lawfully and fairly this Science may be attained The Introduction I shall first shew its Pedigree and Rise and thence its Essence and the true natural meaning thereof Sect. 2 Astrology is the most excellent part of that noble Science which is called Physiology Of Natural Philosophy and the meaning and order thereof or Natural Philosophy Physiology is a Science of Natural Bodies The Body Natural may be conceived either generally as it is but one great Body or else specially as it may be divided into two or subdivided into many thousand several Bodies The general Body of Nature is called the World or the whole World which as it is generally considered makes all of it but One entire Body This general Body admits of many special Divisions and Subdivisions And first it parteth into two Branches making one Body Natural called Coelestial and another called Terrestrial And hence arise two Sciences the one of which may fitly be called Oranology or Astrology and the other Geology Sect. 3 Of Geology or Natural Philosophy Terrestrial and the meaning thereof Geology is a Science that treateth of the Natural Body called the Earth and speaks either generally of the whole Earth or specially of the parts or some particular part thereof This Science of Geology is either meerly Speculative or else for practise also Odder thereof Speculative Geology consisteth in the meer knowledge of the Earth in whole or in part and of the Principles and Affections thereof and to this purpose it treateth either of the common being of any earthly thing meerly as it is a Being abstract from all manner of Matter both intelligible and sensible and as it acteth thus it is called Metaphysical or Supernatural Philosophy Or else it discourseth of a movable Being in its Matter and that as it is perfectly material and this is Natural Philosophy properly so called or else 3ly it handleth things conversant in matters intelligible but not sensible as they are the Abstracts of Matter and this is called Mathematical or Abstract Philosophy Of this sort of Science the subject is Quantity and this is either Continued or Discreet If of Continued Quantity the Science treateth then it is called Geometry or its subordinate Perspective But be the Quantity Discreet the Science treateth of then is it called Arithmetick or its subordinate Musick Natural Philosophy properly so called treateth of Terrestrial Bodies either Simple or Mixt. The Simple Bodies are the four Elements called Fire Air Earth and Water which among them do so fill all places of the Earth from the utmost and inferiour Bodies of the Heavenly matter unto the inmost centre of the Earth so as there remaineth no such thing as Vacuity any where under the cope of Heaven Mixt Bodies are compounded of the four Elements and are either Animate or inanimate Bodies Animate Bodies are either Vegetive Sensitive or Rational Now while the Learned Artist studies the Earthly Body Natural the Sciences of Geography History and Chronology do naturally flow from that Study The first of these describeth the situation of the Earth the second declareth the story of all that was ever seen or done in it and the third telleth how much time hath passed from the Creation unto every time present Subordinate to these are Topography and particular Stories of Places and Chronologies of particular Periods Practical Geology or Natural Philosophy consisteth in such a practise as maketh use of Speculation for the profit of Mankind so as to leave a track or fruit of its operation remaining after the act is past and gone And this is a sort of Study that is called Art rather than Science The Subject of this Art is either Man himself or something else If Man himself be the subject to be practised upon then is the business either to teach him Manners and this is called Ethical Philosophy or else to teach him the Art of Reasoning and this is called Logical Philosophy or else to teach him the Art of Speaking and this is called Grammatical or Rhetorical Philosophy If something else be the Subject then either it is the Earth or the Fruits of the Earth If the Earth then is the business to dress and till it and this kind of doing is called the Art of Agriculture If the Fruits of the Earth then the business is to prepare them so that they may become fit for Health or Wealth or Food or Cloth or a thousand things as Mankind hath need of If for Health then this doing is called the Art of Medicine if for Cloth or Food c. then it is called the Art of Cloathing Drapery Cookery or by as many names as Man has uses to employ the Fruits of the Earth about Sect. 4 Of Oronology or Astrology or Natural Philosophy Celestial and the meaning and order thereof Now after the manner of the Terrestrial World so is the Celestial Astrology or rather Oranology is a Science that treateth of the Natural Body called the Heaven and speaks either generally of the whole Heaven or specially of some particular part thereof This Astrology or Vranology as it is a part of Physiology so has it the same Principles whether Internal as Matter and Form or External as the Causes Efficient and Final Principles of their own nature and Chance and Fortune Principles by accident It hath also the same Affections Internal a Motion and Rest Finity and Infinity and External as Place and Time Vranology is either meerly Speculative or also Practical Speculative Vranology consisteth in the meer knowledge of the Heavens either in whole or in