ΖΩΟΤΟΜΙ'Α OR OBSERVATIONS ON THE PRESENT MANNERS OF THE ENGLISH Briefly Anatomizing the Living by the Dead WITH AN USEFULL DETECTION OF THE MOUNTE BANKS of both Sexes By Richard Whitlock M. D. Late Fellow of All-Souls Colledge in OXFORD LONDON Printed by Tho. Roycroft and are to be sold by Humphrey Moseley at the Princes Armes in St. Pauls Church-yard 1654. The Explication of the Frontispice TH' Experienc't Scepter of the Preaching King And Sermon of Pauls Cross both shew what THING Compar'd with Heav'n this empty world would prove If once Ript up Is here ought worth your Love Bewitch't Admirers View each Region The Vaine the Vexing and the Loathsome One No He and Thatâ—s above which onely can Full Ravishments afford the Soule of Man If ought that 's worth your Soules or Love you finde I' th World below call us Dissecters blinde ZOOTOMIA or A Morall Anatomy of the Liuing by the Dead in Obseruations Essayes c Valla 〈◊〉 Stercus Seneca Plutarch Quam Mundi Illecebris Vacuum quam Triste Cadarer Cuius tres Tentres Stercus Texatio â—ana To his Ingenious knowing Friend THE AVTHOR THy Sharp but Gentle Pen reformes the Age Where Vice is thy Disclosure not thy Rage The Guilty naked laid will dread thy Name Not for the Lash they feel but for the Shame Ills thus unmaskt by thee will fright us more By looking Ugly then by being Sore Thy Characters so circumstance each sin As 't not Describ'd but had Embowell'd bin The Knife joyn'd with the Pencil glories here As thou both Limner and Dissector were He that shews Guilt her Face shews but her skin He that will shew her Fâ—ul shews her within Some maze their Thoughts in Labyrinths and thus Invoke no Reader but an Oedipus But whil'st Revealed Sense we finde in you You write to th' Understanding not the Clew So Theseus through the winding Tow'r was led By Ariadnes Beauty more then Thread TO HIS INGENIOUS FRIEND THE AUTHOR Concerning these his Endeavors SIR IF your Book did depend wholly on my Judgement of it I would say that in Truth for Wit Learning and Variety of matter put into a handsom Dresse you have exceeded any Writer in this kinde which I have yet met with nor should I doubt to say thus much in Verse before it if it were not for two Reasons The one is that the Rudenesse of the place where I dwell and my weekly Thoughts compelled to size themselves to a plain Countrey Congregation have abated much of that Fancie which should do honour either to your Book or my self The other is that if I could write well yet all my publike Poetry hath and still is objected to me as a piece of Lightnesse not befitting the Profession or Degree of Your faithfull Friend J. Mayne Novemb. 1. 1653. The Titles of the distinct Discourses THe honest Adamite page 17 Ambodexter p. 25 Of Books or the best Furniturâ— 236 The false Ballance 282 Commendable Carelesnesse 28 The Faithsull Chyrurgian 384 The Chaire-Man 319 The thriving Craft 34 The wise Chaâ—man 264 The sad Descant 31 The Doe little Worthlesse 30 The Valentinian Doctor 101 The fifth Element or of Detraction 444 The gâ—and Experiment 548 The Quacking Hermaphrodite 45 The best Husbandâ—y 294 The Blots of History 268 Thâ— grand Impertinent 308 A Dissection of self-killers 109 Lifes Abbreviates 4 Learnings Apologie 138 The Levellers 419 Mercies Hyperbole 37 The happy Match 192 Malchus or Misconstruction 1 The Magnetick Lady 321 Mans two Elements 395 The lasâ—ing Monument 408 Of Musick 480 Parlour Divinity â—6 The Peoples Physician 62 Of Printing 227 Poetry's Defence and Excelâ—ence 467 Of Painting 487 The Divine Prospective 535 The ovâ—r Rate 10 The best Revenge 39 Reasons Independency 207 A Lecture on Readers 461 False Reformations Shipwrack 494 The grand Schismatick or Suist 357 The unguarded Tree of Life 515 The commanded Tree of Knowledg 527 Fabula Vitae 8 The politick Weather glass 275. The Preface or an Antidote for Authors against the Poyson of Aspes INstructions Courteous Reader that render the Designe and Purpose of the Work may well be stiled an Essay upon the Author and as it were Contents of him no lesse then the Book and so may well supply the room of a Dedicatory Epistle to some protecting Eminence or of courting Apologies like forlorne hopes first sent out to set upon the Benevolence of Readers That Acquaintance of Readers with the Contents of the ensuing Chapter might insinuate a Candidness I am induced to believe because with well-Meaners even good Meanings and Aymes in Authours attone