
             to
             looke
             well
             to
             them
             that
             be
             neare
             about
             them
             .
          
           
             31.
             
          
           
             How
             factions
             and
             sides
             do
             grow
             ;
             And
             how
             they
             be
             preuented
             .
          
           
             ibid.
             
          
           
             The
             soueraignes
             sports
             and
             recreations
             not
             to
             be
             grudged
             at
             .
          
           
             ibid.
             
          
           
             The
             soueraigne
             wronged
             ,
             when
             his
             Officers
             ,
             Iudges
             ,
             and
             Councellors
             be
             wronged
             .
          
           
             32.
             
          
           
             The
             person
             of
             the
             soueraigne
             full
             of
             maiestie
             .
          
           
             ibid.
             
          
           
             Diuersitie
             of
             respects
             in
             the
             soueraigne
             ,
             touching
             his
             person
             and
             soueraigntie
             ;
             The
             worke
             thereof
             sheweth
             the
             maiestie
             of
             it
             .
          
           
             33.
             
          
           
             The
             soueraigne
             may
             not
             do
             wrong
             to
             his
             Subiects
             .
          
           
             34.
             
          
           
             Of
             certaine
             essentiall
             orders
             in
             the
             state
             .
          
           
             35.
             
          
           
             The
             gifts
             of
             statesmen
             to
             be
             well
             disposed
             of
             .
          
           
             36.
             
          
           
             The
             chiefe
             officers
             or
             nobles
             to
             be
             well
             fafegarded
             .
          
           
             ibid.
             
          
           
             Of
             the
             Body
             politique
             ,
             and
             the
             foure
             elements
             whereof
             it
             is
             compounded
             .
          
           
             37.
             
             &
             38.
             
          
           
             How
             the
             vneuen
             mixture
             of
             these
             elements
             maketh
             abounding
             of
             humours
             ,
             and
             difference
             of
             complexions
             .
          
           
             38.
             
          
           
             The
             necessitie
             of
             keeping
             these
             elements
             in
             concord
             ,
             there
             is
             oft
             discord
             in
             the
             parts
             of
             one
             and
             the
             same
             element
             .
          
           
             39.
             
          
           
             
             Sundry
             formes
             of
             bodies
             politike
             arising
             from
             vnequall
             mixture
             .
          
           
             40.
             
          
           
             The
             harme
             which
             commeth
             by
             distemper
             ,
             which
             conuerteth
             that
             to
             hurt
             which
             otherwise
             were
             good
             .
          
           
             41.
             
          
           
             The
             beginnings
             ,
             increasings
             ,
             and
             endings
             of
             Commonwealths
             ,
             with
             all
             their
             alterations
             ,
             chiefly
             of
             God.
             
          
           
             41.
             
             &
             42.
             
          
           
             The
             peoples
             different
             dispositions
             ,
             and
             the
             right
             ruling
             of
             them
             all
             to
             the
             publike
             good
             ,
             by
             the
             example
             of
             the
             body
             in
             the
             dieting
             thereof
             ,
             in
             exercise
             ,
             and
             in
             other
             sundrie
             tendances
             .
          
           
             43.
             
             &
             44.
             
          
           
             Equalitie
             how
             to
             be
             obserued
             in
             the
             distribution
             of
             the
             profits
             of
             the
             Commonweale
             .
          
           
             45.
             
          
           
             Against
             paritie
             ,
             prouing
             difference
             in
             dignitie
             and
             riches
             .
          
           
             ibid.
             
          
           
             Not
             to
             reward
             ,
             worse
             than
             not
             to
             punish
             .
          
           
             46.
             
          
           
             Difference
             of
             dignities
             and
             degrees
             ,
          
           
             47.
             
          
           
             Dignities
             not
             to
             be
             basely
             bestowed
             .
          
           
             48.
             
          
           
             Why
             the
             bodie
             politike
             is
             called
             a
             Commonweale
             .
          
           
             ibid.
             
          
           
             The
             mutualitie
             of
             helps
             in
             the
             members
             .
          
           
             ibid.
             
          
           
             Greatest
             respect
             to
             be
             had
             of
             the
             chiefe
             parts
             ,
             against
             whom
             the
             enemies
             bend
             most
             .
          
           
             49.
             
          
           
             Each
             part
             to
             bee
             allotted
             to
             his
             owne
             worke
             .
          
           
             50.
             
          
           
             Parts
             disordred
             maketh
             the
             body
             monstrous
             .
          
           
             50.
             
          
           
             Against
             conspiracies
             ,
             and
             of
             the
             late
             intended
             treasons
             .
          
           
             51.
             
          
           
             Against
             idle
             vagrant
             and
             vnprofitable
             people
             .
          
           
             54.
             
          
           
             Against
             ingrossing
             of
             many
             offices
             into
             one
             mans
             hands
             .
          
           
             ibid.
             
          
           
             Of
             many
             well
             agreeing
             in
             one
             worke
             .
          
           
             56.
             
          
           
             In
             the
             worke
             of
             ruling
             no
             more
             heads
             but
             one
             .
          
           
             57.
             
          
           
             Britania
             one
             bodie
             needing
             but
             one
             head
             .
          
           
             58.
             
          
           
             Inducements
             for
             Vnion
             .
          
           
             ibid.
             
          
           
             The
             bodie
             politique
             may
             haue
             many
             imperfections
             ,
             and
             yet
             remayne
             a
             bodie
             .
          
           
             59.
             
          
           
             Shifts
             vsed
             for
             supply
             of
             defects
             ,
             as
             to
             entertayne
             straungers
             ,
             to
             take
             mercenaries
             ,
             and
             to
             enter
             leagues
             with
             other
             realmes
             .
          
           
             60
          
           
             And
             what
             successe
             such
             shifts
             vsually
             haue
             .
          
           
             ibid.
             
          
           
             What
             perfection
             may
             be
             looked
             for
             in
             the
             commonweale
             .
          
           
             ibid.
             
          
           
             Signes
             of
             health
             in
             the
             state
             .
          
           
             61.
             
          
           
             Signes
             inferre
             no
             certaintie
             ,
             but
             often
             deceaue
             .
          
           
             ibid.
             
          
           
             Health
             how
             necessarie
             .
          
           
             62.
             
          
           
             A
             griefe
             in
             part
             putteth
             the
             whole
             out
             of
             health
             .
          
           
             63.
             
          
           
             Of
             discontentednesse
             .
          
           
             ibid.
             
          
           
             The
             obseruing
             of
             originall
             orders
             preserueth
             health
             .
          
           
             ibid.
             
          
           
             Alterations
             daungerous
             .
          
           
             ibid.
             
          
           
             Nature
             best
             liketh
             that
             whereto
             it
             hath
             bene
             accustomed
             .
          
           
             64.
             
          
           
             Alterations
             must
             not
             bee
             sodayne
             ,
             or
             of
             the
             whole
             ,
             but
             by
             leasure
             and
             degrees
             .
          
           
             ibid.
             
          
           
             Cases
             of
             alteration
             .
          
           
             65.
             
          
           
             Better
             keepe
             health
             than
             recouer
             it
             .
          
           
             ibid.
             
          
           
             Of
             prouiding
             in
             prosperitie
             for
             aduersitie
             .
          
           
             ibid.
             
          
           
             
             Timely
             preuentions
             very
             requisite
             ,
             because
             of
             small
             beginnings
             great
             mischiefes
             often
             ensue
             .
          
           
             66.
             
          
           
             Of
             tolleration
             of
             euils
             in
             the
             state
             .
          
           
             67.
             
          
           
             Cases
             for
             sufferance
             of
             euill
             .
          
           
             68.
             
          
           
             Wee
             may
             hurt
             to
             heale
             ,
             and
             take
             phisicke
             to
             preuent
             diseases
             .
          
           
             70.
             
          
           
             Of
             the
             diseases
             of
             the
             state
             ,
             and
             how
             they
             arise
             .
          
           
             71.
             
          
           
             Difference
             in
             faults
             .
          
           
             72.
             
          
           
             Against
             equalitie
             of
             sinne
             ,
             and
             how
             punishment
             must
             be
             proportionable
             to
             the
             offence
             .
          
           
             72.
             
          
           
             Outward
             euils
             not
             so
             dangerous
             as
             inward
             .
          
           
             ibid.
             
          
           
             Lawes
             compared
             to
             phisicke
             ,
             and
             the
             soueraigne
             the
             chiefe
             Phisicion
             ,
             and
             vnder
             him
             magistrats
             ,
             their
             great
             charge
             .
          
           
             73.
             
             &
             74.
             
          
           
             The
             cause
             why
             their
             authoritie
             is
             so
             repined
             at
             .
          
           
             74.
             
          
           
             The
             necessitie
             of
             magistracie
             .
          
           
             ibid.
             
          
           
             Magistrats
             not
             to
             bee
             discouraged
             by
             the
             repugnancie
             of
             the
             people
             .
          
           
             75.
             
          
           
             Magistrats
             workes
             agreeth
             with
             the
             Phisicions
             works
             .
          
           
             ibid.
             
          
           
             Sundry
             sorts
             of
             medicines
             for
             the
             state
             .
          
           
             ibid.
             
          
           
             Whether
             the
             magistrat
             may
             be
             trusted
             in
             altering
             the
             punishment
             by
             law
             appointed
             by
             increasing
             or
             mitigating
             of
             the
             same
             .
          
           
             77.
             
          
           
             As
             the
             faults
             be
             not
             equall
             ,
             no
             more
             must
             be
             the
             punishment
             .
          
           
             ibid.
             
          
           
             Points
             to
             be
             obserued
             of
             the
             states
             Phisicion
             .
          
           
             78.
             
             &
             79.
             
          
           
             The
             Phisicions
             of
             the
             state
             ,
             are
             to
             tend
             all
             that
             be
             diseased
             ,
             especially
             great
             men
             ,
             whose
             faults
             are
             most
             perilous
             ,
             and
             why
             they
             bee
             so
             .
          
           
             80.
             
          
           
             Diuers
             requisites
             in
             the
             Phisicions
             of
             the
             bodie
             politique
             ,
             and
             sundry
             positions
             touching
             the
             diseases
             of
             the
             state
             ,
             and
             their
             cure
             .
          
           
             81.
             
          
           
             Against
             vnskilfull
             Pragmatikes
             .
          
           
             85.
             
          
           
             The
             learned
             fittest
             for
             gouernment
             .
          
           
             86.
             
          
           
             The
             harme
             of
             vnperfect
             curing
             .
          
           
             ibid.
             
          
           
             Discretion
             in
             ordering
             of
             state
             businesse
             ,
             or
             in
             any
             other
             learning
             .
          
           
             87.
             
          
           
             Of
             seueritie
             .
          
           
             ibid.
             
          
           
             Of
             lenitie
             .
          
           
             ibid.
             
          
           
             The
             same
             disease
             may
             be
             cured
             by
             contrary
             wayes
             .
          
           
             87.
             
             &
             88.
             
          
           
             Repealing
             of
             old
             ,
             and
             making
             of
             new
             lawes
             .
          
           
             88.
             
          
           
             Magistrats
             may
             make
             vse
             of
             the
             wicked
             .
          
           
             89.
             
          
           
             The
             praise
             of
             good
             magistrats
             .
          
           
             ibid.
             
          
           
             Qualities
             requisite
             in
             the
             Phisicion
             .
          
           
             ibid.
             
          
           
             His
             loue
             towards
             the
             people
             .
          
           
             90.
             
          
           
             Not
             to
             be
             couetous
             .
          
           
             ibid.
             
          
           
             Greedinesse
             of
             gayne
             in
             some
             Lawyers
             .
          
           
             91.
             
          
           
             A
             miserie
             neuer
             to
             be
             out
             of
             law
             .
          
           
             ibid.
             
          
           
             Magistrates
             may
             haue
             priuate
             faults
             ,
             and
             yet
             bee
             good
             Magistrats
             .
          
           
             ibid.
             
          
           
             
             Skill
             in
             gouerning
             his
             chiefest
             vertue
             .
          
           
             91.
             
          
           
             Rather
             to
             be
             Natiues
             than
             straungers
             .
          
           
             92.
             
          
           
             Their
             good
             example
             of
             great
             force
             .
          
           
             92.
             
          
           
             They
             must
             not
             defist
             from
             their
             duties
             for
             any
             abuses
             offered
             .
          
           
             ibid.
             
          
           
             The
             ought
             not
             to
             haue
             too
             many
             offices
             or
             imployments
             .
          
           
             ibid.
             
          
           
             Compared
             to
             a
             Surgion
             in
             three
             properties
             .
          
           
             93.
             
          
           
             They
             sometimes
             offend
             the
             law
             ,
             and
             are
             then
             to
             be
             punished
             by
             other
             Magistrats
             .
          
           
             93.
             
          
           
             Their
             faults
             no
             preence
             for
             any
             to
             disobey
             them
             .
          
           
             93.
             
          
           
             Their
             deseruings
             soone
             forgotten
             ,
             and
             often
             not
             recompenced
             sufficiently
             .
          
           
             94.
             
          
           
             Their
             good
             endeuors
             often
             censured
             by
             the
             euents
             .
          
           
             94.
             
          
           
             The
             Lawmakers
             abused
             and
             discouraged
             for
             want
             of
             execution
             of
             their
             lawes
             ;
             And
             how
             great
             an
             injurie
             that
             is
             .
          
           
             94.
             
          
           
             Lawes
             often
             by
             cauils
             illuded
             to
             the
             wrong
             of
             magistracie
             and
             Iustice
             .
          
           
             95.
             
          
           
             Obedience
             the
             chiefe
             vertue
             of
             subiects
             .
          
           
             95.
             
          
           
             A
             knitting
             the
             subiect
             and
             the
             soueraigne
             in
             mutuall
             loue
             ,
             making
             the
             commonweale
             blessed
             thereby
             .
          
           
             95.
             
          
        
         
           
             In
             the
             conclusion
             .
          
           
             Politicall
             gouernours
             made
             famous
             by
             the
             praises
             of
             the
             learned
             .
          
           
             96.
             
          
           
             The
             Benefit
             which
             soueraignes
             may
             haue
             by
             reading
             of
             Politicall
             books
             .
          
           
             97
          
           
             The
             dedicattion
             of
             such
             works
             ,
             due
             to
             the
             gouernors
             of
             the
             state
             .
          
           
             97.
             
          
           
             Against
             curiositie
             in
             priuat
             persons
             ,
             of
             looking
             into
             state
             businesse
             .
          
           
             98.
             
          
           
             Sobrietie
             to
             be
             vsed
             in
             inquisitiuenesse
             ,
             the
             highest
             degree
             whereof
             is
             to
             prie
             into
             Princes
             dealings
             and
             dispositions
             .
          
           
             99.
             
          
           
             The
             hainousnesse
             of
             that
             fault
             .
          
           
             99.
             
          
           
             A
             caueat
             against
             it
             by
             a
             comparison
             of
             the
             soueraigne
             to
             the
             soule
             .
          
           
             99.
             
          
           
             Soueraigntie
             as
             great
             a
             mysterie
             in
             policie
             ,
             as
             the
             soule
             in
             the
             body
             .
          
           
             100.
             
          
        
         
           FINIS
           .
        
      
    
     
       
         
         
           A
           comparatiue
           Discourse
           of
           the
           Bodies
           Naturall
           and
           Politique
           .
        
         
           IT
           was
           pithily
           spoken
           of
           
             Pithagoras
             ,
          
           
           That
           man
           is
           the
           measure
           of
           al
           things
           :
           importing
           thereby
           ,
           that
           man
           by
           the
           ampliation
           and
           application
           of
           his
           powers
           apprehensiue
           ,
           discerneth
           ,
           discusseth
           ,
           and
           confineth
           the
           seuerall
           works
           of
           nature
           :
           with
           his
           sences
           hee
           measureth
           things
           sensible
           ,
           with
           his
           vnderstanding
           he
           perceiueth
           things
           intellectuall
           ,
           with
           his
           illuminate
           &
           inspired
           knowledge
           ,
           he
           comprehendeth
           things
           diuine
           and
           supernaturall
           ;
           yea
           more
           ,
           by
           this
           so
           large
           and
           vnmeasured
           measure
           ,
           all
           things
           are
           made
           sutable
           to
           the
           esteeme
           of
           man
           ,
           and
           be
           either
           great
           or
           small
           ,
           light
           or
           heauy
           ,
           faire
           or
           illfauored
           ,
           desireable
           or
           auoydable
           ,
           as
           by
           mans
           well
           or
           ill
           conceauing
           the
           same
           bee
           valued
           .
           But
           beyond
           all
           this
           ,
           the
           meaning
           of
           that
           sage
           sentence
           extendeth
           yet
           farther
           ,
           That
           in
           the
           very
           composure
           of
           man
           ,
           there
           is
           manifestly
           discouered
           a
           summary
           abstract
           of
           absolute
           perfection
           ,
           by
           the
           which
           as
           by
           an
           excellent
           Idea
           ,
           or
           an
           exact
           rule
           ,
           we
           may
           examine
           and
           exemplifie
           all
           other
           things
           .
        
         
         
           The
           Mathematicians
           haue
           found
           out
           by
           their
           obseruance
           of
           the
           beautious
           and
           vniforme
           proportion
           of
           the
           body
           of
           man
           ,
           and
           by
           the
           symetrie
           of
           the
           parts
           therof
           ,
           their
           true
           scantlines
           and
           dimensions
           ;
           yea
           by
           the
           laying
           of
           it
           in
           his
           full
           length
           ,
           &
           then
           spreading
           the
           armes
           and
           legges
           to
           their
           widest
           compasse
           ,
           they
           haue
           contriued
           both
           the
           perfect
           square
           ,
           and
           the
           exact
           circle
           :
           The
           square
           ,
           by
           foure
           right
           lines
           at
           the
           foure
           vttermost
           points
           of
           the
           hands
           and
           feet
           ;
           the
           circle
           ,
           by
           rounding
           a
           line
           about
           those
           points
           ,
           placing
           the
           center
           of
           their
           compasse
           vpon
           the
           nauell
           .
           The
           naturall
           Philosophers
           reduceth
           the
           vastnesse
           of
           the
           vniuersal
           (
           comprehending
           all
           things
           that
           hath
           either
           being
           ,
           or
           vegitation
           ,
           or
           sence
           ,
           or
           reason
           )
           vnto
           this
           same
           well
           compacted
           Epitome
           of
           mans
           fabrifacture
           .
        
         
           Then
           much
           more
           may
           the
           politique
           Philosopher
           ,
           hauing
           for
           his
           proper
           subiect
           the
           compound
           of
           men
           ciuilly
           assembled
           and
           associate
           ,
           make
           man
           the
           obiect
           of
           his
           discourse
           and
           contemplation
           ,
           to
           fit
           his
           treatise
           with
           good
           fashion
           to
           so
           imitable
           a
           patterne
           .
           Therefore
           this
           measure
           (
           thus
           induced
           thereto
           )
           I
           haue
           made
           my
           choice
           of
           ,
           to
           trie
           thereby
           the
           forme
           of
           a
           commonweale
           ,
           what
           therein
           is
           right
           or
           wrye
           ,
           what
           redundant
           or
           defectiue
           ,
           what
           orderly
           or
           disproportionable
           ;
           the
           helpe
           of
           such
           a
           briefe
           ,
           and
           the
           trueth
           of
           such
           a
           standerd
           ,
           may
           serue
           to
           ballance
           the
           matters
           of
           deliberation
           ,
           fitly
           accommodating
           and
           rectifying
           all
           designements
           and
           proceedings
           .
           And
           sith
           I
           doe
           find
           this
           lyne
           of
           likenesse
           to
           bee
           chalked
           out
           vnto
           vs
           in
           Gods
           works
           ,
           I
           will
           there
           begin
           my
           applying
           ,
           where
           that
           profound
           wisdom
           hath
           begun
           his
           framing
           .
        
         
           As
           in
           the
           creating
           of
           man
           God
           conioined
           a
           soule
           for
           
           action
           ,
           in
           a
           body
           passiue
           :
           so
           in
           his
           ordinance
           of
           mans
           sociable
           conuersing
           (
           to
           make
           the
           vnion
           of
           a
           body
           politike
           )
           he
           hath
           knit
           together
           a
           passiue
           subiection
           to
           an
           actiue
           superoiritie
           :
           
           and
           as
           in
           euery
           man
           there
           is
           both
           a
           quickning
           &
           ruling
           soule
           ,
           and
           a
           liuing
           and
           ruled
           bodie
           ;
           so
           in
           euery
           ciuill
           state
           ,
           
           there
           is
           a
           directing
           &
           commaunding
           power
           ,
           &
           an
           obeying
           and
           subiected
           alleageance
           ,
           For
           as
           neither
           the
           soule
           alone
           ,
           nor
           body
           alone
           (
           if
           they
           should
           be
           seuered
           )
           can
           be
           a
           man
           ,
           so
           not
           the
           ruler
           alone
           ,
           nor
           the
           subiects
           alone
           ,
           can
           be
           a
           commonweale
           .
           Where
           all
           will
           rule
           ,
           there
           is
           no
           rule
           ,
           and
           where
           none
           doeth
           rule
           ,
           there
           is
           all
           misrule
           :
           but
           to
           rule
           well
           ,
           and
           to
           bee
           well
           ruled
           ,
           is
           the
           surest
           bond
           of
           humane
           societie
           .
           
           Such
           vnruly
           routs
           ,
           as
           (
           humourously
           led
           in
           dislikes
           )
           denyeth
           the
           lawfulnesse
           of
           Magistrats
           ,
           may
           well
           bee
           likened
           to
           certayne
           peeuish
           Male-contents
           ,
           who
           ouertoyled
           with
           the
           tediousnesse
           of
           life
           (
           and
           that
           often
           without
           any
           apparant
           cause
           )
           wisheth
           that
           they
           had
           no
           soules
           ,
           it
           being
           all
           one
           to
           want
           in
           the
           body
           a
           soule
           ,
           and
           in
           the
           state
           a
           gouernour
           :
           yet
           as
           the
           body
           sustayneth
           no
           harme
           or
           wrong
           ,
           
           yea
           is
           infinitly
           benefited
           and
           graced
           by
           the
           powerfull
           working
           of
           the
           soule
           in
           his
           organs
           ;
           so
           the
           people
           guided
           by
           a
           iust
           gouernmēt
           ,
           not
           only
           are
           not
           therby
           iniured
           ,
           hindered
           or
           abased
           ,
           but
           much
           enabled
           ,
           enobled
           ,
           and
           aduanced
           euen
           to
           the
           highest
           pitch
           of
           a
           welthie
           and
           safe
           repose
           .
           
           Then
           as
           the
           soule
           is
           the
           forme
           which
           to
           the
           body
           giueth
           being
           ,
           and
           essence
           ;
           and
           the
           body
           is
           the
           matter
           which
           desiringly
           affecteth
           his
           forme
           :
           so
           both
           the
           ruler
           should
           wholy
           indeuour
           the
           welfare
           of
           his
           people
           ,
           and
           the
           subiect
           ought
           (
           as
           in
           loue
           to
           his
           owne
           soule
           )
           to
           conforme
           vnto
           his
           soueraigne
           ;
           that
           both
           of
           them
           mutually
           like
           twinnes
           of
           one
           wombe
           ,
           may
           in
           
           the
           neere
           and
           deare
           nature
           of
           relatiues
           ,
           maintaine
           vnuiolate
           that
           compound
           of
           concordance
           ,
           in
           which
           and
           for
           which
           they
           were
           first
           combined
           .
           As
           the
           coupling
           of
           the
           soule
           and
           bodie
           ,
           tendeth
           not
           onely
           to
           giue
           life
           ,
           but
           also
           to
           the
           attayning
           of
           a
           perfect
           and
           happy
           life
           :
           So
           the
           right
           temper
           of
           soueraigntie
           and
           obedience
           ,
           intendeth
           end
           effecteth
           not
           only
           the
           being
           ,
           
           but
           also
           the
           florishing
           and
           felicitie
           of
           a
           Commonweale
           .
           For
           the
           gayning
           of
           which
           propounded
           happinesse
           ,
           as
           the
           soule
           is
           the
           worthier
           agent
           ,
           taking
           the
           greatest
           care
           ,
           and
           deseruing
           the
           chiefest
           commendation
           ,
           in
           so
           much
           as
           a
           man
           is
           not
           said
           to
           be
           happie
           for
           any
           his
           strength
           ,
           his
           bignes
           ,
           propernesse
           ,
           or
           comely
           feature
           of
           body
           ,
           but
           for
           the
           goodnesse
           ,
           noblenesse
           ,
           and
           vertuous
           endowements
           of
           his
           soule
           :
           So
           for
           the
           acquiring
           or
           framing
           of
           any
           perfection
           in
           the
           Commonweale
           ,
           we
           are
           not
           so
           much
           to
           behold
           the
           largenesse
           ,
           the
           power
           ,
           or
           the
           well
           shewing
           composure
           thereof
           ,
           as
           the
           prudencie
           ,
           justice
           ,
           and
           other
           vertuous
           sinceritie
           of
           a
           rightful
           gouernment
           .
           In
           man
           the
           soule
           ruleth
           by
           reason
           ,
           and
           in
           the
           State
           the
           Soueraigne
           gouerneth
           by
           lawes
           ;
           
           which
           may
           no
           lesse
           aptly
           be
           termed
           the
           soule
           of
           soueraignty
           ,
           than
           reason
           is
           said
           to
           be
           the
           soule
           of
           the
           soule
           .
           It
           can
           neuer
           bee
           so
           much
           as
           conceaued
           ,
           that
           the
           soule
           should
           be
           without
           reason
           ,
           though
           by
           the
           vnaptnes
           or
           repugnancie
           of
           the
           organs
           ,
           his
           power
           in
           working
           is
           either
           interrupted
           or
           impugned
           :
           So
           gouernment
           may
           not
           bee
           so
           much
           as
           imagined
           to
           be
           without
           law
           ,
           though
           the
           force
           and
           life
           of
           the
           law
           ,
           through
           the
           waywardnesse
           of
           the
           subiects
           ,
           cannot
           alwayes
           alike
           be
           shewed
           or
           seene
           in
           his
           due
           effects
           :
           no
           not
           the
           Soueraigne
           will
           infringe
           lawes
           ,
           no
           more
           than
           the
           soule
           will
           renounce
           reason
           .
           Herewith
           the
           fiction
           
           of
           the
           Poets
           and
           the
           Paynters
           well
           agreeth
           ,
           which
           in
           the
           description
           and
           portraiture
           of
           
             Iupiter
          
           adioined
           Iustice
           sitting
           on
           his
           right
           hand
           ;
           howsoeuer
           it
           pleased
           
             Anaxarchus
          
           gybingly
           to
           tell
           
             Alexander
             ,
          
           that
           
             Iupiter
          
           was
           not
           bound
           thereby
           to
           doe
           iustly
           ,
           but
           that
           the
           people
           were
           thereof
           to
           conceiue
           ,
           that
           whatsoeuer
           
             Iupiter
          
           did
           was
           iust
           .
        
         
           It
           is
           worthie
           the
           noting
           ,
           
           that
           albeit
           the
           bodie
           doeth
           often
           vnthankefully
           rebell
           against
           the
           soule
           ,
           yet
           the
           soule
           euer
           loueth
           the
           body
           ,
           still
           seeking
           to
           reduce
           it
           to
           the
           better
           ,
           euen
           as
           a
           workeman
           mendeth
           his
           tooles
           ,
           or
           a
           Musician
           his
           Instruments
           :
           whereof
           good
           Rulers
           doe
           make
           to
           themselues
           this
           rule
           ,
           That
           notwithstanding
           the
           subiects
           by
           their
           misbehauiour
           do
           often
           cause
           an
           incitation
           to
           wrath
           in
           their
           Soueraign
           against
           them
           ,
           yet
           in
           the
           punishing
           of
           such
           offenders
           ,
           he
           will
           discouer
           no
           hatred
           to
           their
           persons
           ,
           but
           to
           their
           faults
           ,
           shewing
           himselfe
           grieued
           and
           vnwilling
           to
           afflict
           them
           ,
           seeking
           rather
           their
           chasticement
           with
           pitie
           ,
           than
           their
           destruction
           with
           crueltie
           ,
           and
           rather
           to
           hold
           a
           coniunction
           with
           them
           by
           the
           mutualitie
           of
           louing
           offices
           ,
           than
           to
           weaken
           his
           owne
           strength
           by
           the
           losse
           and
           cutting
           off
           the
           imployable
           parts
           of
           the
           state
           publike
           .
           
           The
           welfare
           and
           prosperitie
           of
           the
           bodie
           giueth
           to
           the
           soule
           sweet
           contentment
           ,
           as
           secured
           thereby
           from
           the
           cares
           ,
           perplexities
           ,
           and
           griefes
           which
           want
           occasioneth
           :
           so
           the
           plentifull
           and
           abundant
           estate
           of
           the
           subiects
           ,
           is
           by
           a
           good
           Soueraigne
           both
           maintayned
           and
           reioyced
           at
           ,
           sith
           it
           giueth
           to
           him
           assurance
           of
           supply
           and
           comfort
           in
           all
           necessities
           .
        
         
           In
           the
           creating
           of
           man
           ,
           
           God
           is
           said
           to
           haue
           breathed
           into
           him
           the
           soule
           ,
           whereby
           the
           puritie
           and
           dignitie
           
           thereof
           is
           much
           extolled
           aboue
           that
           lump
           of
           mowlded
           earth
           his
           body
           :
           So
           is
           the
           place
           of
           preheminence
           of
           an
           high
           maiestie
           ,
           &
           of
           a
           more
           choice
           and
           better
           esteemed
           worth
           ,
           as
           being
           more
           to
           the
           image
           of
           God
           ,
           &
           participating
           more
           aptly
           with
           his
           greatnes
           ,
           his
           power
           ,
           his
           iustice
           ,
           his
           mercie
           ,
           his
           wisdome
           ,
           his
           goodnes
           and
           bountie
           ,
           and
           whatsoeuer
           els
           vnspeakable
           perfection
           in
           his
           vnsearchable
           essence
           ;
           for
           if
           mans
           gouerning
           of
           the
           creatures
           be
           to
           the
           image
           of
           God
           ,
           then
           the
           gouerning
           of
           men
           is
           much
           more
           to
           that
           image
           .
        
         
           It
           was
           not
           in
           the
           power
           of
           the
           body
           either
           to
           chuse
           or
           refuse
           the
           soule
           ,
           but
           his
           right
           of
           admission
           depended
           only
           on
           the
           pleasure
           of
           his
           imediate
           maker
           .
           
           I
           forbeare
           to
           force
           the
           consequence
           so
           farre
           ,
           as
           wholy
           to
           debarre
           the
           peoples
           liking
           or
           electing
           of
           their
           gouernors
           :
           yet
           somewhat
           to
           temper
           the
           harshnesse
           ,
           and
           to
           restrain
           the
           rashnesse
           of
           some
           peremptorie
           pragmatikes
           ,
           I
           may
           be
           bold
           from
           that
           auerment
           of
           the
           soules
           imbreathing
           ,
           to
           propound
           this
           application
           comparatiuely
           from
           thence
           inferred
           ,
           That
           in
           this
           high
           poynt
           of
           principalitie
           ,
           God
           hath
           reserued
           to
           himselfe
           this
           prerogatiue
           ofbestowing
           that
           dignitie
           ,
           according
           to
           his
           owne
           most
           vnscrutable
           counsell
           :
           By
           me
           (
           saith
           he
           )
           Kings
           do
           raigne
           .
           And
           Saint
           
             Paul
          
           auoucheth
           ,
           
           That
           there
           is
           no
           power
           but
           of
           God
           :
           Yea
           
             Homer
          
           produceth
           graue
           
             Nestor
             ,
          
           reproouing
           of
           
             Achilles
          
           for
           his
           obstinate
           withdrawing
           from
           
             Agamemnons
          
           regiment
           ,
           and
           his
           ouerbold
           contending
           with
           the
           King
           ,
           sith
           his
           Imperie
           was
           of
           God.
           True
           it
           is
           ,
           that
           euen
           in
           the
           same
           phrases
           all
           things
           may
           be
           sayd
           to
           bee
           of
           God
           ,
           and
           from
           God
           ,
           as
           the
           authour
           ,
           creator
           ,
           preseruer
           ,
           and
           disposer
           thereof
           :
           yet
           when
           we
           find
           him
           to
           single
           out
           and
           appropriat
           any
           onething
           
           more
           especially
           vnto
           his
           owne
           designements
           ,
           wee
           are
           there
           to
           take
           notice
           of
           his
           greater
           respectiuenesse
           ,
           and
           his
           ouerswaying
           greatnesse
           in
           the
           disposing
           and
           ordering
           of
           that
           matter
           beyond
           the
           orders
           and
           limitations
           of
           lawes
           or
           customes
           ;
           yea
           in
           such
           a
           case
           he
           conformeth
           the
           secundarie
           causes
           ,
           to
           cooperate
           with
           him
           to
           his
           owne
           ends
           :
           as
           when
           he
           framed
           the
           peoples
           hearts
           ,
           and
           the
           concurrance
           of
           their
           consents
           in
           the
           electing
           of
           
             Saul
          
           and
           
             Dauid
          
           vnto
           the
           kingly
           office
           ,
           whom
           notwithstanding
           he
           had
           before
           himselfe
           appointed
           and
           anointed
           to
           that
           function
           .
           Wherefore
           as
           the
           soule
           notwithstanding
           the
           mediate
           meanes
           of
           procreation
           ,
           is
           vsually
           sayd
           to
           bee
           infused
           from
           aboue
           into
           the
           body
           :
           so
           the
           Soueraigne
           euen
           in
           his
           particular
           parson
           ,
           but
           much
           more
           the
           soueraigne
           authoritie
           may
           notwithstanding
           the
           approbation
           of
           men
           ,
           or
           any
           other
           assisting
           helps
           in
           the
           establishing
           thereof
           ,
           be
           rightly
           auouched
           to
           bee
           ordained
           and
           designed
           by
           God
           himselfe
           .
        
         
           As
           the
           soule
           (
           in
           imitation
           of
           that
           infinitenesse
           from
           which
           it
           was
           first
           breathed
           )
           spendeth
           all
           his
           powers
           with
           an
           insatiate
           desire
           in
           the
           search
           and
           inquisition
           of
           more
           and
           more
           knowledge
           ,
           
           endeuouring
           therby
           a
           further
           dilatation
           or
           extention
           of
           his
           nature
           (
           as
           to
           bee
           like
           vnto
           God
           himselfe
           :
           )
           so
           doeth
           oft
           times
           a
           Soueraigne
           (
           haughtily
           conceyted
           of
           the
           likenesse
           he
           hath
           with
           his
           ordainer
           )
           striue
           with
           all
           restlesse
           thoughts
           and
           deare
           aduentures
           ,
           to
           inlarge
           the
           amplitude
           of
           his
           dominion
           ,
           reckoning
           it
           the
           absolutenesse
           of
           perfection
           to
           bee
           extended
           beyond
           the
           compasse
           of
           any
           limitation
           ,
           and
           then
           wishing
           the
           subduing
           of
           many
           worlds
           ,
           that
           hee
           might
           more
           neerely
           resemble
           the
           highest
           God
           ,
           that
           made
           and
           ruleth
           all
           the
           world
           .
           But
           vnto
           them
           both
           
           (
           out
           of
           sorrowfull
           experience
           )
           I
           may
           adde
           this
           correcting
           caueat
           ,
           That
           such
           ambitious
           affectation
           ,
           as
           it
           brought
           vppon
           the
           one
           the
           depriuation
           of
           his
           former
           blessednesse
           ,
           so
           is
           it
           commonly
           punished
           in
           the
           other
           by
           the
           downefall
           and
           dissipation
           of
           his
           so
           exalted
           state
           .
           And
           as
           the
           one
           hath
           euer
           since
           beene
           stinted
           at
           a
           measure
           of
           vnderstanding
           acquirable
           by
           the
           organs
           of
           the
           body
           (
           the
           which
           to
           seeke
           to
           exceed
           is
           a
           renouncing
           of
           humilitie
           ,
           yea
           a
           forgetting
           of
           our
           humane
           imbecilitie
           ,
           &
           a
           curiositie
           beyond
           sobrietie
           :
           )
           so
           is
           each
           soueraigne
           power
           listed
           &
           confined
           to
           his
           owne
           territories
           ,
           maynteinable
           by
           the
           strength
           therof
           ,
           the
           which
           who
           so
           is
           not
           cōtented
           with
           ,
           is
           accoūted
           blamable
           of
           a
           presumptuous
           &
           vniust
           vsurpation
           beyond
           the
           boūds
           to
           him
           assigned
           .
        
         
           In
           that
           the
           soule
           is
           authour
           of
           action
           and
           motion
           in
           the
           body
           passiue
           ,
           
           himselfe
           being
           neuer
           idle
           ,
           it
           sheweth
           by
           similitude
           ,
           that
           the
           soueraigne
           doth
           vncessantly
           care
           and
           labour
           for
           the
           publike
           good
           ,
           and
           that
           his
           place
           is
           not
           (
           as
           some
           vayne
           heads
           imagine
           )
           the
           seat
           of
           idlenesse
           and
           pleasure
           ,
           but
           that
           his
           crowne
           is
           accompanied
           ,
           and
           euen
           encompassed
           with
           so
           many
           restlesse
           thoughts
           ,
           and
           stinging
           cares
           ,
           as
           affoordeth
           him
           but
           small
           respit
           of
           ease
           ,
           no
           not
           in
           the
           night
           season
           ,
           as
           
             Homer
          
           describeth
           his
           
             Agamemnon
             .
          
        
         
           Howsoeuer
           the
           body
           be
           termed
           passiue
           ,
           in
           regard
           of
           the
           soules
           working
           in
           and
           by
           his
           instruments
           ,
           
           yet
           vnto
           it
           also
           the
           soule
           imparteth
           his
           power
           of
           mouing
           and
           acting
           ,
           and
           the
           more
           noble
           parts
           thereof
           bee
           the
           more
           indued
           and
           inabled
           with
           the
           soules
           best
           and
           worthiest
           faculties
           .
           
           So
           is
           all
           superioritie
           and
           commaund
           in
           the
           state
           ,
           deriuatiuely
           branching
           from
           the
           supreme
           principalitie
           ;
           and
           the
           subiects
           of
           best
           sort
           ,
           &
           fittest
           for
           vse
           and
           
           imploiments
           do
           share
           the
           greatest
           portion
           of
           such
           their
           soueraignes
           subdiuided
           authoritie
           :
           the
           remembrance
           &
           meditation
           whereof
           cannot
           but
           adde
           vnto
           such
           designed
           and
           deriued
           magistrats
           a
           spurre
           of
           quickening
           incouragement
           ,
           more
           watchfully
           to
           attend
           so
           waightie
           a
           charge
           ,
           least
           through
           their
           fayntnesse
           and
           dulnesse
           there
           be
           procured
           to
           their
           Soueraigne
           a
           distayning
           disgrace
           or
           imputation
           of
           disabilitie
           .
           
           For
           as
           when
           the
           sences
           and
           powers
           of
           the
           bodie
           bee
           fallen
           asleepe
           ,
           the
           soule
           also
           (
           as
           not
           shewing
           himselfe
           in
           the
           life
           of
           his
           actions
           )
           may
           be
           thought
           to
           be
           fast
           bound
           &
           surprised
           with
           the
           same
           slumbers
           :
           so
           when
           the
           substituted
           and
           authorized
           officers
           do
           desist
           from
           their
           indeuours
           and
           vigilancie
           in
           the
           tendance
           of
           the
           charge
           or
           businesse
           to
           them
           credited
           ;
           the
           soule
           of
           soueraignetie
           is
           in
           such
           their
           slacknesse
           or
           sleepinesse
           greatly
           discredited
           ,
           as
           if
           it
           were
           wholy
           depriued
           of
           his
           power
           ,
           yea
           of
           the
           very
           apparance
           of
           his
           gouerning
           vertue
           .
        
         
           I●
           i●
           not
           impossible
           &
           vnsensible
           ,
           that
           a
           body
           should
           liue
           or
           moue
           by
           any
           other
           soule
           ,
           than
           that
           wherunto
           by
           nature
           it
           is
           vnited
           .
           And
           is
           it
           not
           as
           absurd
           in
           any
           mans
           vnderstanding
           ,
           and
           as
           preposterous
           by
           vsurpation
           ,
           that
           any
           forraine
           power
           should
           intrude
           to
           rule
           and
           exercise
           iurisdiction
           in
           any
           other
           kingdom
           entire
           within
           it selfe
           ,
           
           and
           of
           absolute
           supremacie
           &
           sufficiencie
           to
           gouerneal
           persons
           &
           causes
           within
           the
           dominions
           therof
           .
           Surely
           ,
           as
           in
           euery
           indiuiduall
           body
           ,
           the
           owne
           soule
           thereof
           sufficeth
           for
           all
           naturall
           workes
           requisite
           to
           be
           effected
           therein
           :
           so
           in
           euery
           soueraigne
           state
           ,
           the
           ruling
           authoritie
           thereof
           is
           of
           it selfe
           competent
           and
           compleate
           ,
           for
           the
           wel
           gouerning
           and
           ordering
           of
           all
           the
           affaires
           ,
           needfull
           or
           behouable
           to
           be
           attended
           vnto
           ,
           in
           that
           entire
           territorie
           :
           
           and
           it
           may
           in
           no
           wise
           be
           contradicted
           ,
           but
           that
           in
           any
           countrey
           ,
           the
           commaunding
           ,
           summoning
           ,
           and
           censuring
           of
           subiects
           ,
           together
           with
           the
           sentensing
           of
           causes
           ,
           hath
           his
           whole
           dependance
           &
           deriuation
           from
           the
           right
           and
           preheminence
           of
           the
           soueraignetie
           and
           that
           the
           duties
           stile
           and
           intitelings
           vsual
           and
           belonging
           ,
           ought
           with
           all
           submissiue
           acknowledgement
           and
           respectiue
           reference
           ,
           to
           be
           rendered
           thereunto
           :
           which
           points
           of
           high
           regalitie
           ,
           whē
           any
           subiect
           shall
           either
           deny
           vnto
           his
           Soueraigne
           ,
           or
           take
           vnto
           himselfe
           ,
           what
           is
           it
           els
           ,
           than
           as
           if
           an
           inferiour
           and
           ministeriall
           spirit
           ,
           who
           hath
           no
           other
           function
           in
           the
           body
           ,
           but
           as
           an
           agent
           or
           deputie
           for
           the
           soule
           in
           the
           workes
           to
           him
           assigned
           ,
           shall
           intrudingly
           vsurpe
           ,
           arrogate
           ,
           and
           possesse
           the
           place
           ,
           name
           and
           office
           of
           the
           soule
           it selfe
           ?
           except
           wee
           should
           witlessely
           imagine
           two
           soules
           in
           one
           body
           ,
           like
           two
           sunnes
           in
           one
           firmament
           .
        
