and the last that dies thence she transmits a souvrain and conservatory influence through all the members without which the whole Man must in the fleetest article of time be but a Cadaver The Animal Faculty challengeth supermacy in order of eminence as regulating the sublimer actions as Sense and Motion togegether with the Memory Understanding and Imagination to which as to their perfection the two former are design'd Therefore gentle Bees think speedily on the free proposall I have made and of the fair opportunity you have offered you to be reinform'd with Rational Souls and to return to the Religious Convent you came from where being wean'd from the frail world together with the cares and encumbrances therof Where by the constant practise of holy duties night and day you may act the parts of Angels upon earth and afterwards of tru Angels in the land of Eternity Therfore shake off this despicable poor humming condition and go again to sing Hymns and Halleluiahs to your Creator Bee Know Sir that we have also a Religion as well as so exact a Government among us here Our Hummings you speak of are as so many Hymns to the great God of Nature And ther is a miraculous example in Caesarius Cisterniensis how som of the holy Eucharist being let fall in a medow by a Priest as he was returning from visiting a sick body a Swarm of Bees being hard by took it up and in a solemn kind of procession carried it to their Hive and there erected an Altar of the purest Wax for it where it was found in that form and untouch'd But whereas you spoke of Angels how do the separated Souls of good men when they are exalted to Heven differ from the Angels Pererius As they agree so they differ in many things Angels and separated Souls agree in that both of them are Spirits Both of them are Intellectuall and Eternall Cretures They both behold the beatificall Vision Both of them are Courtiers of Heven and act meerly by the understanding c. Lastly They both are Parishioners of the Church Triumphant Now as the blessed Angels and Souls separat do thus agree So they differ in many things They differ in their Essentialls for the principles of Angels are meerly Metaphysicall viz. Essence and Existence but a separated Soul continues still part of that Compositum which formerly consisted of matter and form and is still apt to be reunited therunto Till then she is not absolutely completed for all that while she changeth not her nature but her state of life Moreover they differ in the exercise of the Understanding and manner of knowledge for a Soul separat knows still by discours and ratiotination which an Angell doth not but by Intuition They also differ in dignity of Nature for Angels have larger Illuminations At the first instant of their Creation they beheld the Beatific Vision the summe of all happines yet separated Souls are capable to mount up to such a height of glory by degrees as to be like them in all things both in point of Vision Adhaesion and Fruition Bee Now Sir that you speak of Angels what degrees are ther of them in the Celestiall Hierarchy Pererius They are divided into three Hierarchies and in every Hierarchy ther are three Orders The first consists of Seraphims the second of Cherubims the third of Thrones The second consists of Dominations of Vertues and Powers The third consists of Principalities of Angells and Archangells Now those of the supremest Hierarchy partake of divine Illuminations in a greter mesure And you were all born gentle Bees to be members of any of these glorious Hierarchies Bee I remember when I was a Nun that som presumptuous spirits would preach that Angels were created for Man and that Man was of so high a creation that he was little inferiour unto them if not their equall and that their chief ministeriall function was to guard Him c. Pererius They were presumptuous indeed and in a high degree of prophanenes as you shall find in these Stanza's of comparison though som of them are familiar and too low for so high a subject 1. Such as the meanest Star in Sky Is to the Sun in Majesty What a Monk's Cell is to high Noon Or a new Cheese unto the Moon No more is Man if one should dare Unto an Angel Him compare 2. What to the Eagle is a Gnat Or to Leviathan a Sprat What to the Elephant a Mouse Or Shepherd's Cott to Caesar's House No more is Man if one should dare Unto an Angell Him compare 3. What to a Pearl a peeble Stone Or Cobler's Shop unto a Throne What to the Oak the basest Shrub Or to Noah's Ark a Brewer's Tub No more is Man if one shold dare Unto an Angel Him compare 4. Then let not Man half child of night Compare with any Hevenly Wight He will appeer on that account A Mole-hill to Olympus Mount Yet let this still his comfort be He hath a capability To be of Heven Himself but on this score If he doth not make Earth his Heven before Bee Noble Prince you pleas'd to give divers touches of the Immortality of the human Soul I pray be pleas'd to illuminat and rectifie our understandings touching that point Pererius Concerning the immortality and incorruptiblenes of the Rational Soul in the World to com not onely Christian Divines but the best of Pagan Philosophers Poets and Orators have done her that right as is evident in their works Moreover the Intellectuall Human Soul doth prove her self to be immortall both by her desires her apprehensions and her operations Touching the first Her desires are infinit we know and never satisfied in this world Now it is a Maxim among the School-men That ther is no naturall passion given to any finit creture to be frustraneous Secondly Her apprehensions or longings after eternall Truths which are her chiefest employments and most adaequat objects declare her Immortall Thirdly from her operations 't is known that all corruption comes from matter and from the clashing of contraries Now when the Soul is sever'd from the Body she is elevated beyond the sphere of matter therfore no causes of mortality can reach her wherby her state and operations pronounce her immortall which operations she doth exercise without the ministery of corporeall organs for they were us'd to be a clog to her Add hereunto that she useth to spiritualize materiall things in the Intellect to abstract Idaeas from Individualls She can apprehend negations and privations she can frame collective notions all which actings conclude her immateriality and as 't was pointed at before where no matter is found ther 's no corruption and where ther 's no corruption ther 's no mortality Now her prime operations being without the ministery of Matter she may be concluded immortall by that common principle Modus operandi sequitur modum essendi Operations are according to the essence of every thing Now in the World to com the
made them turn supposed superstition to gross prophaness preaching to prating praying to raving government to confusion and freedom to fetters We have so intoxicated that dear daughter of yours Polihaima that she knows not what way to turn her self And whereas her Apprentices did rise up like so many Cubs of Tygers against their lawfull Prince they are now becom as came as so many silly sheep against the Souldiery We have puzzled their Pericranium with vertiginous fancies and fears among themselfs that one neighbour dare not trust the other To conclude we have eclipsed the glory of that Nation we have made them by all peeple far and neer that ever had knowledg correspondence or any commerce with them to be pittied by som to be laugh'd at by others to be scorn'd of all and to becom the very tail of all Nations In fine Sir we have brought that Country to such a passe of confusion that it is a fit place onely for your infernall Majesty to keep your Court in for ther 's never a Crosse there to fright you now 'T is tru they retain it still upon their coines of gold and silver in honour of your Plutonian Highnesse as you are Dis and god of riches Megaera having thus given up an account in behalf of her self and her two sisters they all bowed their snaky heads down to their very feet which were toed with Scorpions before the black Throne of Beelzebub who giving such a humm that made all Hell to tremble answered thus My pretious and most trusty Tartarean daughters we highly approve of the super-erogatory service you have don us for the propagation of our Empire upon Earth and specially in Gheriona we have sued a long time to have a lease of that Iland and we hope to obtain it touching Carboncia 't is not worth the while Therfore when you have visited those of that Nation whom you have sent hither already to peeple this pit I would have you return thither and prepare that place for one of our principall habitations never leave them till you have thrust out Religionem ex solo as well as Regem ex solio make Law Religion Allegiance and every thing els Arbitrary let not one government last long but shuffle the Cards so that a new Trump may be turnd up often create still new fears and foment fresh divisions among them let the son seek the fathers throat let brothers sheath their swords in one anothers bowells let the Country clash with the Towns the Towns one against the other and the Sea with both till that the whole Nation be at last extinguished that one may not be left to pisse against a wall Let not a Church or Chappell Hospitall or Colledge stand in the whole Isle I intend to have a new Almanack of Saints at my comming for I have som Star-gazers there fit for my purpose Make haste therefore and acquit your selfs of your duty for fear a peace be shuffl'd up and that Artonia and Tumontia appeer in the busines and espouse the quarrell of young Caroloman And if you carry your selfs well in this employment I may chance give you Carboncia for your reward The three Lethean Futies with a most profound reverence replied May it please your Majesty your Ferriman Charon is continually so pestered with such multitudes of Gherionian and Carboncian passengers that we were forc'd to stay a long time ere we could be transported hither and we fear we shall be so hindred again Therfore we most humbly desire for our better expedition that you would vouchsafe to give us a speciall Mandamus that we may be serv'd first with a non obstante when we com to the banks of Styx You shall dear daughters said Pluto and my Warrant shall be addrest to som Gherionian Tarpalins wherof ther are abundance these few years past whom Charon hath entertaind for his journey-men Having listned all this while unto what pass'd 'twixt Pluto and his Furies my guiding spirit did lead me up and down Hell to see the various sorts of torments that are there which indeed are innumerable both old and new The first I beheld was Ixion who was tyed with ugly Vipers to a wheel that whirl'd about perpetually and I might perceive a multitude of lesser wheels newly made therabouts wherunto great nombers of Gherionians