Matter IF all the World were a confused heape What was beyond for this World is not great We finde it Limit hath and Bound And like a Ball in compasse is made round And if that Matter with which the World 's made Be Infinite then more Worlds may be said Then Infinites of Worlds may we agree As well as Infinites of Matters bee A World made by foure Atomes SHarpe Atomes Fire subtle quicke and dry The Long like Shafts still into Aìre fly The Round to Water moist a hollow Forme The Figure square to heavy dull Earth turne The Atomes sharpe hard Mineralls do make The Atomes round soft Vegetables take In Animals none singly lye alone But the foure Atomes meet and joyne as one And thus foure Atomes the Substance is of all With their foure Figures make a worldly Ball. Thus the Fancy of my Atomes is that the foure Principall Figures as Sharpe Long Round Square make the foure Elements not that they are of severall matters but are all of * one matter onely their severall Figures do give them severall Proprieties so likewise do the mixt Figures give them mixt Proprieties their several composures do give them other Proprieties according to their Formes they put themselves into by their severall Motions This I do repeate that the ground of my Opinion may be understood Of Elements SOme hold foure perfect Elements there bee Which do surmount each other by degree And some Opinions thinke that One is all The rest from that and to that One shall fall This single Element it selfe to turne To severall qualities as Fire to burne So water moist that heate to quench and then To subtle Aire and so to Earth agen Like 〈◊〉 water which turnes with the Cold To Flakes of Snow or in firme Ice to hold But that Heate doth melt that Icy Chaine Then into water doth it turne againe So from the Earth a Vapour thicke ascends That Vapour thicke it selfe to thin Aire spends Or else it will condense it selfe to Raine And by its weight will fall to Earth againe And what is very thin so subtle growes As it turnes Fire and so a bright flame shewes And what is dull or heavy flow to move Of a cold quality it oft doth prove Thus by contracting and dilating parts Is all the skill of Natures working Arts. Fire compared to Stings NOthing is so like Fire as a Flies Sting If we compare th' effect which both do bring For when they sting the flesh they no blood draw But blisters raise the Skin made red the Flesh raw Were there as many Stings as Fiery Atomes small Would peirce into the Flesh Bones turne to Ashes all Thus we finde Flies do carry every where Fire in their Tailes their Breech they do not feare Comparing Flame to the Tide of the Sea LIke 〈◊〉 ' Iides a Flame will ebb and flow By sinking downe and then strait higher grow And if supprest all in a rage breakeout Streaming it selfe in severall parts about Some thinke the Salt doth make the Sea to move If so then Salt in Flame the like may prove From that Example Salt all Motions makes Then Life the chiefe of Motion from Salt takes What is Liquid WEE cannot call all Liquid which doth flow For then a Flame may turne to water so But that is Liquid which is moist and wet Fire that Propriety can never get Then 't is not Cold that puts the Fire out But 't is the Wet that makes it dye no doubt Fire and moisture IF Hay be not quite dry but stackt up wet In time that Moisture will a Fire beget This proves that Fire may from Moisture grow We proofe have none Moisture from Fire flow This shewes that Fire in its selfe is free No other Element in it can bee For Fire is pure still and keeps the same Where oyly Moisture's not no Fire can flame Aire begot of Heate and Moisture HEate and Moisture joyn'd with equall merit Get a Body thin ' of Aire or Spirit Which is a Sinoake or Steame begot from both If Mother Moisture rule 't is full of sloth If the Father Fire predominates Then it is active quicke and Elevates This Aiery Childe is sometimes good or bad According to the nourishment it had The Temper of the Earth THE Earth we finde is very cold and dry And must therefore have Fire and water night To wash and bath then dry her selfe without Else she would uselesse be without all doubt Winds are made in the Aire not in the Earth HOW can we thinke Winds come from Earth below When they from Skye do downe upon us blow If they proceeded from the Earth must run Strait up and upon Earth againe backe come They cannot freely blow least Earth were made Like to a Bowling-Greene so levell laid But there are Rocks and Hills and Mountaines great Which stop their waies and make them soone retreat Then sure it is the Sun drawes Vapour out And 〈◊〉 it thin then blow'th 't about If Heat condens'd that turnes it into Raine And by its weight falls to the Earth againe Thus Moisture and the Sun do cause the Winds And not the Cradities in hollow Mines Thunder is a Wind in the middle Region WHO knowes but Thunders are great Winds which lye Within the middle vault above the Skye Which Winde the Sun on Moisture cold begot When he is in his Region Cancer hot This * Childe is thin and subtle made by hear It gets a voice and makes a noise that 's great It 's Thinnesse makes it agile agile strong Which by its force doth drive the Clouds along And when the Clouds do meet they each do strike Flashing out Fire as do Flints the like Thus in the Summer Thunder 's caus'd by Wind Vapour drawne so high no way out can find But in the Winter when the Clouds are loose Then doth the Wind on Earth keep Rendezvous Of cold VVinds. AS rarified water makes Winds blow So rarified Winds do colder grow For if they thin are rarified then they Do further blow aud spread out every way So cold they are and sharpe as Needle points For by the thinnesse breaks and disunites Into such Atomes fall Sharpe Figures bee Which Porous Bodies peirce if we could see Yet some will thinke if Aire were parted so The Winds could not have such strong force to blow T is true if Atomes all were 〈◊〉 and Flat Or Round like Rings they could not peirce but pat But by themselves they do so sharpe become That through all Porous Bodies they do run But when the Winds are soft they intermixe As water doth and in one Body fixe More like they wave then blow as Fanns are spread Which Ladies use to coole their Cheeks when red As water Drops feele harder when they 〈◊〉 Then when they 're 〈◊〉 and on us light Unlesse such streames upon our heads downe runne As we a Shelter seeke the Wet to shun But when a Drop congealed is with
Senses all do take delight Yet you upon my Entrals alwaies bite My flesh cate up that all my bones are bare With the sharpe Teeth of Sorrow Griefe and Care Drawes out my Blood from Veines with envious spight Decaies my Strength with shame or extreame fright With Love extreamly sicke I lye With cruell hate you make me dye Mind Care keeps you from all hurt or falling low Sorrow and Griefe are Debts to Friends we owe. Feare makes man just to give each one his owne Shame makes Civility without there 's none Hate makes good Lawes that all may live in Peace Love brings Society and gets Increase Besides with Joy I make the Eyes looke gay With pleasing Smiles they dart forth every way With Mirth the Cheeks are fat smooth Rosie-red Your Speech flowes Wit when Fancies fill the Head If I were gone you 'ld misse my Company Wish we were joyn'd againe or you might dye A Complaint of VVater Earth and Aire against the Sun by way of Dialogue Moisture to Earth THere 's none hath such an Enemy as I The Sun doth drinke me up when he 's a dry He sucks me out of every hole I lye Drawes me up high from whence I downe do fall In Showers of Raine am broke in peeces small Where I am forc'd to Earth for helpe to call Strait Earth her Porous doors sets open wide And takes me in with hast on every side Then joynes my Limbs fast in a slowing Tide Earth to Moisture Alas Deare Friend the Sun my greatest Fee My tender Buds he blast as they do grow He burnes my Face and makes it 〈◊〉 and dry He sucks my Breast which starves my Young thereby Thus I and all my Young for thirst were slaine But that with Wet you fill my 〈◊〉 againe Aire to Earth and Moisture The Sun doth use me ill as all the rest For his hot Soultry heats do me molest Melts me into a thin and slowing Flame To make him light when men it Day do name Corrupts me makes me full of 〈◊〉 soares Which Putresaction on mens Bodies poures Or else the subtle Flame into mens Spirits run Which makes them raging or starke mad become Drawes me into a length and breadth till I Become so thin with windy wings do flye Never can leave till all my Spirits spent And then I dye and leave no Monument The Sun to 〈◊〉 O most unkind and most ungratefull Earth I am thy Mid-wife brings your Young to Birth I with my heat do cause your Young to grow And with my light I teach them how to go My Sun-Bcames are Strings whereon to hold For feare they fall and breake their Limbs on Cold. All to Maturity I do bring and give Youth Beauty Strength and make Old Age to live The Sun to 〈◊〉 ' ater Sluggish Moisture I active and light make All grosse and corrupt I Humours away take All Superfluity I dry up cleane That nothing but pure Christall water 's seen The hard-bound Cold I loosen and unty When you in Icy Chaines a Prisoner lye With 〈◊〉 your Limbs are nipt and bit with Cold Your smooth and glassie Face makes wrinkled Old I make you nimble soft and faire And Liquid Nourishing and Debonaire The Sun to Aire Aire I purge and make it cleere and bright Black Clouds dissolve which make the Day seem Night The crude raw Vapours I digest and straine The thicker part all into Showers of Raine The thinnest part I turne all into Winds Which like a Broome