         
           The
           soule
           and
           the
           body
           are
           so
           firmely
           and
           intirely
           vnited
           in
           nature
           ,
           that
           the
           Philosophers
           found
           it
           no
           easie
           worke
           to
           bound
           each
           from
           other
           with
           iust
           distinguishment
           ,
           or
           proportionable
           partition
           .
           
             Tullie
          
           desirous
           to
           hold
           an
           equal
           or
           middle
           course
           ,
           blameth
           as
           well
           
             Aristippus
             ,
          
           for
           affecting
           the
           body
           too
           much
           ,
           as
           if
           there
           were
           no
           soule
           :
           as
           also
           
             Zeno
             ,
          
           for
           forgetting
           that
           we
           haue
           also
           bodies
           ,
           
           when
           he
           referreth
           all
           vnto
           the
           soule
           .
           Such
           good
           respect
           is
           obserued
           to
           haue
           beene
           had
           in
           equalling
           the
           rights
           of
           the
           Realme
           and
           Soueraigne
           :
           for
           such
           as
           extendeth
           preheminence
           too
           farre
           ,
           may
           bee
           likened
           to
           such
           Philosophers
           ,
           as
           sayd
           ,
           That
           man
           was
           all
           soule
           ,
           and
           nothing
           but
           the
           soule
           :
           And
           such
           on
           the
           other
           side
           which
           kirbeth
           too
           much
           the
           awfull
           authoritie
           of
           high
           supremacie
           ,
           with
           an
           enterpose
           of
           
           any
           popular
           or
           mediate
           force
           to
           restraine
           or
           resist
           it
           ,
           agreeth
           with
           that
           Philosophie
           ,
           That
           darkeneth
           ,
           drowneth
           and
           imprisoneth
           the
           soule
           within
           the
           body
           ,
           as
           if
           it
           were
           rather
           subdued
           by
           the
           bodie
           ,
           than
           the
           bodie
           endued
           with
           his
           gifts
           .
           To
           be
           sure
           to
           deale
           indifferently
           on
           each
           part
           ,
           it
           is
           not
           amisse
           to
           consider
           of
           them
           sundred
           and
           apart
           .
        
         
           To
           begin
           with
           the
           soule
           :
           If
           wee
           should
           gather
           and
           bind
           together
           all
           his
           distinguished
           parts
           ,
           
           and
           essentiall
           faculties
           ,
           into
           one
           as
           himselfe
           is
           one
           ,
           we
           shal
           readily
           find
           what
           in
           proprietie
           of
           interest
           to
           him
           belongeth
           .
           
           It
           fareth
           with
           the
           soule
           in
           the
           body
           ,
           as
           it
           did
           amongst
           the
           Poets
           with
           
             Iupiter
          
           in
           the
           heauens
           ,
           who
           notwithstanding
           that
           he
           did
           all
           in
           all
           ,
           and
           was
           the
           vnlimitted
           transcendence
           aboue
           al
           ,
           yet
           what
           euer
           he
           did
           in
           the
           skyes
           ,
           in
           the
           ayre
           ,
           and
           windes
           ,
           in
           the
           earth
           ,
           in
           the
           sea
           ,
           or
           places
           subterraniall
           ,
           by
           nature
           ,
           by
           force
           ,
           by
           arte
           ,
           by
           wisdome
           ,
           by
           persuasion
           ,
           by
           curious
           workemanship
           ,
           by
           profitable
           inuentions
           ,
           by
           extraordinarie
           instincts
           of
           the
           mind
           ,
           or
           by
           any
           other
           meanes
           whatsoeuer
           ,
           for
           gouerning
           of
           the
           world
           ,
           or
           the
           good
           of
           man
           ,
           and
           the
           commodity
           of
           this
           life
           ,
           was
           attributed
           vnto
           some
           other
           fayned
           gods
           ,
           so
           as
           in
           very
           trueth
           ,
           the
           multitude
           of
           gods
           in
           those
           times
           ,
           was
           but
           the
           multiplicitie
           of
           power
           in
           one
           God
           :
           The
           soule
           likewise
           in
           the
           body
           being
           but
           one
           ,
           and
           the
           same
           ,
           operating
           diuersly
           according
           to
           the
           disposition
           and
           aptnes
           of
           the
           instruments
           ,
           is
           to
           challenge
           to
           himselfe
           as
           the
           rightfull
           owner
           or
           authour
           ,
           whatsoeuer
           life
           ,
           sence
           ,
           motion
           ,
           discerning
           ,
           health
           ,
           strength
           ,
           beautie
           ,
           abilities
           ,
           actions
           ,
           graces
           ,
           or
           gifts
           inherent
           or
           appertayning
           vnto
           the
           body
           ,
           howsoeuer
           the
           same
           (
           by
           a
           change
           or
           new
           purchase
           of
           their
           names
           )
           seemeth
           to
           disauow
           
           their
           proceding
           from
           his
           essence
           .
           Euen
           that
           facultie
           of
           vegetation
           (
           which
           seemeth
           so
           base
           and
           drossie
           ,
           and
           to
           hold
           most
           of
           the
           earthlinesse
           of
           the
           body
           )
           hath
           yet
           his
           originall
           root
           and
           plantation
           in
           the
           soule
           ,
           whether
           wee
           consider
           the
           same
           in
           the
           power
           nutritiue
           for
           preseruation
           ,
           or
           in
           the
           augmentatiue
           for
           perfection
           ,
           or
           in
           the
           generatiue
           for
           multiplication
           ,
           we
           shall
           find
           it
           wholy
           to
           flow
           from
           this
           fountain
           :
           with
           the
           nutritiue
           power
           must
           concurre
           appetition
           ,
           digestion
           ,
           retention
           ,
           and
           expulsion
           :
           In
           digestion
           is
           required
           an
           immutation
           ,
           a
           formation
           ,
           and
           an
           assimilation
           ;
           in
           all
           which
           so
           necessarie
           and
           fundamentall
           functions
           of
           life
           ,
           the
           soule
           euidently
           blazeth
           foorth
           his
           effecting
           force
           ,
           sith
           neyther
           without
           a
           soule
           ,
           nor
           with
           any
           more
           soules
           than
           one
           ,
           the
           bodie
           of
           it selfe
           could
           possibly
           ,
           either
           so
           orderly
           and
           concordantly
           contriue
           his
           owne
           good
           by
           so
           helpfull
           meanes
           ,
           or
           performe
           such
           worthy
           actions
           by
           any
           natiue
           vigor
           .
           The
           sensitiue
           facultie
           is
           much
           more
           sensibly
           discerned
           to
           take
           discent
           from
           the
           soule
           .
           The
           sences
           are
           as
           the
           dores
           and
           windowes
           through
           and
           forth
           of
           the
           which
           he
           maketh
           his
           prospects
           and
           passages
           ;
           yea
           their
           attendance
           is
           so
           vnseparablie
           annexed
           vnto
           the
           soule
           ,
           that
           where
           he
           diuerteth
           himselfe
           ,
           and
           giueth
           no
           attention
           ,
           there
           the
           eye
           seeing
           seeth
           not
           ,
           the
           eare
           hearing
           heareth
           not
           ,
           and
           all
           other
           acts
           of
           any
           sences
           ,
           be
           voyd
           of
           perceiuing
           or
           apprehending
           .
        
         
           To
           discourse
           at
           large
           ,
           with
           full
           sailes
           ,
           how
           the
           sences
           do
           recommend
           their
           conceiuing
           vnto
           the
           fantasie
           ;
           how
           the
           fantasie
           deliuereth
           them
           ouer
           vnto
           the
           vnderstanding
           ;
           how
           the
           vnderstanding
           either
           absolutely
           iudgeth
           them
           by
           reason
           ,
           or
           erroniously
           mistaketh
           them
           by
           opinion
           ;
           how
           either
           reason
           or
           opinion
           ,
           exciteth
           
           affections
           ;
           how
           affections
           either
           aduised
           by
           deliberation
           ,
           or
           passionate
           by
           humors
           ,
           induceth
           the
           assent
           of
           the
           will
           ;
           and
           how
           the
           will
           commaundeth
           &
           enforceth
           motion
           and
           prosecution
           in
           all
           or
           any
           parts
           of
           the
           bobie
           :
           howsoeuer
           it
           might
           amplie
           and
           excellently
           illustrate
           the
           powerfull
           operations
           of
           the
           soule
           ,
           so
           orderly
           lincked
           ,
           cheyned
           ,
           and
           wrapped
           one
           within
           another
           :
           yet
           lest
           the
           delightsomnesse
           of
           following
           the
           tract
           of
           so
           well
           pleasing
           a
           theame
           ,
           should
           draw
           me
           too
           far
           out
           of
           my
           way
           ,
           I
           will
           wynd
           about
           againe
           ,
           by
           making
           a
           second
           suruey
           thereof
           ,
           in
           the
           matching
           to
           the
           same
           of
           mine
           applications
           .
           The
           gouerning
           preeminence
           of
           the
           estate
           ,
           
           though
           it
           be
           somtimes
           in
           like
           maner
           obscured
           ,
           and
           wronged
           by
           inferior
           deriuations
           ;
           yet
           such
           as
           can
           surmount
           the
           vulgar
           thoughts
           ,
           in
           reducing
           vnto
           one
           glorious
           and
           potent
           head
           of
           maiestie
           ,
           all
           the
           seuerall
           branchings
           and
           subalternations
           thereof
           ,
           shall
           easily
           find
           how
           agreeablie
           it
           holdeth
           semblance
           with
           the
           soule
           ,
           in
           this
           respect
           also
           ,
           as
           to
           be
           but
           one
           ,
           yet
           effecting
           all
           ,
           yea
           ,
           to
           be
           all
           in
           all
           ,
           and
           all
           in
           euery
           part
           of
           the
           bodie
           politique
           .
           There
           is
           not
           in
           the
           Commonwealth
           ,
           any
           the
           least
           synew
           for
           mocion
           ,
           the
           least
           vaine
           for
           norishment
           ,
           the
           least
           spirite
           for
           life
           and
           action
           ,
           the
           least
           strength
           for
           defence
           ,
           or
           offence
           ,
           the
           least
           member
           for
           vse
           and
           benefit
           ,
           which
           is
           not
           replenished
           with
           this
           power
           ,
           and
           sucketh
           from
           this
           ouerflowing
           cesterne
           ,
           all
           his
           subsistance
           and
           performance
           .
           (
           And
           if
           I
           thought
           it
           not
           vnfit
           to
           be
           ouer-curious
           in
           fitting
           exactly
           the
           particulers
           of
           each
           )
           I
           would
           not
           pretermit
           a
           more
           large
           comparing
           of
           them
           ,
           euen
           in
           their
           alike
           forces
           of
           vegetation
           also
           .
           Who
           seeth
           not
           ,
           
           that
           it
           belongeth
           to
           the
           office
           of
           Soueraignitie
           ,
           to
           prouide
           for
           the
           nourishing
           
           and
           mainteining
           of
           the
           state
           with
           necessaries
           ,
           to
           amplifie
           the
           dominions
           thereof
           ,
           for
           profit
           and
           dignitie
           ,
           to
           spread
           abroad
           the
           encrease
           of
           the
           people
           by
           Colonies
           ,
           in
           the
           nature
           of
           generating
           or
           propagating
           ,
           to
           cherish
           in
           the
           subiects
           an
           appetite
           of
           acquiring
           of
           commodities
           ,
           to
           graunt
           to
           them
           places
           of
           Mart
           and
           Market
           for
           the
           digesting
           of
           the
           same
           vnto
           all
           parts
           of
           the
           Realme
           ,
           and
           so
           to
           change
           forme
           and
           assimulate
           them
           to
           their
           most
           behoofe
           :
           to
           giue
           order
           for
           the
           holding
           and
           retaining
           of
           that
           which
           is
           become
           their
           well
           agreeing
           and
           naturall
           sustenance
           ,
           and
           for
           the
           expelling
           as
           well
           of
           the
           hurtfull
           ouercharge
           ,
           as
           the
           vnprofitable
           excrements
           of
           the
           weale
           publique
           .
           Will
           you
           yet
           see
           farther
           the
           soueraigne
           vertue
           of
           the
           Soueraigne
           power
           ,
           in
           all
           and
           euerie
           the
           parts
           of
           the
           State
           ?
           produce
           me
           any
           (
           though
           a
           person
           altogether
           priuate
           ,
           occupying
           but
           a
           roome
           or
           drawing
           breath
           in
           the
           Common
           wealth
           )
           that
           is
           not
           enforced
           both
           by
           foreseeing
           reason
           ,
           and
           after-prouing
           euents
           ,
           to
           acknowledge
           all
           his
           good
           whatsoeuer
           ,
           to
           be
           first
           giuen
           ,
           and
           then
           secured
           vnto
           him
           ,
           by
           the
           force
           of
           a
           well
           ordered
           gouernment
           ,
           out
           of
           the
           circle
           whereof
           there
           can
           be
           neither
           welfare
           ,
           nor
           safetie
           ,
           but
           contrariwise
           ,
           all
           confusion
           ,
           slaughter
           ,
           rapine
           ,
           and
           vniust
           bereauing
           of
           him
           of
           all
           that
           is
           or
           can
           be
           deare
           vnto
           him
           .
        
         
           But
           who
           so
           listeth
           to
           behold
           this
           Politicall
           soule
           of
           the
           State
           in
           his
           full
           royaltie
           and
           amplitude
           ,
           let
           him
           looke
           vpon
           his
           more
           noble
           parts
           ,
           the
           sensuall
           and
           intellectuall
           ;
           
           the
           according
           and
           conforming
           whereof
           to
           his
           important
           vses
           ,
           maketh
           the
           
             Gordian
          
           knot
           of
           a
           powerfull
           and
           peacefull
           blessednes
           .
           Then
           the
           Soueraignitie
           (
           mouing
           ,
           working
           ,
           &
           ruling
           in
           his
           three
           estates
           )
           matcheth
           well
           the
           three
           headed
           
             Gerion
             ,
          
           whom
           
             Iustine
          
           
           interpreteth
           to
           signifie
           the
           vnion
           of
           three
           louing
           brethren
           ;
           then
           it
           seeth
           more
           than
           the
           hundreth
           eyes
           of
           
             Argus
             ,
          
           and
           acteth
           more
           than
           the
           hundreth
           handes
           of
           
             Briareus
             .
          
           All
           Subiects
           will
           ,
           as
           the
           sences
           ,
           play
           the
           espials
           and
           intelligencers
           ;
           as
           the
           members
           ,
           be
           stirred
           and
           commaunded
           in
           cases
           of
           imployment
           ;
           and
           as
           the
           spirits
           imaginatiue
           ,
           propose
           for
           apprehension
           ,
           the
           true
           shapes
           and
           formes
           of
           things
           ,
           either
           pleasing
           and
           eligible
           ,
           or
           hurtfull
           and
           auoydable
           .
        
         
           The
           Councellors
           of
           State
           like
           the
           vnderstanding
           facultie
           ,
           
           applye
           all
           their
           endeuours
           to
           aduance
           the
           glorie
           ,
           and
           further
           the
           enterprises
           of
           this
           their
           ruling
           soule
           ,
           being
           themselues
           also
           by
           his
           supreame
           reason
           to
           be
           ordered
           ,
           or
           iudged
           in
           their
           right
           or
           wrong
           conceiuings
           .
        
         
           The
           fauorites
           of
           a
           Prince
           may
           be
           resembled
           to
           the
           fantasies
           of
           the
           Soule
           ,
           
           wherewith
           he
           sporteth
           and
           delighteth
           himselfe
           ;
           which
           to
           doe
           (
           so
           the
           integritie
           of
           iudgement
           ,
           and
           Maiestie
           of
           State
           be
           reteyned
           )
           is
           in
           neither
           of
           both
           reproueable
           .
           Which
           of
           vs
           is
           there
           that
           doth
           not
           (
           especially
           in
           matters
           rather
           pleasing
           than
           important
           )
           follow
           and
           feed
           his
           fantasies
           ,
           giue
           scope
           vnto
           them
           ,
           suffer
           them
           to
           preuaile
           with
           him
           ,
           reckoning
           it
           a
           great
           part
           of
           his
           contentment
           to
           haue
           them
           satisfied
           ?
           I
           will
           refraine
           to
           presse
           the
           application
           farther
           than
           the
           well
           taught
           Subiects
           will
           of
           themselues
           conceiue
           .
           There
           must
           be
           no
           despitefull
           enuying
           at
           the
           Soueraignes
           fauorites
           :
           as
           they
           be
           to
           him
           the
           recreating
           comforts
           choicely
           selected
           ;
           acceptablie
           to
           consort
           withall
           ;
           so
           their
           enriching
           ,
           aduauncing
           ,
           and
           gracing
           ,
           with
           the
           cleerest
           signes
           of
           their
           Soueraignes
           loue
           ,
           is
           not
           onely
           allowable
           ,
           but
           plainely
           necessarie
           ,
           
           sith
           they
           cannot
           walke
           continually
           in
           the
           Sunne
           ,
           but
           they
           must
           needs
           be
           coloured
           .
        
         
           The
           will
           of
           the
           Soueraigne
           in
           the
           decreeing
           or
           enacting
           of
           Lawes
           ,
           
           holdeth
           the
           like
           right
           as
           the
           will
           of
           the
           soule
           doth
           in
           the
           perfourming
           the
           resolues
           of
           reason
           .
           Allow
           that
           the
           Soule
           were
           now
           in
           his
           first
           cleere
           sighted
           innocencie
           ,
           it
           could
           not
           will
           or
           affect
           any
           thing
           that
           were
           not
           absolute
           reason
           :
           So
           were
           Soueraignes
           vncorrupted
           with
           that
           all-taynting
           canker
           of
           sinne
           ,
           and
           free
           from
           euery
           humane
           infirmitie
           ,
           their
           will
           alone
           were
           vndoubted
           law
           &
           Iustice
           ;
           but
           on
           the
           other
           side
           ,
           when
           reason
           (
           whose
           office
           it
           is
           to
           shew
           the
           right
           )
           is
           vanquished
           by
           the
           errours
           of
           misconceiuing
           ,
           then
           the
           will
           by
           such
           bad
           direction
           is
           driuen
           to
           sinne
           in
           his
           designed
           works
           :
           So
           where
           the
           iudgement
           of
           the
           Soueraigne
           swarueth
           from
           sinceritie
           of
           true
           discerning
           ,
           there
           his
           will
           and
           all
           decrees
           ,
           or
           executions
           following
           the
           same
           ,
           must
           of
           necessitie
           be
           culpable
           and
           turne
           to
           wrong
           .
           Wherefore
           sith
           it
           will
           not
           be
           gainsaid
           ,
           but
           that
           Soueraignes
           through
           their
           naturall
           frailties
           ,
           are
           subiect
           as
           well
           to
           the
           imbecillitie
           of
           iudgement
           ,
           as
           also
           to
           sensuall
           and
           irrationall
           mocions
           ,
           rising
           out
           of
           the
           infectious
           mudd
           of
           flesh
           and
           bloud
           ,
           (
           the
           obseruance
           of
           which
           tainte
           in
           mans
           nature
           ,
           caused
           
             Plato
          
           to
           say
           ,
           
           That
           the
           bodie
           was
           more
           in
           the
           soule
           ,
           than
           the
           soule
           in
           the
           bodie
           )
           and
           that
           such
           their
           defects
           may
           well
           disable
           them
           ,
           from
           either
           attayning
           vnto
           ,
           or
           retayning
           firmely
           the
           precise
           points
           of
           perfect
           Iustice
           :
           How
           both
           prudently
           and
           louingly
           do
           those
           Soueraignes
           gouerne
           ,
           who
           neither
           taking
           to
           themselues
           that
           absolutenes
           of
           sole
           power
           in
           law-giuing
           ,
           which
           by
           some
           (
           being
           indeed
           of
           too
           hard
           a
           temper
           )
           is
           colourably
           ,
           claymed
           to
           
           be
           originall
           and
           hereditarie
           to
           their
           places
           ;
           neither
           trusting
           too
           much
           to
           their
           owne
           sufficiencies
           ,
           either
           of
           wisedome
           or
           vprightnes
           ,
           (
           which
           seldome
           be
           without
           some
           admixture
           of
           imperfections
           )
           do
           at
           the
           making
           of
           Statutes
           and
           ordinances
           ,
           assemble
           for
           consultation
           and
           consent
           ,
           a
           full
           assistance
           of
           the
           noblest
           and
           choisest
           aduisours
           that
           the
           State
           affourdeth
           :
           thereby
           drawing
           supplies
           out
           of
           their
           politicall
           bodie
           ,
           to
           make
           good
           what
           wanteth
           in
           their
           naturall
           ?
        
         
           From
           the
           errors
           of
           inferior
           sences
           ,
           the
           conceit
           of
           the
           common
           sence
           receiueth
           much
           misinforming
           ,
           
           which
           in
           the
           end
           and
           by
           degrees
           reacheth
           a
           seducement
           to
           the
           soule
           it selfe
           :
           So
           may
           the
           Soueraigne
           vnwittingly
           by
           wrong
           reports
           of
           some
           neer
           about
           him
           ,
           be
           misled
           from
           the
           knowledge
           of
           the
           trueth
           ,
           into
           many
           misbeleeuings
           .
           The
           humors
           of
           the
           bodie
           do
           often
           forciblie
           preuaile
           in
           the
           working
           and
           stirring
           of
           the
           mind
           ;
           
           whereupon
           some
           Philosophers
           haue
           tyed
           the
           soule
           vnto
           the
           temperature
           of
           the
           bodie
           :
           So
           the
           customes
           and
           inclinations
           of
           the
           people
           in
           each
           Countrie
           ,
           hath
           otherwhile
           no
           smal
           force
           in
           the
           inclyning
           of
           the
           Soueraignes
           disposition
           ,
           if
           not
           to
           approue
           ,
           yet
           to
           tollerate
           some
           imperfections
           .
           The
           mind
           must
           not
           suffer
           it selfe
           ,
           for
           want
           of
           resolution
           ,
           
           to
           be
           distracted
           by
           diuersitie
           of
           vndiscussed
           opinions
           ,
           as
           wauering
           and
           wandering
           without
           iudgement
           ,
           hauing
           warre
           within
           it selfe
           :
           So
           the
           gouernour
           may
           not
           well
           admit
           or
           harken
           vnto
           different
           and
           factious
           sectes
           ,
           tending
           to
           the
           disturbing
           and
           instabilitie
           of
           his
           gouernment
           .
           The
           affections
           so
           long
           as
           they
           be
           obedient
           vnto
           reason
           ,
           
           standeth
           the
           soule
           in
           great
           steede
           ;
           but
           if
           they
           become
           violent
           and
           vnrulie
           ,
           then
           (
           of
           their
           disordering
           ,
           and
           disturbing
           of
           the
           minds
           tranquillitie
           )
           
           they
           be
           rightly
           tearmed
           perturbations
           .
           Such
           is
           the
           Soueraignes
           case
           ;
           If
           the
           people
           be
           tractable
           ,
           and
           truely
           seruiceable
           ,
           with
           all
           dutious
           subiection
           ,
           in
           the
           nature
           of
           right
           alleagiance
           ,
           then
           as
           louing
           subiects
           ,
           by
           their
           forwardnesse
           in
           cooperating
           with
           him
           ,
           they
           giue
           strength
           and
           stay
           vnto
           his
           gouernment
           :
           but
           if
           they
           turne
           mutinous
           and
           tumultuous
           ,
           troubling
           the
           gouernour
           and
           State
           with
           seditious
           disorders
           ,
           then
           be
           they
           as
           Rebels
           by
           the
           Iustice
           of
           the
           law
           to
           be
           suppressed
           ,
           euen
           as
           the
           perturbations
           of
           the
           mind
           must
           be
           subdued
           by
           reason
           ,
           which
           alone
           is
           that
           powerfull
           
             Pallas
          
           that
           bestoweth
           her
           golden
           bridle
           vpon
           
             Bellorophon
             ,
          
           
           to
           rule
           therewith
           that
           fierce
           and
           haughtie
           
             Pegasus
             .
          
           The
           force
           of
           these
           headie
           and
           giddie
           perturbations
           is
           tyrannously
           extreame
           ,
           and
           that
           not
           onelie
           in
           the
           common
           sort
           of
           men
           ,
           (
           whom
           like
           to
           a
           heard
           of
           Swine
           ,
           they
           whirle
           headlong
           into
           a
           Sea
           of
           vices
           )
           but
           also
           in
           persons
           of
           the
           best
           qualitie
           ,
           whose
           resistance
           proueth
           oft
           too
           faint
           to
           escape
           ,
           or
           keepe
           off
           such
           violent
           inuasions
           as
           suppresseth
           and
           vanquisheth
           euen
           reason
           it selfe
           :
           So
           is
           the
           Soueraigne
           sometimes
           by
           Traytors
           and
           Reuolters
           surprised
           and
           constrained
           vnnaturally
           and
           vnlawfully
           ,
           to
           the
           interruption
           of
           his
           gouernment
           ,
           and
           ruinating
           of
           the
           State.
           Opinion
           is
           the
           forerunner
           (
           if
           not
           the
           father
           )
           of
           affections
           ,
           
           himselfe
           a
           verie
           misbegotten
           ,
           between
           Selfe-loue
           the
           mother
           ,
           and
           Supposall
           the
           sire
           ,
           which
           (
           like
           an
           amorous
           make-loue
           )
           woeth
           at
           once
           both
           the
           virgin
           Truth
           ,
           and
           the
           harlot
           Errour
           ,
           yet
           affianced
           to
           neither
           ,
           hath
           but
           vnperfect
           notions
           betwixt
           both
           ;
           from
           which
           notions
           notwithstanding
           ,
           as
           the
           same
           shall
           apprehend
           a
           conceit
           of
           good
           or
           euill
           ,
           the
           affections
           taking
           motion
           ,
           do
           start
           forth
           ,
           putting
           
           themselues
           in
           readines
           ,
           to
           repell
           the
           imagined
           euill
           ,
           and
           to
           embrace
           the
           seeming
           good
           .
           Vpon
           the
           surmise
           of
           good
           ,
           Appetites
           are
           excited
           :
           These
           be
           the
           attendants
           ,
           and
           as
           it
           were
           the
           Courtiers
           of
           the
           soule
           ,
           
           who
           immoderately
           seeking
           to
           satisfie
           their
           own
           desires
           ,
           giueth
           the
           soule
           no
           rest
           ,
           till
           he
           bestow
           all
           his
           faculties
           of
           vnderstanding
           wit
           ,
           and
           deuise
           ,
           to
           accomplish
           their
           requests
           :
           Princes
           seldome
           want
           the
           Apes
           of
           such
           appetites
           ,
           that
           is
           to
           say
           ,
           begging
           and
           flattering
           petitioners
           ,
           pleasing
           and
           applauding
           Parasites
           ,
           who
           vsing
           all
           cunning
           insinuating
           ,
           are
           neuer
           without
           their
           varietie
           of
           sutes
           ,
           to
           aduance
           their
           owne
           good
           ,
           howsoeuer
           their
           Soueraigne
           be
           thereby
           either
           impouerished
           or
           dishonored
           .
           Vpon
           the
           opinion
           of
           euill
           ariseth
           that
           hidious
           &
           snakie
           head
           of
           
             Medusa
             ,
          
           fearfull
           ,
           fretfull
           ,
           greeuing
           ,
           carefull
           ,
           repining
           ,
           and
           dispairing
           thoughts
           ,
           filling
           the
           soule
           with
           the
           horror
           of
           much
           discomfiture
           ;
           such
           malecontents
           and
           froward
           cinicks
           the
           Soueraigne
           oft
           is
           pestered
           with
           ,
           
           who
           neuer
           well
           pleased
           with
           the
           aucthorized
           proceedings
           ,
           (
           though
           most
           approueable
           )
           doe
           still
           feed
           vpon
           their
           owne
           disliking
           conceits
           ,
           and
           will
           alwaies
           with
           the
           Keistrell
           ,
           flie
           against
           the
           winde
           ,
           making
           their
           opposicion
           (
           by
           clamorous
           complaints
           )
           against
           aucthoritie
           .
           These
           affections
           of
           both
           sorts
           ,
           being
           in
           their
           originall
           altogether
           oppinionat
           ,
           will
           sometimes
           (
           by
           reason
           of
           the
           neerenesse
           that
           opinion
           hath
           vnto
           reason
           )
           make
           bold
           to
           alleage
           reason
           for
           themselues
           ,
           
           and
           will
           seeme
           to
           be
           iudicious
           &
           iust
           in
           their
           intendements
           .
           This
           wanteth
           not
           his
           semblance
           (
           as
           in
           the
           natures
           before
           described
           )
           so
           chiefely
           in
           some
           Traitors
           of
           better
           place
           ,
           who
           knowing
           their
           dignities
           in
           neernesse
           to
           the
           Prince
           ,
           and
           of
           commaund
           in
           their
           Countries
           ,
           will
           take
           vpon
           them
           
           (
           though
           intending
           their
           owne
           end
           )
           to
           pretend
           equitie
           &
           honestie
           ,
           yea
           ,
           and
           the
           Soueraignes
           aucthoritie
           also
           ,
           giuing
           out
           a
           populer
           pretext
           of
           publique
           good
           ,
           onely
           to
           make
           way
           thereby
           to
           their
           foule
           treasons
           .
        
         
           The
           mind
           hath
           yet
           one
           endowment
           more
           ,
           which
           almost
           equalleth
           all
           the
           rest
           ;
           
           which
           is
           a
           faithfull
           memorie
           of
           his
           fore-attainted
           knowledges
           ,
           in
           whose
           good
           trust
           and
           custodie
           ,
           he
           treasureth
           vp
           all
           his
           rich
           acquirings
           :
           what
           semblance
           there
           is
           thereof
           also
           in
           the
           soule
           of
           State
           ,
           it
           cannot
           be
           obscure
           .
           The
           Soueraigne
           is
           well
           stored
           with
           remembrancers
           ,
           nothing
           passeth
           from
           him
           ,
           or
           setleth
           in
           him
           but
           by
           record
           ;
           All
           his
           seates
           of
           Iudgement
           entereth
           and
           preserueth
           the
           proceedings
           in
           causes
           ;
           and
           to
           forge
           ,
           corrupt
           ,
           or
           embezill
           the
           Recordes
           (
           whereof
           any
           good
           gouernment
           hath
           a
           tender
           and
           strict
           regard
           )
           what
           is
           it
           else
           ,
           Than
           as
           if
           the
           memorie
           should
           be
           cleane
           taken
           from
           the
           mind
           ,
           to
           the
           which
           it
           is
           vnseperable
           ,
           or
           should
           become
           a
           lying
           misreporter
           ;
           which
           nor
           his
           nature
           ,
           nor
           his
           office
           can
           endure
           .
        
         
           These
           faculties
           the
           soule
           doth
           shew
           and
           exercise
           ,
           in
           and
           with
           the
           organs
           of
           the
           body
           ,
           but
           he
           hath
           a
           farther
           and
           more
           inlarged
           force
           ,
           
           beyond
           &
           without
           the
           compasse
           of
           any
           concreat
           or
           materiall
           substance
           ,
           as
           abstracting
           and
           segregating
           himselfe
           to
           his
           owne
           puritie
           ,
           and
           aduaunced
           thereby
           to
           a
           more
           neere
           resemblanee
           of
           the
           diuine
           nature
           .
           For
           as
           we
           rightly
           conceiue
           of
           God
           ,
           that
           albeit
           he
           worketh
           efficiently
           ,
           and
           (
           if
           I
           may
           so
           say
           )
           naturally
           ,
           by
           the
           mediate
           causes
           ,
           yet
           his
           potencie
           is
           not
           so
           by
           them
           tied
           or
           confined
           ,
           but
           that
           he
           often
           performeth
           his
           owne
           pleasure
           by
           extraordinarie
           meanes
           ,
           drawne
           out
           of
           his
           absolute
           power
           ,
           both
           
             preter
             &
             contra
             naturam
          
           :
           So
           the
           soule
           ,
           besides
           his
           vsuall
           &
           functionarie
           operations
           ,
           
           in
           and
           by
           the
           ministerial
           abilities
           of
           the
           body
           ,
           hath
           other
           peculiar
           motions
           and
           actions
           of
           his
           owne
           ,
           neither
           aided
           nor
           impeached
           by
           any
           corporiall
           assistance
           or
           resistance
           .
        
         
           To
           this
           likenesse
           of
           God
           and
           the
           soule
           ,
           let
           vs
           also
           shape
           our
           Soueraigntie
           :
           which
           (
           besides
           that
           which
           is
           regular
           in
           regiment
           ,
           and
           from
           his
           power
           and
           goodnes
           imparted
           vnto
           the
           people
           )
           hath
           still
           ,
           and
           reteineth
           to
           it selfe
           certaine
           prerogatiue
           rights
           of
           most
           ample
           extentions
           ,
           and
           most
           free
           exemptions
           ,
           whereof
           true
           reuerence
           (
           filled
           with
           all
           submissiue
           acknowledgements
           ,
           and
           contented
           with
           that
           portion
           and
           interest
           which
           it
           receiueth
           from
           regalitie
           )
           admitteth
           no
           questioning
           disputes
           ,
           and
           whereof
           iust
           gouernours
           do
           not
           so
           farre
           inlarge
           the
           lists
           ,
           as
           to
           do
           what
           they
           lust
           ,
           but
           do
           so
           moderate
           the
           vse
           (
           as
           God
           in
           the
           world
           ,
           and
           the
           Soule
           in
           the
           body
           )
           not
           to
           the
           impeach
           ,
           but
           to
           the
           support
           of
           iustice
           ;
           not
           to
           the
           hurt
           ,
           but
           to
           the
           good
           of
           subiects
           .
        
         
           Thus
           hauing
           perused
           the
           seuerall
           parts
           and
           properties
           of
           the
           soule
           ,
           together
           with
           the
           likenesse
           and
           correspondēce
           of
           soueraigntie
           therto
           ;
           not
           without
           touching
           also
           the
           dangers
           and
           declinations
           whereunto
           they
           both
           are
           subiect
           :
           I
           should
           (
           if
           I
           were
           not
           tied
           within
           a
           teather
           ,
           and
           thereby
           restrained
           from
           al
           affectionate
           discoursing
           or
           dilating
           )
           frame
           vnto
           them
           both
           some
           hortatorie
           admonition
           vnto
           circumspect
           demeanure
           ,
           for
           the
           preuenting
           of
           ensnaring
           euils
           ,
           and
           reprochfull
           obloquies
           .
           
           O
           let
           not
           the
           pure
           substance
           of
           the
           soule
           ,
           for
           some
           few
           his
           imperfections
           be
           vnpurely
           censured
           :
           so
           neither
           the
           deare
           reputation
           of
           anointed
           maiestie
           maliciously
           traduced
           by
           some
           slender
           imputations
           .
           If
           vppon
           some
           displeasing
           occasions
           his
           anger
           be
           enkindled
           ,
           shall
           any
           
           
             Zeno
          
           dare
           to
           say
           of
           him
           (
           as
           of
           the
           soule
           )
           That
           hee
           is
           all
           fire
           ?
           If
           he
           should
           bee
           thought
           somewhat
           to
           offend
           in
           softlinesse
           and
           effeminatnes
           ,
           will
           the
           Philosopher
           
             Hippias
          
           (
           as
           he
           defined
           the
           soule
           )
           so
           slaunder
           him
           to
           be
           but
           water
           ?
           If
           he
           could
           be
           noted
           for
           a
           little
           leuitie
           and
           vnconstancie
           ,
           must
           there
           needs
           bee
           found
           out
           straight
           some
           
             Anaximenes
             ,
          
           to
           terme
           him
           as
           he
           conceiued
           of
           the
           soule
           ,
           to
           bee
           wauering
           and
           fleeting
           ayre
           ?
           If
           caringly
           he
           regard
           the
           support
           of
           his
           high
           port
           ,
           by
           attending
           his
           profits
           ,
           and
           looking
           to
           his
           prouisions
           ,
           is
           hee
           to
           be
           concluded
           and
           pronounced
           ,
           as
           
             Zenophantes
          
           thought
           the
           soule
           ,
           to
           be
           concreat
           of
           earth
           ?
           How
           much
           better
           were
           it
           rather
           to
           apply
           vnto
           the
           Soueraigne
           the
           opinion
           which
           
             Aristotle
          
           held
           of
           the
           soule
           ,
           that
           he
           consisteth
           of
           the
           pure
           and
           excellentest
           essence
           ,
           being
           to
           be
           accounted
           scant
           any
           humane
           creature
           ,
           
           but
           wholy
           of
           a
           celestiall
           temper
           ,
           as
           from
           thence
           both
           originally
           ordained
           ,
           &
           daily
           gouerned
           ?
           or
           to
           make
           him
           hold
           comparison
           with
           the
           soule
           ,
           in
           that
           supremest
           title
           (
           which
           
             Euripides
          
           durst
           bestow
           vppon
           the
           soule
           )
           euen
           to
           be
           a
           God.
           For
           which
           appellation
           to
           bee
           bestowed
           vppon
           the
           Soueraigne
           ,
           the
           God
           of
           gods
           hath
           giuen
           vs
           a
           warrant
           beyond
           all
           warrants
           ,
           The
           manifold
           and
           mightie
           effects
           ,
           which
           in
           ,
           and
           for
           the
           body
           politique
           ,
           this
           states
           soule
           performeth
           ,
           doth
           ratifie
           the
           same
           by
           reason
           also
           .
           Is
           not
           the
           body
           of
           it selfe
           a
           confused
           lump
           ,
           vnformed
           ,
           sencelesse
           ,
           witlesse
           ,
           and
           destitute
           of
           all
           helping
           meanes
           to
           mayntaine
           it selfe
           from
           perishing
           and
           vtter
           dissoluing
           ?
           and
           doth
           not
           this
           soule
           (
           setting
           to
           worke
           all
           his
           assisting
           powers
           )
           quicken
           it
           ,
           moue
           it
           ,
           care
           for
           it
           ,
           prouide
           for
           it
           ,
           cherish
           it
           with
           his
           loue
           ,
           furnish
           it
           with
           his
           gifts
           ,
           gouerne
           it
           with
           his
           wisdome
           ,
           establish
           it
           with
           his
           iustice
           ,
           &
           protect
           
           it
           with
           his
           puissance
           ?
           If
           then
           he
           bee
           the
           deriuatiue
           ,
           and
           (
           as
           it
           were
           )
           a
           diminitiue
           of
           the
           mightie
           God
           ,
           shall
           not
           his
           vassals
           (
           both
           respectiuely
           to
           his
           so
           high
           entitelings
           ,
           
           &
           gratefully
           for
           his
           great
           deseruings
           )
           refraine
           their
           rashnesse
           of
           deeming
           and
           dooming
           in
           his
           doings
           ?
           and
           rather
           reuerently
           recognize
           the
           blessed
           benefits
           that
           bindeth
           them
           to
           loue
           ,
           than
           with
           a
           Gyant-like
           presumption
           seeke
           to
           depraue
           his
           sacred
           estimation
           ?
           to
           accumilate
           calumnies
           and
           detractions
           against
           the
           Soueraigne
           (
           so
           to
           abase
           and
           pull
           downe
           maiestie
           )
           is
           like
           to
           the
           pyling
           vp
           of
           hill
           vppon
           hill
           ,
           to
           warre
           with
           heauen
           :
           and
           it
           may
           be
           better
           called
           petit
           blasphemie
           ,
           for
           a
           subiect
           to
           blemish
           the
           Soueraigne
           with
           soule
           aspersions
           ,
           than
           it
           is
           called
           petit
           treason
           for
           a
           seruant
           to
           slay
           his
           master
           ;
           sith
           the
           dutie
           and
           priuitie
           betweene
           them
           is
           more
           astringent
           ,
           and
           the
           offences
           against
           a
           dietie
           hath
           an
           infinitie
           of
           sinne
           .
        
         
           There
           is
           a
           question
           amongst
           the
           Philosophers
           ,
           where
           and
           in
           what
           part
           of
           the
           body
           the
           soule
           should
           bee
           seated
           ;
           some
           place
           it
           in
           the
           head
           ,
           
           as
           in
           the
           highest
           towre
           ,
           with
           his
           chiefe
           informers
           ,
           aduisors
           and
           assistants
           round
           about
           him
           ;
           some
           in
           the
           heart
           ,
           as
           the
           middest
           of
           his
           kingdome
           ,
           from
           thence
           to
           spread
           and
           distribute
           life
           and
           spirit
           more
           readily
           to
           all
           the
           parts
           ;
           and
           others
           alotting
           to
           it
           no
           chiefe
           seat
           at
           all
           ,
           extendeth
           it
           equally
           vnto
           all
           ,
           though
           it
           shew
           it selfe
           in
           each
           member
           differently
           as
           their
           capacities
           or
           abilities
           will
           permit
           ,
           as
           if
           it
           therein
           also
           were
           in
           similitude
           with
           God
           himselfe
           ,
           who
           being
           by
           the
           infinitie
           of
           his
           essence
           ,
           euery
           where
           ,
           yet
           is
           no
           where
           circumscribed
           ,
           bounded
           with
           no
           including
           limits
           ,
           or
           more
           certainly
           in
           one
           place
           than
           in
           another
           :
           but
           as
           God
           is
           sayd
           to
           haue
           his
           center
           euery
           where
           ,
           his
           
           circumference
           no
           where
           ;
           to
           be
           in
           all
           places
           ,
           yet
           not
           placed
           ;
           and
           with
           euery
           thing
           ,
           yet
           mixed
           with
           nothing
           :
           So
           the
           soule
           communicating
           to
           all
           the
           parts
           his
           essentiall
           nature
           ,
           is
           not
           encompassed
           by
           any
           part
           ,
           nor
           is
           not
           more
           present
           in
           any
           one
           than
           in
           all
           .
           And
           as
           God
           (
           notwithstanding
           such
           his
           vnmeasureable
           infinitenes
           of
           being
           euery
           where
           )
           is
           often
           said
           possitiuely
           ,
           &
           namely
           there
           to
           be
           ,
           wher
           he
           maketh
           the
           more
           apparance
           of
           his
           presence
           :
           So
           the
           soule
           may
           be
           said
           there
           to
           be
           resiant
           ,
           where
           his
           force
           and
           efficiencies
           be
           most
           discerned
           ;
           when
           he
           attendeth
           the
           discussing
           of
           Intelligence
           and
           reason
           ,
           then
           is
           his
           chaire
           of
           estate
           placed
           in
           the
           vpper
           house
           ,
           and
           so
           seemeth
           to
           dwell
           in
           the
           head
           .
           When
           he
           betaketh
           himselfe
           to
           matter
           of
           Action
           ,
           or
           followeth
           the
           feruencie
           of
           affections
           ,
           then
           he
           is
           thought
           to
           be
           conteined
           within
           the
           irascible
           part
           enwalled
           in
           the
           breast
           ,
           and
           issuing
           chiefely
           from
           the
           hart
           ;
           when
           he
           falleth
           lower
           to
           the
           place
           of
           bestiall
           concupiscence
           ,
           then
           he
           there
           also
           discouereth
           his
           presence
           in
           those
           inferior
           parts
           .
           And
           (
           in
           a
           word
           )
           according
           to
           the
           aptnesse
           or
           appliablenesse
           of
           any
           part
           ,
           wheresoeuer
           he
           acteth
           ,
           there
           he
           is
           :
           because
           (
           as
           
             Aristotle
          
           teacheth
           )
           the
           efficient
           must
           conioyne
           vnto
           the
           effect
           ,
           &
           the
           mouer
           to
           the
           moued
           .
        