and divers of my acquaintants were bound in like manner I might discern also hard by a huge company of new Windmills and bodies tyed with black-spotted Snakes at every wing turning round perpetually A little further ther were a great many broken by Milstones who were whirl'd with them about incessantly In another place I might see black Whirlpools full of tormented souls turning still round I asked what was the reson of so many whirling tortures My good Spirit answered All these except Ixion's wheel are new torments appointed for Gherionian Sectaries who had destroyed from top to bottom all Government both of Church and State And as their brains turn'd round upon earth after every wind of Doctrine so their souls turn here in perpetuall torments of rotation A little further I spied Prometheus removed thither from Caucasus with a ravenous Vulture tearing and feeding upon his liver which as one part was eaten renewed presently after and abundance of new commers were tormented in the same manner these I was told they were Gherionians also that were punishd like Prometheus because as he was tortured so for stealing fire from Heven by which was meant for prying too far into the secrets of the gods so those fiery Zelots of Gheriona were tortured for offring to dive too far into the high points of Predestination Election and Reprobation being not contented sapere ad sobrietatem but were gaping ever and anon after new lights and flashes of illuminations to pry into the Book of Life Then I came to the bottomles Tub which Danaus daughters were a filling a nomberles company of other such tubs were there and Gherionian women and men were incessantly labouring to fill them up with the stenchy black waters of Acheron I was told that they were those over-curious peeple in Gheriona which wold be never satisfied with spirituall knowledg having no other devotion than to be alwaies learning and never comming to the truth as these poor restlesse fillers could never come to any bottom Then I beheld the most horrid tortures of those Giants who wold have pulld Iupiter out of his Throne and a world of Gherionians among them who partaked of the same tortures because they had conspir'd on earth to destroy their lawfull King Not far further I might spy dazling my eyes fiery glowing tubs made Pulpit-like and I was told they were prepared for those prophane presumptuous Mechanicks and other lay-men who use to preach and so abuse the sacred Oracles of God And Uzza was not far off who lay in torments there for being too bold with the Holy Ark. Not far distant I saw hoops of iron that were made
Inappetentia Fames Canina or the Wolf it hath the Pica Malacia Singultus or the Hicock spitting of blood choler Abscessâ—s or Impostumes Ulcers c. Go to the Liver it hath Obstruction the Jaundies the Dropsie Cirrhus Inflammation Ulcer Impostume c. Go to the Bowells they have the Colique Iliaca Passio or voiding excrements at the mouth Astrictio alvi Lineteria or smoothnes of the guts Caeliaca affectio or pappy stools Diarrhaea or thin scowring Dysenteria or the bloody-flix Tenesmus or sorenes of the fundament Fluxus Hepaticus Lombrici or the Worms the Hemerroids Fistula c. Go to the Spleen ther is Dolor lienis Obstructio Hypocondriacall melancholy or the Mother c. Go to the Reins Bladder and Genitalls ther is Calculus or the Stone Inflammatio Mictus fanguinis Diabete when one voids more urine than he drinks Incontinentia urinae Ardor Iscuria when the passage is quite stopped the Strangury when one pisseth drop by drop Lues Venerea Anthony's Fire the Chancre and Botches c. Go to the Ioints ther is Arthritis and sundry sorts of Gouts c. Go to the Eye ther is Gutta Serena Suffusio or a Cataract with a film Ophthalmia Epiphola or hot rheum Aegilops Fistula Lachrymalis and above twenty more Go to the Ear ther is Surditas Sonitus Dolot aurium c. Go to the Nose ther is Ozana Ulcus Polypus or lump of flesh Faetor narium Hemoragia or excesse of bleeding Coryza or the Pose Sternutatio withdiversmore Go to the Toung ther is Paralysis Laesus Gustus inflammatio Ranula sub lingua c. Go to the Teeth Throat and Gums ther is Angina or the Squinzy ther is fluxus Uvulae relaxatio with sundry more Ther is also abundance of peculiar diseases that are incident to Women ther is Chlorosis or the Green-sicknesse Cancers in the breasts Suppressio mensium Fluor muliebris Fluor uterinus Histerica passio Inflammatio Ulcus uteri Cirrhus uteri Cancer uteri Gangraena uteri Hydrops uteri Clausura uteri Sterilitas Obortus Partus diffioilis Faetus mortuus Secundina retenta Proscidentia with many more Out of these premises the conclusion follows that Human bodies both male and female are nought else but frail Vessells or Bottoms wherin are slowed all manner of perishable Commodities But these which I have spoken of are corporeall and most of them outward diseases that attend the body of mankind wherof I have not enumerated the twentieth part But if you go to his Rationall Soul she hath also her distempers the indisposition of the inward man is greater the anxieries and agonies of the mind the racking torments of the thoughts are more violent the enchanting passions of love transports him to frenzies Incertitudes of holy things and fits of despair work somtimes so powerfully that he becomes Felo de se making him to destroy himself and cut off the threed of his life before Lachesis hath wound it half up And were ther a Physician that could cure the discomposures and sicknesses of the human soul he wold be the rarest among mortalls And were I sure I could have a faculty to do that I wold turn Man and Physician again Pererius Ther are other kind of Physicians for those maladies viz. the Ghostly Fathers of the Church acts and exercises of piety are the lenitifs for such distempers and preservatifs against them For he who is in peace with Heven and useth to convers with his Creator is free from such discomposures from all tumultuary confusions and perturbances of thoughts 'T is confess'd ther 's no human creture has his humors so evenly pois'd within him that he is always the same he is somtimes Ioviall and merry he is somtimes Saturnin and melancholy and it must be so while the Starrs poure different influxes upon us but especially while the humors within us have a symbolization with the four Elements who are in restles conflict among themselfs who shall have the mastery as the humors do in us for predominancy Insomuch that the humors or passions may be said to be to the soul as strings to a musicall Instrument which somtimes use to jarre sometimes to go in a tru harmony and this the Physitian who is Natures Student hath more advantage to know than others But let us spin out time no longer for 't is a tru as well as a trite proverb that Spinning out of time never made good cloth At a word will you embrace this comfortable proffer I make you from the gratious Queen Morphandra and turn Tumontian again Mule Truly Sir I have neither mind nor maw to it for in the state wherin I am setled I use to exercise the operations of nature with more freedom and much lesse encumbrance following onely the dictats of sense and being solely guided therby Pererius But what are the dictats of sense compar'd with the intellectuall powers of the human soul what is the Sense which trades alone with grosse bodies and qualities emergent thence compar'd with Reson a faculty wherby the soul converseth with blessed Angels and immateriat Beeings and by Metaphysicall and sublime notions wings her self up into the arms of Him who breath'd her first into the body of man In the upper Court of the Soul's residence we may compare the Soul to an Empresse wisely restraining or giving freedom to the misguided affections according to the exact rules of Reson Here we have Man ruling in Man dressing and manuring Man as another Paradise wherin is all possible variety yet no confusion no disorder no unruly passions tyrannizing over Reson no disturbance of mind no distemper of body but a most admirable harmony of all things in the whole Universe of Man Reson is that Diadem wherby the soul doth rule and regulat the will and the affections the Chancellor which doth moderat the motions of both Reson is that Rod wherwith the Soul is kept in awe to obey without any servile fear her Creator and chiefest Good By Reson the Soul discerns ther is a God deducing arguments from the Creation of the fair fabric of the world which had either existence from it self or was produced by another but it could not give a first beeing to it self in regard 't is repugnant to the principles of Nature that any thing should be the cause of it self Therfore the Inference is undeniable that the world was made by another which was pre-existent and such another that was the Efficient cause therof not produced by any other former efficient cause but was of Himself and by Himself from eternity which can be no other than God Another argument the Soul drawes from the necessary dependance of a finit Beeing upon an Infinit for all created natures are finit both in respect of their essence and operations Now every thing that is finit must necessarily be limited by another seeing it is impossible that any thing shold give bounds to it self And ther being not in things finit a progresse