sweeps out all Dirt it findes The cleerest part turne into Azure Skie Hang'd all with Stars and next the Gods you lye A Dialogue between Earth and Cold. Earth O Cruell Cold to life an Enemy A Misery to Man and Posterity Most envious Cold to Stupifie Mens Braine Destroies that Monarchy where Wit should reigne Tyrant thou art to bind the Waters clear In Chaines of Ice lye fetter'd halfe the yeare Imprisons every thing that dwels in me Shutting my Porous doors no Light can see And smothered am almost up to death Each hole is stopt so close can take no breath Congeales the Aire to massie Clouds of Snow Like Mountaines great they on my Body throw And all my Plants and strong great fruit 〈◊〉 Trees You nip to death or cloath them in course Freeze My fresh green Robes which 〈◊〉 me fine and gay You strip me of or change to black or gray For feare of Cold my Moisture shrinks so low My Head weares bald no 〈◊〉 thereon will grow And breakes the Suns bright 〈◊〉 their heat destroy Which takes away my comfort and my joy And makes my Body stiff so deadly numb'd That in my Veines nothing will fluent run Cold. Why do you thus complaine poore Earth and grieve I give you strength and make you long to live I do refresh you from the Scorching Sun I give you breath which makes you strong become I cloath you from the Cold with Milke-white Snow Send downe your Sap to nourish you below For if that heat should dwell and long time stay His Thirst would drinke your Moisture all away I take nought from you nor do make you poore But like a Husband good do keepe your Store My Ice are Locks and Barrs all safe to keepe From Busie Motion gives you quiet sleepe For heat is active and doth you molest Doth make you worke and never let you rest Heat spends your Spirits makes you crackt and dry Drinkes all him selfe with Thirst you almost dye With Sweating Labour you grow weake and faint I wonder why you make such great complaint Earth Both Heat and Cold in each extreame Degree Two Hells they are though contrary they be Two Devils are torment me with great paines One shoots hot Arrowes th' other ties in Chaines A Dialogue betwixt Earth and Darknesse Earth OHorrid Darknesse and you powers of Night Melancholy Shades made by obstructed Lights Why so Cruell what Evil have I done To part me from my Husband the bright Sun Darknesse I do not part you he me hither sends Whilst Hee rides about to visit all his Friends Besides 〈◊〉 hath more Wives to love then you He never constant is to one nor true Earth You do him wrong for though he Journies make For Exercise he care for me doth take He leaves his Stars and 's Sister in his place To comfort me whilst 〈◊〉 doth run his Race But you do come most wicked 〈◊〉 Night And rob me of that faire and Silver Light Darknesse The Moon and Stars they are but shadowes thin Small Cob-web Lawne they from his Light do spin Which they in scorned do make you to disgrace As a thin Vaile to cover your Ill Face For Moon or Stars have no strong Lights to shew A Colour true nor how you bud or grow Onely some Ghosts do rise and take delight To walke about when that the Moon shines bright Earth Your are deceiv'd they cast no such Disguise Strive me to please by twinkling in the Skies And
severall tempers make But what is mixt doth of the Four partake Of Aiery Atomes THE Atomes long which streaming Aire makes Are hollow from which Forme Aire softnesse takes This makes that Aire and water neer agree Because in hollownesse alike they be For Aiery Atomes made are like a Pipe And watry Atomes Round and Cimball like Although the one is Long the other Round Yet in the midst a hollownesse is found This makes us thinke water turnes into Aire And Aire often runs into water faire And like two Twins mistaken they are oft Because their hollownesse makes both them soft Of Aire THE reason why Aire doth so equall spred Is Atomes long at each end ballanced For being long and each end both alike Are like to Weights which keep it steddy right For howsoere it moves to what Forme joyne Yet still that Figure lies in every line For Atomes long their 〈◊〉 are like a Thread Which interweaves like to a Spiders Web And thus being thin it so subtle growes That into every empty place it goes Of Earth WHY Earth's not apt to move but slow and dull Is Atomes flat no Vacuum hath ' butfull That Forme admits no empty place to bide All parts are fil'd having no hollow side And where no Vacuum is Motion is slow Having no empty places for to go Though Atomes all are small as small may bee Yet by their Formes Motion doth disagree For Atomes sharp do make themselves a Way Cutting through other Atomes as they stray But Atomes flat will dull and lazy lay Having no Edge or point to make a Way The weight of Atomes IF Atomes are as small as small can bee They must in quantity of Matter all agree And if consisting Matter of the same be right Then every Atome must weigh just alike Thus Quantity Quality and Weight all Together meets in every Atome small The bignesse of Atomes MHEN I say Atomes small as small can bee I mean Quantity quality and Weight agree Not in the Figure for some may shew Much bigger and some lesser so Take Water fluid and Ice that 's firme Though the Weight be just the Bulke is not the same So Atomes are some soft others more knit According as each Atome's Figured Round and Long Atomes hollow are more slacke Then Flat or Sharpe for they are more compact And being hollow they are spread more thin Then other Atomes which are close within And Atomes which are thin more tender far For those that are more close they harder are The joyning of severall Figur'd Atomes make other Figures SEverall Figur'd Atomes well agreeing When joyn'd do give another Figure being For as those Figures joyned severall waies The Fabrick of each severall Creature raise What Atomes make Change T IS severall Figur'd Atomes that make Change When severall Bodies meet as they do range For if they sympathise and do agree They joyne 〈◊〉 as one Body bee But if they joyne like to a Rabble-rout Without all order running in and out Then disproportionable things they make Because they did not their right places take All things last or dissolve according to the Composure of Atomes THose Atomes loosely joyn'd do not remaine So long as those which Closenesse do maintaine Those make all things i' th 〈◊〉 ebb and flow According as the moving Atomes go Others in Bodies they do joyne so close As in long time they never stir nor loose And some will joyne so close and knit so fast As if unstir'd they would for ever last In smallest Vegetables loosest Atomes lye Which is the reason they so quickly dye In Animals much closer they are laid Which is the cause Life is the longer staid Some Vegetables and Animals do joyne In equall strength if Atomes so combine But Animals where Atomes close lay in Are stronger then some Vegetables thin But in Vegetables where Atomes do stick fast As in strong Trees the longer they do last In Minerals they are so hard wedg'd in No space they leave for Motion to get in Being Pointed all the closer they do lye Which make them not like Vegetables dye Those Bodies where loose Atomes most move in Are Soft and Porous and many times thin Those 〈◊〉 Bodies never do live long For why loose Atomes never can be strong There Motion having power tosses them about Keeps them from their right places so Life goes out Of Loose Atomes IN every Braine loose Atomes there do lye Those which are Sharpe from them do Fancies flye Those that are long and Aiery nimble be But Atomes Round and Square are dull and sleepie Change is made by several-figur'd Atomes and Motion IF Atomes all are of the selfe same Matter As Fire Aire Earth and Water Then must their severall Figures make all Change By Motions helpe which orders as they range Of Sharpe Atomes THen Atomes Sharpe Motion doth mount up high Like Arrowes sharpe Motion doth make them flye And being sharpe and swift they peirce so deep As they passe through all Atomes as they meet By their swift motion they to bright Fire turne And being Sharpe they peirce which we call Burne What Atomes make Flame THose Atomes which are Long sharp at each end Stream forth like Aire in Flame which Light doth seem For Flame doth flow as if it fluid were Which shewes part of that Figure is like Aire Thus Flame is joyn'd two Figures into one But Fire without Flame is sharpe alone Of Fire and Flame ALthough we at a distance stand if great The Fire be the Body through will heat Yet those sharpe Atomes we do not perceive How they flye out nor how to us 〈◊〉 cleave Nor do they flame nor shine they cleare and bright When they 〈◊〉 out and on our Bodies strike The reason is they loose and scattered flye And not in Troupes nor do they on 〈◊〉 Like small dust 〈◊〉 which scatter'd all about We see it not nor doth it keep Light out When gathered thick up to a Mountaine high We see them then in solid Earth to lye Just so do Atomes sharpe looke cleere and bright When in heaps lye or in a streaming flight Of Fire in the Flint THE reason Fire lies in Flint unseene Is other Figur'd Atomes lye betweene For being bound and overpowred by A Multitude they do in Prison lye Unlesse that Motion doth release them out With as strong power which make them flye about But if that Flint be beat to powder small To sep'rate the grossest releas'd are all But when they once are out do not returne But seeke about to make another Forme Of the Sympathy of Atomes BY Sympathy Atomes are fixed so As past some Principles they do not go For count the Principles of all their workes You 'le finde there are not many severall sorts For when they do dissolve and new Formes make They still to their first Principles do take As Animals Vegetables Minerals So Aire Fire Earth Water falls Of the Sympathy of their Figures SUch Sympathy there is