         
           If
           any
           desire
           to
           vnderstand
           how
           this
           discourse
           of
           the
           Soules
           either
           larger
           dilatation
           of
           himselfe
           throughout
           the
           whole
           bodie
           ,
           or
           of
           his
           more
           especiall
           appropriating
           of
           his
           presence
           and
           worke
           vnto
           particuler
           parts
           ,
           will
           accord
           by
           comparison
           with
           Soueraigntie
           in
           a
           State
           ciuill
           ;
           let
           him
           in
           like
           sort
           examine
           how
           fitly
           the
           name
           of
           the
           head
           agreeth
           with
           the
           nature
           of
           a
           Soueraigne
           ;
           and
           how
           properly
           the
           heart
           patterneth
           the
           preeminence
           ,
           and
           how
           he
           doth
           seuerally
           conuey
           and
           impart
           to
           any
           
           part
           of
           his
           dominions
           ,
           the
           verie
           essentiall
           faculties
           of
           his
           gouernment
           ;
           without
           the
           which
           no
           people
           can
           euer
           as
           subiects
           raunge
           themselues
           into
           the
           order
           ,
           and
           communitie
           of
           humane
           societie
           ,
           howsoeuer
           ,
           as
           men
           ,
           or
           rather
           as
           wild
           sauages
           ,
           they
           may
           perhaps
           breath
           a
           while
           vpon
           the
           earth
           .
           It
           is
           a
           truth
           ,
           that
           as
           the
           Soule
           ,
           so
           the
           power
           of
           principalitie
           in
           gouernment
           ,
           (
           though
           shewing
           it selfe
           in
           diuerse
           manner
           ,
           as
           the
           varietie
           of
           euents
           ministreth
           occasion
           )
           yet
           in
           all
           points
           ,
           and
           all
           parts
           is
           all
           one
           .
           And
           that
           a
           righteous
           Soueraigne
           (
           as
           the
           soule
           doth
           in
           defending
           and
           succouring
           any
           the
           least
           member
           from
           destruction
           and
           harme
           )
           hath
           an
           vnpartiall
           and
           most
           respectiue
           care
           ,
           which
           extendeth
           it selfe
           (
           as
           God
           and
           the
           Soule
           doth
           )
           vniuersally
           to
           the
           whole
           ,
           and
           particulerly
           to
           each
           member
           indiuiduall
           .
           The
           which
           point
           of
           so
           large
           dilating
           his
           force
           ,
           (
           to
           the
           resemblance
           of
           such
           two
           patterns
           in
           a
           manner
           secresed
           and
           vnseene
           )
           if
           I
           might
           haue
           leaue
           to
           straine
           a
           little
           farther
           ,
           I
           could
           haue
           it
           serue
           me
           also
           thus
           far
           ,
           as
           (
           at
           the
           least
           )
           to
           make
           a
           shew
           in
           that
           question
           propounded
           by
           some
           great
           Clerks
           in
           policie
           ,
           touching
           the
           Princes
           ouer
           prodigall
           imparting
           of
           his
           presence
           amongst
           his
           people
           :
           For
           seeing
           that
           both
           God
           and
           the
           Soule
           ,
           
           working
           so
           vnlimitably
           ,
           be
           yet
           vndiscerned
           ,
           in
           their
           essence
           ,
           as
           hidden
           and
           concealed
           from
           the
           eyes
           of
           men
           ;
           it
           may
           seeme
           to
           stand
           more
           with
           maiestie
           ,
           
           and
           to
           work
           more
           regarding
           ,
           more
           admiring
           ,
           and
           more
           adoring
           ,
           if
           (
           howsoeuer
           their
           power
           in
           operating
           doth
           shew
           it selfe
           )
           yet
           their
           presence
           be
           more
           sparingly
           &
           lesse
           familiarly
           vouchsafed
           .
           What
           is
           become
           ordinarie
           ,
           that
           we
           vse
           either
           neglectingly
           to
           contemne
           ,
           or
           fastidiously
           to
           dislike
           ;
           as
           on
           the
           other
           side
           ,
           what
           hath
           for
           strangenesse
           
           a
           noueltie
           ,
           for
           worth
           a
           dignitie
           ,
           and
           for
           attayning
           a
           difficultie
           ,
           is
           more
           desiringly
           ,
           and
           more
           admiringly
           esteemed
           .
           Hence
           ariseth
           in
           the
           minds
           of
           subiects
           such
           egernesse
           and
           longing
           to
           satisfie
           their
           sences
           in
           the
           seeing
           ,
           hearing
           ,
           and
           well
           knowing
           of
           their
           Soueraigne
           ,
           as
           if
           they
           were
           to
           seeke
           after
           the
           head
           of
           
             Nilus
             ,
          
           which
           sendeth
           them
           the
           ouerflow
           of
           their
           plentie
           ;
           or
           after
           the
           
             primum
             mobile
          
           of
           the
           world
           ,
           which
           gouerneth
           the
           conuersions
           and
           fortunes
           of
           their
           life
           .
           It
           is
           herof
           concluded
           ,
           that
           a
           Soueraigne
           the
           lesse
           he
           is
           exposed
           to
           publique
           obseruance
           ,
           the
           more
           he
           is
           presupposed
           to
           excell
           in
           amplitude
           of
           glorie
           :
           neuerthelesse
           it
           being
           so
           commendable
           a
           vertue
           in
           a
           gouernour
           to
           haue
           such
           a
           facilitie
           and
           goodnesse
           of
           nature
           ,
           as
           (
           remitting
           the
           high
           cariage
           of
           his
           greatnesse
           )
           yeeldeth
           to
           his
           people
           with
           an
           affable
           gentlenesse
           easie
           approach
           for
           enterlocution
           .
           I
           cannot
           tell
           whether
           the
           contrarie
           sternenesse
           (
           in
           haughtily
           shunning
           or
           repulsing
           their
           aspect
           )
           will
           not
           haue
           (
           in
           the
           euen
           eye
           of
           a
           well
           regarding
           policie
           )
           the
           greater
           disallowing
           .
           Now
           let
           vs
           passe
           on
           to
           peruse
           the
           comparisons
           ,
           taken
           from
           the
           head
           .
        
         
           
             Plato
          
           imagined
           man
           to
           be
           an
           heauenlie
           plant
           ;
           
           his
           head
           to
           be
           the
           roote
           ;
           
           his
           bulke
           ,
           the
           stocke
           ;
           his
           armes
           and
           leggs
           the
           branches
           ;
           and
           his
           root
           to
           draw
           his
           sapp
           from
           the
           heauens
           to
           feede
           therewith
           the
           vnder
           parts
           ,
           spreading
           downeward
           towardes
           the
           earth
           .
           Such
           a
           plantation
           do
           I
           conceiue
           in
           the
           institution
           of
           a
           State
           politique
           :
           the
           soueraign
           head
           to
           be
           designed
           ,
           inspired
           ,
           depending
           ,
           and
           protected
           from
           aboue
           ;
           and
           the
           body
           with
           the
           out-growing
           parts
           thereof
           ,
           to
           receiue
           nourishment
           ,
           strength
           ,
           florishing
           ,
           and
           fruitfulnes
           from
           that
           root
           of
           a
           rightfull
           regiment
           .
           If
           the
           root
           thriue
           ,
           sucking
           
           abundantly
           of
           his
           heauenlie
           nutriment
           ,
           the
           plant
           must
           needes
           prosper
           ,
           and
           cannot
           do
           amisse
           :
           but
           if
           the
           root
           be
           destitute
           of
           grace
           ,
           as
           depriued
           of
           his
           sapp
           ,
           it
           induceth
           vpon
           the
           whole
           stocke
           of
           the
           State
           ,
           a
           withering
           decay
           and
           pining
           barrennesse
           .
           
           In
           the
           head
           is
           the
           first
           wheele
           &
           string
           of
           motion
           ,
           giuing
           force
           and
           order
           to
           the
           whole
           frame
           ,
           the
           first
           fountaine
           of
           sence
           streaming
           from
           thence
           to
           the
           other
           cesterns
           ,
           and
           the
           high
           erected
           pallace
           ,
           where
           the
           mind
           keepeth
           his
           court
           ,
           shining
           in
           his
           greatest
           Maiestie
           .
           The
           head
           is
           by
           the
           order
           and
           instinct
           of
           nature
           ,
           
           so
           dearely
           esteemed
           and
           honored
           of
           the
           bodie
           ,
           as
           that
           euery
           part
           will
           not
           onely
           seek
           his
           ease
           and
           health
           ,
           but
           euen
           expose
           it selfe
           to
           any
           perils
           for
           his
           sake
           and
           safetie
           :
           the
           inferior
           parts
           do
           susteine
           and
           beare
           him
           vp
           ,
           mouing
           at
           his
           beck
           ,
           and
           fast
           bound
           when
           he
           taketh
           rest
           :
           the
           hands
           and
           armes
           ,
           do
           readily
           receiue
           vpon
           themselues
           the
           strokes
           and
           wounds
           ,
           intended
           against
           the
           head
           ;
           yea
           ,
           any
           part
           doth
           endure
           paine
           ,
           by
           incision
           ,
           scarifying
           ,
           ligature
           ,
           or
           issue
           ,
           to
           remedie
           the
           greeuances
           of
           the
           head
           .
           These
           good
           duties
           of
           kindly
           subiection
           ,
           to
           kingly
           power
           ,
           I
           leaue
           to
           the
           consideration
           and
           conscience
           of
           euery
           true
           subiect
           ,
           wishing
           him
           to
           make
           his
           best
           vse
           thereof
           by
           contemplating
           and
           applying
           of
           the
           same
           in
           the
           performance
           of
           like
           offices
           of
           alleagiance
           ,
           loue
           ,
           and
           loyaltie
           .
           We
           see
           the
           head
           naturally
           endued
           with
           a
           fellow
           feeling
           of
           any
           the
           griefes
           in
           the
           whole
           bodie
           ,
           in
           so
           much
           as
           there
           is
           scant
           any
           disease
           so
           weake
           or
           small
           in
           any
           part
           ,
           as
           doth
           not
           affect
           and
           disturbe
           the
           head
           also
           ;
           yea
           ,
           it
           holdeth
           such
           a
           sympathie
           with
           the
           verie
           foot
           ,
           as
           that
           a
           little
           wet
           or
           cold
           taken
           in
           that
           remotest
           place
           ,
           
           hath
           forthwith
           a
           readie
           passage
           to
           the
           head
           .
           Gracious
           Soueraignes
           
           haue
           the
           like
           compassions
           and
           compunctions
           in
           the
           distresses
           of
           their
           subiects
           ,
           and
           be
           in
           the
           same
           sort
           deeply
           peirced
           &
           perplexed
           with
           any
           wrong
           or
           distemperatures
           ,
           hapning
           to
           the
           meanest
           of
           their
           people
           .
           
           I
           haue
           learned
           of
           the
           Phisitions
           ,
           that
           most
           of
           the
           diseases
           of
           the
           head
           ,
           are
           originally
           arising
           and
           caused
           from
           the
           bodie
           :
           and
           I
           think
           that
           I
           may
           thus
           thereof
           infer
           ;
           That
           many
           the
           escapes
           of
           Soueraignes
           by
           omission
           or
           comission
           ,
           may
           thus
           far
           by
           this
           excuse
           be
           extenuated
           ,
           as
           more
           imputable
           to
           the
           people
           than
           to
           them
           .
           
           Therefore
           when
           from
           the
           head
           a
           fluxe
           of
           humours
           shall
           annoy
           and
           enfeeble
           the
           whole
           ,
           or
           any
           part
           ,
           I
           wish
           it
           should
           be
           remembred
           ,
           that
           such
           as
           is
           our
           offering
           ,
           such
           should
           be
           our
           suffering
           .
           Many
           and
           verie
           dangerous
           be
           the
           euils
           ,
           that
           from
           a
           distempered
           heat
           be
           distilled
           into
           the
           bodie
           .
           I
           might
           laboriously
           enlarge
           what
           harmes
           he
           may
           do
           to
           his
           subiected
           members
           ,
           by
           his
           seuerall
           excesses
           or
           defects
           ,
           the
           disorder
           and
           vneuen
           cariage
           wherof
           filleth
           the
           whole
           with
           remedilesse
           mischiefes
           .
           Yet
           let
           vs
           marke
           this
           withall
           ,
           That
           in
           the
           naturall
           bodie
           ,
           there
           was
           neuer
           any
           parts
           so
           far
           digressing
           from
           their
           natiue
           nature
           of
           alleageance
           ,
           and
           their
           indissolluble
           band
           of
           obedience
           ,
           forgetting
           as
           well
           the
           good
           which
           they
           otherwise
           receiue
           ,
           
           as
           the
           wrong
           whereby
           they
           continually
           infest
           him
           ,
           as
           did
           once
           presume
           to
           oppose
           ,
           or
           but
           repine
           against
           their
           head
           ,
           much
           lesse
           seeke
           or
           attempt
           to
           shake
           him
           off
           the
           shoulders
           .
           How
           much
           more
           kind
           be
           those
           subiects
           ,
           who
           out
           of
           their
           owne
           dutious
           loue
           ,
           
           be
           content
           to
           haue
           the
           blame
           of
           the
           faults
           ,
           or
           ouersights
           ,
           likely
           to
           blemmish
           their
           Soueraigne
           ,
           transferred
           &
           imposed
           vpon
           themselues
           ?
           It
           may
           seeme
           by
           a
           drunkard
           in
           
             Plautus
             ,
          
           that
           the
           head
           
           thought
           himselfe
           priuiledged
           ,
           as
           it
           were
           with
           a
           point
           of
           prerogatiue
           ,
           to
           charge
           the
           inferior
           parts
           with
           the
           shame
           of
           his
           owne
           distemper
           ;
           
             Siccine
             fit
             hoc
             pedes
             ?
             statin
             an
             non
             ?
             Nam
             hercle
             si
             cecidero
             vestrum
             erit
             flagitium
             .
          
           
        
         
           Here
           leauing
           the
           head
           in
           his
           vnresistable
           right
           of
           ruling
           ouer
           the
           bodie
           ,
           I
           will
           to
           the
           Soule
           againe
           ,
           taking
           a
           farther
           view
           thereof
           ,
           
           as
           sitting
           in
           his
           other
           principall
           seat
           the
           hart
           :
           when
           I
           behold
           the
           intricate
           net
           or
           curious
           web
           of
           vaines
           ,
           spread
           from
           it
           ouer
           all
           the
           bodie
           ;
           me
           thinketh
           I
           may
           well
           liken
           it
           to
           a
           little
           spyder
           ,
           placed
           in
           the
           middest
           of
           her
           work
           ,
           where
           she
           so
           caringly
           and
           cunningly
           ordereth
           the
           matter
           ,
           that
           she
           presently
           feeleth
           the
           least
           shake
           or
           touch
           in
           any
           though
           the
           farthest
           part
           of
           her
           webb
           .
           No
           lesse
           feelingly
           doth
           the
           hart
           perceiue
           ,
           and
           partake
           ,
           with
           any
           iniurie
           done
           vnto
           his
           veines
           .
           Sometimes
           hee
           sendeth
           forth
           the
           bloud
           and
           spirits
           with
           a
           full
           flush
           ,
           replenishing
           all
           parts
           plentiously
           ,
           other
           while
           he
           rerireth
           them
           home
           with
           all
           speed
           to
           his
           little
           sconce
           ,
           to
           comfort
           and
           fortifie
           it selfe
           .
           
        
         
           It
           is
           admirable
           to
           see
           the
           swift
           and
           sudden
           recourse
           of
           bloud
           ,
           now
           stirred
           outwardly
           at
           a
           start
           like
           lightning
           ,
           and
           anon
           posting
           backe
           in
           feare
           of
           daunger
           to
           the
           hearts
           succour
           ,
           leauing
           a
           palenesse
           and
           trembling
           in
           the
           outward
           parts
           .
           The
           heart
           is
           the
           well
           of
           life
           ,
           the
           furnace
           of
           heat
           ,
           the
           center
           of
           bloud
           ,
           the
           first
           liuing
           and
           the
           last
           dying
           part
           .
           Agreeably
           to
           these
           vertues
           or
           efficacies
           of
           the
           heart
           ,
           let
           it
           be
           confessed
           ,
           that
           euerie
           commonweale
           acknowiedgeth
           a
           soueraigne
           power
           ,
           from
           the
           which
           it
           drew
           his
           first
           beginning
           ,
           of
           which
           it
           receiueth
           his
           dearest
           life
           bloud
           ,
           with
           which
           it
           is
           quickened
           as
           with
           a
           liuing
           fire
           ,
           to
           the
           which
           it
           wholy
           trusteth
           ,
           and
           returneth
           for
           refuge
           ,
           by
           which
           it
           is
           imployed
           and
           
           directed
           in
           all
           intentions
           ,
           and
           without
           which
           it
           fayleth
           of
           continuance
           ,
           and
           is
           incontinently
           dissolued
           .
           Then
           to
           such
           a
           Gouernour
           which
           both
           imparteth
           to
           al
           parts
           the
           vaines
           and
           artiries
           of
           their
           surest
           welfare
           ,
           and
           hath
           a
           sence
           of
           any
           their
           griefs
           and
           wrongs
           ,
           as
           of
           his
           owne
           ;
           what
           and
           how
           regardant
           thankfulnesse
           ,
           seruice
           ,
           and
           obseruance
           is
           deseruedly
           due
           by
           the
           faythfull
           performance
           (
           with
           the
           vttermost
           strayne
           of
           the
           very
           heart-strings
           )
           of
           all
           obedience
           to
           his
           commaunds
           and
           authoritie
           .
        
         
           The
           heart
           is
           of
           all
           other
           the
           firmest
           flesh
           ,
           yet
           not
           fed
           with
           bloud
           by
           any
           vaynes
           ;
           and
           from
           it
           all
           other
           flesh
           deriueth
           by
           veynes
           his
           borrowed
           liuing
           .
           I
           haue
           heard
           it
           argued
           ,
           
           that
           a
           King
           in
           like
           sort
           is
           alone
           firmely
           and
           absolute
           stated
           ,
           in
           and
           to
           the
           lands
           of
           his
           realme
           ,
           and
           that
           all
           other
           owners
           take
           from
           him
           by
           the
           veynes
           and
           conueyances
           which
           he
           passeth
           to
           them
           .
           That
           which
           
             Aristotle
          
           saith
           of
           the
           heart
           ,
           That
           it
           giueth
           and
           imparteth
           to
           euerie
           member
           ,
           but
           it selfe
           receiueth
           or
           taketh
           not
           from
           any
           ;
           is
           a
           good
           pattern
           of
           regall
           magnificence
           and
           bountie
           ,
           
           seeing
           that
           nothing
           more
           aptly
           representeth
           the
           nature
           of
           the
           soule
           ,
           or
           commeth
           neerer
           to
           God
           himselfe
           than
           to
           do
           good
           ,
           and
           extend
           reliefs
           to
           others
           ,
           with
           free
           heart
           and
           open
           hand
           ,
           himselfe
           in
           the
           meane
           while
           hauing
           no
           need
           of
           any
           .
           The
           figure
           of
           the
           hart
           is
           shaped
           sharpe
           poynted
           at
           the
           lower
           end
           ,
           
           and
           vpward
           it
           is
           more
           widely
           spread
           abroad
           :
           To
           this
           forme
           the
           best
           princes
           doe
           conforme
           ,
           they
           open
           their
           hearts
           with
           a
           full
           spread
           towards
           vertue
           ,
           goodnesse
           ,
           and
           heauenly
           things
           ,
           but
           do
           make
           narrow
           and
           close
           the
           same
           against
           all
           base
           appetites
           of
           this
           vnhallowed
           flesh
           .
           The
           heart
           is
           the
           dwelling
           place
           of
           the
           affections
           and
           inclinations
           
           of
           the
           mind
           ,
           whereof
           (
           as
           of
           his
           owne
           trayne
           ,
           family
           ,
           or
           houshold
           ,
           
           he
           alone
           is
           to
           haue
           the
           gouernment
           )
           if
           they
           bee
           let
           loose
           with
           scope
           to
           follow
           their
           disordered
           desires
           ,
           not
           only
           the
           heart
           it selfe
           is
           subdued
           and
           trampled
           vpon
           by
           their
           turbulent
           passions
           ,
           but
           the
           whole
           bodie
           also
           fareth
           the
           worse
           ,
           and
           taketh
           no
           small
           harme
           thereby
           .
           Right
           wisely
           doe
           Soueraignes
           hereof
           take
           this
           instruction
           ,
           to
           vphold
           their
           gouernment
           in
           a
           strict
           steadinesse
           ,
           tempering
           all
           extremities
           with
           an
           euennesse
           of
           moderation
           ,
           that
           none
           about
           them
           grow
           too
           violent
           or
           headstrong
           ,
           which
           cannot
           but
           worke
           as
           a
           disturbance
           to
           their
           persons
           ,
           so
           a
           disproportion
           to
           their
           states
           .
        
         
           Where
           any
           affection
           predominantly
           reigneth
           ,
           it
           draweth
           thither
           such
           humors
           of
           the
           bodie
           ,
           as
           are
           likest
           and
           best
           consorteth
           to
           it selfe
           :
           
           as
           anger
           calleth
           to
           him
           choller
           ,
           to
           further
           his
           fiercenesse
           ;
           mirth
           cheareth
           it selfe
           with
           the
           freshest
           bloud
           ;
           and
           sorrow
           will
           not
           bee
           without
           the
           company
           of
           sower
           and
           dumpish
           melancholike
           :
           So
           if
           the
           Soueraigne
           in
           the
           precincts
           of
           his
           regiment
           ,
           shall
           suffer
           an
           ouergrowing
           inequalltie
           of
           greatnesse
           to
           get
           an
           head
           ,
           it
           will
           quickly
           gather
           to
           it selfe
           a
           syding
           faction
           of
           like
           disposed
           disturbers
           ,
           which
           will
           make
           a
           shrewd
           aduenture
           ,
           both
           of
           ouertopping
           him
           ,
           and
           ouerturning
           of
           his
           state
           .
        
         
           There
           is
           nothing
           that
           is
           either
           more
           gracefull
           for
           seemelinesse
           of
           shew
           ,
           
           or
           more
           auaileable
           to
           any
           man
           for
           his
           health
           ,
           than
           to
           haue
           alwayes
           a
           light
           and
           chearfull
           heart
           :
           and
           it
           was
           yet
           neuer
           seene
           that
           any
           part
           of
           the
           body
           euer
           grudged
           at
           or
           repugned
           ,
           but
           rather
           willingly
           furthered
           the
           well-pleasing
           delights
           of
           the
           heart
           .
           From
           hence
           good
           people
           will
           learne
           this
           well-resembling
           
           inference
           ,
           That
           the
           recreating
           sports
           and
           pleasures
           of
           Soueraignes
           (
           in
           whom
           is
           the
           heart
           bloud
           of
           the
           ciuill
           bodie
           )
           be
           not
           dislikingly
           crossed
           or
           repyned
           at
           ,
           but
           rather
           entertainingly
           allowed
           ,
           and
           comfortably
           affoorded
           vnto
           them
           ;
           yea
           though
           some
           occasions
           of
           dislike
           should
           worke
           a
           distaste
           ,
           and
           harder
           censure
           thereof
           .
        
         
           We
           doe
           account
           as
           the
           head
           ,
           so
           the
           heart
           to
           receiue
           hurt
           two
           waies
           ,
           
           primarily
           ,
           or
           imediatly
           ;
           and
           by
           consent
           which
           it
           hath
           with
           other
           more
           choicely
           affected
           and
           much
           agrieued
           parts
           :
           so
           may
           wee
           reckon
           offences
           or
           misdemeanors
           to
           tend
           to
           the
           impugning
           of
           the
           prince
           ,
           not
           onely
           when
           they
           directly
           concerne
           his
           owne
           person
           ,
           state
           ,
           or
           dignitie
           ,
           but
           also
           when
           they
           bee
           committed
           against
           his
           Councell
           ,
           Iudges
           ,
           or
           chiefe
           officers
           ,
           in
           whom
           their
           Soueraigne
           hath
           ingrauen
           his
           own
           image
           or
           character
           ,
           imparting
           vnto
           them
           a
           portion
           of
           his
           owne
           authoritie
           ,
           and
           with
           whom
           hee
           maintayneth
           a
           mutualitie
           of
           all
           ayding
           kindnesse
           ,
           and
           honourable
           respectiuenesse
           .
        
         
           Admit
           that
           the
           heart
           or
           the
           brayne
           were
           so
           layd
           open
           to
           ouraspects
           ,
           
           that
           wee
           might
           attentiuely
           behold
           the
           substance
           ,
           the
           shape
           ,
           the
           verie
           life
           and
           actions
           therof
           ;
           would
           not
           the
           consideration
           of
           the
           dignitie
           of
           the
           soule
           ,
           there
           resiant
           and
           working
           ,
           worke
           an
           impression
           in
           our
           thoughts
           ,
           to
           regard
           ,
           esteeme
           ,
           and
           admire
           those
           parts
           ,
           as
           excelling
           and
           surpassing
           all
           the
           rest
           ?
           so
           when
           the
           person
           of
           a
           Prince
           is
           looked
           vpon
           (
           wheron
           we
           doe
           seldome
           gaze
           enough
           )
           our
           inward
           cogitations
           filled
           with
           a
           reuerence
           of
           the
           regall
           maiestie
           seated
           in
           that
           flesh
           (
           otherwise
           as
           infirme
           and
           full
           of
           imperfe●●●ons
           as
           other
           
           is
           )
           ought
           to
           surmount
           all
           sensuall
           conceits
           (
           scant
           
           thinking
           of
           any
           humane
           nature
           )
           but
           making
           an
           infinit
           difference
           betweene
           that
           body
           ,
           so
           (
           as
           it
           were
           )
           glorified
           with
           the
           presence
           ,
           representation
           &
           in
           dwelling
           of
           that
           supreme
           or
           exalted
           eminencie
           ,
           and
           other
           ordinarie
           persons
           ,
           which
           yet
           doeth
           consist
           materially
           of
           the
           same
           substance
           ,
           and
           perhaps
           endued
           by
           nature
           with
           equall
           graces
           .
        
         
           Doe
           you
           desire
           a
           brighter
           displaying
           of
           the
           illustrious
           maiestie
           shining
           in
           soueraigntie
           ?
           
           doe
           but
           obserue
           how
           much
           it
           surmounteth
           the
           person
           it selfe
           thereof
           possessed
           ,
           like
           a
           brittle
           glasse
           all
           illightened
           with
           the
           glorious
           blaze
           of
           the
           Sunne
           .
           The
           Soueraigne
           as
           in
           his
           personall
           respects
           ,
           hath
           his
           childhood
           and
           his
           impotencie
           of
           minoritie
           ,
           but
           his
           Soueraigntie
           is
           like
           
             Hercules
          
           the
           sonne
           of
           
             Iupiter
             ,
          
           that
           in
           his
           verie
           cradle
           could
           gripe
           Snakes
           to
           death
           ,
           being
           at
           no
           time
           abridged
           or
           enfeebled
           ,
           but
           to
           be
           supposed
           euer
           of
           a
           full
           strength
           ,
           age
           ,
           and
           power
           .
           In
           his
           personall
           respects
           he
           may
           partake
           of
           the
           mixture
           of
           bloud
           and
           kindred
           with
           the
           subiects
           ,
           but
           soueraigntie
           admitteth
           no
           termes
           or
           titles
           of
           consanguinitie
           .
           In
           his
           personall
           respects
           hee
           is
           as
           one
           man
           ,
           single
           and
           indiuiduall
           ,
           yet
           as
           in
           the
           right
           of
           Soueraigntie
           ,
           he
           gayneth
           the
           appellation
           and
           capacities
           of
           a
           corporation
           :
           In
           his
           personall
           respects
           death
           maketh
           an
           end
           of
           his
           life
           and
           glorie
           all
           at
           once
           ,
           but
           soueraigntie
           neuer
           faileth
           (
           not
           by
           the
           space
           of
           one
           moment
           still
           liuing
           in
           a
           successiue
           continuatiō
           :
           )
           and
           as
           the
           consideration
           of
           the
           excellēcie
           of
           the
           soule
           (
           wherunto
           the
           soueraigntie
           ,
           as
           in
           these
           respects
           also
           is
           agreeably
           patterned
           )
           caused
           the
           old
           Philosophers
           (
           not
           able
           by
           their
           sharpe
           inquirings
           to
           penetrat
           into
           the
           deep
           profoūdnes
           therof
           )
           admiringly
           to
           proclayme
           ,
           
           That
           man
           was
           
             magnū
             naturae
             
             miraculum
             .
          
           So
           the
           resplendence
           and
           power
           of
           soueraigntie
           in
           the
           royall
           person
           of
           a
           Soueraigne
           ,
           shewing
           it selfe
           both
           in
           so
           great
           maiestie
           ,
           as
           dazleth
           the
           eyes
           of
           all
           beholders
           ,
           and
           in
           so
           admirable
           effects
           ,
           as
           to
           transforme
           sauagenesse
           into
           ciuilitie
           ,
           repugnances
           into
           concords
           ,
           vices
           into
           vertues
           ,
           procuring
           loue
           ,
           yet
           implying
           feare
           ;
           compelling
           obedience
           ,
           yet
           with
           yeeld
           of
           highest
           honour
           ;
           holding
           towards
           all
           ,
           the
           proportion
           of
           iustice
           ,
           yet
           extending
           withall
           the
           remorse
           of
           mercie
           ,
           doeth
           in
           like
           sort
           (
           by
           such
           the
           conuersion
           of
           the
           body
           naturall
           ,
           into
           a
           body
           politicall
           )
           beget
           thereunto
           a
           more
           admired
           glory
           ,
           and
           a
           more
           deere
           esteeme
           .
        
         
           Let
           me
           yet
           proceed
           a
           little
           farther
           in
           the
           discerning
           of
           the
           wisdome
           and
           goodnesse
           of
           the
           Creator
           ,
           in
           the
           ordeining
           and
           enduing
           with
           propertie
           of
           these
           principall
           receptacles
           of
           the
           soule
           ,
           the
           head
           ,
           and
           the
           heart
           :
           
           we
           doe
           not
           find
           that
           either
           of
           them
           is
           naturally
           enabled
           to
           offer
           any
           wrong
           by
           any
           meanes
           vnto
           the
           body
           ,
           or
           once
           to
           encline
           by
           any
           so
           much
           as
           imagination
           of
           mischiefe
           therunto
           ;
           but
           contrariwise
           ,
           fully
           furnished
           and
           accomplished
           with
           store
           of
           helping
           reliefs
           ,
           to
           nourish
           and
           preserue
           the
           same
           .
           For
           as
           in
           God
           himselfe
           (
           if
           it
           were
           possible
           that
           he
           should
           doe
           any
           vniustice
           )
           it
           would
           make
           a
           greater
           proofe
           of
           his
           impotencie
           ,
           than
           shew
           foorth
           his
           power
           :
           So
           if
           he
           had
           giuen
           vnto
           the
           soule
           ,
           or
           to
           these
           parts
           most
           replenished
           with
           the
           powers
           thereof
           ,
           any
           such
           naturall
           abilitie
           or
           qualitie
           ,
           as
           might
           inferre
           an
           iniury
           and
           preiudice
           to
           the
           rest
           of
           the
           bodie
           ;
           it
           might
           rightlyer
           bee
           termed
           a
           disabling
           than
           an
           enabling
           ,
           and
           no
           way
           conforming
           to
           his
           image
           :
           for
           what
           a
           confusion
           or
           rather
           destruction
           would
           ensue
           ,
           if
           the
           head
           should
           shrinke
           vp
           his
           sinewes
           that
           conueieth
           his
           vigor
           and
           spirits
           
           vnto
           the
           members
           ?
           or
           if
           the
           heart
           should
           at
           his
           pleasure
           withhold
           or
           take
           away
           the
           nourishment
           of
           bloud
           ,
           that
           giueth
           sustenance
           &
           substāce
           to
           the
           whole
           body
           ?
           If
           the
           application
           hereof
           to
           our
           states
           soule
           :
           How
           comfortably
           may
           we
           conceiue
           ,
           &
           euen
           glory
           in
           our
           happinesse
           ,
           that
           stand
           vndubitably
           assured
           of
           our
           Soueraigns
           goodnesse
           (
           which
           limitteth
           or
           rather
           much
           exceedeth
           his
           power
           )
           that
           the
           sinewes
           of
           law
           &
           iustice
           knitting
           all
           subiection
           to
           soueraignetie
           ,
           shall
           still
           from
           him
           receiue
           an
           increase
           of
           strength
           and
           firmenesse
           :
           and
           that
           this
           politicall
           soule
           (
           in
           the
           very
           tendernesse
           of
           his
           soule
           )
           will
           be
           so
           farre
           from
           depriuing
           and
           impayring
           of
           our
           necessarie
           nutriments
           ,
           as
           that
           he
           will
           rather
           draine
           his
           owne
           heart
           bloud
           drie
           ,
           than
           the
           wealth
           of
           the
           land
           should
           either
           be
           wastfully
           exhausted
           ,
           or
           not
           suffisingly
           maintained
           ?
        
         
           The
           Soule
           also
           hath
           made
           choice
           of
           some
           other
           principall
           parts
           in
           the
           body
           ,
           
           which
           he
           needfully
           vseth
           &
           imployeth
           in
           the
           ministeriall
           functions
           of
           life
           ;
           which
           if
           they
           once
           eyther
           fayle
           in
           their
           offices
           ,
           or
           decay
           in
           their
           essence
           ,
           the
           body
           can
           neither
           continue
           liuing
           ,
           nor
           performe
           his
           actions
           :
           of
           which
           sort
           may
           bee
           reckoned
           ,
           first
           the
           lungs
           and
           lights
           ,
           ordeined
           for
           the
           alaying
           of
           the
           heat
           in
           the
           heart
           ,
           and
           the
           necessitie
           of
           respiration
           :
           Then
           the
           liuer
           ,
           which
           beginneth
           the
           concoction
           of
           our
           susteinance
           ,
           and
           the
           same
           so
           prepared
           ,
           doth
           recommend
           ouer
           to
           the
           hearts
           more
           perfect
           conuerting
           and
           accommodating
           :
           Lastly
           ,
           the
           milt
           ,
           the
           gall
           ,
           and
           the
           kidnies
           ,
           euerie
           whereof
           is
           alotted
           to
           some
           good
           worke
           of
           disseuering
           the
           refuse
           and
           drossie
           remnants
           from
           the
           selected
           and
           purified
           nutriment
           .
           But
           for
           that
           in
           these
           the
           soule
           sheweth
           his
           weakest
           and
           meanest
           vertue
           ,
           
           which
           is
           of
           vegitation
           onely
           ,
           whereas
           in
           the
           head
           ,
           or
           heart
           ,
           he
           displaieth
           all
           his
           glorie
           ,
           conuersing
           with
           them
           as
           with
           the
           darlings
           of
           his
           loue
           ,
           I
           esteem
           it
           of
           no
           great
           merit
           ,
           
           to
           meditate
           too
           much
           of
           their
           worth
           ,
           or
           to
           labour
           the
           likening
           of
           them
           (
           which
           to
           do
           were
           easie
           and
           obuious
           )
           vnto
           certaine
           necessarie
           and
           essentiall
           orders
           or
           powers
           in
           the
           state
           .
           Only
           two
           considerations
           I
           haue
           conceiued
           ,
           which
           mee
           thinketh
           may
           not
           bee
           omitted
           .
           The
           first
           ,
           That
           as
           these
           bee
           placed
           so
           helpfully
           in
           the
           body
           ,
           with
           such
           succeeding
           each
           other
           in
           their
           works
           ,
           as
           accordeth
           to
           an
           accomplishment
           of
           health
           and
           perfection
           in
           the
           whole
           :
           so
           there
           must
           bee
           in
           the
           publike
           weale
           ,
           a
           wise
           and
           politicall
           ordering
           of
           the
           good
           gifts
           and
           imployments
           of
           the
           chiefe
           statesmen
           ,
           that
           their
           endeuours
           be
           discreetly
           sorted
           to
           the
           generall
           good
           ,
           and
           not
           suffered
           out
           of
           course
           either
           promiscuously
           to
           intrude
           ,
           
           or
           disorderedly
           to
           cause
           dissentions
           .
           The
           second
           ,
           that
           as
           these
           parts
           of
           chiefe
           vse
           for
           the
           preseruation
           of
           life
           ,
           be
           by
           the
           prouidence
           of
           nature
           strongly
           sauegarded
           within
           an
           enclosed
           wall
           ,
           as
           more
           cared
           for
           than
           the
           rest
           ;
           so
           such
           as
           be
           the
           more
           noble
           and
           more
           necessarie
           members
           of
           the
           commonweale
           ,
           ought
           to
           bee
           attended
           on
           with
           the
           more
           tender
           regard
           of
           their
           safetie
           ,
           and
           well
           prouided
           for
           against
           perilles
           ,
           least
           in
           their
           ruyne
           or
           subuersion
           ,
           the
           whole
           State
           also
           receiue
           a
           deadly
           stroke
           .
        
         
           The
           mentioning
           of
           these
           partes
           of
           the
           bodie
           (
           though
           vpon
           occasion
           of
           setting
           forth
           the
           operations
           of
           the
           Soule
           ,
           in
           and
           by
           them
           )
           hath
           put
           me
           in
           mind
           of
           my
           fore-intended
           Method
           ;
           which
           after
           a
           matching
           of
           the
           ruling
           preeminence
           to
           the
           nature
           of
           the
           soule
           ,
           calleth
           me
           to
           a
           suruey
           or
           recounting
           of
           such
           obserueable
           
           respects
           ,
           as
           may
           make
           the
           like
           correspondence
           betweene
           the
           subiects
           of
           a
           state
           ,
           and
           the
           condition
           of
           a
           bodie
           :
           Wherein
           I
           must
           be
           faine
           to
           deale
           with
           the
           bodie
           of
           the
           state
           ,
           as
           
             Minerua
          
           did
           with
           the
           bodie
           of
           
             Vlisses
             ,
          
           who
           in
           the
           safe
           conducting
           ,
           and
           reducing
           of
           him
           to
           his
           true
           
             Penelope
             ,
          
           did
           transforme
           him
           into
           diuers
           shapes
           ,
           sometimes
           putting
           vpon
           him
           the
           shew
           of
           a
           rimpled
           and
           withered
           age
           ,
           and
           anone
           againe
           restoring
           him
           to
           his
           freshest
           hew
           ,
           and
           lustiest
           strength
           :
           So
           will
           I
           also
           (
           holding
           my
           intention
           to
           make
           at
           last
           an
           euerlasting
           vnion
           of
           the
           obeying
           bodie
           to
           the
           soueraigne
           aucthoritie
           )
           turne
           the
           same
           ,
           as
           I
           treat
           thereof
           ,
           into
           different
           formes
           ,
           diuersities
           ,
           and
           altering
           respects
           ,
           according
           as
           any
           varietie
           of
           consideration
           shall
           afford
           .
           And
           I
           must
           also
           further
           entreat
           the
           good
           patience
           &
           licence
           of
           my
           frendly
           Readers
           ,
           for
           affording
           vnto
           me
           such
           libertie
           ,
           as
           my selfe
           scantly
           liketh
           of
           ;
           which
           is
           of
           inserting
           and
           giuing
           a
           place
           in
           the
           contexrure
           of
           this
           Treatise
           ,
           vnto
           some
           such
           comparisons
           ,
           as
           by
           there
           frequent
           vse
           in
           good
           Authours
           may
           seeme
           to
           be
           ouer
           vulgar
           ,
           which
           I
           could
           haue
           been
           well
           content
           to
           haue
           auoyded
           ,
           had
           they
           not
           pressed
           vpon
           me
           with
           some
           shew
           of
           necessitie
           ,
           sith
           the
           more
           notoriously
           their
           likenesse
           hath
           bin
           discouered
           &
           allowed
           ,
           the
           more
           might
           I
           be
           noted
           either
           of
           ignorance
           in
           not
           discerning
           so
           publike
           proofs
           for
           my
           purpose
           ,
           or
           of
           an
           affected
           singularitie
           ,
           in
           contemningly
           omitting
           what
           the
           worthiest
           writers
           haue
           chosen
           as
           diamonds
           and
           precious
           stones
           to
           enrich
           and
           garnish
           their
           works
           withall
           .
           And
           thus
           much
           perhaps
           I
           may
           performe
           in
           part
           of
           amends
           ,
           that
           by
           such
           (
           as
           it
           were
           )
           my
           new
           setting
           thereof
           ,
           the
           same
           shall
           be
           more
           lightsomly
           refreshed
           ,
           and
           emblazoned
           with
           a
           more
           
           orient
           lustre
           .
        
