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A14204	The little world, or, A liuely description of all the partes and properties of man for inuention wittie, for iudgement learned, and for practise necessarie / by Ro. Vn. ...	Underwood, Robert, fl. 1605.; Vaughan, Robert, 1592-1667.	1612 (1612)	STC 24519.5; ESTC S123184	18,273	48

great matters do attempt Then Enuie yea and Mallice too and Spight that peeuish else Who fretteth that another should be better then himselfe Then Couetousnes is called for who like a Miser old Comes limping in and in his hand a mightie bagg of Gold And Robberie that vse to stand hard by the hig-wayes side And sneaking Theft that in the darke doth seeke him selfe to hide And those that know how for to hoord and hide their mony well Thinking that they the same with them shall carry into Hell And Vsurie that greedie-gutt that eateth vp the poore And Symonie that Cleargie mate and many others more And Wrath with his allyances and Murder which doth kill Both friend and foe maliciously and with pretended ill And Banning yea and Cursing both whose customes are to craue More Plagues to light on other folkes then they themselues would haue Then Furie in his franticke mood came squaring into Court And brought with him in companie Disorder and a sort Of Swearing mates that straight the Court was brought in such a rage That scarce could Belzabub himselfe his Officers asswadge Yet Crueltie for all this coyle could scant be pacified Vntill that with inflamed eyes his Lust he had espied For Lust doth to this Court belong her vse is to allure Lasciuiousnes shee Wantonnes and Wantonnes procure Concupisence to come with her into the Court and there Foule Ribaldrie her filthy talke no whit at all doth spare Then enters in Idolatrie who is so farr begone With blinded loue of Images that many times a Stone A Stocke a peece of Lead of Brasse of Siluer or of Gold Hee worships as his God and doth it for his Sauiour hold Heere Witchcraft came a withered wretch who alwayes beares a minde To spoyle another though itselfe thereby no profite finde And Sorcerie with Charmes do vse and poysoned Drinkes likewise And Coniuration causing Spirits in Circles for to rise And Gluttonie that onely ioyes in ease and belly-cheare And Drunkennes that reeling goes with belly blowne with Beere Adulterie which mariage bed of Honestie doth spoyle And Fornication that doth chast Virginitie defyle And Incest which with kindred neere to lie no sinne it thinke And Buggerie that beastly sinne for which did Sodome sinke And Heresie that doth vphold and stoutly doth mayntaine False errours in Religion and eke opinions vaine At last comes in Hipocrisie who outwardly doth show A face of faigned holines though deedes be nothing so And many other Officers did to this Court belong Which for to tell them all by name it would be very long Anone vnto the Court againe the rightuous Iudge did come But when he saw such wicked wights possessed in the roome Hee did commaund his Officers in no wise for to spare But thrust them out with violence the other side prepare With force for to resist and then a Battell they did trie But yet at length the wicked ones constrayned were to flie Much like vnto the Battell which Saint Iohn hath to vs tould Which in his Reuelations he saith he did behould How Michaell and his Angells did a Mightie Battell fight With Sathan and his hellish impes and put them all to flight Lo thus quoth I then very well we may behould and see A Court of Consience in each House is nedefull for to be Aswell as in a Common Wealth or in a Cittie large If for to rule and gouerne well we minde to take the charge And now the Court of Common Law I meane for to declare Both what it is and where it 's kept and who the Iudges are what officers on it attend and for to shew likewise Who are disturbers of this Court for many times arise Both quarrels and Contentions there by some of euell fame For Vertue crossed is by Vice contrary to the same Within the Turret of each House there doth a Chamber lie Which Chamber round about is scold as white as Iuory With in the same the Court is kept and in this Court doth sitt Fower Iudges all of worthy fame and for the place most fiitt The Chefe of them is Iustice cald who doth vprightly heare Both rich and poore not led awry with malice loue or feare The second Prudence hath to name whose wisdome doth foresee To sounde the deapth of euery cause least ought mistaken be Then Temperance whose mildnes doth both moderate each thing And driueth Discord out of Court and doth Good order bring The last is Fortitude whose force and Courage doth defend The Iustnes of the Inocent and makes the stubberne bende The officers which to this Court. attending I did see Their names be these or such as these I wishe them all to be Plaine-dealing stands in Court and shewes the title of the Cause And craueth nothing but the righte according to the Lawes Then Expedion doth desier with speed an ende to haue Of all his long and teadious sute Expences for to saue And Pittie pleades