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A31106	The learned man defended and reform'd a discourse of singular politeness and elocution, seasonably asserting the right of the muses, in opposition to the many enemies which in this age Learning meets with, and more especially those two, Ignorance and Vice : in two parts / written in Italian by the happy pen of P. Daniel Bartolus, S.J. ; Englished by Thomas Salusbury ; with two tables, one general, the other alphabetical.; Dell'huomo di lettere difeso et emendato. English	Bartoli, Daniello, 1608-1685.; Salusbury, Thomas.	1660 (1660)	Wing B988; ESTC R9064	173,867	431

triumph of others virtues in running through the fields of Eternity with the steps of Desert c. expressions usual in subjects of familiar but Plebeian Argument and about things that they engreaten not in the least When its indiscretion to use too Elegant and Polite a Style BUt of Conceits and the manner of using them let every one judg according to his reason and fancy For my part if I be to borrow any of them for the necessity of the Argument I esteem them as Jewels and take their value from their Nature and Use so that they be not counterfeit but real and not disordered at all adventures but put in their proper places The one is the Office of the Wit which is to Invent them and the other of the Judgment which ought to Dispose them The Wit is not to take Chystals for Diamonds the Judgment must not crowd them in where they should not be imitating the Western Barbarians which cut the skins of their faces to enchase therein Jewels never perceiving that they more deform themselves with the Gashes they make than adorn themselves with the Ornaments they wear The face requireth no other ornament than its natural beauty and its more wronged and deform'd by a Pearl although very excellent enchased in a Cheek than by the blemish of a Mole growing there naturally In like manner in the Art of Speaking some things appear the fairer for their plainnesse and resemble Pictures in which saith Pliny Junior very excellently that the Painter Ne errare quidem debet in melius Lysippus cast a Statue of Alexander so to the life that it seemed he had infused into the melted Brasse the veey Soul of that great King Nero that was Cruel even in his Favours and did hurt even there where he pretended to help having it in his power amongst other spoils of Greece would gild it judging that a Statue of so excellent workmanship was not worthily composed of any worse Metal than Gold The Fool considered not that Martial faces were better expressed by the fiercenesse of Brasse than by the sprucenesse of that Womanish and lascivious Metal Therefore the Gilded Statue of Nero lost all the Nobility of Alexander all the Workmanship of Lysippus and that being gilt became a dead Statue which seem'd before a living Image So that he was constrain'd to correct his error and for Nero's fault to flea Alexander taking off with the Fyle that Golden Skin which had been lay'd on with fire and yet so gasht so ill dealt with it remain'd more beautiful than it did before when it was gilded Cum pretio periisset gratia artis said the Stoick detractum est aurum pretiosiorque talis aestimatur etiam cicatricibus operis atque consciscuris in quibus aurum haeserat remanentibus Therefore Imbelishments are not alwayes Ornaments but sometimes transform one into deformity and where Ornari res ipsa negat contenta doceri to be superfluously and sometimes affectedly conceited declares a great plenty of Wit but a small portion of judgment In Affections then either let us betake our selves to imitate or suppresse them which is the hardest point in the Profession of Rhetorick because an exquisite Art of a refined Judgment must lie hid under such Naturalnesse that what is said may not seem a Dictate of Wit but a venting of the heart not studied but born of it self not got by pausing but found in the very act of speaking what use can be made of a Style that 's distilled drop by drop by the dim light of a Candle with words wract in their Metaphors double in their allusions with spiritous and lively senses more able to puzle the brain than to move the heart Mortuum non artifex fistula saith Chrysologus sed simplex plangit affectio For my self when I chance to hear the affections managed in so improper a manner I feel a greater naucity than one who is Sea-sick and my tongue itcheth to be using that saying of a Wise Emperour that said to one of his Servants all perfum'd with Musk as he trust him out of his Chamber banished him the Court Mallem allium oleres How would that great Master of the Stage Polus in expressing the affections suffer the affectatiō of a childish Style who to represent more lively the person of Hecuba lamenting the losse of her Valorous Son dead Hector whose ashes she carried in an Urn dis-interred the Bones of his own Son a little before buried and filled the Urn therewith and with that in his arms appeared on the Stage leaving the Art of Mourning to Nature and expressing the imitation with reality whilst under the mask of Hecuba he represented himself a child-lesse