         
           In
           the
           composition
           of
           the
           bodie
           politique
           (
           as
           of
           the
           naturall
           )
           there
           is
           required
           a
           concurrance
           or
           euen
           mixture
           of
           foure
           Elements
           ,
           
           which
           I
           do
           reckon
           to
           be
           these
           following
           :
           First
           ,
           the
           generous
           ,
           to
           aduance
           and
           mainteine
           the
           state
           with
           their
           well
           deseruing
           actions
           :
           Then
           the
           learned
           ,
           to
           instruct
           and
           direct
           with
           skill
           in
           cases
           of
           consultation
           :
           Thirdly
           ,
           yeomen
           with
           their
           labour
           to
           produce
           and
           worke
           the
           commodities
           of
           the
           land
           :
           And
           lastly
           Trafiquers
           which
           may
           both
           vent
           out
           by
           exportation
           what
           may
           be
           spared
           ,
           &
           bring
           in
           the
           necessaries
           that
           shall
           be
           wanting
           .
           Within
           these
           foure
           sorts
           ,
           all
           Subiects
           compacted
           into
           a
           Ciuill
           state
           ,
           may
           well
           be
           raunged
           and
           reckoned
           .
           How
           these
           state-Elements
           may
           seuerally
           hold
           similitude
           ,
           with
           either
           the
           Fire
           ,
           or
           the
           Aire
           ,
           or
           the
           Earth
           ,
           or
           the
           Water
           ,
           I
           leaue
           to
           be
           conceiued
           and
           disscussed
           of
           such
           as
           haue
           good
           leasure
           to
           be
           idle
           ,
           or
           like
           well
           to
           be
           somewhat
           curious
           .
           This
           I
           think
           not
           impertinēt
           to
           propound
           ,
           That
           where
           any
           of
           these
           do
           exceed
           ,
           
           or
           ouer
           sway
           the
           rest
           ,
           there
           such
           distemper
           (
           as
           in
           the
           bodilie
           mixture
           )
           inclineth
           the
           State
           to
           be
           ruled
           by
           that
           ouer-ruling
           force
           .
           And
           as
           in
           our
           bodies
           by
           the
           vnequall
           temper
           of
           the
           Elements
           the
           humors
           get
           masterie
           each
           ouer
           other
           (
           of
           which
           humors
           the
           diuersities
           of
           complexions
           do
           arise
           :
           )
           So
           in
           the
           bodie
           politique
           ,
           according
           as
           either
           the
           baser
           and
           passiue
           Elements
           do
           preuaile
           to
           popularitie
           ,
           or
           as
           the
           other
           more
           worthie
           and
           actiue
           ,
           do
           reduce
           to
           the
           power
           of
           a
           few
           ;
           thereof
           the
           humor
           ,
           complexion
           ,
           
           condition
           ,
           and
           disposition
           of
           the
           state
           is
           discouered
           :
           in
           so
           much
           as
           (
           if
           the
           Soule
           or
           superioritie
           of
           gouerning
           be
           not
           strong
           enough
           to
           hold
           his
           owne
           )
           the
           exsuperance
           
           of
           the
           humour
           predominant
           ,
           hauing
           altered
           the
           complexion
           of
           the
           bodie
           ,
           will
           also
           violently
           draw
           the
           soule
           to
           follow
           the
           forme
           of
           his
           temperature
           :
           wherefore
           right
           needfull
           it
           is
           in
           any
           Commonweale
           ,
           to
           contriue
           the
           true
           and
           proportionable
           mixture
           of
           these
           foure
           Elements
           ,
           lest
           when
           they
           be
           put
           at
           odds
           ,
           reuerting
           to
           the
           originall
           repugnances
           of
           their
           nature
           ,
           they
           do
           fill
           the
           state
           with
           hatefull
           strifes
           ,
           in
           the
           steed
           of
           blessefull
           peace
           .
           For
           as
           in
           the
           bodie
           naturall
           ,
           
           if
           the
           wisdome
           of
           the
           Creator
           had
           not
           composed
           into
           a
           concord
           the
           contrarieties
           of
           the
           first
           Elements
           ,
           it
           had
           (
           as
           still
           sticking
           in
           the
           confusion
           of
           the
           first
           
             Chaos
          
           )
           neuer
           attained
           the
           strength
           ,
           beautie
           ,
           &
           order
           ,
           which
           we
           now
           admire
           :
           So
           in
           the
           ciuill
           bodie
           ,
           if
           prudent
           policie
           by
           aduised
           tempering
           of
           the
           disparitie
           of
           the
           people
           ,
           should
           not
           conioyne
           them
           to
           a
           well
           agreeing
           consent
           ,
           how
           could
           any
           hope
           be
           conceiued
           ,
           but
           that
           the
           difference
           of
           poore
           and
           rich
           ,
           vulgar
           &
           noble
           ,
           ignorant
           and
           learned
           ,
           fearfull
           and
           valiant
           ,
           
           industrious
           and
           such
           as
           take
           their
           ease
           ,
           must
           needs
           by
           their
           opposite
           quallities
           ,
           not
           onely
           deface
           the
           dignitie
           ,
           but
           also
           subuert
           the
           stabilitie
           of
           the
           state
           ?
           yea
           the
           differences
           of
           such
           as
           be
           all
           of
           one
           Element
           ,
           through
           a
           naturall
           emulation
           ,
           (
           each
           part
           seeking
           to
           attaine
           neerest
           to
           the
           center
           and
           perfection
           of
           that
           whereunto
           he
           is
           incircled
           )
           proueth
           oft
           spitefully
           troublesome
           ,
           and
           must
           come
           vnder
           the
           care
           of
           a
           well
           disposing
           prudencie
           .
           For
           as
           the
           more
           trafiquing
           maketh
           the
           greater
           merchants
           ,
           the
           happier
           husbanding
           the
           richer
           yeomen
           ;
           so
           the
           more
           vertuous
           may
           stand
           vpon
           it
           to
           be
           reckoned
           ,
           the
           more
           generous
           .
           And
           each
           exsuperance
           will
           disturbe
           the
           temper
           ,
           if
           for
           the
           gouerning
           of
           such
           inequalities
           ,
           and
           preuention
           of
           strife
           
           amongst
           themselues
           ,
           the
           wisdome
           of
           the
           State
           (
           taught
           by
           natures
           example
           )
           did
           not
           vse
           a
           correspondent
           cariage
           .
           From
           the
           discrepance
           of
           vnequall
           temperature
           ,
           ariseth
           so
           sundrie
           formes
           and
           shapes
           of
           bodies
           politique
           .
           
           Some
           are
           hugely
           big
           ,
           and
           their
           verie
           greatnes
           rendreth
           them
           vnwildie
           ,
           hauing
           their
           armes
           and
           their
           legs
           too
           far
           a
           sunder
           ;
           some
           verie
           little
           ,
           yet
           well
           compact
           ,
           actiue
           and
           strongly
           set
           to
           saue
           themselues
           ;
           some
           carie
           a
           goodly
           shew
           on
           their
           outside
           ,
           yet
           inwardly
           looked
           into
           ,
           haue
           great
           defects
           ,
           as
           either
           a
           foule
           Soule
           in
           so
           faire
           a
           bodie
           ,
           or
           some
           deadly
           wringes
           tormenting
           their
           verie
           bowels
           ;
           Some
           not
           so
           well
           fauoured
           or
           pleasingly
           shaped
           ,
           yet
           are
           sound
           enough
           ,
           and
           in
           good
           health
           ;
           Some
           be
           so
           fat
           and
           ouer
           fed
           with
           wealth
           ,
           as
           their
           neighbours
           be
           therby
           tempted
           to
           make
           attempts
           against
           them
           :
           some
           so
           lean
           and
           forlorne
           ,
           as
           that
           their
           pouertie
           is
           their
           best
           safetie
           :
           some
           all
           sluggish
           and
           sottish
           ,
           can
           scant
           attend
           their
           owne
           defence
           ,
           but
           do
           so
           long
           praie
           aide
           of
           others
           ,
           till
           they
           be
           made
           a
           prey
           to
           all
           ;
           some
           haughtie
           and
           fierce
           are
           neuer
           out
           of
           quarrels
           making
           ,
           and
           taking
           occasions
           ,
           through
           the
           flames
           of
           ambition
           ,
           and
           the
           gall
           of
           reuengefulnesse
           ,
           to
           exercise
           a
           continuall
           enmitie
           .
           Thus
           we
           see
           how
           (
           after
           the
           example
           of
           the
           bodie
           naturall
           )
           the
           State
           ciuill
           also
           ,
           is
           diuersly
           figured
           ,
           and
           varieth
           his
           formes
           ,
           whereof
           (
           were
           I
           not
           bound
           to
           breuitie
           )
           I
           could
           of
           each
           sort
           make
           instance
           and
           demonstrance
           in
           particuler
           ,
           But
           it
           liketh
           me
           better
           ,
           to
           hold
           my
           accustomed
           course
           ,
           by
           speaking
           in
           generalitie
           :
           for
           that
           I
           may
           so
           hope
           to
           instruct
           some
           ,
           and
           be
           sure
           to
           offend
           none
           .
        
         
           Where
           the
           humors
           are
           in
           good
           harmonie
           of
           good
           agreement
           ,
           &
           the
           bodie
           thereby
           in
           good
           health
           ,
           there
           
           we
           doe
           not
           dislike
           to
           haue
           flesh
           and
           fat
           enough
           ,
           but
           if
           they
           be
           peccant
           ,
           and
           so
           the
           bodie
           crasie
           ,
           
           then
           the
           more
           liberally
           we
           feede
           ,
           the
           more
           dangerouslie
           wee
           doe
           offend
           .
           So
           in
           a
           State
           ,
           when
           each
           degree
           conformeth
           it selfe
           to
           his
           owne
           duties
           ,
           makng
           in
           the
           whole
           a
           perfection
           of
           loue
           and
           obedience
           ,
           then
           the
           abundance
           of
           riches
           ,
           the
           multitude
           of
           people
           ,
           the
           titles
           of
           honor
           ,
           the
           encrease
           of
           power
           ,
           are
           both
           auailable
           &
           commendable
           :
           But
           when
           any
           part
           becommeth
           outragious
           or
           exorbitant
           ,
           whereby
           the
           body
           is
           in
           a
           distemper
           ,
           and
           getteth
           an
           euill
           habite
           ,
           then
           what
           was
           otherwise
           comely
           and
           comfortable
           ,
           will
           turne
           cumbersome
           and
           dangerous
           ,
           working
           a
           cleane
           contrarie
           effect
           ,
           of
           a
           greater
           endamagement
           ,
           if
           not
           of
           an
           vtter
           diuastation
           .
        
         
           The
           naturall
           body
           hath
           his
           infancy
           ,
           his
           youthfulnes
           ,
           
           his
           confirmed
           ,
           declyning
           ,
           and
           decrepid
           age
           :
           so
           hath
           each
           Commonwealth
           ,
           his
           beginning
           ,
           his
           enlarg●●ing
           ,
           his
           puissance
           ,
           his
           drowping
           ,
           his
           decay
           and
           downfall
           .
           The
           Philosophers
           ,
           
           for
           the
           reason
           of
           alterations
           in
           both
           the
           bodies
           ,
           direct
           vs
           to
           their
           principals
           of
           generation
           and
           corruption
           ,
           
           telleth
           vs
           of
           the
           imbecillitie
           and
           mutabilitie
           of
           things
           compounded
           ,
           of
           the
           difficultie
           of
           persisting
           in
           perfectnes
           ,
           of
           the
           easie
           declination
           into
           the
           worse
           ,
           and
           of
           their
           foreframed
           connexion
           of
           effecting
           causes
           .
           The
           Astronomers
           haue
           also
           alike
           fitted
           them
           both
           with
           certaine
           climatericall
           changes
           ,
           
           appointed
           periodes
           ,
           and
           fatall
           reuolutions
           :
           yea
           they
           teach
           vs
           ,
           that
           the
           influence
           of
           superior
           planets
           do
           forcibly
           preuaile
           (
           as
           in
           and
           ouer
           priuate
           persons
           )
           so
           also
           ouer
           whole
           regions
           and
           kingdomes
           ,
           changing
           and
           inuerting
           them
           at
           their
           pleasures
           .
           I
           will
           yeeld
           vnto
           the
           Philosophers
           their
           consequences
           and
           dependancie
           of
           causes
           ,
           
           touching
           the
           many
           variable
           euents
           in
           both
           bodies
           ,
           yet
           with
           this
           prouision
           ,
           
           That
           the
           first
           cause
           ,
           combyning
           and
           causing
           all
           causes
           be
           not
           forgotten
           ,
           who
           alone
           hath
           all
           life
           and
           death
           ,
           beginnings
           and
           endings
           at
           his
           dispose
           .
           Neither
           will
           I
           sticke
           with
           the
           Astronomers
           to
           acknowledge
           their
           stinted
           times
           ,
           and
           prefixed
           points
           ,
           beyond
           the
           which
           neither
           of
           the
           said
           bodies
           can
           passe
           or
           prolong
           themselues
           one
           instant
           :
           But
           to
           attribute
           that
           to
           the
           Starres
           ,
           which
           the
           God
           (
           which
           holdeth
           all
           the
           starres
           in
           his
           hands
           )
           challengeth
           to
           himselfe
           ,
           and
           his
           owne
           foredecreeing
           councels
           ,
           were
           to
           refuse
           the
           sunne
           ,
           and
           be
           guided
           by
           a
           star-light
           :
           He
           it
           is
           that
           raiseth
           and
           strengthneth
           some
           mightier
           (
           like
           to
           superior
           planets
           )
           to
           subdue
           the
           worthlesse
           ,
           whom
           he
           hath
           refused
           ;
           and
           his
           inclining
           of
           harts
           is
           the
           right
           powerfull
           influence
           ,
           that
           effecteth
           these
           great
           chaunges
           .
           Then
           (
           leauing
           this
           humane
           wisdome
           fast
           tied
           vp
           within
           these
           limitations
           ,
           as
           in
           the
           iron
           net
           of
           
             Vulcan
             )
          
           I
           will
           onely
           make
           this
           gaine
           of
           that
           first
           comparison
           ,
           That
           sith
           the
           said
           two
           bodies
           are
           so
           fitly
           and
           fully
           conioined
           in
           semblance
           by
           their
           whole
           course
           ,
           euen
           from
           the
           cradle
           to
           the
           graue
           ;
           I
           shall
           not
           need
           to
           feare
           blame
           ,
           for
           fashioning
           of
           their
           agreeablenes
           in
           other
           also
           more
           particuler
           considerations
           .
        
         
           
           In
           the
           Commonwealth
           (
           as
           in
           the
           bodie
           )
           some
           parts
           seeme
           chiefely
           vegetable
           ,
           caring
           for
           nothing
           more
           than
           to
           mainteine
           their
           growth
           ,
           by
           their
           sucking
           from
           all
           the
           vaines
           of
           the
           land
           ,
           the
           nutriment
           and
           prouisions
           of
           this
           life
           .
           
           Some
           liue
           all
           sensually
           ,
           giuing
           no
           rest
           or
           contentednesse
           to
           themselues
           ,
           but
           by
           pleasing
           of
           their
           sences
           ,
           feeding
           of
           their
           affections
           ,
           and
           fulfilling
           of
           their
           desires
           ;
           be
           it
           of
           reuenge
           in
           the
           course
           of
           wrath
           ,
           
           and
           quarelling
           ,
           or
           of
           haughtines
           to
           aspire
           ,
           or
           of
           lust
           to
           sensualitie
           .
           Othersome
           moderated
           with
           staiednes
           in
           both
           the
           former
           ,
           shape
           their
           liues
           after
           the
           powers
           rationall
           and
           intellectuall
           ,
           
           disposing
           themselues
           by
           the
           rules
           of
           reason
           ,
           to
           vertuous
           actions
           ,
           and
           to
           studious
           cogitations
           ,
           indeuoring
           chiefely
           to
           deserue
           well
           of
           their
           Countrie
           ,
           and
           to
           vphold
           the
           frame
           of
           ciuill
           policie
           .
        
         
           The
           naturall
           body
           for
           the
           preseruing
           of
           health
           ,
           
           vseth
           the
           helpe
           of
           a
           good
           diet
           ,
           whereby
           the
           humours
           are
           kept
           in
           their
           equalitie
           of
           temper
           :
           so
           must
           the
           state
           also
           be
           dieted
           ,
           neither
           glutted
           with
           excesse
           ,
           nor
           scanted
           with
           penurie
           :
           howbeit
           sith
           it
           is
           more
           dangerous
           ,
           from
           fulnesse
           to
           fall
           away
           to
           leannesse
           ,
           than
           from
           leannesse
           to
           spread
           and
           grow
           fat
           ;
           I
           wish
           such
           fore-sight
           and
           forecast
           ,
           rather
           to
           leaue
           than
           to
           lacke
           ,
           to
           rise
           than
           to
           fal
           ,
           &
           to
           amend
           than
           to
           paire
           ,
           the
           defect
           being
           euer
           worse
           than
           the
           excesse
           ,
           as
           nearer
           to
           a
           nullitie
           .
        
         
           As
           the
           regiment
           of
           health
           in
           our
           bodies
           may
           fayle
           or
           offend
           ,
           
           in
           either
           of
           the
           extremities
           of
           being
           either
           too
           carelesse
           by
           licencious
           aduentures
           ,
           or
           else
           too
           precise
           &
           strict
           by
           needlesse
           restraints
           :
           so
           the
           gouernance
           of
           the
           states
           welfare
           may
           fall
           into
           the
           like
           opposite
           disorderings
           by
           either
           too
           much
           remissenes
           and
           loosenes
           for
           want
           of
           hard
           holding
           of
           the
           reines
           of
           well-ruling
           ,
           or
           else
           by
           ouer
           seuere
           debarring
           of
           such
           lawfull
           liberty
           as
           both
           nature
           requireth
           ,
           and
           reason
           denieth
           not
           .
           It
           is
           hard
           to
           define
           which
           of
           these
           is
           worse
           or
           more
           hurtfull
           .
           The
           stirring
           nature
           of
           man
           ,
           is
           like
           the
           quicknesse
           and
           slipperines
           of
           the
           Eele
           ,
           
             si
             laxes
             erepit
             ,
          
           but
           
             si
             string
             as
             erumpit
             :
          
           so
           that
           (
           though
           he
           be
           hardly
           by
           either
           way
           detayned
           in
           steaddinesse
           )
           yet
           by
           the
           feeling
           of
           himselfe
           
           to
           be
           too
           much
           griped
           ,
           hee
           the
           more
           enforceth
           all
           his
           strength
           and
           motion
           for
           his
           enlargement
           :
           for
           my
           part
           I
           professe
           ,
           that
           I
           had
           rather
           (
           as
           taking
           it
           to
           be
           lesse
           to
           my
           harme
           )
           go
           slackly
           girt
           ,
           yea
           quite
           loose
           &
           
             male
             cinctus
             ,
          
           than
           to
           bee
           straightly
           pinched
           with
           tying
           or
           swadling
           too
           hard
           :
           and
           it
           is
           but
           too
           often
           found
           by
           experience
           ,
           that
           the
           straight
           laced
           men
           ,
           whether
           so
           held
           in
           by
           any
           compelling
           authoritie
           ,
           or
           thereunto
           fashioned
           by
           a
           voluntary
           imposition
           ,
           from
           their
           owne
           austeritie
           ,
           doe
           breake
           forth
           more
           outragiously
           ,
           and
           shake
           off
           the
           cords
           of
           obedience
           more
           desperatly
           ,
           when
           occasion
           shall
           moue
           them
           to
           streine
           and
           striue
           for
           a
           pretenced
           libertie
           ,
           by
           a
           course
           of
           commotion
           ;
           opinionat
           wilfulnesse
           ,
           the
           more
           check
           and
           stop
           it
           findeth
           ,
           the
           more
           violently
           it
           will
           seeke
           to
           make
           his
           way
           forth
           ,
           
             vt
             exeat
             in
             ingenuum
             suum
             .
          
        
         
           The
           bodie
           also
           must
           haue
           moderate
           exercise
           for
           the
           encrease
           of
           heat
           ,
           the
           digesting
           of
           crudities
           ,
           and
           the
           acquiring
           of
           a
           more
           actiue
           strength
           .
           
           The
           like
           benefit
           will
           ensue
           to
           the
           Commonweale
           ,
           if
           publike
           occasion
           doe
           hold
           the
           people
           in
           imployment
           ,
           their
           spirits
           are
           therby
           enkindled
           ,
           their
           superfluous
           vanities
           laid
           away
           ,
           and
           their
           valour
           &
           ablenesse
           to
           atchieue
           high
           attempts
           much
           confirmed
           .
           
             Aristotle
          
           hath
           a
           true
           obseruation
           ,
           That
           that
           which
           moueth
           doth
           not
           so
           soone
           putrifie
           as
           that
           which
           resteth
           .
           And
           the
           wisest
           Commonweales
           haue
           euen
           purposedly
           made
           and
           procured
           to
           themselues
           great
           busines
           ,
           that
           their
           men
           should
           rather
           be
           refreshed
           &
           purified
           by
           action
           ,
           than
           be
           either
           consumed
           with
           ease
           &
           voluptuousnes
           ,
           or
           eaten
           into
           with
           the
           rust
           of
           a
           reuolting
           disobedience
           .
        
         
           Both
           the
           bodies
           doe
           also
           herein
           agree
           ,
           as
           to
           be
           tended
           
           and
           ordered
           as
           seuerall
           respects
           shal
           giue
           occasion
           :
           
           nor
           wee
           nor
           our
           iudgement
           is
           the
           same
           when
           we
           bee
           children
           and
           when
           we
           be
           elder
           ,
           when
           we
           bee
           full
           and
           when
           we
           be
           fasting
           ,
           when
           we
           be
           sicke
           and
           when
           we
           be
           sound
           ,
           when
           we
           be
           free
           and
           when
           we
           be
           bound
           ;
           wee
           doe
           suffer
           more
           at
           one
           time
           than
           we
           will
           do
           at
           another
           ,
           we
           be
           able
           to
           performe
           more
           in
           our
           good
           plight
           and
           strength
           than
           we
           dare
           so
           much
           as
           hope
           of
           in
           our
           feeblenesse
           ,
           wee
           bee
           more
           circumspect
           in
           our
           feares
           than
           carefull
           in
           prosperities
           ,
           and
           we
           bee
           often
           so
           much
           distracted
           with
           discrepant
           conditions
           as
           wee
           bee
           not
           alwaies
           alike
           our selues
           :
           such
           interchangeable
           times
           and
           dispositions
           being
           in
           the
           same
           sort
           incident
           vnto
           the
           state
           ,
           there
           is
           good
           heeld
           to
           be
           taken
           thereof
           ,
           that
           the
           counsels
           and
           prouisions
           bee
           answerable
           to
           the
           necessities
           or
           conueniences
           that
           ought
           to
           be
           regarded
           .
        
         
           In
           the
           bodie
           naturall
           the
           sustenance
           is
           not
           all
           caried
           to
           one
           side
           ,
           or
           to
           one
           part
           ,
           
           to
           the
           pining
           and
           beguiling
           of
           the
           rest
           :
           So
           in
           the
           state
           ,
           the
           nobilitie
           is
           so
           to
           bee
           maintayned
           ,
           as
           that
           the
           Commons
           bee
           not
           wronged
           ;
           and
           the
           Clergie
           so
           to
           be
           cherished
           ,
           as
           the
           Laytie
           be
           not
           ouerlayd
           ,
           but
           each
           part
           must
           be
           fed
           competently
           with
           a
           proportionable
           partition
           of
           the
           profits
           ,
           alotting
           the
           same
           with
           such
           indifferencie
           ,
           as
           the
           plentie
           of
           some
           be
           not
           the
           cause
           of
           penurie
           vnto
           others
           ,
           nor
           that
           the
           euersucking
           veynes
           of
           some
           do
           draw
           drie
           the
           poorer
           that
           be
           in
           want
           .
        
         
           Neither
           yet
           must
           wee
           hereuppon
           induce
           any
           paritie
           or
           equallitie
           ,
           which
           nature
           herselfe
           abandoneth
           :
           
           for
           howsoeuer
           (
           like
           a
           wise
           oeconomicall
           gouernor
           )
           she
           susteineth
           euerie
           part
           of
           the
           body
           with
           a
           sufficiencie
           ,
           yet
           doth
           she
           giue
           (
           in
           her
           intentions
           )
           to
           some
           more
           worthie
           
           and
           principall
           than
           the
           rest
           ,
           a
           precedence
           to
           bee
           chiefly
           prouided
           for
           .
           The
           bloud
           (
           vnto
           the
           which
           the
           Turke
           compared
           his
           tribute
           and
           treasure
           ,
           inferring
           therby
           the
           moderat
           expending
           thereof
           )
           though
           it
           be
           deriued
           and
           dispersed
           to
           all
           parts
           ,
           yet
           is
           it
           more
           abundantly
           bestowed
           in
           the
           gracing
           of
           the
           face
           .
           The
           heart
           though
           it
           spredeth
           his
           arteries
           all
           ouer
           the
           bodie
           ,
           yet
           hee
           beateth
           and
           worketh
           more
           strongly
           with
           his
           pulses
           in
           one
           place
           than
           in
           another
           .
           Not
           so
           much
           as
           our
           garments
           but
           must
           be
           fitted
           to
           our
           bignesse
           or
           smallnesse
           ,
           obseruing
           therein
           such
           difference
           as
           ariseth
           by
           the
           diuersities
           of
           our
           bodies
           :
           Why
           then
           should
           it
           be
           grudged
           at
           ,
           if
           the
           nobilitie
           and
           gentrie
           of
           the
           land
           (
           in
           whom
           the
           dignitie
           and
           the
           well-shewing
           countenance
           of
           the
           state
           consisteth
           )
           be
           better
           stored
           and
           furnished
           than
           the
           meaner
           of
           the
           people
           ?
           why
           should
           any
           bodie
           enuie
           at
           the
           glorie
           of
           some
           selected
           persons
           ,
           in
           and
           by
           whom
           the
           Soueraigne
           doth
           more
           manifestly
           discouer
           his
           purposes
           ,
           make
           shew
           of
           his
           force
           ,
           and
           expresse
           his
           affections
           ?
           or
           why
           should
           it
           be
           disliked
           ,
           that
           honours
           and
           fauours
           ,
           riches
           ,
           and
           preferments
           bee
           bestowed
           ,
           or
           rather
           fitted
           (
           regardingly
           vnto
           the
           merits
           of
           the
           vertuous
           )
           by
           taking
           knowledge
           (
           and
           as
           it
           were
           taking
           measure
           )
           of
           their
           good
           seruice
           and
           honorable
           deseruings
           ?
           And
           (
           to
           wade
           yet
           further
           )
           I
           will
           confidently
           make
           good
           thus
           much
           more
           ,
           That
           as
           in
           the
           bodie
           it
           is
           a
           greater
           mischiefe
           not
           to
           nourish
           and
           sustaine
           the
           sound
           and
           seruiceable
           parts
           ,
           than
           not
           to
           cut
           off
           the
           diseased
           and
           corrupted
           :
           so
           in
           the
           Commonweale
           ,
           not
           to
           reward
           and
           aduaunce
           the
           worthie
           ,
           
           is
           more
           pernicious
           and
           of
           more
           dangerous
           consequence
           ,
           than
           not
           to
           afflict
           ,
           punish
           ,
           or
           pare
           away
           the
           hurtfull
           and
           infectious
           :
           for
           where
           the
           one
           is
           but
           
           spared
           awhile
           by
           lenitie
           and
           impunitie
           in
           some
           hope
           of
           amendment
           ,
           the
           other
           vnrespected
           in
           his
           goodnesse
           ,
           is
           so
           pinched
           by
           that
           coldnesse
           of
           entertaynment
           ,
           as
           hee
           seldome
           or
           neuer
           can
           come
           forward
           and
           put
           forth
           any
           shoots
           of
           vertue
           .
           Thence
           will
           it
           fall
           out
           ,
           that
           as
           in
           the
           bodie
           the
           decay
           or
           corruption
           of
           any
           part
           ,
           is
           but
           the
           want
           of
           that
           health
           ,
           soundnesse
           ,
           or
           good
           temper
           which
           it
           ought
           to
           haue
           had
           ,
           and
           imployed
           to
           the
           helpe
           and
           not
           to
           the
           hurt
           of
           the
           whole
           :
           So
           in
           the
           bodie
           politique
           ,
           if
           in
           the
           better
           part
           thereof
           (
           by
           occasion
           of
           such
           discouragement
           ,
           &
           the
           pronenesse
           of
           men
           vnto
           naughtinesse
           more
           than
           vnto
           goodnesse
           )
           there
           bee
           a
           want
           of
           honestie
           or
           vertuous
           performances
           ,
           must
           it
           not
           necessarily
           effect
           a
           generall
           declination
           from
           all
           true
           duties
           ?
           diuerting
           that
           to
           the
           harme
           that
           should
           haue
           ben
           conuerted
           to
           the
           benefit
           of
           the
           state
           ,
           and
           introducing
           thereby
           ,
           an
           ouerswelling
           tide
           of
           sinne
           ,
           corrupting
           and
           confounding
           all
           ,
           and
           that
           meerely
           by
           the
           neglect
           of
           desert
           and
           vertue
           .
        
         
           If
           there
           bee
           any
           not
           yet
           persuaded
           of
           this
           different
           respectiuenesse
           to
           be
           had
           of
           men
           in
           the
           state
           ,
           
           according
           as
           they
           differ
           in
           esteeme
           and
           worthinesse
           ;
           let
           him
           yet
           farther
           bethinke
           himselfe
           of
           his
           owne
           different
           vsage
           of
           the
           seuerall
           parts
           of
           his
           owne
           bodie
           :
           doth
           hee
           not
           adorne
           some
           of
           them
           with
           silkes
           ,
           veluets
           ,
           purple
           ,
           and
           cloth
           of
           gold
           ,
           and
           yet
           leaueth
           others
           wholy
           naked
           ,
           or
           but
           homely
           and
           coursely
           attired
           ?
           he
           hath
           for
           the
           head
           and
           necke
           ,
           garlands
           ,
           chaynes
           ,
           and
           iewels
           of
           rich
           value
           ;
           where
           for
           the
           feet
           (
           though
           they
           do
           bear
           vp
           the
           whole
           )
           he
           hath
           but
           leather
           onely
           .
           What
           artificiall
           deuices
           will
           hee
           not
           find
           out
           ,
           and
           that
           with
           his
           extremest
           cost
           ,
           to
           grace
           and
           set
           forth
           the
           comlinesse
           of
           his
           face
           ?
           and
           yet
           
           hideth
           for
           verie
           shame
           some
           other
           parts
           vnfit
           and
           vnworthie
           of
           producing
           to
           open
           aspect
           ?
           and
           were
           it
           not
           as
           vnfitting
           ,
           that
           the
           dignities
           and
           degrees
           of
           reputation
           ,
           
           should
           be
           promiscuously
           cast
           abroad
           amongst
           the
           meaner
           sort
           of
           mechanicall
           tradesmen
           ,
           as
           for
           the
           ornaments
           and
           dressings
           prouided
           for
           the
           better
           parts
           ,
           to
           be
           bestowed
           so
           low
           as
           vppon
           the
           feet
           ?
           Hereof
           my
           inference
           is
           ,
           That
           as
           in
           our
           priuat
           ,
           so
           in
           our
           publique
           bodie
           ,
           difference
           of
           regard
           maketh
           difference
           of
           aduauncement
           ,
           by
           a
           distributing
           iustice
           ,
           which
           yeeldeth
           to
           euerie
           one
           (
           though
           not
           the
           same
           )
           yet
           his
           fit
           proportion
           .
        
         
           It
           is
           not
           therefore
           called
           a
           Commonwealth
           ,
           
           that
           all
           the
           wealth
           should
           bee
           common
           ;
           but
           because
           the
           whole
           wealth
           ,
           wit
           ,
           power
           ,
           and
           goodnesse
           whatsoeuer
           ,
           of
           euery
           particular
           person
           ,
           must
           be
           conferred
           and
           reduced
           to
           the
           common
           good
           :
           and
           that
           in
           the
           same
           sort
           and
           semblance
           ,
           as
           the
           distinct
           members
           of
           the
           bodie
           ,
           being
           ordained
           to
           different
           vses
           ,
           do
           yet
           concurre
           in
           this
           consonance
           of
           intention
           ,
           as
           to
           impart
           and
           referre
           all
           their
           helps
           and
           indeuours
           (
           to
           the
           vttermost
           reach
           of
           their
           abilities
           )
           for
           the
           procuring
           and
           preseruing
           of
           the
           comfort
           and
           continuance
           of
           this
           one
           bodie
           .
        
         
           All
           the
           members
           ioine
           their
           assisting
           aid
           ,
           and
           effect
           their
           whole
           force
           according
           to
           their
           diuers
           functions
           ,
           
           as
           well
           for
           the
           vpholding
           of
           the
           whole
           and
           euerie
           part
           in
           soundnesse
           ,
           as
           also
           against
           a
           common
           enemie
           :
           And
           whatsoeuer
           presseth
           nature
           with
           any
           griefe
           ,
           is
           repelled
           by
           the
           consent
           of
           a
           generall
           resistance
           .
           If
           but
           a
           thorne
           haue
           pricked
           the
           foot
           ,
           how
           doth
           the
           eye
           seeke
           to
           spie
           it
           out
           ?
           how
           doth
           the
           hand
           bestirre
           him
           to
           draw
           it
           out
           ?
           how
           doth
           the
           head
           contriue
           to
           worke
           it
           out
           ?
           and
           each
           
           part
           as
           his
           power
           permitteth
           him
           ,
           doth
           thinke
           to
           procure
           his
           owne
           ease
           by
           remedying
           the
           disease
           in
           another
           :
           
           but
           in
           case
           any
           the
           principall
           or
           vitall
           parts
           bee
           much
           distressed
           ,
           or
           in
           great
           danger
           ,
           then
           (
           as
           ouermatched
           with
           a
           mountayne
           of
           miserie
           )
           the
           care
           ,
           the
           feare
           ,
           the
           sorrow
           is
           so
           farre
           increased
           ,
           as
           that
           remedilesse
           of
           helpe
           ,
           and
           languishing
           in
           despaire
           ,
           they
           doe
           all
           yeeld
           themselues
           vanquished
           ,
           as
           partakers
           also
           of
           that
           calamitie
           so
           vncurable
           .
        
         
           This
           fellow
           suffering
           ,
           this
           strong
           vnion
           ,
           and
           enterchanged
           kindnesse
           ,
           shewed
           so
           louingly
           in
           the
           parts
           of
           the
           bodie
           ,
           instructeth
           all
           true
           subiects
           of
           any
           countrie
           to
           the
           mutuall
           performance
           of
           all
           friendly
           offices
           ,
           and
           to
           the
           firmest
           adherence
           against
           all
           opposing
           enmities
           ,
           or
           in
           all
           perilous
           necessities
           ;
           remembring
           that
           a
           common
           daunger
           alike
           distresseth
           the
           lesse
           as
           the
           greatest
           ;
           but
           especially
           ,
           to
           bee
           tenderly
           affected
           in
           the
           losse
           or
           harme
           likely
           to
           befall
           their
           choicest
           statesmen
           of
           the
           best
           account
           and
           qualitie
           ,
           against
           whom
           the
           enemies
           of
           the
           state
           doe
           chiefly
           bend
           their
           malignant
           intentions
           ,
           
           euen
           as
           in
           our
           priuat
           combats
           &
           affraies
           ,
           the
           deadly
           minded
           foe
           watcheth
           to
           wound
           the
           dearest
           and
           vitall
           parts
           .
        
         
           From
           this
           founteine
           of
           natures
           so
           wise
           distribution
           and
           distinguishment
           of
           the
           parts
           ,
           in
           sorting
           them
           so
           orderly
           to
           their
           seuerall
           functions
           ,
           this
           consideration
           also
           floweth
           and
           offereth
           it selfe
           ;
           that
           as
           there
           must
           be
           a
           proportionablenesse
           and
           a
           kind
           of
           vnanimitie
           of
           the
           members
           ,
           for
           the
           aiding
           and
           adorning
           of
           the
           publike
           comprehending
           all
           :
           so
           that
           foule
           daughter
           of
           darknesse
           and
           Chaos
           confused
           and
           all
           disturbing
           Anarchie
           ,
           is
           to
           be
           exiled
           ,
           or
           rather
           excluded
           out
           of
           this
           compaction
           
           of
           the
           bodie
           politique
           each
           part
           is
           to
           know
           and
           administer
           his
           owne
           proper
           worke
           ,
           without
           entermixing
           or
           entermedling
           in
           the
           offices
           of
           any
           other
           .
           Shall
           the
           foot
           be
           permitted
           to
           partake
           in
           the
           point
           of
           preeminence
           with
           the
           head
           ?
           
           or
           were
           it
           seemlie
           for
           the
           head
           ,
           leauing
           his
           state
           ,
           to
           abase
           himselfe
           to
           a
           toyle
           
             manibus
             pedibusque
          
           in
           the
           trading
           businesses
           ?
           For
           each
           member
           to
           take
           vpon
           him
           all
           works
           ,
           as
           it
           hath
           in
           nature
           an
           impossibilitie
           ,
           so
           hath
           it
           in
           gouernance
           as
           great
           an
           incongruitie
           .
           And
           for
           any
           part
           to
           neglect
           the
           duties
           properly
           to
           it
           alotted
           ,
           or
           to
           run
           forth
           of
           the
           circle
           within
           the
           which
           it
           is
           fixed
           (
           as
           quartering
           it selfe
           into
           a
           new
           diuision
           ,
           by
           vndertaking
           dispatches
           of
           another
           nature
           )
           as
           it
           agreeth
           not
           with
           that
           so
           well
           parted
           ,
           yet
           vniforme
           frame
           of
           Gods
           workmanship
           ,
           so
           is
           it
           not
           to
           be
           suffered
           neither
           in
           any
           well
           contriued
           policie
           of
           the
           gouerning
           wisdome
           .
           The
           eye
           is
           nor
           ordeined
           nor
           apted
           to
           any
           other
           worke
           ,
           than
           to
           make
           vse
           of
           the
           light
           by
           seeing
           ;
           and
           to
           euery
           singled
           part
           there
           is
           assigned
           some
           more
           peculier
           operation
           or
           administration
           ,
           from
           the
           which
           as
           if
           
             in
             possessionem
             suam
             venerit
             excludit
             alios
             .
          
           To
           the
           like
           confusion
           it
           tendeth
           if
           the
           parts
           be
           prodigiously
           dislocated
           or
           transferred
           from
           their
           proper
           to
           other
           vnfitting
           places
           ,
           
           whereof
           oftentimes
           the
           whole
           bodie
           getteth
           the
           name
           of
           a
           monster
           mishapen
           and
           distorted
           .
           The
           sences
           must
           hold
           their
           station
           like
           to
           Sentinels
           ,
           and
           attend
           their
           generall
           in
           and
           about
           the
           head
           ,
           where
           they
           be
           setled
           .
           And
           in
           briefe
           ,
           no
           parts
           inward
           or
           outward
           can
           either
           do
           duties
           ,
           or
           be
           indured
           elswhere
           ,
           than
           where
           both
           for
           comlinesse
           and
           vse
           they
           be
           by
           natures
           order
           placed
           .
           The
           ciuill
           bodie
           may
           hereby
           be
           admonished
           how
           to
           dispose
           of
           the
           seuerall
           
           conditions
           and
           degrees
           of
           the
           people
           ,
           according
           to
           the
           difference
           of
           their
           breed
           ,
           education
           ,
           conuersation
           ,
           or
           habitation
           ;
           that
           imployments
           or
           aduancements
           be
           not
           vnmeet
           or
           preposterous
           ,
           but
           properly
           and
           aduantagiously
           accommodated
           .
           
           But
           of
           all
           other
           the
           loathed
           impes
           of
           tumult
           and
           disorder
           ,
           let
           this
           be
           taken
           for
           the
           deadliest
           and
           most
           detestable
           ;
           If
           any
           parts
           disdeining
           the
           rule
           of
           their
           soule
           ,
           and
           disliking
           their
           subiected
           condition
           ,
           shall
           not
           onely
           neglect
           their
           dutious
           performances
           ,
           but
           also
           conspiringly
           complot
           against
           the
           head
           ,
           hart
           ,
           and
           other
           the
           noblest
           viols
           of
           life
           ,
           to
           the
           vtter
           destruction
           of
           the
           whole
           bodie
           ,
           by
           such
           their
           horrible
           commotions
           and
           violent
           conuulsions
           :
           which
           if
           it
           were
           neuer
           yet
           attempted
           ,
           or
           once
           intended
           by
           any
           naturall
           members
           ruled
           by
           the
           law
           of
           their
           creation
           ,
           how
           commeth
           it
           to
           passe
           ,
           that
           any
           parts
           of
           the
           politicall
           bodie
           should
           so
           outragiously
           and
           sediciously
           betake
           themselues
           to
           an
           Anarchie
           ,
           most
           vnnaturall
           and
           rebellious
           ?
           