for Pouertie in For●a pauperis And looketh for no stipend nor for any fee for this Then Charitie for concord calls perswading to agree And wils them for to leaue their sutes and friends againe to be Content then tells his Client thus I hunt not after gaines Giue what you will amodicum shall please me for my paines But yet amongst these officers do many times resort Vnto this Court a nother Crue of naughtipacks a sort VVho by their shiftes and pollices do compas so the same That oft they do disturbe the Court and bring it out of frame For Fraud seekes with his suttle shifts plaine-dealing to disgrace And trifles much on many points that riseth in the Case Delaie coms dallying in with drifts demaunding furder day All though his Clyent hath before informd him what to say Then Discord mooues Contentions and bids them go to law Why put you vp of wrong saith he the value of a strawe Afection thus vnto his friend in secret sort doth tell Let me alone what ere it be your matter shall go well Your aduersarie then saith Feare he is a man of might Haue pacience I sorry am I may not do you right And Dexter deales deceitfully of Ambo taking fees And cares not so that he might gaine though both of them do leese And Bribery bestirs him there as busie as a Bee And thinks by giuing giftes to blind the eyes of Equitie By Couler of his office though Extortion doth the wrong Yet saith he takes no more then to his office doth belong And many more such busie mates do in this Court abide Vnder the Cloake of honestie seeking themselues to hide Whom though the Iudges many times do banish out of Court And punish them as they deserue yet still they will resort For as they haue been in this Court time out

of minde of man So still in Court they will bee do the Iudges what they can Loe thus you see of keeping Court in euery House the neede Now of the Commons for to speake somewhat I will proceede As Commons for the greater part consist of men of Trade Artificers and Laborers and such as vse haue made Both apt and fit for that which should Societie maintaine Without the which a Comon-wealth cannot it selfe sustaine Euen so in euery Body or in euery House we see Such partes and members of the same as may compared bee To Commons in a Cmmon-wealth and like in each degree For in the Body of a man as I before haue sayd Some part or member of the same can exercise the Trade Of Brewers and of Bakers too yea and some haue the skill To Barber and to Butcher to and Foules likewise to kill So hath it some that exercise the Sciene of Defence And handles can the weapon which oft times do b●●…de offence It hath likewise the Souldier which in Warres can tosse the Pike And handle well the Musket and knowes how with Sword to strike And drumm●●… and Trumpet for to sound and eke the Horse to guide If that they hap at any time vpon an Horse to ride The Carpenters and Coopes art the Coblers craft some can The Ioyners trade and some likewise can Iuggle now and than For euen as in a Common-wealth a Cittie or a Towne Full many idle people bee which wander vp and downe So euery House hath idle mates which vseth for to play At Chesse at Bowes at Dice at Cards at Tennis day by day And some there be which haue likewise in them a Comely grace Within their Armes in kindly sort his friendes for to imbrace And euery House hath Porters too which carry too and fro Great Packes burdens when they are commaunded to do so It hath Intelligencers which seeke out to see and heare What newes abroad both good and bad and then the same they beare Vnto the owner of the House and him thereof doth warne That he the better may preuent the things that might him harme It hath likewise his Clergie men that now and then can preach And doctrine either good or bad can vtter foorth and teach And Orators that can a smooth and learned tale foorth tell And Lawyers too that for it selfe can plead his causes well And Chapmen that cen buy and sell and good account can make Of any thing that for the House they do receiue and take And them likewise that can conferr with either friend or foe And as occasion offered is can frame an answer so And Laborers that digg and delue with Mattocke and with Spade And those that both with hand and foot do vse the Weauers trade And many other Scienses and Arts of sundrie kind Are practiz'd there but halfe of them I cannot call to minde Loe thus you heare what I haue sayd if you will take the paine The meaning of these things to make more manifest and playne That they which heare or read the same the better may apply And make some further vse thereof themselves to edifie I pray you do hee then to mee did answere thus I will Indeuoure for to do herein according to my skill Though many do affirme quoth hee which thing is true and iust Man 's Body for to be a Sacke or Budget full of Dust All painted ouer cunningly with cull ours white and redd And with a kind of slender Haire bethatched ouer head And that the same is made of Clay of Earth and Ashes dry And nothing but Corruption is while it in Graue doth lie And like vnto