Double I came why should I single leave thee Why of my better part dost thou bereave me Two prest thee first why should but one depart Restore thou trait'rous bed restore that better part 48 Thus while one grief anothers place inherits And one yet hardly spent a new complained Griefs leaden vapour dulls the heavy spirits And sleep too long from so wisht seat restrained Now of her eyes un'wares possession gained And that she might him better welcome give Her lord he new presents and makes him fresh to live 49 She thinks he lives and with her goes along And oft she kiss'd his cheek and oft embraced And sweetly askt him where he staid so long While he again her in his arms enlaced Till strong delight her dream and joy defaced But then she willing sleeps sleep glad receives her And she as glad of sleep that with such shapes deceives her 50 Sleep widow'd eyes and cease so fierce lamenting Sleep grieved heart and now a little rest thee Sleep sighing words stop all your discontenting Sleep beaten breast no blows shall now molest thee Sleep happy lips in mutuall kisses nest ye Sleep weary Muse and do not now disease her Fancie do thou with dreams and his sweet presence please her FINIS ¶ To my deare friend the SPENCER of this age Deare friend NO more a Stranger now I lately past Thy curious Building call'd but then my haste Deny'd me a full draught I did but taste Thy Wine was rich and pleasing did appeare No common grape My haste could not forbeare A second sippe I hung a Garland there Past on my way I lasht through thick and thinne Dispatch'd my businesse and return'd agen I call'd the second time unhors'd went in View'd every Room each Room was beautifi'd With new Invention carv'd on every side To please the common and the curious ey'd View'd every Office every Office lay Like a rich Magazen did bewray ' Thy Treasure op'ned with thy golden key View'd every Orchyard every Orchyard did Appeare a Paradise whose fruits were hid Perchance with shadowing Leaves but none forbid View'd every Plot spent some delightfull houres In every Garden full of new-born flowers Delicious banks and delectable bowers Thus having stepp'd and travell'd every staire Within and tasted every fruit that 's rare Without I made thy house my thorough-fare Then give me leave rare Fletcher as before I left a Garland at thy Gates once more To hang this Ivie at thy Postern-doore FRANCIS QUARLES FINIS * American * Sannazar * Bartas * Spencer * Delos * More mortuum * A book called Christs Victorie and Triumph a The foundation of the body is the bones Bones are a similar part of the body most dry or cold made by the vertue generative through heat of the thicker portion of seed which is most earthy and Fat for the establishment and figure of the whole b A cartilage or gridle is of a middle nature betwixt bones and ligaments or sinews made of the Lime matter and in the same manner as bones for variety and safetie in motion c Some of these even as bones sustain and uphold some parts d Both these are knit with ligaments A ligament or sinew is of nature between grisles and nerves framed of a rough and clammy portion of the seed for knitting holding the bones together fitting them for motion e Upon the bones as the foundation is built the flesh Flesh is a similar part of the body soft ruddy made of bload indifferently dried covered with the common membrane or skinne f The whole body is as it were watered with great plenty of rivers veins arteries and nerves g A vein is a vessell long round hollow rising from the liver appointed to contein conduct and distribute the bloud It hath but one tunicle and that thinne the colour of this bloud is purple h An arterie is a vessel long round hollow formed for conveyance of that more spritely bloud which is elaborate in the heart This bloud is frothy yellowish full of spirits therefore compast with a double tunicle that it might not exhale or sweat out by reason of the thinnesse i A nerve is a spermaticall part rising from the brain and the pith of the back-bone the outside skinne the inside full of pith carrying the animall spirits for sense and motion and therefore doubly skinned as the brain none of them single but runne in couples k The veins convey nourishment from the liver the arteries life and heat from the heart the nerves sense and motion from the brain The will commands the nerve brings and the part executes the mandate all almost in an instant l The whole body may be parted into three regions the lowest or belly the middle or breast the highest or head In the lowest the liver is sovereigne whose regiment is the widest but meanest In the middle the heart reignes most necessarie The brain obtains the highest place and is as the least in compasse so the greatest in dignitie m The parts of the lower region are either the contained or containing the containing either common or proper the common are the skinne the fleshie pannicle and the far the proper are the muscles of the belly-peece or the inner rimme of the belly n The skinne is a membrane of all the rest the most large and thick formed of the mixture of seed and bloud the covering and ornament of parts that are under it the temper moderate the proper organ of outward touching say Physicians o The native colour of the skinne is white but