           I
           could
           exhibit
           vnto
           the
           well
           discerning
           eyes
           of
           all
           loiall
           subiects
           ,
           a
           right
           representing
           patterne
           hereof
           ,
           by
           relating
           the
           true
           historicall
           narration
           of
           the
           late
           most
           execrable
           enterprise
           and
           cunningly
           contriued
           treacherie
           ,
           that
           euer
           any
           subiects
           ,
           of
           any
           Nation
           ,
           though
           neuer
           so
           heathen
           or
           barbarous
           ;
           of
           any
           age
           ,
           though
           neuer
           so
           earthly
           or
           ironlike
           ;
           of
           any
           religion
           ,
           though
           neuer
           so
           erronious
           or
           scismaticall
           ;
           vpon
           any
           occasion
           ,
           though
           neuer
           so
           extreamlie
           mouing
           ,
           did
           against
           their
           Soueraigne
           and
           Rulers
           ,
           once
           imagine
           ,
           much
           lesse
           with
           enuenomed
           and
           obdurate
           minds
           intend
           &
           vndertake
           :
           which
           neuerthelesse
           I
           rather
           chuse
           to
           leaue
           naked
           and
           vndilated
           to
           the
           Readers
           well
           appliing
           meditations
           ,
           as
           well
           because
           I
           refraine
           to
           vse
           any
           
           vnnecessarie
           excursions
           ,
           as
           also
           because
           I
           do
           find
           any
           my
           facultie
           much
           too
           feeble
           to
           expresse
           (
           of
           so
           inhumane
           and
           bloudie
           a
           proiect
           )
           the
           right
           shape
           or
           substance
           :
           for
           where
           Hell
           it selfe
           hath
           imployed
           an
           whole
           councell
           of
           diuels
           to
           deuise
           an
           hatefull
           and
           vnheard-of
           villanie
           ;
           there
           vnlesse
           heauen
           should
           afford
           the
           toung
           of
           Angels
           to
           declare
           and
           paint
           out
           the
           abomination
           thereof
           ,
           all
           the
           oratorie
           of
           man
           must
           needs
           faile
           and
           be
           defectiue
           .
           What
           (
           though
           neuer
           so
           passionate
           )
           exclamations
           can
           raise
           sufficient
           admiration
           of
           Treasons
           so
           damnable
           ?
           What
           contestations
           or
           accusations
           by
           streining
           all
           the
           strings
           of
           art
           ,
           can
           reach
           the
           height
           of
           so
           heinous
           and
           most
           abhorred
           conspiracies
           ?
           what
           vse
           can
           there
           be
           of
           any
           aggrauating
           or
           amplifying
           ,
           when
           the
           plainest
           tale
           that
           can
           be
           told
           ,
           may
           be
           thought
           to
           be
           but
           an
           Hyperbole
           beyond
           beliefe
           ?
           My
           conceit
           telleth
           me
           ,
           that
           (
           notwithstanding
           any
           the
           best
           sinceritie
           or
           integritie
           not
           possible
           to
           be
           controlled
           )
           the
           report
           thereof
           to
           forrein
           Countries
           ,
           or
           after
           ages
           ,
           will
           seeme
           vncredible
           ,
           and
           that
           it
           will
           require
           a
           great
           dexteritie
           and
           perfection
           of
           art
           ,
           so
           to
           deliuer
           it
           ouer
           ,
           as
           not
           to
           haue
           it
           censured
           rather
           a
           malicious
           fiction
           ,
           than
           a
           true
           storie
           .
           I
           must
           confesse
           that
           it
           is
           not
           for
           euery
           vulgar
           verbalist
           to
           handle
           or
           set
           forth
           such
           a
           damnable
           purpose
           of
           murthering
           a
           King
           ,
           and
           that
           by
           such
           a
           murther
           ,
           and
           such
           a
           King
           ,
           and
           so
           accompanied
           with
           his
           decrest
           Queene
           ,
           sweet
           Prince
           ,
           and
           his
           whole
           state
           of
           Nobilitie
           ;
           the
           verie
           relating
           or
           mentioning
           whereof
           ,
           affrighteth
           and
           dawnteth
           my
           hart
           with
           horror
           ,
           euen
           shaking
           the
           verie
           pen
           in
           my
           hand
           ,
           whilest
           I
           think
           what
           a
           shake
           ,
           what
           a
           blast
           ,
           or
           what
           a
           storme
           (
           as
           they
           tearmed
           it
           )
           they
           ment
           so
           suddeinly
           to
           haue
           raised
           for
           the
           blowing
           vp
           ,
           shiuering
           
           into
           peeces
           ,
           and
           whirling
           about
           of
           those
           honorable
           ,
           annointed
           ,
           and
           sacred
           bodies
           ,
           which
           the
           Lord
           would
           not
           haue
           to
           be
           so
           much
           as
           touched
           .
           I
           haue
           heard
           of
           one
           so
           far
           affected
           to
           pouertie
           ,
           as
           that
           he
           wished
           all
           the
           treasure
           and
           iewels
           of
           the
           world
           in
           one
           roome
           ,
           that
           he
           might
           at
           once
           set
           tehm
           all
           on
           fire
           :
           Such
           a
           wish
           had
           these
           men
           so
           deuoted
           to
           Poperie
           ,
           that
           they
           would
           in
           an
           instant
           ,
           and
           in
           one
           roome
           ,
           haue
           destroied
           the
           true
           riches
           ,
           iewels
           ,
           the
           maiestie
           and
           glorie
           of
           our
           whole
           state
           at
           one
           clap
           .
           It
           was
           a
           memorable
           crueltie
           of
           that
           tyrannous
           Emperour
           ,
           that
           wished
           all
           the
           Romans
           to
           haue
           had
           but
           one
           head
           ,
           that
           he
           might
           with
           one
           stroke
           haue
           chopped
           it
           off
           .
           Their
           purpose
           was
           full
           of
           the
           like
           heathenish
           immanitie
           ,
           That
           hauing
           all
           the
           heads
           of
           this
           Nation
           assembled
           in
           honorable
           consultation
           into
           one
           place
           ,
           would
           euen
           then
           and
           there
           haue
           as
           it
           were
           beheaded
           the
           whole
           Realme
           ,
           and
           so
           haue
           induced
           vpon
           the
           land
           a
           miserable
           desolation
           .
           The
           tyrannous
           Massacre
           of
           France
           ,
           (
           being
           an
           elder
           issue
           of
           that
           same
           mother
           Church
           the
           harlot
           of
           Rome
           )
           was
           inferior
           in
           furie
           &
           wickednesse
           to
           this
           plot
           :
           They
           had
           an
           excuse
           from
           the
           warrant
           of
           aucthoritie
           ;
           these
           out
           of
           their
           priuat
           dislikes
           ,
           conspired
           the
           ouerthrow
           of
           all
           aucthoritie
           :
           They
           designed
           those
           onely
           to
           the
           slaughter
           whom
           they
           accounted
           and
           condemned
           as
           offendors
           in
           their
           state
           ,
           these
           bundled
           vp
           into
           their
           butcherie
           the
           innocent
           ,
           and
           some
           of
           their
           own
           friends
           also
           ,
           whom
           they
           could
           haue
           no
           colour
           so
           to
           confound
           and
           ruinate
           :
           They
           ment
           the
           mending
           of
           their
           state
           present
           ,
           and
           the
           securing
           of
           their
           future
           ;
           these
           not
           onely
           the
           subuersion
           of
           that
           which
           now
           is
           flourishing
           ,
           both
           in
           riches
           ●●rituousnesse
           ,
           but
           also
           a
           future
           
           precipitation
           into
           a
           swelling
           surge
           of
           ensuing
           and
           vnauoydable
           calamities
           .
           I
           cannot
           tell
           whether
           their
           obdurate
           harts
           and
           brazen
           foreheds
           will
           not
           contradict
           my
           position
           ,
           if
           do
           but
           say
           this
           their
           designement
           to
           be
           a
           sinne
           :
           This
           in
           despite
           of
           them
           all
           I
           will
           mainteine
           ,
           That
           the
           verie
           nature
           of
           man
           ,
           not
           seduced
           by
           the
           man
           of
           sinne
           (
           who
           by
           his
           aucthorizing
           dispensations
           ,
           and
           pickpurse
           pardons
           hath
           made
           himselfe
           the
           great
           patron
           of
           sinne
           )
           acknowledgeth
           the
           same
           to
           be
           a
           foule
           and
           vnexcusable
           ,
           a
           cursed
           &
           most
           shamefull
           sinne
           :
           a
           sinne
           and
           shame
           that
           will
           for
           euer
           cleaue
           to
           their
           Religion
           ,
           euen
           as
           close
           as
           the
           venomed
           shirt
           of
           
             Hercules
             ,
          
           till
           it
           eate
           and
           consume
           the
           same
           to
           the
           hard
           bones
           :
           a
           sinne
           and
           shame
           that
           no
           conscience
           (
           though
           steeled
           ouer
           with
           the
           Romish
           mettall
           )
           can
           make
           so
           much
           as
           any
           colourable
           defence
           for
           :
           a
           sinne
           and
           shame
           that
           God
           himselfe
           of
           his
           miraculous
           mercie
           ,
           for
           the
           honour
           of
           his
           name
           ,
           and
           the
           loue
           of
           his
           truth
           ,
           so
           happily
           discouered
           ,
           that
           they
           might
           not
           say
           ,
           
             Where
             is
             now
             their
             God
          
           :
           A
           sinne
           and
           shame
           ,
           that
           we
           shall
           not
           need
           to
           call
           Diuines
           by
           any
           their
           disputings
           to
           conuince
           them
           of
           ;
           but
           which
           the
           verie
           Humanists
           and
           Moralists
           out
           of
           the
           grounds
           of
           reason
           and
           learning
           ,
           will
           make
           the
           whole
           world
           to
           wonder
           ,
           hisse
           ,
           and
           gnash
           their
           teeth
           at
           .
           And
           which
           my
           poore
           selfe
           (
           as
           the
           meanesse
           of
           my
           wit
           and
           erudition
           affordeth
           )
           euen
           by
           the
           comparatiue
           respects
           of
           the
           parts
           in
           the
           bodie
           ,
           which
           I
           haue
           vndertaken
           to
           set
           forth
           ,
           do
           condemne
           to
           the
           deepest
           dongion
           of
           hell
           ,
           whence
           the
           fathers
           and
           factors
           of
           the
           Romish
           faith
           hath
           first
           fetched
           it
           .
           
        
         
           In
           the
           bodie
           there
           is
           not
           any
           part
           so
           weake
           ,
           so
           little
           ,
           or
           so
           base
           ,
           which
           God
           hath
           not
           framed
           and
           appointed
           
           to
           some
           good
           vse
           ;
           and
           shall
           there
           in
           the
           state
           bee
           cherished
           ,
           or
           suffered
           ,
           any
           so
           loose
           ,
           idle
           ,
           vagrant
           ,
           and
           vnprofitable
           people
           ,
           as
           that
           no
           vse
           can
           bee
           made
           of
           them
           for
           the
           publique
           behoofe
           ?
           nay
           ,
           that
           bee
           noysome
           ,
           pernitious
           ,
           combersome
           ,
           and
           contrarious
           thereunto
           ?
           Let
           vs
           but
           obserue
           nature
           ,
           who
           because
           shee
           would
           be
           sure
           to
           make
           nothing
           in
           vaine
           (
           thereby
           teaching
           vs
           in
           the
           order
           of
           gouernment
           ,
           to
           allow
           no
           needlesse
           or
           fruitles
           parts
           )
           hath
           endued
           and
           designed
           some
           one
           part
           vnto
           many
           vses
           .
           I
           will
           propound
           onely
           one
           instance
           of
           the
           hand
           ,
           which
           serueth
           for
           so
           many
           purposes
           ,
           as
           I
           thinke
           to
           resemble
           therunto
           ,
           sometimes
           the
           souldier
           that
           fighteth
           ,
           sometimes
           the
           husbandman
           that
           laboureth
           ,
           sometimes
           the
           marchant
           that
           reacheth
           and
           fetcheth
           far
           and
           neere
           ,
           sometimes
           the
           artificer
           ,
           who
           wholy
           practiseth
           the
           handiecraft
           ,
           sometimes
           the
           purueiour
           ,
           that
           feedeth
           and
           releeueth
           our
           liues
           with
           needfull
           nutriment
           .
           This
           so
           prouident
           accommodating
           of
           the
           parts
           vnto
           many
           imployments
           ,
           disproueth
           our
           heedlesse
           tollerating
           of
           these
           begging
           and
           shifting
           mates
           ,
           who
           swarming
           euery
           where
           ,
           bee
           so
           farre
           from
           doing
           any
           good
           in
           the
           State
           ,
           as
           that
           they
           will
           doe
           nothing
           for
           their
           owne
           liuing
           .
        
         
           Neuerthelesse
           ,
           I
           would
           not
           be
           so
           mistaken
           ,
           as
           if
           by
           this
           president
           of
           natures
           worke
           in
           bestowing
           of
           manifold
           abilities
           vppon
           one
           part
           ,
           
           I
           should
           make
           way
           or
           proofe
           for
           the
           ouer-greedie
           ingrossing
           of
           too
           many
           offices
           into
           the
           hands
           of
           some
           one
           man
           ;
           which
           neyther
           the
           businesse
           of
           the
           state
           may
           well
           beare
           ,
           nor
           the
           stomakes
           of
           other
           men
           with
           contentednesse
           endure
           ,
           nor
           himselfe
           perhaps
           with
           sufficiencie
           vndergoe
           .
           Therefore
           I
           must
           crosse
           any
           such
           conclusion
           with
           an
           apparant
           
           difference
           ,
           
           disauow
           the
           similitude
           in
           that
           poynt
           ,
           sith
           in
           the
           larger
           bodie
           politique
           there
           is
           greater
           store
           and
           choice
           of
           well-fitting
           seruitors
           for
           the
           many
           diuersities
           of
           affayres
           ,
           that
           there
           is
           no
           need
           to
           huddle
           or
           heap
           too
           much
           vppon
           any
           one
           man
           :
           wherein
           it
           seemeth
           that
           nature
           hath
           trodden
           vs
           a
           path
           for
           our
           practise
           ,
           and
           that
           way
           also
           hath
           for
           our
           imitation
           manifested
           her
           intention
           .
           Wee
           doe
           find
           ,
           that
           the
           most
           industrious
           and
           instrumentall
           parts
           are
           giuen
           vs
           by
           couples
           ,
           as
           if
           one
           (
           though
           for
           one
           worke
           )
           would
           not
           serue
           the
           turne
           :
           for
           example
           ,
           She
           hath
           giuen
           vs
           two
           hands
           ,
           &
           each
           of
           them
           diuided
           &
           adorned
           with
           seuerall
           fingers
           ;
           as
           if
           she
           ment
           in
           so
           narrow
           a
           compasse
           to
           couch
           and
           compact
           a
           varietie
           of
           helps
           ,
           for
           the
           more
           easie
           and
           certaine
           dispatch
           of
           so
           diuersly
           occurring
           works
           .
        
         
           This
           allotting
           of
           two
           parts
           to
           one
           function
           might
           cause
           in
           our
           so
           little
           bodies
           a
           great
           factiō
           ,
           
           if
           the
           foreseeing
           care
           of
           nature
           had
           not
           also
           conioined
           them
           in
           consent
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           in
           operation
           .
           Wee
           see
           both
           the
           eyes
           to
           looke
           both
           one
           way
           ,
           the
           eares
           to
           conceiue
           alike
           one
           and
           the
           same
           sound
           ,
           the
           nostrils
           to
           bee
           affected
           alike
           with
           one
           and
           the
           same
           smell
           ,
           the
           hands
           ioyntly
           labouring
           at
           one
           worke
           ,
           and
           the
           feet
           by
           equall
           paces
           locally
           mouing
           the
           body
           by
           euen
           length
           &
           strength
           vprightly
           supporting
           it
           ,
           and
           by
           their
           good
           agreement
           ioyntly
           acting
           and
           louingly
           ayding
           one
           the
           other
           :
           the
           two
           sides
           ,
           and
           the
           two
           shoulders
           ,
           which
           beare
           vp
           the
           high
           castle
           of
           the
           head
           ,
           doe
           with
           the
           like
           matchable
           equalitie
           ,
           and
           the
           like
           willing
           agreeablenesse
           entertaine
           their
           taske
           .
           I
           wish
           from
           my
           heart
           (
           though
           I
           shew
           but
           by
           a
           simily
           )
           that
           in
           the
           realm
           likewise
           by
           such
           concordance
           of
           the
           parts
           in
           each
           degree
           ,
           might
           fasten
           so
           their
           fayth
           
           each
           to
           other
           ,
           as
           that
           the
           disposing
           of
           many
           to
           one
           seruice
           ,
           did
           tend
           to
           a
           more
           full
           &
           more
           sure
           performance
           of
           the
           same
           :
           so
           should
           both
           the
           ciuill
           and
           the
           spirituall
           side
           ,
           together
           with
           the
           honourable
           shoulders
           on
           both
           sides
           ,
           equally
           part
           betweene
           them
           the
           common
           care
           ,
           and
           much
           importing
           worke
           of
           vpholding
           the
           maiestie
           of
           supreme
           authoritie
           ,
           without
           any
           fainting
           or
           interruption
           :
           so
           should
           the
           eies
           of
           the
           wise
           ,
           and
           the
           sences
           of
           the
           learned
           bee
           bent
           all
           one
           way
           ,
           for
           discerning
           and
           increasing
           of
           truth
           and
           goodnesse
           ,
           without
           any
           erronious
           mistaking
           ,
           or
           wilfull
           reluctations
           :
           so
           should
           the
           meaner
           and
           ministring
           sort
           ,
           like
           to
           the
           feet
           and
           hands
           runne
           the
           race
           ,
           and
           catch
           the
           goale
           to
           them
           proposed
           ,
           in
           making
           a
           happie
           kingdome
           through
           an
           happy
           people
           ,
           without
           any
           either
           rubbes
           in
           their
           way
           by
           vnrulines
           ,
           or
           desisting
           from
           their
           duties
           by
           a
           retrogradation
           :
           And
           so
           should
           euerie
           part
           become
           plyant
           and
           apt
           to
           their
           places
           and
           callings
           (
           receiuing
           like
           waxe
           from
           a
           seale
           the
           impressions
           of
           the
           Gouernour
           )
           to
           execute
           his
           designements
           ,
           without
           either
           distraction
           by
           iarres
           ,
           or
           peruersnes
           of
           opposition
           ,
           or
           the
           carelesnes
           of
           a
           neglecting
           sloth
           .
        
         
           I
           must
           yet
           inferre
           one
           obseruation
           more
           of
           natures
           prouidence
           ,
           
           whereupon
           I
           will
           set
           my
           marke
           as
           chiefly
           to
           bee
           remembred
           :
           That
           albeit
           for
           the
           ordering
           and
           effecting
           of
           other
           businesses
           concerning
           the
           body
           ,
           she
           hath
           assigned
           and
           conioyned
           more
           parts
           vnto
           one
           worke
           :
           yet
           for
           the
           supremacie
           of
           gouerning
           ouer
           all
           ,
           she
           hath
           but
           one
           head
           ;
           as
           if
           it
           were
           vtterly
           vnpossible
           ,
           or
           vnsufferablie
           mischeeuous
           ,
           to
           admit
           any
           partnership
           in
           the
           regall
           dignitie
           .
           Let
           vs
           imagine
           a
           bodie
           so
           monstrous
           ,
           as
           whereunto
           two
           heads
           were
           at
           once
           affixed
           ,
           
           shall
           not
           that
           bodie
           receiue
           much
           damage
           by
           the
           diuision
           and
           confusion
           of
           those
           two
           heads
           ?
           must
           not
           the
           bodie
           in
           that
           case
           either
           be
           diuided
           by
           alotting
           of
           one
           side
           to
           the
           one
           ,
           and
           the
           other
           side
           to
           the
           other
           head
           ?
           or
           else
           be
           wholy
           disseuered
           by
           a
           promiscuous
           and
           contentious
           shufling
           of
           the
           seuerall
           sinewes
           ,
           forces
           ,
           and
           operations
           from
           each
           head
           proceeding
           ?
           What
           we
           as
           by
           fiction
           doe
           imagine
           might
           bee
           done
           in
           the
           naturall
           bodie
           :
           Man
           (
           that
           imagineth
           nothing
           but
           euill
           )
           and
           therefore
           can
           produce
           more
           prodigious
           errours
           than
           nature
           in
           her
           escapes
           hath
           euer
           patterned
           ,
           hath
           indeed
           often
           brought
           to
           passe
           (
           though
           with
           most
           cursed
           successe
           )
           in
           the
           bodie
           politique
           .
           Haue
           we
           not
           had
           within
           this
           one
           land
           of
           England
           ,
           the
           hideous
           Heptarchie
           of
           seuen
           heads
           at
           once
           ?
           nay
           hath
           not
           the
           whole
           Iland
           of
           
             Britania
             ,
          
           
           being
           a
           bodie
           perfectly
           shaped
           ,
           rounded
           ,
           and
           bounded
           with
           an
           inuironing
           sea
           ,
           beene
           a
           long
           time
           thus
           disseuered
           ,
           and
           disfigured
           by
           that
           vnluckie
           dualitie
           the
           authour
           of
           diuision
           ?
           vntill
           at
           the
           last
           the
           mightie
           and
           onely
           wonder
           working
           hand
           of
           God
           ,
           wyping
           away
           the
           deformitie
           (
           not
           by
           any
           violent
           cutting
           off
           ,
           but
           by
           a
           new
           moulding
           as
           it
           were
           of
           the
           two
           heads
           into
           one
           )
           hath
           restored
           it
           againe
           to
           his
           first
           right
           ,
           imperiall
           ,
           and
           most
           monarchiall
           greatnesse
           .
        
         
           Here
           I
           find
           the
           matter
           of
           Vnion
           to
           lye
           so
           full
           in
           my
           way
           ,
           
           that
           euen
           it
           stoppeth
           my
           passage
           ,
           forcing
           me
           (
           notwithstanding
           the
           exact
           handling
           thereof
           by
           others
           )
           to
           giue
           it
           some
           little
           touch
           by
           the
           addition
           of
           proofe
           from
           these
           my
           comparisons
           also
           :
           for
           doubtlesse
           ,
           if
           in
           the
           former
           times
           two
           heads
           caused
           the
           diuiding
           and
           halfeing
           of
           the
           bodie
           ;
           the
           same
           reason
           now
           requireth
           ,
           that
           this
           one
           so
           vertuous
           and
           powerfull
           head
           
           should
           reunite
           and
           draw
           againe
           into
           one
           ,
           the
           distracted
           and
           long
           repugning
           parts
           .
           And
           can
           any
           of
           this
           entire
           and
           compleat
           body
           bee
           either
           so
           vnnaturally
           hard
           harted
           ,
           or
           so
           vnconsiderat
           of
           his
           owne
           good
           ,
           as
           finding
           this
           so
           happie
           and
           long
           desired
           reducement
           thereof
           vnto
           one
           head
           ,
           will
           not
           seeke
           to
           be
           conioyned
           (
           euen
           in
           all
           the
           offices
           of
           kindnesse
           and
           releefe
           )
           rather
           with
           the
           whole
           bodie
           ,
           than
           with
           the
           parts
           of
           one
           side
           onely
           ?
           or
           is
           it
           fit
           that
           there
           should
           be
           any
           disseuering
           ,
           siding
           ,
           or
           disuniting
           by
           different
           orders
           ,
           lawes
           ,
           customs
           ,
           and
           other
           such
           poynts
           of
           gouernment
           ,
           where
           necessitie
           of
           communion
           in
           all
           the
           parts
           ,
           inforceth
           a
           firmnesse
           of
           loue
           ,
           a
           likenesse
           of
           life
           ,
           and
           an
           equalitie
           of
           condition
           ?
           Surely
           such
           as
           doe
           not
           gladly
           entertaine
           this
           good
           opportunitie
           to
           reunite
           that
           which
           hath
           so
           long
           beene
           sundred
           ,
           seemeth
           to
           bee
           better
           pleased
           with
           the
           imperfection
           ,
           the
           weaknesse
           and
           misshapen
           forme
           of
           the
           bodie
           vnder
           two
           heads
           ,
           and
           with
           disagreeing
           parts
           ,
           than
           that
           the
           whole
           strengthening
           of
           it selfe
           with
           a
           comely
           concordance
           ,
           and
           vniforme
           subiection
           ,
           should
           bee
           brought
           vnder
           the
           righteous
           gouernment
           of
           one
           onely
           soueraigne
           head
           .
           Therefore
           if
           they
           will
           not
           bee
           thought
           to
           dislike
           ,
           that
           one
           head
           should
           rule
           all
           ;
           let
           not
           this
           offend
           them
           neither
           ,
           that
           all
           bee
           collected
           and
           incorporate
           into
           one
           and
           the
           same
           politicall
           gouernment
           .
        
         
           The
           bodie
           may
           haue
           many
           imperfections
           and
           deformities
           ,
           yea
           may
           be
           bereaued
           of
           whole
           parts
           ,
           
           and
           yet
           retaine
           still
           the
           name
           and
           nature
           of
           a
           bodie
           :
           And
           sundrie
           shifts
           be
           deuised
           (
           though
           not
           to
           cure
           )
           yet
           to
           couer
           such
           defects
           .
           In
           the
           steed
           of
           the
           naturall
           leg
           ,
           or
           arme
           ,
           wee
           stick
           not
           to
           fashion
           and
           affixe
           a
           wooden
           arme
           ,
           or
           
           leg
           ,
           verie
           necessitie
           constreineth
           vs
           to
           make
           that
           simple
           supplie
           ,
           when
           we
           find
           not
           otherwise
           any
           substantiall
           remedie
           .
           The
           Commonwealth
           likewise
           ,
           may
           (
           by
           the
           losse
           or
           want
           of
           her
           true
           subiects
           )
           become
           stark
           lame
           ,
           or
           by
           some
           foule
           disorders
           made
           deformed
           and
           mishapen
           ;
           
           yet
           hold
           still
           the
           style
           and
           rights
           of
           a
           Commonweale
           .
           Howbeit
           to
           redresse
           such
           abuses
           ,
           blemishes
           ,
           impotencies
           ,
           or
           enormities
           ,
           she
           is
           lightly
           driuen
           to
           betake
           her selfe
           vnto
           some
           mercenarie
           helpes
           ,
           
           as
           to
           her
           crowches
           ;
           yea
           to
           take
           vnto
           her
           new
           lymbs
           ,
           and
           lynages
           of
           strangers
           ,
           like
           woodden
           legs
           to
           be
           planted
           amongst
           her
           owne
           people
           .
           The
           bodie
           when
           vpon
           any
           quarrell
           it
           is
           to
           combat
           with
           his
           enemie
           ,
           vseth
           for
           more
           aduantage
           to
           combine
           with
           a
           friend
           :
           
           So
           when
           one
           kingdome
           is
           at
           variance
           with
           an
           other
           ,
           it
           seemeth
           a
           wisdome
           not
           to
           be
           neglected
           ,
           to
           enter
           leagues
           ,
           aliances
           ,
           and
           confederacies
           ,
           with
           some
           other
           well
           chosen
           Nation
           ;
           though
           it
           often
           commeth
           to
           passe
           ,
           as
           in
           particuler
           bodies
           :
           so
           in
           whole
           Realmes
           ,
           that
           as
           well
           the
           friendship
           begun
           for
           such
           purposes
           ,
           doth
           proue
           but
           feeble
           and
           fickle
           ,
           as
           also
           those
           other
           additaments
           of
           forrain
           aide
           ,
           do
           in
           the
           end
           by
           their
           failing
           falshood
           giue
           the
           fall
           to
           them
           that
           trust
           entirely
           to
           them
           .
        
         
           There
           is
           a
           time
           when
           the
           bodies
           constitution
           is
           thought
           perfect
           and
           at
           the
           height
           ,
           as
           setled
           in
           the
           middle
           point
           betweene
           redundacies
           ,
           and
           deficiencies
           ,
           hauing
           neither
           any
           distemper
           within
           it selfe
           ,
           nor
           disturbance
           by
           outward
           wrongs
           :
           which
           soundnes
           of
           welfare
           ,
           is
           manifested
           in
           externall
           seemings
           also
           ;
           as
           in
           a
           liuely
           cheerfulnesse
           ,
           a
           fresh
           colour
           ,
           an
           actiue
           lustinesse
           ,
           and
           such
           like
           faire
           blossomes
           of
           a
           prospering
           plant
           :
           The
           State
           also
           hath
           such
           a
           time
           ,
           
           of
           his
           good
           estate
           ;
           the
           
           absolute
           happinesse
           whereof
           requireth
           an
           happier
           wit
           than
           mind
           ,
           for
           the
           exact
           describing
           of
           it
           in
           all
           his
           complements
           :
           nor
           
             Plato
             ;
          
           his
           imagined
           Idea
           ,
           nor
           
             Aristotles
          
           sharpe
           discussings
           doth
           fully
           discouer
           so
           much
           thereof
           ,
           to
           my
           apprehension
           ,
           but
           my
           wishes
           may
           exceed
           the
           same
           ,
           by
           addition
           of
           some
           further
           good
           .
           When
           I
           speak
           of
           perfection
           ,
           I
           would
           patterne
           it
           by
           paradise
           ,
           or
           the
           Ierusalem
           of
           God
           ;
           but
           we
           must
           be
           faine
           now
           to
           account
           that
           perfect
           ,
           which
           bewraieth
           least
           imperfection
           ,
           and
           commeth
           neerest
           to
           that
           goodnesse
           which
           may
           receiue
           allowance
           .
           
           Therefore
           without
           reducing
           our
           conceits
           to
           any
           exquisite
           perfectnes
           ,
           (
           imitating
           the
           Phisitions
           ,
           who
           will
           neuer
           yeeld
           the
           bodie
           to
           be
           in
           perfect
           health
           )
           we
           may
           with
           them
           take
           our
           coniectures
           ,
           from
           the
           signes
           of
           health
           :
           So
           as
           where
           we
           see
           publique
           concordant
           ioying
           ,
           peace
           ,
           and
           plentie
           kissing
           each
           other
           ,
           sumptuous
           shewes
           ,
           triumphant
           exercises
           ,
           magnificent
           solemnities
           ,
           and
           such
           other
           apparances
           of
           good
           liking
           ;
           there
           it
           seemeth
           that
           health
           and
           good
           temper
           hath
           attained
           the
           golden
           meane
           ,
           preuailing
           against
           all
           ,
           either
           homebred
           or
           forrain
           iniuries
           .
           But
           as
           that
           rule
           in
           Phisick
           is
           not
           to
           be
           lightly
           regarded
           ,
           though
           it
           be
           not
           generally
           beleeued
           ,
           
           That
           when
           health
           is
           at
           his
           height
           ,
           then
           is
           the
           bodie
           neerest
           to
           decline
           into
           diseases
           :
           so
           lightly
           when
           any
           kingdome
           is
           in
           his
           flowing
           ,
           and
           flourishing
           fortunes
           ,
           and
           in
           the
           pride
           of
           his
           prosperitie
           ,
           then
           the
           more
           eminent
           is
           his
           happines
           ,
           the
           more
           imminent
           is
           his
           danger
           ,
           and
           such
           his
           fulnesse
           is
           fuller
           of
           feare
           than
           it
           can
           giue
           securitie
           .
           And
           againe
           ,
           as
           the
           Phisitions
           (
           notwithstanding
           )
           do
           confesse
           good
           signes
           to
           be
           deceiuable
           ,
           
           and
           that
           themselues
           be
           often
           illuded
           by
           the
           imposture
           of
           such
           beguiling
           
           shewes
           :
           So
           let
           it
           also
           be
           acknowledged
           ,
           and
           considered
           ,
           that
           in
           the
           state
           ,
           there
           may
           be
           somtimes
           a
           well
           carying
           or
           setting
           of
           a
           face
           vpon
           the
           matter
           ,
           where
           inwardly
           it
           is
           fretted
           with
           the
           festring
           of
           some
           swelling
           and
           foule
           Impostume
           .
        
         
           Now
           (
           me
           thinketh
           )
           I
           haue
           opened
           a
           fit
           passage
           for
           my
           pen
           into
           a
           discourse
           very
           large
           ,
           and
           scantly
           to
           bee
           limitted
           ;
           Of
           the
           health
           requisite
           ,
           the
           diseases
           incident
           ,
           and
           the
           remedies
           ,
           applyable
           to
           a
           Commonweale
           ,
           that
           herein
           also
           ,
           I
           may
           make
           good
           my
           comparison
           thereof
           to
           the
           body
           naturall
           .
           There
           is
           none
           either
           so
           witlesse
           ,
           or
           so
           carelesse
           ,
           that
           considereth
           not
           of
           the
           necessitie
           of
           health
           ,
           
           which
           where
           it
           wanteth
           ,
           there
           can
           neither
           be
           fore-thinking
           of
           affayres
           ,
           nor
           courage
           to
           attempt
           ,
           nor
           strength
           to
           persorme
           ,
           nor
           cheerfulnesse
           in
           shew
           ,
           nor
           manfulnes
           in
           deed
           ;
           but
           in
           the
           steede
           of
           these
           a
           drowping
           dismaiednsse
           ,
           deiected
           weaknes
           ,
           and
           a
           yeedling
           faintnesse
           ,
           deliuereth
           ouer
           the
           bodie
           into
           a
           verie
           euill
           ,
           if
           not
           forlorne
           condition
           .
           And
           surely
           where
           the
           bodie
           politique
           hath
           not
           his
           health
           ,
           as
           being
           either
           tainted
           with
           infectious
           corruptions
           ,
           or
           infested
           with
           publique
           greuances
           ,
           there
           all
           things
           quickly
           runneth
           awrie
           ,
           for
           want
           both
           of
           councell
           to
           contriue
           ,
           and
           power
           to
           doe
           ,
           what
           in
           such
           cases
           is
           behoueable
           :
           The
           haughtynes
           of
           valour
           is
           turned
           all
           to
           timerousnes
           the
           care
           of
           the
           common
           good
           ,
           to
           a
           heedlesse
           negligence
           ;
           the
           forwarding
           of
           iust
           actions
           ,
           to
           a
           languishing
           in
           his
           owne
           afflictions
           ;
           and
           his
           ioint
           force
           of
           peace
           &
           loue
           ,
           into
           a
           disseuering
           and
           tearing
           a
           sunder
           of
           all
           his
           ioints
           .
           Then
           herein
           let
           both
           the
           bodies
           agree
           ,
           that
           without
           health
           ,
           they
           haue
           neither
           mind
           of
           their
           businesses
           ,
           nor
           vse
           of
           their
           abundance
           ,
           nor
           meanes
           of
           well
           doing
           ,
           nor
           ioy
           of
           themselues
           .
           
           The
           bodie
           is
           not
           said
           to
           be
           in
           health
           ,
           if
           any
           part
           thereof
           be
           greeued
           ;
           
           in
           so
           much
           that
           somtimes
           a
           paine
           in
           the
           finger
           ,
           or
           toe
           ,
           so
           outragiously
           disquieteth
           the
           whole
           bodie
           ,
           as
           that
           we
           could
           be
           content
           to
           forgo
           all
           the
           wealth
           or
           ioyes
           we
           haue
           ,
           to
           be
           freed
           from
           that
           one
           torment
           .
           This
           may
           giue
           proofe
           vnto
           the
           State
           ,
           not
           to
           neglect
           ,
           but
           rather
           to
           redeeme
           by
           the
           dearest
           meanes
           ,
           the
           welfare
           of
           his
           members
           ,
           lest
           in
           the
           anguish
           of
           them
           ,
           it selfe
           do
           feelingly
           fare
           the
           worse
           .
           
           
             Chyron
          
           that
           wise
           centaure
           ,
           ouercome
           with
           the
           paine
           of
           an
           vlcer
           ,
           (
           renouncing
           immortalitie
           )
           wished
           rather
           to
           die
           than
           to
           endure
           ,
           In
           subiectes
           such
           an
           vlcer
           is
           discontentednesse
           ,
           
           the
           sting
           whereof
           is
           so
           sharpe
           ,
           as
           pricking
           them
           on
           in
           perplexities
           and
           despaires
           ,
           maketh
           them
           vtterly
           carelesse
           of
           life
           or
           lyuing
           ,
           and
           so
           to
           attempt
           the
           recouerie
           of
           their
           comforts
           ,
           though
           it
           be
           with
           hazard
           of
           a
           vniuersall
           ruine
           .
        
         
           That
           health
           which
           the
           bodie
           hath
           by
           the
           strength
           and
           goodnes
           of
           nature
           ,
           
           is
           firmer
           and
           to
           be
           preferred
           before
           that
           ,
           which
           by
           a
           shift
           of
           art
           is
           peeced
           and
           procured
           :
           so
           each
           kingdom
           is
           in
           better
           case
           when
           it
           holdeth
           his
           originall
           constitutions
           by
           his
           owne
           Lawes
           and
           customes
           ,
           than
           when
           by
           the
           swaruing
           from
           them
           it
           is
           corrupted
           ,
           and
           then
           constrained
           by
           extremitie
           vnto
           new
           prouisions
           .
           
           Hence
           it
           is
           that
           all
           alterations
           (
           especially
           in
           the
           chiefe
           and
           substanciall
           points
           )
           be
           accounted
           verie
           perilous
           ,
           because
           the
           imutation
           of
           that
           which
           is
           inate
           and
           primatiue
           ,
           is
           intended
           to
           tend
           to
           the
           decay
           and
           destruction
           of
           nature
           .
           How
           full
           of
           daunger
           changes
           be
           ,
           may
           bee
           shewed
           by
           the
           difference
           we
           doe
           find
           in
           our
           diet
           ;
           the
           meat
           ,
           drinke
           ,
           and
           ayre
           ,
           whereunto
           we
           haue
           not
           bene
           vsed
           ,
           offendeth
           our
           bodies
           ,
           and
           subuerteth
           
           our
           health
           .
        
         
           Those
           things
           whereunto
           we
           haue
           bene
           most
           accustomed
           do
           lesse
           harme
           ,
           and
           are
           not
           to
           be
           exchanged
           ,
           no
           not
           for
           the
           better
           ;
           
           daily
           vsage
           agreeably
           apting
           the
           one
           vnto
           our
           likings
           (
           though
           not
           of
           so
           commendable
           a
           qualitie
           )
           where
           the
           other
           (
           though
           in
           reason
           it
           may
           seeme
           more
           applyable
           )
           yet
           is
           both
           distrustfully
           entertayned
           as
           vnacquainted
           ,
           and
           hazerdable
           to
           disturbe
           by
           his
           newnesse
           :
           whereof
           the
           Phisicions
           haue
           made
           this
           rule
           ,
           
             Si
             assuetis
             mederi
             possis
             non
             tentanda
             noua
             .
          
           And
           the
           reason
           why
           the
           seasons
           of
           the
           spring
           and
           fall
           are
           aptest
           to
           bring
           sicknesse
           ,
           is
           onely
           the
           interchangeable
           varietie
           of
           weather
           then
           working
           vpon
           our
           tendernesse
           and
           chilnesse
           .
        
         
           There
           must
           be
           a
           leasurely
           and
           aduised
           proceeding
           in
           euery
           alteration
           :
           
           nature
           hath
           left
           vs
           a
           patterne
           thereof
           in
           the
           whole
           course
           of
           our
           life
           ,
           who
           from
           infancie
           to
           strength
           ,
           and
           from
           thencè
           againe
           to
           feeblenesse
           &
           age
           ,
           and
           from
           one
           complexion
           to
           another
           ,
           doe
           proceed
           by
           softly
           steps
           ,
           and
           so
           stealingly
           ,
           as
           the
           change
           cannot
           presently
           be
           discerned
           :
           admonishing
           vs
           ,
           that
           when
           we
           be
           disposed
           to
           alter
           any
           thing
           ,
           wee
           must
           let
           it
           grow
           by
           degrees
           ,
           and
           not
           hast
           it
           on
           too
           suddenly
           .
           It
           is
           well
           noted
           of
           some
           Philosophers
           ,
           That
           if
           a
           Scythian
           were
           in
           an
           instant
           transported
           into
           India
           ,
           he
           could
           not
           possiblie
           liue
           :
           so
           if
           without
           an
           orderlie
           passing
           by
           a
           meane
           ,
           the
           state
           from
           on
           extremitie
           should
           be
           altered
           to
           another
           ,
           it
           would
           certeinly
           infer
           a
           dissolution
           and
           dissipation
           of
           that
           it
           was
           before
           :
           wherein
           the
           proportion
           of
           the
           perils
           that
           may
           befall
           ,
           suiteth
           with
           the
           proportion
           and
           degrees
           of
           the
           alteration
           ;
           in
           so
           much
           ,
           as
           the
           more
           or
           lesse
           violent
           and
           vnnaturall
           the
           change
           is
           ,
           the
           more
           or
           
           lesse
           the
           danger
           thereof
           is
           to
           be
           misdoubted
           ;
           euen
           as
           the
           taking
           of
           the
           more
           or
           lesse
           cold
           ,
           after
           more
           or
           lesse
           heat
           ,
           doth
           more
           or
           lesse
           endaunger
           our
           health
           .
        
         
           The
           mutabilitie
           of
           this
           earthly
           state
           stirred
           by
           the
           diuersitie
           of
           causes
           ,
           
           admitteth
           no
           such
           certeintie
           or
           stabilitie
           in
           either
           of
           the
           said
           bodies
           ,
           as
           can
           quite
           keepe
           off
           or
           exclude
           alterations
           .
           Let
           vs
           then
           as
           in
           the
           naturall
           ,
           so
           in
           the
           politicall
           bodie
           gouerne
           the
           question
           of
           change
           with
           such
           choice
           &
           discretion
           ,
           as
           vnlesse
           either
           vrgent
           necessitie
           constraine
           ,
           or
           euident
           vtilitie
           do
           entise
           our
           assent
           ,
           we
           may
           still
           retaine
           our
           wonted
           orders
           and
           vsages
           with
           all
           permanent
           firmenesse
           ,
           not
           affecting
           or
           enduring
           any
           nouelties
           :
           which
           besides
           their
           misdoubted
           harmefulnesse
           at
           their
           first
           entring
           ,
           will
           aske
           a
           continued
           time
           of
           triall
           ,
           for
           their
           gaining
           of
           aucthority
           and
           acceptation
           .
           But
           where
           these
           respectes
           of
           an
           enforced
           compulsion
           ,
           or
           of
           a
           gainfull
           consideration
           shall
           preuaile
           ;
           how
           can
           it
           be
           gainsaid
           ,
           that
           the
           feare
           of
           the
           one
           ,
           or
           the
           loue
           of
           the
           other
           ,
           (
           euen
           of
           a
           tender
           sence
           in
           nature
           )
           should
           not
           persuade
           a
           voluntarie
           condescending
           to
           so
           well
           warranted
           immutations
           ?
        