Father and under the name of Hector bewail'd the losse of his Son Thus the Style of the affections is the truer the more natural it is nor is it possible that whilst the Thoughts run to the motions of the Soul the Wit should be so idle as not to be studiously Ingenious nor that whilst it is conveighed from the heart to the tongue of a person impetuous and violent replenished with a thousand different meanings it should have time to select the words to disguise them turning them from the natural to the metaphorical sense and to imbelish them with flourishes and conceits But he that hath a solid judgment if in treating of any matter humerous he see his importunely-fertile Wit to offer and present before him subtleties and nice quirks he will thrust them away with his hand and say unto them Non est hic locus He doth with the eye of his mind as the bodily eyes do when they see too much light they contract the pupils and thereby exclude part of it And is wise in so doing like that famous Ariston that being to expresse in a Statue of Bronzo the Fury Shame Grief of Athamas mixed Iron and Brasse together and darkned the brightnesse of this with the rustinesse of that A wonderful work it was and how much the lesse rich for the matter so much the more precious for the Art by which the rust which is a fault in the Iron became a virtue to the Brasse and made it worth its weight in Gold In fine where he is to speak seriously to convince to reprehend to condemn an act vice or person in using a Style that sings when it should roar that instead of thundring lightens the Periods leaping by salts like the spouts of a Fountain when they should run like a stream every one sees how far he is from obteining what he aimes at Non enim amputata oratio abscissa sed lata magnifica excelsa tonat fulgurat omnia denique perturbat ac miscet It would be nervous and masculine not womanish effeminatly drest all escheated for Levity The looks of the Oratour should not be game-some and laughing but majestick and severe of whom it may be said as the Poet said of Pluto

THE Learned Man Defended and Reform'd A Discourse of singular Politeness and Elocution seasonably asserting the Right of the Muses in opposition to the many Enemies which in this Age Learning meets with and more especially those two IGNORANCE and VICE In two Parts Written in Italian by the happy Pen of P. Daniel BARTOLVS S. J. Englished by Thomas Salusbury Scientia est de numero bonorum honorabilium Aristot l. 1. De Anima Scio neminem posse bene vivere sine Sapientia studio Seneca Epist. ad Luci. Pulchrum est in omni Artium genere excere Sabellic lib. 10. de cultu fructu Philos VVith two Tables one General the other Alphabetical LONDON Printed by R. and W. Leybourn and are to be sold by Thomas Dring at the George in Fleetstreet neer St. Dunstans Church 1660. TO HIS EXCELLENCIE GEORGE MONKE Captain General of all the Armies of England Scotland and Ireland one of the Generals of the Naval Forces of this Nation Major General of the City of London and an Honourable Member of the Council of State c. Great SIR GRandure of it self is Honourable and Learning in it selfe Venerable but when they both con-center in one person they are highly Admirable Dignity single saith the Father The greater it is the Vainer Learning alone experience proves to be obnoctious to every Calpestation But in their happy Conjunction this receives Protection from that and that derives Perfection from this And as the Ancients did Honour to the one in Hercules so to the other in Hypocrates whom the Proto-Aristocratia of Athens worshipped as Hercules But never could we find a worthier Subject wherein to Honour both than your Excellency T is you Brave Sir t is you I say that have Moraliz'd the Labours of the Poets Hercules strangling the Dragons of Tyranny and Heresie if not in your yet their Infancy For your Glory My Lord was reserv'd the Decollating those Hydra's whose Heads were but multiplyed by the opposition of others Cauterizing their Courages by severe and seasonable Proclamations You it is that in this resembling also our other Champion of your Auspitious Name have remov'd that Dragon of Armed Villany which watcht our Hesperidean Garden of Parliament and kept that Golden Branch under Restraint which promised us the Elizean Joyes of Peace Your Heroick Arm hath un-kennel'd those Sons of Vulcan Men of Iron whose slie and crafty conveyance rendred their Footsteppes inscrutable till your Excellency trace't them upon their Retrogradatious In short your Lordships Valour hath flea'd the Nemean Lyon slain the Erymanthean Boar dislodg'd the Men-devouring Diomedes strangled Antheus in their Morals of Vsurpation Cruelty Oppression and Covetousnesse which upon your Herculean Atchievements have lost their strength to conclude 't is your invicible Fortitude hath rescued Theseus and Alcestes Nobility and Innocence from Hell in delivering many Gallant and unjustly-imprisoned Gentlemen from their Chaines And assisted Atlas in helping our Patriots to support the Globe of Government But yet most Generous Heroe give me leave humbly to remember