as Hippocrates changed into the same colour which is brought by the humour predominant Where melancholie abounds it is swarthy where flegme it is white and pale where choler reignes it is red and firy but in sanguine of a rosie colour p The skinne is covered with the cuticle or flourishing of the skinne it is the mean of touching without which we feel but with pain It polisheth the skinne which many times is changed and as it is with snakes put off and a new and more amiable brought in q The fat cometh from the airy portion of the bloud which when it flows to the membranes by their weak heat which Physicians account call cold grows thick and close r The fat increaseth inward heat by keeping it from outward parts and defends the parts subject to it from bruises s The fleshie panniele is a membrane very thick sinewy woven in with little veins t The proper parts infolding this lower region are two the first the muscles of the belly-peece which are eight foure side-long two right and two crosse u Peritonaeum which we call the rimme of the belly is a thinne membrane taking his name from compassing the bowels round but longer every where double yet so thinne that it may seem but single It hath many holes that the veins arteries and other needfull vessels might have passage both in out * The
double tunicle of the rimme is plainly parted into a large space that with a double wall it might fence the bladder where the vessels of the navil are contained These are foure first the norse which is a vein nourishing the infant in the wombe 2 two arteries in which the infant breaths the fourth the Outachos a pipe whereby while the childe is in the wombe the urine is carried into the Allantoid or rather Amnion which is a membrane receiving the sweat and urine x The passages carrying the urine from the kidneys to the bladder Some action that in the passage stands a curious lid or cover y The bladder endeth in a neck of Hesh and is garded with a muscle which is called Sphincter which holds in the urine lest it flow away without our permission If this be loosened or cold the urine goes away from us of it self without any feeling z Hence the urine is conveyed through the ordinary passages and cast out a Beside the bladder there are six speciall parts contained in this lower region the liver stomack with the guts the gall the splene or milt the kidneys and parts for generation b The stomack or Koilia is the first in order though not in dignitie c Koilia or the stomack is long round like a bag-pipe made to receive and concoct the meat and to perfect the Chyle or white juice which riseth from thee meat concocted d Gustus the taste is the caterer or steward to the stomack which hath his place in Cephal that is the head e In either chap are sixteen teeth foure cutters two dog-teeth or breakers ten grinders f The tongue with great agilitie delivers up the meat well chewed to the instruments of swallowing eight muscles serving to this purpose which instantly send the meat through the Oesophagus or meat-pipe into the stomack g The upper mouth of the stomack hath little veins or strings circular to shut in the meat and keep it from returning h Vas breve or the short vessel which sending in a melancholy humour sharpens the appetite i In the bottome of the stomack which is placed in the midst of the belly is concoction perfected k The concoction of meats in the stomack is perfected as by an innate propertie and speciall vertue so also by the outward heat of parts adjoyning For it is on every side compassed with hotter parts which as fire to a caldron helps to seethe and concoct and the hot steams within it do not a little further digestion l The lower orifice or mouth of the stomack is not placed at the very bottome but at the side and is called the Janitor or Porter as sending out the food new concocted through the entrails which are knotty and full of windings left the meat too suddenly passing through the body should make it too subject to appetite and greedinesse m It is approved that the entrails dried and blown are seven times longer then the body they are all one entire body yet their differing substance hath distinguished them into the thinne thick the thinne have the more noble office n The first is straight without any winding that the chyle might not return and most narrow that it might not finde too hasty a passage It takes in a little passage from the gall which there purges his choler to provoke the entrails when they are slow to cast out the excrements This is called Duodenum or twelve finger from his length o The second is called the lank or hungry gut as being more emptie then the rest for the liver being neare it sucks out his juice or cream it is known from the rest by the red colour p The third called Ilion or winding from his many folds and turnings is of all the longest q The first of the baser is called blinde at whose end is an appendant where if any of the thinner chyle do chance to escape it is stopt and by the veins of the midriffe suckt out r The second is Colon or the tormenter because of the winde there staying vexing the body s The last called Rectum or straight hath no windings short larger toward the end that the excrement may more easily be ejected and retained also upon occasion t The