altogether the first of Zenebia who wold have no carnall copulation with her husband after she found her self once quick but wold continue in an admired course of continence all the time of her pregnancy Moreover the Saint-like Empresse Bettrice who in the verdant spring of her age after Henry her husbands death lived ever after like a Turtle as you speak of by immuring her self in a Monastic Cell and burying her body alive as it were when he was gone But what an extraordinary rare example was that of Queen Artemisia who living chast ever after her husband Mausolus his death got his ashes all put in urnes wherof she wold take down a dramm every morning fasting and next her heart saying That her body was the fittest place to be a Sepulcher to her most dear husband notwithstanding that she had erected another outward Tomb for him that continues to this day one of the Wonders of the world Furthermore you know I believe better then I Sir that at this day in many parts of the Orientall world such is the rare love of wifes to their dead husbands that they throw themselfs alive into the Funerall Pile to accompany his body to the other life though in the flower of their years Pererius It is confessed that many of you have noble spirits that marvellous rare affections lodge in you and so you may be deservedly call'd the second part of Mankind in regard you are so necessary for the propagation thereof and to peeple the world Hinde Yet you call us the weaker vessells but as weak as we are we are they in whom the whole masse of both sexes is moulded neverthelesse some use us as Spice-bags which when the spices are taken out are thrown away into som mouldy corner And though we have the mould within us wherin you are all cast though we co-operat and contribut our purest blood towards your generation though we bring you forth into the world with such dolorous pangs and throwes though you are nourished afterwards and nurs'd with our very bloods yet our os-spring must bear onely your sirnames as if we had no share at all in him his memory living onely in you though Tumontia in this point be more noble than other Countries by giving the sirname of the Maternall line oftentimes to som of the male children Notwithstanding all these indispensible necessities the world hath of women yet ther is no other species of cretures wherin the female is held to be so much inferiour to the male as we are amongst you who use to sleight misprize and tyrannize over us so much For ther is one huge race of men I mean the Volganian who use to beat their wife 's once a week as duly as they go to bed to them Pererius The reson of this is because ther are so many of you either shrews or light and loose in the hilts and 't is a sad case when Viri fama jacet inter uxoris fempora Touching the first ther 's an old proverb that Every one knowes how to tame a shrew but he who hath her and though ther might be multitude of examples produced yet I will instance but in a few the first two shall be Zappora and Xantippe the one married to Moyses a holy man the other to Socrates a great Philosopher how cross-grain'd the one was the Sacred Oracles wil tell and for the other her husband comming one day in when she was in an ill humour she scolded him out of doors and at his going out she whipp'd up into an upper room and poured down a potfull of piss upon his sconce which made the poor patient husband shake his head and break forth into this speech I thought that after so much thunder we should have rain Another damnable scold having revil'd and curs'd her husband a great while all which time she had the Devill often in her mouth to whom she bann'd him at last he said Hold thy toung wife and threaten me no more with the Devil for I know he will do me no hurt because I have married his Kinswoman This made the Epigrammatist to sing prettily Conjugis ingentes animos linguamque domare Herculis est decimus-tertius iste labor Hence grew that cautious proverb Honest men do marry but Wise men not Hinde I we use to be the common subject of your drolleries and you would want matter for your wits to work upon were it not for us But touching those humours you pointed at before which are incident to us somtimes they proceed from the ill usage and weaknes of the husbands who know not how to manage a wife which is one of the prime points of Masculine prudence We say proverbially that a good Iack makes a good Gill a discreet husband makes a good wife though being the weaker vessell and having no other weapon than her toung she break out somtimes into humors What a sad thing is it for a woman to have a thing called a husband weaker than her self how fullsom wold such a fool be such silly coxcombs as are jealous upon every sleight occasion and restrain them so barbarously as was spoken before deserve to wear such branch'd horns such spilters and trochings on their heads as that goodly Stagg bears which you see browsing among those trees accompanied with those pretty Fawns Prickets Sorrells Hemuses and Girls wherof som are mine which I brought into the world without any pain or help of Midwife and quickly lost all care of them afterwards Pererius Well let 's give over these impertinent altercations pro con and go to the main busines I told you that Queen Morphandra is willing at my intercession to restore you unto your former nature and I have a lusty Galeon in port to convey you to Marcopolis that renowned and rare City Hinde 'T is tru Marcopolis is a most famous City having continued a pure Virgin from her infancy these twelve centuries of years and upwards and 't is said she shall continue so still according to the Prophecy Untill her husband forsake her viz. the Sea with whom her marriage is renewed every year But 't was observ'd when I liv'd there that her Husband began to forsake her that the Adrian Sea did retire and grow shallower about her which som interpret to be an ill Omen and portends the losse of her Maidenhead But Sir touching my former nature truly I wold desire nothing of it again but the faculty of speech that I might talk somtimes In all other things I prefer by many degrees this species wherin I am now invested by Queen Morphandra which is far more chaste and temperat far more healthfull and longer-liv'd Touching the first Ther 's no creture whose season of carnall copulation is shorter for the Rutting-time lasts but from the midst of September to the end of October nor is there any other creture whose enjoyment of plesure is shorter in the act moreover when we are full we never after keep
carrieth such a Majesty that makes us all exactly obedient to his commands Nor though he bear no arms himself was ther ever heard of any Rebellion amongst us against our lawfull Prince as is so frequent amongst Mankind It being a principle from the very instinct of nature amongst us that it is both detestable and damnable for Subjects to rise up against their supream Governour and go about to right themselfs by Arms I say that in this state we have a very regular Government we have a King we have privy Counsellors we have Commanders in the War and gregarian Soldiers We keep close in Winter and have then our Centinells We go not abroad till Beans do blossom and then if the weather permit ther 's never a day passeth in idlenesse We first build our Cells and Combs then make Hony and then engender We make our Wax and Hony of the freshest and most fragrant flowers and abhor withered or stinking vegetalls When the flowers are spent in one place we have our harbingers abroad to find out another being surprised by night in our expeditions we sleep in a supine posture with our bellies upward to preserve our wings from the falling dew Betimes in the morning we are awakned by our Drummer who punctually performs his office that way Then if the day be mild we fally forth in a great body and we have an instinct to foresee winds tempests and rain which makes us keep often within When we go abroad to work every one hath his task and the younger are put to the hardest while the elder labour within dores We all feed together and if we be surprised abroad with a sudden wind we take up a stone 'twixt our feet to give weight to our bodies that they may not be blown away Ther is among us a Censor of