         
           I
           hold
           it
           better
           phisick
           to
           preserue
           health
           ,
           than
           to
           restore
           it
           ;
           and
           a
           more
           commendable
           care
           to
           preuent
           ,
           
           than
           to
           cure
           diseases
           :
           so
           it
           is
           a
           greater
           wisdome
           to
           keep
           a
           kingdome
           in
           his
           good
           gouernment
           ,
           than
           to
           amend
           it
           when
           it
           is
           out
           of
           order
           ;
           and
           to
           prouide
           aforehand
           against
           mischiefes
           ,
           than
           to
           redresse
           what
           is
           become
           amisse
           .
           We
           do
           vsualy
           account
           it
           good
           wisdome
           in
           our
           health
           to
           prouide
           for
           sicknes
           ;
           
           and
           then
           to
           furnish
           our selues
           with
           all
           such
           necessaries
           as
           may
           best
           besteed
           vs
           ,
           when
           we
           shall
           be
           either
           threatned
           or
           assaulted
           therwith
           .
           Hereof
           also
           the
           ciuill
           bodie
           doth
           make
           this
           vse
           ,
           
           as
           in
           the
           seasons
           of
           the
           plentie
           ,
           to
           store
           vp
           against
           scarcitie
           ,
           and
           in
           the
           times
           of
           peace
           to
           get
           and
           gather
           together
           more
           plentifully
           the
           many
           preparations
           of
           warre
           .
           To
           discerne
           an
           approching
           euill
           betimes
           ,
           
           and
           to
           stop
           the
           spread
           thereof
           before
           it
           become
           through
           continuance
           vncureable
           ,
           is
           a
           like
           in
           either
           of
           the
           said
           bodies
           ,
           a
           foresight
           most
           necessarie
           .
           We
           see
           that
           a
           verie
           whelke
           doth
           often
           breed
           into
           a
           great
           sore
           ,
           a
           small
           bruze
           into
           a
           greeuous
           fistula
           ,
           
           and
           a
           little
           distemperature
           into
           an
           extreame
           feuer
           :
           Such
           shaking
           fits
           and
           horrible
           commotions
           haue
           bin
           felt
           in
           the
           bodie
           of
           the
           Realme
           ,
           and
           haue
           risen
           from
           contemptible
           beginnings
           ,
           to
           vncorrigible
           confusions
           ;
           which
           who
           so
           well
           weyeth
           ,
           must
           be
           forced
           to
           conclude
           a
           necessitie
           of
           timely
           care
           and
           circumspect
           preuention
           ,
           for
           auoiding
           or
           resisting
           thereof
           .
           He
           that
           neglecteth
           dangers
           ,
           because
           the
           means
           that
           importeth
           or
           threatneth
           the
           same
           be
           but
           small
           ,
           forgetteth
           what
           great
           plagues
           ,
           the
           frogs
           ,
           lice
           ,
           flies
           ,
           and
           grashoppers
           ,
           brought
           vpon
           the
           land
           of
           Aegypt
           ;
           nay
           ,
           let
           him
           not
           account
           so
           slightlie
           of
           any
           euill
           (
           though
           neuer
           so
           little
           in
           shew
           )
           as
           not
           to
           watch
           it
           well
           ,
           for
           feare
           of
           the
           worst
           .
           We
           haue
           a
           common
           saying
           ,
           That
           an
           euill
           weed
           groweth
           apace
           ,
           and
           as
           vsuall
           a
           practise
           to
           roote
           it
           out
           as
           soone
           as
           it
           sheweth
           :
           when
           one
           is
           out
           of
           the
           way
           ,
           if
           he
           be
           not
           streight
           reduced
           ,
           it
           is
           hard
           to
           say
           how
           far
           he
           will
           straggle
           ;
           and
           when
           the
           bodie
           is
           but
           a
           little
           crazie
           ,
           if
           help
           be
           not
           sought
           ,
           who
           can
           tell
           what
           extreamitie
           may
           ensue
           .
           Such
           petite
           euils
           (
           reckoned
           of
           as
           scant
           regardable
           )
           do
           often
           (
           because
           their
           venemous
           qualitie
           is
           not
           presently
           perceiued
           )
           aduantage
           themselues
           by
           the
           foolish
           sufferance
           of
           such
           as
           should
           suppresse
           them
           ;
           whereby
           
           the
           way
           hath
           bin
           made
           for
           the
           introducing
           
           of
           the
           tolleration
           of
           them
           ,
           euen
           when
           they
           haue
           growen
           more
           vntollerable
           :
           for
           ,
           such
           their
           vnderpropping
           Patrons
           ,
           as
           in
           their
           first
           springing
           ,
           and
           (
           as
           it
           were
           )
           in
           the
           supposed
           harmlesnesse
           thereof
           ,
           afforded
           them
           perhaps
           some
           little
           countenancing
           fauour
           ,
           will
           still
           be
           presumed
           of
           to
           beare
           towards
           them
           a
           certaine
           tender
           and
           relenting
           fancie
           ,
           tending
           to
           their
           defence
           .
           And
           in
           verie
           deed
           ,
           such
           as
           compassionatly
           do
           encline
           their
           affectiōs
           to
           beare
           with
           euils
           ,
           cannot
           readily
           find
           a
           degree
           of
           stay
           ;
           but
           are
           likely
           enough
           to
           hold
           on
           with
           them
           ,
           as
           well
           in
           their
           offensiue
           and
           excessiue
           ,
           as
           in
           their
           vnespied
           or
           neglected
           naughtinesse
           ;
           like
           to
           
             Milo
          
           that
           had
           caried
           the
           calfe
           so
           long
           ,
           as
           that
           he
           still
           caried
           it
           when
           it
           was
           become
           an
           Oxe
           .
           I
           know
           it
           to
           be
           propounded
           by
           some
           Polititians
           ,
           that
           some
           euils
           must
           be
           tollerated
           in
           the
           State
           ,
           like
           as
           dregs
           and
           grosse
           humors
           be
           entermixed
           with
           the
           bloud
           ,
           which
           they
           affirme
           to
           be
           better
           for
           health
           ,
           than
           if
           the
           bloud
           were
           all
           pure
           and
           clean
           without
           them
           .
           But
           (
           by
           their
           good
           leaue
           )
           this
           their
           instance
           is
           idle
           and
           impertinent
           ;
           for
           if
           it
           be
           better
           for
           the
           bloud
           so
           to
           be
           ,
           then
           it
           is
           no
           euill
           ,
           but
           meerely
           good
           :
           and
           so
           out
           of
           this
           question
           of
           tolleration
           ,
           I
           will
           fetch
           my
           ground
           from
           a
           far
           more
           aucthorized
           principle
           ,
           which
           is
           :
           
             Tollite
             malum
             e
             vobis
             ,
          
           and
           
             libera
             nos
             a
             malo
             ,
          
           And
           will
           confesse
           my selfe
           in
           this
           point
           a
           Stoycall
           statesman
           ,
           by
           auouching
           no
           euill
           to
           be
           so
           small
           ,
           (
           cloak
           it
           or
           extenuate
           it
           neuer
           so
           much
           )
           but
           that
           the
           (
           
             Tollite
          
           )
           barreth
           it
           of
           Tolleration
           ;
           and
           the
           (
           
             Libera
          
           )
           setteth
           vs
           at
           libertie
           ,
           to
           haue
           nothing
           to
           doe
           therewith
           .
           I
           know
           not
           what
           nice
           mitigations
           ,
           or
           constructions
           (
           by
           their
           fauours
           )
           they
           may
           applie
           to
           this
           word
           (
           Euill
           )
           but
           well
           I
           wot
           ,
           that
           in
           the
           prescribed
           praier
           taught
           vs
           by
           Christ
           ,
           
           in
           that
           verie
           tearme
           of
           (
           euill
           )
           is
           included
           and
           conteined
           the
           Diuell
           himselfe
           :
           And
           therefore
           whatsoeuer
           we
           assuredlie
           resolue
           to
           be
           euill
           ,
           is
           as
           absolutely
           vnsufferable
           ,
           as
           any
           the
           limbs
           or
           deriued
           issues
           of
           the
           diuell
           .
           Now
           (
           lest
           I
           should
           be
           charged
           by
           following
           of
           a
           by-path
           )
           to
           haue
           digressed
           and
           raunged
           from
           my
           theame
           ,
           I
           will
           reuert
           to
           the
           proofs
           and
           appliances
           borrowed
           from
           the
           bodie
           .
           Let
           me
           know
           of
           them
           ,
           whether
           their
           stomacks
           be
           so
           strong
           ,
           as
           when
           they
           be
           clogged
           with
           heauie
           meats
           which
           they
           cannot
           digest
           ,
           yet
           will
           hold
           and
           still
           deteine
           the
           same
           ,
           neuer
           once
           striuing
           to
           cast
           them
           vp
           ?
           or
           is
           there
           any
           of
           them
           ,
           that
           in
           his
           owne
           bodie
           will
           with
           his
           tollerating
           patience
           endure
           a
           disease
           or
           griefe
           ,
           if
           it
           lyeth
           in
           his
           power
           to
           remedie
           and
           rid
           the
           same
           ?
           nay
           more
           ,
           admit
           he
           be
           thereby
           but
           a
           little
           troubled
           ,
           and
           not
           endamaged
           at
           all
           ,
           yet
           will
           he
           not
           (
           for
           that
           trouble
           onely
           )
           seek
           redresse
           thereof
           ?
           let
           it
           be
           but
           the
           itching
           of
           some
           salt
           humour
           ,
           or
           a
           fleabyting
           (
           by
           a
           sleight
           touch
           of
           the
           skin
           ,
           starting
           all
           the
           spirits
           )
           can
           he
           be
           so
           contented
           ,
           as
           not
           to
           attempt
           to
           ease
           himselfe
           of
           such
           disquieting
           ?
           Then
           ,
           from
           the
           warrant
           of
           God
           ,
           the
           sence
           of
           nature
           ,
           the
           directions
           of
           wisdome
           ,
           the
           necessitie
           &
           dignitie
           of
           the
           State
           ,
           (
           which
           is
           not
           only
           to
           remoue
           his
           opposites
           ,
           but
           to
           aduance
           it selfe
           to
           all
           perfection
           )
           let
           vs
           abandon
           all
           such
           party-coloured
           and
           ambodexter
           tollerations
           ,
           not
           fitting
           the
           Iustice
           or
           dignitie
           ,
           or
           good
           of
           the
           Commonwealth
           .
           Neuerthelesse
           ,
           lest
           I
           should
           too
           much
           lay
           open
           my
           weaknesse
           ,
           both
           in
           discretion
           by
           a
           presumptuous
           asseueration
           ,
           
           and
           in
           iudgement
           by
           propounding
           that
           for
           absolute
           ,
           which
           may
           perhaps
           be
           thought
           to
           accept
           of
           some
           exceptions
           and
           conditions
           ;
           I
           must
           annex
           hereunto
           
           unto
           some
           respectiue
           mitigation
           ,
           if
           not
           a
           seeming
           retractation
           .
           It
           cannot
           be
           obscure
           ,
           but
           that
           in
           a
           case
           of
           vnauoydable
           necessitie
           ,
           to
           auoide
           thereby
           the
           extreamitie
           of
           a
           greater
           euill
           ,
           the
           lesser
           may
           (
           though
           not
           likingly
           yet
           permittingly
           ,
           though
           not
           absolutely
           yet
           in
           some
           manner
           ,
           though
           not
           perpetuallie
           yet
           for
           a
           season
           )
           receiue
           a
           bearing
           or
           forbearing
           conueiance
           ,
           though
           not
           an
           authorizing
           approbation
           .
           And
           I
           must
           impute
           it
           wholy
           to
           our
           impotency
           ,
           that
           is
           so
           ouerladen
           with
           the
           manifold
           cumber
           of
           euils
           ,
           and
           those
           often
           of
           opposite
           natures
           ,
           as
           that
           we
           be
           forced
           by
           the
           repulsing
           of
           the
           worst
           ,
           to
           make
           a
           seeming
           shew
           of
           electing
           of
           lesser
           ;
           scant
           reckoning
           that
           to
           be
           any
           euill
           at
           all
           ,
           which
           by
           freeing
           of
           vs
           from
           a
           deadlyer
           mischiefe
           ,
           may
           bee
           deemed
           to
           haue
           wrought
           vnto
           vs
           our
           wel-accepted
           good
           .
           And
           sith
           I
           haue
           reduced
           my
           reason
           to
           this
           degree
           of
           relenting
           ,
           I
           must
           seeke
           to
           make
           some
           probabilitie
           of
           farther
           prouing
           this
           point
           ,
           by
           the
           looking
           also
           vpon
           my
           first
           propounded
           patterne
           :
           Our
           naturall
           bodies
           doe
           willingly
           and
           with
           a
           kind
           of
           chosing
           ,
           endure
           some
           diseases
           ,
           because
           they
           find
           the
           same
           to
           free
           them
           from
           other
           more
           extremely
           daungerous
           .
           The
           opening
           of
           an
           issue
           stoppeth
           the
           entrance
           and
           breed
           of
           many
           grieuous
           sicknesses
           :
           and
           nature
           seemeth
           oft
           pleased
           to
           suffer
           ,
           yea
           and
           to
           entertayne
           some
           enemies
           contentedly
           ,
           for
           the
           obtayning
           and
           purchasing
           of
           an
           ensuing
           founder
           welfare
           .
           Therefore
           for
           a
           resoluing
           conclusion
           whereuppon
           to
           insist
           ,
           I
           will
           reconcile
           any
           my
           surmised
           repugnances
           with
           this
           explayning
           distinction
           :
           Such
           euils
           ,
           as
           either
           through
           an
           impossibilitie
           of
           remouing
           are
           growne
           necessarie
           ,
           and
           so
           require
           rather
           fortitude
           to
           indure
           them
           ,
           than
           any
           prudencie
           to
           make
           choice
           of
           
           them
           ,
           or
           that
           by
           any
           helpfull
           vse
           whereunto
           they
           serue
           ,
           doe
           seeme
           to
           haue
           put
           off
           their
           former
           nature
           ,
           as
           becomming
           phisicke
           vnto
           vs
           ,
           partly
           may
           ,
           and
           partly
           will
           haue
           our
           sufferance
           .
           But
           as
           I
           take
           it
           ,
           in
           the
           very
           terme
           of
           tolleration
           ,
           is
           meant
           and
           implyed
           ,
           a
           dispensing
           with
           and
           vpholding
           of
           such
           euils
           ,
           as
           being
           confessed
           to
           bee
           meerely
           and
           altogether
           of
           that
           qualitie
           ,
           yet
           neither
           so
           forceth
           vs
           by
           the
           restreint
           of
           our
           power
           ,
           but
           that
           wee
           may
           suppresse
           them
           ;
           neither
           induceth
           vs
           by
           the
           apparance
           of
           any
           behoofe
           or
           helpfulnesse
           ,
           to
           yeeld
           them
           fauour
           .
           The
           discerning
           of
           which
           differences
           in
           any
           particular
           instances
           ,
           is
           fitlier
           recommended
           to
           the
           aduisednesse
           of
           the
           discreet
           gouernours
           ,
           than
           to
           bee
           left
           to
           the
           temeritie
           of
           any
           ouer
           venturous
           and
           peremptorie
           preiudicator
           .
        
         
           To
           conclude
           this
           point
           of
           health
           :
           It
           is
           so
           precious
           and
           of
           so
           vnualuable
           a
           worth
           ,
           
           as
           that
           when
           it
           is
           not
           so
           perfect
           as
           wee
           would
           haue
           it
           ,
           or
           when
           it
           is
           somewhat
           impaired
           ,
           we
           do
           not
           sticke
           willingly
           to
           do
           to
           our selues
           farther
           hurt
           ,
           to
           the
           end
           to
           heale
           our
           infirmities
           the
           more
           soundly
           .
           Yea
           ,
           when
           wee
           haue
           no
           cause
           at
           all
           to
           cōplaine
           ,
           as
           being
           of
           a
           constitution
           not
           to
           be
           disliked
           ,
           yet
           doe
           we
           then
           take
           phisicke
           for
           a
           purpose
           to
           preuent
           sicknesse
           that
           may
           ensue
           ,
           and
           to
           confirme
           the
           continuance
           of
           our
           health
           :
           So
           in
           our
           bodie
           of
           the
           Common-weale
           it
           is
           not
           to
           be
           disliked
           ,
           that
           (
           though
           there
           be
           no
           great
           fault
           found
           ,
           and
           all
           things
           seeme
           to
           stand
           in
           good
           order
           )
           yet
           now
           and
           then
           physicall
           courses
           be
           vsed
           ,
           by
           opening
           some
           veine
           ,
           by
           purging
           of
           superfluities
           ,
           and
           putting
           to
           payne
           some
           part
           thereof
           ,
           for
           the
           more
           certeintie
           of
           the
           generall
           good
           :
           that
           not
           onely
           diseases
           themselues
           be
           auoided
           ,
           but
           euen
           all
           feare
           and
           suspition
           
           may
           be
           preuented
           to
           the
           preseruing
           and
           assuring
           of
           an
           inuiolable
           stabititie
           of
           the
           publique
           quietnesse
           .
           Neuerthelesse
           as
           in
           the
           bodie
           it
           is
           a
           safe
           regard
           not
           otherwise
           to
           moue
           the
           humours
           ,
           than
           there
           is
           likelihood
           to
           rid
           and
           conquer
           them
           :
           so
           in
           the
           state
           it
           requireth
           a
           iudicious
           and
           ponderous
           consulting
           when
           and
           how
           to
           stirre
           and
           atempt
           such
           medicinall
           trialls
           .
           Aduisednesse
           aduentureth
           not
           without
           aduantage
           ,
           knowing
           that
           the
           awaked
           Dog
           (
           not
           well
           awed
           or
           ouermatched
           )
           will
           the
           more
           insultingly
           be
           enraged
           .
        
         
           The
           diseases
           that
           may
           annoy
           or
           indaunger
           the
           state
           ,
           are
           more
           than
           I
           am
           able
           to
           recount
           ,
           
           much
           lesse
           can
           tell
           how
           to
           cure
           ;
           neither
           would
           I
           (
           by
           a
           more
           single
           comparing
           thereof
           to
           the
           diseases
           of
           the
           bodie
           )
           giue
           cause
           to
           bee
           censured
           ,
           as
           either
           superstitiously
           curious
           ,
           or
           superfluously
           busie-headed
           .
           This
           field
           is
           spacious
           ,
           and
           incloseth
           a
           large
           circuit
           of
           plentifull
           matter
           for
           discourse
           :
           and
           I
           take
           it
           to
           be
           no
           lesse
           difficultie
           succinctly
           to
           comprehend
           ,
           vnder
           any
           heads
           of
           diuision
           ,
           the
           discrepant
           multiplicitie
           of
           diseases
           in
           the
           politique
           ,
           than
           it
           is
           in
           the
           naturall
           bodie
           ;
           wherein
           (
           as
           daily
           experience
           propoundeth
           it
           vnto
           vs
           )
           notwithstanding
           the
           almost
           innumerable
           and
           most
           industrious
           discoueries
           of
           the
           learned
           ,
           in
           so
           many
           reuolutions
           of
           ages
           ,
           yet
           still
           more
           and
           more
           diuersities
           doe
           start
           vp
           and
           occurre
           to
           consideration
           .
           I
           see
           the
           pathway
           and
           method
           for
           an
           orderly
           entrance
           into
           a
           treatise
           of
           that
           nature
           ,
           by
           the
           distinct
           rehersall
           of
           euerie
           the
           seuerall
           diseases
           ,
           either
           generall
           to
           the
           whole
           ,
           or
           proper
           to
           any
           part
           :
           but
           as
           I
           must
           confesse
           my
           feeblenesse
           ,
           standing
           confounded
           by
           the
           verie
           sight
           of
           the
           immensitie
           thereof
           ,
           so
           do
           I
           humblie
           yeeld
           my
           meannesse
           to
           be
           farre
           vnapt
           to
           intermeddle
           ,
           where
           
           the
           paines
           and
           exquisitnes
           of
           some
           greater
           Patriot
           may
           be
           well
           bestowed
           .
           So
           much
           onely
           (
           as
           in
           passage
           )
           must
           needs
           bee
           mentioned
           ,
           as
           may
           serue
           for
           a
           conductor
           or
           leader
           to
           helpe
           the
           rest
           forward
           .
        
         
           Diseases
           arise
           as
           in
           the
           body
           naturall
           by
           distemper
           of
           humours
           ;
           
           so
           in
           the
           politicall
           ,
           by
           disorder
           of
           manners
           :
           and
           as
           in
           the
           bodie
           naturall
           they
           doe
           hinder
           ,
           peruert
           ,
           and
           corrupt
           the
           orderly
           actions
           of
           nature
           ;
           so
           in
           the
           politicall
           they
           do
           impeach
           ,
           infringe
           ,
           and
           resist
           the
           proceedings
           and
           regiment
           of
           a
           iust
           gouernance
           .
           But
           as
           all
           diseases
           are
           not
           alike
           either
           for
           sharpnesse
           of
           payne
           ,
           
           or
           likelihood
           of
           danger
           :
           so
           neither
           are
           all
           offences
           equall
           ,
           either
           for
           the
           hainousnesse
           of
           crime
           ,
           or
           for
           the
           harme
           that
           can
           thereof
           ensue
           ;
           a
           stitch
           in
           the
           side
           ,
           a
           pricking
           in
           the
           eye
           ,
           or
           a
           shooting
           in
           the
           sinewes
           ,
           are
           eager
           and
           extreame
           griefes
           ,
           yet
           not
           so
           dangerous
           as
           the
           dropsies
           ,
           palsies
           ,
           or
           appoplexies
           :
           so
           be
           the
           fierce
           and
           smart
           contentions
           of
           the
           learned
           (
           in
           matters
           not
           of
           greatest
           moment
           )
           exceeding
           troublesome
           to
           the
           State
           ;
           yet
           no
           way
           comparable
           for
           danger
           to
           Atheisme
           ,
           Popery
           ,
           and
           disloyaltie
           .
           
           The
           inequalitie
           of
           diseases
           condemneth
           the
           Stoicks
           equalitie
           of
           sinne
           ,
           and
           where
           the
           faults
           be
           not
           equall
           ,
           it
           seemeth
           reasonable
           ,
           that
           the
           magistrat
           also
           must
           proportion
           his
           corrections
           with
           like
           inequalitie
           ,
           euen
           as
           the
           Phisicion
           must
           varie
           his
           cure
           according
           to
           the
           greatnesse
           or
           smalnesse
           of
           the
           griefe
           .
           The
           diseases
           of
           the
           skinne
           though
           they
           require
           remedie
           (
           because
           they
           be
           diseases
           )
           yet
           they
           need
           not
           so
           much
           tendance
           ,
           plying
           ,
           or
           looking
           vnto
           ,
           as
           the
           gnawing
           and
           tearing
           pangs
           of
           the
           heart
           .
        
         
           
           The
           hurts
           or
           diseases
           which
           the
           body
           receiueth
           by
           any
           outward
           meanes
           ,
           as
           by
           heat
           ,
           or
           cold
           ,
           by
           wounds
           or
           
           bruises
           ,
           or
           by
           ouerheauie
           loadings
           ,
           or
           labouring
           ,
           and
           such
           like
           ;
           as
           they
           may
           more
           easily
           be
           before
           auoyded
           ,
           so
           they
           may
           more
           readily
           be
           after
           cured
           ;
           likewise
           hath
           each
           kingdome
           against
           forraine
           daungers
           ,
           both
           better
           prouision
           to
           preuent
           them
           ,
           and
           more
           aduantages
           to
           repell
           them
           :
           but
           griefes
           springing
           ,
           spreading
           ,
           and
           ranckling
           within
           ,
           being
           both
           long
           in
           growing
           ,
           as
           hidden
           and
           vnespied
           ,
           and
           also
           setled
           in
           the
           entrailes
           and
           vitall
           parts
           ,
           surpriseth
           more
           suddenly
           ,
           vanquisheth
           more
           violently
           ,
           and
           tormenteth
           more
           vntollerably
           .
        
         
           As
           against
           all
           diseases
           of
           the
           naturall
           bodie
           the
           skill
           and
           application
           of
           Phisicke
           is
           ordained
           ;
           
           so
           against
           the
           corruption
           of
           manners
           in
           the
           politicall
           bodie
           ,
           wholesome
           lawes
           be
           prouided
           :
           whereof
           where
           the
           more
           bee
           made
           ,
           the
           more
           it
           argueth
           the
           sinfulnesse
           of
           that
           people
           ,
           as
           the
           vse
           of
           much
           phisicke
           argueth
           much
           distemper
           .
           And
           as
           phisicke
           rightly
           vsed
           is
           but
           an
           assistant
           ,
           or
           coadiutor
           vnto
           nature
           ,
           by
           the
           stirring
           vp
           and
           strengthning
           of
           the
           oparatiue
           vigor
           and
           powers
           of
           the
           soule
           ,
           who
           then
           hauing
           his
           potentiall
           faculties
           so
           helped
           and
           releeued
           ,
           digesteth
           ,
           repulseth
           ,
           and
           ouercommeth
           his
           annoying
           foe
           ,
           performing
           the
           cure
           and
           conquest
           himselfe
           :
           So
           the
           lawes
           and
           prouisions
           against
           offences
           in
           the
           State
           (
           like
           to
           a
           well
           directed
           Phisicke
           )
           are
           to
           range
           vnder
           the
           regiment
           of
           the
           Soueraigne
           with
           a
           seruiceable
           subalternation
           ,
           recognizing
           him
           as
           the
           principall
           Phisicion
           for
           the
           redressing
           or
           remedying
           the
           maladies
           of
           the
           bodie
           politique
           .
           Neuerthelesse
           nature
           ,
           reason
           ,
           and
           all
           good
           order
           admitteth
           or
           rather
           enioyneth
           all
           the
           parts
           ,
           as
           well
           by
           their
           duties
           ,
           as
           by
           a
           certaine
           tendernesse
           and
           sympathie
           ,
           to
           conioine
           any
           their
           kindest
           and
           soundest
           aydes
           both
           for
           the
           repelling
           of
           all
           impediments
           
           or
           oppositions
           against
           authoritie
           ,
           and
           for
           the
           adding
           of
           strength
           thereunto
           ,
           to
           perfect
           the
           worke
           of
           suppressing
           vice
           ,
           and
           of
           aduauncing
           the
           iustice
           ,
           the
           safetie
           and
           preseruation
           of
           the
           Commonweale
           .
           Let
           it
           then
           bee
           allowed
           ,
           that
           all
           lawes
           ,
           as
           well
           in
           their
           first
           enacting
           ,
           as
           in
           their
           daily
           execution
           ;
           and
           all
           magistracie
           ,
           as
           well
           in
           decreeing
           as
           in
           gouerning
           ,
           is
           dependant
           and
           secondarie
           to
           the
           soueraigntie
           .
           Such
           vndergouernours
           or
           subphisicions
           of
           the
           commonweale
           ,
           hauing
           vnder
           their
           charge
           so
           worthy
           a
           subiect
           as
           the
           states
           happinesse
           ,
           and
           enabled
           by
           their
           Soueraigne
           with
           a
           portion
           of
           his
           power
           ,
           to
           reforme
           disorders
           ,
           and
           rectifie
           what
           is
           peruerted
           ;
           ought
           regardantly
           to
           their
           place
           of
           so
           great
           a
           trust
           ,
           to
           be
           the
           more
           painfull
           ,
           faithfull
           ,
           &
           carefull
           in
           their
           cures
           .
           
           Not
           so
           much
           as
           the
           meanest
           ministers
           and
           seruitors
           vnder
           authoritie
           ,
           no
           not
           the
           Constables
           ,
           Bailifes
           ,
           Iurors
           ,
           and
           such
           like
           (
           being
           smaller
           sprigs
           and
           twigs
           in
           the
           stocke
           of
           Iustice
           ,
           and
           vsed
           for
           the
           inquirie
           ,
           attaching
           ,
           presenting
           ,
           and
           conuicting
           ,
           in
           tryall
           of
           transgressours
           and
           malefactours
           )
           but
           bee
           to
           know
           ,
           that
           their
           imployment
           in
           their
           seuerall
           attendances
           ,
           tendeth
           to
           the
           necessarie
           amending
           ,
           purging
           ,
           phisiking
           ,
           and
           reforming
           of
           the
           ciuill
           bodie
           ,
           and
           that
           therefore
           they
           are
           to
           make
           a
           conscience
           ,
           &
           to
           stand
           vpright
           in
           their
           diligence
           and
           dutie
           .
        
         
           
           The
           negligence
           ,
           naughtinesse
           ,
           and
           vnskilfulnesse
           of
           some
           Phisicions
           occasioneth
           many
           to
           be
           both
           afraid
           to
           deale
           with
           them
           ,
           &
           to
           condemne
           their
           profession
           and
           practise
           ,
           as
           vnnecessarie
           :
           So
           ,
           manie
           there
           bee
           that
           taking
           offence
           at
           the
           vnsufficiencie
           or
           corruptions
           of
           some
           magistrats
           and
           officers
           of
           iustice
           ,
           
           either
           vtterly
           denie
           the
           lawfulnesse
           of
           their
           calling
           ,
           or
           at
           the
           least
           
           spurne
           and
           repine
           at
           their
           administration
           ;
           in
           so
           much
           as
           the
           
             Recipe
          
           of
           the
           Phisicion
           ,
           and
           the
           
             Precipe
          
           of
           the
           Magistrat
           ,
           bee
           lightly
           alike
           irkesome
           and
           displeasing
           .
           Howbeit
           ,
           as
           hee
           that
           loketh
           into
           naturall
           Philosophie
           must
           needs
           find
           pregnant
           proofes
           for
           the
           vpholding
           of
           Phisike
           ,
           so
           he
           that
           studieth
           morall
           Phllosophie
           ,
           will
           acknowledge
           his
           verie
           
             Alpha
          
           and
           
             Omega
             ,
          
           
           to
           be
           the
           setting
           vp
           of
           magistracie
           .
           And
           as
           it
           is
           but
           the
           peeuishnes
           and
           queasinesse
           of
           the
           diseased
           that
           will
           abide
           no
           Phisike
           ,
           so
           is
           it
           the
           wilfulnesse
           and
           malecontencie
           of
           the
           wicked
           ,
           that
           will
           not
           come
           vnder
           lawes
           .
           But
           the
           Phisicions
           do
           not
           therefore
           giue
           ouer
           their
           patient
           because
           hee
           is
           vnruly
           ,
           but
           rather
           handleth
           him
           more
           roughly
           :
           So
           Magistrats
           must
           not
           desist
           from
           the
           duties
           of
           their
           offices
           for
           the
           waywardnesse
           and
           vnaptnesse
           of
           the
           people
           ,
           but
           the
           more
           stir
           vp
           their
           spirits
           &
           forces
           against
           them
           with
           all
           austeritie
           .
        
         
           The
           whole
           worke
           of
           Phisike
           is
           either
           to
           continue
           health
           when
           wee
           haue
           it
           ,
           
           or
           to
           restore
           it
           when
           it
           is
           wanting
           :
           So
           the
           Magistrats
           function
           is
           either
           to
           hold
           all
           vpright
           when
           the
           state
           is
           in
           a
           good
           case
           ,
           or
           to
           recouer
           and
           recure
           that
           which
           shall
           become
           vnsound
           .
           They
           both
           in
           each
           of
           their
           professions
           ,
           and
           in
           euerie
           of
           their
           particular
           practises
           ,
           doe
           (
           consonantly
           to
           natures
           rule
           )
           prescribe
           as
           well
           the
           hurtfull
           to
           bee
           eschewed
           ,
           as
           the
           helpefull
           to
           be
           taken
           ;
           and
           they
           both
           bee
           furnished
           at
           all
           points
           with
           good
           choice
           and
           varietie
           of
           medicines
           applyable
           occasionally
           to
           the
           sundrie
           sorts
           of
           griefes
           .
           
           They
           haue
           some
           that
           be
           
             Panchresta
             ,
          
           generall
           for
           all
           assayes
           ,
           accommodable
           to
           any
           disease
           ;
           they
           haue
           some
           that
           be
           meerely
           peculier
           for
           one
           or
           verie
           few
           infirmities
           ,
           and
           bee
           respectiue
           to
           some
           one
           part
           ;
           they
           haue
           
           some
           ,
           which
           for
           their
           as
           well
           safenesse
           as
           vertue
           bee
           termed
           
             Benedicta
          
           by
           the
           helpe
           wherof
           they
           both
           conceiue
           hope
           of
           helpefull
           successe
           ,
           and
           assurance
           from
           all
           endangerings
           :
           They
           haue
           some
           extremely
           forcible
           ,
           euen
           
             Eradicatiua
             ,
          
           pulling
           vp
           by
           the
           roots
           the
           firmely
           implanted
           ,
           and
           predominantly
           preuayling
           humours
           :
           They
           haue
           some
           which
           be
           preparatiues
           ,
           seruing
           but
           to
           make
           way
           ,
           and
           worke
           an
           aptnesse
           for
           the
           stronger
           ensuing
           remedies
           :
           They
           haue
           some
           comfortatiue
           and
           cordiall
           ,
           to
           assist
           the
           softnesse
           of
           nature
           against
           ouercharging
           assaults
           :
           They
           haue
           some
           restoratiue
           ,
           to
           repaire
           the
           decaies
           ,
           and
           raise
           againe
           the
           deiected
           estate
           of
           health
           :
           They
           haue
           some
           consuming
           corrosiues
           ,
           to
           eate
           out
           what
           is
           become
           dead
           and
           vnsensible
           :
           They
           haue
           some
           soporiferous
           to
           enduce
           a
           sleeping
           dulnesse
           and
           stupiditie
           ,
           whilest
           cures
           of
           great
           aduenture
           must
           be
           effected
           :
           They
           haue
           some
           lenetiue
           ,
           to
           asswage
           excessiue
           and
           raging
           paines
           :
           They
           haue
           some
           exasperating
           heaters
           ,
           to
           digest
           and
           draw
           out
           the
           cores
           of
           corruption
           :
           They
           haue
           some
           drying
           consumers
           ,
           to
           waste
           away
           the
           superfluous
           confluence
           of
           any
           annoying
           matter
           :
           They
           haue
           some
           attractiue
           openers
           ,
           to
           loose
           and
           draw
           forth
           any
           inwardly
           infixed
           festerings
           :
           They
           haue
           dispersers
           &
           dissoluers
           of
           any
           gathered
           together
           or
           swelling
           putrifactions
           :
           They
           haue
           repercussiues
           ,
           to
           suppresse
           and
           repell
           all
           beginning
           outrages
           :
           They
           haue
           expellers
           of
           all
           that
           is
           hurtfull
           and
           burdenous
           ,
           cleansing
           the
           verie
           fountaynes
           of
           euill
           :
           They
           haue
           preseruatiues
           against
           all
           venemous
           and
           infectious
           contagious
           :
           They
           haue
           substantiall
           consolidators
           of
           the
           dissolued
           and
           apostumed
           parts
           ,
           reducing
           all
           agayne
           to
           the
           health
           and
           vnitie
           of
           nature
           ;
           and
           they
           both
           do
           
           enterchangingly
           vse
           or
           administer
           all
           or
           any
           of
           these
           ,
           according
           to
           the
           many
           different
           qualities
           ,
           malice
           ,
           degrees
           ,
           disposition
           ,
           state
           ,
           and
           condition
           of
           diseases
           .
        
         
           The
           Phisition
           is
           not
           so
           strictlie
           tied
           to
           the
           vsuall
           forme
           or
           composure
           of
           his
           receits
           and
           prescriptions
           ,
           
           but
           that
           he
           doth
           often
           alter
           the
           same
           in
           particuler
           persons
           ,
           as
           he
           is
           induced
           by
           the
           obseruation
           of
           sundrie
           circumstances
           ,
           signes
           ,
           and
           accidents
           :
           Such
           a
           discretion
           (
           some
           thinketh
           )
           the
           Magistrat
           might
           be
           trusted
           with
           ,
           that
           all
           offences
           comming
           vnder
           one
           head
           of
           law
           ,
           should
           not
           receiue
           alike
           the
           same
           vnalterable
           censuring
           ;
           but
           that
           vpon
           aduised
           consideration
           of
           diuersities
           ,
           sometimes
           there
           be
           vsed
           quallifications
           ,
           dispensations
           ,
           and
           mitigations
           ,
           and
           somtimes
           againe
           an
           encrease
           and
           addition
           of
           paine
           should
           be
           deuised
           ,
           as
           the
           quallitie
           or
           manner
           of
           the
           fault
           shall
           deseruedly
           giue
           occasion
           :
           For
           example
           ,
           doth
           not
           Iustice
           require
           that
           where
           one
           felonie
           is
           of
           a
           more
           hainous
           nature
           than
           an
           other
           ,
           or
           one
           Treason
           more
           foule
           and
           horrible
           than
           another
           ,
           the
           same
           should
           be
           condignly
           rewarded
           with
           an
           extraordinarie
           seueritie
           ,
           beyond
           the
           letter
           of
           the
           law
           ?
           except
           we
           should
           respectiuely
           to
           such
           inequallitie
           make
           more
           ,
           and
           these
           different
           lawes
           ,
           which
           should
           distinguishingly
           set
           forth
           diuersities
           of
           punishment
           ,
           as
           the
           hainousnes
           of
           desert
           shall
           giue
           cause
           ,
           and
           not
           wrap
           vp
           all
           alike
           vnder
           one
           generall
           title
           ,
           binding
           them
           to
           one
           and
           the
           same
           recompensing
           condemnation
           .
           But
           whether
           is
           the
           better
           to
           make
           more
           choice
           of
           prescribed
           phisicke
           ,
           (
           which
           by
           the
           multiplicitie
           of
           diuers
           respects
           might
           grow
           too
           infinite
           )
           or
           to
           allow
           more
           libertie
           to
           the
           Phisitions
           in
           sorting
           their
           appliances
           to
           the
           inequallities
           aforesaid
           ,
           
             Id
             Deus
             aliquis
             viderit
             ,
          
           
           This
           is
           proponed
           for
           a
           truth
           perpetuall
           ,
           vniuersall
           ,
           and
           vnresistable
           ,
           that
           where
           difference
           of
           considerations
           maketh
           a
           
             Maius
          
           and
           
             Minus
          
           in
           any
           fault
           ,
           the
           punishment
           also
           should
           be
           proportionable
           by
           the
           intention
           or
           remission
           of
           lenitie
           or
           austeritie
           .
        
