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land_n	egypt_n	israel_n	time_n	1,593	5	3.5035	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03771	Examen de ingenios. = The examination of mens vvits In whicch [sic], by discouering the varietie of natures, is shewed for what profession each one is apt, and how far he shall profit therein. By Iohn Huarte. Translated out of the Spanish tongue by M. Camillo Camili. Englished out of his Italian, by R.C. Esquire.; Examen de ingenios. English	Huarte, Juan, 1529?-1588.; Carew, Richard, 1555-1620.	1594 (1594)	STC 13890; ESTC S118803	216,544	356

towardly to make clocks pictures poppets other ribaldries which are impertinent for mans seruice Aegypt alone is the region which ingendereth in his inhabitants this differēce of imagination wherthrough the Historiens neuer make an end of telling how great enchaunters the Aegyptians are and how readie for obtaining things and finding remedies to their necessities Ioseph to exaggerat the wisedome of Salomon sayd in this manner So great was the knowledge and wisedome which Salomon receiued of God that he outpassed al the ancients and euen the very Egyptians who were reputed the wisest of all others And Plato also sayd that the Aegyptians exceeded all the men of the world in skill how to get their liuing which abilitie appertaineth to the imagination And that this is true may plainly appeare for that all the sciences belonging to the imagination were first deuised in Aegypt as the Mathematicks Astrologie Arithmeticke Perspectiue Iudiciarie and the rest But the argument which most ouer-ruleth me in this behalfe is that whē Francis of Valois king of France was molested by a long infirmitie and saw that the Phisitions of his houshold and court could yeeld him no remedy he would say euery time when his feuer increased It was not possible that any Christiā Phisition could cure him neither at their hands did he euer hope for recouerie wherethrough one time agreeued to see himselfe thus vexed with this feuer he dispatched a post into Spaine praieng the emperour Charles the fifth that he would send him a Iew Phisition the best of his court touching whom he had vnderstood that he was able to yeeld him remedie for his sicknesse if by art it might be effected At this request the Spaniards made much game and all of them concluded it was an humorous conceit of a man whose brains were turmoiled with the feuer But for all this the Emperour gaue commandement that such a Phisition should be sought out if anie there were though to find him they should be driuen to send out of his dominions and whē none could be met withall he sent a Phisition newly made a Christian supposing that he might serue to satisfie the kings humour But the Phisition being arriued in France and brought to the kings presence there passed between them a gratious discourse in which it appeared that the Phisition was a Christian and therefore the king would receiue no phisicke at his hands The king with opinion which he had conceiued of the phisition that he was an Hebrue by way of passing the time asked him whether he were not as yet weary in looking for the Messias promised in the law The phisition answered Sir I expect not any Messias promised in the Iews law You are verie wise in that replied the king for the tokens which were deliuered in the diuine scripture whereby to know his comming are all fulfilled many daies ago This number of daies reioyned the phisition we Christians do well reckon for there are now finished 1542 yeares that he came and conuersed in the world 33 yeares in the end of which he died on the crosse and the third day rose again and afterwards ascended into heauen where he now remaineth Why then quoth the king you are a Christian yea Sir by the grace of God I am a Christian quoth the phisition then answered the king return you home to your own dwelling in good time for in mine owne house and court I haue Christian phisitions very excellent and I held you for a Iew who in mine opinion are those that haue best naturall abilitie to cure my disease After this maner he licenced him without once suffering him to feele his pulse or see his state or telling him one word of his griefe And forthwith he sent to Constantinople for a Iew who healed him with the onely milke of a she Asse This imagination of king Francis as I think was verie true and I haue so conceiued it to be for that in the great hot distemperatures of the brain I haue prooued tofore how the imagination findeth out that which the partie being sound could neuer haue done And because it shall not seem that I haue spoken in iest and without relying herein vpon a materiall ground you shall vnderstand that the varieties of men aswell in the compositions of the body as of the wit and conditions of the soule spring from their inhabiting countries of different temperature from drinking diuers waters and from not vsing all of them one kind of food Wherein Plato said Some through variable windes and heats are amongst themselues diuers in maners and kinds others through the waters and food which spring of the earth who not only in their bodies but in their minds also can skill to do things better and woorse as if he should say some men are different from others either by reason of the contrarie aire or through drinking seuerall waters or for that they feed not all vpon one kind of meat and this difference is discerned not only in the countenaunce and demeanure of the body but also in the wit of the soule If I then shall now prooue that the people of Israell dwelt many yeares in Aegypt and that departing from thence they did eat drinke waters meats which are appropriat to make this difference of imagination I shal then yeeld a demonstration for the opinion of the king of France and by consequence we shall vnderstand what wits of men are in Spaine to be made choice of for studieng the art of Phisicke As touching the first we must know that Abraham asking tokens whereby to be assured that he or his descendents should possesse the land of promise the text sayth that whilest he slept God made him answer saying Know that thy seed shall bee a stranger in a countrie not his owne and they shall make them vnderlings in bondage and afflict them for 400 yeares notwithstanding I will iudge that nation whom they serue and after this they shall depart from thence with great substance which Prophesie was accomplished albeit God for certaine respects added therevnto 30 yeares more for which cause the scripture sayth But the aboad of the children of Israell in Aegypt was 430 yeares which being finished that very day the whole armie of the Lord departed out of the land of Aegypt But although this text say manifestly that the people of Israell abode in Aegypt 400 yeares a glosse declareth that thefe yeares were the whole time which Israell went on pilgrimage vntill he possessed his own countrie In as much as he remained in Aegypt but 210 yeates which declaration agreeth not well with that which S. Stephen the Prothomartyr made in his discourse to the Iewes namely that the people of Israell was 430 yeares in the bondage of Aegypt And albeit the abode of 210 yeares suffised that the qualities of Aegypt might take hold in the people of Israell yet the time whiles they liued abroad was no lost season in respect of that which

