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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12245	The Arcadian princesse; or, The triumph of iustice prescribing excellent rules of physicke, for a sicke iustice. Digested into fowre bookes, and faithfully rendered to the originall Italian copy, by Ri. Brathvvait Esq.	Silesio, Mariano.; Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, engraver.	1635 (1635)	STC 22553; ESTC S117416	99,235	550

cleane forgot what they did i th morning and should your Grace aske them a question they cannot answer you without sleeping What a soporiferous humour is this replide Themista Sure they have drunke Oppium or Night-shade or they could never be so heavy-headed but how stand the rest affected Truely Madame said Euphorbus some of them are so fierce and violent as their gates are ever kept bolted where if you would bee admitted you must pay the Porter Vpon your admittance if you desire to goe farther you must liberally reward the Doore-keeper by whom being brought into their presence you shall finde them like so many State-Idols reered up beckning nothing but awfull reverence Which made mee remember the saying of Cineas That hee never came in presence of the Roman Senators but he verily thought hee came before so many magnificent Emperour●… Bigge and boysterous are they in their salutes as thus Fellow approach nearer Whereas poore Snakes their affrighted Supplicant●… fearing to come within their reach or draw neere the side of their grate for it may be supposed they have heard the description of a Caniball double their reward to that commodious Keeper of the Ward to procure their escape Yet are not these alwayes thus cruell and untractable For there were divers mollifying playsters and other suppling oyles to allay their distemper and b●…ing them as I heard after to a more pleasing and affable humour but these were privately applied and by their most intimate follower●… practised or el●…e they could worke no cure Trust mee quoth ●…hemista howsoever their Natures are to bee suppled these distempers are worst to be cured for they partake of two incorrigible humours immoderate inflammation of the heart and insatiate extension of the hand their bloud therefore must be cooled and the nerves of their palmes straitned or they can never bee cured but how are the last disposed Cleare of an other humour answered Euphorbus for these seeme ind●…fferent how the world goe They are sparing in dispatch but speedy in repast the height of their humour is a plenteous dinner free they are from anger or any passionate distemper onely they feed so liberally as they g●…ow unwealdy they hate nothing more than businesse so as their judgements ever close with a reference yet are they of good dispositions but through discontinuance growne so useles●…e as they cannot possibly give the Grace attendance Well done Euphorbus thou hast freely though shadowingly discovered their maladies it rests that amidst these discomforts wee conceive through their misery wee comfort our selfe with the continuate remembrance of our owne integrity Argument Themista continues her comforts in dilated measures upon reflexe had to her owne integrity She imagines her absence to be the greatest cause of these maladies for whose Cure she bestowes her whole Care POESY IIII. GRieve may we wel yet in our griefe may wee impart Some equall measure of reliefe unto our hart Wee suffer in their misery yet when we view Our well-approv'd integrity we then renew Those comforts we conceiv'd before and still retaine Such may sit safe and sing a shore have past the Maine No treasure to a spotlesse mind whose vertues are In an untainted heart enshrin'd which cures all care Yet was not Phoebus free from blame to make his Sonne A Coach-man ere he knew the same proud Phaëton Nor we to leave our Throne to these who cannot keepe Their lips from Cup●… their hands frō fees nor eyes from sleep Our absence was the cause I feare through want of us Which made these Conscript fathers here distemper'd thus It rests that we partake a share though wee 'r secure In their distresse and have a Care upon their Cure Argument Themista resolves to goe visit her langu●…shing Iusticiaries Euphorbus diswades her from it shewing what danger she might incurre by such a visit No plague more infectious to the body than the corruption of vice to the mind PROSE IV. BVt Cures of this nature said Themista require present reliefe There is more advan●…age in dispatch than delay for by neglect of opportunity we ever lose the benefit that accrues by it It is not so hard to give comfortable counsell to the afflicted as to finde a fit season when to give it Expedition is the best season in extreames lest by delaying of our Cure wee dispatch our Patient It