you that if my Mythology can count twelve the number of your Labours are not compleat whilest the Augean Stables are uncleansed and Hellish Cerberus holds on his yelping These two taken away Mercury the Rewarder of Hero's and Patron of Scholars shall Crown your Valiant Temples with the Panegyricks of Learned Pens taken from his Wing and this being too small a Compensation for your Complicated Conquests you shall as Cicero affirms of Alcides by your Arms scale Heaven And if Hyppocrates had the Honour of an Hercules for cleering his Country of a general Contagion none will deny you the Honour of an Hyppocrates whilest your Prudence hath retriv'd our Religion and Learning Liberties and Proprieties from the most apparent Ruin that ever threatned them Therein shewing that your Victorious Hand is as dexterous in Acts of Beneficence as terrible in Deeds of Justice This glorious One of Redeeming your Country from the vilest of Slavery that ever a Warre undertaken for Freedom cajoul'd men into is every way so Stupendious that leaving the Story of it to Enrich Volumes I shall only hint that you Timed it when we were on the point of Rivetting our Chains to perpetuity and when we were like those Wretches under the Tyranny of Marganore divinely described by Ariosto Ma il popolo fac●a come è piùfanno Ch'vbediscon più a quei che più in odio hanno c. In English thus The Vulgar Rout led by example pay Observance blind to such as most they hate And let the Tyrant at his pleasure stay Banish Degrade of Honour Sequestrate Cause none for fear dares to his friend impart How much the common Ruin grieves his heart But vengeance though it in it's pace be slow Payes home at last with so much heavier blow And for the Manner it 's best represented by Loyal Hushai temporizing with Absalom whereby you have happily frustrated the Councils of Achitophel who sullenly retyred deserting his Machivilianismes And so victorious hath your Excellency been with a handful of Men animated by a Righteous Cause against a Potent Enemy that as if their power had been given them for an Accession to your Glory you have most justly merited with all sober Christians the great Title of Orthodox Athenasius who was Malleus Haeraeticorum and are become Herculem Fannaticorum There rests no more unlesse I may crave leave humbly to inculcate against that common Maxime which mistaken hath wrought us so much confusion That in the great work you are upon of setling our Peace Prerogative is the best securer of Propriety And that Pope was herein infallible who maintains as also all that speak thereof that Authority cannot be Just if Illicitly acquired And also humbly to beg as your Defence of Religion so your Countenance for Learning than which there cannot be a more Noble and certain way to Agrandize you And because some are perswaded that the Muses agree not with Mars let me only name unto you for a confutation of them such Honourable Princes and great Captains as Alexander Hanibal and Caesar abroad Albinus Beau-Clerk Edward 3d Humph. D. of Glocester at home whose Literature is as famous as their Valour and that as great as can be parallel'd in any who ever But herein to say more would be to entrench upon the Design of my Author whose Vindication of Learning as I have been able to Transcribe it I humbly lay at your Lordships Feet Promising to my Ambition no other in so high a Dedication than a welcome reception with such whose Eyes greedily are drawn by any thing which is inscribed with your Honourable Name which haply for any desert of it's own in this Age so uncharitable to Learning it might not otherwise find Now My Lord if I have herein been too Free with your Modesty or too Sawcy with your Merits I appeal

the Features and tempers of some few ingenious persons than to the universal occult causes of the Wit have made the faces of a few the common Index of all in so much that Porta as if he were the Alcibiades from whom we must take the features of a true Mercury coppying himself framed from his particular Indices the universal and almost only conjecture of an excellent VVit whence it is that it proves so fallacious to divine from the visage constitution and lineaments of the Body of the immensity subtilty vivacity and profundity of a VVit I will here recite but without much troubling my self with their confutation the more common symptomes given of this matter by the Professors of Physiognomy And first The Platonists deny that Beauty of Mind and deformity of Body can subsist together in one and the same man That Trine of Venus with the Moon which is the seal wherewith the Stars mark the most lovely faces that it may have consonance with numbers they contemper the Mind and accord it to the motion of the first Mind Pythagoras that Soul of Light was so fair in his features that his Scholars some called him others believed him Apollo in the disguise of Pythagoras or Pythagoras coppied from Apollo Nor doth there want a reason for the same For as much as beauty is no other than a certain Flower that is produced by the Soul as a buried seed upon this ground of the Body Likewise the Sun if a