down the Guts their wind blowes out Putting the standers by into a rout Thus shames the Eater with a foule disgrace That never after dare he shew his face Besides in many places puts himselfe As Baggs Budgets being a little Elfe To make his bearers start away with feare To thinke that any thing alive is there In this the Queen of Fairies takes delight In summers even and in winters night And when that She is weary of these playes She takes her Coach and goeth on her wayes Unto her Paradise the Center deep Which is the Store-house rich of Nature sweet Her descending downe THe stately Pallace in which the Queen dwels Whose fabrick is built of Hodmandod shels The hangings thereof a Rain-bow that 's thin VVhich seemes wondrous fine if one enter in The Chambers are made of Amber that 's cleare VVhich gives a sweet smell if fire be neare Her Bed a Cherry-stone carved throughout And with a Butter-flyes wing hung about Her Sheets are made of a Doves eyes skin Her Pillow a Violet bud laid therein The large doores are cut of transparent Glasse VVhere the Queen may be seen as she doth passe The doores are locked fast with silver pins The Queen 's asleep and now our day begins Her time in pleasure passes thus away And shall doe so until the worlds last day The VVindy Gyants THe foure chiefe Winds are Gyants long in length As broad are set and wondrous great in strength These Gyants have Heads as it doth appeare More then the Months or Seasons of the yeare And some say more then days and all the nights That they are numberlesse and infinites The first foure Heads are largest of them all The twelve are next the thirty two but small The rest so little and their breath so weake Their mouthes so narrow cannot heare them speake These Gyants are so lustfull and so wilde As they doe force to get the Earth with childe And big she swels until the time of birth Her bowels stretcht high belly'd is the earth Then doth she groane with grievous paines and shake Untill she 's brought a bed with her Earth-quake This Child of Wind doth 〈◊〉 all it meets Rends Rocksand Mountains like to Paper sheets It swallows Cities and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It threatens Jove and makes the gods to feare And the cold North wind his 〈◊〉 dry and strong Pulling up Oakes then layes them all along In fetters of hard Ice bindes Rivers fast Imprisons Fishes in the Ocean vast Plowes up the Seas and Haile for seed in flings Where crops of over-flowes the Tide in brings He drives the Clouds in troops which makes them 〈◊〉 And blowes to put the 〈◊〉 out of the Sun The Southern Wind who is as 〈◊〉 as he And to the Sun as great an 〈◊〉 Raising an Army of 〈◊〉 Clouds and Mists Which with them thinks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 just as he lists Throwing up waters to quench out his Light Flings in his face black Clouds to hide his sight But the hot Sun cannot endure this scorne And back in showres of raine doth them 〈◊〉 The Westerne wind without ambitious ends Doth what he can to joyne and make them friends For he is of a nature sweet and milde And not so head-strong rough nor rude nor wide He 's soft to touch and 〈◊〉 to each 〈◊〉 His voyce sounds sweet and small and very cleare And makes hot love to young fresh buds that springs They give him sweets which he through Aire them flings Not from dislike but to 〈◊〉 them 〈◊〉 As Pictures doe for 〈◊〉 that are faire But O the Easterne Wind is full of spight Diseases brings which 〈◊〉 doebite He blasts young buds and 〈◊〉 within the 〈◊〉 He rots the Sheep to men he brings the Plague He is an enemy and of Nature ill The world would poyson if he had his will VVitches of Lapland LApland is the place from 〈◊〉 all Winds come From Witches not from Caves as doe think some For they the Aire doe draw into high Hills And beat them out againe by certaine Mills Then sack it up and sell it out for gaine To Mariners which traffick on the maine Of the Sunne and the Earth THrough Earth's 〈◊〉 holes her sweat doth passe Which is the Dew that lyes upon the Grasse VVhere like a Lover kinde the Sun wipes clean That her faire face may to the Light be seen And for her sake that water he esteemes Threading those drops upon his silver beames Like ropes of Pearle he drawes them to his sphere Turning those drops to Chrystall when they 're there Yet what he gathers cannot he keep all But downe againe some of those drops doe fall When turning back upon her head they run He clouds his browes as if he had ill done But Lovers thinke they alwayes doe 〈◊〉 Although those showres her refreshment is VVhen she by sweat exhausted growes and dry The Sun the 〈◊〉 Clouds 〈◊〉 squeeze in sky Or 〈◊〉 he takes some of his sharpest beames To break the Clouds from whence poure Chrystall streams Then Earth doth drink too much yet doth not reele She cannot dizzy be though sicknesse feele Of a Garden AGarden is some Paradise doe call The place is alwayes th' 〈◊〉 Ecchoes there are most artificiall made And cooling Grottoes from the heat to shade The azure sky is alwaies bright and cleare No grosse thick vapours in the Clouds appeare There many Stars doe comfort the sad night The fixt with twinckling with the 〈◊〉 give light No noyse is heard but what the 〈◊〉 delights No fruites are there but what the taste invites Up through the Nose bruis'd Flowers fume the braine As Honey-dew in balmy showres raine Various colours by Nature intermixt Direct the eyes as no one thing can fix Here Atomes small on Sun-beames dance all day While Zephyrus sweet doth on the aire play Which Musick from Apollo beares the praise And Orpheus at the sound his Harp downe layes Apollo yeelds and not contends with spight Presenting Zephyrus with twelve houres of light And night though sad in quiet pleasure takes With silence listens when he Musick makes And when day comes with griefe descends down low That she no longer must heare Zephyrus blow And with her Mantle black her selfe inshrouds Which is imbroyder'd all of Stars in clouds Here are intermixing walkes of pleasure Grasse Sand short broad and all sorts of measure Some shaded fit for Lovers musing thought Of Loves Idea when the mind 's full fraught The walkes are firme and hard as Marble are Yet soft as Downe by Grasse that groweth there Where Daisies grow as 〈◊〉 in a night Mix'd white and yellow green to please the sight At Dawning day the dew all over-spreads In little drops upon those Daisies heads As thick as Stars are set in heaven high So Daisies on the earth as close doe lye Here Emerauld bankes from whence fine flowers spring Whose sents and colours various pleasure bring Primroses Couslips Violets 〈◊〉 Roses Honey-suckles and white 〈◊〉
imply his force Then all rose up we do submit say they To Natures will in every thing obey First Matter she brought the Materialls in And Motion cut and carv'd out every thing And Figure she did draw the Formes and Plots And Life divided all out into Lots And Nature she survey'd directed all With the foure Elements built the Worlds Ball. The solid Earth as the Foundation lai'd The Waters round about as Walls were rais'd Where every drop lies close like Stone or Bricke Whose moisture like as Morter made them sticke Aire as the Seeling keeps all close within Least some Materialls out of place might spring Aire presses downe the Seas if they should rise Would overflow the Earth and drowne the Skies For as a Roofe that 's laid upon a Wall To keepe it steddy that no side might fall So Nature Aire makes that place to take And Fire highest laies like Tyle or Slat To keepe out raine or wet else it would rot So would the World corrupt if Fire were not The Planets like as Weather-fans turne round The Sun a Diall in the midst is found Where he doth give so just account of time He measures all though round by even Line But when the Earth was made and seed did sow Plants on the Earth and Mineralls downe grow Then Creatures made which Motion gave them sense Yet reason none to give intelligence But Nature found when she was Man to make More difficult then new Worlds to create For she did strive to make him long to last Into Eternity then he was cast For in no other place could keep him long But in Eternity that Castle strong There she was sure that Death she could keep out Although he is a Warriour strong and stout Man she would make not like to other kinde Though not in Body like a God in minde Then she did call her Councell once againe Told them the greatest work edid yet remaine For how said she can we our selves new make Yet Man we must like to our selves create Or else he can never escape Deaths snare To make this worke belongs both skill and care But I a Minde will mixe as I thinke sit With Knowledge Understanding and with Wit And Motion you your Serjeants must imploye Which Passions are to waite still in the Eye To dresse and cloath this Minde in fashions new Which none knowes better how to doe 't then you What though this Body dye this Minde shall live And a free-will we must unto it give But Matter you from Figure Forme must take Different from other Creatures Man must make For he shall go upright the rest shall not And Motion you in him must tye a knot Of severall Motions there to meet in one Thus Man like to himselfe shall be alone You Life command the Fates a thread to spin From which small thread the Body shall begin And while the thread doth last not cut in twaine The Body shall in Motion still remaine But when the thread is broke then downe shall