part and of the Principles and Affections thereof and to this purpose it treateth of these things either Metaphysically or Mathematically or meerly Naturally Mathematically it treateth of Astronomy or Vranometry which is a Science that treateth of the Magnitude or Measure or Number of the Heavens or of the Stars of Heaven Naturally it treateth of the Heavenly Bodies and their Nature Motion Aspects and Operations And hence follows the Science of Astrology or Vranology whose business it is to study and declare these things and the reasons thereof Practical Astrology or Natural Philosophy is That Art whereby a man does so imploy his skill in the Nature of the Heavenly Bodies as to make a lasting profit and advantage of it to the use of himself or of Mankind in general Hence follows Judiciary Astrology which is an Art that by certain known and long experienc'd Rules discerns future Contingencies how and when they are to come to pass by the situation of the Heavens and the Stars therein and by their Motions and Aspects compared with the knowledge of their Nature and Operations So as in the main Astrology is nothing else but a Bundle of Aphorisms or Experiments which the wisdom of all Ages hath gathered up together concerning the Nature and Acting of the Heavens and hath communicated and published for the common good of Mankind Some of these were brought to light
stronger to do mischief so that like ill weeds in good ground they thrive exceedingly over-topping the good seed But now when the Moon cutteth the Line to go from us to the Southwards then leaveth she that point of Heaven where this intersection was made as barren to all intents and purposes as the other was fruitful Hence this Point ascending blemishes Life and leaves a stain upon it empaireth Honour in Mid-heaven and wastes Riches when it happens in the Eleventh It weakens as well the good natures of Jupiter and Venus as the ill natures of Saturn and Mars But now beyond the Equinoctial our experience is silent yet suppose we that the Dragons Tail is the fruitful point and the Head the barren point for that the Moon going off from us is coming on with them Sect. 19 Next unto these Nodes Of the point called the Part of Fortune and its meaning and qualities there is another point called the Part of Fortune This is the distance of the Moons place from the Suns added to the Ascendent and the nature of it is as wise men have diligently observed that if this point be situate amongst fortunate Stars or in a fortunate place of Heaven then promiseth it success in Health or Wealth or Honour or Off-spring according as it is seated in the First or Eleventh or First or Fifth or what other House but if it be not so fortunately placed it threatneth the contrary And the reason of this seems to be for that the Sun Moon and this Ascendent being the prime conduits through which runs this stream of Life and all manner of Fortune good or bad this seat of the part of Fortune is the harmony of all three concentring And thus much may serve as to these accidentally affected Qualities in general Sect. 20 Of the Qualities of the Heavens by the other Planets in their Transits affected Now besides these are certain Qualities accidentally affected which concern onely particular persons or times Thus the places of Saturn or Mars or the Tail of the Moons Node in the Vernal Figure are unfortunate to all intents or purposes for that year And the same in any of the Quarter Figures is something of the same nature for that Quarter The places also of Jupiter and Venus in a Vernal or Quarter Figure are as fortunate as the other unfortunate for the same times The places of an Eclipse of the Sun or Moon and of Comets are also fortunate or infortunate as occasion may serve or as persons may be concerned in them The place of Saturn or Mars in a mans native Scheme proves always unfortunate to that man all days of his life and the place of either of the same in a revolutional Scheme is as bad for that year But the place of Jupiter or Venus in a Native or revolutional Scheme is always as fortunate either for a mans life-time or for the year as it is concerned as the other was infortunate Also the places of the Twelfth House or Eighth or Sixth as they were in the Natives Scheme have always bad significations to that man whensoever they come up upon any concerns And the places of the Tenth House of the Eleventh of the Ascendant and the Second House to many purposes do ordinarily proclaim as much good to a man as they come up into concern Sect. 21 Such are the Qualities of the Heavens Now their Actions are nothing else Of the Actions and Passions of the Heavens but that thing whereby these Qualities are put into practise And to this purpose it appears that innumerable are the Actions of Heaven beyond all that we are able to imagine Judg. 5.20 When Barak and Deborah were victorious against King Jabin and Sisera his Chieftain the Stars of Heaven were at that Battel and fought in their courses against Sisera And thus do they in every Battel that is fought taking one side or the other These have the management of every Ship that goes to Sea and of every Crop that grows on the ground and of every Man that is born of a Woman and of every Beast that goes on all four and every Bird that flies in the air and indeed of all the great matters of the sublunary World But yet these Heavens are also subject to Passions and then were they Josh 10.13 2 King â—0 