The second sort that were to visit her were PHYSICIANS And after a short time they asked her what made a good Physician She answered Practise and Observation Then they asked her What made the difference between Pain and Sickness She said Pain was caused by cross perturbed Motions and Sickness by distempered Matter and the overflow of Humours Then they asked her Whether the Mind could be in pain or be sick She answered No but said she the Mind is like the fire it can put the Body to pain but can feel none it self likewise the Motion is like fire for the more Matter it hath to work on the quicker it moves and when the Mind is as it were empty it grows dull and the Head is filled with nothing but smoaky Vapours Then they asked her What difference there is between the Soul and the Mind She answered As much difference as there is betwixt Flame and the grosser part of Fire for said she the Soul is only the pure part of the Mind Then they asked her the difference if any was betwixt the Soul the Mind and the Thoughts She answered As the Mind was the Fire the Soul the Flame so the Thoughts were as the Smoak that issues from the several Subjects that the Mind works on and as Smoak so the several Thoughts many times vanish away and are no more remembred and sometimes they gather together as Clouds do and as one Cloud lies above another so the Thoughts many times lye in rows one above another as from the first to the second and third Region Then they asked her What was the best Medicine to prolong Life She answered Temperance and good Diet. Then they asked her What Diet As for Diet said she to Healthful Bodies Meats must be well and wisely matched but to Diseased Bodies such Diets must be prescribed as are proper to cure each several Disease As for the mixing and matching Meats said she they must be after this description following All Flesh-meats are apt to breed Salt Rheums and being roast breeds Cholerick Humours which Salt Rheums and Cholerick Humours causeth many times Hectick Fevers enflaming the Arterial Blood and Vital Spirits and drinking out the Radical Moisture and Salt Rheums penetrating into the Vital parts cause excoriations and ulcerations As for white Meats as Milk-meats and the like they are apt to breed sharp Humours also the gross parts cause many times obstructions of the Noble parts and the sharpness is apt to corrode especially the Uretaries Guts and Stomack producing Bloody-waters from the one and Cholicks in the other Also sharp Humours cause Cankers Fistula's and the like eating through several parts of the Body making several holes passages or wounds to pass through and Obstructions cause ill digestion ill digestion causes corruptions corruptions cause several Diseases as Feavers Small-Pox Imposthumes Boils Scabs and Leprosies if the Corruption is salt or sowr As for Fish and also all sorts of Pults they breed Slime and Slime in hot Bodies causeth the Stone and Gout in cold Bodies and all sorts of white Swellings as the Kings-Evil Wens and the like also the Brains Feet or any Sinewy part of any Meat doth the like as also Sweet-meats As for all sorts of Fruits Roots Herbs they breed thin crude Humours which causes Wind Wind causes Cholicks Cramps and Convulsions by griping and twisting the Guts Nerves and Veins as also all swimming and dizzy Diseases in the Head likewise Head-akes caused by a Vapour arising from the crude and raw Humours also in hot Bodies it causeth the Sciatica the heat over-rarifying the sharp Humours caused by Fruit makes it so subtil and searching that it doth not only extend to the outmost parts of the Body as betwixt the skin and flesh but gets into the small Thread-Veins As for all Sweet-meats and Comfits they are in some Bodies very obstructive and in all Bodies they breed both sharp and hot Rheums and I have heard said she that Sugar makes the most sharp and acid Vitriol As for the matching of several Meats Fish-meats do well agree with Roots Herbs and Fruits if they be stewed roasted boiled baked or the like otherwise the rawness hinders the concoction of the Meat but if they be drest as aforesaid they temper the saltness and quench out the heat which the over-nourishing strength doth produce Also Fish may be mix'd with Flesh-meat although all Physicians are against it for certainly the natural freshness and coldness of Fish doth temper and allay the natural heat and saltness that is in Flesh-meat mixing it into a good Chyle and tempering it into a Juicy-Gravy which encreases the radical moisture and nourisheth the radical heat also it supplies the Arteries fills the Veins plumps the Flesh smooths the skin whenas strong drinks mix'd with strong meats over-heats the Body enflames the Spirits evaporates the radical moisture burns the radical heat scorches the Arteries drinks up the Blood sears the Veins