their Failings Instead of other kindes of Epistles take therefore this Anatomy of the Anatomy the Book it self by way of a Preface and so not tied to the shortness usual of Epistles it may serve for an Essay on Mens Publications of Themselves by writing and more especially on mine I shall not here trouble thee with the Burden of many Epistles to tell thee this Qualecunque whatsoever it shall deserve to be called was midwived into the Light by Importunity of Friends or feare of Antedated Impressions with such like Apologies for encreasing the Number of Scriblers no it ventured willingly into the world if it encrease the trifles of the Presse I dare excuse it from adding to the Guilt it was rather destined to save its Reputation by crowding in somewhat lesse unprofitable lesse mischievous then the Presse daily issueth forth in these Pamphleting Dayes bringing forth to say true litle else then Trifles or Invectives The Things I present are nove dicta etsi non nova according to Vincentius Lyrinensis Observations if not quite new yet in a new dresse and as new things are acceptable so among them nothing more than new clothes The Old Saw Nil dictum quod non dictum prius proveth all writings to be but various Descant on plainer Rudiments or if you will but the Anagramms the Alphabet and Transposition of mens various Collections from Men or Books Such are the Materials of this one End whereof was my rehearsall in the School of the world the same that stirred up Juvenal Semper ego Auditor tantum And what is that Rehearsall but doing of good by Tongue Life or Pen or all I am not delivered from it by either of those two Arguments either the Number or Excellency of Printed Labours 1. Not from the Number that of S. Chrysostome beareth me out which take in Latine not its original as more easie and fashionable A Scribendi Munere Nos Scriptorum copia non avocet vigeat potius provocet bonos libros qui conscribit Retia Salutis pandit let not the number saith he of books discourage but provoke our Writings he that writeth good books spreadeth Nets of Salvation Cornelius A Lapide counteth them requisite ad Dei Magnificentiam plenam Rerum universitatem reckoning them among those works that glorifie our Heavenly Father and fill the world as ornamentally nay usefully as many other things 2. Then
Humour I answer the Stationer my Porter mistook the delivery of the Letter my Book for it was directed onely to the Candid Interpreter of modest Endeavours not Exacter of Impossibles or unseemlies viz. Perfection as the one and to generall Compliance as the other To all gaping Expectaltees that look for more than here they are like to finde my Book replyeth with this its motto not queint but useful or not rare but honest at least in the Authors Iudgment and Intention and I will use the words of an Ingenuous Author of our own being so apt to my purpose I like much better to do well than talke well chusing rather to be beloved than admired aspiring to no more height than the comfort of a good conscience and doing good to some harme to none If my Essayes speak thus they speak as I would have them Thus far he as fit as if he spoke for me of any thing amongst them I will likewise add what Walafridus Strabo de rebus Ecclesiasticis said Si quid in hoc Lector placet assignare memento Id Domino quicquid displicet hocce mihi If any thing that 's good i'th'Book you see Ascribe to God but what distasts to mee I know there is not any one Divell compasseth the Earth more than that Erasmus speaketh of Adeo nunc in omnes omnia per universum Orbem grassatur comitata furiis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ut non sit tutum ullum emittere Librum nisi Satellitio munitum The Devil Calumny saith he against all men and all things doth so rage in these dayes that it is not safe setting out any thing unguarded If the integrity of the End may plead for the Matter or Form of this Book I may hope absolution its chief Designe being to double the guards of the Negligent that suffer erroneous mis-judgings to surprize their Inadvertency or to awaken the lazie drousinesse of others that are loth to be rowz'd out of Errors pleasing dream and to correct the vanity of most that spend their time or thoughts on impertinencies besides or below the noble end their souls were destined for For two lengths I must insert these short Apologies the one of some of these following Discourses the other of this Preface the