to Infinity We must at length come to some certain Independent Beeing which is not circumscrib'd or limited by another but is of it self essentially and virtually infinit which can be no other than God Almighty A third argument is drawn from the necessary dependance of a Secondary cause upon a First for unlesse we do here also grant a progresse to Infinity which is absurd in mounting up the scale of subordination of causes we must at length meet with one primary both Efficient and Finall cause that hath no other cause superiour or precedent unto it which is onely God Another argument the Soul draweth still by the ministry of Reson to prove a Deity is the constant cours of the Starrs those glorious Luminaries and the continued order of all things else in their first station through all the vicissitudes of corruption and generation which doth forcibly intimat an ubiquitary Providence a wise Rector Governor and Commander upon whose direction all things depend No sooner doth the Soul by such reaches of Reson throughly satisfie her self that ther is a God but she mounts yet higher endeavouring to know what God is But such is the transcendent refulgence of his Majesty that she finds it impossible to look God in the face or to know him à priori yet though she is not able to behold his face yet she hath leave granted to know him à posteriori though she cannot define the incomprehensible Deity yet she may still guided by light of Reson describe him by an aggregation of Attributes To know God by his Attributes is a near approach to his Deity Yet the Rationall soul goes still nearer first prying into his Essence then returning to her self and contriving which way she should know more at length she says within her self Operatio sequitur Esse Action follows its Being Then she busies her self in the contemplation of Gods Actions which she finds either immanent and inward or transient and outward The immanent actions of God are such as are performed intrinsecally within Himself without any externall respect to the creture wherby he is said to contemplat to know and love Himself Here the Soul takes notice of a reflection of the Deity upon it self and so is heightned to the supposition of a Trinity the cardinall and abstrusest point the highest pitch she can soar unto She proceeds to argue that wheras God doth conceive and know Himself he doth beget a perfect Image of Himself from which issueth a perfect Love of Himself and a complacency Now seeing ther is nothing in God which is not God both the Image of God and the Love of God seem to be distinct Subsistences of the same Essence with Him from whom they proceed as when an Eye doth see it self ther is first the Eye seeing secondly the Eye seen or at least the Image of the eye seen from which action of seeing her arises a desire of enjoyment This comparison doth in some sort adumbrat the blessed Trinity First ther is the Eye Secondly ther is a Reflection or Image of the Eye Thirdly ther is a love or complacency which proceeds from both The first is God the Father the Second is God the Son and the third is God the Holy Ghost Now although these three Subsistencies be all concentred in the Deity yet they are distinct each one from the other in their operations ad extra though in immanent or in actions ad intra they are individuall Thus the Human Soul ascends to the knowledge of her Eternall Good by the ministry and reaches of Reson therfore me-thinks you should have an Ambition to be endued with that divine Faculty again and so return to your native soyl from this society of irrationall brute Animals and be a subject to so great a Monarch as the Tumontian King is your naturall liege Lord and Prince whose Dominions are of such a vast expansion that they reach to the very Antipodes the other Hemisphere of the world whereby he may say that the Sun never sets but shines upon som part or other of his Territories every hour of the naturall day all the while Apollo fetches a carreer about the world Mule Touching the first part of this your last discours wherin you so much magnifie the faculty of Reson and that therby you arrive to the notion of heavenly things truly Sir I am of his opinion who held that all the knowledg which man hath of his Creator is but one degree above blindnesse What the eye of a Batt is to the Sun in its Meridian the same is the most perspicacious eye of man's understanding if he look upon his Maker In the state that now I live do not puzzle my brain with such presumptuous reserches and incertain speculations but am contented with the doctrin and dictamens of Sense onely which are more infallible Concerning the last part of your speech it cannot be denied but that the Tumontian King is one of the greatest Potentats that ever was upon earth if his Dominions were contiguous and united but ther is such an unsociable distance between them that the Artonian will tell you His Monarchy is like a great Cloak made up of patches Moreover I have no great comfort to be his subject now because he hath gon down the wind for many years having bin so shreudly shaken in the saddle most of that Country you spoke of which reacheth to the Antipodes being revolted from him and he hath very lately disgorged many a good bit to Artonia Add hereunto that his peeple in Tumontia are grown miserably poor of late years by such insupportable Taxes and drainings of men for the Warrs insomuch that ther are scarce enough left to cultivat the earth Yet such is the rare obedience and the phlegmatic humor of the Tumontians that they are still as awfull they are as conformable and quiet as if ther King were as vertuous as victorious and the least exacter the ever Prince was But this they do for their own advantage for if there were another Governor set up it wold inevitably hurl the whole Country into civill tumults and combustion so the remedy wold be worse than the disease Pererius They shew themselfs a prudent peeple in that for it is in Governments as it is in choice of wifes Seldom comes a better But the Tumontian hath other commendable qualities for besides his constant obedience to his Prince He is also constant to his Religion he is in perpetuall enmity with the common enemy of the Crosse Moreover he never serves any Prince in the warrs but his own nor goes he to trade abroad into and Country but to his own Masters Territories And are not you desirous to be one of that brave Nation again Therfore let me advise you now once for all to shake off that dull despicable shape which useth in naturall production to have no better mother then an Asse Mule Truly Sir you may please as the proverb runs to keep your breath
faculty of discoursive Reson you glory of that Man is endued withall though in som respects it be a benefit unto him and given as a recompence for his frailties nakedness and weakness yet in som kind it it may be said to be a disadvantage unto him for it makes him subject to a thousand vexations of spirit it fills him with inquisitive thoughts and scruples touching his salvation it makes him a tyrant to himself by sundry sorts of perplexities and molestations of mind for I have known it by experience let the threed of a man's life be never so well spun yet it cannot be without bracks and thrumbs Ther is no creture so troublesome to himself as man for as rust adheres naturally to Copper so ill affections and obliquities adhere to human nature Moreover you like us are but raggs of mortality yet you are so vain in magnifying your own species that you make Man the epitome and complement of all created natures Nay som have prophanely affirmed that if all the Angells in Heven had bin a thousand years a forming man they could not have made him in greater perfection and yet when I seriously oftentimes did contemplat Man and fell into a tru account of his imbecillities and that world of weaknesses which use to attend his body and mind I have often cryed out Eheu nos miseri quà m totus Homuncio nil est What nomberles diseases is his frail body which is the socket of his soul subject unto how short are his plesures and what black sudds commonly they leave behind them insomuch that they may be said to have wings and stings for sadnes succeeds his joys as punctually as night follows the day Pererius Well well give over these Satyricall excursions and think on your dear Country the healthfullest Country on earth Goat It may well be said to be so for of late years ther were cull'd out within three miles compasse ten men that were a thousand years between them one supplying what the other wanted of a hundred years apiece and they danc'd the Morris divers hours together in the Market-place with a Taborer before them 103 years old and a Maid Mariam 105. But Orosia is much degenerated from what she was by the Gherionian Sectaries who have infected the Inhabitants with so many pseudodoxall and gingling opinions which is the recompence she receives from Gheriona for converting her first from an Infidell to be a Christian yet she hath the impudence lately as to call her Heathenish Moreover she twits her ever and anon with Leeks and Cheese though both tend the one to the commendation of the Nation the other of the Country For wheras the Orosian doth use to wear the first in his hat constantly upon such a day it is to a commemorat the time that a famous Battle was fought wherein other Nations that werein the Army ran away but the Orosians stood to their ground and got the day Now to signalize and distinguish themselfs from the Fugitifs they took Leeks in their caps which grew in a Garden hard by Besides 't is known how one of the acutest Nations on earth ador'd the Leek as one of his gods Touching the other to have Cheese enough is the mark of a fruitfull Country and good pasture This makes me tell you a facetious Epigram To make a pure Orosian thirst for blisse And daily say his prayers on his knees Is to perswade Him that most certain 't is The Moon is made of nothing but green Cheese And then he 'l ask of God no greter boon Then place in Heven to feed upon the Moon Now during the late combustions in Gheriona which were causd by a fatuous fire that took hold of som frantic spirits 't is well known that the Orosian stood firm both to his Prince and Principles till he was o'repower'd by multitudes Pererius Well will you put off that rammish and foetid carcase and return to your first Principles of Nature and I will safely conduct you towards your first home Goat Rammish and foetid As rammish and foetid as we are we are of a far more wholsom constitution than Man let the rare qualities which are in our bodies be judg 'T is known by daily experience how our blood hath such an energy in it that it can dissolve Diamonds it also scowreth iron better then any file and being fryed and drunck with wine it cures the bloody-flix The Load-stone rub'd with Garlick loseth its attractive vertu but being dipt in Goats milk it recovers Ther 's no creture hears more perfectly then a Goat for he hath not onely Ears but an Acousticon Organ also in the throat Our hair burnt driveth away Serpents and cureth decayed genitalls The marrow of a Goat is singular good against Aches The gall mixed with hony good to clear and fortifie the sight The very trindles drunck in wine are good against the Jaundise and to stay Female-fluxes as also gargariz'd good against old coughs The fatt sodden with Goats dung is good if applied to the Gout The butter of the fatt of a male Goat is good for an old sore for Kibes the Kings-Evill and Fellons or mixed with hony or oyl of Brambles 't is good against deafnes The gall makes white hair grow on a horse Goats milk is excellent against Consumptions and you know how the famous Aegistus was nurs'd by that milk To conclude ther 's nothing within us or without us but it is cordiall or medicinall Our entralls livers ashes horns milt spleen urine fine hairs marrow hoofs gall dung sewet trindles milk and blood c. The Tenth Section A Dialog 'twixt Morphandra Pererius and a Soland-Goose a Carboncian born who was transmuted to that shape for his foolishnes in rebelling against his own Conterranean King and so by jugling himself into a Slavery from that Free Government he was formerly under c. Morphandra Pererius a Goose. Morphandra I Saw you in hot discourse a good while with that bearded Beast how did you feel his pulse beat will he return to live among those Mountains where he first breath'd air and put on his primitive nature again Pererius Madame I find he hath no list or lust at all to either one of his resons is that the Gherionian his confining neighbour hath so intoxicated his Country-men with such fond fanatic opinions made them deviat from their tru service and allegiance both to the King of Heaven and to his Vicegerent their King upon Earth He gave me also some acute resons both Morall and Metaphysicall why he wold not turn Man again alledging at last that the shape he now wears is farr more sound and healthfull abounding more with naturall heat which makes his body and all the parts thereof within and without to have such medicinall vertues in them whereas human carcases though they had bin Tabernacles to a far nobler Soul are good for nothing when she parts with them but to feed and feast worms Therfore truly Madame