thinne entrails serve for the carrying through-concocting of the chyle the thicker for the gathering and containing the excrements u They are all sprinkled with numberlesse little veins that no part of the chyle might escape till all be brought to the liver x Epiploon or Overswimmer descends below the navill and ascends above the highest entrails of skinny substance all interlaced with fat y The Mesenterium or midst amongst the entrails whence it takes the name ties and knits the entrails together it hath a double tunicle z Pancreas or All flesh for so it seems is laid as a pillow under the stomack and sustains the veins that are dispread from the gate-vein a Of all this lower region the Hepar or liver is the principall The situation strong and safe walled in by the ribs b It is covered with one single cunicle that very thinne and slight c The liver is tied to the heart by arteries to the head by nerves and to both by veins dispersed to both d The liver consists of no ordinary flesh but of a kinde proper to it self e The livers upper part rises swells gently is very smooth and even the lower in the outside like to an hollow rock rugged craggy f From it rise all the springs of bloud which runnes in the veins g The steward of the whole Isle is here fitly placed because as all that is brought in is here fitted and disposed so from hence returned and dispensed h Here Plato disposed the seat of love And certainly though lust which some perversly call love be otherwhere seated yet that affection whereby we wish and do well to others may seem to be better fitted in the liver then in the heart where most do place it because this moderate heat appeares more apt for this affection and fires of the heart where as a Salamander anger lives seem not so fit to entertain it i Hence rise the two great rivers of bloud of which all the rest are lesser streams The first is Porta or the gate-gate-vein issuing from the hollow part and is shed toward the stomack splene guts and the Epiploon The second is Cava the hollow vein spreading his river over all the body k The chyle or juice of meats concocted in the stomack could not all be turned into sweet bloud by reason of the divers kindes of humours in it Therefore there are three kinds of excrementall liquors suckt away by little vessels and carried to their appointed places one too light and fiery an other too earthy and heavy a third wheyish and watery l Famous the controversie between the Peripateticks and Physicians one holding the heart the other the liver to be first
That the liver is first in time and making is manifest because the Nurse the vein that feeds the infant yet in the wombe empties it self upon the liver m The first excrement drawn from the liver to the gall is cholerick bitter like flame in colour which were it not removed and kept in due place would fill all the body with bitternesse and gnawing n Choledochus or the Gall is of a membranous substance having but one yet that a strong tunicle It hath two passages one drawing the humour from the liver another conveying the overplus into the first gut and so emptying the gall And this fence hath a double gate to keep the liquour from returning o The second ill humour is earthy and heavy which is drawn from the liver by little vessels unto the splene the native seat of melancholie here some have placed laughter but the splene seems rather the seat of malice and heavinesse p If the splene should fail in this office the whole body would be filled with melancholy fancies and vain terrours q Where the splene flourishes and the body decayes and withers where the splene is kept down the body flourishes Hence Stratonicus merrily said that in Crete dead men walked because they were so splenitive and pale-coloured r Trajan compared the splene to his exchequer because as his coffers being full drained his subjects purses so the full splene makes the body saplesse s The watery humour with some good bloud which is spent for the nourishment of those parts is drawn by the kidneys t The Ureters receive the water separated from the bloud as distilled from little fleshie substances in the kidneys like to teats u The kidneys are both alike the left somewhat higher both have a double skinne and both compassed with fat a The heart is the seat of heat and life therefore walled about with the ribs for more safety b The breasts or paps are given to men for strength and ornament to women for milk and nurserie also c When the infant grows big he so oppresseth the vessels of bloud that partly through the readinesse of the passage but especially by the providence of God the bloud turns back to the breast there by an innate but wonderfull facultie is turned into milk d The breasts are in figure hemisphericall whose tops are crowned with the teats about which are reddish circles called Areolae or little altars e In the Thorax or breast are sixty five muscles for respiration or breathing which is either free or forced The instruments of forced breathing are sixtie foure whereof thirtie two distend and as many contract it f The instrument of the free breathing is the Diazome or Diaphragme which we call the midriffe as a wall parting the heart and liver Plato affirms it a partition between the seats of desire and anger Aristotle