it is a vulgar errour for men to say the World stands still and is constant which the Famous Phylosoper Copernicus proves nothing to be more unconstant more frail more giddy then it The World is a Centre the Heavens are its circumference which do encircle it yea the VVorld it self is a circle and the Devil is the Conjurer in it men are bewitched and are so charmed with enchantments that they do nothing but sleep in the bed of insecure security That is a very good Emblem of the frailty of the VVorld the VVorld being pictured and a hand from Heaven holding it in a string which string is the threed of this Life during its Duration in the VVorld which when it is divided by Atropus the destinies knife then the VVorld falls into an abysse of nothing from whence it came and so according to that distick Omnia sunt hominum tenui pendentia filo Et subito casu quae valuere ruunt All humane things hang by a slender thred VVhat stands most strong is quickly ruined Experience that severe Mistris teaches us every day how unconstant how brittle how unstable the World is and what man is there now that will not believe the opinions of the New Philosophers and Mathematicians that the World turns round This World is a stage or a theatre upon which all men come to act their parts Heavens are the Spectators they fight or should fight against the Devil and divellish vices This 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the Phylosophers calls it is a Labirinth and death is the Minotaure in it which devoures all men in its devouring jawes but our Heavenly Theseus will be the death of this death and the life of our life The World is more filthy then the Augaeano Stable oh for a Hercules which might clense it by letting the Alphean Rivers of Justice run through it to purge it from the dung of sin and puddle of iniquity This Structure of the VVorld is as an Ark swiming and floating in a Sea of Miscry delug'd with floods of iniquity Oh there is too many unclean Beasts in it not only whose feet bears the Image of the Beast the Devil but whose Souls have upon them his Devillish inscription The VVorld is round as though it stood for a Cypher but in my Arithmetick it is one though in the laughing wise-man Democritus's account there were plurality of Worlds but Mundus wants the plural number The VVorld by that ingeniousest of Poets Ovid is said to have four Ages the first Age was the Golden or best Age the second the Silver Age the third the Brazen Age and this last and worst Age is the Iron Age well may it be called so for so much war and so many Iron instruments of it that it seem'd as though Mars had made the World his field of War So here is an end of my description of the World though not of the World it self A Man IS by the Phylosophers called a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or a little World and by a witty Characterist the world is called a great man and man a little World Man is a Map or Description of the great World he is the World in Epitomy man is Natures darling This Microcosme is a compendium and an abridgment of the great World Let us peep in the cranyes of secret Anatomy and let us symbolize mans parts with the worlds Man is compounded of the foure Elements viz. Fire Aire Earth and Water and so is the World a compound of these his Liver Blood and Moisture is as the Sea which sends out its streams into all parts of the body by little sanguine Rivers in Violet veins which are as so many leaden pipes to convey his blood Mans natural heat is his fire his radical moisture his Water his breath blown out and in by the bellows of his Lungs his Air and his Flesh is earth but mans soul by the tenent of all Phylosophers and Christians is held to be of a spiritual substance like to the Angels and his soul is the angellick intelligences so it doth move its little orb its body in its right course as do the coelestial inteligences or Angels move their orbs every one in their proper sphear mans body is of admirable Architecture Frame and Composure but mans soul which Ovid calls his better part which some bruitish men makes the worst it is as the heavens of an heavenly existence though his body be but as the earth Mans reason is the sun that shines in the Firmament of his soul and gives light to his body the little world his soul is a little heaven as I may call it his faculties viz Fancy Imagination Wit Memory Understanding Will c. are the Stars that gives light to his lesser VVorld Man is the model and extract of nature he is all the creatures epitomized in his little coppy he is the greatest letter in the book of nature mans soul is indued with such exquisite faculties his soul can fly from one pole to another in a moment with this winged motion can ascend to the heavens in a minuite and descend into the abisse in an instant can pierce with the Lynx's eyes of his Imagination and Fancy into the secretest places yea and behold imaginarily the centre of the Earth A man is a master-piece in which there are a thousand several motions a soul indued with such excellencies as in one minuite it can be in a thousand places mounts up to the top of the world fadoms the universe without touching it which goes glisters sparkles which is the great