former need deterre no man if he be of my minde with whom the flatnesse or sharpnesse of an Author is in stead of Rests Indisposednesse in my self or a dull period in an Author maketh me turn down the leaf if my businesse do not as well as any Division of Sections or Chapters c. by much the younger brothers of writing it self and even in sacred Writ but of almost modern Authority Again the nature of this kinde of writing is like free speeches in the Parliament of Parnassus or Liberavi Animams whose length or shortnesse is from the Authors sense not any stint of Rule or Order For the length of the other this Preface it's Name were enough if we follow the Allegory of a Porch and Building I have I am sure come far short of Solomons proportion of twenty to sixty as it is observed by that Secretary to Wit Reverend Dr. Donne or if Reader thou be in the number of such as account Epistles and Prefaces materiall part of a Book And now I am excusing the Books Geometry give me leave to excuse its unexpected bulk and thicknesse from meer mistake that my writing had not been so close But I write not this nor the Book to any curious in the shapes outsides of Books or that think it necessary to a Books handsomnesse as well as womans to be slender in the waste but it is now past cure and must venture abroad with all its faults materiall or in printing which may be more then should by reason of my distance from the Presse Some principall Errata's are mentioned the rest an ordinary English Critique may correct in his reading I shall therefore conclude with letting thee know what Reader I slight and what I honour in the words of Erasmus in his Enchiridion Militis Chistiani Nil moror aut laudes levis aut convitia vulgi Pulchrum est vel doctis vel placuisse Piis Spe quoque majus erit mihi si contingat utrumque The flouts or th' praise o' th' vulgar I not weigh If Learn'd or Pious men content I may But O! if both a Joy unhop'd 't would be The good and good will of thee if thou be either of these is the Desire and Endeavour of Thy true honourer R. W. Decas 1. MALCHUS OR MISCONSTRVCTION MENS Words or Report of their Actions have fared hard since Mis-prision and Envy have dealt with Men as Peter with Malchus cut off their right Eares Affections alwayes cut off one and too oft the right We seldome reserve our Eare for the strangers much â—esse the Enemies Relation but Envy and Prejudice alwayes interpret worse than Babels Brick-layers Hee that is a bold Reprover of or Dissenter from the Worlds Dotages passeth for a Surly Michaiah or Cyâ—â—call Diogeâ—â—s Hee that is prudentially quiet under grand Alterations is a Temporiâ—er a Weather-Cock Hee that but moveth a Reprieve for Liberty or Religion is a Troubler of Israel A Mutinier not fit to live Hee that is not as Ceremonious as the whole Book of Leviticus or Durandus his Rationale is a Non-conformist and He that beleeveth some Ceremonies though not commanded the necessary Cloath's of Devotion or reckoneth them in the Number of Circumstances without which no Action can be individuated Hee that thus thinketh is a Popish and a Prelaticall Formalist He that Spitteth in the Church is irreverent and Hee that will not set his Horse there is needlesly Scrupulous Hee that Boweth to the Altar is Idolâ—trous and Hee that will not Cacar Sâ— L' Altare according to the Italian Proverb untrusse on it is Superstitious Hee that forbeareth Wine for the same reason another drinketh it his Health Hee is precisely unsociable He that useth it to that other use God allotted it to â—â—hilarate or drinketh not all his Wine before the Salt is taken away and only for Digestion Such a one is a Drunkard A Sot c. Or if between Meales if it be not Poculum Fraudis rather than Charitatis Some Bargaine alias over-reaching Cup Hee is an Ill-Husband and such like aspersions Thus fareth the Golden Meane through the misconstruction of the Extreams Well temper'd Zeale is Lukewarmnesse Devotion is Hypocrisy Charity Ostentation Constancy Obstinacy Gravity Pride Humility Abjection of Spirit and so go through the whole Parish of Vertues where Mis-prision and Envy are Gossips be sure the Child shall be nick-named What better resolve in this Case to steere the Prudent Man than that of Persius Nec Te quaesiveris extra I will not make Hue and Cry after my selfe abroad in the mis-judging World nor care what they think or say of Mee so it be not deservedly ill their good opinion if generall is
