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A11769	The philosophers banquet Newly furnished and decked forth with much variety of many severall dishes, that in the former service were neglected. Where now not only meats and drinks of all natures and kinds are serued in, but the natures and kinds of all disputed of. As further, dilated by table-conference, alteration and changes of states, diminution of the stature of man, barrennesse of the earth, with the effects and causes thereof, phisically and philosophically. Newly corrected and inlarged, to almost as much more. By W.B. Esquire.; Mensa philosophica. English.	Scot, Michael, ca. 1175-ca. 1234, attributed name.; Anguilbertus, Theobaldus, attributed name.	1633 (1633)	STC 22063; ESTC S100623	106,565	400

saith Salomon Giue strong drinke to him that is ready to perish It is the preserver of health by comforting the naturall heat It tempereth chollericke humours and moderately taken rejoyceth the spirits and it much commends the gooduesse of God that out of such a dry and fraile plant so many precious vertues should accrew to man but by the abuse all these vertues are made vices for God was the Author of the Wine but the Divell of drunkennesse Q. What is the reason that in our Grandfathers dayes and fathers likewise there were fewer Vineyards as many yet living can testifie and yet Wine and all things cheaper A. Because Drunkennesse and Gluttony was lesse common in those dayes than now in ours Of Wine one thus further Vina parant animos faciuntque coloribus aptis Cont. Vina parant Asinos faciuntque furoribus aptis Q. What is the greatest wonder in a man A. His Conscicnce which cannot be removed for his heart may bee sooner pulled out of his belly than his Conscience being of it selfe a thousand witnesses as God himselfe a thousand Consciences which at the last day will be in every one of us guilty the Iudge the tortor the prison to judge to accuse condemne or acquit An evill Conscience saith one is like a short bed wherein let a man turne which way hee will hee can finde no ease Nero having slaine his mother was continually tormented in minde and that the first beginning of his tertor Richard the third of England had such apparitions and terrors in his Conscience after his murders that he could not finde a minutes rest A man may sooner sleepe on the top of the mast in a storme than lodge in quiet with this unruly Chamber-fellow it being to many the Hell before Hell Saith the Wise-man A mans Conscience will tell him more then seuen Watchmen on the top of a Tower and it is that from whence all the beames of Reason flow Erasmus saith as the Sunne is to the world that is reason in man for if the Sunne be clouded there is darkenesse so if Reason be ecclipsed notwithstanding the other senses we differ little from bruit beasts I remember I haue heard thee speake before that the earth doth wax old doth it now worke the same effect upon mans body as in former ages and so Virgil describes men of his time long agoe Qualianunc hominis prodierit corporatellus And so likewise Homer as oft as he recites this clause saith Vt nunc homines sunt remembring the former times their length of dayes greatnesse of stature and the like as one to that purpose seemes to imply When as the Age was long the size was great Mans growth consest and recompenc'd his meat But now our longest times decay so soone We are scarce our fathersshadows cast at noone Q. What is the reason that in the holy toogue all the names of God end in the plurall termination although they are joyned in the singular verbe A. This is a mystery and so it is found every where except in that one name of his Essence lehovah and this is the reason that the Hebrewes giue because the Essence is one though the persons three Certaine Divine flowers of Saint Bernard Behold Lord saith Saint Bernard I doe not give what thanks I should but what I can which hast given me an Essence and above that a vegetive life and aboue that a sensitive and aboue that an intellectiue and above that a saving faith which is the soule of my soule and the reason of my reason Lord saith Saint Bernard that thou hast made me I owe my selfe to thy love I owe all mee and so much more then my selfe by how much thou art greater than I for whom thou gavest thy selfe The kingdome of God conceditur promittitur ostenditur precipitur conceditur in predestinatione promittitur invocatione ostenditur in Iustificatione precipitur in Glorificatione The kingdome of God is yeelded promised shewen perceived it is yeelded in predestination promised in Vocation shewen in Iustification received in Glorification Q Whether are the positive or the privative blessings of God more A. The privative blessing of God are no lesse if not more and yet there is