some way this whole duty of man have that hand-writing and that by the finger of Gods own Spirit Mene Tekel against them and are found too light We will begin at the Philosophers Schoole and that will discover Madnesse or Folly in most of the Worlds Nâ—ise and Bustle that it keepeth so long as it is excentrick to Wisdome and Virtue Seneca maketh Childrens Employments and Delights to differ in impertinency from the greatest of the greatest part of Men only secundum magis minus in degrees Maiore ludimus et grandioribus Pupis Men busie themselves or play rather with greater Babies and are cariùs inepti Fooles at a dearer Rate Children preferre their Bables before their Parents or Brethren it may be before their meat or Sleep true of Thee that preferrest Enlargements of thy Possessions empty Titles gay Precedency in Fashions Superiority though in petite commands before Justice Religion Kindred Conscience Quiet Lawfull Contentments and sweetnings of Life And in that the Misers Manifesta Phrenesis Vt locuples moriaris egenti vivere Fato Juven Sat. 14. is a madnesse far surpassing childish Folly to live miserable to dye rich or that forgetting and unthankfull Heires may live plentifully The whole world keepeth Volupiae Sacra Volupias Solemnities in which the Actors as Calcagninus saith were Fooles or Mad men and every houre changed Habits or tooke what came next The Businesse of the world though as mad as the Bacchanalias are according to the Proverbe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nil ad Rhombum little considering Quod sumus quidnam victuri gignimur nothing less than to the Purpose than living to God and themselves nay scarce to any determinate or justifiable Deâ—igne Persius may put his Question to them Sat. 3. Est aliquid quo tendis in quod dirigis Arcum An passim sequaris corvos testaque lutoque Securus quo Pes ferat atque extempore vivis What would yee then or next may be urged to most mens undertakings as Cineas to Pyrrhus who when hee would divert his minde from the Troubles and hazards of War asked him when we have overcome the Romans what then then saith the King we shall injoy all Italy What then still the Philosopher urgeth him with why then saith Pyrrhus we wil have Sicily and then Libya then Carthage c. and when he had reckoned Enterprises enough for a Succession of Alexander to have atchieved our Philosopher puts up to him once more with another What then Why then saith he thou and I will enjoy our selves in uncontrouled Frolicks and Discourse what forbids O King saith Cineas that we enjoy not them now nay we do and still may without the hazzards of so many besides our selves What plainer proofe of mans vanity in his Designes that goeth thus about for Contentation of Mind which is in himselfe if himselfe be within Hee were an arrant Mayor of Quinborrow that should send to the Indies for Kentish Oysters A Folly that may be laid to the charge of many Busy men in the world that put another kind of rate upon their Wisdomes and would be very loath to be numbred among the Triflers of the world And what are they else that seek the Cheerfulnesse of their owne Countenance from the Serenity and smiles of Anthers If he frown must my Forehead be clowded Must I ask anothers Humour whether I shall sleep soundly or eat contentedly That Liberty of Minde and Body that I should tremble to think the fraight of a Turkish Galley I willingly surrender to the Tyranny of Humour ad alienuÌ„ dormiunt SomnuÌ„ ad alienum comedunt Appetitum saith Seneca de brevitate vitae c. 19. No lesse do many live from themselves that are above others Ille Reus quot Dies abstulit quot Ille Candidatus Omnes Illi Qui se Tibi Adducunt Tibi Abducunt c. 17. This Client that Candidate this Petitioner that Offender how do they take more from Thee than their Cringes verball Obsequiousnesse and Flatteries can add nay more share Thy life that is thy time whom thou wouldst be loath should share thy Estate or Rivall thy Honour Nemo invenitur Qui Pecuniam suam dividere vult vitam unusquisque quà m multis distribuit How may these Quos magna Felicitas gravat as the same Author phraseth it whom such kinde of happinesse hath over-charged justly complain Mihi vivere non licet my life is least my own whilst thou art anothers Advocate becoming against thy selfe a Plaintiff too much businesse shorten my Meales break my sleepâ— my very death it may be will be bewailed not so much out of love to me as that I have left