shrinks up the Nerves dries the Flesh and shrivels the Skin White Meats and Pults agree best as being of one and the same degree as it were of heat for all strong Meats curdle all sorts of Milk which causes obstructions and corruptions and turns it sowr being of a nature so to do which makes such sharpness in the blood and body as causes Tertians Quartans Quotidians and the like Diseases Pults and all sorts of Milk-meat being of a spungy substance digest as it were together when Meats that are solid mix'd with Meats that are more porous and spungy do hinder each other Small drink is best with white Meat but when Pults is eaten without Milk it may agree better with stronger Liquor Roots and Milk-meats agree as being both easily dissolv'd from the first forms into Chyle Nor do Fruits and Pults disagree for the sharpness of the Fruits doth divide the clamming of the Pults and the sliminess of the Pults doth temper the sharpness of the Fruits but Fruits and Milk-meats are enemies which when they meet they do exasperate one another So that Fruits and Pults and Milk and Roots do best together Roots having no sharpness in them but there is of all sorts of Flesh Fish Milk Roots and Herbs some being hotter than others and grosser as the most watrish Fruits are the hottest as having most Spirits in their acute Juices Likewise all Roots or Herbs that bite as it were the tongue or are bitter to the tast are hot although Druggists Herbalists and Physicians are many times of the other opinion but certainly all that is sharp salt or bitter proceeds from a hot nature and most commonly produces hot effects having a fiery figure and motion but because they find many things that are sharp or bitter to qualifie Feavers or the like hot Diseases they think it is the natural temper of the Drugs Herbs Roots Fruits or the like but a hot Cause may produce a cold Effect as for example Obstructions cause heat in the Body but sharp things do
Cure But he that said The Stone in the Mind was Cruelty caused by the sharpness of Envy the bitterness of Hate and greedy Covetousness bid drink a Draught of Prodigality once a week and it would cure him And he that said Cruelty was the Stone that baked the tender and soft Humours into a hard confirmed Body of Stone bid him take an Ounce of Compassion two Ounces of Charity two Ounces of Generosity as much Clemency and bray them all together then divide them into two parts and lay one half to the Heart and another to the Reins of the Mind and those Medicines will soon dissolve the Stone As for Convulsions of the Mind he that said it was Fury bid the Mind take an Ounce of Discretion half an Ounce of Judgment a Scruple of Gravity mix them all together as in an Electuary and take it fasting and it will cure him And he who said That Inconstancy was the Convulsion in the Mind bid him take an Ounce of Temperance and an Ounce of Judgment one Ounce of Understanding two of Resolution mix these into an Electuary and take a good quantity of it every morning and this will cure him As for a Consumption he that said Pity was a Consumption bid the Mind take a Heart and bake it dry and when it was dried to Powder mix it in his ordinary Drink and it will cure him But he that said Forgetfulness was a Consumption bid him only take a Draught of Remembrance every day As for Dropsies he that said Desires were Dropsies bid the Mind take a Bunch of Reason that grows in a well-temper'd Brain and as much Humility that grows in a good Heart boil them in the Water of Content and drink a Draught three times a day this said he will dry up the superfluous matter But he who said That Desire was that Disease which was called the Dog-like-Appetite bid the Mind make a Bisk of Vanity an Oil of Curiosity and a Hodg-podg of Variety and eat so long till he did vomit it up again and if he could surfeit thereof it would prove a Cure otherwise there was no remedy unless the Mind could get some Fruition which is seldom to be had yet sometimes it is found said he But he that said A Dropsie was a Reluctancy that swelled out with an Aversion bid the Mind only use Abstinence and it would cure him And he that said It was Voluptuousness said That the same Medicine was to be prescribed He that said It was Pride that swelled out with Vain-glory bid the Mind take a great quantity of Humility but if you take it from the hand of Misfortunes said he it will make you sick But the Mind perceiving that they agreed not in any one Medicine or Disease desired that they would depart from him for said he Gentlemen it is impossible you should prescribe an effectual Medicine or Remedy since you cannot agree about the Disease So he paid them their Fees and they departed and the Mind became his own Physician Apothecary and Chyrurgeon First He let himself Blood opening the wilful Vein taking out the