fall And for a time no Motion have at all But yet the Minde shall live and never dye We 'le raise the Body too for company Thus like our selves we can make things to live Eternally but no past times can give Deaths endeavour to hinder and obstruct Nature WHen Death did heare what Nature did intend To hinder her he all his force did bend But finding all his forces were too weake He alwaies strives the Thread of life to breake And strives to fill the Minde with black despaire Let 's it not rest in peace nor free from care And since he cannot make it dye he will Send griefe and sorrow to torment it still With grievous paines the Body he displeases And bindes it hard with chaines of strong diseases His Servants Sloth and Sleep he doth imploye To get halfe of the time before they dye But Sleep a friend to Life oft disobeyes His Masters will and softly downe her lay's Upon their weary limbs like Birds in nest And gently locks their senses up in rest A World made by Atomes SMall Atomes of themselves a World may make As being subtle and of every shape And as they dance about fit places finde Such Formes as best agree make every kinde For when we build a house of Bricke and Stone We lay them even every one by one And when we finde a gap that 's big or small We seeke out Stones to fit that place withall For when not fit too big or little be They fall away and cannot stay we see So Atomes as they dance finde places fit They there remaine lye close and fast will sticke Those that unfit the rest that rove about Do never leave untill they thrust them out Thus by their severall Motions and their Formes As severall work-men serve each others turnes And thus by chance may a New World create Or else predestinated to worke my Fate The foure principall Figur'd Atomes make the foure Elements as Square Round Long and Sharpe THE Square stat Atomes as dull Earth appeare The Atomes Round do make the Water cleere The Long streight Atomes like to Arrowes fly Mount next the points and make the Aiery Skie The Sharpest Atomes do into Fire turne Which by their peircing quality they burne That Figure makes them active active Light Which makes them get aboue the rest in flight And by this Figure they stick fast and draw Up other Atomes which are Round and Raw As Waters are round drops though nere so small Which shew that water is all sphericall That Figure makes it spungy spungy wet For being hollow softnesse doth 〈◊〉 And being soft that makes it run about More solid Atomes thrast it in or out But sharpest Atomes have most power thereon To nip it up with Cold or Heate to run But Atomes Flat are heavy dull and slow And sinking downward to the bottome go Those Figur'd Atomes are not active Light Whereas the Longe are like the Sharp in flight For as the Sharpe do pierce and get on high So do the long shoot streight and evenly The Round are next the Flat the Long next Round Those which are sharp are still the highest found The Flat turne all to Earth which lye most low The Round to Water cleer which liquid flow The Long to Aire turne from whence Clouds grow The Sharp to Fire turne which hot doth glow These Foure Figures foure Elements do make And as their Figures do incline they take For those are perfect in themselves alone Not taking any shape but what 's their owne What Forme is else must still take from each part Either from Round or Long or Square or Sharp As those that are like to Triangulars cut Part of three Figures in one Forme is put And those that bow and bend like to a Bow Like to the Round and joynted Atomes shew Those that are Branch'd or those which crooked be You may both the Long and sharp Figures see Thus severall Figures
in every Figure That every severall sort do flock together As Aire Water Earth and Fine Which make each Element to be entire Not but loose 〈◊〉 like Sheep stray about And in t o severall places go in andout And some as Sheep and Kine do mixe together Which when they mixe t is severall change of weather But Motion as their 〈◊〉 drives them so As not to let them out of order go What Atomes make Vegetables Minerals and Animals THE Eranched Atomes Formes each 〈◊〉 thing The hooked points pull out and m akes them spring The Atomes Round give Juice the Sharpe give heate And those grow Hearbs and Fruits and Flowers sweet Those that are Square and Flat not rough withall Make those which Stone and Minerals we call But in all Stones and Minerals no doubt Sharpe points do lye which Fire makes strike out Thus Vegetables Minerals do grow According as the severall Atomes go In Animals all Figures do agree But in Mankinde the best of Atomes bee And thus in Nature the whole World may be For all we know unto Eternitie What Atomes make Heate and Cold. SSuch kinde of Atomes which make Heat make Cold Like Pincers sharpe which nip and do take hold But Atomes that are pointed sharpe peirce through And Atomes which are sharpe but Hookt pull to Yet all must into pointed Figures turne For Atomes blunt will never freeze nor burne Cause 〈◊〉 Figures do to a soft Forme bend And Soft do unto 〈◊〉 or Liquid tend What Atomes make Fire to burne and what Flame WHat makes a Sparks of Fire to burne more quick Then a great Flame because 't is small to stick For Fire of it selfe it is so dry Falls into parts as crowds of Atomes lye The Sharpest Atomes keepe the Body hot To give out Heat some Atomes forth are shot Sometimes for anger the Sparkes do flye about Or want of roome the weakest are thrust out They are so sharpe that whatsoere they meet If not orepowr'd by other Atomes eate As Ants which small will eate up a dead Horse So Atomes sharpe on Bodies of lesse force Thus Atomes sharpe yet sharper by degrees As Stings in Flies are not so sharpe as Bees And when they meet a Body solid stat The weakest Flye the Sharpest worke on that Those that are not so sharpe do flye about To seeke some lighter matter to eate out So lighter Atomes do turne Aire to Flame Because more Thin and 〈◊〉 is the same Thus Flame is not so hot as Burning Coale The Atomes are too weake to take fast hold The sharpest into firmest Bodies flye But if their strength be small they quickly dye Or if their Number be not great but small The 〈◊〉 Atomes beate and quench out all What Atomes make the Sun and the Sea go round ALL pointed Atomes they to Fire turne Which by their drinesse they so light become Above the rest do flye and make a Sun Which by consent of parts a Wheele of Fire growes Which being Sphaericall in a round motion goes And as it turnes round Atomes turne about Which Atomes round are Water without doubt This makes the Sea go round like Water-Mill For as the Sun turnes round so doth the water still What Atomes make Life ALL pointed Atomes to Life do tend Whether pointed all or at one end Or whether Round are set like to a Ring Or whether Long are roul'd as on a String Those which are pointed streight quick Motion give But those that bowe and bend more dull do live For Life lives dull or merrilie According as Sharpe Atomes be The Cause why things do live and dye Is as the mixed Atomes lye What Atomes make Death LIfe is a Fire and burnes full hot But when Round watry Atomes power have got Then do they quench Lifes Atomes out Blunting their Points and kill their courage stout Thus they sometimes do quite thrust out each other When equall mix'd live quietly together The cause why things do live and dye Is as the mixed Atomes lye What Atomes cause Sicknesse WHen sicke the Body is and well by fits Atomes are fighting but none 〈◊〉 better gets If they agree then Health returnes againe And so shall live as long as Peace remaine What Atomes make a Dropsie WHen Atomes round do meet joyne in one Ball Then they swell high and grow Hydropicall Thus joyning they ' come strong so powerfull grow All other Atomes they do overflow What Atomes make a Consumption THE Atomes sharpe when they together meet They grow so hot all other Atomes beate And being hot becomes so very dry They drinke Lifes moisture up make motion dye What Atomes make the wind Collick LOng aiery Atomes when they are combin'd Do spread themselves abroad and so make Wind Making a Length and Breadth extend so far That all the rest can neither go nor stir And being forc'd not in right places lye Thus press'd too hard Man in great paine doth lye What Atomes make a Palsey or Apoplexy DUll Atomes flat when they together joyne And with each other in a heape combine This Body thicke doth stop all passage so Keeps Motion out so num'd the Body grow Atomes that are sharpe in which Heate doth live Being smothered close no heate can give But if those Atomes flat meet in the Braine They choake the Spirits can no hea te obtaine In all other Diseases they are mixed taking parts and factions BUT in all other Diseases they are mix'd And not in one consisting Body fix'd But do in factions part then up do rise Striving to beate each other out Man dies All things are govern'd by Atomes THus Life and Death and young and old Are as the severall Atomes hold So Wit and Vnderstanding in the Braine Are as the severall Atomes reigne And Dispositions good or ill Are as the severall Atomes still And every Passion which doth rise Is as the severall Atomes lies Thus Sicknesse Health and Peace and War Are alwaies as the severall Atomes are A warr with Atomes SOme factious Atomes will agree combine They strive some form'd Body to unjoyne The Round beate out the Sharpe the Long The Flat do fight withall thus all go wrong Those which make Motion Generall in their war By his direction they much stronger are Atomes and Motion fall out WHen Motion and all Atomes disagree Thunder in Skies and sicknesse in Men bee Earthquakes and Windes which make disorder great T is when that Motion all the Atomes beate In this confusion a horrid noise they make For Motion will not let them their right places take Like frighted Flocks of Sheepe together run Thus Motion like a Wolfe doth worry them The agreement of some kinde of Motion with some kinde of Atomes SOme Motion with some Atomes well agree Fits them to places right as just may bee By Motions helpe they so strong joyne each to That hardly Motion shall againe undo Motions inconstancy oft gives such power To Atomes as they can Motion devoure