few that takes notice thereon as that we are not blind nor dumbe nor deafe that wee live not in continuall darkenesse c. His positive blessings are life cloathing health and such like of which there is neither number nor end of either Q. The Sea is an Element of wonders are there Syrens or Marmaids therein A. Syrens of ancient times were wont to be called the wonders of the Sea and the monsters therein partly having a body of Fish and the upper part flesh and faced like a Virgin singing sweetly but deceitfully thereby to circumvent and endanger the wandring passengers By this deceit would our Ancestors note unto us the danger of pleasure and yet there are that earnestly affirme that there are such things in rerum natura Saint Hierom moraliseth that hastening towards our Countrey wee must avoyd this Syren in what kind soever she allures passing by with a setled resolution that this inchantment pierce not our stopped eares Saith a Father every Creature speakes unto us with three voyces 1 Voyce receive a benefit 2. pay thy benevolence 3. Avoid punishment The heaven saith I give thee lightin the day that thou maist worke saith darkenesse I spread my Curtaine in the night that thou mayst rest The Ayre saith I nourish thee with breath all kind of Fowles I keepe at thy command the water saith I give thee drinke I purge away all uncleannesse and I preserve all my Elementary creatures to thy use from the smallest minnum to the mighty Whale The earth saith I beare thee I nourish thee with bread and wine I fill thy Table with all sorts of Creatures and fruits The second is a voyce of admonition in which the world saith See man how he loved thee which made me for thee I serve thee as thou servest him which made both mee and thee The third voyce the voyce of threatning where the fire saith thou shalt be burnt by me the water saith thou shalt bee drowned by me the earth saith thou shalt be swallowed by mee as some have beene and if thou lay by thy obedience to him wee put off all subjection to thee Theresore saith Saint Gregory all Creatures call upon man to serve him because hee is the summe and epitome of all and that doe and pay thy due homage and all creatures shall willingly obey thee Q. What is the Soule A. It is a spirituall and reall substance created by God to enliven the body and by how much the heaven is more glorious then the earth by so much doth the beauty of the soule excell the body the immediate descent being from God and not from the body for the Wise-man saith Si cum corpore oritur cum corpore moritur If it had his beginning from the body then the

hammes to enjoy the one but to obtaine the other likewise the face once adorned with beauty and more adored th●…n the Indian sunne now crept into wrinkles and folded up in the pleats of antiquity and more ecclipsed then the Sunne for this I say what paine or price so heavy that these creatures of lightnesse would not undertake but that this ceaselesse lackey to eternity trouped with Kings to his pages never turnes backe to make amends in his regresse for any injury hee effects in his progresse which makes one complaine in a Sonnet to this effect as followeth Could age like dayes as nights ensue Each morning sresh her selfe renue What Lady then at nights decay But would i' th morne begin her day For where 's a face so much declinde That beares not youthfull thoughts in minde That often peepe with oylie eyes Through doctor'd strange adulteries Vpon the world in silke and Gold That grieve to thinke they are so old The Matrons in their rip●…st age That should have wisdome as their Page So much inclin'd to this Devotion That to obtain 't would give an Otian Old age bad cloat●…es such griefe imparts Th●…y break or wound al womens harts Therefore the Phylosophers not to perswade impossibilities would have no man thinke but they must be old but would have no man old before hee be wise yet somewhat to runne with the current of humour have here added certaine linkes or lengthenings to these Summa Desideria and as much as may be done by art or precept laboured to keepe backe these aged wrinkles that deprive our beauty and strength and nip the flower of all worldly delight and therefore doe here at their Tables disccurse of Seriacum jocis according to the rules of wisedome which saith Mingle thy cares with joyes and thy sorrowes with delight crowne the morsels of thy labour with the height of thy contentment and reserve some times for thy vacancie and freedome For the bowe that is alwayes bent must needs be weakened and unapt for use And where sorrow griefe and vexation which sucke veines dry and rowle up the countenance in wrinkles like a scrowle of scorched parchment ever lye tugging what can be expected but the wast ruine and deformity of the whole body and