the Diuines Originall Iustice by which they come to represse the brunts of the inferiour portion and the part reasonable remaineth superiour and enclined to vertue But when our first parents offended they lost this qualitie and the irascible and concupiscible remained in their nature and superiour to reason in respect of the strength of the three members that we spake of and man rested readie euen from his youth vnto euill Adam was created in the age of youth which after the Physitions is the most temperat of all the residue and from that age foorth he was enclined to euilnes sauing that little time whilst he preserued himselfe in grace by originall iustice From this doctrine we gather in good naturall Philosophie that if a man be to performe any action of vertue to the gainsaieng of the flesh it is impossible that he can put the same in execution without outward ayd of grace for the qualities with which the inferiour power worketh are of greater efficacie I sayd with gainsaying of the flesh because there are many vertues in man which grow for that he hath his powers of wrath and concupiscence feeble as chastitie in a cold person but this is rather an impotencie of operation than a vertue for which cause had not the catholicke church taught vs that without the speciall aid of God we could not haue ouercome our owne nature Philosophie naturall would so haue learned vs namely that grace comforteth our wil. That then which Galen would haue sayd was that a temperat man exceedeth in vertue all others who want this good temperature for the same is lesse prouoked by the inferiour part The fifth propertie which those of this temperature possesse is to be very long liued for they are strong to resist the causes and occasions which engender diseases and this was that which the roiall prophet Dauid meant The daies of our age in themselues are seuentie yeares but if in the potentates there be eightie or more it is their paine and sorrow as if he should say The number of yeares which men ordinarily do liue arriue vnto seuentie and if potentates reach vnto eightie those once passed they are dead on their feet He tearmeth those men potentates who are of this temperature for more than any other they resist the causes which abridge the life Galen layeth downe the last token sayeng that they are very wise of great memorie for things passed of great imagination to foresee those to come and of great vnderstanding to find out the truth of all matters They are not malicious not wily not cauillers for these spring from a temperature that is vitious Such a wit as this assuredly was not framed by nature to addict it selfe vnto the studie of the Latine tongue Logicke Philosophie Phisicke Diuinitie or the Lawes for put case he might easily attaine these sciences yet none of them can fully replenish his capacitie only the office of a king is in proportion answerable therevnto and in ruling and gouerning ought the same solely to be imploied This shal easilie be seene if you run ouer the tokens and properties of a temperat man which we haue laid downe by taking into consideration how fitly ech of them squareth with the roiall scepter and how impertinent they shew for the other arts and sciences That a king be faire and gratious is one of the things which most inuiteth his subiects to loue him and wish him well For the obiect of loue saith Plato is beautie and a seemly proportion and if a king be hardly fauoured and badly shaped it is impossible that his subiects can beare him affection rather they reake it a shame that a man vnperfect and void of the gifts of nature should haue sway and commaundement ouer them To be vertuous and of good conditions easily may we gather how greatly it importeth for he who ought to order the liues of his subiects and deliuer vnto them rules and lawes to liue conformably to reason it is requisit that he performe the same also in his owne person for as the king is such are the great the meane and the inferiour persons Moreouer by this means he shall make his commandements the more authenticall and with the better title may chastise such as do not obserue them To enioy a perfection in all the powers which gouern man namely the generatiue nutritiue wrathfull and reasonable is more necessarie in a king than any artiste whatsoeeuer For as Plato deliuereth in a well ordered common-wealth there should be appointed certain surueiours who might with skill looke into the qualities of such persons as are to be married and giue to him a wife answerable vnto him in proportion and to euerie wife a conuenient husband Through this diligence the principall end of matrimonie should not become vaine for we see by experience that a woman who could not conceiue of her first husbād marrying another straghtwaies beareth children and many men haue no children by their first wife taking another speedily come to be fathers Now this skill saith Plato is principally behooffull in the marriage of kings for it being a matter of such importance for the peace and quiet of the kingdome that the Prince haue lawfull children to succeed in the estate it may so fall that the king marrying at all aduentures shall take a barraine woman to wife with whom he shal be combred all daies of his life without hope of issue And if he decease without heires of his body straightwaies it must be decided by ciuill wars who shall command next after him But Hippocrates saith this art is necessarie for men that are distemperat and not for those who partake this perfect temperature by vs described These need no special choice in their wife nor to search out which may answere them in proportion for whom soeuer they marry withal saith Galen forthwith they beget issue but this is vnderstood when the wife is sound and of the age wherein women by order of nature may conceiue and bring forth in sort that fruitfulnesse is more requisit in a king than in any artist whatsoeuer for the reasons tofore alleaged The nutritiue power saith Galen if the same be gluttonous greedy and bibbing it springeth for that the liuer and stomack want the temperature which is requisit for their operations and for this cause men become riotous and short liued But if these members possesse their due temperature and composition the selfe Galen affirmeth that they couet no greater quantitie of meat and drink than is conuenient for preseruation of life Which propertie is of so great importance for a king that God holdeth that land for blessed to whose lot such a Prince befalleth Blessed is the land saith he in Ecclesiasticus whose king is noble and whose princes feed in due times for their refreshment and not for riotousnesse Of the wrathful facultie if the same be extended or remisse it is a token saith Galen that the heart is ill composed and partaketh