manners and som Officers that watch those which are slothfull who are afterwards punish'd with death and for the Drones which are a spurious kind of brood we quite banish them Ther 's not the least foulnes seen in our Alvearies or Hives for we abhor all immundicities and sordidnes When 't is towards night our hummings lessen by degrees till an Officer fly about and command silence and sleep which is instantly done We first build houses for our Workmen and Plebeans and then palaces for the Nobles and the King We punish sloth without mercy we faithfully obey our King being always about him like a guard and He in the midst When the peeple are at work He goes about and cherisheth them He onely being exempt from labour He hath always his Officers ready to punish Delinquents When He goes forth the whole Swarm attends him if He chance to be weary we bear him upon our sholders Whersoever He rests there the generall Randevous is Wasps Hornets and Swallows are enemies to us We bury our dead with great solemnity At the Kings death ther is a generall mourning and fasting with a cessation from labour and we use to go about his body with a sad murmur for many daies When we are sick we have attendants appointed us and the symptoms when we be sick are infallible according to the honest plain Poet If Bees be sick for all that live must die That may be known by signes most certainly Their bodies are discoloured and their face Looks wan which shews that death comes on apace They carry forth their dead and do lament Hanging o' th' dore or in their Hives are pent Hunger and cold consumes them you shall find They buzz as doth t'th ' woods the Southern wind Or as the Sea when as the waves return Or fire clos'd up in vaults with noise doth burn Nor are we profitable onely in our life 's unto Mankind by that pretious Hony we confect for their use which though for the rare vertues and sweetnes therof som held to be the gelly of the Starrs others the sweat of the Hevens others the quintessence of the Air though really it be but our Chylus at the third digestion I say that we are not onely in our lifes beneficiall to mankind who receives the fruits of our labours but after death also Our bodies pounded and drunck with wine or any other diareticall thing cures the Dropsie Stone and Strangury The hony scrapt off our dead bodies is extraordinary good against divers diseases Moreover we have a kind of transmigration among us one into the other Out of our brains marrow and chine-bones Kings and Nobles are bred out of the rest of our bodies ordinary Bees Pererius Gentle Bee you have spoken as much as can be for the advantage of your condition yet nevertheles you are but fleshles poor sensitive Insects onely of a short and a kind of ephemeran subsistence You want that spark of Immortality the noble Rational Soul wherby the human Creture goes as far beyond you as an Angel goes beyond him Bee I remember when I was a Nun I heard many characters given of the Rational Soul as were somwhat transcendent if not presumptuous The Theolog or Divine call'd her The Image of God Almighty The Philosopher call'd her The Queen of Forms And you call her now A Spark of Immortality Yet you know not how nor where this Spark enters into you nor where it resides in any particular place above other Souls nor are you agreed whether she enters into you by divine infusion or by traduction from the parentall seeds Pererius I shall endeavour to satisfie you touching these particulars It must be consider'd that Man may be call'd the great Amphybium of nature First he is a confus'd lump of dead matter lying as it were upon the lees in the womb where the vegetable Soul enters first making it capable of extension and growth Then the Sensitive Soul follows who by the plasticall vertu falls a forming the members or the organs Then comes the noblest of all the three the Rationall Soul who swayes o're the other two and is Divinae particula aurae she is breath'd from the Creator himself and which no other creture in Heven or earth can say she is capable of a spirituall Regeneration afterwards as the Body is of a Resurrection At last when she hath shaken off the slough of flesh she becomes a Spirit either good or bad she becomes a Saint or a Devill and so receives eternall beatitude or torments By these degrees observable it is that Man hath potentially in himself all created natures first or last both in Heven Earth and Hell All which may be compris'd in this Poem which though short containeth the whole story of Mankind from first to last Man is that great Amphybium in whom lye Three distinct Souls by way of trigony He runs through all creations by degrees First He is onely Matter on the lees Whence he proceeds to be a Vegetal Next Sensitive and so Organical Then by divine infusion a third Soul The Rational doth the two first controul But when this Soul comes in and
is ripe and ready to be put in action then he is nimble enough and follows the motion of Mercury Add hereunto that he is not onely slow but wonderfull secret in his counsells insomuch that his designs may be called Mysteries while they are sur le tapis while they are in the agitation of counsell which makes them afterwards turn from Mysteries to Exploits Morphandra But ther was another reson that induced me to transmute that Tumontian Physician to a Mule which was that he oftentimes useth to retard the cure and sanation of his Patients for drawing more fees from them and letting them blood in the purse as also for other Empyricall and Mountibankish Quacking tricks he plaid comming hither Physitian to a Carack Therfore you may please to make your approaches to him accordingly Pererius Poor stupid Animal how camest thou to be thus so pitifully disguis'd and transform'd from thy first species and so honourable a profession for among all other vocations of life they say the Physitian is to be honoured Art thou desirous to be re-invested and setled in thy first Nature and Calling in case Queen Morphandra condescend therunto for I have power from her to feel how thy pulse beats that way Mule Truly no for I have an utter disaffection both to my first Species to my Country and Calling in regard I find far more contentment in this constitution of body and course of life Touching the first I am as I am now free from those vexations of spirit and perturbances of mind wherunto Mankind is so miserably obnoxious or rather inslav'd I feed here upon pure simples such as the gentle earth produceth and puts out of her prolificall womb my stomack is never overcharg'd with surfeits nor my brain intoxicated with strong drink and the juyce of the grape in every berry whereof ther lurks a kind of Devill for according to the modern proverb From the berry of the Grape and grain of the Barly Comes many a sore fray and hurli-burly Moreover when I was a Man my head was distracted ever and anon with strange whimseys and extravagant opinions which now I am free from Pererius 'T is tru that human brain is like a garden wherin sundry sorts of herbs and flowers do grow but touching your Country-men they are least subject of any peeple to such distractions and diversity of opinions in regard of their exact obedience to their Spirituall and Civill Governours But what is the cause that you are so out of conceit with your Country where you received your first essence and existence Mule First because of the immoderat heat therof the Sun being too lavish of his beams which causeth such a sterility and barrennes that in som places men live like beasts feeding most of all upon grasse and sallets onely they have haply a bottle of Oyl and another of Vinegar in their houses to pour amongst them they seldom see a loaf of bread or bit of meat but when noon or night comes they go abroad and gather the said grasse for their dinners and suppers and if they chance to have a few toasted Chesnuts 't is a great banquet Which barrennes proceedeth not so much from the heat of the Clime as from the paucity and lazines of the Inhabitants who are so naturally given to ease and sloth from cultivating the earth and doing other parts of industry Pererius It must be granted that Tumontia in point of fecundity is inferiour to som Regions as also for nomber of men for if she had enough of