obstinate Blood Then he did take Pills made of Society and Mirth and those purged all strange and vain Conceits Also the Mind eat every morning a Mess of Broth wherein was Herbs of Grace Fruit of Justice Spice of Prudence Bread of Fortitude these were boiled with the Flesh of Judgment in the Water of Temperance This Breakfast was a Soveraign Remedy against the malignant Passions for it did temper Heat qualifie Sharpness allay Vapours and mollifie obdurate Passions and foolish Affections Likewise he did take to his Service the strongest soundest and quickest Senses which were Five these waited on him and each in their turn gave him intelligence of every thing and brought him all the News in the Countrey which was a Recreation and a Pastime for him And in thus doing he became the healthfullest and jolliest man in the Parish The Thoughts feasted THERE were two men great Companions one of them told the other That he had made a particular search and a strict enquiry for him three days together and could not hear of him insomuch that he had thought some unfortunate Accident or violent Death had befallen him He answered His Senses had been to visit the Soul which was the cause of his Body's retirement The other said I have heard that the Soul did use to visit the Senses but never heard that the Senses did use to visit the Soul He answered That the Sensitive Spirits did as often in some men visit the Rational as the Rational did the Sensitive Well said he and how doth the Soul live He said As a great Prince should do for the Mansion of the Soul is nobly situated upon a high Hill of Ambition which ascends by steps of Desires whereon stands a very curious Castle of Imaginations and all about are solitary Walks of Contemplations and dark Groves of Melancholy wherein run Rivers of Tears The Castle is Walled with Vain-glory and built upon Pillars of Hope Within the Walls are fine Gardens of Eloquence set full with Flowers of Rhetorick and Orchards of Invention wherein grow fruitful Arts. In this Orchard are many Birds of Fancies which flie from Tree to Tree from Branch to Branch from Bough to Bough singing fine Notes of Poetry in a sweet strain of Verse and chirping Rhymes and building their Nests in Arbours of Love wherein they hatch Conceits Likewise said he the Soul hath another House which is a most stately Palace it stands in the midst of a large Plain of good Nature wherein run Rivers of Generosity This Palace is walled about with Fortitude and stands upon Pillars of Justice There are long straight level Walks of Temperance where is fresh Air of Health This Palace is built very convenient for on the out-side are Stables of Discretion wherein are tyed up wild Opinions Phantasms and all skittish Humours and a large Riding-Room of Judgment where all Opinions are managed Also there are Granges of thrifty Contrivance wherein are Cattel of Prudence that give the Milk of Profit Besides there are Kitchins of Appetite Dining-rooms of Luxury Galleries of Memory Cellars of Forgetfulness Chambers of Rest and Closets of Peace But said he after my Senses had viewed every place they took their leave of the Soul who told them That they should stay and feast with her So the Soul invited all his Subjects the Thoughts The first of all were the Generous Thoughts who are the Nobles then the Gentry who are the Obliging and Graceful Thoughts the Heroick Thoughts were Commanders of Warr the Factious Thoughts were the Commons the Mercenary were Trades-men the Plodding-Thoughts were the Yeomantry the Ordinary Thoughts were Labourers and Servants Then there were the Politick Thoughts which were Statists the Proud Thoughts Magistrates and the Pious Thoughts Priests the Censuring Thoughts were the Judges the Wrangling and Pleading Thoughts Lawyers and the Terrifying Thoughts Sergeants the
Leaves nor shorten the Life for it may live as long as Nature pleases for all mee but you eat out the Seeds which are their young Off-springs and the Earwigs eat off the Leaves and the Worms devour the Roots when I bear nothing away but what is free for all which is that which falls from the Heavens By this we may perceive That it is the nature of most Creatures that are guilty and do the greatest Wrongs to be the first Accusers The Third Tale of the Ant and the Bee IT chanced that an Ant and a Bee wandring about met in a Honey-pot the Honey being very clammy stuck so close to the Ant and weighed so heavy that she could not get out but like a Horse in a Quagmire the more pains she took to get out the deeper she sunk in Whereupon she entreated the Bee to help her The Bee denied her saying She should become guilty of Theft in assisting a Thief Why said the Ant I do not entreat you to assist my Stealth but my Life but for all your pretended Honesty and Nicety of Conscience you endeavour to steal Honey