mens businesse undone Doctor Donnes high Praise of Ben Johnsons Works in one expression extolleth them and justly enough depresseth our Admiration of the Worlds businesse The State and mens Affaires are the best Playes Next yours T is nor more nor lesse then due Praise To a Soule placed vulgati supra Commercia Mundi looking down on the world as an Ant-hill as in Lucians Icaromenippus The Purchâ—ser Merchant and Souldier himselfe will seem as idlely busie as to them seem Children about their houses of Cards counterfeit â—hips Horses c. only with this difference that among the latter is lesse of Malice Hatred â—ousenage c and so of Guilt nay so far as hereafter is forgot the Exchange or Faires Places wherein it is seldome seriously remeâ—bred are not any thing more seriously to be admired than the Pictures of the one for Men indeed or Puppet Playes of the other for State Affaires But Exploits of the Sword seem to cloud Democritus his jeering Countenance with the sad one of Heraclitus and instead of smiling make us with sorrow behold the lives and blood of men trifled away as well as their Time and sweat View the Quarrel you cannot tell which is the most serious Book Homers Iliads or his Batrachomyomachia his History of Troy or the fight of Frogs and Mice In that great day of Revelation of Realties wherein Ignorance and Infidelity both shall subscribe to Truth Caligulas ridiculous Enterprise upon the sea triumphant bringing home shells of Fishes from the shore as her Spoiles will prove as serious and I am sure lesse injurious as any Conquest or Invasion the Roman Emperours could boast of If you will heare a Soule departed inter sidera vagantem discoursing To this effect Seneca brings it in totum Terrarum Orbem supernè despicientem sibi dicentem Istud est Punctum quod inter tot gentes ferro Igne dividitur Looking down upon this scarce discernable Globe of the Earth with this Question Is that the Spot so many Nations divide and share by Fire and Sword O quâm Ridiculi Mortalium Termini How Inconsiderable are the bounds of the largest State Possession or Kingdome that they thus cut one anothers Throates For Socrates used this very Argument to prick the Bladder of Pride in Alcibiades and bid
lookest on him as peirced for Thee Behold in mount Calvary the place of Skuls Death hath lost the Field Hell is routed and the Divell hath betrayed himselfe in betraying Christ to shame and the losse of his Captives Deaths Prisons are broken open Christs own Resurrection antidated Look on the Crosse now as the Scepter of Admission the Apostle maketh it so now Ahaâ—uerus his presence is not deadly siâ—full Dust may not now feare being turned to Ashes by that consuming fire the Court of Requests is set open and the grand Master of Requests our Crucified Jesus Now then again we will say with the Apostle Wee arr not ashamed of the Crosse of Christ nay God forbid we should glory in any thing buâ— the Crosse of Christ this is that Scala Caeli Heavenly Ladder Jacob dream't of a Dream so pleasant that stones were Pillowes and indeed the sight of this Crosse will make all other Crosses easie on this Ladder was his Prayers ascending Father forgive them and in them all the World and as it were Heavens Eccho descending delivered by this Crâ—cified word in that Consummatum est it is finished as if he had said all is done and granted in Heaven and Earth that my blood cryed for Let Writers wrangle of how many severall sorts of Wood this Crosse was made I am sure to the Believer it is all Arbor vitae an unguarded Tree of Life to which Angels invisible or visible the Ministers of the Gospel will now Lead us rather than fright our Approach with any flaming Sword though Superstition hath made this Crosse as big as Noahs Arke if all the chips of it which severall places brag of were gathered together It is no Fable to say each Believer may make himselfe an Arke out of it against the Deluge of Fire the World expecteth Pardon the expression Sodomes Rain will justifie it fling but one Chip of this wood into all thy troubled and bitter waters and it shall sweeten them It is the Christians Armory for defensive or offensive Weapons the universall Medicine no Tree ever bare such Fruit as this when it bare the Fruit of the Virgins Womb. Though Nature wore blacks on this day for the Death of the God of Nature yet to Faith the Bridegroome was but now come even then when his Corporall Presence left his Disciples From Good Friday