therefore at thy Table in thy Chamber in thy places of rest and retirement lay thy cares and affaires and worldly thoughts aside till time of convenient deliberation or prosecution require them For as saith Macrobius Moderate mirth at our tables beautifieth the body enlightneth the mind and causeth a good digestion in the stomacke delighteth our selves and our company and increaseth knowledge and with his opinion likewise it seemes altogether convenient and fitting that our discourse at the table should either concerne the natures of those meats and drinkes wee furnish our tables with or the natures and conditions of those that accompany us at our Tables or ingenious positions and questions to exercise our wits at our Tables or of such pleasant conceits and jests as doe exhillerate our company and cause mirth at our Tables And therefore I have determined to call this present worke The Phylosophers Banquet dividing it into foure equall parts or Bookes as the nature of the foure subjects wee chiefly handle conveniently require THE PHILOSOPHERS BANQVET CHAP. I. Of MAN IN the Creation of the World and the admirable composition and frame thereof with the diversityand distinction of all the creatures therein and the severall formes shapes dispositions and Natures there●…of although the least of them in co●…ation may take us up with wonder and astonishment perpetually yet to his Omnipotency and Power that created them they were facile and easie For he spake but the Word and they were made Fiat Lux facta est Lux Let there be Light and there was Light and so of the rest But when Man was to be made as Lord and Ruler over all the rest there was a conjunction of the Trinity and consultation of the God-head about the producement of so excellent a creature Faciamus Let us make man according to our Image Indue him with soule and bodie capability and reason giving him dominion over the Fowles of the ayre the Fishes of the Sea and all the creatures of the Earth Therfore Man thus highly honoured thus deliberately made endued with a forme so Angelicall prerogatives so royall Status corporis celsus erectus in Coelum a stature of body ascendant and lifted up towards Heaven a minde so delate and ample able to comprehend the height and depth of mysteries asuring the World in a moment yet not contained in the world as one writeth very pithily of this speedy messenger She is sent as so one to China as to Spain And thence returnes as so one as shee is sent Shee measures with like length and with like paine An elme of silke and heavens wide spreading tent The contemplation whereof made King David being stirred up with the wonder and love of such a workman to breake forth into this 138. Psalme of passion I will magnifie thy Name O Lord how wonderfully am I made All the workes of thy hands are wonderfull as my souie hath tasted and knoweth right well my mouth was not hid from thee being made in darkenesse How wonderfully was I fashioned in the wombe of my mother Thine eyes saw me arude and indigested he aps and all my members to thee were as written in a booke which afterwards were not perfitted but in many dayes And this little concerning this little world Man especially for a draught of the outward shape and lineaments his honor his excellency his majesty his discourse and reason his beauty his Angelicall faculties Now let us a little Anatomise in our consideration of the inward part of this workmanship and how each article and member in his function and office is ●…mployed in the which the very tract of the feet and print of the fingers of that Divine worke-man that thus wonderfully hath formed them doth most evidently appeare the which the more we meditate of the more we shall admire CHAP. II. A division of the body of Man and of the use and office of the inward members thereof Quest. HOw is Mans body divided Ans. Into two parts Simple and Compound Q. What are the parts simple A. They are these which being divided doe notwithstanding keepe the name and Title still of the whole whereof they were a part as every peece of flesh is flesh Q. How many are the parts simple A. Nine viz. 1. Bones 2. Ligaments 3. Gristles 4. Sinewes 5. Pannicles 6. Cords or Filiaments 7. Veines 8. Arteries 9. Flesh. Q. How may they severally bee distinguished in their use 1. Ans. First Bones the foundation and frame of the body Senselesse Dry Cold and Earthly 2. Secondly the Lineaments are white fastenings proceeding from the Bones voyd of blood and sense 3. Thirdly the Gristles are a stay to the Bones that they rub not over-hardly one