Motion directs while Atomes dance ATomes will dance and measures keep just time And one by one will hold round circle line Run in and out as we do dance the Hay Crossing about yet keepe just time and way While Motion as Musicke directs the Time Thus by consent they altogether joyne This Harmony is Health makes Life live long But when they 're out 't is death so dancing's done The difference of Atomes and Motion in youth and age IN all things which are young Motion is swift But moving long is tir'd and groweth stiff So Atomes are in youth more nimble strong Then in old Age but apt more to go wrong Thus Youth by false Notes and wrong Steps doth dye In Age Atomes and Motion weary downe do lye Motions Ease is Change weary soone doth grow If in one Figure she doth often go Motion makes Atomes a Bawd for Figure DID not wild Motion with his subtle wit Make Atomes as his Bawd new Formes to get They still would constant be in one Figure And as they place themselves would last for ever But Motion she perswades new Formes to make 〈◊〉 Motion doth in Change great pleasure take And makes all Atomes run from place to place That Figures young he might have to imbrace For some short time she will make much of one But afterwards away from them will run And thus are most things in the World undone And by her Change do young ones take old 's roome But 't is butt like unto a Batch of Bread The Floure is the same of such a Seed But Motion she a Figure new mould bak'd Because that She might have a new hot Cake Motion and Figure A Figure Sphoeericall the Motion 's so Streight Figures in a darting Motion go As severall Figures in small Atomes bee So severall Motions are if we could see If Atomes joyne meet in another Forme Then Motion alters as the Figures turne For if the Bodies weighty are and great Then Motion 's slow and goes upon lesse feet Out of a Shuttle-cocke a feather pull And flying strike it as when it was full The Motion alters which belongs to that Although the Motion of the hand do not Yet Motion Matter can new Figures find And the Substantiall Figures turne and wind Thus severall Figures severall Motions take And severall Motions severall Figures make But Figure Matter Motion all is one Can never separate nor be alone Of the Subtlety of Motion COuld we the severall Motions of Life know The Subtle windings and the waies they go We should adore God more and not dispute How they are done but that great God can doe 't But we with Ignorance about do run To know the Ends and how they first begun Spending that Life which Natures God did give Us to adore him and his wonders with With fruitlesse vaine impossible pursuites In Schooles Lectures and quarrelling Disputes But never give him thanks that did us make Proudly as petty Gods ourselves do take Motion is the Life of all things AS Darknesse a privation is 〈◊〉 Light That 's when the Opticke Nerve is stopt from Light So Death is even a cessation in Those Formes and Bodies wherein Motions spin As Light can only shine but in the Eye So Life doth only in a Motion lye Thus Life is out when Motion leaves to bee Like to an Eye that 's shut no Light can see Of Vacuum SOme thinke the World would fall and not hang so If it had any empty place to go One cannot thinke that Vacuum is so vast That the great World might in that Gulfe be cast But Vacuum like is to the Porous Skyn Where Vapour * goeth out and Aire takes in And though that Vapour fills those places small We cannot thinke but first were empty all For were they all first full they could not make Roome for succession their places for to take But as those Atomes passe and repasse through Yet still in empty places must they go Of the Motion of the Sea IF that the Sea the Earth doth run about It leaves a Space where first the Tide went out For if the Water were as much as * Land The Water would not stir but still would stand Which shewes that though the Water still goes round Yet is the Land more then the Water found But say the 〈◊〉 that 's moveable without Which being thin gives leave to run about Or like a Wheele which Water makes to go So Aire may the Water make to flow But if that Aire hath not roome to move It cannot any other Body 〈◊〉 Besides what drives must needs be stronger far Then what it drives or 〈◊〉 it would not stir If so then 〈◊〉 of strengths must be In Motions power to move Eternally But say all things do run in Circles line And every part doth altogether joyne They cannot in each others places stir Unlesse some places were 〈◊〉 empty bare For take a Wheele circumference 〈◊〉 without And Center too it cannot 〈◊〉 about If Breadth and Depth were full leaving no space Nothing can stir out of the selfe same place Ebbing and Flowing of the Sea THE Reason the Sea so constant Ebbs and Flowes Is like the 〈◊〉 of a Clocke which goes For when it comes just to the Notch doth strike So water to that empty place doth like For when it Flowes Water is cast out still And when it Ebbs runs back that place to fill Vacuum in Atomes IF all the 〈◊〉 Long Sharpe Flat and 〈◊〉 Be onely of one fort of Matter 〈◊〉 The Hollow Atomes must all empty be For there is nought to fill Vacuitie Besides being severall 〈◊〉 though but small Betwixt those Bodies there is nought at all For as they range about from place to place Betwixt their Bodies there is left a 〈◊〉 How should they move having no space between For joyning close they would as one Lumpe seem Nor could they move into each others place Unlesse there were somewhere an Empty space For though their Matter 's infinite as Time They must be fix'd if altogether joyne And were all Matter fluid as some say It could not move having no empty way Like Water that is stopt close in a 〈◊〉 It cannot stir having no way to passe Nor could the 〈◊〉 swim in Water thin Were there no 〈◊〉 to crowd those waters in For as they Crowd those waters on heapes high Must some waies rise to Place that empty lye For though the water 's thin wherein they move They could not stir if water did not shove Of Contracting and Dilating whereby Vacuum must needs follow COntracting and Dilating of each part It is the chiefest worke of Motions Art Yet Motion can't dilate nor yet contract A Body which at first is close compact Unlesse at first an empty place was found To spread those Compact Bodies round Nor 〈◊〉 matter can contract up close But by contracting it some place must lose The Attraction of the Earth THE reason Earth
attracts much like the Sun Is Atomes sharpe out from the Earth do come From the Circumference those like Bees arise As from a Swarm dispers'd sevr'ally flyes And as they wander meet with duller Formes Wherein they sticke their point then backe returnes Yet like a Bee which loaded is each Thigh Their weight is great they cannot nimbly flye So when their points are loaded heavy grow Can peirce no further backward must they go And as their Hives to Earth returne againe Thus by their travell they the Earth maintaine The Attraction of the Sun WHen all those Atomes which in Rayes do spread And ranged long like to a slender thread They do not seatter'd flye but joyne in length And being joyn'd though small add to their strength The further forth they streame more weake 〈◊〉 Although those Beames are fastened to the 〈◊〉 For all those Rayes which Motion sends downe low Are loose sharp Atomes from the Sun do flow And as they flow in severall Streames and Rayes They sticke their points in all that stop their waies Like Needle points whereon doth something sticke No passage make having no points to pricke Thus being stop'd strait-waies they backe do run Drawing those Bodies with them to the Sun The cause of the breaking of the Suns Beames IF Porous Atomes by the Sharpe are found They 're borne on points away as Prisoners bound But as they mount Atomes of their owne kinde If chance to meet strait helpe them to unbinde For Porous Atomes being soft and wet When Numbers meet they close together get And being glut they joyne together all By one consent they pull so backe do fall If they be round in showring Drops returne Like Beads that are upon a long thread strunge But if their Figures different be from those Then like a thicke and foggy mist it shewes Of the Rayes of the Sun THE Rayes are not so hot as is the Sun Because they are united strong to 〈◊〉 But with a Glasse those scatter'd Beames draw in When they 're united peirce through every thing But being separate they weake become And then like Cowards sev'rall waies they run Of the Beames of the Sun THose Splendent Beames which forth the Sun doth spread Are loose sharpe Atomes ranged long like Thread And as they streame if Porous bodies meet Sticke in their Points to us that 〈◊〉 is heat The Sun doth set the Aire on a light as some Opinions hold IF that the Sun so like a Candle is That all the Aire doth take a Light from his Not from Reflexion but by kindling all That part which we our Hemispheare do call Then should that Aire whereon his Light takes place Be never out unlesse that Substance waste Unlesse the Sun Extinguishers should throw