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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77669	A map of the microcosme, or, A morall description of man newly compiled into essayes / by H. Browne.	Browne, H. (Humphry)	1642 (1642)	Wing B5115; ESTC R232470	35,011	208

A MAP OF THE MICROCOSME OR A Morall Description OF MAN Newly compiled into ESSAYES By H. BROWNE Sunt bona sunt quaedam mediocria sunt mala plura Quae legis hic aliter noa sit Avite liber Martial Ep. l. 1. LONDON Printed by T. Harper for John Williams and are to be sold at the Holy Lamb in Pauls Churchyard 164● TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE William Lord Marquess and Earle of Hartford Viscount Beuchamp Knight of the Honourable Order of the Bath one of his Majesties Most Honourable privie Councell and Lord Governour to the Prince his Highness RIght Honourable the great glory of your name and unparalleled goodnesse of your nature have not invited but inforced the readiest affections of my mind like so many winged messengers to flye to your most honoured Lordship in most humble acknowledgement of that unspeakable duty and service I owe to your most noble linage which if I should forget I were worthy as Alexander once served one ●o bee branded in the forehead with Ingratus Hospes My Father had this small Parsonage he now enjoyes through the meanes of the Right Honorable your Lordships grand father of famous memory whose deserts were so great that Vertue and Fortune scemed to contend for the preheminence in crowning them had he no statue erected for him his great memory is marble to it self and his goodnesse is its owne Monument sufficient to consecrate his name to perpetuity Hee is gone Majore nostro cum damno quàm suo as Suetonius said of Titus his soule accompanyed with the winged hoast of heaven is fled to her Maker and is clothed with the glorious robes of immortality and perfect glory in heaven where I leave his blessed soule and returne to your Lordship who makes mee weigh my thoughts as it were in a ballance whether I should conceive m●re griefe for the death of your Lor●ships grandfather or more joy for enjoying your Lordship who now shines in the upper Region of honour and authority certainly 't is fit they should be equall Seeing then my joy is nothing diminished I am bold humbly to crave your Lordship● propitious favor so much as to shroud this my brood now offered with the young Eagles at the altar of your Sunne under your Honours powerfull wings that like the Sparrow which fled into the Philosopher Zenocrates his bosome from the talons of the perspicacious Hawke it may be protected from the poysonous teeth of black-mouth'd Momus in this criticall carping and censorious age As Apelles when he painted Bucephalus appealed to none but Zeuxis so I appeale from the judgement of all men to your Lordships approbation without which this meane worke of mine may be compared as Plato compared many writing Adonidis hortis writings that were of short continuance Scombros metuentia scripta Your most noble name honoured of all sorts of men being stamped in this leaden peece of my phantasie will make it currant and as Phidias his Images were wont to be rspected for the makers sake not for the stuffe so your Honour will make this Image and gain r●spect unto it for unlesse your Lordship were ultim● perfectio forma hujus materiae I might well say with Theognis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Agens verò non egi non finivi finiens I should never have presumed to crave your Honourable patronage of these first fruits of my poore endeavours or but offered them to your judicious view but that I trust you will favourably accept the will for the deed because Voluntas est mensura actionum It is enough for little Birds to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it is required of beasts that are bigger Characters in the booke of Nature to bee 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 For obscure and poore men that were not able to sacrifice a living Bull the Gentiles deemed it sufficient if they did but Taurum e●farina fingere Artaxerxes did gratiously accept of a fist-full of water from the hand of poor Cynaetas And ambitious Alexander the Great would parva libenter accipere I hope therfore most Noble Lord that as the great glory of your powerfull name is able to dispell the foggy mists of my weaknesse so your goodnesse which exceeds your greatnesse will excuse my boldnesse So shall I rejoyce more then the old Arcadians did to see nights sable canop● removed and