German now the man Q. Of what estates consists the Columnes of the Roman Empire A. Of 4 Dukes 4 Marquesses 4 Landgraves 4 Burgraves 4 Earles 4 Barons 4 young Lords 4 Knights 4 Citizens 4 Pages 4 Clownes Q. What was the Answer of that cowardly fugitive A. That he had rather laugh in health after his flight then be praised being dead after the battell one said for his enemies flight he would make him a silver bridege Q. Whether is it more easie to judge betweene enemies or friends A. Bias was used to say that hee had rather judge betweene Enemies for betweene friends he should get an enemy but betweene enemies a friend Q. Where is it that no man is counted evill but bee that doth no evill A. In the company of the wicked theeves robbers and the like Q. Who are those that live and speake after their death A. Learned and godly Writers as the Poet will tell you Vivere post obitum doctos vis nosse viator Quod legis ecce loquor vox tua namque mea est Know that our Learned Writers dead and gone They have two liues where other have but one Q. What is the true use of all learning A. To make a ladder to mount thee up to heaven for otherwise if a man had all Sciences ad unguem all Languages ad verbum if a man had all the learning in Plutarchs Volumnes if these gifts and knowledges to himselfe did not teach him to bee more than a man to reach nearer to heaven all these were but common benefits Aristotle being about to dye certaine of his Disciples standing about him thus commended his soule Now hee that receives the soules of all Philosophers receiue thine Severus the Emperour about to dye said I haue beene all things and now shall be nothing Q. Who was hee that the same moment he was buried was againe revived and came forth of his grave A. A certaine man buried in that Tombe where the Prophet was touched but his bones and was revived thereby 2 King 3. 21. Eccles. 48. 2. A wonderfull Epitaph set up in Bononia apud Spingeides or Spinx in which according to the opinion of learned men there lyes more wisdome then is compiled in many bookes and so it followes Aelia Lelia Crispis neither man nor woman nor Androgina neither mayd nor young man nor old woman neither chast nor harlot but all was taken away neither by hunger nor sword nor poyson nor fire nor plague but by all and hee is neither in heaven nor the waters nor the earth but every where Lucius Agatho Priscius neither husband nor lover neither necessary nor deseruing neither laughing nor weeping neither Mountaine nor Pyramid nor Sepulcher but all knows and knows not who put her there eos qui volet consulat for none but Oedipus can this interpret Q. Doth education alter nature or not A. It doth as it was sufficiently experimented by Lycurgus two dogges the one sprung from a good breed and hunters kind the other from a worse race but better brought up and exercised in hunting whilst the other was brought up at home and pampered in idlenesse now after this threre is a game set before them out of the Forrest and a service of meat this houshold-dogge he forsakes the game and falls to his porridge the other he beares all over to follow the game and herein is the difference of Education tryed as may well appeare to be a new nature likewise this is found true in the practice upon better subjects Cleanthes being asked the difference betweene Logicke and Rhethoricke first hee shewed his clouched hand and then by and by his open hand Stobeus sayth Deliver not in many words a little but in few words much Ernesius counsell to his sriend Take heed thou requirest not great things in thy suit lest hee to whom thou suest may doe it but with some vexation to himselfe or if he deny it with sorrow Q. What is that which though contained in a small circuit yet with her voracity keepeth snatcheth and devoures all things A. The stomacke which if it wants naturall food cuts sharper than a Razor will breake stone-walls will compell a man to eat Cats Dogges Leather or the most vildest things that are as hath beene experienced in divers siedges and famines where a mouse hath beene sold at weight of silver Q. Amongst Saint Pauls many and Divine Epictles which doe you account the most excellent A. Holy and lively and heavenly are all for he learned wisedome out of the third heavens but yet to mee of all the other those which he wrote being in bonds to the Ephesians to Tim●…thy to the Col●…ssians like that Noble Souldier that maintained Christs cause the more valiant before his Enemies and in the midst of them so did this Christian Champion So hee begate Onesimus in bonds for though hee was captive the word of God was free for hee reserved both a liberall tongue and a plentifull stile Q. What is the most guilty part of Time A. Opportunity which if neglected maketh the best thing unrespected according to the Poet Like to a poore man so befriended Or Summers Chimneys Winter ended Or like to Souldiers warres being done Or like to Dogges their races runne Or like to beauty wrinkled old Or like a secret