Garter-like of hot candent steel I was told that they were design'd for the perjur'd Knights of that Order in Gheriona to wear upon their legs when they com thither for breaking in the late war the solemn Oath they had taken at their Installment to defend the Honour and Quarrells the Rights and Dignities of their Soverain c. Nere unto them I might see brasse hoops glowing with fire and they were Scarfs-like I was told they were ordained for those Knights of the Bath to wear for Ribbands next their skins when they came thither for infringing that sacred Sacramentall Oath they took at their election which was To love their Soverain above all earthly creture and for his Right and Dignity to live and die A little beyond I saw a Copper-table with chairs of the same all candent hot I was told that those were for perjur'd Privy-Councellors who had broke their Oath to their King which obliged them to be tru and faithfull servants unto him and if they knew or understood any manner of thing to be attempted done or spoken against his Majestie 's Person Honour Crown or Dignity they swore to lett and withstand the same to the uttermost of their power and cause it to be revealed either to Himself or any other of his Privy Councill Hard by I saw a little Furnace so glowing hot that it lookt of the colour of a Ruby or Carbuncle I was told that it was to clap in the Master of a King's Jewell-house when he comes thither for being so perfidious and perjurious to his Master Not far off I might see a huge brasse Caudron full of molten lead with som Brewers cruelly tormented therein for setting their own Country on fire I was curious to know whether ther were any other infernall tortures besides those of fire Yes I was answered for to speak of fire to a peeple habituated to a cold Climat were not onely to make them slight Hell but to have a mind to go thither So my Spirit brought me a little Northward and shewed me a huge Lough where ther were frosted Mountains up and down and I might discover amongst them a world of Blew-caps lying in beds of yce with their noses and toes nipt the isicles stuck to their fingers ends like horns and a bleak hispid wind blew incessantly upon them they made the most pitteous noise that me-thought I had heard in all Hell for they wawl'd screech'd and howl'd out ever and anon this dismall note Wea is me wea is me that ever I betraid my gid King Among all those damned souls I desired to see what punishment an Atheist had my Spirit was ready to answer me that ther were no Atheists in Hell at all 't is tru they were so upon Earth before they came hither but here they sensibly find and acknowledge ther is a God by his justice and judgments for ther is here poena sensûs and poena damni ther is inward and outward torture The outward torments you behold are nothing so grievous as the inward regrets and agonies the souls have to have lost Heven wherof they were once capable and to be eternally forsaken by their Creator the Lord of Light their chiefest Good Add hereunto that they know these torments to be endlesse easelesse and remedilesse Besides these qualities which are incident to the damned souls they have neither patience towards themselfs in their own suffrances nor any pitty towards others but their natures is so accursed that they wish their neighbours torments were still greter then their own Moreover their torments never lessen or have any mitigation by tract of time or degrees of sense but they persevere alwaies in the same heighth they are still fresh and the soul made stronger to bear them I saw that everlasting Villain who committed one of the first sacriledges we read of by burning the Temple of Diana whose torments were so fresh and cruciatory upon him as they were the first day he was hurl'd in thither Iudas was in the same degree and strength of torture as he was the first moment he fell thither Iack Cade Wat Tyler Iack Straw and Ket the Tanner did fry as fresh as they did that very instant they were tumbled down thither Amongst whom it made my heart to melt within me when I saw som of their new-com'd Country-men amongst them wherof I knew divers And though society is wont to be some solace to men in misery yet they conceived no comfort at all by these fresh companions It is high time for us now said my good guiding Spirit to be gone to the other world so we directed our cours towards the Ferry upon Styx But Lord what a nomber of lurid and ugly squalid countenances did I behold as I pass'd There was one sort of torment I had not seen before ther were divers that hung by their toungs upon posts up and down I asked what they were answer was made that they were prick-ear'd Preachmen Iudges and Lawyers who against their knowledg as well as against their consciences did seduce the ignorant peeple of Gheriona and Carboncia and incite them to war And ther was a new tenter-hook provided for one gran Villain who pronounced Sentence of death against his own Soverain Prince whose Subject he was and whom by a sacred Oath of Allegiance he was tyed to obey A little further I might see multitudes of Committee-men and others slopping up drops of molten lead in lieu of French Barly-broth with a rabble of Apprentices sweeping the gutters of Hell with brooms tufted with ugly Adders and Snakes because they running into the Wars and leaving their wares had therby broke their Indentures with their Masters and their Oaths of Allegiance to their lawfull Prince Passing then along towards the Ferry a world of hideous shapes presented themselfs unto my sight There I saw corroding cares pannick fears pining griefs ugly rebellion revengefull malice snaky discord oppression tyranny disobedience perjury sacriledge and spirituall pride the sin that first peepled Hell put to exquisit torments Couches of Toads Scorpions Asps and Serpents were in a corner hard by I asked for whom they were prepared I was answered for som Evangelizing Gherionian Ladies which did egg on their husbands to War So having as I thought by a miraculous providence charm'd three-headed Cerberus by pointing at him with the signe of the Crosse upon my fingers we passed quietly by to the Ferry where being com I found tru what Pluto had said before that ther were divers Gherionian Tarpalins entertain'd by Charon but they were in most cruell tortures for their bodies were covered all over very thick and close with canvases pitch'd and tarr'd which continually burnt and flam'd round about them Herewith I got awake again about the dawning of the day and it was high time to do so For lo the golden Orientall gate Of gray-fac'd Heven 'gan to open fair And Phoebus like a Bridegroom to his Mate Came dancing forth shaking his
dewy hair And hurls his glittring beams through gloomy air So Rest to Motion Night to Day doth yield Silence to Noise the Starrs do quit the field My Cinq-ports all fly ope the phantasy Gives way to outward objects Ear and eye Resume their office so doth hand and lip I hear the Carrmans wheel the Coachmans whip The prentice with my sense his shop unlocks The milkmaid seeks her pail porters their frocks All cries and sounds return except one thing I heard no bell for Mattens toll or ring Being thus awak'd and staring on the Light Which silverd all my face and glaring sight I clos'd my eyes again to recollect What I had dreamt make my thoughts reflect Upon themselfs I say that having after such a long noctivagation and variety of horrid visions return'd to my perfect expergefaction I began by a serious recollection of my self to recall to my thoughts by way of reminiscence those dismall and dreadfull objects that had appeerd unto me for though I was in Hell yet I did not taste of Lethe all the while insomuch that I did not forget any thing which I had seen All the said objects presented themselfs unto me so reall that if I had bin transported with that opinion wherof many great Clerks have bin viz. That Devills are nothing els but the ill affections the exorbitant passions and perturbances of the minde I say if I had bin plac'd in such an opinion this trance wold have convinc'd me You may easily imagin what apprehensions of horror these Apparitions left in my brain behind them just as a River when by an inundation she hath swel'd out of her wonted channell doth use to leave along the neighbouring medowes seggs and other weeds with much riffraff stuff behind her upon her return to her former bed so did this Vision after that deluge of objects wherwith my brain was overwhelm'd for the time leave behind them black sudds and many a ghastly thought within me which after some ruminations wrought in me a perfect change and detestation of those mimicall giddy opinions wherwith I was carried away before but while I delayed the time of declaring my self that way I was suddenly surprized and justly transmuted to this shape and species Pererius You may perceive by the effects of this visional Dream the excellency and high prerogatives of the Human Soul who by the ministry of the Imagination can make such sallies abroad that leaving the grosse tabernacle of the body she can at plesure climb up to the skies and make a Scale of the stars to conduct her to the Empyrean Heven she can also descend in a trice to the great Abysse and take a survey of the kingdom of darknes And though it be a common Maxim that ab Orco nulla redemptio ther is no returning from Hell the passage thence being irremeable yet the Rational soul while she informs the body hath this priviledg that she can make egresses and regresses she can enter and come off clear from Hell it self when she list and all this in an instant Wherin she may be said to participat of that admired quality which is inhaerent in that most comfortable of all cretures the Light which is held the Souverain of all sensible qualities by the Philosophers and to com neerest to the nature of a Spirit for Light requires but an instantaneous moment or point of time to perform its office of illumination and to dilate it self