11 when by a kind of violence the Sun and Moon and all the Host of Heaven were made to stay their course and at another time when they were made retreat Also thus were they when the power of their natural influence was over-powered as it was at such time as the Waters of the Red Sea could neither ebb nor flow Exod. 14.21 22. Dâ—n 3. nor run their course and when the Fire could neither scorch nor burn as in the case of the Three Children And thus it is so often as a wise man masters the Heavens by the help of Grace or by virtue of acquired moral habits by either of which men are able to force the Heavenly influences as if a man should force a River to ascend the Stream as by Art and Strength may be done Sect. 22 Of Astrology properly so called or the Celestial Body Natural as it is considered in respect of the Bodies moving in the Heavenly World Having now done with Vranology or the Science of the Body Natural of Heaven as it is to be considered in its own proper matter next come I to Astrology properly so called which is the Body Natural of Heaven as it is to be considered in respect of the Bodies moving in Heaven which are Stars And these are either fixed or movable Stars called the Planets which are in number seven but the fixed Stars are innumerable A Star by Aristotle is defined to be a thicker and more compact part of Heaven than the meer matter of Heaven round and capable of giving light Sect. 23 Of the fixed Stars and their Nature Number and Qualities 'T is the general opinion that the fix'd Stars are fastned in the Eighth Orb of Heaven and do move onely as their Orb moveth but Reason hath not absolutely determined this point so as to leave no doubt in the case remaining For though they make all of them an equal motion among themselves yet stir they all together all of them almost one minutes space in a years time But whether this motion be together with their Orb or loose from it is a disputable question but yet which way soever Astrology makes no matter These are observed to differ from the Planets by their twinkling or sparkling And hence our modern Philosophers are of opinion many of them as if there were an innate light in these fixed Stars even as it is in the Sun But Astrology cares not for that neither These Stars are either numbred and known or innumerable and unknown The known fixed Stars are usually counted 1022 and are observed to be of six different Magnitudes and of
how come we I wonder to know that And yet says the Doctor this is a plain and Mechanical Solution But not so plain by his favour unless we know better of what kind of nature that Caelestial matter is he treats of or that he could tell us For do not we know that the Air is a subtil and a curiously made thin Body which aptly and easily with very small or no force upon its next Neighbour makes way for greatest Bodies to peirce and pass thorow it and we have much of reason to beleive that the Caelestial matter is much more subtil then that So as it can make room enough for the passage of the Moon 's Body thorow and thorow it to and fro without any the least disturbance to the Air or Water But on the contrary that there is no such thing in nature appears by this in that whilst the waters are carried hither and thither by the power of the Moon the Winds are many times contrarily disposed For were the Waters driven by a force of the Moon 's Body driveing the Caelestial matter and that the Air and the Air the Waters Then would the Winds also which are lighter then the Waters be driven also by the same violent Air even as the Waters are but this we see is not so and therefore neither can be the other But this argument rather looks much like that of a blunt Countrey Gentleman's who understanding but little of the System of the World conceited the Earth to be fastened unto the North and South Poles by great and massy Cakes of Ice upon which not hanging so steady but that it is tottered to and fro by the motion of the Moon which therefore as it reels towards the East swaggles the whole water of the Sea floting the same way and as it returns back again Westward brings all the whole Sea with a swaggle back again to Landwards upon us Now the truth is let them conceit this way and the other what they can there is no man can propose any certain Mechanical way whereby this rare Feat should be thus wrought It is therefore enough for our matter at this time that the Doctor has granted it to happen certainly by means of the Moon For hence are we able to say by authority from our Adversaries that the Moon 〈◊〉 the flux and reflux of the Seas and till they shall be able to shew demonstratively how it is otherwise it must go for granted that she does it by an influence strange and secret beyond 〈◊〉 what we are able to conceive And 'till then this Planet the Moon must be allowed to have such a Foolery as the Doctor styles it which we call her Astrological Influence Sect. 4 Thirdly Are there some sensible Effects from the Heavens which are certain and constant as is granted and particularly his the Polar Star such a sensible effect upon the Magnetical Needle Why then it must necessarily follow that the Heavens have their Influences and particularly that the Polar Star has its influences upon the Magnetical Needle and that searching and penetrating thorow the very Body of the Earth as by common experience may be and is daily verified No but says the Doctor it is the Magnetisme of the Earth and