indagatrix which searches all the treasures and magazines of nature which finds out all sorts of inventions which frames Arts which governs States which orders Worlds Man is a book which he ought to dedicate to his Maker and this man is the King Lord and Master of all other creatures which man shall be an inhabitant of heaven or hell if he be a valiant Champion and fight his Battel on the Stage of the World and can say truly Caesars three Triumphant words Veni Vidi Vici Then he shall be an inhabitant of the Coelestial Paradise where he may eat of the tree of Life freely drink of the Waters of Life abundantly and enjoy the Tree of Knowledg eternally when he shal know what soever is to be known but if he be vanquished he may say of heaven and happiness as one said in another case Vale in aeternum Vale farewell and forever farewell but he shall be a prisoner in the subterraneal Gaol of hell settered in chains of darkness The World is a Center and men are the lines about it he who moves in a larger Orb he is further from the Center of the World and neerer heaven but he who moves in a narrower Orb and Sphear is neerer the earth and further from Heaven Riches are trash and pleasures a toy But peace of conscience is a perfect joy A Wise man IS one of Apollo's
nature of them it may be he will reckon them in Greek he cracks much of his All-health and other quirkes that he has to get money This dull Physitian is a pretty good Chymist for out of these Druggs of his he can extract gold yea and he labours to get the Phylosophers Stone but he will knock out his brains against it if he have any his practise is so much about bodies he never mindes souls but is all for the body that I think is the reason of that sharpe sentence ubi sunt tres medici duo Atheist Where there is three Physitians there two of them are Atheists and he has a sad sicknesse of his soul and now there is need of Rosse that our Medicus may be Medicinatus our healer heald and Physitian cured This Physitian is of the strangest disposition he is sick when others are well and when others are fick he is well Hierophilus saith a Physitian meaning a right learned and skillfull one is manus Dei but this if he be so is sent to hurt rather then to heal Paracelsus his Author would have Physitians to be Magitians too I think he has followed his masters desire and can by his Prefisciens prevent Witchcraft there is a witty flout put upon Physitians but is proper to such Quack-salvers as he is that they of all men can kill scot-free and then they cure men of all Diseases A Divine HE thunders in his Doctrine and lightens in his conversation he is or should be a divine man whose contemplation is fixt as with Eagles eyes on the sun of righteousnesse and is like the pretious pearl Afterities contains those suns beams and rayes in it and reflects them unto others but is not like the Gloe-worm onely to give light to himself but is a shining Lamp to his Generation He is endued with Mercuryes golden tongue for truly to declare his message he needs to have the tongues of men and Angels and to deliver those divine Oracles to his people he is an Embassadour from the King of Kings unto men that they may become his Subjects and enjoy an heavenly Kingdome He is a Prophet to prophesy and a Priest to offer the Incense of prayer for the sins of his people He is a shephard his people are a flock the Church the fold he doth not fleece them but feed them First by his good example Secondly by sound Doctrine Thirdly subsidio vitae sustenance which if he have it he is charitable to the poor yea he reduces and brings them back from the by wayes of sin His Longus are his bellowes that he may blow the winds of Doctrine into them which is the breath of life He is a good Physitian which heals the sicknesse of mens souls with heavenly Balsome and the falling sickness when they fall into sin that sad Epilepsy he pores in Oyle of consolation into their wounded consciences He shews them a neerer way to heaven then by Homers chain or Aquinas's aurea Catena but his chain is Aura Virtutum Catena the golden Chain of Virtues Religion is a Charriot and Christians are those that bear the Yoake of this Religion and Christianity This Charriot of Religion has almost been overwhelmed in a Sea of blood a red sea in the time of those butcherlike Emperours but this Divine is an Aaron and the Captaine of Salvation is our heavenly Moses that will lead Christians those true Israelites out of this Wildernesse of trouble yet giving them the Heavenly Manna and will bring them out of this red Sea and conduct them into their Heavenly Canaan after they are got out of this Aegypt of the World and Wildernesse where the Scripture or God will be a Pillar of Fire by night to direct them in this night of Ignorance This Chariot of Religion will be a fiery Charriot to convey us to Heaven like to that of Elijahs A Divine is a Pillar of the Church and one who is alwayes hurried in the Fiery Charriot of Zeal He is a Cherubin for Knowledge and a Seraphin for Zeal as the word Seraphin signifies Burning Flaming He is sometimes a Boanerges a Son of Thunder to conitruate comminations and threatnings against evil doers other times he is a Barnabas a Son of Consolation He