the withered Grasse and like the ra●ing flower And to an earthen vessell that 's in danger euery hower For to be chrusht in peeces and a Dungeon some it call A Prison-house vnto the Soule that keeps the same in thrall And many such like other names the Scriptures do declare All which is true if with the Soule we do the same compare For why the Soule Gods Image is a thing Deuine but yet As touching this our Body suer God hath bestowde on it Such admyrable workeman-shipp as when he did it frame His wisedome power and glorie then was shewed in the same So that we are therefore to laude and prayse his holy name Likewise each Body of the Iust the Scriptures terme to bee The Temple of the Holy Ghost and that we shall it see At latter day for to arise in glorie for to sitt With Christ who by his precious blood long since redeemed it Beside the ordering of the same and gouernment of 〈◊〉 Euen from the state of Common-wealths do differ not a whit And whyt because all Common-wealths do of our Bodyes come And when our Bodyes cease to bee then Common-wealths are done And as a Realme a Common-wealth a Cittie or a Towne Cannot continue long but is in state of falling downe If that the Common-people which within them do remaine Doe not together ioyne as one their state for to maintaine And as an House must needes decay and all that longe there to If those that dwell therein neglect the things that they should do Euen so it with our Bodyes stands for if it so befall The Eye the Eare the Hand the Foote the parts and members all Ioyne nor together all as one the Body to sustaine wee see by dayly proofe the Body cannot long remaine And euen as in a Common-wealth a Cittie or a Towne There ought to be good Magistrates to kepe the wicked downe And as in euery House there ought a Gouernour to bee Amongst the people in the same good order for to see Euen so in euery Body in the which a Soule do dwell Most needefull t is some one to haue the which may gouerne well Or eke the Realme the Common-wealth the Cittie or the Towne Yea and the Soule and Body too though things of great renowne Cannot endure but needs must fall to ruine and decay The proofe thereof by ruling ill too often see we may As Corporations Citties Townes and Villages a sort The better for to gouerne them haue oftentimes their Court As well Ecclesiasticall as of the Common Lawes So euery man within his House and in him selfe haue cause To see that both these Courts be kept the first of them to keepe For Causes hidden in the Hart and in the Conscience deepe The other Court must houlden be for matters that depende Twixt man and man right for to doe and wrong for to amende Each seuerall Court hath seuerall Rules belonging therevnto For to instruct their suters all what euery one should do The Gospell and the Mortall law who so obserueth this I am perswaded that he shall but seldome doe amisse And for the keeping of these Courts we thus must vnderstand That euery good and faythfull man must dayly

but that we needes must faile Of Infants lines and such as be exceeding leane or old No man can rightly iudge vpon as Learned men haue told And as this voyce still talked on I chaunst to looke aside Where I an Auncient man all clad in sundry cullours spide And after we each other had saluted by and by I did intreate him that he would vouchsafe not to deny His name for to declare to me and what he did intend By clyming of these places hie and hither to assend Then courteously he spake to me and did this answere frame I called am Pampirus and according to my name To Countries Realmes and Nations and to places farre and neere Their Customes and their Orders for to know to see and heare I trauell that experience in all things I mought haue And when that I haue got thereof as much as I would craue I do impart the same vnto Philotimus for why As Trauellers togither goe Philotimus and I This is the man his voyce it was which lately you did heare With that a plaine and comely wight did presently appeare His countenance was very graue and auncient for to see But yet a cleere and liuely grace In him there seemd to bee His name importes a louer of things honest good and true His cloathing shewd no lesse which was of cullours White and Blue And after salutations done the other did not stay But fell into his former speach and thus began to say Now for our comming to this place you are to vnderstand It was our happ of late to heare of one that tooke in hand For to describe in euery part the Body of a Man Both inwardly and outwardly from topp to toe and than Compareth it vnto an House that hath in it great store Of needfull thinges well gouerned by one of worth and more Applyeth euery part which in the Body wee do see Vnto some necessarie thing which in an House should bee And furthermore report doth goe If we may credite fame That he that made this Symilie so aptly did it frame That it vnto a Common-wealth compared well may bee Much more thereof besides wee heare which is the cause that wee Do hither come and for asmuch as that it is a lore That hath