as much as I. No said the Bee this Honey was stoln by Man out of our Commonwealth and it is lawful not only to challenge our own but to take it wheresover we find it Besides Man most commonly doth cruelly murther us by smuthering us with Smoak then destroys our City and carries away the Spoils But Men are not only the most wicked of Creatures in making the greatest Spoils and Disturbances in Nature but they are the subtillest of all Creatures to compass their Designs and the most inventive for several destructive and enslaving Arts. But Nature knowing the Ingenuity of Man to Evil and the proneness of his Nature to Cruelty gave us Stings for Weapons to oppose and defend our selves against them which they finding by experience invented the way of smuthering us with Smoak The Ant said I hope that the Cruelty you condemn and have found by experience in Man will cause you to be so charitable as to help me out of my Misery There is no reason for that answered the Bee for if Man doth unjustly strive to destroy me it doth not follow I must unjustly strive to help you But whilst the Bee was thus talking the Honey had clammed the Bee's Wings close to her sides so that she could not loosen them to flye and in strugling to get liberty for flight plunged her whole Body in the Honey O said the Bee I shall be swallowed up and choaked immediately What said the Ant with your own Honey O said the Bee the Quantity devours me for Water refreshes Life and drowns Life Meat feeds the Body and destroys the Body by Surfeits besides a Creature may choak with that which might nourish it O unhappy Creature that I am said the Bee that my Labour and Industry should prove my ruin but the Honey rising above her Head stopped her speech and kill'd her The Ant after a short languishing dyed also Thus we see the same Mercy and Assistance we refused to others is refused to us in the like Distress And many times in the midst of Abundance are our Lives taken away When we are too greedily earnest in keeping or taking what we can justly call our own we seldom enjoy it either by losing it or our selves Which shews there is no secure Safety nor perfect Felicity nor constant Continuance in the Works of Nature A Tale of the Woodcock and the Cow A COW seeing a Woodcock sitting close to a a green Turf and observing him not to stir asked him why he sate so lazily there having so strong a Wing as he had to flye O said the Woodcock it is a laborious action to flye but sitting here I take my ease and rest The Cow said If I had Wings to flye I would never lye upon the cold Earth but I would mount up near to the warm Sun whose Heat clarifies the Air to a Crystalline Skye whereas the Earth is only a gross Body sending forth thick and stinking Fogs which many times give us the Rot and other Diseases by the unwholsome Vapours that arise from it and cold Dews that lye upon the Ground when the Air is sweet and refreshing warm and comfortable 'T is true said the Woodcock the Sun is a glorious and powerful Planet his Heat is our Comfort and his Light is our Joy and the Air is a thin and fine Element But alas said he though we be Birds that can flye therein yet we cannot rest therein and every Creature requires rest sometimes neither can we live only by the Sun for the Sun cannot fill us though he warms us his Light fills not our Crops although it doth our Eyes nor is the Seed sown in the Air and though the Winds furrow and plow the Clouds yet the Air is too soft an Element to bear Corn or any other Vegetable nor doth there grow sweet Berries on the Sun-beams as on the Bushes besides great Winds beat down our sailing-wings and when the Air is thick and full of Water it wets and cleaves our Feathers so close they will not spread which causeth difficulty of flight which tires us and puts our Limbs to pain when you sit lazily here all day long chewing the Cud having your Meat brought by Man to encrease your Milk and in the Summer you are put to rich Pasture or lye in green Meadows growing thick with Cowslips and Dazies or else for change you walk up to the Mountains tops to brouse on wild Thyme or sweet Marjoram and yet you rail against our good Mother Earth from whose Bowels we receive Life and Food to maintain that Life she gives us She is our kind Nurse from whence we suck out of her springing breasts fresh water and are fed by her Hand of Bounty shaded under her spreading-Boughs and sheltred from Storms in her thick Groves Besides said the Woodcock you are safe from Dangers whenas we have many Airy-Enemies as the Tyrant-Eagle and Murtherous Hawk But said the Cow we that only live upon the Earth are dull and melancholy Creatures in comparison of those that flye in the Air for all Birds are ingenuous and seem to have more Wit than Beasts besides they are of chearfuller Dispositions and have clearer Voices by reason their Spirits are more refined whereof the Serene Air and the hot Sun is the cause by agitating the Spirits to that degree that they seem to have more Life than we Beasts have or any other Creature for those Bodies that are most active and those Minds that are more cheerful have most although not longest Life having more of the innated Matter which is Self-motion in them than duller Creatures have And since Nature hath given you a greater proportion of Life that is more lively Spirits slight not her Benefits but make use of them for to that purpose she gives them Wherefore get up and sit not idly here Mount up
