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A Hermeticall banquet, drest by a spagiricall cook for the better preservation of the microcosme.
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Howell, James, 1594?-1666.; Vaughan, Thomas, 1622-1666.
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to row out of her Gally I assured her I was free born and her Eyes were yet too dul to fire me out of my Liberty Besides I bad her Remember in what a case she left me in the Hepatick Land where when I return'd sickly to Venus Court expecting a Coppy of my first Well come Venus then not knowing me I being before Animus adipe sanguine suffocatus shut her Dore against me crying tuus inter nos non volat Cupido The Kitchin maids also anatomized my Skeleton with Jeasts one asking me if I would drink a Caudle and then singing Ova uon meruit qui non Galinam nutrit Another took up a lean Gridiron and with a rib of an old Servant of hers she scrape out this Motto Quam bene conveniunt A third stood knocking of an empty Marrow bone against a broken Pipkin crying Iupiter non mella plus pluit then threw it into the Fire and sung this Epidicticon Lean bones which yeeld no fat at all The Fire is their best Funerall Sweet Sir if you 'l renew Desire Go pass our Therapeutick Fire Then without knocking you may enter in As Prophylactick of our Magazin The remembrance of this was such a cooling card to Sanitas that she let fall all perswasive Arguments and leaves me to my wandring Discretion telling me wherever I went I had her Heart And since she was unfit for such a Journey she prayed me to accept of her Sister Convalescentia who was very well acquainted with my Humor and Diet and therefore might be serviceable in so long a Voyage I thank'd her with acceptance and giving her a parting kiss presently Imbark'd on the Red-Sea where a fair Gale brought me presently upon the Cardiacall Gulf where as Health said we fell desperately under Ground in a hollow Vein of the Earth which â—rought our Baâ—k in few hours directly upon â—e Viceroyes Court where had not the Sluces â—indred us we had landed at the Court Dore he Court Swimming in a Lake of Christaline water There expecting the opening of those Floud-gates I was received by one of the Court Boats the Ferry-man whereof was atâ—â—r'd more like a Gentleman Usher than a water-man His good Clothes made me take better notice of him and examin his profession Therefore I knew no better way to put my self upon his Discourse than by hitting him in the Teeth with that empty headed Complement Pray what may I call your name Sir The Gentleman as I after found him to be so answer'd in an affected Phrase that he was Signior Curioso and Son to the Signiora Curiosita Lady of Honour to the Duchessa Superbia Wife to his Lord and Prince Don Ambitio whom quoth he I serve my place and charge being as you see to Ferry Stangers over into his Court Here I interrupted his Geneologies and desir'd him to row me back again craving him pardon for I was mistaken my Travells tending to the Cardiacall Court of Spiritus Vitalis which it seemed was not there Sir quoth he have Patience You shall not neeâ— to return for you are entring the place which you seek though it now be call'd the Court of Don Ambitio who being at first a Favorite to this Cardiacall Prince in few years gain'd so far upon the Hearts of the Subjects that they all neglected their legitimate Viceroy Spiritus Vitalis and wholly doted upon him who now rules and commands all the other being only Titular Finding him so open in his Relations I resolv'd to make him Dictator to my table-Table-books knowing that his Curiosity would omit nothing First therefore I brought him on with superficiall Questions asking him a Dutch Curiosity how many Paces that Cardiacall Lake might eat up in Latitude Sir quoth he It seems you have not yet seen the new Anthropogeographicall Map lately Extant where this Cardiacall Part is call'd Italia Microcosmi as containing the Center of the World and this Lake is there baptiz'd by the name Il Lago passionato where the hearts of Desperate Lovers hourly float in Passion His mouth had scarce clos'd up this relation but lo appear'd the Heart of Dido swimming after our Boat and calling for her Aeneas This brought his Theory into Praâ—tick and made me the more credulous and prompt to exercise his Historicall tongue with other propositions of my Ignorance Turning my face therefore towards the Cardiacall Court and seeing so Princely a Fabrick lye â—ounding with a perpetuall motion upon so still a water so soon as Amazement return'd my Tongue her Liberty I ask'd Signior Cuâ—ioso if it were not a Vanity to demand the cause of that Magick Motion which there appear'd dancing from Dyastole to Systole in the â—ircle of Inchantments He answer'd that I had here brought him upon a great Antiquity the Relation of which would be a Present very gratefull to Memory Know therefore quoth he that this Lago Passionato is properly and anciently call'd the Lake of Icarus and by corruption Ichor as Ovid sings Icarus Icarias nomine fecit aquas For herein fell that Ambitious Son of Daedalus whose presumption was the Originall of this Cardiacal motion For when Daedalus by his winged Art did emulate those Angelic 〈◊〉 Deityes as one day he and his Son were exercising their Ambitious Plumes flying beyond the Region of Mortall Liberty Phaebus was call'd forth from his Helion's Sphear to view those presumptuous Cretensi Daedalus had no sooner Spi'd him draw back the Curtain of his Clouds but wisely he retir'd Icarus hot in Ambition and neglecting his Fathers more aged precepts follows the sublimity of his Fansy and soars up so high that Phoebus in choller with his aspiring vanity call'd him up to the Element of Fire where his Wings being burn'd his Ambition fell with his Body into thiâ— Lake Then to make him and his Father Secular Examples he caused Daedalus to build a floating Temâ—le in this Lake and to fill it with Penitentiall Fires Then Phoebus chain'd the winged Soul of drown'd Icarus upon the top of this Temple there to labour in a perpetuall motion striving by the strength of his Wings to elevate his Ambitious Soul which was as fast pull'd down again by its overburdened Terrestriety Which constant Motion likewise did ventilate the Inclosed Fires whereby the Soul of Icarus was hourly refresh'd in the violence of his exercise to the end his Torments might be eternall And for Daedalus he commanded him to wander perpetually in this Lake wearing his Ambitious Plumes in his Head that the hourly sight of his Sons Torments might feed the Memory of his Presumption Hence said he proceeds the cause of this constant motion of our Cardiacall Palace Those Penitentiall Fires remaining to this hour in some Chambers of our Court though now few or none make use of them in their Sacrifice the whole Court applying themselves wholly to the flattering of Don Ambitio every one labouring to be his {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} and because he daies