not yet in such a sort been dealt withall before By any man wherefore we craue if you the partie bee That deales herein you will declare the same in each degree And for a new experience I will the same forth show And I too quoth Philotimus thincke to applie it so As that some good and godly vse may of the same be made And thus when as this auntient man his minde hereof had sayd Vpon this aunswer then my selfe did make him this replie Your reasons which you heere alledge I can not well denie Yet cause of great discouragment I see before my face For why the Curious they will carpe and seeke for to disgrace The thing which now you do perswade thereof the setting foorth And say that I for want of skill haue made it nothing woorth And some will thinke me arrogant because I vndertake To wright hereof and make report that for vaine-glories sake I do the same whereas in deede the Truth is otherwise For why the onely cause for which I did the same deuise Was for mine onely priuate vse that many times thereby By meditating of the ●●●e my selfe might edifie And though my paines shall not to some do any good at all Yet su●● I am that harme thereby shall not to any fall Which maketh mee the willinger with you to condiscend Hoping you will as you haue said herein your ayde me lend Almighty God in Paradice when he created man Of Soule and eke of Body both he did create him than With Sence he did this Soule indue which was celestiall And eke with Reason for to rule the Body there withall This Body then I say is like an House in each degree The Soule the owner of the House I do account to bee As touching first this Body then I did of late declare It like an House in euery poynt but now I will compare This House vnto a Common wealth Or as a Cittie faire Or like a Corporation consisting of a Mayer And many other Officers there needefull to be had And Commons too amongst the which are people good and bad And therefore need of gouernment such people for to guide And as each Towne and Common wealth Or Cittie hath beside Appoynted places for to kepe their Courtes of Common law Yea and their Courts of Conscience too to kepe these men in awe So hath each House his magistrates and officers to serue Yea Commons too and places fitt for Courts which do deserue Good magistrates to sit in them But let vs first of all Speake of the Chirest Seate which late thou sawest in the Hall The chiefest Seate in euery House it is the Hart of man VVherein if that the Sperit of Grace do sit as Iudge euen than The Court of Conscience very well we may it call but see These Officers vpon this Court allwayes attendant bee Good thoughts and motions of the minde and next to these proceede Another sort of Officers Good wordes and eke Good deedes Yea Faith and Loue and Charitie Obedience and Care To liue vpright and Pacience and eke a Godly Feare And Mercy that most willingly forgiueth euery wrong And Hope that lookes for happie life although delayes be long And Thankefulnesse that with goodwill doth benefites requite And Pittie that compasion takes of those in ruthfull plight And Vertue that doth Vice abhorre and Meekenes eke so milde That loues to be as Innocent as any little Childe And many such like Officers vpon this Iudge attend To execute his warrants when he doth abroad them sende And if all these doe faythfully their offices why shall We not of right such officers Good Officers them call But when out of this Court alas this rightuous Iudge is gone For many times he doth depart and leaue this Court alone Because the Seate wherein this Iudge doth vse to sit is seene Oft times to be corrupted and defiled and vncleene Another straight vsurpes the roomth and sitting in the place Workes all the meanes he can deuise the Court for to deface Much like vnto the Parrable which we in Mathew reede Of one that sowed in his ground both good and perfect Seede But while men slept his Enemie vpon this Land did sow Great store of Tares among the Wheate and then away did goe So Sathan with his hellish crue this place doth enter in And sitting there as Magistrate his Court he doth begin About him then flocks all his traine like to a swarme of Bees Of Baylifes and of Officers the names of whom be these Pride and Disdaine and Loftines and Scorne and eke Contempt Ambition with Vaine-glorie which

