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A55758	Angliae speculum morale The moral state of England, with the several aspects it beareth to virtue and vice : with The life of Theodatus, and three novels, viz. The land-mariners, Friendship sublimed, The friendly rivals.	Preston, Richard Graham, Viscount, 1648-1695.	1670 (1670)	Wing P3310; ESTC R5728	46,008	222

which at last he expireth either from a bed of loathsome diseases and rottenness or from a disgraceful Gibbet with common Malefactors The Virtuoso DId rise Gloriously like light out of the Chaos and dazled the Eyes of the astonished world triumphing with a Masculine Gallantry over the impracticable Notions of the Antients but now he seemeth not to pursue his advantage with his primitive vigor which hath diminished his Fame a little for whoever treadeth the paths of Virtue ought always to be in a forward motion and by equal degrees as he advanceth in the way to double his pace till he cometh to the Goal The Great Chancellor Bacon was the Columbus who led us to this unknown America of new Philsophy since him Cartesius and Gassendus have made the greatest discoveries in her Continent to whom we shall with all willingness yield the Bays if we consider the advantages we now enjoy from their labour for all Precepts all Notions are given us from above to regulate and direct our Actions and the best of speculations are buried in oblivion if they do not produce their due effects now it is most certain that most or all of the principles of the Paripatetic Philosophy were meer Entia Rationis in intellectu tantum which now give place to Entia realia to true and beneficial Experiments doubtless it was the attempt of a most Heroick Virtue to storm the whole Circle of ancient Learning so much reverenced by Men though for 〈◊〉 other cause then its Antiquity and the perswasions they had their Fathers esteemed it as 〈◊〉 old times they honoured aged Oaks because they thought some God had kept his residence under their shades It is admirable how a body made up of 〈◊〉 many jarring and disagreeing Elements I mean opposite opinions should have obtain'd so much and gain'd so mighty at Ascendant over the affections of men of parts enough refined that they should pronounce him an Heretick who should dare to contradict the meanest of its Members bearing it up against experience which ought to be out general Mistress The English Literati have presented the World with Effects of Industry and Ingenuity most worthy of their causes they have improved the Art of Grinding Glasses which is a great advantage to Astronomy and Sea-affairs by the study of Micrography and the Anatomy of insects they have displaied a new Page of the Book of Nature they have by more exact scrutiny into humane bodies discovered the circulation and the source of many diseases and have lately oblig'd us with an experiment of the transfusion of the blood of one Animal into another which is never enough to be gratefully admired though it hath the ill fortune to be little esteemed of now but in ensuing ages it will certainly be crowned with its due applause for it is always seen that great Actions are deny'd their Bay's in that age in which they are born because Envy and prejudicate Malice the off-springs of the old Serpent detract from them The Hypothesis of Water and Air the advance of the latter being in the Air-pump a Noble mechanick invention are very rational and the inspection into the Nature of Vegetables hath much advantaged Man in the support his body will receive from them Their progress in all Physical Learning hath generally been great but upon Chymistry particularly they have spent much Labour and Oyl And here I must declare that though I honour all the ingenious and industrious I cannot be reconcil'd to those who are in pursuit of that great Magistery of Nature as they call it the Philosophers stone it is wonderful that they should consume so considerable a portion of their lives in the search of that which they know not really to be in the Created substances or if it should exist which hath so mean an end as the bringing Gold into the World which is the efficient cause of all strises and evils whose converse the good avoid because it commonly turneth even the souls of its votaries into its own Hypostasis how cruelly do they macerate themselves who search for this how they foment those scourges of our lives Hope and Fear each minute bringeth with it a promise of success which expiteth in Fumc and at last when they are just upon the Frontiers of bliss and think the next minute to embrace their wish'd for Elixit they find in their Arm onely a Caput mortuum a Terra Damnata in which they have buried perhaps their whole fortunes and the greatest number of their most hopeful years and all which at last ariseth from the expence is summed up in two or three moral Corollaries and they end their days with this Prayer in their mouths O si praeteritos reparet mihi Jupiter annes Now to return to the Virtuoso when I consider what small returns of civility we make to these ingenious persons who have obliged us so much I can find our coldness to have no other cause then what themselves do give they so readily admitting all persons into their Society who will pay the Duties of the house though they know not the terms of Philosophy make the multitude who never see the bottom of an affair judge of all from their weakness they commonly entertain the company of a Coffee-house with some refuse notions gleaned from the ingenious which they pronounce as Magisterially as if they had been secretary's to Nature and discourse as confidently of the harmony of her parts as a Countrey Musician playeth who never learned his Gam-ut From the impertinencies of these pretenders this Royal Corporation suffereth when it ought rather to be encouraged and caressed by all the Great and Learned for all the great advantages it promiseth in the future for it is most true that whosoever is a good Philosopher is a good man because no one looketh into the recesses of Nature who is not induced to extoll the Author of it and so gratefully maketh his return for the immense favours in serving and honouring him who conferred them Thus out of a Physical knowledge a Moral one starts and we see Science and Virtue have the same Basis It is certain Learning hath no Enemies but the Envious and Ignorant and even from these evils she reapeth good for from the detraction of the former she raiseth repute since nothing but Virtue is the subject of Envy and from the inveterateness of the latter she hath a benefit too since the praises of the unwise are reproaches and whosoever delighteth in them wrappeth himself in the better half of his Fools-coat and E converso his reproaches must be praises The Divine HAth the powers of cursing and absolving upon Earth and therefore ought to be reverenc'd as Gods immediate instrument Now though his injuries be many from the disaffected yet under these great pressures he ought with the Palme to lift up his head highest and to exalt his voice like a Trumpet to maintain warre against all the Champions of Vice every one bendeth