for the excellence of books already writ or that Eximium quid Re sive modo Methodo scribendi somewhat excellent in matter manner or method of writing which A Lapide requireth in Writers even the feare of this is lessen'd by that of Seneca Qui ante nos ista moverunt non Domini sed Duces sunt patet omnibus veritas nondum est occupata multum ex illa etiam futuris relictum est Former Writers Lord it not over our Endeavours but lead them all Truth is not engrossed after Ages shall travell her Terra incognita her undiscovered parts Never did Momus himselfe require all should write best To those that write better I shall do the curtesie of a foile from those that write worse receive the curtesie that I do I know not but that it is commendable enough to make the same the Cannon of our writings the Apostle doth of Actions Phil. 4. 8. Finally my brethren whatsoever things are true whatsoever things are honest whatsoever things are just whatsoever things are pure whatsoever things are lovely whatsoever things are of good report if there be any vertue any praise think of these things He that hitteth on either of these writeth excusably if not commendably though I think it better may be tearmed a thing more commendable than to passe over the Stage of the World as a Mute leaving no Testimony that he lived much lesse lived to the end of his Creation his Being to be found no where but in the Church-book where it may be many of the same name make even that but confusedly known And if I should own that which many Writers dissemblingly decline and one of the best ingenuously owneth I mean an Aime at a good Esteem little or much for my desires of doing Posterity good it is but ingenuous Natures desire The confirmation of my assertion I cannot leave out in either Language An erit qui velle recuset Os populi meruisse cedro digna locutus Linquere nec Scombros metuentia carmina necthus Non ego cum scribo si forte quid aptius exit Laudari metuam neque enim mihi cornea fibra est Which take in English from that inimitable Imitator and Translator Mr. Holliday For doth there breath a man that can reject A generall praise and his own lines neglect Lines worth immortall Cedars recompence Nere fearing new sold Fish nor Frankincense When I my selfe do write if from my Brain Doth flow by greatest chance som happy strain For t is by chance my heart is not so hard So horny as to feare the due Reward Of deserv'd Fame How hypocriticall the declination of this Fame is let Cicero tell us Tuscul Quaest 1. Quid nostri Philosophi in his ipsis libris quos scribunt de contemnenda Gloria sua Nomina inscribunt Our very Philosophers saith he that write of contemning Fame set their Names to their Books which they would not if they were such Decliners of a Fame as they pretend But it is not onely a naturall desire but Canonical obedience as our Fame may be subordinate to our makers Glory to that Apocryphall Text Ecclesiasticus 41. 12. Have regard to thy good Name a good Life is but for a few daies but a good Name endureth for ever A Charge seconded by that Canonicall Injunction in the above mentioned place If there be any vertue any praise c. If Plinies Counsell may be heard he will tell us Tanto magis quicquid est temporis futilis caduci si non datur Factis nam horum Materia in aliena manu certè studiis proferamus quatenus nobis denegatur diu vivere relinquamus aiiquid quo nos vixisse testemur By how much saith he our short time escapeth Exploits let us spin it out in Studies and since we cannot live long let us leave some lasting Testimony that we have lived This why I write at all now why I write thus I must use Mountaignes Apology in his Essay of Books I make no doubt saith he but I handle many Themes that are farre better handled in the scattered works of able Writers But my intent was not to beat my Brains in the Acquisition even of Knowledge it self that was too difficult Nor have I what came easily among Authors or Observations to my understanding what conduceth to living or dying well that I communicate To say true I finde Mountaignes Pallate and not quite without judgment pretty generall among Readers of most Ages and because his words are very significant take them in his own language Je aime en generall les liures qui usent les sciences non ceux qui les dressent I love saith he books that make use of Sciences not compile them into their Geneticall or Analyticall Parcels Authors to say true are more