from one Pole to the other throughout the whole Hemisphere whence some infer that Light is incorporeal because 't is an unquestion'd principle among the Naturalists that all bodies require a succession of time in their motion which Light needs not But ther is this difference 'twixt the Imagination of a human soul and Light that ther besom places wherinto Light cannot enter but ther is no part of the Universe so impervious where the Imagination may not make his accesses and recesses at plesure as appeers by yours while you made that progresse during the time of that extasy And now me-thinks that these and other excellencies of the Rational soul should incite you to shake off that brutish nature which hath no other idaea or object of happines but what sense exposeth for the present time to corporeall things onely I say the contemplation of what I said before shold move you to becom Man again Ape Man Truly Sir I am sorry the shape I now bear resembleth Man so much I could wish it were far more unlike for the horrid and unheard-of sacrileges and perjuries of my own Nation makes me abhor the very name of Man much more his nature For I dare confidently assert that ther were never since the Devill had power to possesse poor Mortalls such Heteroclites in Religion such a Bedlam of Sectaries who to exalt the Kingdom of Christ wold heave it up on Beelzebub's back for 't is the Devill 's Reformation to turn order to confusion and certainties to incertitudes as they have done But these Refiners of Government will prove Quack-salvers at last for in lieu of raising up a Common-wealth they have pull'd down the two main Pillars which use to support all States viz. Religion and Iustice making both Arbitrary and tumbling all things into a horrid disorder and hurliburly insomuch that it may be truly said these new sorts of Recusants did more hurt than ever the old could have don if the subterranean plot of Nitre had taken effect For that had onely destroyed som few of the Royall Race of the Prelates and Peers then in being but these hell-hounds have wholly extinguished and blown up all the three to perpetuity and all this onely by the stench of their pestiferous breath Nor have they offered violence to Religion onely but they have affronted Reson it self nay they have baffled Common sense And for all this we may thank Carboncia and Polihaima that rotten-hearted City who like a fat cheese is so full of Maggots And indeed what could be expected else from these pseudopolitians but disorder confusion and ataxy considering how their first reach of policy was to throw the ball of discord 'twixt the Subject and his Souvrain whom yet they had vowed to make the best belovedst Prince that ever was Insomuch that darknesse it self is no more opposit to light as their actions were diametricall to their words oaths and protestations Pererius Truly they are stupendous things that you have told me but touching the difference you speak of that they did put 'twixt Prince and Peeple it was the most compendious way to bring all things to confusion and ruine to which purpose I shall relate unto you an Apolog Ther hapned a shreud commotion and distemper in the Body Naturall 'twixt the Head and the Members not onely the noble parts many of them but the common inferiour organs banded against Him in a high way of presumption The heart which is the source of life with the pericardium about it did swell against
of laughter His ghostly Father and Confessor telling him that he was now going to give account of that horrid murther he had committed before the great Judge of the world therfore that passion of laughter did not becom him Oh said he whensoever I think upon that full revenge I had of that villain my heart danceth within me for joy for I was not onely reveng'd upon his body but also upon his soul in which humor he breath'd his last Another was as bloody if not more In the antient City of Cerano ther was a Prince who left three sons behind him Conradus Caesar and Alexander Conradus was us'd to come from his palace in the Country to his Castle in Cerano where he had appointed a Governour and a Garrison of souldiers The Governor having a comly Lady to his wife the young Prince was struck in love with her and at last enjoyed her The Governour having knowledge therof did meditat upon a revenge therupon he sent to Conradus his Lord and Master that he had lately discover'd two or three wild Boars in the Forest of Cerano therfore if his Highnesse would please to com thither together with his two brothers ther wold be very Princely sport for them and he wold prepare all things ready for the Game Hereupon the young Prince and his second Brother comming thither expresly for that sport it chanced that Alexander the youngest brother was then out of the way So the Governor of the Castle having provided a plentifull supper for the two Princes and their Retinue being both gone to bed he calls his Officers together and told them Gentlemen what does he deserve who for many good services and hospitalities done unto him doth in lieu of thanks abuse ones wife and defiles his bed They all cried out He deserves death Truly Gentlemen thus hath Prince Conradus us'd me They cried out again Let him die and we will stick unto you and be faithfull So the Governor taking som of those Officers with him in the dead of night they broke suddenly into the chamber where Conradus was asleep and heaving up the bed-cloaths they first cut off his privy-members then they chop'd off his head then they quarter'd his body and strewed them up and down the chamber So all was hush'd that night Prince Caesar comming to wait on his Brother the next morning the Governor usher'd him in and seeing his Brother's head bleeding on the window and his limbs scatter'd up and down the room he said Oh! is this the wild Boar you writ to him of Yes said the Governour and I remember I writ of two or three Hereupon he was also knock'd down and us'd in the same manner The Tragedy being acted thus far he takes his Officers and going upon the Castle walls he sent to speak with the Syndic and Burgesses of the Town unto whom he made a Speech that they had been a long time in servitude or a kind of slavery to Conradus and that Family and now ther was a fair opportunity offered for them to redeem their liberties for he had Conradus and his Brother in his custody and the Officers with the rest of the Garrison were inclin'd to do them away if the Town wold joyn with them But the Town shewing an aversnes or rather a detestation of such disloyalty and treason sent to Prince Alexander the youngest Brother and the Citizens of Cerano joyning with the forces he brought with him to expiat his Brother's bloods they beleaguer the Castle round Therupon the Governor taking his wife and children with him to the top of the highest Turret he first threw down headlong his wife then his three children and last of all he precipitates himself and so the Tragedy ended Pererius A Tragedy indeed and one of the direfullest that ever I heard of It must be granted that the Saturnian spirit is much bent upon revenges he is in the extreams commonly Quod vult valde vult quod odit valde odit vertues and vices are there in the Superlative degree But truly if the vertues and vices of that noble Nation were weighed in a ballance I am confident the first wold out-poise the second for ther might be more instances of actions of high vertu produced than of vice I will make mention of one and that a very modern one and no Romance Ther was in the antient Amphitheatricall City of Rovena a young Marquis who fell desperatly in love with a Merchant's wife he courted her a long time but could not prevail at last the Merchant having a Villa or Country-house whither he was gone a while for divertisment the Marquis went a Hawking therabouts one day and letting his Hawk fly of purpose into the Merchant's Orchard he and his men rid luring after her and retreeved her in the Orchard where the Marquis himself was entred having obtain'd leave before The Hawk being found the Merchant invites the Marquis to a Treatment where his wife was present and very officious to please Being departed she asks her husband who he was He answer'd 'T is the Marquis of such a place one of the gallantest and most hopefull young Noblemen in all Saturnia a person full of transcendent parts and high perfections c. These praises making deep impressions in his wife and the Marquis poursuing still his design he at last prevailed and being admitted to her chamber by a back Garden-dore he found her a bed and in a fit posture to receive him so unbracing himself to go to her and having put off his doublet she told him smilingly Do you know whom you may thank most for this courtesie It is my husband who after the late Treatment you had fell a long time into such high commendations of you that I never heard him speak so nobly of any The Marquis being put to a sudden stand hereby and struck with a kind of astonishment put on his doublet again and his cloak saying Shall I abuse so worthy a friend and such noble affections No I will die first So taking his leave of the Lady in civill and thankfull posture he departed the same way he was let in and never attempted her again Fox Truly it cannot be denied but this was a most signall example of continence and no lesse of gratitude to restrain himself so in the height of such a lust Pererius Well will you conform your self to my advice and turn Man and Merchant to converse again with such a noble Nation a Nation that may prescribe rules of prudence and policy to all Mankind Fox Sir you speak of Policy ther is no tru policy practised now adaies in the world it is degenerated together with the nature of man into subtlety and craft If ther be any left 't is in Marcopolis where ther are the truest Patriots and most public Souls that I have known remaining amongst men otherwise she had never been able to tugg so long with the huge Tomanto Empire and other the greatest Potentats upon