Upon the Aire so out the Light doth go But sure the Suns reflexion gives the Light For when he 's gone to us it is darke Night For why the Sun is Atomes sharpe entire Being close wedg'd round is like a wheele of Fire And round that Wheele continually do flow Sharpe streaming Atomes which like Flame do shew And in this Flame the Earth its face doth see As in a Glasse as cleere as cleere may bee And when the Earth doth turne aside his face It is not seene but Darknesse in that place Or when the Moone doth come betwixt that Light Then is the Earth shut up as in darke Night What Atomes the Sun is made of THE Sun is of the sharpest Atomes made Close knit together and exactly laid The Fabricke like a Wheele is just made round And in the midst of all the Planets found And as the Planets move about the Sun Their Motions make the loose sharpe Atomes run Of Vapour LOose Atomes sharpe which Motion shoots about Sticke on loose Porous Atomes those draw out From those more close for these do highest lye Thus Vapour 's drawne toward the Region high But being their weight is equall with their owne They let them fall to Earth so backe returne Of Dewes and Mists from the Earth SOme Atomes sharpe thrust from the Earth some Round And then a Pearled dew lies on the ground But if they beare them on their sharpe points high Those being rais'd a Mist seemes to the Eye On the Circumference of the Earth there lies The loosest Atomes which are apt to rise Yet not to mount so high as to the Sun For being dull they becke to Earth returne As water which is shov'd with force of strength Is not so apt to move as run at length The Attraction of the Poles and of Frost THE North and South Attracts Contracts are like the Sun They freeze as hard as he with Heate doth burne For Atomes there are like to Pincers small By which they draw and others pull withall When Motion from the Poles shoots them about Mixing with Porous bodies when they 're out And with those Pincers small those Bodies nip So close and hard they cannot from them get Unlesse that fiery Atomes sharpe do peirce Betwixt those Pincers small so do release Those Porous Atomes like an Aule that bores Or like a Picklocke which doth open doors For when they 're opened by those fiery Aules Let go their holds which Men a Thaw strait calls If not they pinch those Bodies close together Then men do say it is hard Frosty weather Quenching out of Fire THE Atomes round t is not their Numbers great That put out Fire quenching both Light and Heate But being wet they loosen and unbinde Those sharpe dry Atomes which together joyn'd For when they are dispers'd their power 's but small Nor give they Light nor Heate if single all Besides those Atomes sharpe will smother'd be Having no vent nor yet Vacuity For if that Fire in a place lies close Having no vent but stop'd it strait out goes There is no better Argument to prove That Vacuum is then to see Fire move For if that Fire had not Liberty To run about how quickly would it dye Quenching and Smothering out of Heat and Light doth not change the Property nor Shape of sharpe Atomes T IS not that Atomes sharpe do change their Forme When Heat and Flame is out but Motion 's gone When Motion 's gone sharpe Atomes cannot pricke Having no force in any thing to sticke For if the Sun quicke Motion mov'd it not T' would neither shine nor be to us so hot Just so when Creatures dye change not their Forme That kinde of Motion which made Life is gone For Animall Spirits which we Life do call Are onely of the sharpest Atomes small Thus Life is Atomes sharpe which we call Fire When those are stopt or quench'd Life doth expire Of a Sparke of Fire A Sparke of Fire is like a Mouse doth eate Into a Cheese although both hard and great Just so a Sparke although it be but small If once those Points can fasten peirce through all Of a Coale
please so well the Sense That Reasons old are though to be Non-sense But all Opinions are by Fancy fed And Truth under Opinions lieth dead The Objects of every Sense are according to their Motions in the Braine WEE mad should thinke those Men if they should tell That they did see a Sound or tast a Smell Yet Reason proves a Man doth not erre much When that we say his senses all are Touch. If Actions in a Table be lively told The Braine strait thinks the Eye the same behold The Stomacke Hungry the Nose good Meat doth smell The Braine doth thinke that Smell the Tongue tasts well If we a Theese do see and him do feare We strait do thinke that breaking Doors we heare Imaginations just like Motions make That every Sense doth strike with the mistake According as the Notes in Musicke agree with the Motions of the Heart or Braine Such Passions are produced thereby IN Musicke if the Eighths tun'd Equall are If one be strucke the other seemes to jarre So the Heart-strings if equally be stretch'd To those of Musick Love from thence is fetch'd For when one 's strucke the other moves just so And with Delight as evenly doth go The Motion of Thoughts Musing alone mine Eyes being fixt Upon the Cround my Sight with Gravell mixt My Feet did walke without Directions Guide My Thoughts did travell farre and wander wide At last they chanc'd up to a Hill to climbe And being there saw things that were Divine First what they saw a glorious Light to blaze Whose Splendor made it painfull for the Gaze No Separations nor Shadowes by stops made No Darknesse to obstruct this Light with Shade This Light had no Dimension nor Extent But fil'd all places full without Circumvent Alwaies in Motion yet fixt did prove Like to the Twinkling Stars which never move This Motion working running severall waies Did seeme a Contradiction for to raise As to it selfe with it selfe disagree Is like a Skeine of Thread if 't knotted bee For some did go strait in an even Line But some againe did crosse and some did twine Yet at the last all severall Motions run Into the first Prime Motion which begun In various Formes and Shapes did Life run through Life from Eternity but Shapes still new No sooner made but quickly pass'd away Yet while they were desirous were to stay But Motion to one 〈◊〉 can nere constant be For Life which Motion is joyes in varietie For the first Motion every thing can make But cannot add unto it selfe nor take Indeed no other Matter could it frame It selfe was all and in it selfe the same Perceiving now this fixed point of Light To be a Vnion Knowledge Power and Might Wisdome Justice Truth Providence all one No Attribute is with it selfe alone Not like to severall Lines drawne to one Point For what doth meet may separate 〈◊〉 But this a Point from whence all Lines do flow Nought can diminish it or make it grow T is its owne Center and Circumference ro und Yet neither has a Limit or a Bound A fixt Eternity and so will last All present is nothing to come or past A fixt Persection nothing can add more All things is It and It selfe doth adore My Thoughts then wondring at what they did see Found at the last themselves the same to bee Yet was so small a Branch perceive could not From whence they Sprung or which waies were begot Some say all that we know of Heaven above Is that we joye and that we love Who can tell that for all we know Those Passions we call Joy and Love below May by Excesse such other Passions grow None in the World is capable to know Just like our Bodies though that they shall rise And as S t. Paul faies see God with our Eyes Yet may we in the Change such difference find Both in our Bodies and also in our Mind As if that we were never of Mankind And that these Eyes we see with now were blind Say we can measure all the Planets high And number all the Stars be in the Skie And Circle could we all the World about And all th' Effects of Nature could finde out Yet cannot all tho Wise and Learned tell What 's done in Heaven or how we there shall dwell The Reason why the Thoughts are onely in the Head THE Sinewes are small slender Strings Which to the Body Senses brings Yet like to Pipes or Gutters hollow be Where Animall Spirits run continually Though they are small such Matter do containe As in the Skull doth lye which we call Braine That makes if any one doth strike the Heele The Thought of that Sense in the Braine doth feele Yet t is not Sympathy but t is the same Which makes us thinke and feele the paine For had the Heele such quantity of Braine Which doth the Head and Skull therein containe Then would such Thoughts wich in the Braine dwell high Descend downe low and in the Heele would lye In Sinewes small Braine scatter'dlyes about It wants both roome and quantity no doubt For if a Sinew could so much Eraine hold Or had a Skin so large for to infold As in the Skull then might the Toe or Knee Had they an Opticke Nerve both heare and see Had Sinewes roome Fancy therein to breed Copies of Verses might from the Hee le proceed The Motion of the Blood Some by Industry of Learning found That all the Blood like to the Sea runs round From two great Arteries the Blood it runs Through all the Veines to the same backe comes The Muscles like the Tides do ebb and flow According as the severall Spirits go The Sinewes as finall Pipes come from the Head And all about the Body they are spread Through which the Animall Spirits are conveyed To every Member as the Pipes are laid And from those Sinewes Pipes each Sense doth take Of those Pure Spirits as they us do make T Is thought an 〈◊〉 Matter comes from the Sun In streaming Beames which Earth doth feed upon And that the Earth by those Beames backe doth send A Nourishment to the Sun her good Friend So every Beame the Sun doth make a Chaine To send to Earth and to draw backe againe But every Beame is like a blazing Ship The Sun doth trafficke to the Earth in it Each Ship is fraught with heat through Aire it swims As to the Earth warme Nourishment it brings And Vapour moist Earth for that warmth returnes And sends it in those Ships backe to the Sun Great danger is if Ships be over-fraught For many times they sincke with their owne weight And those gilt Ships such Fate they often find They sincke with too much weight or split with Wind. It is hard to beleive that there are other VVorlds in this VVorld NOthing so hard in Nature as Faith is For to beleive Impossibilities As doth impossible to us appeare Not 'cause 't is not but to our Sense