doth the Apostles Charge bear date Rejoyce alwaies his grave Cloathes are those Handkerchiefes that wipe all Teares from our Eyes This is the first day of Sorrowes Exile and Joyes return to lost Mankind his Birth-day beginning Hallelujahs but respectively to the finishing of this day Then to us a Child was born this day a Saviour a day of Hope to true men whereon a Theefe as it were taketh Heaven by violence the Joyes and Fruits that drop from this Tree will bee the Business of Eternity to recount when all Crownes shall be thrown down to this Crown of Thornes for that onely is worthy it is this Crosse is Caecorum Dux claudorum Baculus the blind mans guide and lame mans Crutch on the way and in the end is lignum vitae aeternae the Tree of everlasting life as Cassiodorus on the fourth Psalme But lastly the third Voice is Returnes but what shall I return the Lord for all his Benefits is the question of the gratefull â—oule or of a Faith working by Love to which Question there are many Answersâ— heare God himselfe telling his choice of aâ—â— we can give him and it is My Son give me thy heart which besides its usuall exception sounds like a Bargâ—in as well as Request and so the works my Son arâ— not so much Compellation and that an honourable one of his Redeemed ones but as if he should say There is my Son for him give me thy heart I am sure it is no wresting of the words to say the words my Son are a strong Argument used for to move our returnes of Love because they intimate the giving of his Son to make us Sons well then give thy heart and Christ will think himselfe well appayed for all hee hath done nay suffered for thee It is Justice no lesse than Gratitude to surrender all wee have or are to him that hath so dearely bought a Bargaine so hard Let the same mind be in us that was in those whose hearts were set on fire with Love to their Redeemer by the Beames of his Love darted first through Faiths burning Glasse on their Soules What were the Doings and Sufferings of the Apostles and Martyrs but Raptures of Love who lookt on flaming Faggots but as Hymenaeall and Nuptiall Torches lighting their long before espouâ—ed Soules to the Marriage of the Lamb to whom Life was Martyrdome because an Exile from the Chamber of their Bridegroome therefore having Vitam in Patientiâ mortem in desiderio their Lives in no other esteem than Affliâ—tioâ—s and Death in their desires as a Reward or Release Riddles to an earthy Soul wedded to Phantasmes of Happinesse whose Fruitions are but Semelaean Embraces of a Cloud for Jupiter Shadowes for Substance But whether are these Reflexions of Love vanisâ—ed in these our daies or nights rather of Creature Idolatry and Atheisme all that was done this day for us miserable men can scare preserve the severall of its Observation We are ready to afford Good Friday bad Language and arraigne its Remembrance of Superstition and through Zeale too Pharisaicall to Crucifie its Memoriall but that is not all our Ingratitude How little will man do for what God-man on this day suffered Such small Tokens of our Love that in his Members he beggeth how hardly we part with nay seeing our unkind Niggardlinesse he deâ—ireth us not to give but lend him Reliefe and yet how few Creditors can this All-sufficient Dâ—btour finde we will lend Man on his Bond for six in the Hundred sooner than on Gods Hundred for one ensured on a word so firm that one Jota of it shall not perish in the generall Fire of Heaven and Earth could this bee were not the Actions of this Day and signes of Gods Love manifested on the Crosse but as a Tale that is told and of no concernment to us Let the Crosse on thy six Pence if that be the onely Crosse thou canst endure put thee in mind what he suffered that beggeth the smallest Cross in thy Purse to relieeve him in thy Brother starve not thy Crucified Saviour let the Iewes cruelty suffice and let not thy uncharitableness vary his Torment it is no lesse than the Bread of life and Giver of thy daily bread that keepeth constrained Fast daies in thy hungry Brother till thy Plenty make him a Thanksgiving day shorten his Lent and thy Easter and Resurrection shall bee the more cheerfull He hath said it that will one day audit the poor mans Complaints and thy Stewardships Accounts when no Sin but unkindnessâ— to thy suffering Saviour shall be cast into thy Dish to the feeding of the never