Thumb'd that are variously usefull than those Embodyers of Arts in Cancellos suae Methodi into the limits of their proper Method usefull I confesse they are but wanting the Dulce Pleasure of variety and convenience of more contracted brevity the paines of reading them is seldome bestowed on them especially if they swell into Tomes of that bignesse that he that can have no leisure dareth not look on them and he that will have none careth not I know not how but as Montaigne saith of himselfe Tracts of a continued Thread are tedious to most Fancies which of it selfe indeed is of that desultory nature that it is pleased with Writings like Irish Bogs that it may leap from one variety to another than tread any beaten Path. Among many kindes of writings I finde Plutarchs most inviting Imitation for the form call them Discourses Essayes or what you will nor behinde any for matter if mixt sometimes with those Mucrones Sermonum Enlivening Touches of Seneca full of smart Fancy solid sense and accurate reason such like Peeces compiled by able Pen-men out of Plutarchs fulness and Seneca's quickness would undoubtedly fill the mouth of the most gaping Expectaltee among Readers Seneca's brevity alone in some things as Controversies c. might make good that slander on him that he did frangere Pondera Rerum Minutijs erborum crumble the weight of Points But for Hints of Descant he hath dealt with us I must confesse as he saith of another Cupiditatem imitandi fecit spem abstulit Their fiery liveliness hath enkindled a desire of imitation and their accurateness hath damped all hopes of performance And that in this I write not as the Age discourseth private spirited Opinions take the confirmation of our english Divine Seneca Bishop Hall who saith never any Heathen writ more Divinely never any Philosopher more probably For my using these so frequently I propounded this end to my selfe even to shame our Christian dulness and slow Proficiency under the Brightness of our advantagious Light by making us hear the Symphony of the outward Court of Nature agreeing with the inner Quire of divine Pen-men for what can we
the Sunne is dâ—â—onstrable to those prudent Chapmen of the World that know the just value of Things-Look on other labours of Men for the Necessities or superflâ—ities of Life they are tainted with that Creature vanity mentiond by Cornclius Alapide on Eccles 1. 2. Insensibilitas quod omnis Creata voluptas vel Commoditas animam non pervadat nec penetrat imo in se non attingat sed tantum Corpus sensusque afficit per eoâ— Animum obiter perstringens A Tastlesnesse as it were that is in all created pleasure or profit externall not reaching the soule immediatly but through the senses imperfect when not deceitfull Judges they are like Sodome Apples enduring the Eye not the Touch or the Feasts of Witches which according to most are but Dreames the very word the Psalmist setteth them out by Ps 73. 20. where he bringeth in the gay things and preferments of the upper end of the World to be but as a Dreame when one awaketh leaving more vexation than content On the other side the excellency of Knowledge the Quarry out of which these Jewells Bookes are digged and the wealth they bring heare from Salomon the best Cash-keeper of Providence having not only seen but had in possession the best of sublunary Enjoyments hee telleth us it is as farre above folly be it rich or mighty as light is above Darknesse the greatest Antithesis Nature or Poetry ever found out Salomon thought his Titles slender untill he could write the wisest Prince and for wisedome though a King hee was constrained to become a Petitioner as if untill hee obtained it hee were but a Begger and if we will believe History notwithstanding his immediate Inspiration His Library was not the least peece of his Magnificence Such Furniture thought hee necessary and stately the Queen of Sheba thought it who as Historians relate among other favours had som of his Library bestowed on her and without doubt esteemed it equall if not above any other Treasure since her Errant was more to heare his Wisdome than see his Court. In a true verdict no such Treasure as a Library and if all be true the Hill Amara in Aethiopia out-vieth either Indies with their Diamonds or Gold the Library of which place some assure is so famous as to have in it writings of Enoch Job Abraham Salomon Titus Livius whole nor for number is either that Library comparable of Constantinople