both she wold make a Hen of the Cock that is she wold be too hard for her next neighbour Artonia But touching the first it carrieth som convenience with it for it keeps the peeple more temperat and able to endure hardship Then the Country is not so subject to be over-run by forren force for in point of Invasion an Army wold be hunger-starv'd there before they could march far Yet I have observed that as much as ther is of any commodity in Tumontia it is better then what grows in other Countries their Wines their Flesh their Fruits their Horses their Silks their Wool c. is better there than in other places and let Artonia her neighbour never vaunt so much of her plenty yet the Tumontian carrieth a better cloak on his back he wears better shoos on his feet he hath a better sword by his side he drinks better wine eats better fruit and hath a better horse under him c. than the Artonian And if Riches consists in Tresures in plenty of Gold and Silver Tumontia goes far beyond all other Countries in that particular Mule 'T is tru that the Tumontian King is Master of the Mines both of Gold and Silver yet if you go to the common peeple one may say Who goes worse shodd than the Shoo-maker's wife for by mal administration ther is little of that gold and silver that 's current among the Inhabitants either among Merchant Yeoman or Artist but all is a base Copper-coin which the King enhanceth or decries at plesure That tresure you speak of is sent abroad to feed and foment wars in other countries from which the Timontian King is never free his sword being alwaies out of the scabbard to secure or enlarge his Territories which makes the Artonian say that the Tumontian Ambition hath no Horrizon it is interminable and boundlesse Add hereunto that the Tresure you mention is an exoticall commodity 't is had from far from another part of the world where the Tumonitan is said to be a Buggerer of his common Mother the Earth more than any for he fetches it out from her bowells somtimes 50 fathom deep where the poor slave that digs it sees neither Sun Moon nor Stars once in a twelmonth being chain'd to a kind of infernall darknesse under ground and is as it were buried alive before Nature hath out-run her due cours in him And it is a sad story to relate how many millions of human cretures were made away in the discovery and conquest of that huge Continent what a world of blood was spilt and innocent souls swept away Insomuch that if the Tresure which was got ever since and the Blood which was shed were put in counter-scales the latter as one said wold outpoise the first Pererius 'T is tru that the reduction of that vast piece of Earth was somwhat Tragicall but it was impossible to perform the work otherwise and secure the Conquerors in regard of that huge masse of Peeple and swarms of Men which were found there who could not by fair means be brought to civility Now it is a dubious question to determin whether those Savages gain'd more by the Tumontian or the Tumontian by them 'T is tru that he got by them Gold Silver and Gemms which 't is confessed are the most pretious productions of Nature But what did they receive from the Tumontian by way of exchange They recived Religion and vertu civility and
so cowed and cowardiz'd that not one in twenty hath the courage of a man in him or is found fit to shoulder a Musket to trail a Pike or perform any other military or manly service Pererius 'T is an apparent truth that the Artonian Gentry are so numerous and use to rack the Peasantry so that it makes them very abject and heartlesse for herein the Politicall body may be faid to be like the Naturall wherein if the blood and spirits were drawn all up into the upper parts the supporting members below as the legs and thighs cannot have that proportion of naturall heat and vigor to quicken themselfs the blood being all engross'd by the parts above If the Standells be planted too thick in a Coppice ther cannot be clean Underwoods for they will turn all to dwarfish Shrubs But the common peeple of Artonia may thank their own volatil humors and nature for this which is so instable and still so covetous of change that if they were fed high and pamper'd with too much plenty they wold ever and anon rush into civill commotions and tintamarrs they wold winch and go about to shake off the reins of Government and overthrow their Rider Therfore being so fiery-mouth'd 't is fit they should be ridden with a bitt or curb nor can it be tearm'd Tyranny or any Soloecism in Government that they are us'd so Asse Sir under favour you put the saddle on the wrong horse 't is not the Commonalty but the Gentry and they who are in high blood that have such tumultuous boyling spirits within them they are those who cause feavers and convulsions in the bowells of their own Country which I confesse are frequent whence som observe that though the air of Artonia be not so hot as that of her next neighbour Tumontia yet she is more subject to distempers Calentures and Tovardillios Therefore 't is one of the prime policies of Artonia to find her Gentry some work abroad and employ them ever and anon in forraign Warrs And ther have been of late two fiery Flamines one after the other who have put this policy in practise to some purpose their sanguin humors symbolizing with the colour of their habit wherby nere upon a million of souls have perished within these few years Touching the second of these his father little dreamt when he sold hatts in Silicia that his son should mount so high as to wear the Red-corner'd Cap and give the Law to all Artonia wherby some hold it to be no small disparagement to so gallant a Nation and subtle a Clime as Artonia is known to be to have none of her own children that had brain enough to sit at the helm of her Government but to suffer a Forrener to lead all her Nobles by the nose as also to incorporat his family with the Blood-Royall of Artonia and Alpiana Pererius Well let us leave these digressions for as the proverb runs in your country We have leapt from the Cock to the Asse all this while we have gone astray from the matter let 's return to the first subject of our discours and to my main design Poor long-ear'd patient beast wilt thou shake off this thy il-favoured braying nature and the species of a brute to becom perfect Man again Asse Sir though I were acertain'd to be one of Artonia's Peers I wold not do it But Sir touching my Ears you need not take me by them in so reproachfull a manner for you know a Phrygian King did wear once an Asse his ears and he was the richest that ever was among Mortalls Besides my Ears have a prophetic vertu for when I prick them up 't is an infallible presage of foul wether Touching my braying it is the tone which Nature hath given me and all the Individualls of my kind and you must grant that Nature the handmaid of God Almighty doth not use to do any thing ill-favouredly But in lieu of our braying you have a passion and as I remember your Philosophers call it the proper passion of man that is a far more distorting and ridiculous violent posture 't is your Laughter which happens when your pleasure hath the liberty to scatter it self abroad and that the senses bear a share therin for then it causeth such an agitation that the whole physiognomy of the face is changed it begins to sparkle in the eyes and mingleth it self oft-times with forc'd tears the fore-head stretcheth it self the lips grow redd they tremble and slaver often-times the voice becomes grosser then ordinary and resounds the rest of the body is subject to this agitation an unusuall heat and vapor shedds it self through all its parts which swells and gives a new color the eye-brows decline the lidds contract themselves and all the skin about them becomes uneven and wrinkles it self all over the eyes extenuat they half shut themselfs and grow humid the nose crumples up and growes sharp the lipps retire and lengthen ther is an ill-favor'd kind of gaping and discovery of the teeth the cheeks lift up themselfs and grow more stiff they have pitts digg'd in them during the time the mouth is forc'd to open and discovers the tremblings of the suspended toung it thrusts out an obstreperous interrupted sound and oftentimes ther is a stopping of breath the neck swells and