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A66483 Mnemonica, or, The art of memory drained out of the pure fountains of art & nature, digested into three books : also a physical treatise of cherishing natural memory, diligently collected out of divers learned mens writings / by John Willis.; Mnemonica, sive, Reminiscendi ars. English. 1661 Willis, John, d. 1628?; Sowerby, Leonard. 1661 (1661) Wing W2812; ESTC R24570 62,111 192

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and o are fancied of Gold x and d are transcendents the former ascending above the line the latter descending beneath In writing a Phrase and Sentence the first Word is to be heedfully observed and therefore the first letter must be imagined very large all the Vowels written with Gold and the transcendents very largely extended as is aforesaid Rul 4. Moreover in writing of Phrases all the Words except the first must be supposed written with small letters after this manner To entice with flattering words Conceited with vain glorious bubbles A Sentence consisteth of one or more clauses A Sentence of one Clause may be supposed wholly written with Capital letters as NO CALAMITY IS ALONE THE LAW OF GOD IS THE LIGHT OF MAN 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 FRIENDS HAVE ALL THINGS IN COMMON In Sentences of many Clauses you may suppose all the words of the first Clause marked with capital letters the rest with small letters As SOLA SALUS SERVIRE Deo sunt coetera fraudes GODS SERVICE IS CHIEFEST BLESSEDNESS other things are deceits QUANQUAM BONUM NON EST MALUM est tamen bonum ut sit malum Augustine ALTHOUGH EVIL IS NOT GOOD yet it is good that there should be evil WHATSOEVER IS TO BE BELIEVED BY EVERY MAN IS TRUE But every wicked man is to believe that he shall be saved Therefore it is true that every wicked man shall be saved Here you must note that every wicked man is not to believe absolutely that he shall be saved but conditionally viz. If he repent and believe in Christ Another Example AUREAM QUISQUIS MEDIOCRITATEM DILIGIT tutus careat absoleti Sordibus tecti careat invidenda Sobrius aula Horat. THE GOLDEN MEANE WHO IS CONTENT WITHALL Wants no spacious Pallace nor envied Hall By written Idea's you may conserve all Characters single Letters naked Numbers calculations of Nativities Cosmographical Descriptions and Proofs as also all Words Phrases and Sentences not to be aptly expressed otherwise Now having dispatched all written Ideas and such as are single we will proceed to the compound CHAP. XI Of Compound Idea's THis kind is compounded of single Idea's representing either a naked word or sentence A compound Idea signifying a single word consisteth of a Fictitious and written Idea As for example If you were to remember Edline a friends Name imagine Ed written on the opposite Wall on the right hand and a line extended thence all along to the left aside So Lambert may be retained by a Lamb placed in one of the Repositories and e rt written on the opposite Wall on the left hand Many words may be conveniently reposited by Idea's compounded of fictitious and written Idea's A compound Idea representing an intire sentence is twofold consisting either of a Direct and Written Idea or of a Relative and Written Idea the nature of both will appear perspicuous by examples Example of an Idea compounded of a Direct and written Idea In the third Book of Ovid's Elegies the Fable of Jupiter and Danaes is thus morally applyed Jupiter admonitus nihil esse potentius auro Corruptae pretium Virginis ipse fuit Dum merces aberat durus pater ipsa severa Aerati postes ferrea turris erat Sed postquam sapiens in munere venit adulter Prebuit ipsa sinus dare jussa dedit Jove having heard Gold was of greatest power Would for a Maiden-head himself have sold Without a Bribe Father and Maid look't sowre Brass gates and Iron Walls did him withhold Till in a shower of Gold wise Jove descending The Daughter lov'd the Father did befriend him To remember this Moral imagine the story of Jupiter and Danaes drawn to the life in the upper part of a large frame hanging against the opposite Wall and these Verses of Ovid writ according to the usual manner in the lower part which is vacant Another Example The seven Electoral Princes first instituted Otho third Emperor of that Name and Pope Gregory the fift are included by Manlius in these Verses Moguntinensis Trevirensis Colonensis Atque Palatinus Dapifer Dux portitur ensis Marchio Prepositus camere Pincerna Bohemus The Prelates of Mentz Trevers and Colen The Palsgrave Carver a Of Brandenburg Marquiss Chamberlain The b Of Austria Duke Sword-bearer Cup-bearer the c Of Bohemia King Suppose an Emperor sitting on a throne in one of the Repositories seven Princes standing about him and these Verses writ on a table hanging against the opposite Wall Another Example An Epigram of Sir Hugh a vain-glorious Knight taken out of Nicholas Borbon Sepelapis motus non fit muscosus ut aiunt At barbam é bello retulit Hugo domum Moss as they say grows on no rowling stone Yet Sir Hugh from the Wars brought a Beard home Imagine an armed Knight of a fierce Martial aspect with a long Beard walking in a memorial place bearing a white Shield on his left arm wherein this Epigram is inscribed Another An Epitaph upon the Empress Matilda Daughter of Henry the First King of England Wife of Henry the Fourth Emperor and Mother of Henry the second King of England Magna ortu majorque viro sed maxima prole Hic jacet Henrici filia sponsa parens By Birth Great Wedlock greater greatest in Progeny Here lies the Daughter Spouse and Mother of Henry Fancy this Epitaph graven on the hither side of an Alablaster tomb standing in a memorial place All Histories Acts Fables Apologies Morals described in Verse or other Writing also Epigrams Epitaphs Anagrams and Mottoes may be retained in Memory by an Idea compounded of a Direct and Written Example of an Idea compounded of a Relalative and Written Theodore Beza writeth thus under the Emblem of a man spitting towards Heaven Cernis ut hic foedo coelum qui conspuit ore Non coelum imo suos conspuit ore sinus Et tu coelorum Dominum contemptor in illum Non quot verba jacis tot tibi probra vomis This Drivil who doth spit at Heaven high Not Heaven but his bosom doth defile So contemners of Divine Majesty Do hurt themselves not God by speeches vile In the upper part of a table hanging against the opposite Wall imagine the picture of a man with his hands on his sides his legs stradling and his head bended backward towards Heaven spitting thereat this Tetrastichon written underneath according to the usual manner in Emblems Another The same Theodore Beza hath another Embleme of a Circumference equally distant on every side from its Center with these Verses Cernis ut haec medium cingat teres undique punctum Linea hinc spacio distet inde pari Scilicet illa refert quod nos tegit undique coelum Tellurem hoc punctum quod tenet ima notat Cur igitur doleas quorsum dic quaeso labores Tu patria pepulit quem pietatis amor Coelum si versus tendis quocunque recedes Hinc spacio coelum cernis inde pari See how this Circumference doth inclose