containing 120000 Books or that at Pergamus that had 200000. or of Alexandria in Aul. Gellius lib. 6. c. 17. wherein were 700000. Books Look no further than our own Country it more Arresteth the wondring Eye of an understanding Travailer with Bodleis Library in Oxford than all the stately buildings to the Humility of Devotions or Pride of Men Temples or Noble-mans Houses in a just esteem is Englands rich-Ware house though the Covetous Mole see no such worth in all Pauls Church Yard as in one Lumbard street glittering shop I am sure from the former they may better furnish and that with more comfortable Notes their Account Books that must be opened when Shop Books are burnt I mean the Book of Conscience I wish I could call it an Enchiridion or Pocketing but it is so little in mens hands or Pockets if taken in a good sense it wanteth some other Name The Booke which in that grand reading day according to its contents will be Licensed or burnt and when God maketh up his Jewells it is thence Rate Books will be made and hee richer than one ignorant of its worth that hath no other worldly goods he can call his own but his Bible if a well studied and practised Bible but that and a fighting Sword according to the Jest are rare commodities which scarce Digression bringeth me to that Book which is the glory of the well employed Presse and Redemption of all the Mischiefe that commeth by it ill employed But me thinks I heare no small fool cry 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 just contrary No one Book hath done more mischief than the Bible in the Vulgar Tongue and he sheweth mee the sad Gashes in Poliâ—y and Piety this Sword of the Spirit hath made in the hands of Mad Times and since every one pretendeth a Key to this Padlock hung on this Sword So it had for Peace and unity of Faiths sake in the Apostle Pauls time he lockt it from Women they must be no Expositours and these Mysteries in another Place were under Commission committed to Thee 2. Tim. 1. 14. ever since I say there be so many Keyes and those differing what ariseth from it but breaking the Wards and Lock into so many peeâ—es that the Interpretations of some one Text in this Book will equall almost the Number of all the Texts contained in it and these Interpretations maintain'd more than the Text Explications of Faith breaking its unity as if Bonds of Charity and Publication of Truth could not consist and that with such Study faction and at last violence that both Truth and Love lie a bleeding Againe from these Religious contentions begun in private dissenting Breasts till they engage Church and State what faire Pretexts arise for your Magni Latrones armed invading Potentates to inlarge their Territories by invading their Neighbours to settle among them Truth But what Truth that They would faine take up a little larger Roome in the Map They like not the scarce Legible confines of their Dominion and faine they would have their Earth while they pretend they bring them Heaven for it A sad and true Scroule of Church and State Inconveniences occaâ—ion'd if you will not caused by this familiarized Book but the true cause is our Leaven of Pride Hypocrisie uncharitablenesse that causeth such poysonous Fermentations and not the Bread of life the foulnesse of our Stomacks prevailing above the goodnesse of the Food Nor therefore to be denyed the good and honest Heart any more than Light to busie men because denyed to mad men or the Sacrament to be declined because the Emperour Henry the seventh was poysoned in the Eucharist an Act Transubstantiation cannot excuse from a double Murther by poysoned Christ to kill his Annointed The woe and so the blame is the Portion of by whom not by what Offences come plainly pointing out the Faults are from Rationall Agents and Mis-interpreters as the Cause not from the dead Letter in any Languages whatsoever This Booke of Life now quitted I hope from its impudent Mischiefe challengeth our Love Praise and Study from all other Books they being no other way of Price but as they Comment-like refer to this To enter on the true and right use of this and other Books would make one it selfe and that of bulke onely in generall They use them not aright that have them for Ornament chiefly and are more curious as they are more acquainted about the binding and strings than Insides Or proud of their Number a Pride better befitting a Book-seller No they are Houshold-stuff intended for