shortens it self all the veins grow greter and extended an extraordinary hue disperseth it self over all the face which grows reddish the brest is impetuously agitated and with sudden reiterated shakes that it hinders respiration the perfect use of speech is lost and it is impossible to swallow during the fit a pain rises in the flanck the whole body bends and as it were wreaths and gathers it self together the hands are set on the sides and presse them forcibly sweat gets up on the face the voice is lost in hickocks and the breath is stifled with sighs somtimes this agitation gets to so high an excesse that it produceth the same violent effect as medicaments use to do which is to put the bones so out of joynt that it causeth syncopes The head and the arms suffer the same throws with the brest and the thighs the body hurles it self with precipitation and disorder and is cast from one side to the other The hands becom feeble the leggs cannot support themselves and the body is constrained to fall and tumble nay it causeth sometimes dangerous syncopes in the heart and so brings death Weeping also the counter-passion hath many of these ill-favor'd motions what an odd kind of face doth an infant make assoon as he is born how som of ripe age will screech cry and howle in so many disordered notes and singultient accents Whereas we by our braying hold up our heads only and so breath out our passions into the open aire without any forc'd tones or such variety of distorted postures Pererius 'T is tru that Laughter produceth sundry motions and pleasing violences in the human body but
Ape I remember when I had a human shape I was much addicted to the reading of History which is a profitable knowledge for the observation of former actions may serve to regulat the future I took notice of a world of examples that the two nefandous crimes of Sacrilege and Perjury never went unpunished without some signall judgments Among divers other these two do reign and rage in Gheriona more then they ever did in any Country under the cope of Heven and must she not then expect the vialls of a just vengeance to fall down upon Her from above But that you may better understand the state of that calamitous Country that Country of confusion I will recount to you what befell me before my transmutation Perertus You will oblige me beyond measure if you impart unto me what you intend and I shall listen unto you with much patience and no lesse contentment Asse It chanc'd one night I had a strange unusuall Dream I had fallen into so sound a sleep as if the Cinq-ports my five outward senses had been trebly lockt up My Animula vagula blandula my little wandring soul made a sally out of Morpheus Horn-gate as she uses to do often and fetch vagaries apart to practise how she may live by her self after our dissolution when she is separated from the Body and becom a Spirit I had all night long a world of visions and strange objects appeerd unto me which return now fresh into my memory During the said time I thought I was transported to the remotest place and of the greatest distance that possibly could be from Heven me thought I was in the Infernall pit in the kingdom of darknesse in Hell it self among the devills and damned spirits I had neither that golden branch nor the help of a Sybilla Cumana to conduct me up and down as the Trojan Prince had but a spirit did lead me gently and softly all along untill I came to Pluto's Palace where a speciall Councell was held to take a strict examination what service the three infernall Furies Alecto Tisyphone and Megaera with other inferiour Fiends that were their assistants had done upon earth towards the advancement of the kingdom of darknesse since their last mission thither which was presently upon the appeerance of the last blazing Star 1618. Pluto vouchsafed to be present at this solemn Councell and to be President or Chair-man himself to which purpose he had a strong Legion of Cacodaemons for his gard but the busines was prepar'd and facilitated for his hearing before hand by a speciall Committee appointed of purpose for that end whence I observed that Committees were first hatch'd in Hell The three gastly Daughters of Night appeered with fiery conntenances before the Stygian King in lieu of air they evaporated huge flakes of fire which they took in and let out with the accents of their words huge bunches of Vipers hung dangling and wavring about their heads having their tayls rooted in their sculls A furious clash fell betwixt them who should be Prolocutrix but in regard that Alecto and Tisyphone had given account of their former missions the one of the League in Artonia the other of the Revolt of the Hydraulian which was about the appearance of the Comet in the tayl of Cassiopaea it came now in due turn that Megaera should have the priority of speech So the youngest of the Tartarean girls began as followeth May it please your high phlegetontic Majesty to understand that since the last happy Comet Anno 1618. which by the parallax was found to be in the Heven it self above the Elementary world we have for forty years together been more active and eager in your Majesty's service than ever we were We have stirred the humors of the foolish Inhabitants of the earth to insurrections to warr and praeliation To effect which our practise hath been to bring on the beggarliest and toughest peeple upon the nicest and softest we brought the Cuprinian upon the Aetonian and the Zoundanian the Tarragon and Cinqfoyl upon the Tumontian the Tartar upon the Chinois the Selenian upon the Marcopolist the Cosaque upon the Pole the Carboneian upon the Gherionian We have continued a bloody lingring Warr in the bowells of Artonia for thirty years together we have thrust divers Princes out of their antient Inheritances among others the Duke of Laroni and Rhinarchos we brought two gran Selenian Emperours to be strangled by their own slaves we have often puzzled Vinalia we have made the Kings of Artonia and Tumontia to bandy so fiercely one against the other as if the one had been an Infidell the other a Iew though each of them had one another's sister abed with him every night But may it please your Acherontic Majesty to be inform'd that the most advantageous and signall services we have done have bin in the lsles of Gheriona and Hebrinia for whereas we divided our selfs before and went singly among other peeple we went joyntly thither all three and brought a Regiment of fiery red-coated Cacodaemons to guard us because we might be sure to bring our great work home to your Majesty's aime The Nation fittest for our turn at first were the Carboncian who have bin so obedient to their Kings that of above a hundred they brag of scarce two parts of three died in their beds but were made away violently We did incite them first against their own Country-man and Native King and to appear in a daring high hostile manner before him upon the borders At which time it cost us a great deal of artifice so to besot the Gherioniams and to abase their courage so to entangle them with Factions having sure Confidents to that end among them that they durst not present Battle to the Carboncian at that time And this Sir was an important piece of service for had they fought then or had they bin sensible afterwards of the dishonour they received at that time their King being then amongst them in person with the flower of his Nobility and Gentry and consequently had they stuck to him afterwards to have vindicated that rebellious affront all those we have fomented since might have bin prevented We shortly after transmitted the same spirit of Insurrection into Hebrinia who being encouraged by the good successes of the Carboneian who got then what tearms he listed yet could he not sit quiet and the Hebrinian Commissioners being but harshly entertain'd by the great Councell of Gheriona who intended to send them over a Governour that should pinch them more than they were before in their consciences and for divers other provocations we caus'd the Hebrinian also to rise in blood which he did to som purpose Then came we to work upon the Gherionian whom we found as fit to receive our impression as flax is to receive fire in regard of their long Furseit of peace and plenty We broke up one great Assembly upon a suddain because the members therof were not for