Betting and the like Ill-natur'd Arts are Bull-baiting Cock-fighting Dog fighting Cudgel-playing Exercising Arts are Bowling Shooting Hunting Wrestling Pitching the Barr and Tennis-Court Play Vain-glorious Arts are Oratory Pleading Disputing Proposing Objecting Magnisicent Entertainments great Revenues Sumptuous Palaces and Costly Furnitures Covetous Arts are Bribery Monopolies Taxes Excises and Compositions Ambitious Arts are Time-serving Observing Insinuating Malicious Arts are Impeachings Back-bitings and Libels Superstitious Arts are Interpretations false Visions Impostures Imprecations Ceremonies Postures Garbs Countenances and Paces and particular Customs Habits and Diets Idolatrous Arts are Groves Altars Images and Sacrifices Dangerous Arts though necessary for the safety of Honour are Fencing Riding Tilting Vaulting Wrestling and Swimming Murthering Arts are Swords Knives Hatchets Saws Sythes Pick-axes Pikes Darts Granadoes Guns Bullets Shot Powder Arts of Safety are Trenches Moats Bridges Walls Arms and Chyrurgery Profitable Arts are Geometry Cosmography Arithmetick Navigation Fortification Architecture Fire-works Water-works Wind-works Cultivating Manuring Distilling Extracting Pounding Mixing Sifting Grinding as Malting Brewing Baking Cooking Granging Carding Spinning Weaving Colouring Tanning Writing Printing Wit Why Learned Sister all these Arts and innumerbale more are produced from the Forge of the Brain being all invented by Wit and the Inventer is to be more valued than the Art the Cause more than the Effect for as without a Cause there would be no Effect so without an Inventive Brain there could be no Ingenuous Art Wis. Dear Witty Sister do not engross more than what is justly your own for there are more Arts produced from Accidents and Experiments than from Ingenious Wit Learn Some Learned Men hold That the Motion of the Sun makes the Heat others that Heat makes Motion Wit Then it is like the Brain for a hot Brain makes a quick Wit and a quick Wit makes the Brain hot Wis. We ought not to spend our time in studying of the Motions and Heat of the Sun but of the Motions and Passions of the Heart Learn Some are of opinion That Light hath no Body others That it hath a Body and that the Light of the Sun enlightens the Air as one Candle doth another Wit Light is like Imagination an Incorporeal thing or an Accidental Proceeding from a Substance and as one Candle doth light another so one Fancy produceth another VVis Pray discourse of Virtues which is the Light of the Soul and Generosity an Effect thereof which distributes to Necessity producing comfortable Relicfs therewith Learn And some say Colours are no Colours in the dark being produced by Light on such and such Bodies Wit VVe may as well say VVit is no Wit or Thoughts no Thoughts in the Brain being produced by such and such Objects nor Passion is no Passion in the Heart being raised by such and such Causes VVis I pray dispute not how Colours are produced whether from the Light or from their own Natures or Natural Substances but consider that Good VVorks are produced from a Soul that is pure and bright Learn The Learned say That Sounds are Numbers and Opticks are Lines of Light VVit VVit sets the Number and Motion draws the Lines VVis There is no Musick so harmonious as Honest Professions nor no Light so pure as Truth Learn And they say Discord in Musick well applied makes the Harmony the delightfuller VVit So Satyr in VVit makes it more quick and pleasant VVis So Truths mix'd with Falshood make Flattery more plausible and acceptable Learn Time which is the Dissolver of all Corporeal Things yet it is the Mother Midwife and Nurse to Knowledg whereby we find all Modern Romancy-VVriters although they seem to laugh and make a scorn of Amadis de Gall yet make him the Original-Table or Ground from whence they draw their Draughts and take out covertly their Copies from thence Indeed Amadis de Gall is the Homer of Romancy-writers Wit Although Wit is not a Dissolver yet 't is a Creator Wit doth descry and divulge more Knowledg than Time for that which Time could never find out Wit will discover Wit is like a Goddess in Nature for though it cannot dissolve yet it can