shall be our first resolve then to goe visit our languishing Iusticiaries and to employ our best Care for their Cure It is their inward estate that we tender for in that consists their highest honour We are not affraid to use the words of our sententious Petrarch to see the ●…uinous houses of their decaied bodies shaken for we know well their condition with the necessity of their dissolution so their soules vessels of pur●…r substance though guests of their bodies farewell We ever hold Critolaus ballance for our direction who poizing the Goods of Body and Fortune in one Scale and the Goods of the Minde in the other found those pretious inestimable Goods of the Minde so far to weigh downe the other as the Heaven doth the Earth Seas Wee stand still for that rich and curious Cabbinet of the Soule which so long as it is not rifled by that vitious Crue of inordinate affections all is safe all secure but once soyled hardly restored to her former beauty But alas for sorrow wee cannot chuse but sigh to see old men so senselesse of their misery Grieve they cannot for themselves though they see themselves now descending to their Graves Vncomfortable is that affliction which conceives for it selfe no sensible Compassion and such is these mens case Their bodies are by age weakened with rumerous infirmities enfeebled there is scarce a day but threatens ruine to their crazie Cottages Yet are they as fresh and youthfully greene for vice as if they but lately entred this Theatre of vanity and might promise to their sparkling youth more yeares than they can hours by all possibility On then Euphorbus wee will vi●…t them lest they perish through our neglect Desist Madame answered Euphorbus from a resolve of such infinite danger I understand their disease to be infectious sure I am their whole family seemes to have a spice of the same malady Be not then such an enemy to your selfe as to expose your Honour to apparant danger and so perish through your owne Errour This Madame will turne your visiting of them to a visitation in your selfe VVho will goe into an infected house or tempt the divine providence by subjecting himselfe wittingly to inevitable perill And no plague more infectious to the Body than the Corruption of vice●…o ●…o the minde Of what strong Constitutions were some of these who now lye mortally languishing Able they were to the sight of man to repell all crudities yet see how soone they were vanquished and to the inbred corruption of their own vitious nature miserably captivated I know Madame that you partake of immortality yet

corner Hee acquaints her how his decayed memory is restored his dull and unactive spirits revived Hee appeales to Epimedes to deliver his opinion to his So veraignesse Themista personally and po●…itively touching his nature temper and recovery PROSE V. QVestionlesse said Themista under favour this is not Vpotomos whom you describe after this manner Can a relentlesse disposition bee so soone tamed as to affect what hee before so mortally hated Who would not conceive infinit pleasure in the alteration of such a temper What a glorious liberty that infranchised mind enjoyes who puts off man to converse more freely with heaven But if wee must beleeve Vpotomos nature to bee th●…s altered wee would faine know where his old condition is now seated Sure if that ancient Pythagorean opinion hold firme that there is a transmigration of soules into other bodies there is some body much distempered with his humour having either left what hee had unto another or made an exchange with anothers nature But happy is such a losse which brings the Los●…r gaine Precious such a change which admits no change but to the Republike a constant choice Redoubled is our joy to re-possesse what our conceit had utterly lost and to finde in him whom wee held for lost what wee b●…fore all others incomparably prize But let us not forget our last Consul though perchance security hath made him to forget himselfe Which said shee cals Amerimnos to come be●…ore her whom her servant Euphorbus had sometimes found sleeping in a corner whom shee no soo●…er beheld approaching towards her presence then shee thus accoasted him Amerimnos wee should willingly addresse our discourse unto you all the better to satisfie our selves how those artfull experiments have wrought with you which have already produced such admirable effects in the rest of our Consuls who laboured of no lesse dangerous distemper than your selfe But much wee doubt your drousie attention would dampe our discourse with a sleepie conclusion Much like that over-watcht Epicureall 〈◊〉 who being to give his opinion in a businesse of high consequence betwixt Plaintiffe and Defendant but slept all the time it was in pleading as one suddenly awakt but unprepared of a