knowne and told So Time of all the dearest cost Not taken by the fore-top lost And for the guilt anotherthus O Opportunity thy guilt is great 'T is thou that executes the Traytors treason Thou setst the Wolfe where hee the Lambe may get Whoeuer plots the finne thou points the season And in thy shady cell where none may spy him Sits sinne to seize the soules that wander by him Thou mak'st the Vestal violate her oath Thou blow'st the fire when temperance is thaw'd Thou smotherest honesty thou murderest truth Thou foule abettor thou notorious band And to expresse thy nature here in briefe Thy honey turnes to gall thy joy to griefe When wilt thou be the humble suppliants friend And bring him where his cause may be obtain'd When wilt thou sort an howre great strife to end Or free the soule that wretchednesse hath chain'd Give Physicke to the sicke ease to the pain'd The poore lame blind halt creep cry out to thee But they ne're meet with Opportunitie c. Q. Why is the earth barren of grasse where richest Mines of gold and silver lye under buried A. Because wise Nature hath lock'd up and covered deep those mettalls which shee fore-saw should herafter trouble the world and made the Carpet that covereth them as barren as the brest of some of these unprofitable rich Iaylors Q. What was Diogenes reason ●…herefore he counselled his friend not to lend money A. Because saith hee if thou lend thou shalt not receive again if thou doe not so soone if so soone not so good if so good then thou losest a friend To this purpose agrees the old saying I once had mony and a friend And joy'd them both together I lent my mony to my friend At need to doe him pleasure His need supplied hee sleighted mine And did not backe repay The money at his pointed time And at my fixed day I sought my money of my friend He paid it backe in hate My money had I lost my friend And now repent too late FINIS Mens D●… simulac●… ●…he 3 first ●…e 3 prin●…pal mem●…rs of life first for●…ed in the ●…ombe Barley Bread Bullockes flesh Thi Harts taile so●… part is poyson Hares flesh The Udder Lver H●…rt Lungs Raines Yeet Flesh baked French mans diet He●…es flesh Henne Star●… ●…uaile Partridg Pigeon●… Duskes Belly Necke Egges Partri●…g Egges Duck-egs Goose-egs Yolke White Egges fryed Cowes milke Asses milk Goats milke Sheepes milke Butter-milke Whey 〈◊〉 Butter Codde Sea fishes River-fishes Salt-fishe ●…rabbes Rice Rice-water Beane●… White Beanes A receit for women L●…tils Ciches Pease Sorrell Dyll Lectuice Mynts Cresses Poppey Opium takē causeth sl●…eping to death Whiee Poppoy Alisander Purslane To take awaywarts Raddish ●…aves Rapes Rue Sage Spinage Mushrom Toad-stoole Figges Figsbreed Lice Dates Grapes Bitter Grapes Pomegranates Areceit for the Iaundise Citrons Peares Apples Sweet Apples Peaches Medlers Cytron Apples Mulberries Plummes Cherries Almonds Parsley Orage or Artiplex Red Carrots Beets Borage Onyons Gourds Receit for tooth-ach Cummi●… Fennell Isope Bieter Almonds ' Nuts Pr●…seruatiue against posson Filberds Chesnuts Walnut Pèpper Ginger Setwell Galingala Clou●…s ●…namen Saffron A receit against drunkennesse Carawais Mustard Salt Uinegar Honey Oyle of Olives Oyle of Nuts O●…le of Almonds Iul. Caesar Iullus Caesar. Caesar●… vehi●… Augustus Caesar. Tyberius Ner●… Domitian Saint 〈◊〉 ban●…ed to Pathmos Vitellius the 〈◊〉 rour Adrian Alexander Romulus●… Alexander K. 〈◊〉 Pontus King of India K Pirr●…us Q. Eliz. K. Charls 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Oratius Pulnellus Zenophon Admoniti●… T●…lly 〈◊〉 by one of A●… s. ul diers for a 〈◊〉 ora●…on made against him for his 〈◊〉 Ingenui●… non rec●…pit 〈◊〉 S. L. D. ●…escio quomodo nimis ●…tem ti ●…es quiminus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 nouis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●…ippus Physicke first sound out by A●… pol●…o Physicians hold that there is no health but a neurrality between health and 〈◊〉 King Alexander 〈◊〉 No man Leader of a company 〈◊〉 ●…o 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 K Edw. 3. his sword at VVesim Guy E. of 〈◊〉 Ch. Brondon D. of suffulke Methusalem lived 936 yeares Romul●…s the first founder of the City of Rome Eu●…ach Emp. Cambyses King Seleucas Ninus Ki●…g of Assri some suppose the builder of Ninivy Pompey Scylla Cato The Tomb of Mauso●… Aug. de ci●… dei lib. 10. Contra Conclusion Pro. Cont. Cont. Pro. Cont. Why the Dane ●…utchman and 〈◊〉 d●…nkmore then the Spaniards Hogs-flesh of al other most nourishing ●…egme the originall of the gout Why the ea●…ng of figs breed Lice To chuse Honey Dangeru●… yeares of a mans life Three dangerous mundays Turcoyse stone Swallowe●… stone Toad-stone Carpe-stone Diuinity Law Physicke Agrology Esay 10. Chypoman●…y Alchumy Nigrom●…cy Kings 1. 2●… Hy●…romancy Pyromancyugury