company with the male for eight months Concerning the second viz. our temperatnes we never use to overcharge or cloy nature with excesse besides our food is simple those green leafs and grasse you see are our nutriment which our common mother the Earth affords us so gently we require no variety of Viands which makes that our breath is sweeter than the fairest Ladies in Marcopolis and our fewmishes with what else comes from within us is nothing so unsavoury Nor need we that monthly purgation which is so improperly called Flowers it being such rank poyson that it will crack a tru crystall glass Nay 't is observed that if a menstruous woman come near an alveary or hive of Bees they forsake their food all the while finding the aire to be infected Nor have we any gall within us and herein we are like the Dove among Birds and the Dolphin among fish onely there 's a kind of acid humor that nature hath put in our Singles the smell wherof causeth our enemies viz. the Doggs to fly from us Moreover we are not subject to abortions and that curse which the Creator inflicted upon Woman-kind that they shold bring forth their children with sorrow and pain which we are free from And such is our love to Mankind that when we have brought forth our young ones we trust them rather with them than with other beasts by putting them near high-waies or dwelling-houses for protection Touching the third which is healthfulnesse it is far beyond that of women as appears by our longaevity and extension of life which is next to that of an Elephant whose youth begins not till he be threescore year old according to the Tumontian Proverb A Hedg lasteth three years a Dogg three hedges a Horse three doggs a Man three horses a Hart three men an Elephant three harts Histories are full of admirable examples how long som of of us have liv'd let one serve for all When Archesilaus dwelt in Licosura as the Arcadian Annalls relate he took a Hinde who wore a collar wheron was engraven I was a Fawn when Agapenor was taken in Troy which by the computation that then was made was above three hundred years Nor had Aesculapius that Archiatros or god of Physic arrived to so fair an age and to such a miraculous perfection in that Art had he not been nurs'd with Hinde's milk For length of time brings experience and wisdom with it along and somtimes the gift of Prophesie as was that antient Hinde of that great Captain Sertorius whom 't was thought Diana had inspir'd with a fatidicall spirit Insomuch that Sertorius never gave Battle or attempted any great designe without advising first with that Hart Add hereunto that when after so fair an age we come to die ther 's nothing within and without our dead bodies but is usefull for Mankind how much are our very skins valued how medicinall is that kind of bone which is found in the left ventricle of a Hart's heart against the Hemerroids how excellent is our marrow against the Gowt and Consumptions how our blood fryed with oyle and applyed to the inferiour parts presently steâ—â—â—eth the loosnes of the belly and being drunk in wine is a rare antidote against poyson what exquisit vertues hath the Hart's horn with other parts of the body as the Naturalists observe Wheras ther is nothing in the most noisom carcases of Women that 's good for any thing except their hair which is either but an excrescence or excrement rather usefull onely to make fantastic foolish Periwigs and it hath bin found that this hair being buried in som kind of dung turns to Snakes Therfore under favor ther 's none of sane judgment considering the advantages I have by this present shape will advise me to change it for that of a frail Woman If I shold do so I wold be more foolish then that Stagg in the Fable who seeing a Horse with rich trappings and carrying a velvet saddle upon his back repin'd at his happines and wish'd he were such a creture The Forester taking notice of it put the velvet-saddle upon the Stagg's back the next day and having mounted him he rid him divers heats up and down the Launds till the poor Stagg began to faint and sink under his burthen and then he repented himself of that foolish and inconsiderat wish he had made 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Fifth Section Discourses 'twixt Morphandra Pererius and a Mule who in his Manhood had bin a Doctor of Physic in Tumontia whom for som Quacking tricks he had plaid and for som other resons Morphandra turn'd to a Mule In this Section there be discourses of the Art of Physic of the various complexions of Mankind and of the nomberlesse diseases that are incident unto Human Bodies c. Morphandra Pererius and a Mule Morphandra I Took notice that you courted and complemented that female creture more then ordinary but how have you prevail'd have you made her inclinable to a resumption of her former nature Is she willing to go back to that Syrenian City that great Mart of all female plesures Marcopolis where she slept in the bosom of her first causes Pererius Madame we have a proverbiall saying among us Soldiers Que la Femme la Forteresse qui commence a parlementer est demy gaignée The Female and Fortresse which begins to parly is half-gain'd But I do not find it so here for this Female wold have bin contented to have parlyed with me everlastingly if I had held her discourse insomuch that she desires nothing of a Woman again but onely the faculty of talking onely a woman's Toung touching other parts she is utterly alienated in her affection towards the whole Sex alledging the inequall value that useth to be put upon Women in relation to Man who holds himself to be of a superiour Creation Then she spoke of the domesticall kind of captivities and drudgeries that women are put unto with many such good-morrows But Madame in all humblenes I desire that you wold vouchsafe to enlarge your Princely favors towards me so far that I may mingle speech with som more solid creture Morphandra You shall presently be partaker of your desires for I spy upon the brow of that hillock a Mule nibling the grasse He was by nativity a Tumontian and by his profession a Doctor of Physic whom I transformed to that shape not that he wanted understanding as the Horse and Mule are said to do for that Nation hath generally a competent proportion of that but partly because Physitians there use to ride upon Mules to visit their Patients as also because that Nation in generall use to be tax'd for their slow pace and phlegmatic disposition with their dilatory proceedings in their designs and counsells Pererius 'T is tru that the Tumantian is tardy and slow in his counsells when he is moulding of a design and therin he may be said to have a Saturnian motion but when his design
of laughter His ghostly Father and Confessor telling him that he was now going to give account of that horrid murther he had committed before the great Judge of the world therfore that passion of laughter did not becom him Oh said he whensoever I think upon that full revenge I had of that villain my heart danceth within me for joy for I was not onely reveng'd upon his body but also upon his soul in which humor he breath'd his last Another was as bloody if not more In the antient City of Cerano ther was a Prince who left three sons behind him Conradus Caesar and Alexander Conradus was us'd to come from his palace in the Country to his Castle in Cerano where he had appointed a Governour and a Garrison of souldiers The Governor having a comly Lady to his wife the young Prince was struck in love with her and at last enjoyed her The Governour having knowledge therof did meditat upon a revenge therupon he sent to Conradus his Lord and Master that he had lately discover'd two or three wild Boars in the Forest of Cerano therfore if his Highnesse would please to com thither together with his two brothers ther wold be very Princely sport for them and he wold prepare all things ready for the Game Hereupon the young Prince and his second Brother comming thither expresly for that sport it chanced that Alexander the youngest brother was then out of the way So the Governor of the Castle having provided a plentifull supper for the two Princes and their Retinue being both gone to