a barre to keep the noisome odour of the stomack from the heart g The midriffe dilates it self when it draws in contracts it self when it puffes out the aire h The midriffe consists of two circles one skinny the other fleshie It hath two tunicles as many veins and arteries and foure nerves i Here most men have placed the seat of laughter It hath much sympathie with the brain so that if the midriffe be inflamed present madnes easues it k Within the Pleura or skinne which clotheth the ribs on the inside compasses this middle region l The chiefest part of this middle region is the Heart placed in the midst of this province and of the whole bodie fitly was it placed in the midst of all as being of all the most needfull m The Heart is immured partly by a membrane going round about it and thence receiving his name and a peculiar tunicle partly with an humour like whey or urine as well to cool the heart as to lighten the body n The flesh of the heart is proper and peculiar to it self not like other muscles of a figure pyramicall The point of the heart is as with a diademe girt with two arteries and a vein called the crowns o Though the heart be an entire body yet it is severed into two partitions the right and left of which the left is more excellent and noble p The right receives into his hollownesse the bloud flowing from the liver and concocts it q This right side sends down to the lungs that part of this bloud which is lesse laboured and thicker but the thinner part it sweats through a fleshie partition into the left side r This fleshie partition severs the right side from the left at first it seems thick but if it be well viewed we shall see it full of many pores or passages s Two skinny additions from their likenesse called the ears receive the one the thicker bloud that called the right the other called the left takes in the aire sent by the lungs t The left side of the heart takes in this aire and bloud and concocting them both in his hollow bosome sends them out by the great arterie into the whole body u In the heart are foure great vessels the first is the hollow vein bringing in the blood from the liver at whose mouth stand three little folding doores with three forks giving passage but no return to the bloud * The second vessel is called the arterie-arterie-vein which rising from the right side of the heart carries down the bloud here prepared to the lungs for their nourishment Here also is the like three-folding doore made like half circles giving passage from the heart but not backward x The third is called the Veiny arterie rising from the left side which hath two folds three-forked y The fourth is the great arterie This hath also a floudgate made of three semicircular membranes to give out load to the virall spirits and stop their regresse z The Heart is the fountain of life and heat to the whole bodie and the seat of passions a The Pneumon or lungs is nearest the heart whose flesh is light and spongie very large It is the instrument of breathing and speaking divided into many parcels yet all united into one bodie b The Lungs are covered with a light very thinne tunicle left it might be an hinderance to the motion c The winde-pipe which is framed partly of cartilage or grissy matter because the voice is perfected with hard smooth things these cartilages are compassed like a ring partly of skin which tie the grisles together d And because the rings of the grifles do not wholly meet this space is made up by muscles that so the meat-pipe adjoyning might not be galled or hurt e The Larynx or covering of the winde-pipe is a grisly substance parted into foure grisles of which the first is ever unmoved and in women often double f Adjoyning to it is the Oesophagus or meat-pipe conveying meats and drinks to the stomack g At whose end is the Epiglottis or cover of the throat the
in his heart hate rage and furie reigne Fierce was his look when clad in sparkling tire But when dead palenesse in his cheek took seisure And all the bloud in 's boyling heart did treasure Then in his wilde revenge kept he nor mean nor measure 56 Look as when waters wall'd with brazen wreath Are sieg'd with crackling flames their common foe The angrie seas 'gin foam and hotly breathe Then swell rise rave and still more furious grow Nor can be held but forc't with fires below Tossing their waves break out and all o'reflow So boyl'd his rising bloud and dasht his angry brow 57 For in his face red heat and ashie cold Strove which should paint revenge in proper colours That like consuming fire most dreadfull roll'd This liker death threatens all deadly dolours His trembling hand a dagger still embrac't Which in his friend he rashly oft encas't His shields devise fresh bloud with foulest stain defac't 58 Next him Erithius most unquiet swain That all in law and fond contention spent Not one was found in all this numerous train With whom in any thing he would consent His Will his Law he weigh'd not wrong or right Much scorn'd to bear much more forgive a spight Patience he th' asses load and cowards Vertue hight 59 His weapons all were fram'd of shining gold Wherewith he subt'ly fought close under hand Thus would he right from right by force withhold Nor suits nor friends nor laws his slights withstand Ah powerfull weapon