         
           The
           States
           Phisitions
           after
           the
           order
           and
           skill
           of
           phisick
           naturall
           ,
           
           be
           diligently
           to
           obserue
           ,
           in
           what
           manner
           each
           disease
           taketh
           or
           setleth
           ,
           and
           how
           the
           same
           may
           be
           particularly
           encountred
           ;
           that
           he
           may
           the
           better
           (
           for
           
             Militat
             omnis
             Medicus
          
           )
           so
           with
           Ambuscadoes
           beset
           the
           way
           ,
           and
           prepare
           resistance
           to
           intercept
           or
           interrupt
           it
           in
           his
           courses
           ,
           that
           in
           what
           sort
           soeuer
           it
           shall
           approch
           ,
           or
           giue
           the
           onset
           ,
           it
           may
           be
           strongly
           met
           withall
           ,
           and
           fitly
           confronted
           with
           his
           contrarie
           :
           for
           right
           sagely
           doth
           their
           wisdomes
           discerne
           ,
           
           that
           as
           in
           the
           naturall
           ,
           so
           in
           the
           politike
           bodie
           ,
           the
           remediyng
           of
           any
           maladies
           is
           the
           more
           readily
           performed
           ,
           by
           the
           repelling
           thereof
           with
           their
           directest
           opposites
           .
           But
           for
           as
           much
           as
           without
           a
           discouerie
           of
           the
           right
           cause
           of
           any
           disease
           ,
           it
           cannot
           be
           well
           discerned
           or
           resolued
           ,
           where
           or
           how
           to
           set
           foot
           to
           make
           head
           against
           it
           ;
           it
           is
           behoueable
           studiously
           to
           find
           out
           the
           beginnings
           ,
           
           the
           entrings
           ,
           the
           breedings
           ,
           and
           the
           first
           occasioning
           causes
           of
           each
           sicknesse
           ,
           that
           in
           the
           contriuing
           of
           the
           cure
           thereof
           ,
           it
           may
           be
           combatted
           correspondently
           .
           Neither
           is
           it
           to
           be
           thought
           lesse
           necessarie
           ,
           exactly
           to
           know
           the
           constitution
           and
           complexion
           of
           the
           bodie
           politique
           ,
           
           that
           in
           the
           right
           applying
           of
           remedies
           ,
           it
           may
           vndeceiueably
           be
           conceiued
           how
           (
           according
           to
           the
           diuersities
           therof
           )
           medicines
           may
           be
           ministred
           either
           stronger
           ,
           or
           weaker
           ,
           speedier
           or
           flower
           ,
           oftner
           or
           seldomer
           ,
           for
           the
           aduantage
           of
           preuailing
           .
           Yea
           it
           seemeth
           
           also
           requisite
           that
           the
           be
           well
           seen
           in
           the
           obseruation
           of
           times
           and
           seasons
           ,
           
           for
           the
           more
           fortunate
           effecting
           of
           his
           intended
           cures
           :
           for
           like
           as
           in
           priuat
           ,
           so
           in
           publike
           grieuances
           there
           is
           a
           certaine
           point
           of
           opportunitie
           to
           be
           watched
           ,
           and
           taken
           hold
           on
           ,
           sorting
           more
           fittingly
           to
           the
           furtherance
           of
           such
           good
           indeuours
           .
           Besides
           I
           do
           not
           see
           but
           (
           for
           the
           manner
           of
           his
           ministring
           )
           it
           may
           vnto
           him
           as
           vnto
           the
           Phisition
           be
           allowed
           to
           vse
           (
           to
           gaine
           an
           acceptation
           of
           his
           receipt
           )
           a
           kind
           of
           beguiling
           loue
           ,
           
           by
           sweetning
           and
           giuing
           of
           a
           more
           pleasing
           reliefe
           to
           his
           remedies
           ,
           that
           the
           same
           so
           kindlie
           accomodated
           ,
           may
           haue
           rather
           the
           welcome
           of
           a
           friend
           ,
           than
           be
           abhorred
           as
           an
           enemy
           .
           One
           skill
           more
           he
           is
           yet
           to
           borrow
           of
           the
           Phisition
           ,
           which
           is
           ,
           the
           diligent
           noting
           and
           distinguishing
           of
           each
           part
           from
           other
           ,
           by
           the
           extent
           of
           their
           nature
           ,
           
           by
           their
           proper
           place
           ,
           by
           their
           different
           workings
           ,
           by
           their
           adherence
           and
           mutuall
           respects
           ,
           or
           by
           any
           other
           their
           discrepant
           proprieties
           ;
           lest
           he
           do
           through
           such
           ignorant
           mistaking
           vnaptly
           misapplie
           ,
           to
           the
           hurt
           of
           one
           ,
           what
           he
           had
           consideratly
           prepared
           for
           the
           good
           of
           another
           :
           he
           is
           to
           haue
           as
           penetrating
           an
           insight
           ,
           as
           carefull
           an
           ouerlooking
           ,
           and
           as
           particuler
           a
           knowledge
           of
           each
           thing
           considerable
           in
           the
           ciuill
           bodie
           ,
           as
           the
           Anatomist
           hath
           in
           the
           serching
           and
           seuering
           of
           euery
           veine
           ,
           arterie
           ,
           or
           synew
           ,
           or
           in
           the
           describing
           and
           bounding
           out
           of
           euerie
           the
           parts
           ,
           passages
           ,
           offices
           ,
           or
           actions
           ,
           in
           the
           bodie
           naturall
           .
           In
           his
           tendance
           and
           care
           though
           hee
           be
           to
           haue
           the
           whole
           in
           a
           generall
           suruey
           ,
           espying
           and
           amending
           whatsoeuer
           requireth
           the
           correction
           of
           any
           remedies
           ;
           yet
           is
           he
           more
           circumspectly
           ,
           and
           with
           all
           watchfulnesse
           ,
           to
           looke
           vnto
           such
           diseases
           which
           
           harmeth
           and
           distresseth
           the
           best
           and
           vitall
           ,
           yea
           those
           roiall
           parts
           of
           Nobilitie
           and
           Magistracie
           ,
           
           (
           where
           the
           soule
           in
           sort
           seateth
           and
           sheweth
           it selfe
           )
           not
           onely
           because
           the
           in-dwelling
           (
           as
           it
           were
           )
           of
           so
           great
           a
           guest
           ,
           deserueth
           a
           well
           clensed
           puritie
           and
           soundnes
           ;
           but
           for
           other
           also
           no
           lesse
           remarkable
           respects
           ,
           of
           the
           consequentiall
           mischiefes
           thereof
           ,
           
           arising
           to
           the
           residue
           of
           the
           bodie
           ,
           (
           sith
           when
           any
           tender
           or
           noble
           part
           is
           ill
           affected
           ,
           or
           out
           of
           order
           )
           all
           the
           rest
           be
           therewithall
           afflicted
           ;
           as
           both
           partaking
           heauily
           with
           the
           vnrest
           ,
           grieuances
           ,
           and
           passions
           thereof
           ,
           and
           also
           filled
           with
           the
           annoying
           fluxes
           vpon
           them
           vnburdned
           .
           Let
           vs
           for
           the
           cleerer
           demonstrance
           of
           this
           matter
           ;
           cast
           our
           eyes
           and
           imaginations
           yet
           more
           markingly
           ,
           vpon
           the
           bodie
           naturall
           ,
           wherein
           when
           the
           distemperature
           of
           vnequally
           sorted
           humours
           haue
           inuaded
           and
           possessed
           any
           chiefe
           part
           ,
           the
           disease
           therein
           bred
           ,
           or
           setled
           ,
           becommeth
           generall
           ,
           extending
           a
           touch
           and
           taint
           ouer
           all
           ;
           the
           helping
           functions
           thereof
           be
           withheld
           ,
           as
           restrained
           by
           such
           obstructions
           .
           In
           the
           steed
           whereof
           his
           infection
           is
           sucked
           and
           deriued
           all
           abroad
           ,
           to
           the
           corrupting
           and
           peruerting
           of
           whatsoeuer
           hath
           any
           dependancie
           or
           affinitie
           therewith
           ;
           yea
           so
           far
           forth
           ,
           as
           not
           onely
           the
           common
           sence
           by
           such
           disturbance
           misconceiueth
           his
           apprehensions
           ,
           but
           also
           that
           reason
           it selfe
           is
           wholy
           beguiled
           and
           misled
           ;
           with
           some
           rauing
           error
           ,
           allowing
           the
           furmised
           ,
           in
           steed
           of
           the
           reall
           good
           :
           so
           as
           the
           whole
           bodie
           therby
           is
           vexed
           with
           giddinesse
           and
           tumults
           :
           So
           when
           great
           men
           of
           a
           better
           condition
           ,
           and
           higher
           degree
           ,
           shall
           grow
           humerous
           ,
           opinionate
           ,
           and
           factious
           ,
           (
           besides
           their
           withdrawing
           of
           their
           faith
           ,
           alleageance
           ,
           and
           former
           good
           seruices
           )
           
           they
           doe
           not
           only
           seduce
           the
           vnskilfull
           and
           vnruly
           Commons
           ,
           but
           also
           traine
           on
           with
           their
           suggestion
           of
           colourable
           causes
           ,
           some
           officers
           of
           publique
           trust
           (
           as
           parts
           of
           the
           reasonable
           power
           )
           to
           adhere
           vnto
           them
           in
           their
           misconceiuing
           aduentures
           ,
           till
           all
           be
           endaungered
           by
           such
           mutinous
           confusion
           .
        
         
           But
           hauing
           dwelt
           too
           long
           in
           the
           description
           of
           this
           disease
           (
           for
           the
           remedying
           whereof
           ,
           preuention
           is
           the
           best
           prescription
           )
           what
           I
           haue
           farther
           to
           deliuer
           touching
           the
           diseases
           of
           the
           State
           ,
           or
           the
           likenes
           which
           they
           haue
           with
           them
           of
           the
           bodie
           ,
           or
           how
           to
           carrie
           or
           direct
           the
           manner
           of
           tendance
           or
           ordering
           of
           them
           ;
           I
           must
           be
           faile
           more
           compendiously
           to
           couch
           the
           infinitenes
           thereof
           within
           the
           compasse
           of
           some
           short
           positions
           ,
           lest
           raunging
           too
           far
           ,
           I
           be
           offensiuelie
           tedious
           ,
           orseeking
           to
           match
           all
           ,
           I
           mar
           all
           by
           making
           more
           a
           doo
           than
           I
           need
           .
           1
           The
           forenoted
           diseases
           setled
           in
           the
           nobler
           parts
           ,
           are
           the
           more
           principally
           to
           be
           prouided
           for
           ,
           and
           it
           is
           ordinarie
           to
           withdraw
           the
           anguish
           thereof
           ,
           to
           some
           of
           the
           lesse
           principall
           ,
           yea
           though
           it
           should
           be
           with
           torments
           of
           incision
           ,
           burning
           ,
           or
           ligature
           .
           2
           Where
           the
           greife
           is
           outward
           ,
           and
           the
           cause
           inward
           ,
           it
           is
           the
           surest
           course
           of
           curing
           to
           begin
           at
           the
           remouing
           of
           the
           inward
           cause
           ,
           whereby
           the
           fountaines
           of
           supplie
           may
           be
           dried
           vp
           ,
           3
           and
           the
           braunching
           euill
           more
           easelie
           withered
           away
           .
           When
           the
           disease
           proceedeth
           from
           vnknowen
           causes
           ,
           it
           is
           more
           to
           be
           suspected
           and
           feared
           ,
           because
           it
           mateth
           and
           amazeth
           the
           Phisition
           himselfe
           ,
           finding
           either
           no
           apparance
           of
           reason
           ,
           4
           how
           to
           make
           resistance
           or
           applying
           hazardably
           with
           likelyhood
           of
           as
           well
           hurting
           as
           helping
           .
           It
           is
           vsuall
           that
           a
           disease
           setled
           in
           one
           part
           ,
           feedeth
           it selfe
           by
           sucking
           the
           corruption
           
           from
           other
           parts
           adioyning
           ;
           wherein
           for
           the
           timely
           cutting
           off
           of
           such
           a
           confluence
           ,
           to
           make
           a
           strong
           faction
           ,
           it
           is
           likewise
           vsuall
           to
           comfort
           and
           make
           good
           the
           parts
           adiacent
           ,
           that
           the
           griefe
           more
           singly
           accompanied
           ,
           may
           the
           more
           soundly
           be
           encountred
           .
           The
           diseases
           that
           be
           inueterate
           &
           oflong
           continuance
           asketh
           a
           long
           healing
           ,
           5
           and
           be
           seldome
           so
           soundly
           remedied
           ,
           but
           they
           will
           reuert
           ,
           and
           ioyne
           with
           any
           new
           grieuance
           ,
           and
           be
           lightly
           then
           more
           exasperate
           and
           cumbersome
           than
           before
           ,
           or
           than
           the
           new
           it selfe
           .
           The
           relaps
           into
           a
           disease
           from
           which
           wee
           haue
           been
           lately
           recouered
           ,
           6
           doubleth
           the
           perill
           of
           the
           first
           sicknesse
           ,
           being
           aduantaged
           by
           the
           weaknesse
           and
           poore
           case
           which
           it
           had
           formerly
           brought
           vs
           vnto
           .
           Some
           diseases
           taken
           in
           time
           are
           easily
           helped
           ,
           7
           which
           if
           they
           be
           suffered
           to
           run
           on
           ,
           and
           through
           our
           heedlesnesse
           confirme
           themselues
           ,
           do
           as
           easilie
           grow
           vncureable
           ;
           and
           where
           a
           small
           matter
           at
           the
           first
           might
           restore
           health
           ,
           there
           after
           some
           continuance
           the
           medicine
           will
           come
           too
           late
           .
           Such
           diseases
           as
           be
           infectious
           ,
           8
           and
           do
           spread
           far
           and
           neer
           ,
           are
           to
           be
           auoyded
           by
           all
           meanes
           ,
           as
           scant
           to
           be
           helped
           by
           any
           meanes
           ,
           seeing
           that
           they
           force
           the
           Phisitions
           themselues
           to
           flight
           ,
           not
           daring
           to
           entrude
           venterously
           into
           the
           thickest
           daunger
           ,
           and
           when
           they
           be
           chased
           away
           ,
           or
           hide
           themselues
           ,
           vpon
           whom
           our
           hope
           of
           help
           relyeth
           ,
           what
           can
           be
           expected
           but
           remedilesse
           miserie
           ?
           The
           diseases
           that
           bring
           with
           them
           a
           depriuation
           of
           sence
           ,
           9
           without
           any
           feeling
           or
           acknowledging
           of
           sicknesse
           ,
           argueth
           a
           great
           vnlikelyhood
           of
           recouerie
           ,
           because
           nature
           yeeldeth
           her selfe
           as
           contented
           ,
           10
           and
           no
           wayes
           opposing
           thereunto
           .
           When
           sicknesse
           commeth
           suddenly
           and
           vnexpected
           ,
           
           the
           verie
           violence
           of
           that
           surprise
           so
           daunteth
           the
           hart
           ,
           as
           that
           the
           fort
           will
           be
           lost
           before
           the
           forces
           be
           assembled
           .
           The
           disease
           that
           haunteth
           vs
           ,
           and
           whereunto
           we
           be
           accustomed
           ,
           11
           we
           do
           watch
           and
           obserue
           verie
           diligently
           ,
           that
           we
           may
           meet
           with
           it
           at
           euery
           turne
           ,
           and
           turne
           away
           his
           rigor
           ,
           before
           it
           can
           get
           the
           masterie
           ,
           and
           against
           it
           we
           be
           better
           prepared
           ,
           with
           vsuall
           applications
           .
           The
           disease
           that
           is
           vniuersall
           ,
           affecting
           the
           whole
           bodie
           ,
           12
           awaketh
           &
           stirreth
           all
           the
           parts
           to
           bring
           together
           their
           concordant
           aide
           ,
           and
           is
           the
           more
           caringly
           to
           be
           withstood
           ,
           because
           it
           aduentureth
           the
           whole
           at
           one
           stake
           .
           Where
           the
           diseases
           seemeth
           remedylesse
           ,
           and
           of
           desperat
           condition
           ,
           13
           there
           it
           is
           permitted
           and
           aduised
           to
           minister
           desperat
           medicines
           .
           Vncureable
           diseases
           shame
           and
           foile
           the
           Phisitions
           ,
           and
           then
           doth
           it
           go
           hard
           with
           them
           ,
           14
           when
           the
           patient
           wholy
           depending
           vpon
           their
           help
           ,
           Iaieth
           the
           blame
           vpon
           their
           vnsufficiencie
           ;
           where
           contrarywise
           ,
           if
           they
           help
           at
           a
           pinch
           (
           all
           seeming
           past
           help
           )
           then
           doe
           they
           (
           as
           it
           were
           )
           play
           their
           prizes
           ,
           &
           make
           themselues
           well
           esteemed
           ,
           and
           much
           renowmed
           .
           In
           the
           diseases
           of
           great
           men
           ,
           15
           and
           those
           grieuous
           and
           daungerous
           ,
           the
           whole
           colledge
           of
           Phisitions
           is
           consulted
           with
           ;
           for
           the
           greater
           the
           cause
           or
           person
           is
           ,
           the
           more
           will
           the
           attendance
           and
           assistance
           of
           Councell
           ,
           Iudges
           ,
           and
           Magistrates
           concur
           for
           the
           suppressing
           of
           such
           raging
           fits
           ,
           by
           timely
           remedies
           .
           Many
           diseases
           haue
           an
           eager
           appetite
           to
           those
           meats
           which
           are
           fittest
           to
           encrease
           their
           force
           ,
           16
           and
           it
           is
           a
           part
           of
           the
           cure
           appertaining
           thereunto
           ,
           to
           restraine
           the
           patient
           from
           the
           vse
           of
           such
           hurtfull
           food
           ;
           as
           if
           a
           mad
           man
           were
           to
           bee
           kept
           from
           a
           sword
           ,
           he
           that
           is
           aguish
           from
           wine
           ,
           the
           seditious
           from
           
           seducing
           books
           ,
           and
           traiterous
           complottors
           ,
           and
           the
           vngouerned
           from
           riches
           and
           honour
           .
           Such
           diseases
           as
           detecteth
           and
           discouereth
           themseluesby
           some
           certaine
           signes
           whereby
           they
           may
           be
           knowne
           ,
           17
           may
           be
           sooner
           suppressed
           ;
           and
           the
           verie
           assuaging
           or
           altering
           of
           those
           signes
           ,
           doth
           often
           weaken
           ,
           vanquish
           ,
           and
           driue
           away
           the
           disease
           it selfe
           .
           Where
           a
           disease
           is
           particular
           only
           to
           one
           part
           ,
           18
           as
           to
           the
           eye
           ,
           the
           hand
           ,
           foot
           ,
           or
           such
           like
           ,
           the
           losse
           wherof
           inferreth
           not
           the
           destruction
           of
           the
           whole
           ;
           there
           ,
           rather
           than
           a
           continuall
           molesting
           &
           annoying
           grieuance
           should
           encumber
           the
           ioyes
           of
           life
           ,
           the
           part
           wherunto
           such
           paine
           sticketh
           &
           is
           so
           affixed
           ,
           as
           that
           it
           cannot
           be
           remoued
           or
           remedied
           ,
           were
           better
           to
           be
           pulled
           out
           ,
           cut
           of
           ,
           &
           disseuered
           frō
           the
           bodie
           :
           howbeit
           much
           extremitie
           is
           to
           be
           abidden
           ,
           and
           many
           waies
           for
           healing
           are
           to
           be
           tried
           befor
           it
           com
           to
           so
           hard
           a
           passe
           ,
           as
           to
           harden
           the
           hart
           to
           endure
           such
           violence
           .
           Manie
           diseases
           are
           dissolued
           and
           ouercome
           meerly
           by
           the
           strength
           of
           nature
           ,
           19
           that
           the
           Phisicions
           ayd
           is
           not
           implored
           at
           all
           :
           and
           many
           againe
           because
           their
           nature
           hath
           beene
           too
           much
           trusted
           vnto
           ,
           and
           Phisicke
           hath
           bene
           neglected
           or
           loathed
           ,
           maketh
           a
           conquest
           ouer
           both
           .
           The
           excesse
           of
           humours
           ,
           will
           seeke
           either
           to
           settle
           in
           some
           principall
           part
           ,
           20
           as
           in
           a
           fortified
           place
           ,
           entrenching
           the
           same
           with
           strong
           obstructiōs
           ;
           or
           els
           outwardly
           to
           get
           an
           head
           ,
           which
           (
           if
           they
           cannot
           by
           scattering
           bee
           dispatched
           )
           are
           to
           beeforced
           to
           breake
           out
           rather
           than
           to
           fester
           within
           .
           Some
           diseases
           haue
           a
           propertie
           like
           the
           Adder
           that
           turneth
           to
           be
           a
           Serpent
           ,
           being
           chaunged
           after
           a
           while
           from
           being
           the
           same
           it
           was
           into
           an
           other
           new
           and
           different
           worser
           than
           it selfe
           .
           21
           Most
           diseases
           haue
           certaine
           degrees
           &
           standing
           points
           
           of
           either
           encrease
           or
           declination
           ,
           and
           according
           as
           nature
           is
           comforted
           and
           seconded
           by
           the
           helpes
           of
           Phisicke
           ,
           so
           they
           eyther
           slacke
           their
           sharpnesse
           ,
           22
           or
           become
           outragious
           ,
           after
           they
           haue
           once
           touched
           and
           attained
           to
           those
           poynts
           .
           Yet
           there
           resteth
           one
           rule
           that
           ruleth
           all
           the
           rest
           ,
           which
           is
           ,
           That
           euery
           disease
           desireth
           his
           proper
           cure
           ;
           23
           wherein
           if
           there
           bee
           any
           missing
           or
           mistaking
           ,
           the
           mischiefe
           will
           bee
           this
           ,
           That
           the
           weakening
           of
           nature
           by
           that
           which
           is
           wrong
           applyed
           (
           for
           such
           phisicke
           not
           fitting
           the
           disease
           ,
           worketh
           vpon
           nature
           )
           must
           necessarily
           augment
           the
           power
           and
           perill
           of
           the
           sicknesse
           .
           This
           position
           is
           of
           a
           much
           importing
           consequence
           ,
           and
           (
           howsoeuer
           I
           leaue
           all
           the
           former
           to
           the
           applying
           and
           moralizing
           of
           the
           Reader
           )
           this
           I
           may
           not
           so
           suddēly
           forsake
           ,
           or
           lightly
           passe
           ouer
           :
           it
           cōcerneth
           the
           skil
           of
           the
           Phisiciō
           ,
           who
           hath
           our
           liues
           in
           his
           hands
           .
        
         
           There
           bee
           sometimes
           such
           nimble
           headed
           Pragmatickes
           ,
           
           that
           taking
           vpon
           them
           to
           be
           great
           entermedlers
           in
           state
           affaires
           ,
           do
           for
           want
           of
           grounded
           knowledge
           in
           the
           politicall
           science
           ,
           make
           many
           foule
           escapes
           :
           whom
           I
           may
           resemble
           to
           the
           empericke
           Phisicions
           ,
           who
           hauing
           bene
           brought
           vp
           onely
           in
           an
           experimentall
           prentiship
           ,
           do
           seldome
           apply
           that
           which
           is
           proper
           ,
           but
           wholy
           trusting
           to
           their
           ordinarie
           receipts
           ,
           &
           not
           able
           to
           looke
           into
           the
           right
           nature
           of
           the
           disease
           ,
           or
           the
           diuers
           variations
           therof
           ,
           or
           the
           complexion
           &
           strength
           of
           the
           patient
           ,
           or
           the
           fitnesse
           of
           the
           season
           for
           ministring
           ,
           or
           the
           proportion
           of
           the
           medicine
           to
           the
           qualitie
           of
           the
           sicknesse
           ,
           and
           thereunto
           ignorant
           also
           of
           the
           methode
           for
           orderly
           proceeding
           ,
           or
           iudiciously
           to
           marke
           or
           obserue
           the
           right
           prognostica
           ;
           do
           daily
           by
           their
           desperate
           dealings
           endamage
           and
           weaken
           ,
           if
           not
           cast
           away
           
           such
           as
           be
           so
           hazarded
           vnder
           their
           charge
           .
           Such
           blind
           aduēturing
           without
           rule
           or
           arte
           to
           be
           vsed
           in
           the
           needfull
           occasions
           of
           the
           Commonweale
           ,
           who
           seeth
           not
           how
           hurtfull
           and
           pernicious
           it
           may
           proue
           ?
           and
           therfore
           forbearing
           (
           as
           I
           haue
           bound
           my selfe
           to
           doe
           )
           to
           inlarge
           this
           discourse
           out
           of
           other
           learning
           ,
           I
           will
           onely
           serue
           my
           turne
           with
           stretching
           of
           this
           one
           comparison
           thus
           farre
           farther
           :
           That
           as
           the
           profound
           and
           rationall
           Phisicion
           is
           for
           certaintie
           of
           cure
           ,
           
           and
           direction
           in
           the
           regiment
           of
           health
           ,
           to
           bee
           chosen
           and
           vsed
           before
           the
           rash
           vnskilfull
           Empiricke
           :
           So
           the
           learned
           and
           well
           seene
           in
           the
           principles
           of
           politicall
           doctrine
           ,
           is
           fitter
           to
           bee
           imployed
           and
           trusted
           with
           the
           publike
           dispatches
           and
           affaires
           ,
           tending
           to
           the
           preseruation
           and
           amendment
           of
           the
           state
           ,
           than
           any
           bold
           busie
           bodies
           that
           either
           creepe
           in
           at
           vnwares
           ,
           or
           thrust
           in
           by
           shouing
           and
           shouldring
           ;
           their
           agencies
           being
           too
           daungerous
           ,
           where
           the
           bodie
           of
           the
           Realme
           must
           become
           their
           patient
           :
           For
           where
           their
           skill
           is
           all
           but
           by
           tradition
           ,
           and
           not
           attayned
           by
           the
           studie
           and
           enquirie
           after
           causes
           and
           reasons
           ,
           how
           be
           they
           able
           in
           the
           middest
           of
           so
           manie
           deceauable
           differences
           to
           find
           for
           each
           particular
           occurrance
           ,
           
           the
           proper
           and
           right
           requisite
           application
           ,
           without
           the
           which
           whatsoeuer
           is
           or
           seemeth
           remedied
           ,
           breaketh
           foorth
           anew
           ,
           waxing
           raw
           and
           sore
           againe
           .
           Thenceit
           commeth
           ,
           that
           oftentimes
           the
           medicine
           is
           worse
           than
           the
           disease
           ,
           and
           the
           Phisicion
           becommeth
           the
           heire
           vnto
           his
           patient
           ;
           because
           where
           wee
           most
           repose
           our selues
           in
           a
           confidence
           of
           helpe
           ,
           there
           through
           an
           vnaduised
           cariage
           in
           the
           partie
           trusted
           (
           affecting
           his
           owne
           end
           )
           and
           wandering
           from
           his
           right
           way
           ,
           wee
           be
           most
           seduced
           and
           left
           succourlesse
           ,
           exposed
           to
           all
           calamities
           .
           
           Discretion
           is
           the
           Limbecke
           that
           extracteth
           to
           his
           right
           vse
           all
           kind
           of
           learning
           ,
           
           without
           it
           nor
           the
           Phisicion
           in
           his
           manyfold
           varietie
           of
           diseases
           and
           medicines
           ,
           nor
           the
           Politician
           in
           his
           multiplicitie
           of
           causes
           and
           cases
           ,
           can
           affect
           any
           thing
           ,
           either
           with
           certaintie
           to
           good
           ,
           or
           laudably
           to
           reputation
           .
           If
           this
           be
           not
           his
           best
           guide
           ,
           like
           the
           threed
           of
           
             Ariadne
             ,
          
           to
           lead
           him
           through
           the
           laberinth
           of
           so
           many
           intricat
           diuersities
           ,
           how
           shall
           hee
           be
           able
           to
           rule
           the
           matter
           ,
           when
           hee
           standeth
           enwrapped
           ,
           and
           euen
           ouer-matched
           with
           the
           contrarietie
           of
           rules
           ?
           
           One
           rule
           telleth
           him
           that
           
             Nulla
             remedia
             tam
             sunt
             salutaria
             ,
             quam
             quae
             faciunt
             dolorem
             :
          
           The
           best
           medicines
           doe
           most
           payne
           vs
           :
           by
           the
           imitation
           whereof
           the
           State
           Phisicion
           will
           perhaps
           trust
           most
           to
           his
           sharpe
           and
           austere
           remedies
           .
           Another
           rule
           aduiseth
           such
           application
           as
           is
           
             Secundū
             naturam
             ,
             et
             quod
             cuiusque
             natura
             desiderat
             .
          
           Hereof
           it
           cōmeth
           ,
           that
           what
           delighteth
           and
           pleaseth
           (
           though
           it
           be
           not
           for
           goodnes
           comparable
           )
           yet
           for
           his
           familiar
           agreeablenesse
           to
           our
           stomack
           and
           nature
           ,
           is
           to
           be
           preferred
           vnto
           that
           which
           is
           offensiue
           ,
           vnsauorie
           ,
           or
           churlish
           .
           This
           consideration
           preuaileth
           in
           gouernment
           also
           ,
           
           to
           haue
           all
           the
           businesse
           of
           correction
           and
           reformation
           transacted
           quietly
           without
           contrarious
           conflicting
           ;
           and
           by
           such
           meanes
           as
           may
           rather
           giue
           contentment
           ,
           than
           make
           conquest
           :
           because
           what
           is
           loathed
           or
           not
           brooked
           ,
           may
           more
           hurt
           or
           molest
           in
           recoyling
           ,
           than
           auaile
           by
           an
           vnwilling
           and
           painfull
           retention
           .
        
         
           
             Aristotle
          
           propoundeth
           as
           a
           Probleame
           ,
           That
           the
           selfe
           fame
           inflammations
           by
           some
           be
           cured
           with
           cooling
           ,
           
           and
           by
           others
           are
           ripened
           and
           digested
           by
           heating
           .
           This
           phisicke
           hath
           also
           bene
           wisely
           put
           in
           practise
           
           in
           the
           tendance
           of
           the
           raging
           vlcers
           and
           impostumations
           of
           the
           bodie
           politique
           ,
           when
           the
           hote
           humour
           of
           haughtinesse
           in
           great
           men
           hath
           sometimes
           by
           gentlenesse
           and
           counsell
           bene
           allayd
           ,
           and
           other
           sometimes
           by
           vrging
           and
           more
           heating
           brought
           to
           a
           rupture
           &
           running
           out
           .
           What
           encumbreth
           or
           annoyeth
           nature
           ,
           is
           sometimes
           at
           his
           first
           gathering
           (
           before
           it
           getteth
           an
           head
           )
           dissolued
           and
           dispersed
           ,
           
           and
           sometimes
           againe
           is
           suffered
           ,
           yea
           and
           forced
           to
           shew
           his
           vttermost
           virulence
           ,
           and
           to
           get
           vnto
           him
           his
           full
           strength
           ,
           before
           it
           be
           once
           medled
           with
           .
           The
           same
           medicines
           that
           easeth
           vs
           of
           griefe
           in
           one
           part
           ,
           may
           annoy
           vs
           in
           another
           ,
           that
           help
           at
           one
           time
           ,
           may
           hurt
           at
           another
           ,
           or
           that
           heale
           one
           may
           dispatch
           another
           :
           Wee
           vse
           not
           the
           same
           course
           in
           Summer
           as
           we
           doe
           in
           Winter
           ,
           nor
           the
           same
           when
           the
           bodie
           is
           too
           full
           ,
           as
           when
           it
           is
           brought
           low
           ,
           nor
           the
           same
           to
           children
           and
           old
           folks
           ,
           as
           to
           men
           of
           confirmed
           strength
           ;
           nor
           the
           same
           in
           the
           height
           or
           amendment
           ,
           which
           wee
           doe
           at
           the
           beginning
           of
           the
           disease
           .
           Such
           respectiuenesse
           we
           may
           expect
           from
           the
           political
           Phisicion
           ,
           that
           he
           be
           not
           pragmatically
           tied
           to
           the
           
             Idem
             ,
          
           or
           
             Eodem
             modo
             ,
          
           but
           that
           from
           the
           axiomes
           &
           conclusions
           of
           learning
           ,
           he
           doe
           so
           aplie
           his
           cogitations
           to
           the
           discrepancie
           of
           occasions
           ,
           as
           that
           (
           being
           
             vsque
             quaque
             sapiens
          
           )
           he
           accomodate
           his
           cures
           rather
           by
           certeinty
           than
           at
           aduenture
           ,
           and
           euen
           therein
           to
           shew
           himselfe
           regular
           ,
           by
           varying
           of
           his
           proceedings
           frō
           his
           rules
           ,
           as
           the
           variablenesse
           of
           condicions
           ,
           circumstances
           ,
           and
           considerations
           shall
           with
           reason
           ouerrule
           him
           .
           And
           he
           doth
           oftentimes
           (
           as
           a
           well
           skilled
           phisicion
           doth
           )
           finding
           any
           imperfection
           or
           vnaptnesse
           in
           the
           first
           remedies
           repeale
           and
           cast
           aside
           them
           by
           prouiding
           and
           ordeining
           new
           .
           
           
           Yet
           in
           one
           point
           more
           let
           vs
           note
           the
           effects
           of
           skill
           in
           a
           Phisicion
           ,
           who
           is
           able
           to
           make
           euen
           poysons
           medicinable
           ;
           which
           sheweth
           ,
           that
           when
           Magistrats
           shall
           vppon
           occasion
           make
           vse
           of
           wicked
           men
           ,
           
           we
           should
           bee
           so
           farre
           from
           charging
           them
           with
           the
           obiection
           of
           vngodly
           policie
           ,
           as
           that
           we
           should
           rather
           for
           such
           their
           property
           &
           power
           liken
           them
           vnto
           God
           ,
           who
           himselfe
           infinitly
           good
           ,
           extracteth
           good
           out
           of
           euill
           .
        
         
           Such
           expert
           Phisicions
           of
           the
           Realme
           ,
           doe
           (
           like
           far
           darting
           
             Apollo
             )
          
           spread
           abroad
           their
           golden
           rayes
           and
           happie
           influence
           ,
           
           as
           well
           for
           preseruing
           of
           publique
           health
           and
           prosperitie
           ,
           as
           also
           for
           the
           subduing
           of
           all
           poysoned
           
             Pithons
             ,
          
           and
           miscompounded
           monsters
           ,
           that
           infect
           the
           ayre
           ,
           or
           defile
           the
           land
           of
           the
           Common-weale
           .
        
         
           Some
           other
           good
           requisits
           in
           our
           State-Phisicions
           may
           not
           be
           pretermitted
           .
           It
           is
           needfull
           ,
           that
           they
           bee
           of
           a
           graue
           stayednesse
           ,
           and
           free
           from
           ficklenesse
           or
           flexibilitie
           .
           I
           yeeld
           ,
           that
           a
           Phisicion
           may
           by
           occasions
           and
           circumstances
           bee
           moued
           to
           dispose
           himselfe
           to
           change
           both
           his
           opinion
           and
           his
           practise
           :
           yet
           I
           hold
           it
           requisite
           that
           such
           his
           change
           may
           appeare
           to
           proceed
           rather
           from
           deliberation
           than
           lightnesse
           ,
           from
           iudicious
           discerning
           of
           right
           causes
           ,
           rather
           than
           from
           a
           vayne
           affectation
           of
           new
           courses
           ;
           so
           hee
           be
           constant
           to
           his
           propounded
           end
           of
           effecting
           the
           saftie
           &
           health
           of
           the
           bodie
           ,
           resting
           vppon
           his
           skill
           and
           best
           endeuour
           ,
           to
           make
           tryall
           of
           sundrie
           different
           meanes
           likely
           ,
           and
           seruing
           thereunto
           ,
           is
           no
           vnconstancie
           at
           all
           .
           The
           same
           may
           bee
           affirmed
           of
           Gouernours
           :
           It
           cannot
           but
           bee
           hatefull
           and
           scandalous
           to
           any
           Magistrate
           ,
           to
           play
           the
           light
           headed
           temporizer
           ,
           by
           the
           exchange
           and
           oft
           shifting
           
           of
           his
           opinion
           ,
           still
           to
           conforme
           to
           euerie
           accidentall
           alteration
           in
           the
           State
           :
           for
           howsoeuer
           it
           may
           bee
           allowed
           vnto
           him
           (
           vppon
           preuayling
           considerations
           )
           to
           change
           his
           medicines
           rather
           than
           his
           mind
           ,
           retayning
           stil
           his
           integritie
           and
           constancie
           towards
           the
           state
           :
           yet
           is
           it
           made
           a
           note
           of
           common
           obseruance
           ,
           that
           such
           as
           be
           either
           caried
           about
           by
           euerie
           tempest
           of
           the
           time
           ,
           or
           be
           swayed
           by
           their
           owne
           leuitie
           to
           entertaine
           diuersities
           in
           the
           order
           of
           gouernment
           ;
           as
           they
           do
           but
           affect
           
             Latebram
             male
             fidei
             ,
          
           so
           they
           giue
           place
           and
           passage
           to
           euery
           stirring
           &
           vpstart
           spirit
           (
           as
           the
           heedlesnes
           or
           giddinesse
           of
           the
           bodies
           phisicion
           oft
           doth
           )
           with
           force
           &
           furie
           to
           conquer
           all
           .
           I
           know
           that
           a
           remedilesse
           necessitie
           may
           constrayne
           the
           skilfullest
           Pilot
           (
           being
           beaten
           from
           his
           intended
           hauen
           )
           to
           take
           into
           the
           next
           harbor
           that
           fortune
           shall
           offer
           ,
           rather
           than
           with
           extreme
           perill
           to
           contend
           with
           the
           storme
           :
           Such
           a
           kind
           of
           compelled
           alteration
           no
           indifferent
           obseruer
           will
           debarre
           any
           prouident
           Polititian
           of
           ,
           That
           whensoeuer
           he
           shall
           varie
           from
           his
           first
           well
           grounded
           resolution
           ,
           his
           relinquishing
           of
           the
           former
           ,
           or
           his
           pursuing
           of
           any
           new
           intention
           ,
           may
           be
           iudged
           rather
           necessarie
           than
           voluntarie
           ,
           more
           reasonable
           than
           fashionable
           ,
           and
           for
           the
           performing
           of
           farther
           good
           rather
           than
           to
           follow
           the
           inclination
           of
           his
           owne
           vnsteady
           humours
           .
           They
           must
           be
           louing
           and
           compassionate
           ,
           
           the
           proofe
           and
           demonstrance
           wherof
           maketh
           their
           patients
           comfortably
           and
           readily
           to
           swallow
           any
           their
           prescribed
           receits
           ,
           and
           it
           is
           one
           step
           towards
           cure
           ,
           when
           the
           sick
           holdeth
           a
           good
           thought
           of
           his
           Phisicion
           ,
           persuading
           himselfe
           ,
           that
           his
           labours
           are
           vndertaken
           out
           of
           an
           honest
           and
           heartie
           desire
           of
           doing
           good
           ,
           rather
           than
           to
           inrich
           himselfe
           
           by
           vndeserued
           gettings
           .
           The
           ouermuch
           regard
           of
           fees
           or
           gaynes
           in
           some
           Phisicions
           ,
           
           maketh
           good
           the
           saying
           of
           
             Philemon
          
           an
           old
           Poet
           ,
           
             O
             quam
             male
             medicus
             se
             habet
             ,
             cum
             neminem
             male
             sese
             habere
             contigit
             ,
          
           
           
             medicus
             valere
             amicos
             ne
             suos
             quidem
             cupit
             :
          
           which
           (
           howsoeuer
           perhaps
           it
           may
           be
           touchingly
           applied
           to
           some
           Lawiers
           also
           ,
           whose
           profession
           is
           to
           find
           phisicke
           to
           redresse
           particular
           wrongs
           ,
           and
           therefore
           that
           they
           may
           bee
           set
           a
           worke
           with
           the
           case
           ,
           wisheth
           their
           friends
           sometimes
           in
           an
           ill
           case
           )
           yet
           farre
           bee
           it
           that
           any
           the
           higher
           magistrats
           of
           iustice
           and
           gouernment
           ,
           should
           bee
           shamefully
           stained
           with
           the
           blacke
           note
           of
           so
           foule
           an
           imputation
           ,
           as
           out
           of
           the
           diseases
           ,
           sores
           ,
           and
           corruptions
           of
           the
           people
           ,
           to
           enrich
           and
           aduaunce
           his
           owne
           estate
           .
           And
           against
           that
           sort
           of
           Lawyers
           which
           shall
           seeke
           to
           make
           vs
           such
           fooles
           ,
           as
           by
           continuall
           lawing
           to
           keepe
           vs
           still
           to
           that
           play
           at
           foyles
           ,
           to
           fill
           them
           thereby
           with
           fees
           ,
           let
           vs
           learne
           this
           phisicall
           lesson
           ,
           
           That
           as
           
             Medice
             viuere
             ,
             est
             misere
             viuere
             ,
          
           so
           to
           be
           neuer
           out
           of
           law
           ,
           is
           neuer
           to
           know
           any
           happie
           dayes
           :
           for
           as
           too
           much
           phisicke
           weakeneth
           and
           wasteth
           health
           ;
           so
           to
           be
           ouerlaid
           with
           law
           ,
           is
           the
           vtter
           losse
           and
           confounding
           of
           all
           comforts
           of
           life
           .
        
         
           But
           leauing
           such
           purse-purging
           Lawyers
           ,
           
           I
           must
           returne
           to
           the
           pursuite
           of
           considerable
           respects
           ,
           for
           the
           Phisicions
           of
           the
           ciuill
           bodie
           .
           As
           one
           may
           bee
           a
           good
           Phisicion
           though
           an
           euill
           man
           ;
           so
           may
           he
           be
           a
           good
           Commonwealths
           man
           ,
           
           though
           otherwise
           for
           his
           priuat
           faults
           reproueable
           .
           As
           in
           chusing
           a
           Phisicion
           ,
           we
           take
           not
           the
           wealthiest
           ,
           or
           that
           can
           make
           best
           friends
           ,
           but
           him
           that
           is
           best
           skilled
           ,
           and
           likeliest
           to
           cure
           :
           So
           magistracie
           and
           offices
           of
           iustice
           bee
           not
           to
           be
           bestowed
           
           vppon
           the
           richest
           or
           most
           fauoured
           ,
           
           but
           vppon
           the
           wisest
           and
           worthiest
           .
           As
           we
           like
           better
           a
           Phisicion
           that
           is
           our
           owne
           Countreyman
           ,
           or
           of
           some
           neerenesse
           in
           bloud
           vnto
           vs
           ,
           than
           a
           forraine
           borne
           ,
           or
           nothing
           alied
           vnto
           vs
           :
           so
           is
           it
           well
           and
           louingly
           prouided
           for
           ,
           where
           the
           Soueraigne
           (
           according
           to
           such
           desire
           )
           ordereth
           each
           people
           to
           bee
           gouerned
           by
           their
           owne
           natiues
           .
           As
           the
           Phisicions
           to
           encourage
           and
           induce
           their
           patients
           to
           take
           more
           cheerefully
           their
           prescriptions
           ,
           doe
           readily
           foretast
           the
           same
           themselues
           :
           so
           the
           Magistrats
           for
           the
           drawing
           of
           the
           people
           to
           the
           more
           willing
           obseruance
           of
           the
           lawes
           ,
           
           ought
           to
           make
           themselues
           examples
           of
           integritie
           in
           the
           outward
           shew
           of
           a
           iust
           conuersation
           .
           Besides
           ,
           as
           the
           Phisicion
           though
           hee
           bee
           oft
           times
           by
           the
           waiward
           demeanure
           of
           the
           patient
           ,
           much
           abused
           ,
           yet
           doeth
           hee
           persist
           in
           his
           purpose
           of
           performing
           of
           the
           best
           helpe
           by
           any
           course
           that
           his
           skill
           affoordeth
           :
           So
           the
           Magistrat
           ,
           albeit
           in
           the
           execution
           of
           so
           busy
           ,
           
           enuious
           ,
           and
           troublesome
           a
           charge
           ,
           he
           must
           often
           meet
           with
           mischieuous
           intentions
           against
           him
           ,
           be
           thwarted
           with
           oppositions
           ,
           and
           indure
           indignities
           ,
           yet
           must
           he
           with
           a
           manly
           and
           vertuous
           constancy
           consecrate
           his
           whole
           endeuours
           to
           the
           resolute
           following
           of
           his
           necessarie
           function
           .
           Further
           ,
           as
           the
           Phisicion
           too
           much
           set
           a
           worke
           or
           called
           vppon
           ,
           cannot
           giue
           to
           each
           patient
           a
           sufficing
           attendance
           :
           So
           where
           there
           be
           too
           many
           busie
           imployments
           cast
           vppon
           one
           magistrat
           or
           officer
           (
           or
           too
           many
           clyents
           cloying
           of
           one
           Lawyer
           )
           the
           verie
           distraction
           or
           diuiding
           of
           his
           paines
           amongst
           so
           manie
           ,
           
           applyeth
           against
           him
           the
           prouerbiall
           verse
           :
           
             Ad
             plura
             intentus
             minor
             est
             ad
             singula
             sensus
             .
          
        
         
         
           Lastly
           ,
           I
           will
           bestow
           vpon
           our
           politicall
           Phisition
           that
           complement
           of
           qualities
           ,
           which
           we
           vsually
           look
           for
           in
           a
           Surgion
           ;
           that
           is
           an
           Hawks
           eye
           ,
           a
           Ladies
           hand
           ,
           
           and
           a
           Lions
           hart
           :
           his
           eye
           must
           piercingly
           spie
           into
           all
           sores
           and
           disorders
           reformable
           ,
           his
           hand
           must
           not
           be
           caried
           too
           heauy
           ,
           but
           rather
           tenderly
           and
           mercifully
           ;
           and
           his
           hart
           is
           to
           be
           held
           vp
           vndaunted
           ,
           and
           vnflexible
           ,
           when
           it
           hath
           vprightly
           conceiued
           of
           the
           right
           ,
           reiecting
           from
           him
           all
           remisnes
           ,
           or
           timorousnes
           of
           execution
           .
           The
           Phisition
           doth
           not
           alwaies
           follow
           the
           precisenes
           of
           his
           owne
           rules
           ,
           
           he
           doth
           often
           offend
           against
           his
           owne
           health
           ,
           (
           as
           others
           doe
           )
           and
           then
           is
           disdainfully
           mocked
           with
           
             Curate
             ipsum
             .
          