salt-water is Fox Touching those modern Smatterers in Policy you speak of the times abound with such such that while they take upon them to give Precepts for Government they amuse the Reader with Universalls and commonly ther is deceit in Universalls or rather they lead him to a labyrinth of distinctions wherby they render the Art of mastring Man to be more difficult and distracted then it is in its own nature But under favour the main cause that ther are such difficulties and incertitudes in prescribing generall Rules to govern the Human Creture is the perturbances of his mind his variety of humors his seditious disposition his inconstancies and an itching still after innovations And herein we Irrationall Animals are more obedient more gentle and docile But touching the policy you mention ther be som certain Maxims that may extend to the whole masse of Mankind in point of Government One is That the common peeple be kept still in such an awe that they may not have any power to rise up in Arms or be sharers in the Government and so be their own Caterers to chuse what Laws they please Secondly That ther be a visible standing effectif military strength still in being to keep them in such an awe as well to curb them as to conserve them It being the greatest Soloecism that can be in Government to rely meerly upon the affections of the Peeple in regard there is not such a wavering windy thing not such an humorsom crosse-grain'd Animal as the common Peeple ther is not such a Tyrant in the world if once he get on Horse-back And all Authors that have pretended any thing to policy either old or new affirm so much in their Writings If the Governour in chief hath not such a constant visible Power and moveable upon all occasions the common Peeple will use him as the Froggs in the Fable us'd the Logg of wood whom Iupiter at their importunity had dropt down among them for their King to whom they stood a while in som awe and dread but afterwards finding no motion in him they leapt and skipt upon him in contempt and derision There is another certain principle of policy That public Traitors and Rebells to their Prince and Country shold be dispatched to the other world without mercy for if they be but half punished they will like Snakes get and cling together again therfore 't is a good rule and that may be a proverb hereafter A Rebell and mad Dogg knock in the head They will not bite when they are dead Pererius Had you not told me before yet I shold have judg'd you a Saturnian by the wisdom of your Discours your Compatriots being accounted the prudentest men upon earth for whereas others are said to be wise after the Act others in the Act you are said to be wise before in and after the Act Moreover whereas the Artonian is said to be wiser than he seems to be the Tumontian not to be so wise as he seems the Saturnian is wise and seems to be so Therfore will you return to that noble Country and becom Man and Merchant again of which profession ther are Princes in your Country you well know Fox Ther are so yet I enjoy my self more contentedly in this shape and species I have now a more constant health and if I find my self illish at any time which is seldom I eat a little of the gumm of that Pine-tree and it cures me But I am nothing so subject to distempers of body or mind in this condition Touching the first when Nature hath finished her course in me I will leave it for a Legacy to my friends for 't is good and medicinall for many uses my Brain is good against the Falling-sicknesse my Blood against the Stone and the Cramp my Gall instill'd with Oyle takes away the pain in the ears my Toung worn in a chain is good for all diseases in the Eyes my Fatt healeth the Alopecia or falling off of the hair my Lights Liver and Genitalls are good against the Spleen my very Dung pounded with Vinegar is a certain cure against the Leprosie my Milt is good against Tumors and touching my Skin which is so much valued by the fairest Beauties I will bequeath it to the admired Queen Morphandra to make her a Muff as a small Heriot for her protection of me under her Dominion 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Seventh Section A Dialog 'twixt Morphandra Pererius and a Boar wherin ther are various Discourses and particularly of the rare Sympatheticall Powder that is lately found out which works sudden and certain Cures without any topicall application of Medicines to the part affected c. Morphandra Pererius and a Boar. Morphandra HOw came you off from that cunning Merchant you dealt withall last hath he accepted of the Bill of Exchange you presented unto him Pererius Truly Madame I may say according to the homely proverb that I have received a flapp with a Fox tail he hath plaid the cunning Sophister with me he hath protested against that Bill of Exchange nor will he upon any tearms resume his former shape but retain that which he hath alledging that he is now free from those stings of conscience from those corroding black jealousies from that vindicatif humor wherunto Mankind is subject specially those of his Nation with other molestations of mind He saith that in this feature he is also more healthfull He braggs likewise how many medicinall vertues are in his body after its dissolution from the sensitive soul and how much his skin is valued amongst the fairest Ladies which he intends to bequeath as a Legacy to your Majesty to make you Muffs of when he hath payed Nature the last debt And truly Madame by his acute answers and replies I found that he had the full use of the faculty of human Reson though appeering in that brutish shape which makes me more and more admire your power Morphandra This power the great Architect of the world hath given me I derive this prerogative meerly from Him not as I intimated to you before from any compact or consultation with ill Spirits although the flat and shallow-braind vulgar think I do it so by Magicall and Negromantic means Pererius I know full well Madame the ignorance or rather insulsity of the common peeple to be such that when they find any extraordinary effects produc'd transcending the ordinary course of nature they are presently struck with such an admiration that they think those effects to be done by the work of the Devill though they are operated by strength of Art and by connexion of naturall Agents and Patients properly apply'd as of late years ther is found out a Sympatheticall cure of wounds at a distance without any reall application of medicines to the part affected which kind of sanation they hold to be made by some diabolicall compact though reverà 'tis performed by such ways that do truly agree with the due course of nature by
carrieth such a Majesty that makes us all exactly obedient to his commands Nor though he bear no arms himself was ther ever heard of any Rebellion amongst us against our lawfull Prince as is so frequent amongst Mankind It being a principle from the very instinct of nature amongst us that it is both detestable and damnable for Subjects to rise up against their supream Governour and go about to right themselfs by Arms I say that in this state we have a very regular Government we have a King we have privy Counsellors we have Commanders in the War and gregarian Soldiers We keep close in Winter and have then our Centinells We go not abroad till Beans do blossom and then if the weather permit ther 's never a day passeth in idlenesse We first build our Cells and Combs then make Hony and then engender We make our Wax and Hony of the freshest and most fragrant flowers and abhor withered or stinking vegetalls When the flowers are spent in one place we have our harbingers abroad to find out another being surprised by night in our expeditions we sleep in a supine posture with our bellies upward to preserve our wings from the falling dew Betimes in the morning we are awakned by our Drummer who punctually performs his office that way Then if the day be mild we fally forth in a great body and we have an instinct to foresee winds tempests and rain which makes us keep often within When we go abroad to work every one hath his task and the younger are put to the hardest while the elder labour within dores We all feed together and if we be surprised abroad with a sudden wind we take up a stone 'twixt our feet to give weight to our bodies that they may not be blown away Ther is among us a Censor of manners and som Officers that watch those which are slothfull who are afterwards punish'd with death and for the Drones which are a spurious kind of brood we quite banish them Ther 's not the least foulnes seen in our Alvearies or Hives for we abhor all immundicities and sordidnes When 't is towards night our hummings lessen by degrees till an Officer fly about and command silence and sleep which is instantly done We first build houses for our Workmen and Plebeans and then palaces for the Nobles and the King We punish sloth without mercy we faithfully obey our King being always about him like a guard and He in the midst When the peeple are at work He goes about and cherisheth them He onely being exempt from labour He hath always his Officers ready to punish Delinquents When He goes forth the whole Swarm attends him if He chance to be weary we bear him upon our sholders Whersoever He rests there the generall Randevous is Wasps Hornets and Swallows are enemies to us We bury our dead with great solemnity At the Kings death ther is a generall mourning and fasting with a cessation from labour and we use to go about his body with a sad murmur for many daies When we are sick we have attendants appointed us and the symptoms when we be sick are infallible according to the honest plain Poet If Bees be sick for all that live must die That may be known by signes most certainly Their bodies are discoloured and their face Looks wan which shews that death comes on apace They carry forth their dead and do lament Hanging o' th' dore or in their Hives are pent Hunger and cold consumes them you shall find They buzz as doth t'th ' woods the Southern wind Or as the Sea when as the waves return Or fire clos'd up in vaults with noise doth burn Nor are we profitable onely in our life 's unto Mankind by that pretious Hony we confect for their use which though for the rare vertues and sweetnes therof som held to be the gelly of the Starrs others the sweat of the Hevens others the quintessence of the Air though really it be but our Chylus at the third digestion I say that we are not onely in our lifes beneficiall to mankind who receives the fruits of our labours but after death also Our bodies pounded and drunck with wine or any other diareticall thing cures the Dropsie Stone and Strangury The hony scrapt off our dead bodies is extraordinary good against divers diseases Moreover we have a kind of transmigration among us one into the other Out of our brains marrow and chine-bones Kings and Nobles are bred out of the rest of our bodies ordinary Bees Pererius Gentle Bee you have spoken as much as can be for the advantage of your condition yet nevertheles you are but fleshles poor sensitive Insects onely of a short and a kind of ephemeran subsistence You want that spark of Immortality the noble Rational Soul wherby the human Creture goes as far beyond you as an Angel goes beyond him Bee I remember when I was a Nun I heard many characters given of the Rational Soul as were somwhat transcendent if not presumptuous The Theolog or Divine call'd her The Image of God Almighty The Philosopher call'd her The Queen of Forms And you call her now A Spark of Immortality Yet you know not how nor where this Spark enters into you nor where it resides in any particular place above other Souls nor are you agreed whether she enters into you by divine infusion or by traduction from the parentall seeds Pererius I shall endeavour to satisfie you touching these particulars It must be consider'd that Man may be call'd the great Amphybium of nature First he is a confus'd lump of dead matter lying as it were upon the lees in the womb where the vegetable Soul enters first making it capable of extension and growth Then the Sensitive Soul follows who by the plasticall vertu falls a forming the members or the organs Then comes the noblest of all the three the Rationall Soul who swayes o're the other two and is Divinae particula aurae she is breath'd from the Creator himself and which no other creture in Heven or earth can say she is capable of a spirituall Regeneration afterwards as the Body is of a Resurrection At last when she hath shaken off the slough of flesh she becomes a Spirit either good or bad she becomes a Saint or a Devill and so receives eternall beatitude or torments By these degrees observable it is that Man hath potentially in himself all created natures first or last both in Heven Earth and Hell All which may be compris'd in this Poem which though short containeth the whole story of Mankind from first to last Man is that great Amphybium in whom lye Three distinct Souls by way of trigony He runs through all creations by degrees First He is onely Matter on the lees Whence he proceeds to be a Vegetal Next Sensitive and so Organical Then by divine infusion a third Soul The Rational doth the two first controul But when this Soul comes in and