not of the Polar Star which draws that Needle And he renders his reason for it For some three Miles from Rossebury the Needle will turn round and round for the space of a whole Mile Well it seems then it is between the Earth and the Polar Star one of them then it seems must needs have an influence But suppose we it should be the Earth that carries this Magnetisme Is it the whole Earth that does so or some part of it only If the whole Earth why then turns not the Needle South-wards as well as North-wards And if it be some part of the Earth only where is that part Or is it amongst those Rocks some three Miles from Rossebury But if so why then beyond that Rossebury and those three Miles of it does the Needle turn North-wards and not rather towards Rossebury Is this Magnetisme in the Earth then why if so it s in no one part or place of the Earth it seems but in several it is about Rossebury and beyond Rossebury more North and who knows where the end of it is there But be it so that it be in the Earth and yet no man knows where in the Earth what ground have we that it is in the Earth Or are the Doctor 's Principles as groundless and frivolous nay and contradictious as our's of Astrology It seems there is a strange sympathy between the nature of the Polar Star and the Magnet Stone This Stone if it be nigh to the Needle has it seems a palpable power to attract the Needle towards it self And this it can do as some say who have seen the experiment though there be the thickness of a Table Board between the Stone and the Needle And in this case the Magnet leads away the Needle to the Polar Star But this is the truth of the case about Rossebury It seems there is some Magnet Rocks there abouts which draw the Needle round as it comes near to every of them and being near hand they draw away the Needle from the Polar Star But after a small distance their virtue fails and then the Polar Star draws it again But to conclude is this virtue of Magnetisme in the Earth or any part of it as the Doctor says Why then this power of attracting the Needle would be but weak and at a certain distance only for so the Magnetick Rocks at or near Rossebury work but within their distance and that 's but small and very mean But a Magnetisme there is which draws as far as from the North Pole unto beyond the Tropick of Capricorn and that through the very Body of the Earth and that therefore can be no Magnetisme of the Rocks of Rossebury no nor were all the Earth from Greenland North-ward nothing but a Magnetick Rock yet could it not do such a Feat And therefore good Doctor bethink again such 't is and must be no less then the Polar Star and not the Earth which influences the Needle thus And if so where 's the Foolery now Sect. 5 Lastly It is granted by the Doctor That he doubts not but that were the other Planets any of them in the Moon 's place where their Discus might seem of equal bigness with her's and she away from where she is in their place they might do the like Feats as she does O excellent Conceits and from an Enemy as favourable as one would wish For First That the Moon has a mighty power or virtue or influence or somewhat call it what you please whereby she swells the Eyes and Brains at her Full and carries the Seas up and down here and there as it were at pleasure is granted Secondly That the other Planets such as ♄ ♃ ♂ ♀ and ☿
to the root of the Tree and strikes at the Essential Dignities of the Planets And because this is nothing else but the increase of a Planets innate virtue by being in such or such a Sign and these being the Signs of the Zodiack He answers There is no such Zodiack in Heaven neither is it any thing And therefore is it manifest that the whole Doctrine of Essential Dignities falls to the ground But oh the wretched Beggar If he do but harbour an imagination in his brain presently it must be granted that it cannot be otherwise First As for the Houses of Planets it seems this learned Philosopher had been hammering out the reasons of those Houses and because something came into his head which seemed to himself pretty as to say why ♌ should be the House of ☉ and ♋ the House of ☽ The learned man immediately concluded that there could be no other reason but what himself had started for either one or th' other and because himself could find none that therefore for the Houses of the other Planets there was none And thence crys out how from his small hints and mistakes of reason they have without all reason and sense bestowed Houses on the rest of the Planets guiding themselves by the conceit of the benignity and malignity of Aspects Thus strangely abounds the Doctor in his own sense concluding all the utmost of our reasonings not to extend one tittle farther then just as he imagins And as if it could not possibly be otherwise without any the lest resemblance of an Argument against these Essential Dignities called the Houses of the Planets beyond his own meer ipse dixit He concludes positively that all is without sense and reason Truly this is a notable Battery of the Doctor 's and would be of great force should it be but planted against Spiders Webs The Benignity and Malignity of Aspects he has noted already it having no ground but the rash joining together of critical days with the Aspects of the Moon And for this he quotes § 7. of the same Chapter And this I have answered already too save only that it is worth observance how the Doctor measures out the wits and