produce not only something out of something but something out of nothing I mean from the Imaginations which are nothing and Wit needs no other Table or Ground to draw its Draughts or take Copy from but it s own Brain which creates and invents similizes and distinguisheth Wis. But Time and Wit would soon produce a Chaos of Disorder if it were not for Wisdom which is composed of Judgment Justice Prudence Fortitude and Temperance for Judgment distinguishes Times and Wits Justice governs Times and Wits Prudence orders Times and Wits Fortitude marshals Times and Wits and Temperance measures Times and Wits Learn Scholars say That one Man can see higher and further when he is set upon another Man's Shoulders than when he stands or sits on the Ground by himself so when one is raised by another Man's Opinion he can descry more in hidden Mysteries Wit But if a Man see a Lark tow'r in the Sky which another Man doth not having weaker Eyes yet he is no wiser than the other that only saw the Lark picking Corn on the Ground But he that sees her not in the Sky knows she is in the Sky as well as the other because he saw from whence she took her flight But if the other that is raised can see a Bird in the Sky that was never seen before it were something to add to his Knowledg Besides a sharp quick Eye will see further on his own Legs than on the Shoulder of another for most grow dizzy if set on high which casts a Mist on the Eyes of the Understanding Wis. Leave the Shoulders of your Neighbours and let your Eye of Faith reach to Heaven As some Meats nourish the Body and some destroy the Body so some Thoughts nourish the Soul and some destroy it The Senses are the working-Labourers to bring Life's Materials in As Nature is the best Tutor to instruct the Mind so the Mind is the best Tutor to instruct the Senses And my Mind instructs my Senses to leave you There are learned Arts and Sciences a Poetical and Satyrical Wit a Comical and Tragical Wit an Historical and Romancical Wit an Ingenious and Inventive Wit a Scholastical Wit a Philosophical Wit There is Moral Human and Divine Wisdom The CONTRACT A NOBLE Gentleman that had been married many years but his Wife being barren did bear him no Children at last she dyed and his Friends did advise him to marry again because his Brother's Children were dead and his Wife was likely to have no more So he took to VVife a virtuous young Lady and after one year she conceived with Child and great Joy there was of all sides but in her Child-bed she dyed leaving only one Daughter to her sorrowful Husband who in a short time oppressed with Melancholy dyed and left his Daughter who was not a year old to the care and breeding of
she commanded every Captain of a Company should place himself in the midst of their second Ranks for if the chief Commander said she in a Company be kill'd the Spirits of the common Soldiers soon dye and their Nerves grow slack with fear and all their strength will fail unless it be to run away The Lieutenants she ordered them to place themselves in their last Ranks to keep the Soldiers from flying for said she shame will cause Obedience to submit to Authority wherefore his Eyes will be as a Fort and his Breast as a Bulwark to keep them in Then she gave order that every Squadorn should be but five Ranks deep and fifty on a breast which number said she is enough to knit into a proportionable Body more makes it unweildy and is like a man over-grown with Fat whose bulk makes him unactive either to assault or to defend himself and Rands of Ten deep said she are not only unuseful and troublesome but so many men are lost as to employment for the hindermost Ranks come seldom or never to the Charge In every Troop of Horse she placed some Foot both Pikes and Muskets to gall and hurt their Enemy's Horse when they came to encounter for if once the Horse fails the Man is down After that she commanded her Army to marchin such a slow pace as not to break or loosen their Ranks but commanded them to join so close as if there were no Vacuum in their Troops and so to move as one entire Body or Piece Lastly She commanded all the Cuirasiers should stand in the fore-front to bear the shock or break the Ranks And thus she set the Battalia in order form and figure as the ground and places would permit to their best advantage The Prince ordered his Battalia as he was used to do making it thick as believing it to be the stronger which is questionless the best way if it were only to stand still for a defence but not to assault for in Action the half of those thick Bodies serve only as Cyphers without a Figure but never help to multiply the Numeration of Blows But the Armies being both ready to joyn the young General thus spake to his Soldiers Noble Friends Brave Soldiers and Wise Councellors WHO knows but this our meeting may produce