how dost thou bewitch Great but base mindes spott'st with leprous itch That never are in thought nor ever can be rich 60 Upon his belt fastned with leather laces Black boxes hung sheaths of his paper-swords Fill'd up with Writs Sub-poena's Triall-cases This trespast him in cattel that in words Fit his device and well his shield became A Salamander drawn in lively frame His word was this I live I breathe I feed in flame 61 Next after him marcht proud Dichostasis That wont but in the factious court to dwell But now to shepherd-swains close linked is And taught them fools to change their humble cell And lowly weed for courts and purple gay To sit aloft and States and Princes sway A hook no scepter needs our erring sheep to stay 62 A Miter trebly crown'd th' Impostour wore For heav'n earth hell he claims with loftie pride Not in his lips but hands two keyes he bore Heav'ns doores and hells to shut and open wide But late his keyes are marr'd or broken quite For hell he cannot shut but opens light Nor heav'n can ope but shut nor buyes but sells by slight 63 Two heads oft three he in one body had Nor with the body nor themselves agreeing What this commanded th' other soon forbad As different in rule as nature being The body to them both and neither prone Was like a double-hearted dealer grown Endeavouring to please both parties pleasing none 64 As when the powerfull winde and adverse tide Strive which should most command the subject main The scornfull waves swelling with angrie pride Yeelding to neither all their force disdain Mean time the shaken vessel doubtfull playes And on the stagg'ring billow trembling stayes And would obey them both and none of both obeyes 65 A subtil craftsman fram'd him seemly arms Forg'd in the shop of wrangling sophistrie And wrought with curious arts and mightie charms Temper'd with lies and false philosophie Millions of heedlesse souls thus had he slain His sev'n-fold targe a field of Gules did stain In which two swords he bore his word Divide and reigne 66 Envie the next Envie with squinted eyes Sick of a strange disease his neighbours health Best lives he then when any better dies Is never poore but in anothers wealth On best mens harms and griefs he feeds his fill Else his own maw doth eat with spitefull will Ill must the temper be where diet is so ill 67 Each eye through divers opticks slily leers Which both his sight and object self belie So greatest vertue as a mote appeares And molehill faults to mountains multiplie When needs he must yet faintly then he praises Somewhat the deed much more the means he raises So marreth what he makes praising most dispraises 68 Upon his shield that cruell Herd-groom play'd Fit instrument of Iuno's jealous spight His hundred eyes stood fixed on the maid He pip't she sigh'd his word Her day my night His missile weapon was a lying tongue Which he farre off like swiftest lightning flung That all the world with noise foul blaspheming rung 69 Last of this rout the savage Phonos went Whom his dire mother nurst with humane bloud And when more age and strength more fiercenesse lent She taught him in a dark and desert wood With force and guile poore passengers to slay And on their flesh his barking stomack stay And with their wretched bloud his firy thirst allay 70 So when the never-setled Scythian Removes his dwelling in an empty wain When now the Sunne hath half his journey ranne His horse he blouds and pricks a trembling vein So from the wound quenches his thirstie heat Yet worse this fiend makes his own flesh his meat Monster the ravenous beare his kinde will never eat 71 Ten thousand Furies on his steps awaited Some sear'd his hardned soul with Stygian brand Some with black terrours his faint conscience baited That wide he star'd and starched hair did stand The first-born man still in his minde he bore Foully aray'd in guiltlesse brothers gore Which for revenge to heav'n from earth did loudly roar 72 His arms offensive all to spill not spare Swords pistols poisons instruments of hell A shield he wore not that the wretch did care To save his flesh oft he himself would quell For shew not use on it a viper swilling The dammes spilt gore his emptie bowels filling With flesh that gave him life his word I live by killing 73 And last his brutish sonnes Acrates sent Whom Caro bore both in one birth and bed Methos the first whose panch his feet out-went As if it usher'd his unsetled head His soul quite sowced lay in grapie bloud In all his parts the idle dropsie stood Which though alreadie drown'd still thirsted for the floud 74 This thing nor man nor beast tunnes all his wealth In drink his dayes his yeares in liquour drenching So quaffes he sicknesse down by quaffing health Firing his cheeks with quenching strangely quenching His eyes with firing dull and faint they roll'd But nimble lips known things and hid unfold Belchings oft-sips large spits point the long tale he told 75 His armour green might seem a fruitfull vine The clusters prison'd in the close-set leaves Yet oft between the bloudie grape did shine And peeping forth his jaylers spite deceives Among the boughs did swilling Bacchus ride Whom wilde-grown Moenads bore and every stride Bacche Iō Bacche loud with madding voice they cri'd 76 On 's shield the goatish Satyres dance