care of her as to let her pass her younger years single rather than to hang longer on the Tree the too ripe fruit will fall to any man She like an expert General chooseth rather to use stratagem in storming a Fort then wholly to rely upon her strength be it never so great for I never saw that Woman how fair soever that was not guilty of those innocent frauds of a patch or wash hoping from them for greater accessions of Beauty In her discourse she commonly traduces the rest of her Sex and tacitely giveth a rise to applaud her self which though she deserveth not you must do with the greatest of your powers for in the state of Love as well as in the civil one he is the best Politician who can best dissemble You cannot imagine what near approaches you make to her affections by these ways and how really she is taken with you though you describe her by all the impossibilities of Poetry when she might soon be undeceived would she with an impartial Eye consult her Glasses But yet this Humour ingraffed in her Nature which certainly proceeds from the want of a true use of her reason if it seemeth to increase with her age for even those whom many years have seen Virgins are more vain then the younger ones and are not to be convinc'd but that the same lustre inhabiteth their eyes which resided in them 30 years before Hence it is that you see them so sollicitous to sill up those furrows which time hath plowed and to supply the places of those Teeth which years have ruin'd with sorreign ones and to burnish those eyes which Sixty Suns have dimmed Her discourse is replenish'd with the Histories of those she might have had what proper men she refused and upon what account she slighted them and in the conclusion she will torment your ears with a doleful Sonnet or heart-melting direful address composed by some of her cross-arm'd Lovers who flourish'd in Poetry above halfe a Century before Ben Johnson She now like the old worn Sinner when his powers have left him voweth practical Chastity though her thoughts often transgress and run into a speculative obscenity She commonly is at enmity with her elder Brothers wife who seemeth to grudge her her Annuity but now she serveth for no other use but to caress those Babies to whom she is a great Aunt and to give her young Neices instruction for their behaviour when they are wooed To mention all her impertinence were a labour as endless as her own discourse and altogether as troublesome I shall therefore Land you upon a new Scene and present her to your view in the state of Matrimony The Wife SInce the impertinencies of the Maid alwayes continue and grow up in the Wife if she be not guided by a natural prudence he who paints one of them giveth you the full draught of the other I think it therefore not extrinsique to my Province to lay down some rules for the choice of a Wife in which great circumspection ought to be used since by this Union a man either builds his happiness or misery during life If my Friend prove false I can strike a League with another if my Servant be unfaithfull I can change him but though my Wife prove so she must remain mine Matrimony is a Gordian Knot which no Alexander can cut He who intends to enter a double state ought not to choose a Woman only for her Pedigree if other circumstances are wanting especially Virtue his Election is lame for what was it at first that ennobled her Line but that and if that Pillar fail her Escucheon must needs fall If her Relations are poor nothing can fall more unhappily to him for she will still draw them to be warmed at his fire Like the Courtier who is not satisfied to beek himself only in the Sun-shine of his Soveraign's favour but will also bring his Kindred within the warmth of his raies so that whosoever matches here espouseth not one but a whole Family When the Head of the house fals his dependants by consequence partake of his fortune and they certainly must be very numerous the Setting-sun casts the longest shadow Her pride also will make the blood of her Children run high which will be their great unhappiness when they must submit to the universal allay of poverty What can be more despicable than a Title without the support of an Estate a mans honour bids him soar to high things his want forces him to the meanest actions he is like a bird upon the wing to mount whilst a leaden Plummet tied to his Leg keeps him down 2. Let not Beauty alone allure any man without internal or external endowments She who can boast nothing but good outward features is like an house adorned without with various Pillars and Pillasters of several Orders exquisite Cornices and neat Carvings but within naked and without either Orchard Garden or Wood this may treat your eye a while but it neither administers to the delight of your mind nor the necessities of your body She will be a Magnet to draw as well the noble Steel to your house as the ignobler Iron most comers inquire for you but be assured their visit is to my Lady No Woman's virtue in the World if young can be so strong a Fort to her but it may be rendered to the perpetual showers of flatterie and complement which play upon it If she yield to a noble conquerour you have the honour to march out with your horns in your pocket and flying colours but never hope to be re-instated in the place you had in her breast 3. Let not Riches alone draw any man for thus he enslaves himself first to the Gold and then to the imperious humour of one he hates who still plagues him with repeating that accession his fortunes received by her though she commonly hath the chief hand in spending it whoever then stands thus must confess himself to be a slave though bound with a golden Chain and that the fettered Captive in the deepest Dungeon is more free than he because however his body is secured he reserves the Empire of his mind to himself alone Aim not too much at an Heiress for her defects are notable and many Nature commonly sending her into the world rude and unfinished because she sees Fortune standing ready at her Entry to polish and adorn her with her gifts in which the Justice of Heaven in the distribution of blessings to men is evident since all Graces never meet in one Creature but every one hath something different which renders it agreeable to the rest But if your starrs seem to direct you this way you must not nor truly can you address to her in the usual way for would it not be very gross to assure one who is crooked lame thin-faced il-eyed that she is fair beautifull and alluring but you must bid fair for her to those who menage her yet within