Inconstancy The Male high Credence which doth relaxe To any thing the Female Sex will ask Two Rivers round this Garden run about The one is Confidence the other Doubt Every Bank is set with Fancies Flowers Wit raines upon them fine refreshing Showers Truth was the Owner of this place But Ignorance this Garden out did raze Then from this Garden to a Forrest goes Where many Cedars of high Knowledge growes Oakes of strong Judgment Hasle Wits which Tree Beares Nuts full of Conceits when crackt they bee And smooth Tougu'd Beech kind-hearted Willow bowes And yeilds to all that Honesty allowes Here Birds of Eloquence do fit and sing Build Nests Logick to lay Reasons in Some Birds of Sophistry till 〈◊〉 there lye Wing'd with false Principles away they flye Here doth the Poet hawk hunt run a Race Untill he weary growes then leaves this Place Then goes a Fishing to a Rivers side Whose Water 's cleare where Fancy flowes high Tide Angles with Wit to catch the 〈◊〉 of Fame To feed his Memory and preserve his Name And of Ambition builds Ships swift and strong Sales of Imaginations drive her on With Windes of severall Praises fills them full Swimmes on the salt Sea Braine round the Worlds Scull 〈◊〉 Thoughts labour both day and night For to avoid a Ship-wrack of dislike These Ships are often cast upon the Sands of Spight And Rocks of Malice sometimes split them quite But Merchant Poets and Ship-Master Mind Do compasse take some unknowne Land to finde Of the Head THE Head of Man 's a Church where Reason preaches Directs the Life and every Thought it teaches Perswades the Mind to live in Peace and quiet And not in fruitlesse Contemplation Riot For why saies Reason you shall damned be From all Content for your Curiosity To seek about for that you cannot finde Shall be a Torment to a restlesse Mind The Mine of VVit T IS strange Men think so vaine and seem so sage And act so foolish in this latter Age. Their Braines are alwaies working some designe Which Plots they dig as Miners in the Mine Fancy the Minerall the Mine's the Head Some Gold are Silver Iron Tin and Lead The Furnace which 't is melted in is 〈◊〉 Quick Motion 't is which gives a glowing Heat The Month 's the 〈◊〉 where the Oare doth run The Hammer which the 〈◊〉 do heat's the Tongue The Eare 's the Forge to shape and 〈◊〉 it out And severall Merchants send it all about And as the Mettle's worth the price is set And Schollers which the Buyers are do get On Gold and Silver which are Fancies fine Are Poets 〈◊〉 as Masters of that Coine Strong Judgments Iron hard is fit for use For Peace or War to joyne up Errours loose Though Lead is dull yet often use is made Like to Translators in every Language trade But Tin is weake and of small strength we see Yet joyn'd with Silver Wits makes 〈◊〉 Halfe-witted Men joyn'd with strong Wits might grow To be of use and make a Glisering shew GIve me that Wit whose Fancy's not consin'd That buildeth on it selfe not two Braines joyn'd For that 's like Oxen yoak'd and forc'd to draw Or like two Witnesses for one Deed in Law But like the Sun that needs no help to rise Or like a Bird in Aire which freely flies Good Wits are Parallels that run in length Need no Triangular Points to give it strength Or like the Sea which runneth round without And graspes the Earth with twining Armes about Thus true Born Wits to others strength may give Yet by its owne and not by others live THE CLASPE Phantasmes Masque THE Scene is Poetry The Stage is the Braine whereon it is Acted First is presented a Dumb Shew as a young Lady in a Ship swimming over the Scene in various Weather Afterwards this Ship came back againe having then a Commander of War as the Owner in various Weather this Ship being in great distresse Jupiter releives it Then appeared six Masquers in severall Dresses as drest by Love Valour Honour Youth Age Vanity Vanity 〈◊〉 the World and Age Mortality Then there is presented in Shew the Nine Muses who dance a measure in foure and twenty Figures and nine Musicall Instruments made of Goose-quils playing severall Tunes as they dance Then a Chorus speakes The Bride and Bridegroome going to the Temple Fancy speaks the Prologue to Judgment as King Vanity speaks an Epilogue to the Thoughts which are Spectators Honour speaks another Fancies Prologue to Judgment GReat King we here present a Masque to Night To Judgments view and for the Mindes delight If it be good 〈◊〉 Lights of Praise about If it be bad then put those Torches out Similizing a young Lady to a Ship A Ship of youth in the Worlds Sea was sent Ballanc'd with Selfe-conceit and Pride it went And large Sailes of Ambition set thereon Hung to a tall Mast of good Opinion And on the Waves of Plenty did it ride With Winds of Praise and Beauties flowing Tide Unto the Land of Riches it was bound To see if Golden Fame might there be found And in a Calme of Peace she swims along No Stormes of War at that time thought upon But when that she had past nineteen Degrees The Land of Happinesse she no longer secs For then Rebellious Clouds foule black did grow And Showers of Blood into those Seas did throw And Vapours of sad Sighs full thick did rise From grieved Hearts which in the bottome lyes Then Feares like to the Northern Winds blew high And Stars of Hopes were clouded in the Skie The Sun went downe of all Prosperity Reel'd in the troubl'd Seas of Misery On Sorrowes Billowes high this Ship was toss'd The Card of Mirth and Mark of Joy was lost The Point of Comsort could not be found out Her sides did beat upon the Sands of Doubt Prudence was Pilot she with much ado A Haven of great France she got into Glad was this Ship that she safe Harbour got Then on the River of Loire she strait swam up For on this River she no 〈◊〉 feares Directly to faire Paris this Barque steers And in that place she did some time remaine To mend her totter'd and torne Barque againe New Sailes she made and all her Tacklings fit Made her selfe Fine and Gay Respect to get Where there a Noble Lord this Ship did buy And with this Ship he meanes to live and dye The Ship AFter this Ship another Voyage went Ballanc'd it was with Spice of sweet Content The Mast was Merit where Sailes of Love tied on By virtuous Zephyrus those Sailes were blowne And on the Sea of Honour did it swim And to the Land of Fame did Trafsick in At last a storm of Poverty did rise And Showers of Miseries fell from the Skies And 〈◊〉 Creditors a Noise did make With threatning Bills as if the Ship would break This Ship was forc'd towards the Northern Pole There Icy Wants did on this Ship take hold At last
do flow out And faiths which never knew to make a doubt Thus offer'd all with gratefull Hearts in rankes Whereon was sprinckled the essence of thankes Brought was the fire of Love which burnt all 〈◊〉 Holy-water the penitentiall Tear The Priests which were the Cardinall Vertues foure Those Ceremonies executed o're In grave procession honour high 〈◊〉 raise And with their Anthems sweet did sing her praise Fame THen on her wings doth Fame those Actions bear Which flye about and carry'hem every where Sometime she overloaded is with all And then some downe into Oblivion fall But those that would to Fames high Temple go Must first great Honours Temple quite passe through The Temple of Fame THis Temple is divided in two parts Some open lye others obscure as hearts Some light as day others as darke as night By times obscurity worn out of sight The outward rooms all glorious to the eye In which Fames image placed is on high Where all the windows are Triangulars cut VVhere from one face a million of faces put And builded is in squares just like a Cube VVhich way to double hard is in dispute VVherein the Ecchoes do like balls rebound From every corner making a great sound The walls are hung with chapiters all of gold In Letters great all actions there are told The Temple doore is of prospective Glasse Through which a small beame of our eye can passe That makes truth there so difficult to know As for the bright Moone a new world to show The Steeple or Pillars of Goose-quils built And plastered over with white paper guilt The painting thereof with Inke black as jet In severall workes and figures like a Net This Steeple high is and not very light As a faire Evening is 'twixt day and night Five Tongues the five Bells through the world do ring And to each severall eare much newes doe bring The Philosophers Tongue doth give a deep sound But the Historians is no better found The Oratours Tongue doth make a great noyse Grammarians sound harsh as if it had flawes The small Bell a Poets tongue changes oft Whose motion is quick smooth even and soft The ropes they hung by we could not well see For they were long small threads of Vain-glory. But yet when they did ring made a sweet chime Especially when the Poet he did rhime The Belfrey man a Printer by his skill That if he pleases may ring when he will When Priest to Mattens or to Vespers goe To the High Altar they bow downe low