where she dwells Distinct from others no Dissector tells And which no creture else can say that state Enables her to be Regenerat She then becomes a Spirit and at last A Saint or Devill when that she hath cast The clogg of flesh which yet she takes again To perfect her beatitude or pain Thus Man is first or last allied to all Cretures in Heven in Earth or Hells black Hall Bee Whereas you alledg that the Intellectuall or Rationall Soul enters by Divine infusion I remember when I was a Nun that divers learned men were of opinion that she was like the other two Souls viz. the vegetal and the Sensitive propagated and traduc'd by the seed and sperm of the parents and that this was done by the hereditary vertu of that gran universall Benediction pronounced by God himself to all his cretures Encrease and multiply Then they proceeded to urge the common Axiom that like begets the like Now the great God of Nature did constitut all other species perfect in their own kinds with a procreative power to beget their like by a compleat generation And why shold Man in whom the ideas of all other created natures are collectively resplendent Why shold he I say com short of this perfection and priviledge for without it he may be ranck'd among those mutilat defective cretures who are destitut of power to procreat an Individuum like themselfs Pererius This shews the eminency of the human Soul above others in point of extraction for if she were made of such poor frail ingredients as the seeds of the parents she wold be perishable with the Body wheras the is created to be heir of Eternity Bee I remember the reply to this That the excellency of the human Soul is not to be derived from her creation and first materialls but from the Fiat or eternall Decree and particular blessing of the Creator who endowed her from the beginning with such a prerogative out of his free will and plesure to be capable of eternity But wheras you aver that the parentall feeds are too grosse ingredients to produce so noble a Soul I remember ther are great modern Doctors and Physitians who hold that neither the seed of mother or father go to the impregnation but that the Female conceives onely by a virtuall contact as the Loadstone draws Iron and that she is made pregnant by conceiving the generall Idaea without matter To make this new assertion good they compare the womb to the brain and that what the phantasma or appetit is in the brain the same phantasma or its analogy is excited in the womb for both of them are call'd Conceptions Pererius This is a wild extravagant opinion for one may believe with more reson that the Tumontian Mares are impregnated and made to conceive by the South-west winds Bee I remember another argument that was urged for the traducible generation of the human Soul which was that the Rationall Soul begins to operat in the prolificall seed the very first moment of conception as soon as the prolificall emissions of both sexes are blended by mutuall fermentation for then the conformative and proper operations of the Rational Soul begin upon the Embryo who proceeds to majoration and augmentation accordingly And it is no lesse then an absurdity to think that the Infant after conception shold be majorated by the influence of any other Soul then that from whom he received his formation Now that this formation begins instantly after the conception appeers by the early activity of nature which hath bin sensibly discover'd in abortive Embryo's by autopicall observations wherby it hath bin visibly found that a Septenary Slip put into clear water a subtle Inspector through a magnifying Glasse may discern all the rudiments of the organicall parts Ther may be seen there the generall conformative faculty in the seed wherin will visibly appeer three small bubling conglobations which are the materialls of the noblest parts viz. the Brain the Heart and the Liver ther will appeer also two small black Orbs or atomicall points which are the rudiments of the Eyes Whence may be strongly inferred that if organization and the conformation of the Infant begins in the very punctillio or first moment of the conception that the Rationall Soul then works in the seed as being the most vigorous part of it From hence it follows that Man doth absolutely procreat Man which could not be if the Genitor did not communicat the Human Soul unto his Issue For since Man is compos'd of Soul and Body if the parent cannot cannot impart both to his ofspring he may be said to be inferiour to Beasts who have intrinsic active principles and power in themselfs to propagat and beget Individiums of their own species without the concurrence of extrinsecall causes Pererius These are neotericall fancies and derogatory to the noblenes of the Rational Soul who hath a far more sublime and spirituall extraction Bee But to let passe this Quaere how and when the Rational Soul informs and actuats the Embryo ther have bin great researches and indagations made whether this Soul being so distinct from the Vegetal and Sensitive in her operations whether I say she hath any particular domicile or cell within the human body for her own residence Pererius It was never found yet by any inspections which the Naturalists and Anatomisers have made that the Rationall Soul hath any peculiar lodging proper onely to her self and differing from other Animals But being indivisible inextensive and without parts she is tota in toto tota in qualibet parte she is all in the whole and whole in every part of the compositum she is diffus'd up and down the whole masse or fabric of flesh ther being no movement at all without her For as the beams or light of the Sun displayeth it self every where through the whole Hemisphere yet hath it no particular mansion in any place more then another so the Rationall Soul which is a beam of Immortality diffuseth her self through the whole Microcosm of Man to quicken it yet she hath no particular residence in any part 'T is tru that she is radically in the heart and principally in the brain which is as it were her Capitol and the seat of the Animal-spirits Thence she issueth forth her commands and dividing her Empire into a Triarchy she governs by three Viceroys the three Faculties who though they are absolutely distinct by their Commissions and keep their Courts in severall Regions yet are they united by so indissoluble a league and sympathetic alliance that the prosperitie of one enlargeth the principalities of the other and the detriment of each threatens the integrity of the whole The Natural or Vegetal Faculty claims superiority of time in order of procreation as being Governesse of our Minority commanding the third part of our lises The Vital hath preheminence in order of necessity keeping her Court chiefly in the Heart which is the first part that lives
Soul shall be in a state of pure independent Beeing for ther will be neither action or passion in that state Whence may be inferr'd she shall never perish in regard that all corruption comes from the action of another thing upon that which is corruptible therfore that thing must be capable to be made better or worse Now if a separat Soul be plac'd in her ultimat and utmost state that she can be made neither it follows that she can never lose the Beeing she hath Besides since the egress out of the body doth not alter her nature but onely her condition it must be granted that she was of the same nature while she continued incorporated though in that kind of imprisonment she was subject to be forg'd as it were by the hammer of materiall objects beating upon her yet so as she was still of her self what she was Therefore when she goes out of the passible ore wherein she suffer'd by reson of the foulnes and impurity of that ore she immediately becomes impassible and a fix'd subject of her own nature viz. a simple pure Beeing Both which as a most noble Knight Sir K. D. hath it may be illustrated in some mesure by what we find passeth in the coppilling of a fixed metall which as long as any lead or drosse or any allay remains with it continueth still melting flowing and in motion under the muffle but as soon as they are parted from it and that 't is become pure defaecated without mixture and single of it self it contracts it self to a narrower room and instantly ceaseth from all motion it grows hard permanent and resistent to all force of fire admitting no change or diminution in its substance by any externall violence In like manner it may be said when the Rational Soul departs from the drossy ore of the Body and comes to be her single self she is like exalted Gold and reduc'd to the utmost perfection She can be no more liable to any diminution to action or passion or any kind of alteration but continues fix'd for ever in the full fruition of unconceivable blisse and glory Bee Excellent Prince these are high abstracted notions transcending the reach of vulgar capacities But you were pleased to reflect somwhat upon the blisfulnes and joys of the human Soul in the other world I pray be pleas'd to enlarge your self upon this Theme Pererius These joys as they are beyond expression so they are beyond all imagination That vast Ocean of Felicity which the separat Soul is capable to receive cannot flow into her untill those banks of earth viz. the