ΖΩΟΤΟΜΙ'Α OR OBSERVATIONS ON THE PRESENT MANNERS OF THE ENGLISH Briefly Anatomizing the Living by the Dead WITH AN USEFULL DETECTION OF THE MOUNTE BANKS of both Sexes By Richard Whitlock M. D. Late Fellow of All-Souls Colledge in OXFORD LONDON Printed by Tho. Roycroft and are to be sold by Humphrey Moseley at the Princes Armes in St. Pauls Church-yard 1654. The Explication of the Frontispice TH' Experienc't Scepter of the Preaching King And Sermon of Pauls Cross both shew what THING Compar'd with Heav'n this empty world would prove If once Ript up Is here ought worth your Love Bewitch't Admirers View each Region The Vaine the Vexing and the Loathsome One No He and Thatâ—s above which onely can Full Ravishments afford the Soule of Man If ought that 's worth your Soules or Love you finde I' th World below call us Dissecters blinde ZOOTOMIA or A Morall Anatomy of the Liuing by the Dead in Obseruations Essayes c Valla 〈◊〉 Stercus Seneca Plutarch Quam Mundi Illecebris Vacuum quam Triste Cadarer Cuius tres Tentres Stercus Texatio â—ana To his Ingenious knowing Friend THE AVTHOR THy Sharp but Gentle Pen reformes the Age Where Vice is thy Disclosure not thy Rage The Guilty naked laid will dread thy Name Not for the Lash they feel but for the Shame Ills thus unmaskt by thee will fright us more By looking Ugly then by being Sore Thy Characters so circumstance each sin As 't not Describ'd but had Embowell'd bin The Knife joyn'd with the Pencil glories here As thou both Limner and Dissector were He that shews Guilt her Face shews but her skin He that will shew her Fâ—ul shews her within Some maze their Thoughts in Labyrinths and thus Invoke no Reader but an Oedipus But whil'st Revealed Sense we finde in you You write to th' Understanding not the Clew So Theseus through the winding Tow'r was led By Ariadnes Beauty more then Thread TO HIS INGENIOUS FRIEND THE AUTHOR Concerning these his Endeavors SIR IF your Book did depend wholly on my Judgement of it I would say that in Truth for Wit Learning and Variety of matter put into a handsom Dresse you have exceeded any Writer in this kinde which I have yet met with nor should I doubt to say thus much in Verse before it if it were not for two Reasons The one is that the Rudenesse of the place where I dwell and my weekly Thoughts compelled to size themselves to a plain Countrey Congregation have abated much of that Fancie which should do honour either to your Book or my self The other is that if I could write well yet all my publike Poetry hath and still is objected to me as a piece of Lightnesse not befitting the Profession or Degree of Your faithfull Friend J. Mayne Novemb. 1. 1653. The Titles of the distinct Discourses THe honest Adamite page 17 Ambodexter p. 25 Of Books or the best Furniturâ— 236 The false Ballance 282 Commendable Carelesnesse 28 The Faithsull Chyrurgian 384 The Chaire-Man 319 The thriving Craft 34 The wise Chaâ—man 264 The sad Descant 31 The Doe little Worthlesse 30 The Valentinian Doctor 101 The fifth Element or of Detraction 444 The gâ—and Experiment 548 The Quacking Hermaphrodite 45 The best Husbandâ—y 294 The Blots of History 268 Thâ— grand Impertinent 308 A Dissection of self-killers 109 Lifes Abbreviates 4 Learnings Apologie 138 The Levellers 419 Mercies Hyperbole 37 The happy Match 192 Malchus or Misconstruction 1 The Magnetick Lady 321 Mans two Elements 395 The lasâ—ing Monument 408 Of Musick 480 Parlour Divinity â—6 The Peoples Physician 62 Of Printing 227 Poetry's Defence and Excelâ—ence 467 Of Painting 487 The Divine Prospective 535 The ovâ—r Rate 10 The best Revenge 39 Reasons Independency 207 A Lecture on Readers 461 False Reformations Shipwrack 494 The grand Schismatick or Suist 357 The unguarded Tree of Life 515 The commanded Tree of Knowledg 527 Fabula Vitae 8 The politick Weather glass 275. The Preface or an Antidote for Authors against the Poyson of Aspes INstructions Courteous Reader that render the Designe and Purpose of the Work may well be stiled an Essay upon the Author and as it were Contents of him no lesse then the Book and so may well supply the room of a Dedicatory Epistle to some protecting Eminence or of courting Apologies like forlorne hopes first sent out to set upon the Benevolence of Readers That Acquaintance of Readers with the Contents of the ensuing Chapter might insinuate a Candidness I am induced to believe because with well-Meaners even good Meanings and Aymes in Authours attone their Failings Instead of other kindes of Epistles take therefore this Anatomy of the Anatomy