bed he calls his Officers together and told them Gentlemen what does he deserve who for many good services and hospitalities done unto him doth in lieu of thanks abuse ones wife and defiles his bed They all cried out He deserves death Truly Gentlemen thus hath Prince Conradus us'd me They cried out again Let him die and we will stick unto you and be faithfull So the Governor taking som of those Officers with him in the dead of night they broke suddenly into the chamber where Conradus was asleep and heaving up the bed-cloaths they first cut off his privy-members then they chop'd off his head then they quarter'd his body and strewed them up and down the chamber So all was hush'd that night Prince Caesar comming to wait on his Brother the next morning the Governor usher'd him in and seeing his Brother's head bleeding on the window and his limbs scatter'd up and down the room he said Oh! is this the wild Boar you writ to him of Yes said the Governour and I remember I writ of two or three Hereupon he was also knock'd down and us'd in the same manner The Tragedy being acted thus far he takes his Officers and going upon the Castle walls he sent to speak with the Syndic and Burgesses of the Town unto whom he made a Speech that they had been a long time in servitude or a kind of slavery to Conradus and that Family and now ther was a fair opportunity offered for them to redeem their liberties for he had Conradus and his Brother in his custody and the Officers with the rest of the Garrison were inclin'd to do them away if the Town wold joyn with them But the Town shewing an aversnes or rather a detestation of such disloyalty and treason sent to Prince Alexander the youngest Brother and the Citizens of Cerano joyning with the forces he brought with him to expiat his Brother's bloods they beleaguer the Castle round Therupon the Governor taking his wife and children with him to the top of the highest Turret he first threw down headlong his wife then his three children and last of all he precipitates himself and so the Tragedy ended Pererius A Tragedy indeed and one of the direfullest that ever I heard of It must be granted that the Saturnian spirit is much bent upon revenges he is in the extreams commonly Quod vult valde vult quod odit valde odit vertues and vices are there in the Superlative degree But truly if the vertues and vices of that noble Nation were weighed in a ballance I am confident the first wold out-poise the second for ther might be more instances of actions of high vertu produced than of vice I will make mention of one and that a very modern one and no Romance Ther was in the antient Amphitheatricall City of Rovena a young Marquis who fell desperatly in love with a Merchant's wife he courted her a long time but could not prevail at last the Merchant having a Villa or Country-house whither he was gone a while for divertisment the Marquis went a Hawking therabouts one day and letting his Hawk fly of purpose into the Merchant's Orchard he and his men rid luring after her and retreeved her in the Orchard where the Marquis himself was entred having obtain'd leave before The Hawk being found the Merchant invites the Marquis to a Treatment where his wife was present and very officious to please Being departed she asks her husband who he was He answer'd 'T is the Marquis of such a place one of the gallantest and most hopefull young Noblemen in all Saturnia a person full of transcendent parts and high perfections c. These praises making deep impressions in his wife and the Marquis poursuing still his design he at last prevailed and being admitted to her chamber by a back Garden-dore he found her a bed and in a fit posture to receive him so unbracing himself to go to her and having put off his doublet she told him smilingly Do you know whom you may thank most for this courtesie It is my husband who after the late Treatment you had fell a long time into such high commendations of you that I never heard him speak so nobly of any The Marquis being put to a sudden stand hereby and struck with a kind of astonishment put on his doublet again and his cloak saying Shall I abuse so worthy a friend and such noble affections No I will die first So taking his leave of the Lady in civill and thankfull posture he departed the same way he was let in and never attempted her again Fox Truly it cannot be denied but this was a most signall example of continence and no lesse of gratitude to restrain himself so in the height of such a lust Pererius Well will you conform your self to my advice and turn Man and Merchant to converse again with such a noble Nation a Nation that may prescribe rules of prudence and policy to all Mankind Fox Sir you speak of Policy ther is no tru policy practised now adaies in the world it is degenerated together with the nature of man into subtlety and craft If ther be any left 't is in Marcopolis where ther are the truest Patriots and most public Souls that I have known remaining amongst men otherwise she had never been able to tugg so long with the huge Tomanto Empire and other the greatest Potentats upon
ameine au gibet War makes the Thief and peace brings him to the gallows Therfore he prefers rather to passe his life peaceably under your Government than to be in Cuprinia where of late years men are so press'd for the Warrs to serve the ambition of their Kings that the whole Country is so drain'd that ther 's scarce any left but women old men and children Therfore he is very well pleas'd with this lycanthropy But Madame I spy a bearded Animal nibling upon the brow of that crag I desire by your favour to have som discours with him for by his long beard he shold have bin som Philosopher and so have more wit in him than other animals Morphandra You shall very willingly but I will tell you what he was before He was an Orosian born and I transform'd him to that shape for being a Mountaineer and for having aspiring thoughts with other resons Pererius I 'le go and accost him Sir will you please to come down hither into the plain for I have very good news to impart unto you that will make you skip for joy Goat I pray excuse me it is against my nature to descend if I did I should haply prove more foolish than the Goat in the Fable who being invited and perswaded by the fair speeches of the Lion to come down and feed in the medow where he was being come down the hungry Lion devoured him presently Pererius You need not apprehend any such fears here but I will come to you Queen Morphandra tells me that you were an Orosian born a very antient and noble Nation Have you a disposition to return thither to resume the shape of Man and to be again the child of Reson Goat What do you mean by Reson I think the shape and species I now am in are capable of Reson for we can distinguish 'twixt good and bad 'twixt what is noxious or profitable for us we have also the same organs the same cells and receptacles in the brain as man hath for to lodg Reson and the celestiall bodies pour the same influences upon us as they use to do upon the human Creture Pererius It cannot be denied but you have an Instinct that acts according to Reson and it may be call'd Instinctive Reson But the Reson that Beasts have is limited to corporeall objects to the necessities onely of life to find out food and shelter and bring up their young ones it s onely direct Reson that 's capable of Singulars it s restrain'd to an opinionative faculty it s a meer shadow of ours much like the objects that our fancy represents to us in sleep And this Instinct in Beasts is as much inferiour to Reson in Man as Reson in man is inferiour to Intelligence and Intuitions in the blessed Angells Goat Yet Sir it must be granted that actions whose successes are so well ordered actions which have so well regulated a progresse and concatenation so exactly tying the Mediums to the End must needs be performed by the guidance and light of tru Reson and such actions you know sensitive cretures daily perform With what art do Birds build their nests the Fox his hole the Badger his chamber with what caution do they preserve their young ones and fence them from the injury of the Hevens how punctually do they keep their haunts But what do you think of Pliny's Elephant repeating his Lesson at