is a Good Souldier of Jesus Christ and a good Captain in the Church-Militant and therefore shall be glorified when the Church is Triumphant when all its Enemies are under its feet yea and that squattie Moon This Divine I say with the Silver Trumpet of the Gospel Summons and Alarams all Christians to come to their Spiritual Warfare and to Arme themselves with the Sword of the Spirit to fight against the World Flesh and Devil that grand Enemy of Man who is the Dragon that foams out Fire and Brimstone but our Heavenly Hercules will slay him This Dragon kills many with his breath the wind and breath of False Doctrine breathing the wind of temptations and afflictions and so storms poor Souls to death This Divine is Learned that he may teach the unlearned wise to teach the unwise He is a Merchant that has travelled over all Arts and Sciences to the Pearle of Learning yea he makes his Arts to be Hand-maids to wait on Divinity which is not the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of his Studies yea at the end of his Life with Luther he desires his Disciples to Read his Books Audi Lege Libros Yea his last Speeches are as it were his Funeral Sermons wherein he himself is a Spectacle of Mortality in which they may see Death clearly A Grammarian IS one that can spell his destiny as well as words yea and he can spell it by the accents He puts on mans birth an Asperate and on tender Infancy he puts a Lene Man 's youth and manhood will have an Accuit Old age will have a Circumflex when they bend and death at the end of all will have a Grave A Grammarian is an utter enemy to Barbarisme and Solacisme he is a very orderly man he puts all things in method and order he laies the foundation of tongues he is a punctual man and minds all his stops he uses more then Lypsian curiosity in his pronunciation which other Nations deride He puts all things into good Syntax and surely he is a peaceable man for he is all for concord A Gramarian would have Women to be Supines and himself to be in the Genitive case in Casu gignendi if he be one of Pluto's Troops or be skill'd in Ovids de Arte Amandi all books that are not punctual about Orthography nor the Language not linked with the Cords of good Syntax whose Sentences are as Nero said Senaca's was to make ropes without sand These Books he saith deserve to be put in Pantagruells Library or bound with Tartaretus de modo cacandi A Grammarian whose Art viz. Grammitica consists of four Pillours First Orthography Secondly Etymology Thirdly Syntax Fourthly Prosodia First For
Orthography Cato's discerning-eye could not descry a knot sooner then he will perceive his Orthography corrupted Secondly for his Etymology he will slice words in twain and mince them so long until he finds out the root he diggs for he abstracts all compounds and at last he comes to Simples he runs from one thing to another as the Pythagoreans did to find a Deity from whence came this word from that from whence that untill he comes to the Theme and Radix he trases words And for Syntax whosoever doth not tye his speech with its tyes he wishes a rope were about his neck 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and hanged within the Letter II which is a figure of a pair of Gallows neither doth he ever abide to see womans manuscripts and that which would break Prisians Head will break his Heart The last part or Pillar upon which his art depends on his Prosodia and here he speaks sometimes in a grave tone sometimes he is an Asper sometimes a Lene and he has sometimes a rough Spirit Spiritus Asper sometimes of a mild Spirit Spiritus Lenis yea to conclude he is part of a Musitian for he keeps his time and scans words A Logician A Logician is a Reasonable Man he is skilled in the Art of reasoning He with Phaeton rides upon the Sun of Reason which is the eye of the Soul which Sol with his bright rayes shines gloriously in the Firmament of mans Soul But when our Great Sier Adam fell then the Sun of mans Reason was Eclipsed and then this Lucifer had its fall too But this Logician he strives to dissipate the clouds of ignorance that bemists mans reason so that men by this means recovers the sight of this eye of the Soul But yet he hides this Gem this Pearle in such a Trophonious Den of Obscurities that men need have Tiberius his eyes to discover it and Lynx its sight to perceive it A Logician when he cannot unloose knots of difficulties more harder to unloose then that Gardian knot then with Alexander he cuts them with the sword of distinctions A Logician is an Aedipus to unriddle those riddles of that Sphinx Phylosophia or Sphinx Phylosophica which if a man cannot undoe it kills him with Grief Care and Study yea and of Nature too Another Sphinx which drowned our chiefest Philosopher Aristotle in Euripus and smothered or Martyred that great yea greatest Naturalist Pliny in Vesuvias flames Logick is Philosophy or Phylosophies Mechanick that makes all its Instruments A Logician distinguishes of all things divides all things reasons and disputes of all things and defines all things he disputes pro and con he refutes errours stifly answers Objections throughly distinguishes rightly explains things throughly defends his opinions against gainsayers