discreeter answer return'd his opinion in the selfe-same Element whereof hee had probably dreamed in this manner All Cumaea ha's not a piece of sounder Ra●…ie wine This smooth but smart conceit caused all such as were there present to bite the lip but with a secret silent smile to passe the j●…st over for the reverence of their Soveraignnesse and civill feare lest they might dash Amerimnos out of countenance But hee little amated though conscious enough of the quicknesse of the conceit with a decent and well-composed gesture after three low Congies made to her Honour delivered his minde in these expressions unto her It is said of the silk-worme Madam that shee surceaseth from spinning for certaine dayes together that she might after so retired a rest spinne the better And Charity will judge that I have slept all this time purposely to watch the longer Though Endimion kissed Luna on Latmos Mount and for a long time together slept in her lap yet did this sleepy Swaine at last returne to his flocke and redeeme the time by redoubling his care which his security had lost I confesse Madam the whole Progresse of my life hath been a continued sleepe Nothing was ever more opposite to my nature than to impose my selfe a taske or some diurnall ●…abour Long Epicur●…all feasts were my onely delightfull repasts my sole taske was to please my taste which made mee ofttimes sleep when I should have watched for the publike State So as those very Geese who with their gagling preserved the Capitoll were more praise worthy in their generation than the security of my remisse and state retired condition In cases of Iudicature such as were of necessity to make repaire to my Bench sticked not to say that they came thither as to a Lottery ●…or causes were there determined at haphazzard not by equity For as Lawyers pleaded while I slept and heard not so awaking I gave sentence in what I understood not In a word the whole State both of my minde and body was grievously distempered For though mine appetite increased my digestion failed my judgement became weakned my memory decayed and the whole fabrike of this little man fearefully languished All which Aesculapius that inimitable Artist no lesse observed and by your Graces direction seasonably prevented For first h●…e regulates mee to a prescript diet with Elixir'd broaths every morning to sharpen mine understanding Hee prepares me next Antiopian plaisters to keepe mee the afternoone awaking After these Epimeleian julips laid warme to my temples whieh with fumes of strong liquor were ever aching These applied hee injoyned me to abstaine from all strong drinkes and what was most averse from mine hydropick nature never to drinke betwixt meales b●… with my Teeth shut Whic●… prescription I no lesse cu●… ningly eluded than evaded for I practised with a profe●… Tooth-drawer to pull m●… out two of my broadest teeth by meanes whereof and the benefit of a Can●… though my teeth were shu●… to observe his direction I plenteously flowed in mine afternoones potation Hee provides too a Night Cappe strongly chafed with the Lemnian powder of Cornu copia purposely to make my sleepes shorter and my conceit stronger And because hee found by my Vrine and other soporiferous symp●…omes that my kidneye were overlarded with oyle of Dormise whose society I ever so much affected as I admired their condition by meanes of Sweatings and Suffumigations hee extracted all those viscid and oyly humours By meanes of these receits so physically applied I begun to have some little feeling of my selfe and to hold up my head which before like a perpetuall Penthouse hung drilling and dropping o're my brest leaving ever some asper●…ions on my venerable skirts My Physitian who never tyrannized over his Patients but upon their recovery enlarged their restraint to solace their weakned spirits with a discreet liberty gave directions to my Keeper that I should take the aire and refresh mine over-wasted and wearied body with some temperate recreation This granted me and walking one day in a delightfull Spinet beautified with shady Poplars I might se●… a curious peece of antique worke seemingly cut out of a naturall rocke and over-growne with Ivie to prove her antiquity The Device was this An aged man bearing the name of Silenus sleeping in a Cave matted round with Mosse round about him were shadowed fruits of all kinds and below him silver springs flowing with delicious liquours yet still so desirous seemed hee of rest and so infinitely addicted to sleepe as hee would not so much as heave up his head either to those luscious fruits tha●… grew so delightfully dangling above him nor inclin●… it to those delicious liquours that flowed so plentcously playing under him Neare to this Cave was por●…rayed a speckled Aspick with a