Cloud cover it it shineth through it with its more subtle Rayes and renders it so glorious that it no longer resembleth a vapour extracted from the Earth sordid and obscure but flaming Gold and as it were another Sun No otherwise a Soul that is a Sun of light within the Cloud of the Body that covers and conceals it shineth through it with the rayes of its beauty so that it renders that also beyond measure beautiful and this is that which Plotonus calls the Dominion that Form hath over Matter VVhich if it should be granted that Souls come only into Bodies resembling them and onely tye this knot of strict amity there where there is exact similitude who but sees that a beautiful Soul cannot then unite it self to a deformed Body Nor availeth it to tell them of Aesop born if ever any was with the Moon in the Nodes that he was a Thersytes Crates no Citizen of Thebes but a Monster of Affrick of Socrates so ill-furnisht with beauty yea of so grosse a stamp that Sophyrus the Physiognomer gave him for the very Idea of one stupid and blockish whom Alcibiades called a Sylenus thereby declaring him without half Beast within more than Man and Theodorus describing in Theectetus a Youth of most fortunate VVit speaking with the same Socrates could tell him Non est pulcher similis tui est simo naso prominentibus oculis quamvis minus ille quam tu in his modum excedat They deny that such deformity in them was the intention of Nature but the mistake of Chance not the defect of Form but the fault of disobedient Matter But if that be so the Women have therein great advantage to whom Beauty was given for a Dowry and we see that it is Natures continual care to work that soft and morbid Earth so that she may therein plant this flower the more succesfully And yet through the subjection to which they were condemned they have as little Judgment in their heads as they have much of handsomnesse in their faces VVhence Aesops Fox may say of the most of them as he said of the Marble head of a very lovely fac'd Statue O beautiful but brainless head And really if we observe experience it will be obvious that Nature is not oblieged to these Laws of setting Pearls only in Gold and of putting VVits of excellent Sapience only in Bodies of exquisite Beauty Potest ingenium fortissimum ac beatissimum sub qualibet cute latere Potest ex casa vir maguns exire Potest ex deformi vilique corpusculo formosus animus ac magnus Rural Limbs oft-times cover most polite VVits Most amiable Minds lie under rugged skins as He u●der the dreadful skin of the Menean Lion Galba the Orator appeared an inform'd lump of stone but within had a Golden vein of precious and shining VVit Whereupon M. Lullius scoffing of him was wont to say Ingenium Galbum malè habitat Thus many others of whom it would be too tedious to speak particularly have been so deform'd but so ingenious that it seem'd that in them as in the Adamant or Magnet beauty of Mind and uncomelinesse of Body went hand in hand Others again there are that measure the grandure of the VVit by the bulk of the Head and believe that that cannot be a great Intelligence that hath not a great Sphere They comprehend not how a small head becometh a womb able to conceive a Great Pallas how a Giant-like Ingenuity can comprise it self within the narrow neich of a little Scul They know not how that the Mind is the Center of the Head and the Center doth not increase by the bignesse of the Circle The eye is it any more than a drop of Chrystal and hath it not in such smalnesse a concave so capacious that by the gate of a pupil it receiveth without confusion of it half a VVold Parvula sic totum pervisit pupula caelum Quoque vident oculi minimum est cum maxima cernant It often happens that as a little Heart naturally includes a great Courage so in a Head of a small bulk a Mind of great understanding is comprised Others argue from the palure of the face as from ashes the fire of a Spiritely VVit and thus Nazianzen calleth Palidness Pulchrum sublimium virorum slorem And reason seemeth to perswade as much for that the very best of the blood is exhausted in the operations of the Mind and the face thereby left ex-sanguate and discoloured Therefore the Star of Saturn the Father of profound thoughts beareth in a half-extinguish'd light his face as it were meagre and palid Many say that by the eyes sparkling in the day and glittering in the night they can tell which are the true Palladian Bats Others there are who in confused Characters seem to read the Velocity of VVits whose fancies whilst the hand with the slight of the Pen cannot follow it comes to passe that it ill makes the letters cuts off the words and confounds the sense Thus the speedest beasts imprint the most informed tracks whilst on the contrary the slow-moving Oxe makes his steps with patience and leasurely formeth his tracks one by one But I undertook not to relate much lesse to refute all the symptoms from which VVit is argued by these subtle Diviners the sholders and neck dry and lean the temper of the ●lesh morbidly moulded the fore-head ample the skin thin and delicate the voice in a mean between