corporeall walls of flesh be removed Those infinit joys which the human Soul shall be ravish'd withall in Heven are unmeasurable and beyond any mathematicall reaches They have length without points breadth without lines depth without surface They are even and uninterrupted joys but to go about to expresse them in their perfection were the same task as to go about to measure the Ocean in Cockle-shells or compute the nomber of the sands with peeble stones Touching these faint and fading plesures among the Elements we use to desire them when we need them and when we have them the desire presently languisheth in the fruition Moreover we use to love earthly things most when we want them and lesse when we have them The daintiest meats and drinks nauseat after fulness Carnall delights cause sadnes after the enjoyment All plesures breed not onely a satiety but a disgust and the contentment terminats with the act 'T is otherwise with Celestiall things they are most lov'd when they are enjoy'd and most coveted when they are had They are always full of what is desir'd and the desire still lasteth but it is a co-ordinat desire of complacency and continuance not an appetit after more because they are perfect of themselfs Yet ther is still a Desire and a Satiety but the one finds no want nor can the other breed a surfet The higher the plesure is the more full and intense is the fruition and the oftner 'tis repeted the more the appetit encreaseth Whence this conclusion follows that ther can be no proportion at all betwixt the joys of a separat Soul and those of a Soul embodyed For the least dram of the spirituall joyes in Heven is more than the whole Ocean of fleshly contentments One drop of those abstracted those pure permanent immarcescible delights is infinitly more sweet than all those mix'd and muddy streams of corporeall and mundan plesures then all those no other then Utopian delights of this transitory world were they all cast into a Limbeck and the very Elixir of them distill'd into one vessell Bee Incomparable Prince you have conquer'd us with such strong Herculean Resons you have raised our spirits with such high raptures and so illuminated our understandings that by the gracious Fiat of the great God of Nature and the favour of Queen Morphandra his handmaid in this particular we are willing to resume our first shapes and so return to our dear Country and Cloysters where the remembrance of this transfiguration we hope will turn to our advantage In the interim we render you most humble and hearty thanks in the highest degree that can be imagin'd for your flexanimous and hevenly perswasions which we found so melting and sweet that we may justly think Bees sat upon your lips as they did upon Plato's in your cradle or that you might be nurs'd with Hony in lieu of Milk as Pindarus the Prince of Lyricks was And because Poesie is the gretest light whereby the Rational Soul may be discerned to be a Ray of Divinity we will conclude with som Enthusiasms to blissfull Heven and the Hierarchies therof in this graduall Hymn beginning with our Creator Natures great God the Cause of causes be Ador'd and prais'd to all Eternity That supream Good that quintessentiall Light Which quickens all that 's hidden or in sight Who breaths in Man the Intellectuall Soul Therby to rule all Cretures and controul What Water Earth or Air c. 1. O holy Souls O heavenly Saints Who from corruption and the taints Of flesh and blood from pain and tears From pining cares and panting fears And from all passions except Love Which onely reigns with you above Are now exempt and made in endlesse Blisse Free Denizons and Heirs of Paradis 2. O glorious Angels who behold The Lord of Light from Thrones of Gold Yet do vouchsafe to look on Man To be his Guide and Guardian Praying always that He may be Partner of your felicity O blisfull Saints and Angells may yee still The Court of Heven with Halleluiahs fill 3. Seraphick Powers Cherubs Thrones Vertues and Dominations Supernall principalities Glories and Intelligencies Who guide the cours of Starrs in sky And what in their vast Concaves lye May ye for ever great Jehovah's will And His commands throughout the world fulfill 4. Archangels who the most sublime degree Do hold in the Triumphant
medicinall vertues in a dead Deer 64 Of the Discovery of the New World 71 The Doctor of Physicks Fee but two shillings in Tumontia 73 A Discours of Physic and the Art thereof pro con 74 Diseases belonging to all the parts of Human body 78 Distempers of the mind more cruciatory than those of the body 80 A Discours touching the Sense and the Soul ibid. A Discours of Aetonia and how she is impair'd 109 What Nation is the gretest Drunkard 111 A Discours of the Instinctive Reson that Beasts have 119 What a damnable thing it is for Subjects to rise up in Arms against their King 128 A Discourse of Nuns 134 A Discourse whether the Human Soul be by Infusion or Traduction 140 The Degrees of the Celestiall Hierarchy 145 A discourse of the Immortality of the Soul 147 E Experience the touchstone of Truth 6 Of the English Liturgy 30 Examples pro con touching the chastity of Women 59 An Emblem of a lavishing wife ibid. Every one knows how to tame a shrew but he who hath her 61 Examples of notable scolds ibid. Examples of the rare Longaevity of Deer 64 The Elephant begins his youth at threescore years ibid. How pittifully the Empire is decay'd 111 Of Aesop's Dogg 115 The fearfull and sudden judgment which fell upon the Carboncians for their Rebellion 129 Of the fixed Starrs and the Planets touching their motion 136 Exact Obedience among Bees ibid. Exact Government among Bees ibid. An Epitome of the late confusions in Gheriona 33 An Epitome of the confusions throughout the world for forty years ibid. F Fable of an Ass. 24 Of a foolish Naturalist who wish'd ther were another way to propagat Mankind than by Women 55 The Fable of the Stagg 65 A Facetious answer of a Pope touching Physitians 74 The Foam of a Mule drunk in warm wine good against Pursines 85 The Fable of the Mule ib. Divers Fables of the Fox 87 The Fable of the Frogs 99 A Fox toung carried in a chain good against sore eyes 101 Fables 'twixt the Wolf and the Lamb applied 105 The Fable of the Goat and the Lion 118 The Fable of the Horse and the Ass. 24 The Fable of the Ass and the Spaniel ibid. G God heals but the Physitian takes the Fee 77 No Government so wise that can fit all Countries and why 98 The genitalls lights and liver of a Fox good against the Spleen 101 The Gum of a Pine-tree eaten by the Fox when he is ill 100 Goat's blood dissolves Diamonds and scours better then any file 123 Goat's milk recovers a Load-stone when being rub'd with Garlick it hath lost its vertu ibid. Goat's marrow good against aches ibid. Goat's trindles drunk in wine good against the Iaundies c. ibid. Goat's liver entralls ashes horns milt spleen urine marrow hoofs gall dung trindles sewet c. all medicinall ibid. Gheriona censur'd 131 H A graduall Hymn to God and his Angels 150 if the Humors were fix'd in Man's body he might live eternally In the Epist. History a profitable study 31 The horridnes of Annihilation 49 Honest men use to marry wise men not 62 The hardship the Tumontian endures 69 Health the most precious of Iewels 77 The high prerogatives of Reson 81 A horrid kind of Revenge 92 Another Hellish revenge in Saturnia 93 A late History of ten Morris-dancers in Orosia that made above a 1000 years betwixt them 122 The Horrid Ingratitude of the Carboncian against their native King 128 The Horrid Insurrections in Hebrinia took rise from Carboncia 130 Hope like Butter gold in the morning silver at noon and lead at night 135 I In som places of the Indies the living wife throws her self into the pile with her husband 60 Iealousie among Thoughts like Bats among Birds 90 The Insulsity of the common peeple to think any rare effect to be Magicall 102 Of Instinctive Reson 118 Ill humors adhere to human nature as rust to copper 121 Of the Infirmities of Mankind ibid. Idlenes the Devils couch 154 K The highest knowledge a man hath of his Creator but half blindnesse 83 A cruel horrid murder 103 The Kirk-mens horrid ingratitude 128 The Kings Cheese goes away three parts in pairings in Artonia 19 Why the King of Artonia keeps the common peeple so low 20 The King of Artonia's huge taxes 19 The King of Bees hath no sting 136 The King of Bees hath a solemn Funerall 189 L A Lawyer like Balaam's Asse he will not speak unlesse an Angell appear 16 Of Lawyers 17 Lawyers build fair houses of Fool 's heads 17 Of Laughter 22 Of the long age of Deer 64 Laughter a passion that hath the most variety of action 22 The Laws of the Kingdom of Bees 136 M Mirth and sadnes follow one another in human bodies as night succeeds day The Epist. Magic the first Philosophy 2 Man Paramount of all the sublunary cretures 7 Man a tyrant to himself ib. Man's body compar'd to a ship 10 A Mariner's life 12 Man the most intractable of all cretures 26 Of the great maiden-City Marcopolis 63 Man hath more diseases than a horse or any other creture 98 Of Mâ—rchants 70 Marther strangely discover'd 92 The marvellous continence of a Saturnian 94 Of Monarchy 98 Som generall Maxims of Policy may extend to all Countries 99 The mode of raaking the Sympatheticall Powder 103 Man more savage then any Beast 108 Of the Method of Providence 110 A Miser and a Hog good for nothing till after death 112 Man tax'd of presumption 121 The Miser like an Ass that carrieth gold but feeds on thistles 17 The motions of Nature irresitible 135 Mans gretest foes are within himself ibid. Man the gretest Amphibyum of Nature for having three souls 159 N Of Navigation 9 A notable proverb touching long life 49 The noble gratitude of a Saturnian 94 Not such a Tyrant in the world as the common peeple 99 The Naturall and Politicall body compar'd 20 A notable Fable of the Ass and the Horse applied 24. Nuns a degree higher the the ordinary cours of happines 134 Nature abhors captivity 135 O Of fading earthly joys 149 Of hevenly joys ibid. Otter's stones good against the Palsie 8 Otter's liver reduced to powder good against the Stone and Cholic ibid. Of old age 64 Of the perturbances of human brains 68 Opportunity the best moment in the whole extention of Time 72 Of Physitians 87 The odd life of a Soldier 114 Orosia vindicated 122 The Orosian faithfull to his King 123 Orosia corrupted by the Gherionian Sectaries 124 Of the three Souls in Man 159 New Opinions that the seeds of the Parents go not to impregnation but the Female conceives by virtuall contact 141 Of the three Faculties of the Soul 143 P The Prerogatives that Man hath over other cretures 7 The Partridge and Pidgeon purge themselfs with Bay-leafs 76 Policy how degenerated of late days 95 The truest Patriots are the Marcopolits 95 Policy and Craft distinguished ibid. The poor