reasonings of all Astrologers by his own head-peice our wits may not jump one hairs breadth beyond just as it comes into his whimsical brain Next as for the Dignity of Exaltation This must be but a small preferment And why But because Albumanar makes the ☊ and ☋ which are but imaginary Circles of the Moon 's course through the Ecliptick to have their Exaltations too as well as the Planets Here now seems somthing like an Argument but then all the strength of it depends on this how absurd it is to think that imaginary Circles should have their Exaltations But consider First These Circles which to us are but imaginary because we cannot fix our eyes upon the places of them Yet are in themselves no imaginary but real points of the Firmament of Heaven as the knee is a real part of a man's Body Secondly As the parts of the Earth have their several virtues as some do naturally and aptly bring forth Fur others Broom and others Fern so these parts of the Heavens have also their several operations Lastly As any part of the Earth is made more fruitful by means of compass dung or soil applied to the mending thereof even so this point of the Ecliptick where the Moon makes her passage over it is found extraordinarily exceeding in operation above the other parts of the Ecliptick But when this passage of the Moon happeneth to fall out in the Sign of ♊ and ♠and especially in the third degree of either then appears it that the ☊ in the one and the ☋ in the other hath more then ordinary operation which is called their Exaltation And the truth of this is evident by the same kind of experience as is that of the virtue of the weapon-salve or as those are of any of the potions or Medicines commended to us by our Physicians And now if we have a real experience of the ☊ and ☋ that they have their Exaltations in their operations and the Doctor knows nothing to the contrary but this Ha ha he what then shall his Battery avail him against the Essential Dignities either of the Planets or the Moon 's Nodes called their Exaltation Thirdly As for the Lords of the Trigons he calls them the foolery of the Trigons and why Because 't was pity there were not just Planets that each Trigon might have had its two Consuls and ♂ not rule solitary in his watry one This is like a man that would confute the Doctrine of the Antipodes by crying Pish For about so much does this Battery of the Doctor 's amount to and no more Fourthly As for the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Their prerogative he says is destroyed by the first general Argument because the parts of the Sign are as fictitious as the whole When the Doctor is at a full point as his Ha hah will extend no farther then flies he to the main shift That there is no Zodiack or that the Signs of the Zodiack are all but meer imaginary things But whatever they are imaginary to us who never ascended up so high as to observe the bound-marks of the several Signs yet for certain there is an Heaven as no man can deny And if there be an Heaven then may this Heaven be divided into parts and that as well into twelve equal parts as well as two and this all men must confess And if so then every of those twelve parts may be also subdivided into thirty equal parts by the same general confession and every one of those twelve and those 30 parts must be as really the parts of Heaven as Heaven it self is a real and no imaginary Body And if the whole and parts be real then are they no such fictitious things as the Doctor 's whimsi's do imagin But it may be the Doctor spites the Images only of the Signs as the Ram and the Lion and the rest perhaps his faith is not so strong as to beleive there is any such thing as a Ram or Lion in Heaven Neither do the Quakers believe there is any such day in the Week as Sunday or Munday We 'l therefore comply with weak Consciences for this once Let it be the first day and second day instead of Sunday and Munday And let it be the first 30 degrees after the Æquinox and then the second 30 c and not ♈ ♉ nor the rest will that please Or if it may not be the Constellation of the Ram or the Bull let it be a certain number of Stars in such and such forms imagined in the shape of a Ram and a Bull. Or it may be he thinks of the Heavens as a Shepheard on Grimsbury Green did of the Sea who when he heard of a Merchant how he sailed so many Leagues upon the Waters and inquiring what
those Leagues were was answered That they were imaginary distances in their Sailing he presently concluded that the Sea was therefore imaginary and so was the Ship they sailed in and finally he would have concluded the Merchant himself imaginary too if he had not drew his Sword and frighted him into the Faith that he was really some body But for want of such a sensible Argument the Doctor goes madly on in a kind of Enthusiastic humour and concludes That the Heaven is nothing and the parts of Heaven are nothing and therefore the dignity of Carpentum or the Royal Seat is a meer nothing and Alâ—gen is as little as nothing and that the Lords of the Decanats is but a frippery or a pretty kind of strange I know not what for frippery is a pretty word whose meaning every round Cap doâ— not understand Lastly as for Gaudium he charges it with two falsities supposed by it First As if there were Houses And Secondly As if Planets were Masculine and Feminine which supposition 's already confuted Now how he has confuted the first is fresh in memory and therefore