This Altar whereon they offer unto Fame Is made of braines armes and hearts without blame On which lyes Wisdome Wit Strength Courage Love Offer'd as sacrifices to Fame above Vertues Arts Sciences as Priest here stands But Fortune Prioresse all these commands Incense of noble deeds to Fame she sends Nothing is offer'd but what she recommends For Fortune brings more into Fames high Court Then all their vertues with their great 〈◊〉 Fames Library within the Temples FAmes Library where old Records are plac'd What acts not here unto oblivion cast There stands the skelves of Time where books do lye Which books are tyed by chaines Of destiny The Master of this place they Favour call Where Care the door-keeper doth lock up all Yet not so fast but Bribery in steals Partialities cousenage truths not reveals But Bribery through all the world takes place And offerings as a bribe in heaven findes grace Then let not men disdaine a bribe to take Since gods doe blessing give for a bribes sake The Fairy Queen THe Fairy Queens large Kingdome got by birth Is in the circled center of the Earth Where there are many springs and running streams Whose waves do glister by the Queens bright beams Which makes them murmure as they passe away Because by running round they cannot stay For they do evermore just like the Sun As constantly in their long race they run And as the Sun gives heat to make things spring So water moyslure gives to every thing Thus these two Elements give life to all Creating every thing on Earths round ball And all along this liquid source that flows Stand Mirtle trees and banks where flowers grows 'T is true there are no Birds to sing sweet notes But there are winds that whistle like birds throats Whose sounds and notes by variation oft Make better Musicke then the Spheares aloft Nor any beasts are there of cruell nature But a slow sost worm a gentle creature Who fears no hungry birds to pick them out Safely they graspe the tender twigs about There Mountains are of pure resined gold And Rocks of Diamonds perfect to behold Whose brightnesse is a Sun to all about Which glory makes Apollo's beams keep out Quarries of Rubles Saphirs there are store Christals and 〈◊〉 many more There polisht pillars naturally appeare VVhere twining vines are clustred all the yeare The Axle-tree whereon the Earth turnes round Is one great 〈◊〉 by opinion found And the two ends which called are the Poles Are pointed Diamonds the Antartick holds And Artick which about the world is rowl'd Are rings of pure refined perfect gold Which makes the Sun so seldome there appear For fear those rings should melt if he came near And as a wheele the Elements are found In even Layes and often turnings round For first the sire in circle as the spoake And then the water for aire is the smoak Begot of both for fire doth water boyle That causes clouds or smoak which is the oyle This smoaky childe sometimes is good then bad According to the nourishment it had The outward 〈◊〉 as the Earth suppose Which is the surface where all plenty flows Yet the Earth is not the cause of turning But the siery spoak not fear of burning The Axle-tree for that grows hard with heat And by its quicknesse turns the wheel though great Unlesse by outward weight it selfe presse down Raising the bottome bowing down the Crown Yet why this while am I so long of proving But to shew how this Earth still is moving And the heavens as wheels do turn likewise As we do daily see before our eyes To make the Proverb good in its due turn That all the world on wheels doth yeerly run And by the turn such blasts of wind doe blow As we may think like Windmils they do go But winds are made by Vulcans bellows sure Which makes the Earth such Collicks to endure For he a Smith set at the sorge below Ordained is the Center-fire to blow But Venus laughs to thinke what horns he wears Though on his shoulders halfe the Earth he bears Nature her mettal makes him hammer out All that she sends through Mines the world about For he 's th' old-man that doth i' th Center dwell She Proserpine that 's thought the Queen of hell Yet Venus is a Tinkers wife we see Not a goddesse as she was thought to be When all the world to her did offerings bring And her high praise
I should be rude Kissing her Garment thin which Fancy made Kneeling upon a Thought like one that pray'd In whispers soft I did present His humble service which in mirth was sent Thus by imagination I have been In Fairy Court and seen the Fairy Queen For why imagination runs about In every place yet none can trace it out A Poet I am neither borne nor bred But to a witty Poet married Whose Braine is Fresh and Pleasant as the Spring Where Fancies grow and where the Muses sing There oft I leane my Head and 〈◊〉 harke To heare his words and all his Fancies mark And from that Garden Flowers of Fancies take Whereof a Posie up in Verse I make Thus I that have no Garden of mine owne There gather Flowers that are newly blowne REader I have a little Tract of Philosophicall Fancies in Prose which will not be long before it appear in the world FINIS AN Eye As Round and Long have As the numbers of Sharpe Atomes do peirce and make way through greater numbers as a Sparke of fire will kindle and burn up a house * These Atomes are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Atomes and half Fiery Long Round Sharpe Flat * This is when some Atomes overpower others by their Numbers for they cannot change their Formes Over power'd 〈◊〉 do so In compasse * In compasse * In compasse * As water will make a wheele to go so 〈◊〉 makes water go * A crosse Motion 〈◊〉 the Circular if there be 〈◊〉 space between The world turns 〈◊〉 two imaginary Poles the Earth upon one the Heavens upon another yet the Earth nor the Heavens could not stir 〈◊〉 no 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 example A wheel could not 〈◊〉 round if the 〈◊〉 were prest 〈◊〉 close and the center on either side * I meane all Rayes in generall of all sorts 〈◊〉 Atomes which move * The Suns Rayes * Concaves draw to a center * 〈◊〉 Atomes shine but sharp Atomes * It seems like a burning coal * Long Atomes sharp at each end * That part of the Earth is darke which is from the Sun * To that part of the Earth the Moone hides * At the Poles Round Atomes are water Sharp Atomes By Gone 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Motion ceases Their Forme doth not dissolve 〈◊〉 at their Death * Life is such kinde of Motion as sharp Atomes * That is when they are separated or their Motion 〈◊〉 and though every Figure hath 〈◊〉 Motions 〈◊〉 to their Shape yet they do not move alwaies alike 〈◊〉 they have one kinde of Motion singly and another kinde when they are united but when they are mixt with other Figures their Motion 〈◊〉 according to their severall mixtures * The sharpe Atomes are like the Teeth of Mice * Not the form of the Atomes but the forme of their Settlement * 〈◊〉 loose Atomes which we perceive not doe run to those which are united in the Coale * Wood is made most of flat Atomes * For severall Formes are according to the 〈◊〉 of Atomes which Formes are undone still by the strongest party When there is no Substance left for sharp Atomes to worke upon they disperse for they seek to undo the composure of all other Atomes When it 〈◊〉 Warmth * They separate the sharp Atomes * When Water is throwne on Fire * When Water is throwne on Fire * The encounters of Bodies make all Sound * Long and round Atomes are more thin theu flat or sharpe by reason they are more hollow and their hollowness makes their Bulk blgger though not their weight heavier * Those Drops ioyning close and even * 〈◊〉 there be Infinites of Worlds then there may be insiuites of Centers although not a Center in 〈◊〉 * The Sun in the midst of the 〈◊〉 which are sharpe Atomes As it were without partition but it is but one They would beat against each other They are 〈◊〉 according to the severall strengths of their motion They turne as they go A Jack Bowle is the marke The severall Elements are at but one matter The Wind. * All things come from God Almighty * When the Sun draws up more Moisture then it can digest it turns to Raine or wind * As it seems to us * As I have before 〈◊〉 they do it 〈◊〉 Atomes Because my Lines are too long for my Rhimes therefore I put them in Prose * Numbers * Fancy * Because 〈◊〉 Poets imitate Homer * The Theft of Poets * There may be more Earths then one for all we know and but one Sun * The Crest in the Wainscot gilt Good Mines are found out by the Birches bowing * Sun Beames * There would be no 〈◊〉 if no Light These Smocks are the daies * The Moon * The five Senses are Natures Boxes Cabinets The Braine her chiefe Cabinet which are Love Verses Natures Cellar 〈◊〉 wine Strong-waters * Flesh and Fish Natures wheele Natures Garden Natures Musicall Instruments Natures Musick Natures Arable and Meadow Natures Horses Natures Ship * In the Aire Clouds move or wave as water in the Sea and Ebb and Flow according to dry or moist weather * A bough is their Haven * A Church As ripe Corne will do with the wind * Here the Ship is taken for a Horse * Five Senses 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * Which are the 24. Letters of the Alphabet 1 〈◊〉 2 Masquer 3 〈◊〉 * As a 〈◊〉 5 Masquer A Masquer drest with Honour Time * Times Cabinet is Oppertunity The Offerings * The waters run in circulations It was a custome in ancient time to hang their offerings on trees All objects that the Senses bring in are as Merchandises brought from forreign parts When 〈◊〉 are shot from each corner they make 〈◊〉 triangular point upon the 〈◊〉 Vanity Pride Ambition Fame * The under lid