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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48252	Letters and poems in honour of the incomparable princess, Margaret, Dutchess of Newcastle.		1676 (1676)	Wing L1774; ESTC R31697	84,169	186

my Debt at least in brief might give you just cause to suspect that I understand not the Value of what I have received And therefore I humbly ask your leave that I may acknowledge to you that you have highly benefited me in my Reputation in my Understanding in my Affections First I say you have benefited me in my Reputation in that you have declared me capable of so singular an Honour as to be in the number of those Persons whom you thought worthy to receive so rich a Present from so Noble a Hand For me to have sat among the Multitude whom your Stationer invites to feast upon your OLIO had been proportionable enough to the degree of so ordinary a Judgement as mine but to be among those few whom your self had nominated for your Chief Guests was a Grace infinitely above my Ambition Secondly You have benefited my Understanding in that your Philosophical Phancies have furnished me with variety of such Novel Conceipts concerning sundry the most difficult Problems in Nature as that if my Memory be but faithful enough to retain them I shall never be unprovided of somwhat that is poynant and grateful to entertain Curiosity withall and whenever my own Reason is at a loss how to investigate the Causes of some Natural Secret or other I shall relieve the Company with some one pleasant and unheard of Conjecture of yours So that by reading of your Philosophy I have acquired thus much of advantage that where I cannot Satisfy I shall be sure to Delight which is somewhat more than I dare promise from any other Discourses of the same Title in so much as they generally leave the Mind in a kind of Anxiety and Regret when ever they fail to afford it Satisfaction And certainly if it be as some hold reasonable to allow that the Fictions of Poets and Romancists do usually take as strong hold of mens Minds and Charm their Affections as powerfully as the most Authentique Narrations of Historians though the Reader well understands the Passages related by these to be certain Truths and the adventures described by Those to be meerly Imaginary and this because Delight is equal on both sides if this I say be justifiable that man can run but little hazard of his Judgement who shall affirm that your Supposition of Fayeries in the Brain and of our Thoughts being their Consults and Suggestions and your opinion that the Fayeries digging for Stones in the Quarries of the Teeth to repair their decay'd Tenements in the Head is the Cause of the Tooth-ach are as worthy the hearing as the most solid demonstrative Theory of any Philosopher whatever insomuch as these may yield both as high and lasting a Delight as that I say Delight as High and Lasting for to speak my Thoughts clearly the Pleasure that ariseth from the comprehension of the most perfect and laborious Demonstration in Geometry I never could find either in height or duration much to exceed that which I have sometime been affected withall at the recital of a Facetious Poetical Extravagancy of which I had not afore heard Nor do I believe that the Raptures and Exultations of Don Quixot were much inferior to that famous one of Archimed which transported him out of himself as well as out of the Bath into a loud Exclamation I have found it I have found it And the Reason of this Equality may be well enough thought to consist chiefly in the unsatisfiedness of our Nature which always hurrying our Minds on to Novelties causeth us to put an equally cheap rate upon all things we think already in the possession of our Understanding and to value acquest of a fresh though perhaps useless and absurd Opinion above the calm fruition of antient and irregular Maxims But this Madam being a Paradox ought to have more room than can be spred in a Letter whose design'd Argument is Thankfulness and besides should I adventure further to avouch it the same could not but much redound to my disadvantage insomuch as it might render me suspected for something of a Scholar and consequently incapable of the Honour and Pleasure of sometimes attending you and hearing your more than ingenious Discourses For as I remember in one of your Prefaces or Epistles to your Readers you have been pleased expresly to declare That you never Conversed so much as one Hour with any Philosopher or Professed Scholar in your whole Life and that doubtless must have proceeded from your constant Aversion to such blunt Company not from your want of opportunities to hear what they could say Because being always Educated among the Noblest and most Knowing Persons of our Nation you could hardly escape the Conversation of the most Learned in all the Arts and Sciences unless you purposely withdrew your self from their Society or shut your Ears against their Discourses But Madam among those who have perused your Writings I meet with a sort of Infidels who refuse to believe that you have alwayes preserved your self so free from the Contagion of Books and Book-men And the Reason they give me is this that you frequently use many Terms of the Schools and sometimes seem to have Imp'd the Wings of your high-flying Phansy with sundry Feathers taken out of the Universities or Nests of Divines Philosophers Phisicians Geometricians Astronomers and the rest of the Gowned Tribe For instance of Divines when you speak of Praedestination Free will Transubstantiation c. Of Philosophers when you mention Quantity Discrete and Continued the Universal and First Matter Attoms Elements Motion Dilatation and Contraction Rarefaction and Condensation Meteors c. Of Physicians when you distinguish of Choler Phlegme Melancholy and Blood and speak of the Circulation of the Blood of Venricles in the Heart and Brain of Veins Arteries and Nerves and expatiate upon Fevers Apoplexies Convulsions Droqsies and divers other Diseases with their particular Causes Symptoms and Cures Of Geometricians when you touch upon Triangles Squares Circles Diameters Circumferences Centres Lines streight and crooked and their proportions each to other and that invincible Problem the Quadrature of the Circle Of Astronomers when you speak of the Horizon Meridian Aequator Zodiack Ecliptick Tropicks Poles of the World and of the Ecliptick and in a manner run over the whole Doctrine of the Sphere representing the model of the Universe and cast some transitory glances also upon the Doctrine Theorical concerning the Motions of the Orbs and Planets Nor can I indeed hope to dissolve the stifness of these mens unbelief untill I shall be better able to convince them that all these Scholastical Terms and Notions may be brought into the World with us and afterwards drawn forth of the Soul by solitary Meditation and the labour of ones own Thoughts and are not rather instilled into it and imprest upon it by often Hearing or Reading the Discourses of others who profess those Arts and Sciences to which they belong and for the more plain and methodical teaching whereof they were