the gall'd place needs no rubbing As for the second with great pains taking I have at length found out the place where the confutation was made and it appears in § 8. of this Chapter Where he argues thus All the Planets are Opake Bodies and whatever their colour is are as cold as Earth And therefore to call them Masculine or Feminine is a Rhapsody of Fooleries First I deny his Assumption to be satisfactory let him make that out how he came to know the Planets to be all Opake Bodies no not the Sun excepted Next the consequence is insufferable that if it were so yet that they cannot therefore be Male and Female Ash Trees are Opake Bodies without dispute and yet by all Herbalists are allowed to be Male and Female the one bearing Seed the other none And yet see how confident the Philosopher is They are already confuted And all the Essential fortitudes of the Planets are nothing else but the telling out so many Nullities to no purpose But for such stories as these I have seen many a Boy whipt They would say all was nothing when they had told twenty lies 'till as many smart jerks upon their bare Buttocks made them to feel the truth Sect. 17 In § 12. He comes to the Accidental Dignities and Debilities Where in the first place Cazimi and Combustion seems to â—â—st the weight of his displeasure And First It is unreasonable he says that a Planet in Cazimi should gain five Fortitudes and that First Because ♄ ♃ and ♂ in ☌ with ☉ 〈◊〉 beyond the Sun from us a whole Diameter of the Sun 's Orbit in distance more then when they are in ☠to him and ♀ and ☿ are farther distant by half of their own But behold how improvidently the Doctor argues never once remembering and considering the purity of the Coelestial Bodies or whether he does not yet understand it how that above or beyond the ☉ there is no more vanity nor corruption therefore and therefore no hard Rocks nor thick Mountains nor so much as a cold Cloud that can be once able to slacken the Force of their Influences and therefore the distance of Situation can no ways impede the force of their operation as is apparently seen by the ☽ which never receives more light and force of Solar Virtue then when she is farthest from him Secondly He stumbles again How can their virtue pass the Body of the Sun This is answered as before the Sun also is a pure and thin Body as the Air thorow which therefore the influences of the superior Planets do aptly peirce without any obstruction any more then thorow the pure matter of Heaven it self Thirdly He inquires yet again How can the Influence pass against the bearing of the vortex against the Planet and against us and all the attempts of Influence from the Planet and not be eluded Now talks he like a man utterly unskilled in the Trade not knowing it seems that the Planets in ☌ do comply and not at all clash Influences Fourthly He would know once more If Cazimi on this side the Sun be good why beyond the Sun it should not be bad Because Cazimi works a perfect compliance betwixt the Sun and the Planet in Cazimi be the Planet above the Sun the ☉ readily receives his beams and be the Planet on this side that as readily receives his beams thorow its own Body But Fifthly Not yet satisfied he crys If ♀ and ☿ in the Sun be of such moment why not the spots in the Sun which are far greater This he takes to be a rare argument and hugs himself in the conceit laughing to himself as if our ignorance had never thought of that Objection until of his own starting But I rather wonder how so great a Philosopher as the Doctor should be thus taken with the wagging of a straw For does not every Scullion Girl know the difference between a blemish and a beauty spot though both at once in the same face Or between a meer dead patch and an operative plaster Or between an hole in a Wall and a man standing against the Wall although at some distance each seems alike of a dark colour But Sixthly and cheifly His wonderment is taken up how Cazimi can have and deserve five Fortitudes and Combustion which is but a little distant should be cumbred with as many debilities And yet free of Combustion which is but a little more remove should have five Fortitudes again Things so arbitrarious he says and groundless as none but sickbrain'd Persons can beleive them But alas I pity the good Doctor for what the reason is I am somwhat to seek as not knowing the man but he seems himself strangely sick-brain'd as if at sometimes of the Moon he were not Capax mentis for otherwise do doubt but the man is Schollar enough For were it not so he would have bethought himself that a Walnut is first bitter on the outside unto 9 degrees of distast unto the Palat and yet dig thorow that outward rind unto the kernel and you have as many degrees of good tast and lastly you are no sooner pass't the kernel but you arrive at the 5 degrees of distast again Loe how Nature has proposed him an every days pattern plain and common of her more curious and secret Contrives And yet see how the Doctor falls to wondring and exclaiming at that which a Boy of five years of age knows to be a plain case Look but into an Honey-comb where the pots stand as thick as can be set each by other and yet may be seen one fortified with Honey as full and sweet as one would wish and the very next debilitated by reason of the stinging Bee in it as venemous as one would think could be hardly possible for such a little Creature to bring forth and yet the very next pot as