A Logician is a very understanding man and his art is to bring a reformation to reform the understanding though this Art will puzzle Intellects he is a cunning Sophister who by his Sophistry can circumvent yea he can sometimes delude by his fallacies but to say truth of him he has his veritas logica he is not Thema Simplex but singulare a singular man he is ens completum he is homo omnium horarum But now I come to a Conclusion which is Finis A Rhetorician or an Orator A Rhetorician or Orator is one whose Speech is elevated to the height of the Ciceronian Pole whose stile is copious flexible and eloquent he has gotten Erasmus's Copia verborum He has a very well-tuned Genius as I may call it for his Words are sweet Harmony that charmes men He is one that minds the cadency and chiming of words as much as the density of the matter his words are genuine and masculine He is very sententious yea as that famous Seneca and he seems to have read Gabriel and Camaracensis books of Sentences Mercury the God of eloquence is feigned by the Poets to have wings on his armes and feet that he might fly to Heaven so this our Mercury may be said to have so too for he soars to the clouds sometimes with his winged Eloquence His words are like Aresta's arrows that catch fire as they fly surely Promethius is present with him with his heavenly fire that doth inspire him Mercury's Golden tongue he has which being a good tongue is Aesops best dish which makes a good relish in the Pallat of every Judicious mans Judgement An Orator is a second Orpheus who with the sweet Musick of his words draws every one after him He is a second Apelles for he ran depict and sets forth every thing in lively Colours He is another Proteus for he can transform himself into what form and shape he will sometimes he will be a Dog to bark at all mens manners a biteing Menippus sometimes a Serpent to sting men with reproaches a stinging Hipponax And thus he has as many delusions as a Jugler but in them all he shews that he has skill in Politicks and is a Politician for he doth all these things out of Policy A Rhetorician is all Tongue by which Instrument he overcomes and wins more then Mars by his Weapons witnesse the Orator Cyneas whom King Cyrus confessed he had gotten and won more Towns by Cineas's Eloquence then by Mars's Instruments An Orator is so perswasive that if he but say it none can gain-say it truly he by his charms of eloquence rocks men into such pleasing lul-la-bie and dallies them in such a Dallilahs Lap of pleasure that he takes all strength from such strong Sampsons An Arithmetician I wonder whether an Arithmetician in the Book of Nature stand for a cypher or is a figure He seems to play with his figures and makes them fight with one another and musters his Armies of Figures which are almost innumerable and sets them in rank and file and those that are overcome he cancels them but of all cancelling he loves to cancel his debts in other mens debt-Books His Art of Arithmetick consists of nine Figures viz. 1 2 3 4 c. and a cypher it stands for nothing but if that o Cypher be well pondred in the scales of a Judicious mans Judgement it will preponderate and over weigh all the other nine figures An Arithmetician saith o the Cypher is no figure but the Phylosopers say an o or a circle is Figura Capacissima the World is an o the Heavens the Caelestial Sphears are os o is called figura divinissima This o is the greatest Letter in the Book of nature o is the figure in which Motus runs and moves in o after figures increaseth the sum ten times yea and will make them run into Infinitum An Arithmetician with the Pythagoreans minds mystical numbers he saith 1. 3. 5. 9. are mystical numbers but his prime words are Imprimis and Items If this Arithmetician be for a Curtesan a Whore then he practises the Rule of Multiplication and puts an Addition to the innumerable number of Men and Women Arithmeticus is a nounce of
been born up with four Soaring Flying Eagles and that this Tower might have been as the Tower of Babel whose top should have aspired to Heaven and so cause these Eagles that are Joves Messengers carry his Soul to the Emperean Heavens as the heathens of old when they used to Canonize their Emperours for gods when their bodies was burnt they used to set an Eagle or a painted Eagle at the top of the Rogus or funeral piler to signifie that the Emperours soul was transported to heaven by that soaring Eagle A Geometrician with Archimides is drawing lines when the fiery destinies is about burning the Mansion-house of his body and then there is an end of him An Astronomer AN Astronomer is an Heavenly minded man he with the Phylosopher Anaxagoras cares for his Country his contemplation is in heaven about heavenly things he has power over the Stars Sapiens dominabitue An Astronomer considers the motion of the Star he is a sublime Traveller for by his imagination he Travells in that milky way He looks on the Stars with a judicious eye yea with his eyes as two prospective glasses beholding the caelestial eyes of heaven whether or no they look kindly upon the earth He beholds heavens countenance that shines with those her orient Pearls her many eyes that are as though Titan the bright eyes