           I
           would
           not
           aduise
           any
           man
           to
           be
           so
           saucy
           ,
           as
           to
           bid
           the
           Magistrat
           look
           to
           his
           owne
           faults
           ;
           but
           it
           must
           be
           confessed
           ,
           that
           such
           as
           be
           seated
           in
           places
           of
           aucthoritie
           ,
           may
           as
           basely
           and
           as
           badly
           misgouerne
           themselues
           as
           inferior
           persons
           ,
           and
           thereby
           not
           vndeseruedly
           fitted
           with
           that
           frumpe
           ,
           That
           the
           greater
           Theefes
           hang
           vp
           the
           lesser
           .
           
           Yet
           when
           the
           Phisition
           is
           sick
           ,
           other
           Phisitions
           are
           prouided
           to
           minister
           vnto
           him
           ;
           so
           the
           vices
           of
           the
           Magistrats
           ,
           must
           vndergo
           the
           censure
           of
           other
           Magistrats
           ,
           to
           be
           delt
           withall
           as
           the
           quallitie
           thereof
           requireth
           .
           Neuerthelesse
           ,
           as
           the
           Phisitions
           misdieting
           of
           himselfe
           ,
           is
           no
           good
           pretence
           for
           the
           diseased
           to
           refuse
           to
           be
           healed
           by
           his
           endeuour
           :
           So
           the
           obiection
           of
           the
           Magistrats
           misbehauiour
           or
           reproach
           must
           not
           withdraw
           our
           subiection
           from
           abyding
           and
           yeelding
           to
           any
           his
           orders
           or
           iudgements
           concerning
           our
           emendation
           .
           
           It
           is
           obserued
           in
           the
           nature
           of
           Man
           ,
           that
           when
           he
           is
           pressed
           by
           sicknesse
           to
           pray
           aide
           of
           the
           Phisition
           ,
           he
           holdeth
           nothing
           too
           deare
           for
           him
           ,
           rewarding
           him
           
           with
           rich
           recompence
           ;
           but
           when
           he
           findeth
           himselfe
           recouered
           ,
           and
           no
           more
           to
           need
           him
           ,
           he
           will
           scant
           afford
           him
           any
           his
           least
           fauours
           ;
           as
           if
           he
           had
           concluded
           ,
           that
           as
           God
           created
           him
           ,
           so
           he
           would
           honor
           him
           ,
           onely
           for
           necessities
           sake
           .
           Such
           also
           is
           the
           fortune
           of
           those
           ,
           who
           spend
           their
           spirits
           ,
           cares
           ,
           and
           industries
           ,
           in
           the
           attendance
           of
           the
           States
           health
           ;
           
           when
           it
           is
           discerned
           ,
           that
           they
           haue
           aduised
           ,
           procured
           ,
           and
           ministred
           the
           good
           of
           the
           weale
           publike
           ,
           then
           be
           they
           extolled
           by
           applause
           ,
           aduanced
           to
           honor
           ,
           and
           rewarded
           with
           bounties
           ;
           but
           if
           the
           occasion
           of
           their
           meritings
           be
           cut
           off
           ,
           then
           forgetting
           the
           forepassed
           helpes
           ,
           
             Aesculapius
          
           must
           thence
           forth
           loose
           his
           sacrifice
           of
           Cocks
           .
           Nay
           ,
           their
           case
           is
           somewhat
           worse
           ,
           for
           if
           that
           which
           by
           them
           is
           contriued
           and
           intended
           rightly
           ,
           
           faileth
           of
           effect
           ,
           or
           falleth
           out
           sinisterly
           ;
           then
           as
           if
           the
           Phisition
           had
           either
           mistaken
           his
           cure
           ,
           or
           misbehaued
           himselfe
           ,
           he
           maketh
           a
           purchase
           of
           blame
           and
           shame
           ,
           loosing
           both
           the
           kirnell
           for
           which
           he
           took
           paines
           ,
           and
           the
           credit
           of
           his
           art
           ,
           which
           notwithstanding
           he
           exactly
           followed
           .
           Further
           than
           this
           ,
           he
           findeth
           one
           other
           greeuance
           much
           exceeding
           the
           former
           ,
           which
           is
           ,
           That
           when
           he
           hath
           with
           his
           earnest
           studie
           and
           best
           circumspection
           decreed
           and
           enacted
           what
           is
           to
           be
           done
           ,
           
           his
           prescriptions
           will
           not
           be
           receiued
           ,
           nor
           his
           directions
           followed
           ;
           without
           the
           vse
           and
           applying
           whereof
           ,
           the
           making
           of
           such
           receipt
           was
           a
           bootlesse
           labour
           .
           He
           that
           will
           see
           the
           right
           image
           of
           that
           wrong
           offered
           to
           the
           State-Phisitions
           ,
           let
           him
           but
           search
           into
           his
           owne
           hart
           ,
           
           where
           when
           reason
           hath
           assembled
           the
           Senat
           of
           his
           best
           vnderstandings
           ,
           and
           hath
           by
           their
           discussings
           resolued
           what
           is
           best
           to
           be
           done
           ,
           if
           there
           then
           should
           
           want
           a
           will
           to
           obey
           and
           performe
           such
           decrees
           ,
           might
           not
           reason
           and
           his
           fellowes
           as
           well
           haue
           been
           a
           sleepe
           :
           so
           verilie
           when
           wholsome
           lawes
           are
           deuised
           and
           enacted
           ,
           for
           the
           generall
           benefit
           of
           an
           whole
           Realme
           ,
           it
           is
           an
           vntollerable
           abuse
           offered
           to
           the
           law-makers
           ,
           when
           for
           lacke
           of
           due
           administration
           ,
           to
           concomitate
           the
           consulting
           power
           ,
           the
           same
           shall
           not
           haue
           their
           execution
           .
           Yet
           were
           it
           the
           shamfullest
           iniurie
           of
           all
           ,
           
           and
           that
           no
           waies
           standeth
           with
           the
           Patients
           owne
           safetie
           ,
           if
           the
           receipts
           or
           prescriptions
           of
           the
           Phisition
           ,
           should
           be
           illuded
           by
           shifts
           and
           cauilled
           at
           ,
           of
           purpose
           to
           mistake
           and
           peruert
           the
           true
           meaning
           thereof
           :
           So
           standeth
           the
           case
           with
           good
           Statutes
           ,
           when
           ill
           disposed
           people
           ,
           will
           by
           subtill
           scanning
           seek
           euasions
           ,
           and
           alter
           the
           sinceritie
           of
           them
           by
           wrested
           interpretations
           .
           But
           vertuous
           Subiects
           holding
           obedience
           to
           be
           their
           essentiall
           and
           habituall
           propertie
           ,
           
           and
           hauing
           such
           Phisitions
           as
           both
           zealously
           loueth
           them
           ,
           and
           are
           best
           acquainted
           with
           the
           state
           of
           their
           bodie
           ,
           will
           hartily
           abhor
           and
           abandon
           such
           miscreant
           corrupters
           of
           the
           gouerning
           Iustice.
           
        
         
           It
           is
           now
           time
           to
           find
           some
           meanes
           for
           the
           obseruing
           of
           a
           meane
           ,
           lest
           tediousnes
           banish
           delightsomnesse
           :
           I
           haue
           reserued
           yet
           one
           comparison
           more
           ,
           wherwith
           at
           the
           last
           to
           close
           vp
           all
           ,
           and
           to
           reduce
           this
           discourse
           to
           my
           promised
           period
           ,
           of
           the
           entire
           embracements
           betweene
           Soueraigne
           and
           Subiect
           .
           
           The
           bodies
           hoping
           after
           health
           ,
           or
           affecting
           of
           felicitie
           ,
           is
           no
           other
           ,
           or
           to
           any
           other
           end
           ,
           than
           to
           reioice
           the
           soule
           with
           fulnesse
           of
           comfort
           and
           satisfiyng
           pleasures
           ;
           So
           let
           the
           desires
           and
           endeuours
           of
           the
           bodie
           Politique
           ,
           and
           each
           part
           thereof
           ,
           in
           the
           acquiring
           for
           the
           State
           
           any
           supposed
           or
           desireable
           good
           ,
           bee
           directed
           and
           tend
           to
           the
           making
           happie
           of
           their
           Soueraigne
           ,
           by
           working
           on
           all
           sides
           his
           abundant
           contentation
           .
           Then
           (
           sith
           at
           their
           first
           meeting
           they
           began
           with
           a
           profession
           and
           coniunction
           of
           loue
           )
           their
           departure
           shall
           not
           want
           a
           recyprocall
           kindnesse
           ,
           with
           the
           exchange
           of
           all
           mutuall
           offices
           of
           faith
           and
           assurednesse
           .
           The
           Princes
           contentment
           must
           be
           the
           happinesse
           of
           the
           Subiect
           ,
           &
           the
           subiects
           welfare
           the
           securitie
           of
           the
           Prince
           :
           And
           so
           shall
           the
           Commonwealth
           be
           compleatly
           blessed
           ,
           by
           the
           firmnesse
           of
           that
           concording
           vnion
           ,
           hauing
           
             Mentem
             sanam
             in
             corpore
             sano
             ,
          
           the
           tranquillitie
           of
           the
           mind
           ,
           with
           indolence
           of
           the
           bodie
           .
        
         
           Thus
           hauing
           aduentured
           to
           propound
           vnto
           publique
           view
           (
           like
           as
           
             Appelles
          
           did
           his
           picture
           )
           this
           portracture
           of
           the
           bodie
           Politique
           ,
           though
           not
           so
           compleatly
           shaped
           in
           all
           the
           lyneaments
           ,
           as
           may
           either
           allure
           the
           lookers
           on
           to
           liking
           ,
           or
           may
           suffice
           to
           equall
           the
           dignitie
           and
           maiestie
           of
           the
           matter
           represented
           :
           I
           must
           entreat
           of
           the
           wise
           and
           expert
           Polititians
           ,
           their
           fauourable
           interpreting
           ,
           and
           encouraging
           entertainments
           thereof
           ;
           vnto
           whom
           I
           haue
           reason
           (
           with
           all
           reuerent
           regard
           )
           to
           dedicate
           these
           endeuors
           ;
           Them
           hath
           the
           coniunction
           of
           learning
           and
           acting
           ,
           well
           entermixed
           ,
           
           exactly
           accomplished
           ;
           and
           from
           the
           obseruance
           of
           their
           good
           labours
           ,
           hath
           been
           bred
           the
           collection
           of
           booke
           lessons
           :
           What
           they
           broyling
           in
           the
           heat
           of
           affaires
           ,
           and
           euen
           sun-burned
           with
           the
           businesse
           of
           the
           State
           ,
           doe
           daily
           effect
           for
           the
           publique
           benefit
           ;
           that
           we
           (
           the
           contemplators
           of
           their
           merits
           )
           in
           our
           solitarie
           priuatnesse
           at
           our
           vnimployed
           leasures
           ,
           and
           from
           our
           shadie
           studies
           ,
           ought
           gladly
           ,
           for
           the
           
           establishing
           of
           their
           aucthoritie
           ,
           and
           for
           the
           eternizing
           of
           their
           glorie
           ,
           to
           recount
           &
           recommend
           to
           the
           vndecaying
           succession
           of
           future
           times
           .
           It
           was
           right
           worthy
           councell
           which
           
             Demetrius
          
           gaue
           vnto
           
             Ptolemie
             ,
          
           aduising
           him
           diligentlie
           to
           reade
           the
           bookes
           written
           of
           Politicall
           gouerment
           :
           but
           his
           reason
           is
           sharpe
           pointed
           and
           toucheth
           to
           the
           verie
           quick
           ;
           
           for
           (
           saith
           he
           )
           there
           shall
           you
           find
           that
           which
           none
           dare
           or
           will
           tell
           you
           .
           To
           say
           the
           truth
           ,
           such
           works
           aduisedly
           &
           faithfully
           compiled
           ,
           be
           vnpartiall
           informers
           ,
           and
           vncorrupted
           Councellours
           ,
           acquainting
           their
           readers
           with
           the
           generallitie
           of
           right
           and
           reason
           ,
           to
           be
           applied
           to
           vse
           in
           particuler
           considerations
           .
           From
           thence
           may
           all
           gouernours
           draw
           their
           directions
           ,
           for
           the
           framing
           and
           plotting
           of
           their
           most
           important
           purposes
           :
           and
           what
           they
           thence
           shall
           suck
           will
           be
           simple
           and
           sincere
           ,
           without
           admixture
           of
           either
           deceiptfull
           drifts
           ,
           or
           affectionat
           inclinations
           .
           As
           in
           the
           act
           or
           abilitie
           of
           right
           vnderstanding
           ,
           the
           soule
           doth
           manifest
           his
           greatest
           force
           and
           goodnesse
           :
           
           so
           in
           the
           multitude
           of
           them
           that
           can
           giue
           councell
           ,
           is
           strength
           .
           To
           such
           Atlas-like
           gouernours
           ,
           that
           be
           the
           supporting
           Arches
           of
           a
           ciuill
           State
           ,
           all
           politicall
           learning
           ,
           and
           whatsoeuer
           industrie
           or
           discoueries
           ,
           in
           that
           subiect
           doth
           properly
           belong
           ,
           and
           ought
           in
           them
           to
           be
           treasured
           vp
           for
           store
           at
           all
           times
           to
           besteed
           the
           State
           ;
           euen
           as
           the
           light
           created
           on
           the
           first
           day
           ,
           was
           after
           transferred
           into
           the
           bodies
           of
           the
           Sun
           ,
           Moone
           ,
           and
           Starres
           of
           the
           firmament
           ,
           to
           illighten
           the
           whole
           world
           .
           
           The
           view
           of
           my
           weaknesse
           and
           vnworthinesse
           ,
           together
           with
           the
           awful
           respectiuenes
           wherto
           I
           stand
           bound
           in
           all
           dutie
           ,
           stayeth
           me
           from
           presumptuous
           assuming
           to
           my selfe
           of
           any
           such
           clearenesse
           of
           
           conceipt
           or
           iudgement
           ,
           as
           may
           any
           whit
           encrease
           the
           fulnesse
           of
           vnderstanding
           in
           our
           great
           and
           superiour
           lights
           .
           Yet
           if
           by
           the
           propounding
           of
           this
           paire
           of
           bodies
           ,
           so
           equally
           matching
           in
           fashion
           and
           liknesse
           ,
           ciuill
           consultations
           vpon
           any
           occurrance
           may
           (
           by
           such
           correspondence
           )
           receiue
           helpe
           ,
           I
           hope
           it
           will
           not
           be
           disliked
           ,
           that
           I
           haue
           endeuoured
           to
           set
           open
           for
           their
           light
           a
           broader
           and
           larger
           passage
           .
           I
           may
           not
           make
           my selfe
           ignorant
           ,
           that
           it
           is
           easie
           to
           offend
           in
           the
           curiositie
           of
           inquiring
           into
           State-secrets
           ;
           
           there
           is
           euen
           in
           that
           kind
           also
           a
           forbidden
           Apple
           .
           And
           it
           hath
           euer
           been
           reckoned
           an
           audaciousnes
           not
           to
           be
           digested
           ,
           to
           intrude
           with
           timeritie
           ,
           where
           restraint
           hath
           placed
           a
           crosse
           barre
           .
           If
           euery
           bodie
           must
           know
           all
           ,
           counsell
           were
           no
           counsell
           .
           The
           bodie
           politique
           as
           the
           naturall
           ,
           is
           whole
           and
           close
           chested
           ,
           there
           is
           not
           in
           his
           brest
           (
           no
           more
           than
           in
           the
           others
           )
           any
           glasse
           windowes
           or
           casements
           placed
           ,
           for
           medling
           
             Momus
          
           to
           look
           into
           the
           reserued
           
             occultanda
          
           of
           the
           heart
           .
           Such
           as
           haue
           an
           itching
           desire
           to
           peere
           within
           the
           curtaine
           of
           those
           vndiscouerable
           secrets
           ,
           besides
           their
           offensiue
           and
           vnmannerly
           sawcinesse
           ,
           against
           the
           reuerend
           and
           sage
           Senators
           of
           the
           State
           ,
           do
           apparantly
           detect
           themselues
           to
           be
           but
           babling
           and
           seducing
           newes
           tellers
           .
           
             Cato
          
           censureth
           fitly
           of
           them
           
             percunctatores
             garruli
             ,
          
           and
           
             Plautus
          
           amplie
           describeth
           their
           natures
           ,
           
           terming
           them
           by
           an
           old
           but
           significant
           name
           of
           
             famigeratores
             ,
          
           as
           filled
           both
           in
           the
           eares
           and
           in
           the
           mouth
           ,
           with
           a
           certaine
           saleable
           windy
           matter
           of
           rumors
           and
           reports
           .
        
         
           There
           is
           a
           sobrietie
           to
           be
           obserued
           in
           the
           gayning
           of
           knowledge
           by
           inquisitiuenesse
           ;
           
           for
           such
           as
           ouerfill
           themselues
           ,
           and
           doe
           drinke
           too
           deepe
           of
           harkening
           
           and
           hearesayes
           ,
           will
           likewise
           incurre
           the
           other
           extremities
           ,
           both
           of
           reeling
           as
           disied
           by
           vntruthes
           ;
           and
           of
           casting
           vp
           againe
           ,
           by
           the
           publishing
           of
           all
           they
           heare
           .
           But
           when
           this
           searching
           and
           piercing
           presumption
           shall
           get
           vp
           to
           the
           highest
           step
           ,
           and
           fall
           to
           prie
           into
           the
           Prince
           himselfe
           ,
           to
           make
           discoueries
           and
           dinulgings
           of
           his
           dispositions
           ,
           intentions
           ,
           affections
           ,
           qualities
           ,
           
           waightie
           businesses
           ,
           and
           serious
           actions
           ;
           then
           it
           hath
           the
           resemblance
           ,
           and
           is
           a
           verie
           spice
           of
           the
           heat
           of
           
             Phaeton
             ,
          
           of
           the
           lightnesse
           of
           
             Icarus
             ,
          
           of
           the
           treacherie
           of
           
             Tantalus
             ,
          
           of
           the
           blabbing
           of
           
             Sisiphus
             ,
          
           of
           the
           lust
           of
           
             Ixion
             ,
          
           of
           the
           immodestie
           of
           
             Acteon
             ,
          
           and
           of
           the
           slie
           surreption
           of
           
             Prometheus
             ,
          
           and
           is
           worthily
           punishable
           with
           some
           of
           their
           tortures
           .
           
             Salomon
          
           compareth
           the
           vnsearchable
           heart
           of
           the
           King
           ,
           to
           the
           height
           of
           heauen
           ,
           and
           the
           depth
           of
           the
           earth
           ;
           arguing
           thereby
           as
           well
           the
           presumption
           as
           the
           impossibilitie
           of
           discouering
           the
           same
           ,
           
             Pro.
             25.
             
          
        
         
           Against
           this
           odious
           iniury
           of
           the
           subiects
           ouermuch
           enquiring
           and
           spying
           into
           their
           Soueraigne
           ,
           
           I
           haue
           one
           arrow
           or
           argument
           left
           me
           ,
           to
           be
           taken
           out
           of
           the
           same
           quiuer
           :
           Nature
           hath
           so
           prouided
           ,
           that
           no
           sences
           of
           the
           bodie
           doeth
           penetrate
           into
           the
           essence
           or
           inwardnesse
           of
           the
           soule
           ;
           they
           bee
           espials
           for
           him
           ,
           not
           spyers
           into
           him
           :
           for
           
             Animus
             oculorum
             effugit
             obtutum
             .
          
           Then
           in
           the
           same
           sort
           ,
           as
           well
           for
           a
           warning
           to
           my selfe
           ,
           as
           for
           a
           reproofe
           to
           any
           other
           that
           way
           offending
           ,
           let
           mee
           set
           it
           downe
           for
           a
           positiue
           trueth
           ,
           that
           euen
           heerein
           also
           our
           manners
           and
           dutie
           should
           contemplate
           and
           imitate
           nature
           ,
           as
           with
           a
           modest
           reuerence
           to
           forbeare
           to
           intromit
           our
           animaduerting
           curiositie
           into
           the
           bosome
           of
           sacred
           and
           vnsearchable
           Maiestie
           :
           
           which
           who
           so
           doth
           with
           an
           humbled
           spirit
           well
           vnderstand
           what
           it
           is
           in
           his
           verie
           altitude
           and
           latitude
           ,
           
           shall
           certainly
           find
           it
           to
           be
           as
           great
           an
           
             Arcanum
          
           in
           policie
           ,
           as
           the
           soule
           can
           bee
           in
           nature
           :
           So
           (
           with
           all
           beseeming
           reseruation
           of
           my
           dutious
           submission
           to
           superiour
           powers
           )
           I
           doe
           to
           the
           residue
           of
           Readers
           offer
           a
           petition
           of
           indifferencie
           ,
           That
           if
           they
           shall
           light
           of
           any
           thing
           defectiue
           or
           wanting
           waight
           ,
           I
           may
           bee
           bold
           to
           borrow
           some
           few
           graynes
           of
           their
           good
           fauour
           ,
           wherwith
           perhaps
           the
           scales
           may
           be
           held
           vpright
           .
           If
           they
           meet
           with
           any
           matter
           seeming
           an
           Vlcer
           ,
           tender
           of
           touch
           ,
           and
           subiect
           to
           construction
           ;
           I
           may
           onely
           chalenge
           them
           to
           be
           charitable
           ,
           than
           which
           (
           I
           hope
           )
           there
           will
           need
           no
           other
           healing
           .
           Finally
           ,
           if
           to
           the
           daintie
           eare
           of
           this
           all-scanning
           age
           ,
           my
           simple
           and
           vnpolished
           worke
           shall
           giue
           no
           satisfaction
           ,
           yet
           the
           scope
           of
           my
           honest
           intentions
           ,
           and
           the
           loyaltie
           of
           my
           well
           meaning
           ,
           may
           at
           the
           least
           acquite
           me
           of
           blame
           ,
           if
           not
           merit
           acceptation
           .
        
         
           FINIS
           .
        
      
    
     
       
         
           Errata
           .
        
         
           In
           the
           first
           page
           of
           the
           Briefe
           ,
           line
           
             penult
             .
          
           leaue
           out
           (
           of
           resolution
           .
           )
           In
           the
           next
           page
           ,
           line
           16.
           for
           ,
           loueth
           all
           ,
           read
           ,
           loued
           of
           all
           .
           Folio
           22.
           line
           15.
           for
           excellentest
           ,
           read
           excellent
           fift
           .
           F.
           28.
           l.
           15.
           for
           heat
           ,
           t.
           head
           .
           F.
           33.
           l.
           4.
           for
           If
           ,
           r.
           of
           .
           F.
           61.
           l.
           2.
           for
           mind
           ,
           r.
           mine
           .
           F.
           69.
           l.
           7.
           for
           conueiance
           ,
           r.
           conniuance
           .
           F.
           76.
           l.
           1.
           for
           proponed
           ,
           r.
           propounded
           .
           F.
           87.
           l.
           5.
           for
           affect
           ,
           read
           effect
           .
        
         
      
       
         Notes, typically marginal, from the original text
         
           Notes for div A01075-e50
           
             The
             aptest
             resemblances
             of
             a
             Commonweale
             .
          
           
             The
             greater
             and
             lesser
             world
             .
          
           
             Trismegistus
             his
             great
             Giant
             .
          
           
             Gods
             imitating
             of
             himselfe
             ,
             a
             direction
             for
             our
             imitating
             of
             him
             
          
           
             Man
             the
             fittest
             patterne
             to
             imitate
             in
             the
             forming
             of
             a
             ciuill
             state
             .
          
           
             Agrippa
             his
             tale
             of
             the
             parts
             of
             the
             body
             .
             Liuius
             lib.
             
               2.
               
            
          
           
             The
             like
             comparisons
             vsed
             in
             the
             scriptures
             .
             
               1.
               
            
             Cor.
             
               12.
               
            
          
           
             In
             praise
             of
             such
             comparisons
             .
          
           
             A
             Caution
             against
             crossing
             with
             dissimilitudes
             .
          
           
             A
             limitation
             not
             to
             striue
             too
             far
             .
          
           
             Of
             enforcing
             a
             similitude
             beyond
             his
             agreeablenesse
             .
          
        
         
           Notes for div A01075-e3530
           
             
               Homo
               monsura
               rerum
               omnium
               .
            
          
           
             Soueraigntie
             the
             soule
             ,
             Alleagiance
             the
             body
             .
          
           
             In
             euery
             ciuill
             state
             there
             must
             be
             the
             ruling
             ,
             and
             the
             ruled
             .
          
           
             Impugners
             of
             magistracie
             .
          
           
             Magistracie
             worketh
             the
             good
             of
             the
             people
             .
          
           
             Mutual
             offices
             between
             soueraigne
             and
             subiect
             .
          
           
             The
             end
             of
             gouernment
             ,
             to
             make
             the
             state
             happie
             .
          
           
             All
             gouernment
             by
             law
             .
          
           
             The
             Soueraigns
             loue
             to
             their
             subiects
             .
          
           
             The
             soueraigns
             care
             of
             their
             subiects
             welfare
             .
          
           
             The
             excellencie
             of
             soueraigntie
             .
          
           
             Soueraignes
             ordained
             by
             God.
             
          
           
             
               Rom.
            
             13.
             
          
           
             Against
             ambition
             .
          
           
             Soueraignes
             haue
             a
             waightie
             charge
             .
          
           
             Soueraignes
             impart
             to
             inferior
             magistrats
             a
             part
             of
             their
             power
             .
          
           
             All
             command
             in
             the
             state
             deriued
             from
             the
             soueraigne
             .
          
           
             Soueraignes
             wrōged
             by
             the
             negligence
             of
             vnder
             officers
             .
          
           
             Against
             forrain
             supremacy
             
          
           
             The
             rights
             of
             soueraigntie
             not
             to
             be
             to
             far
             extended
             ,
             nor
             too
             much
             restreyned
             .
          
           
             First
             of
             soueraigntie
             .
          
           
             The
             powers
             of
             the
             soule
             set
             forth
             .
          
           
             The
             matching
             of
             the
             powers
             of
             soueraignty
             to
             the
             powers
             of
             the
             soule
             .
          
           
             Soueraigntie
             in
             his
             vegetable
             power
             .
          
           
             In
             the
             sensitiue
             and
             intellectuall
             .
          
           
             Councellours
             .
          
           
             Fauorites
             .
          
           
             The
             Soueraignes
             will
             ,
             and
             whether
             it
             alone
             may
             stand
             for
             law
             .
          
           
             Plato
             
          
           
             Soueraignes
             often
             misinformed
             .
          
           
             Customes
             and
             inclinations
             of
             the
             people
             oft
             preuaile
             with
             the
             soueraign
             .
          
           
             Resolution
             in
             the
             soueraign
             .
          
           
             Obedience
             in
             the
             people
             .
          
           
             Rebels
             .
          
           
             Opinion
             .
          
           
             Sutors
             in
             Court
             like
             Appetites
             .
          
           
             Malecontents
             .
          
           
             Pretenses
             in
             treason
             .
          
           
             Records
             and
             their
             imbeziling
             or
             falsifying
             .
          
           
             Prerogatiue
             royall
             .
          
           
             Soueraignes
             not
             to
             be
             euill
             spoken
             of
             .
          
           
             
               Cicero
               .
            
          
           
             The
             Soueraigne
             a
             God.
             
          
           
             The
             large
             extent
             of
             soueraigntie
             ,
             by
             cōparison
             with
             God
             and
             the
             soule
             .
          
           
             Of
             the
             Soueraignes
             shewing
             himself
             to
             the
             people
             .
          
           
             
               Philip
               Comm.
               
            
          
           
             
               Plato
               .
            
          
           
             Mans
             head
             his
             root
             .
          
           
             The
             excellencie
             of
             the
             head
             or
             Soueraigne
             .
          
           
             The
             head
             loued
             of
             the
             bodie
             .
          
           
             Soueraignes
             haue
             a
             sympathie
             with
             subiects
             .
          
           
             How
             to
             think
             of
             soueraignes
             faults
             .
          
           
             Subiects
             haue
             a
             cause
             to
             beare
             with
             Soueraignes
             faults
             .
          
           
             No
             opposition
             to
             the
             Soueraigne
             ,
             much
             lesse
             no
             deposing
             of
             them
             .
          
           
             Kind
             subiects
             take
             vpon
             themselues
             the
             blame
             imputed
             to
             the
             Soueraigne
             .
          
           
             
               In
               Pseud.
               
            
          
           
             The
             soueraign
             likened
             to
             the
             heart
             .
          
           
             The
             cōmaund
             and
             force
             of
             soueraigntie
             .
          
           
             Of
             the
             Soueraigne
             all
             hold
             what
             they
             haue
             .
          
           
             Bountie
             in
             a
             Soueraigne
             .
          
           
             Soueraignes
             loue
             of
             vertue
             .
          
           
             Soueraigns
             to
             looke
             well
             to
             them
             that
             be
             neer
             about
             thē
             
          
           
             How
             factions
             grow
             ▪
             
          
           
             The
             Soueraignes
             sports
             not
             to
             be
             grudged
             at
             .
          
           
             Two
             wayes
             to
             wrong
             the
             Soueraigne
             .
          
           
             Maiestie
             in
             a
             Soueraigne
             .
          
           
             A
             Soueraigne
             how
             to
             bee
             respected
             .
          
           
             Diuersities
             of
             respects
             in
             the
             Soueraign
             touching
             his
             person
             and
             his
             soueraigntie
             .
          
           
             Man
             the
             great
             miracle
             of
             nature
             .
          
           
             Nor
             head
             nor
             heart
             haue
             any
             power
             to
             doe
             wrong
             .
          
           
             Certaine
             essentiall
             orders
             in
             the
             state
             .
          
           
             The
             gifts
             of
             statesmen
             to
             be
             wel
             disposed
             of
             .
          
           
             Chiefe
             officers
             or
             nobles
             to
             be
             well
             safgarded
             .
          
           
             The
             fower
             Elements
             of
             the
             bodie
             politique
             .
          
           
             The
             well
             mixing
             of
             the
             elements
             .
          
           
             The
             predominance
             of
             the
             elements
             actiue
             or
             passiue
             ,
             maketh
             the
             complexion
             of
             the
             bodie
             politique
             .
          
           
             The
             elements
             to
             be
             held
             in
             concord
             .
          
           
             Discords
             in
             the
             parts
             of
             one
             and
             the
             same
             elemēts
             .
          
           
             Sundry
             formes
             of
             bodies
             politique
             .
          
           
             In
             a
             distemper
             all
             turneth
             to
             hurt
             ,
             euen
             that
             which
             otherwise
             were
             good
             enough
             .
          
           
             The
             degrees
             of
             growth
             in
             the
             bodie
             politike
             .
          
           
             Philosophers
             .
          
           
             The
             causes
             o
             change
             in
             the
             bodie
             politique
             .
          
           
             Astronomers
             .
          
           
             God
             in
             alterations
             worketh
             the
             causes
             ,
             and
             oft
             without
             causes
             .
          
           
             Difference
             of
             parts
             in
             the
             Common-wealth
             vegetable
             .
          
           
             Sensitiue
             .
          
           
             Rationall
             .
          
           
             Dieting
             of
             the
             bodie
             .
          
           
             Too
             precise
             or
             too
             careles
             of
             health
             .
          
           
             Exercise
             of
             the
             bodie
             .
          
           
             Tendance
             of
             the
             body
             politike
             according
             to
             different
             respects
             .
          
           
             Equalitie
             to
             be
             obserued
             .
          
           
             Against
             paritie
             to
             proue
             differences
             of
             dignitie
             &
             riches
             .
          
           
             Not
             to
             reward
             worse
             than
             not
             to
             punish
             .
          
           
             Difference
             of
             dignities
             and
             degrees
             .
          
           
             Dignities
             ill
             bestowed
             .
          
           
             Why
             the
             body
             politique
             is
             called
             a
             Common
             wealth
             .
          
           
             Mutualitie
             of
             helpe
             in
             the
             members
             .
          
           
             More
             respect
             of
             the
             chiefe
             members
             .
          
           
             The
             enemies
             bend
             most
             against
             the
             best
             .
          
           
             Each
             part
             to
             be
             appointed
             to
             his
             owne
             workes
             .
          
           
             Parts
             disordered
             ,
             maketh
             the
             bodie
             to
             seeme
             monstrous
             .
          
           
             Against
             conspiracie
             of
             the
             parts
             in
             the
             state
             ciuill
             .
          
           
             Of
             the
             late
             intended
             Treason
             .
          
           
             Against
             idle
             ,
             vagrant
             ,
             or
             vnptofitable
             people
             .
          
           
             Against
             ingrossing
             of
             offices
             .
          
           
             No
             need
             to
             put
             many
             offices
             vpon
             one
             man.
             
          
           
             A
             concordāce
             of
             the
             parts
             of
             the
             body
             politike
             in
             their
             cōmon
             works
             .
          
           
             In
             the
             worke
             of
             ruling
             ,
             but
             one
             head
             .
          
           
             Britania
             one
             body
             needing
             but
             one
             head
             .
          
           
             Proofes
             for
             Vnion
             .
          
           
             Imperfections
             in
             the
             body
             politike
             ,
             yet
             a
             bodie
             .
          
           
             Shifts
             to
             supplie
             defects
             .
          
           
             Mercenarie
             souldiers
             and
             straungers
             .
          
           
             The
             vse
             of
             leagues
             betwixt
             differēt
             Countries
             .
          
           
             Perfection
             in
             the
             State.
             
          
           
             Signes
             of
             being
             in
             good
             estate
             .
          
           
             The
             best
             plight
             most
             to
             be
             mistursted
             .
          
           
             Signes
             infer
             no
             certeintie
             .
          
           
             Health
             ,
             how
             necessarie
             in
             both
             bodies
             .
          
           
             Griefe
             in
             any
             one
             part
             ,
             putteth
             the
             whole
             out
             of
             health
             .
          
           
             
               Aristotle
               Ethic.
               lib.
            
             3.
             
          
           
             Discontentednesse
             .
          
           
             Originall
             orders
             ,
             the
             best
             preseruatiues
             of
             health
             in
             the
             State.
             
          
           
             Alterations
             ,
             how
             daungerous
             .
          
           
             Nature
             best
             brooketh
             things
             accustomed
             .
          
           
             Alterations
             must
             not
             be
             suddē
             or
             wholy
             ,
             but
             by
             degrees
             and
             by
             parts
             .
          
           
             Cases
             of
             alteration
             .
          
           
             Better
             keep
             health
             ,
             than
             recouer
             it
             .
          
           
             To
             prouide
             in
             prosperitie
             ,
             for
             aduersitie
             .
          
           
             Time
             preuention
             .
          
           
             Of
             small
             beginnings
             ,
             great
             mischiefes
             .
          
           
             Against
             Tolleration
             .
          
           
             Cases
             admitting
             some
             sufferance
             of
             euill
             .
          
           
             We
             may
             hurt
             to
             heale
             .
          
           
             The
             diseases
             of
             the
             State.
             
          
           
             How
             they
             doe
             arise
             .
          
           
             Differences
             in
             faults
             .
          
           
             Against
             equalitie
             of
             sinne
             .
             Punishment
             must
             bee
             proportionable
             to
             the
             offence
             .
          
           
             Outward
             euils
             not
             so
             dangerous
             as
             inward
             
          
           
             Laws
             the
             phisicke
             of
             the
             state
             ,
             &
             dependeth
             of
             the
             soueraigne
             authoritie
             .
          
           
             The
             meanest
             officers
             do
             minister
             phisicke
             to
             the
             state
             .
          
           
             The
             cause
             why
             magistracy
             is
             oft
             repugned
             at
             .
          
           
             Necessitie
             of
             magistracie
             .
          
           
             Magistrats
             not
             to
             be
             discouraged
             ,
             or
             giue
             ouer
             their
             cure
             .
          
           
             The
             likenes
             of
             the
             worke
             of
             magistrats
             and
             of
             Phisicions
             .
          
           
             Sundrie
             sorts
             of
             medicines
             in
             the
             state
             ciuill
             .
          
           
             In
             altering
             of
             punishment
             ,
             what
             may
             be
             left
             to
             the
             Magistrat
             .
          
           
             Points
             to
             be
             obserued
             of
             the
             states
             Phisition
             ,
             and
             first
             of
             the
             manner
             of
             the
             disease
             .
          
           
             Curing
             by
             contrarie
             .
          
           
             The
             cause
             must
             be
             first
             knowne
             .
          
           
             The
             complexion
             to
             be
             knowne
             .
          
           
             Seasons
             to
             be
             obserued
             .
          
           
             To
             minister
             the
             medicines
             in
             pleasing
             manner
             .
          
           
             To
             know
             perfectly
             the
             bodie
             and
             all
             the
             parts
             .
          
           
             To
             haue
             greatest
             care
             of
             the
             best
             parts
             .
          
           
             Great
             mens
             faults
             most
             perilous
             ,
             and
             most
             to
             be
             respected
             .
          
           
             1
             1
             Diseases
             in
             the
             nobler
             parts
             most
             to
             be
             looked
             to
             .
          
           
             2
             2
             Where
             the
             cause
             is
             inward
             .
          
           
             3
             3
             Where
             the
             cause
             is
             vnknowne
             .
          
           
             4
             4
             Where
             the
             disease
             feedeth
             it selfe
             from
             other
             parts
             adioyning
             .
          
           
             5
             5
             Diseases
             inueterate
             .
          
           
             6
             6
             Relaps
             into
             any
             disease
             .
          
           
             7
             7
             To
             applie
             cure
             in
             time
             .
          
           
             8
             8
             Infectious
             diseases
             .
          
           
             9
             9
             Diseases
             depriuing
             sence
             .
          
           
             10
             10
             Diseases
             comming
             suddenlie
             .
          
           
             11
             11
             Diseases
             wherunto
             we
             be
             accustomed
             .
          
           
             12
             12
             Diseases
             of
             the
             whole
             bodie
             .
          
           
             13
             13
             Diseases
             desperate
             .
          
           
             14
             14
             Diseases
             vncurable
             .
          
           
             15
             15
             Diseases
             of
             great
             men
             require
             more
             help
             and
             aduise
             .
          
           
             16
             16
             Diseases
             made
             worse
             by
             feeding
             on
             that
             they
             desire
             .
          
           
             17
             17
             Diseases
             discouered
             in
             their
             signes
             .
          
           
             18
             18
             Destruction
             of
             members
             in
             any
             disease
             ,
             when
             to
             be
             vsed
             .
          
           
             19
             19
             Diseases
             oft
             dissolued
             by
             nature
             .
          
           
             20
             20
             Diseases
             to
             be
             forced
             to
             break
             outwardly
             .
          
           
             21
             21
             Diseases
             growing
             to
             a
             worse
             nature
             than
             they
             were
             .
          
           
             22
             22
             The
             state
             or
             standing
             point
             of
             a
             disease
             .
          
           
             23
             23
             Euerie
             disease
             must
             haue
             his
             proper
             cure
             .
          
           
             Against
             vnskilfull
             Pragmatickes
             
          
           
             The
             learned
             fitter
             for
             gouernmēt
             than
             the
             vnlearned
             .
          
           
             Vnperfect
             curing
             .
          
           
             Discretion
             in
             state
             busines
             .
          
           
             Seueritie
             .
          
           
             Lenitie
             .
          
           
             Contrarie
             waies
             to
             cure
             the
             same
             disease
             .
          
           
             Diuersities
             in
             curing
             ,
             vppon
             diuers
             respects
             
          
           
             Repealing
             of
             some
             ,
             and
             making
             of
             new
             lawes
             .
          
           
             Magistrats
             may
             make
             vse
             of
             the
             wicked
             .
          
           
             Good
             magistrats
             praised
             .
          
           
             The
             Phisicions
             louing
             of
             the
             patient
             .
          
           
             Couetousnesse
             in
             getting
             of
             fees
             .
          
           
             Desire
             of
             gaine
             in
             some
             lawiers
             
          
           
             To
             be
             neuer
             out
             of
             law
             ,
             a
             great
             miserie
             .
          
           
             Magistrats
             may
             haue
             priuat
             faults
             ,
             yet
             good
             magistrats
             .
          
           
             Magistrats
             to
             be
             chosen
             for
             their
             skill
             in
             gouernment
             .
          
           
             Magistrats
             rather
             to
             be
             natiue
             than
             forraine
             .
          
           
             Magistrats
             must
             not
             desist
             frō
             their
             duties
             for
             abuses
             offred
             vnto
             them
             
          
           
             Magistrats
             must
             giue
             good
             example
             .
          
           
             Magistrats
             not
             to
             haue
             too
             many
             offices
             or
             imploiments
             .
          
           
             Compared
             to
             a
             Surgion
             in
             three
             properties
             .
          
           
             Magistrats
             do
             sometimes
             offend
             the
             law
             themselues
             .
          
           
             Magistrats
             offending
             ,
             to
             be
             punished
             by
             other
             Magistrats
             .
          
           
             Magistrats
             faults
             no
             pretence
             to
             disobey
             them
             .
          
           
             Magistrats
             deseruings
             soone
             forgotten
             .
          
           
             Magistrats
             care
             and
             wisdome
             is
             iudged
             of
             by
             the
             euents
             .
          
           
             Magistrats
             discouragement
             for
             the
             want
             of
             execution
             of
             lawes
             by
             them
             made
             .
          
           
             Reasons
             resolue
             vaine
             ,
             if
             there
             be
             no
             will
             to
             performe
             ▪
             
          
           
             Lawes
             often
             by
             cauils
             illuded
             .
          
           
             Obedience
             the
             chiefe
             vertue
             of
             Subiects
             .
          
           
             The
             Subiects
             chiefe
             care
             to
             content
             the
             Soueraigne
             .
          
           
             Politicall
             gouernors
             are
             to
             be
             made
             famous
             by
             the
             prayses
             of
             the
             learned
             .
          
           
             The
             benefit
             which
             a
             Soueraigne
             shall
             haue
             by
             the
             studying
             of
             politicall
             books
             .
          
           
             
               Prouerb
               .
            
             24.
             
          
           
             The
             dedication
             of
             Politicall
             works
             due
             to
             the
             gouernors
             of
             the
             State.
             
          
           
             Curiositie
             of
             looking
             Into
             state
             businesse
             .
          
           
             
               In
               Trinumo
               .
            
          
           
             
               Inquisitiuenes
               .
            
          
           
             To
             prie
             into
             the
             princes
             dealings
             or
             dispositions
             ,
             how
             dangerous
             it
             is
             .
          
           
             A
             caueat
             from
             natures
             work
             .
          
           
             In
             soueraignty
             a
             great
             mistery