Moon-shine or of Ptolomey's Stagg that understood Greek of Plutarch's Dogg who could counterfeit the very convulsions of death of the Ape that could play at Chesse and another that had learnt som touches on the Guittern What think you of Caligula's Horse who was made Consul had not he Reson in him What think you of the Asse who being us'd to carry burdens of Salt over a Foord was us'd to stumble and fall constantly in such a place that therby the salt melting away into water his burden might be the lighter but his Master lading him with a tadd of Wool he fell at his usuall place but being helped up again and he feeling the pack of wool heavier in regard of the water that got in he never stumbled any more in the Foord after that time What think you of the Crow that in the time of a great drowth finding water in the bottom of a barrell and being fearfull to go down carried so many stones in her beak that letting them fall down they forc'd the water to rise upwards towards the top and so she dranck safely and at ease I pray were not all these not onely Instinctive but Discoursive Resons Pererius I confesse that he who denies a kind of Reson and Resoning also to brute Animals may be questiond whether he be master of Reson himself yet this Reson and Resoning looks upon present and particular notions onely But human Reson extendeth to universall notions out of the reach of sense which cannot be without abstractions and som reflections it hath on it self which Beasts cannot attain This Reson that is conversant with Universalls is the tru specificall difference 'twixt Man and Beasts It is the portion and property of Man alone whereby he hath the Soverainty over all over his fellow-cretures throughout all the Elementary World Ther is Intuitive ther is Discoursive and ther is Instinctive Reson the first is proper to Angels the last to Brute Animals and the second to Man who can contemplat and discourse of generalls and things absent And these three differ in excellency as the three degrees of Comparison Goat Yet though you excell us as you say in this kind of Reson ther 's many of us that surpasse you in strength and quicknesse of sense as the Eagle in seeing for he can look upon the Sun in the Meridian with full open eyes and not be dazzled the Hare can hear better and the Dogg goes far beyond you in smelling as also the Stagg therefore when he is removed from one Park to another you use to muzzle him and carry him in close Carts that he may not smell the way back again And there be examples to admiration of this kind Pererius Though som Beasts smelling be beyond ours in respect of celerity and way of reception yet in point of dijudication differencing the variety of smels which proceeds from the Rationall Soul we surpasse them Therfore though we cannot see as Eagles nor hear as Hares nor smel as well as Doggs yet Hands Speech and Reson makes amends for all The composition also of the body being Erect is advantagious the caus of which Erection after the beholding of Heven is the exercise Arts which cannot be done in another figure Mans body is likewise the most copious of organs and though born naked yet this nakednesse cuts out work for Reson It abounds also more with Animal spirits and heat it hath long feet that the body might be more steedy and his head is built upward like a Castle or Watch-tower in the upper Region Goat This
medicinall vertues in a dead Deer 64 Of the Discovery of the New World 71 The Doctor of Physicks Fee but two shillings in Tumontia 73 A Discours of Physic and the Art thereof pro con 74 Diseases belonging to all the parts of Human body 78 Distempers of the mind more cruciatory than those of the body 80 A Discours touching the Sense and the Soul ibid. A Discours of Aetonia and how she is impair'd 109 What Nation is the gretest Drunkard 111 A Discours of the Instinctive Reson that Beasts have 119 What a damnable thing it is for Subjects to rise up in Arms against their King 128 A Discourse of Nuns 134 A Discourse whether the Human Soul be by Infusion or Traduction 140 The Degrees of the Celestiall Hierarchy 145 A discourse of the Immortality of the Soul 147 E Experience the touchstone of Truth 6 Of the English Liturgy 30 Examples pro con touching the chastity of Women 59 An Emblem of a lavishing wife ibid. Every one knows how to tame a shrew but he who hath her 61 Examples of notable scolds ibid. Examples of the rare Longaevity of Deer 64 The Elephant begins his youth at threescore years ibid. How pittifully the Empire is decay'd 111 Of Aesop's Dogg 115 The fearfull and sudden judgment which fell upon the Carboncians for their Rebellion 129 Of the fixed Starrs and the Planets touching their motion 136 Exact Obedience among Bees ibid. Exact Government among Bees ibid. An Epitome of the late confusions in Gheriona 33 An Epitome of the confusions throughout the world for forty years ibid. F Fable of an Ass. 24 Of a foolish Naturalist who wish'd ther were another way to propagat Mankind than by Women 55 The Fable of the Stagg 65 A Facetious answer of a Pope touching Physitians 74 The Foam of a Mule drunk in warm wine good against Pursines 85 The Fable of the Mule ib. Divers Fables of the Fox 87 The Fable of the Frogs 99 A Fox toung carried in a chain good against sore eyes 101 Fables 'twixt the Wolf and the Lamb applied 105 The Fable of the Goat and the Lion 118 The Fable of the Horse and the Ass. 24 The Fable of the Ass and the Spaniel ibid. G God heals but the Physitian takes the Fee 77 No Government so wise that can fit all Countries and why 98 The genitalls lights and liver of a Fox good against the Spleen 101 The Gum of a Pine-tree eaten by the Fox when he is ill 100 Goat's blood dissolves Diamonds and scours better then any file 123 Goat's milk recovers a Load-stone when being rub'd with Garlick it hath lost its vertu ibid. Goat's marrow good against aches ibid. Goat's trindles drunk in wine good against the Iaundies c. ibid. Goat's liver entralls ashes horns milt spleen urine marrow hoofs gall dung trindles sewet c. all medicinall ibid. Gheriona censur'd 131 H A graduall Hymn to God and his Angels 150 if the Humors were fix'd in Man's body he might live eternally In the Epist. History a profitable study 31 The horridnes of Annihilation 49 Honest men use to marry wise men not 62 The hardship the Tumontian endures 69 Health the most precious of Iewels 77 The high prerogatives of Reson 81 A horrid kind of Revenge 92 Another Hellish revenge in Saturnia 93 A late History of ten Morris-dancers in Orosia that made above a 1000 years betwixt them 122 The Horrid Ingratitude of the Carboncian against their native King 128 The Horrid Insurrections in Hebrinia took rise from Carboncia 130 Hope like Butter gold in the morning silver at noon and lead at night 135 I In som places of the Indies the living wife throws her self into the pile with her husband 60 Iealousie among Thoughts like Bats among Birds 90 The Insulsity of the common peeple to think any rare effect to be Magicall 102 Of Instinctive Reson 118 Ill humors adhere to human nature as rust to copper 121 Of the Infirmities of Mankind ibid. Idlenes the Devils couch 154 K The highest knowledge a man hath of his Creator but half blindnesse 83 A cruel horrid murder 103 The Kirk-mens horrid ingratitude 128 The Kings Cheese goes away three parts in pairings in Artonia 19 Why the King of Artonia keeps the common peeple so low 20 The King of Artonia's huge taxes 19 The King of Bees hath no sting 136 The King of Bees hath a solemn Funerall 189 L A Lawyer like Balaam's Asse he will not speak unlesse an Angell appear 16 Of Lawyers 17 Lawyers build fair houses of Fool 's heads 17 Of Laughter 22 Of the long age of Deer 64 Laughter a passion that hath the most variety of action 22 The Laws of the Kingdom of Bees 136 M Mirth and sadnes follow one another in human bodies as night succeeds day The Epist. Magic the first Philosophy 2 Man Paramount of all the sublunary cretures 7 Man a tyrant to himself ib. Man's body compar'd to a ship 10 A Mariner's life 12 Man the most intractable of all cretures 26 Of the great maiden-City Marcopolis 63 Man hath more diseases than a horse or any other creture 98 Of Mâ—rchants 70 Marther strangely discover'd 92 The marvellous continence