the Book it self by way of a Preface and so not tied to the shortness usual of Epistles it may serve for an Essay on Mens Publications of Themselves by writing and more especially on mine I shall not here trouble thee with the Burden of many Epistles to tell thee this Qualecunque whatsoever it shall deserve to be called was midwived into the Light by Importunity of Friends or feare of Antedated Impressions with such like Apologies for encreasing the Number of Scriblers no it ventured willingly into the world if it encrease the trifles of the Presse I dare excuse it from adding to the Guilt it was rather destined to save its Reputation by crowding in somewhat lesse unprofitable lesse mischievous then the Presse daily issueth forth in these Pamphleting Dayes bringing forth to say true litle else then Trifles or Invectives The Things I present are nove dicta etsi non nova according to Vincentius Lyrinensis Observations if not quite new yet in a new dresse and as new things are acceptable so among them nothing more than new clothes The Old Saw Nil dictum quod non dictum prius proveth all writings to be but various Descant on plainer Rudiments or if you will but the Anagramms the Alphabet and Transposition of mens various Collections from Men or Books Such are the Materials of this one End whereof was my rehearsall in the School of the world the same that stirred up Juvenal Semper ego Auditor tantum And what is that Rehearsall but doing of good by Tongue Life or Pen or all I am not delivered from it by either of those two Arguments either the Number or Excellency of Printed Labours 1. Not from the Number that of S. Chrysostome beareth me out which take in Latine not its original as more easie and fashionable A Scribendi Munere Nos Scriptorum copia non avocet vigeat potius provocet bonos libros qui conscribit Retia Salutis pandit let not the number saith he of books discourage but provoke our Writings he that writeth good books spreadeth Nets of Salvation Cornelius A Lapide counteth them requisite ad Dei Magnificentiam plenam Rerum universitatem reckoning them among those works that glorifie our Heavenly Father and fill the world as ornamentally nay usefully as many other things 2. Then
be willingly ignorant of some things Nay according to the same Author Exerc. 1. Sect. 1. Sapientia nostra est Vmbra in Sole or as Cusa Docta Ignorantia cum Sientiae Appetitu Conjuncta A Learned Ignorance indeavouring Knowledge is all our knowledge and our reason dischargeth its duty if it neither sleep nor serve But now for its deportment to Moralls or Politicks and its assent or Approbation respective That Liberte d' Esprit that Charron mentions is the best Temper a true Patron and President of this Independency of Reason and that freedome of Spirit is that deserving Author of Religio Medici with whom in this I agree I look not on the Flemish Italian or French with Prejudice or Wonder but as Socrates that counted himselfe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as one of my fellow Citizens Nor doth their different Garbes or Customes the Garbe of their Mindes with mee at all disguise that Common Image wherein we agree of God and Immortality any more then antick Cloaths to a skillfull Eye the likeness of Pictures indeed an unskilful eye will quarrell at a Picture whose Band and Dublet is not like the Prototypes or mans for whom it is made I allow Idiosyncrases particular Constitutions to Politick Bodies as well as naturall as some have that Antipathy to Things Cheese Cats c. so some Nations their hatred of Customes beloved by others the Spaniards constancy to his Fashion would have continued Him in Fig-Leaves had he been the first wearer of them Whereas had Adams Sons and Daughters had the French Levity hee might have been harder put to it to have named his Children than the Creatures yet can my Charity without casting Ignominy on either call the one a wise stayednesse the other a witty variety I am not bound to think the Trunk Hose of our forefathers ridiculous because Fashions crosse the Seas as oft as the Packet Boat into this Island the Nursery of Noveltys nor think the worse of these because old Age over-weening their own fashion maketh them peevishly severe against any other in all things of this nature it is rather Shismaticall Novelty not to be a sociable Innovator Bring them to the Scrutiny of Reason and that it selfe will be so changeably indifferent as to Judge them indifferent not