of heaven were divided into so many eyes He beholds those eyes often weep their fiery beams to see the flames of anger burn in men yea he beholds what opposition there is in the houses of heaven about Venus as well as in the houses of the earth This Astronomer if skilled in Astrology too considers the powerful working influence and effects of the Stars Tycho and Braha are his Authors He beholds Aquarias eye that it weeps alwayes to look on the miseryes and obliquities of men done upon the earth of all signes he thinks Libra ♎ which is thought to be as the Scales of Justice yea and as Poets feign this Libra was a Justice on the earth who is now flone to heaven and that is the reason why we have so little justice on the earth I say this Astrologer sees that Libra has the least influence on men then any sign has which is the reason why there is so few Aristides's just men He also sees Leo that 's a bad sign that it hath great influence on men below that 's the reason so many men are so Lyon-like He has casten his own Nativity and can tell you that Mercury in his geniture was culminating which is the reason why he is so Studious and contemplative This Astronomer or Astrologer Prognosticates what will come to passe he knows that those heavenly Signes viz. Stars are set up that they may be as signes and tokens what shall be done on Earth which they first Presage This Astrologer he sees future things in the Chrystaline or glassie heavens yea and in his Gallilaean glasse he sees heavens face clearly and perspicuously and sees whether heavens face frowns upon the Earth or no but oh when he sees heavens Hyperion its illustrious eye to be blinded as to us thick mists clouds and the moon interposing and Titan suffering by reason of these a fatal ecclipse then he saith it prognosticates that the sun of the worlds glory or rather the sun of righteousnesse shall as to us be ecclipsed by reason of a world of sin and misery interposes An Astronomer is swallowed up in Des Cartes Vortices in which we leave him hopeing that he as Sir Francis Drake will passe the Gulph Nemo NEmo is a negative I will affirm that Nemo potest omnia Nemo is very wise Nemo omnibus horis sapit Though Nemo have no real existence yea we may have some confused notions of such non entitis and have a Platonick Idea of him in our minds many may wonder at this strange Chimaera that never was nor is nor will be but will suppose he is onely a Chimaera of our brain The Poets have attributed much to this Nemo he like Esops fellow servant can do all things then he leaves nothing for others to do all blame and accusations are laid upon poore Nemoe's back but that we may come to the knowledg of Nemo we will dive into the Abysse and see if we can finde him there then with our fancies we will rove into that spatium imaginarium that imaginary place beyond world and Heavens and we will fly into all Democritus's worlds and we will fly to the Moon and see if the opinions of the new Phylosophers be true that there is a world there and see whether that thing in the moon that represents a man whether it be so or not and if it be no man Nemo then I will cry out with Archimedes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I have found him I have found him Nemo is some non-entity he dwels in Sir Thomas Moores Utopia and has his habitation in terra incognita Magellanica Nemo surely is something spiritual for we use to define spiritual things negatively and tells what they are not rather then what they are I think it would puzle the Delphick Oracles to declare Nemo unto us A Gyant A Gyant is a Hercules in a Lyons skin if he be wicked he is a Zamzummim if rebellious a Berisides that with his hundred hands attempt to throw Jupiter out of his Ivory throne A Gyant is natures Monster mans wonder a colosse and doth little but stands for an image A Gyant thinks to be a King for he has gotten his Iron Marke or Scepter and he is called Terra Filius the son of the Earth he is a Cyclops he attempts to snatch Joves Lightning out of his hand to reach the stars but Jupiter and they are out of his reach he looks at other men as so many Pigmies he has as little of goodness as he has a great deal of greatness and quantity but when he yeilds to the fates he is good for nothing but to make the birds of the Air a feast and his bones Shields and Mace as Precious reliques for antiquaries to adore and to shew as wonders to succeding generations He lives in the bowels of the Earth and may well be the son of the Earth and lives in Cells though I think he is no papist not so devout He is a Tytheus that shakes the Earth and makes the Earth-quake for fear He is a puple to the Whirl-wine and is a Cyclops skilled in the accents of the cracking sphears when he speaks he speaks in Thunder and fulminates comminations he sits upon the Center of the Earth then in all likelihood he is a Teutonick Philosopher that mind Centers much Nature has expatiated him to such a length and has reard him to such a height that he might be an Atlass to bear up Heaven with his shoulders This is his resolution when he cannot prevaile with his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Flectere si nequeo superis Acheronta movebo A Melancholy Man