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A11416	The colonies of Bartas VVith the commentarie of S.G.S. in diuerse places corrected and enlarged by the translatour.; Seconde sepmaine. Day 2. Part 3. English	Du Bartas, Guillaume de Salluste, seigneur, 1544-1590.; Lisle, William, 1579?-1637.; Goulart, Simon, 1543-1628.	1598 (1598)	STC 21670; ESTC S110847	58,951	82

wil behold the wonders of his vnsearchable wisedome and they are here some of them by the Poet well pointed-out And a wonderfull thing indeed it is that among so many men as haue beene since the beginning are or shall be to the worldes end there neuer was nor is nor can be any one but differing much from all the rest both in body and minde and in many thinges else that ensue thereon This I am content to note but in a world leauing all the particulars of this miracle for the reader priuatly to consider that he may wonder the more thereat and praise there according th' almightie Creator the Soueraigne Good neither will I now take in hand to dispute against those that in searching the causes of this diuersitie ascribe all to Fortune or Nature as they call it meaning a secret propertie and power of the creatures or to the starres and other heauenly bodies to mans lawes custome or nourishment in stead of God who is indeed the first and onely working cause of all things in whome wee liue moue and are This matter woulde require a long discourse and though the Poet here beside the chiefe and onely true cause reckoneth certaine vnder-causes as custome growing to Nature Th' example of Elders prouinciall Lawes and the influence of Starres it is not his meaning to take from the Lord of Nature this honor due vnto him for the diuersitie of his wonderfull works but onely to lay open vnto vs a few such instruments as his incomprehensible wisedome vseth to make vs the better conceiue the manner of his heauenly working The Philosophers Astronomers Physicians and Politickes discourse at large vpon these differences he that would see them well handled let him reade the 5. chapter of Bodines methode entituled de recto historiarum iudicio and the first chapter of his fift booke de Republica which is the summe of all that hee writes thereof in his Methode Peucer also in the 13. and 14. bookes of his discourse vpon the principall sorts of diuinations and Hippocrates in his booke de Aere aquis locis but especially Bodin may serue to expound our Poet who in very fewe lines hath penned matter of so long discourse 59 The Northen man He entreth consideration of many pointes wherein the North and Southerne people differ Bodin in the places aforequoted shewes the causes thereof according to philosophie and physicke because his bookes are common specially his politickes I will not here set downe what he saith nor examine his opinions but leaue that wholy to the diligent reader Concerning that the Poet noteth the best histories auerre the same and namely for the Southerne people Iohannes Leo and Franciscus Aluares for the Northen Olaus Magnus the Baron of Herbestan in his Moscouie Buchanan in the historie of Scotland and diuers others 60 The Middle Man Bodin in the 5. booke of his Politickes the first chap. deuideth all people dwelling on this side the Aequator into 3. kindes to witte the hotte and Southerne people from the Aequator 30. degrees vpward the Meane and temperate in the next 30. and th' Extreame cold and Northen people from the 60. degree to the Pole And so of the nations and countries beyond the Aequator The reason hereof he setteth downe in his Method chap. 5. 61 For in the sacred close The poet goes on according to the said deuision and in few wordes emplies all that discourse of Bodin who saith among other matters there that the people dwelling in the middle Regions haue more strength lesse wit then the Southerne better partes of minde lesse bodily force then the Northen are moreouer the fittest for gouernement of Common-wealthes and iustest in their actions And if a man doe marke well the histories of the world he shall find that the greatest most valiant Armies came euer out of the North the deepest and subtilest knowledge of Philosophie Mathematickes and all other contemplatiue Artes from the south and the best gouernement the best lawes lawyers and Orators from the Middle countries and that the greatest Empyres were founded and established there c. What reason there is for this he sheweth also in his fift chap. of his Meth. Looke more thereof in L. Regius de vicissitudine et varietate rerum For my parte I am of opinion that Almightie God as he hath knit and bound together the Elementes and Creatures made of them with a marueilous compasse in number waight and measure best for continuance of the whole worke and mutuall agreement of the partes so he hath also placed the chiefe subtiltie and liuelyhood of spirit farthest from the greatest bodily force either in beast or man for the better maintenance of humaine societie in a iust counterpoys and gaue the middle kinde of people a nature of eyther tempered though if a man enter into particular discourse hee may easily finde the northerne southerne and middle Nature in euery Nation What say I euery Nation nay I dare say in euery one of vs so fitly is Man called a little world But the southerne men for the most part hauing so quick and liuely partes of minde in a body lesse charged with fieshe they represent the contemplatiue and studious kinde of life the northerne that haue their wit in their fingers endes that is that are so cunning craftesmen inuenters of warlike engins artillerie and all sortes of needefull instrumentes they may well bee likened vnto the actiue and trading life and the middle sort vnto the ciuill gouernement and politicke life which is a meane betwixt the other two Yet this the Poet well restraineth saying that the northerne people also in these latter dayes haue bin renoumed for the Tongues the Lawes the Mathematickes Poesie Oratorie all good learning as well as in times past they were and are still for warlike valour and cunning hand-works Not without cause for in England Scotland Polonie Denmarke and other such countries are and haue bene diuers very learned men flourishing and Germany especially which is as it were Vulcans forge and the Campe of Mars hath brought forth many men excellent well seene in all kinde of learning it were needelesse to name them they are so wellknowne 62 But eu'n among our selues The more to magnifie the vnsoundable wisedome of God appearing in the creation of so diuers-disposed people he noteth out many pointes of great difference eu'n among those nations that liue neere together and are seuered onely by certaine hilles riuers and forrests as the French Dutch Italian and Spanish He paintes them out all in their kinde for such properties as are dayly seene in them and may be easily gathered out of their owne histories for there are not the like-differing neighbour-nations in all Europe no not in the world Let me consider and all my Countrymen with me what he saith of the French the other three may doe the like by themselues if they list The French he saith is in warre impatient in