heavens great spye the Sunne shine in his sphere againe and I will alwayes praise the Lord of Lords for your ear●hly honour praying for increase thereof beseeching him to multiply his richest blessings upon y●ur Honour here and to give you the inco●ruptible Crowne of glory hereafter Your Lordships loyall and most humble servant Humphry Browne AD Lectorem CVpio si fieri potest propitiis auribus quid sentiam dicere Sin minus dicam iratis Senec. Epist 59. A Map of the Microcosme OR A morall description of MAN Newly Compiled into ESSAIES MAN is the masterpiece of GODS workmanshippe the great miracle and monument of Nature both for externall transcendencies and inward faculties He is the abstract modell and briefe story of the universe Hee is the Analysis or resolution of the greater world into the lesse the Epitome of that huge Tome that great Manuscript of Nature wherein are written the Characters of Gods omnipotency and power the little Lord of that great Lordship the World In a word he is Gods Text and all other creatures are commentaries upon it Heaven resembles his soule earth his heart placed in the middest as a center the liver like the sea from whence the lively springs of blood doe flow the braine giving light and understanding is like the Sunne the senses set round about like starres The World is a great Man and a man is a little world as one wittily Est Microcosmus hom● venae sant flumina corpus Terra oculi duo sunt lumina silva caput The soule of man is Immortall And as Aristotle by the light of Nature saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Restat ●t mens sola extrinsecus accedat eaque sola divina sit nihil enim cum ejus actione communicat Lib. de gen anim c. 3. actio corporalis The body of man is mortall but so symmetriously composed as if nature had lost it selfe in the harmony of such a feature Omnium animātium formam vincit hominis figura Cicero 1. de nat deorum The forme of all living creatures is without forme compared to the excellent figure and composition of man Man is called in the Hebrew Adam from Adamah which signifies red earth not that solid part of it but the britlest dust His body onely is mortall and that onely per accldens occasioned by his disobedience not by creation a false perswasion of his immortality made him become mortall by the fond desire of knowing more then hee did his eyes were opened but his sight was blemished He knew indeed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Those Homer Odysls things that were

vultu euge inquit fortuna quam opportune nos ad pallio●um redegisti For as he that struck Iason on the stomacke thinking to kil kim brake his impostume and cure● him so this step mothe● Fortune strikes at Zen● intending to kill him and to make his heart evaporate into sighes by reason of this tempest drowning that which would have drowned him but in stead of a sword she applied a salve breaking the impostumation of vaine glory and outward pleasure growing in his heart and fram'd his minde againe to the study of Philosophy Ambition AMbition is a vice opposite to Magnanimity being an immoderate desire of honou● without merit It is the proud soules dropsie● when a draught of Honour causeth a drough● of Honour One advancement gives a fresh provocation to another Hee is not so soon laid o● the bed of honour bu● hee dreames of a high preferment His desires are as high as the starres his deserts lower then the earth hee 'l willingly stay on no staire if there be a higher yet ascended to the top want of highnesse is his malady Alexander having conquered all Asia and being set on the pinacle of imcomparable dignity on earth hearing Ahaparchus dispute of innumerable worlds salt teares immediatly distilled from the Limbecke of his proud sorrowfull heart because hee had not yet conquered one world Alexander mundo magnus mundus Alexandro parvus Alexander though the greatest Monarch in the world Imperium Oceano famam Virg. 2. Aene●d qui terminat astris Who terminates his Empire with the remotest seas his fame with the Poles thought the world a Mole-hil being too narrow a stage for the large Scene of his ambition Vnus pellaeo juveni non sufficit orbis Juven Sat. 10. Aestuat infoelix angusto limite mundi His heart being a Triangle could not be filled with the world being a Circle An ambitious minde like Tullies strange soil much rain of promotion falling from his heaven the Court makes him still as dry as dust The Court is the Sea wherin he desires to fish and the starry firmament wherein hee desires to shine yet an old Courtier being asked what