take in hand For to examine well himselfe his thoughts his words and works And Looke if any wickednes in any of them lurks And if he chaunce some faults to spie as doutles but he shall That then vnto the Lord-chiefe-Iudge he faythfully do call For pardon for his former faults and do as is before Directed him and then I thinke he need to do no more Thus briefly haue I shewed my minde and now because the day Comes on apace and that quoth they we needs must hence a way We leaue you till another time when we may talke our fill I rather wish you would quoth I abide and tarry still But when our leaue each one of vs did of each other take The sorrow I conceiu'd thereof did cause me for to wake And when I sawe my selfe in bed I rose vp presently And went and tooke my pen in hand and Wrote downe by and by So neare as I could call to minde what I before had seene And all the talke and conference which passed vs betweene If any shall hereafter seeme for to mislike of this I craue they would vouchsaue to mende what here they finde amisse And here I ende wishing these things may be as well applide And to no worser ende then in this booke is specifide FINIS Letchrie is like a fiery furnace whose mouth is Gluttonie Letchrie is like a fiery furnace whose flame is Pride Letchrie is like a fiery furnace whose sparks are euill words Letchrie is like a fiery furnace whose smoake is Shame Letchrie is like a fiery furnace whose Ashes is Pouertie Letchrie is like a fiery furnace whose end is Destruction the world The people or the bodyes of men The Soule The foure Elements In Adams time The Armes being stretched out the two leggs thighes The Bones The Sinewes The noctrils The Breath Of Tabacco Their heads The Eyes Die Borne The World The Scriptures Diuines God God The place frō the Grames to the Midrife The Bowel The Yard the Fundament The Sides The kidnies The Collicke and Stone The Vrine Phisicke God A Remedie for the Stone The Stomacke The Lyuer The Blood By the Vaines The oppilation of the Lyuer The Phisitian The sundry sorts of meats and drinkes boyling in the Stomacke at once Fast to the Lyuer cleaueth the Gaull The Body The yellow Iaunders The Phisitiā A remedie against the yellow Iaunders 〈…〉 drink● The place from the Midriffe to the necke The midriffe The Heart The fashion of the Heart The fatues thereof An application of the white red cullour of the heart A good Conscience A badde Conscience The trembling of the heart A remedie for the same The L●●ngs or Lightes A similitude The off●ict of the Lounges The Winde-pipe The Head The Heart Diuines and Preachers Adam The Author is heere forbidden to deale in Phisicke The Necke viz. The top of the Hall The Ioyntes The Wind-pipe The throate gell The Stomacke The Voyce The Head GOD. The Face The maiesty of the Face described The Mouth The Teeth The place where the Braynes lye The Skull The Braine The thin web which wrappeth in the Brayne The Forehead Inuention Memory Wit The Tongue The property of a yong and greene wit The tongue Wit Tongue The inconuenience that grow by misgouerning of the tongue The Eyes The eye-lids The Eye-browes The Brow or Forehead A 〈◊〉 Viz. The Brow The lines on the forehead A degression to the Art of Phisognomie The line of Saturne The line of Iupiter The line of Mars The two lines of Sol and Luna First of the line of Sol. The line of Luna The Eye-browes The line of Mercurie Crosses or ouerthwart lines be vnluckie A similitude The Art is vaine and vncertaine The lines of Infants old-men and labouring men Pampirus omnia expertus Philotimus amans veritatem Experience and trueth ought to goe togither Pampirus goeth forward with his speach to the Author The authors reply The cause why the Authaer did deuise this Booke The authors application of this his former deuise A similitude A comparisō or Body or Body or Body The Heart of man is the Court of good Conscience when Grace fitteth there as chiefe Iustice These be the ordinary attendants vpon the court of a good Conscience Viz. Good thoughts Good words Good deedes Fayth Loue. Charitie Obedience Care to liue vprightly Patience Godly feare Mercie Hope Thankfulnes Pittie Vertue Meekenes Innocencie The cause why Grace fayle vs is our owne corruption By originall Sinne. When Grace doth faile the Diuell preuaile A Parable these be companions to the court of a bad Conscience viz. Pride Disdaine L●ftines Scorne Contempt Ambition Vaine-glory Enuie Malice Spight Couetousnes Robberie Theft Hoording of mony Vsurie Simonie Wrath. Murther Banning Cursing Furie Disorder Swearing Belzabub Cruelti● Lust lasciuiousnes Wantonnes Concupisence Ribaldrie Idolatrie Witchcraft Sorcerie Coniuration Gluttonie Drunkennes Adulterie Fornication Incest B●●gerie Heresie Err●u● Hipocr●sie A Battaile betwixt the flesh and the spirit When Grace drawes nie the Diuell must flie A similitude Or Body The Court of common law The foure cardinal vertues wherby we should gouerne alll our common afaffaies described The right vse of all those that are to be imployed in any court The Sundry abuse●s of many that are imployed in Courtes described Discorde Affection Feare Ambo dexter Briberie Extortion The hart Title of prescription A similitude The Commons or communaltie and how it is applyed 〈◊〉 The proper and sundrie vses of the hand So euery idle man abuseth some parts of his body to idle ●●…isti●●…es The vse of the armes shoulders or the legges The vse of the eye and the eare The vse of the tongue the voyce The vse of the hand and the foote ioyntly The Author speaketh to Phil●●●●●… Philotimus speaketh to the Author A pescription of our corruptible bodyes What the Soule is A good Conscience The generall incōuenience of euill gouernment See more hereof in fol. 27. 28. The Gospel The Commandements The application of the keeping of these Courts