requiring Sentence or Absolution of Them their Authours or Imitatours I will look on this Hamlet of the Creation be it the only or but one of the inhabited Worlds the Earth as one Corporation differing it may be in the private Oeconomies of their Families and look on all the changes of Common wealths Ragioni's del Stato Aimes and Interests of Men at Councell Board Exchange or Market but as a Masse of Vniforme Deformities and that without espousing my Reason so to any one as to think it already so good as none other like it or may not be if he hath not been already bettered this suspence Surseance de Judgement as that excellent Frenchman Mette L' Espirit a L' Abri de tous Inconveniens it shadeth the minde from the inconveniences of Quarrells Disputes Sidings with Opinions being cheated by Sophistry c. Et hoc liberiores solutiores sumus quia nobis integra Judicandi Potâ—stas manet It is a liberty maintaining the understanding Chast neither prostituting her selfe to or suffering a Rape from any Opinion Nullius jurare in verba Magistri To be of Truths Jury not Knight of the Post to any Opinion or Interest this temper Serenes the Soule from Passion cleareth its Intellectualls and restoreth it in part to its first and best Independency THE TEARES OF THE PRESSE THE Presse might be employed against or for it selfe according to the good or hurt its Labours have spread abroad in the World Look on them on the one side you will confesse the Teares of the Presse were but the Livery of its guilt nor is the Paper stained more than Authours or Readers That House at Harlam too justly may be stiled a House of Mourning notwithstanding it boastingly would justle the Chineses out of their Invention of Printing which whether as mischievous as their other of Guns is doubtfull That Inke hath Poyson in it the Historian as well as Naturalist will confesse for empannell a Jury of inquest whence Learning or Religion hath been poisoned scribendi Cacoethes dabling in Ink will be found guilty For First Learning hath suffered Vt omnium rerum sic Litterarum Intemperantia laboramus Tacitus saith among other excesses even that of Learning may surfet us and this was true before Printing when the cure of the Disease most are sick nisi te scire hoc sciat alter of publishing or if you will have it in Horace his words Sat. 4. Serm. 1. Quodcunque semel chartis illeverit omnes Gestit è Fur no redeuntes scire Lacuque Et Pueros Anus Notionellas as I may terme them was harder by reason of â—aborious Transcription Vanity or contradiction employing the pen even then Of the former let Dydimus the Grammarian lead the Van of whom Seneca saith quatuor millia Librorum scripsit miser si tam nulla supervacua Legisset that he writ foure thousand Books miserable Man if hee had read so many Pamphlets in those Controversies about Homers Countrey whether Anacreon offended more in incontinence or intemperance c. Most of them being stuft with such or Grammaticall Questions A Desease continued if not encreased since Printing too much declining things for the Declension of words Witnesse such Laborius works in Criticismes needlesse Jasperse not the wise choise of usefull Quaeres in that study the Result it may be of many Pages is the alteration of a word or Letter its Addition or Substraction O painfull wast Paper how empty is the Presse oft times when fullest empty we must acknowledge that which vanity filleth as we may well think it when it issueth some Poetick Legend of some love Martyr or pious Râ—mants of more than Saints ever did What Pamphlets the World in these latter times hath swarmed with the studious Shop-keeper knoweth who spendeth no small time at the Bulk in reading and censuring modern controversies or News will be readier to tell you what the times lack than to ask what you lack We live in an Age wherein never was lesse Quarter given to Paper should Boccalines Parliament of Parnassus be called among us I feare our Shops would be filled with printed wast Paper condemned to Tobacco Fruit c. No Charta Emporetica Cap Paper or what else they call it would be in use till Legends Romants Pamphlets c. were spent How justly may we take up that complaint in Strad lib. 3. Praelect 1. where Hee brings in Printers complaining against the Riming Poetick they would be called Pressers into the Presse Qui quae noctu somniant haec manè Lucem videre illico gestiant all ready what danger are we in of eating up Antichrist confuted in the Bottom of