hee did at Court answered I doe nothing but undoe my selfe And I can say this of other Suitors If ten be dispatched ninety are despighted Aspiring mindes whiles they behold the starres with Thales fall into the ditch Agrippina Nero's mother being told by an Astrologer that her sonne should be Emperour but his Orient should bee her Occident answered Occidat Tacitus l. 14. An. dum imperet Let him kill me so hee may get the Empire Pyrr●us Plu●arch ejus vita King of the Epirotes said If hee had conquered Rome Italy Sicily Africa Carthage and all Greece he could be frolicke with his friends but surely had he atchieved the triumphant victory of all these nations blinde ambition would not have suffered him to rest but hee still would have adored Fortunes bright Sun desiring to increase like the new Moone donec t●tam circumferentiam The new Moones Mot●o imple●t till he fill the whole circumference not considering that the full Moon suffers an Eclipse Camelion-like Plin. Nat. they have nothing within but large lungs windy ostentation thinking with the bladder of their blowne hopes and windy vapours of selfe-love to swim with Antiochus upon the earth and to walke on the sea An ambitious man of a Farmer would be a Yeoman of a Yeoman a Gentleman of a Gentleman a Squire or else hee is out of square of a Squire a Knight and no Gentleman Once knighted the world must count him a Count and then hee rides all upon the Spurre Policie being his Post horse till he come to None-such He would bee a Peerlesse Peere willing to have no Aequator in the terrestriall Globe his greatest plague is a Rivall The impulsive cause of the civill warres between Pompey and Caesar was ambitio nimia foelicitas as Florus the one not enduring an equall the other a superiour Stimulos dedit aemula Lucan l. 1. virtus Nec quemquam jam ferre potest Caesarve priorem Pompeiusve parem It is an essentiall property of a swelling and proud boasting person not to consider whom he excelleth himselfe but who excelleth him Joy doth not so much dilate his heart to see many after him as grief contracts it to see any before him he seldome or never looketh backe but alwayes forward and when hee sees himselfe to bee Fortunes singular and greatest favourite with Alexander hee conceits his immortality and causeth Temples Altars to be erected to his name making himself a God with man but a man with God Sapor a Persian King intituled himselfe Rex Regum frater Solis Lunae particeps Syderum c. Kings of Kings brother to the Sunne and Moone partner with the starres O more then stupid Ambition Art thou King of Kings when not King of thy selfe Art thou so lunaticke as to imagine thy selfe brother to the Sunne and Moon Art thou such a Planet or wandring Starre of invincible ignorance as to write thy selfe a partner with the Starres A falling starre and a fiery meteor shalt thou bee Thou shalt complaine of Fortune with Tiberius that having set thee in so high a place shee did not vouchsafe thee a Ladder to come downe againe They that are advanced to high degree of honour Senec. Ep. Non in praerupto ill●c stant sed in lubric● have a slippery and dangerous station Tolluntur in altum ut lapsu graviora ruant They are tossed up into the aire by Fortunes sling to receive the greater fall and bein set up as Buttes they cannot bee without the quiver of feares Feriunt summos fulgura montes The high mountaines are smitten with the lightning when the valleyes are secure The tall Cedars and lofty Pines are shaken with the Aeolian slaves when the low shrubs stand firme The Sunne that rises in a gray and sullen morne sets clearest Ambitious mindes in the dawne of Fortune breake so gloriously meet with a storm at noon or a cloud at night which will not meerly eclipse but extinguish their glory The Common People THe rude multitude is an untamed monster of many heads locked up in the darksome dungeon of ignorance and inconstancy more infected with errors then Augeus stable was filled with ordure Vulgus ex veritate pauca ex opinione multa aestimat The common people judge of all things as they appeare to them not as they are in themselves being led by the erring eyes of their clouded intellects seduced by false opinions à vero and diverting their wils à bono They play as did the fond Satyr who espying the fire that Prometheus stole from heaven would needs kisse it because it glistered in his eyes Like white clouds or deawy exhalations they are carried hither and thither by every winde Now they flow with honied salutations placing you in the star-spangled Canopy of heaven Anon their