of a Saturnian 94 Of Monarchy 98 Som generall Maxims of Policy may extend to all Countries 99 The mode of raaking the Sympatheticall Powder 103 Man more savage then any Beast 108 Of the Method of Providence 110 A Miser and a Hog good for nothing till after death 112 Man tax'd of presumption 121 The Miser like an Ass that carrieth gold but feeds on thistles 17 The motions of Nature irresitible 135 Mans gretest foes are within himself ibid. Man the gretest Amphibyum of Nature for having three souls 159 N Of Navigation 9 A notable proverb touching long life 49 The noble gratitude of a Saturnian 94 Not such a Tyrant in the world as the common peeple 99 The Naturall and Politicall body compar'd 20 A notable Fable of the Ass and the Horse applied 24. Nuns a degree higher the the ordinary cours of happines 134 Nature abhors captivity 135 O Of fading earthly joys 149 Of hevenly joys ibid. Otter's stones good against the Palsie 8 Otter's liver reduced to powder good against the Stone and Cholic ibid. Of old age 64 Of the perturbances of human brains 68 Opportunity the best moment in the whole extention of Time 72 Of Physitians 87 The odd life of a Soldier 114 Orosia vindicated 122 The Orosian faithfull to his King 123 Orosia corrupted by the Gherionian Sectaries 124 Of the three Souls in Man 159 New Opinions that the seeds of the Parents go not to impregnation but the Female conceives by virtuall contact 141 Of the three Faculties of the Soul 143 P The Prerogatives that Man hath over other cretures 7 The Partridge and Pidgeon purge themselfs with Bay-leafs 76 Policy how degenerated of late days 95 The truest Patriots are the Marcopolits 95 Policy and Craft distinguished ibid. The poor
they are recompenced by the joy that accompanieth it which useth to rowse and raise up our slumbring spirits and melancholly thoughts with an unusuall mirth and complaceny whence it comes that after those two Doctor Diet and Doctor Quiet Doctor Merriman is requisit to preserve health Touching the other passion Sorrow and the various emissions of it it is an ease also to the spirits which without such ventings would be subject to strangulations But poor Asse do not let slip this fair opportunity which gracious Queen Morphandra offers thee by my intervention to be redintegrated and made a Rational creture again Asse I told you before but of the outward servitude and exigents that I endured when I was a Man which were incident onely to the body I have not spoken to you any thing of the perturbations of the brain and the inward agonies of the mind which did trouble and torment me much more How was I perpetually vex'd not onely to pay the common Taxes and other pecuniary erogations with my domineering Landlords Rents but to find daily bread sustenance and cloathing for my wife and children Now children is one of the greatest encumbrances that belong to mankind for as the proverb goes Children are a certain care and an incertain comfort But they of my species at present are exempt from this and a thousand inconveniencies more which are entayl'd upon mankind 'T is tru touching our off-springs while they are young and unable to do for themselfs we are indulgent of them and that for a short time but afterwards we lose all care of them being able to shift for themselfs Pererius Yes and with your care you lose all affections unto them besides but such is the noblenesse of Man's nature that both continu in him during life unto the third and fourth generation Therefore without further ado think upon thy first Beeing and to be restored thereunto Otherwise thou wilt be more foolish than that poor baffled Asse in the Fable who when a Horse came unto him and out of wantonnes had desired him to lift up his left hinder leg and take out a stone that had got into his foot as soon as he had lifted up the legge the Horse fell a kicking him ill-favourelly on the face and almost dasht out his brains Or thou wilt be as foolish as the Asse who seeing a Spaniell sawn upon his Master and getting into his lap where he was stroked the Asse thought to do so too but instead of being stroked he was struck and bastinadoed away for his sawcinesse which shews that an Asse is a more contemptible thing than a Dogge Asse As contemptible as we are there are two of us who have a bright place in Heaven as the Constellation of Cancer will shew you As contemptible as we are some of your gretest Philosophers have held grave disputes of our very shadow and Apuleius's golden Asse makes him famous to eternity As contemptible as we are the strongest man that ever was made use of the jaw-bone of one of us to destroy thousands of his enemies The great Empresse Poppaea us'd our milk to make her skin the whiter and you know what a Soveraign thing that milk is against Consumptions and Dysenteries nay our very Urine is found to be good against Tilers or Morphews in Ladies faces Lastly you know who made his entry into Ierusalem upon one of Us for which we carry the Crosse upon our sholders as the badg of a blessing to this day which made a zealous Tumontian break out into these lines upon the sight of that History of Palm-sunday neer a Church dore Asno quien a Dios lleuays Oxala yo fuera vos Supplico os Dios me hagays Como el Asno en que vays y dizen que le oyò Dios. O happy Asse who God do'st bear Such as Thou art O wold I were 'T is said the man did pray so hard That prayer and person both were heard Pererius Poor besotted beast yet thou knowest ther can be no comparison 'twixt the best of Brutes and the basest of human cretures who by the faculty of Reson can tame and reduce to his subjection the strongest of other Animals though never so fierce and corpulent and make them know that He is their Lord and Master Asse Whereas you speak of fiercenesse truly Sir I think ther 's no Animal so fierce and ferocious so savage and intractable as Man for whereas all other cretures can be rul'd daunted and broken easily govern'd in time the Art of governing Men is the most difficult of any because of their various fancies and imaginations their crosse-grain'd humors and pride all which proceeds from the faculty of Reson you speak of Therefore I was very glad to be rid of it by this transfiguration and the time seems tedious unto me that I have the use of it now so long to parly with you for I remember when I was a Man it fill'd the cells of my brain ever and anon with turbid and turbulent cogitations with strange chimera's and crochets which disquieted the tranquillity and calm of my mind And as for my Body this shape which I now bear is more healthfull farr and neat for now I am not subject to breed Lice and other Vermin And whereas this pedicular disease with a nomberlesse sort of other maladies and distempers attend Mankind ther 's but one onely disease that our Species is subject unto which the Veterenarians or Farriers call Malila and that is onely in the head when som unusuall defluxion of rheume falls thence into the nostrills which being stopp'd turns to the improvement of health but if once it falls upon the lungs we are gone And observable it is that being dead we have cleaner carcases than Men and divers medicinall things are found in them as our Liver Hoofs or Bones being reduc'd to powder are good as the Naturalists note against the Epilepsy or Comitiall sicknesse with other diseases Nor do any crawling nasty worms grow out of our Cadavers but Beetles and other airy Insects which are not so noisome But I have spent too much time with you I will therefore go now to browze upon the green leafs of that Bramble Pererius Well I find here two Proverbs verified the one is a homely one viz. Chanter a un Asne il vous donnera un pet Sing to an Asse and he will give you a Bum-crack The other that one may bring an Asse to the water but not make him drink unlesse he list himself Asse 'T is very tru I remember well they are proverbs us'd in our Country but the last shews much the temperance of our Species for we do not eat or drink but when we are a thirst or hungry for the restauration of the parts that are lost that is when nature requires it But you use to gourmandize it upon full stomacks to force carowses and Whole-ones untill you be full up to the very throat and so transform your selves to worse then