good and great Effects and bring Peace to your Countrey which is molested with Warrs and Ruin to your Enemies that have almost ruined you Comfort to your sad Friends we have left behind Liberty to your imprisoned Friends We fight for Fame hereafter for Honour and Profit now presently but if we let our Enemies become our Masters they will give us restless Fears unreasonable Taxes unconscionable Oaths whereby we shall lose the Peace of our Mind the Conversation of our Friends the Traffick with our Neighbours the Plenty of our Land the Form of our Customs the Order of our Ceremonies the Liberty of the Subjects the Royalty of your Government and the Company and Rule of our Gracious Vertuous and Beautiful Queen And shall they have Courage to spoil and we none to right our Wrongs Shall they live by our hard Labour And shall we live by their hard Laws All Noble Spirits hate Bondage and will rather dye than endure Slavery Wherefore my Friends be you constant to your just Resolutions circumspect in your ways patient in your Labours Heroick in your Actions for What Man can remember such Injuries and let their Courages be cold Wherefore for your own sakes your Countrey 's sake your Royal Queen's sake go on with valiant Hearts and active Strengths and may Apollo be your Friend shooting his Darts dazling your Enemies Eyes May Mars the God of Warr direct you in your fight May Fortune give you aid and Pallas give you victory After she had thus spoke the Trumpets sounded to Charge and the young General sent some flying Horse to give the onset and then seem to run away which the other Army seeing thought it was out of fear and followed them as in pursuit which disordered and broke all their Ranks but the Queen's Army marched in good order to meet them at which the Enemy viewing their unexpected posture was so daunted as they neither had Spirits to fight nor power to run away and so a great number being killed and taken Prisoners the Queen's Army became absolute Masters of the Field The Prince with much difficulty retreated back about a days march with some few but with the prime of his Horse where he heard of a fresh Army coming to assist them for the King fearing they were not strong enough being forced suddenly away caused new men to be raised to follow them The news of this Army rejoiced the Prince much being at that time very melancholy for the great loss he received and for the disgrace as he thought by reason he despised the Enemies to the King and to be overcome by those he scorned did wrack his Soul But taking up fresh hopes with his new-come Army returned back to the Queen's Army again who when they heard of a new Supply were much amazed and dejected by reason they were weary and tired with three Fights and disordered with gathering up and carrying away their Spoils But the young General perceiving them to hang down their Heads thus spake Noble Friends I Perceive such a sadness in your Faces as if fear had taken possession of your hearts which if it hath except Courage beats it out it will betray your Lives unto your Enemies and to be taken by a timorous thought before your Strength hath grapled with your Foes were base and if Right and Truth be on your side as sure it is and Reason rules your Judgment as I hope it doth you have no cause to doubt but if you fear the Conduct of my Youth as wanting Experience to judg or direct the best then here are Aged men who with Ulysses and Nestor may compare their Counsel is your aid Let no vain suspition therefore quench your hopes but Courage set your Spirits on fire and with their heat consume your Enemies to Ashes With that they all aloud did say Go on we will dye or conquer In the mean while the Prince was encouraging his new-come Army who was struck with the news of the last Battel hearing nothing of it until they met the Prince the sudden Report like Thunder shook their Spirits which to appease the Prince thus spake Noble Friends You that have Humility to obey Love to unite Charity to redress have Hopes to obtain for Hope is the Ground on which Courage is built Let not the Enemy of Mistrust vanquish your Faith but perform your Loyalty through your Industry for obedient Thoughts are not sufficient without obedient Actions Wherefore take Courage to fight Let not your Enemies kill your Spirits Weep not nor condole at our Losses but let us regain our Honours either by Victory or Death And they that are sloathful or cowardly in this Army may
divide and dissolve those gross and tough Humours and open Obstructions Likewise those that are salt and bitter do purifie and cleanse the corruption in the Body and when the cause of the Disease is taken or removed away the Body becomes equally temper'd for as the Disease doth waste the Body doth cool Thus it is the sharpness saltness and bitterness that cures the Disease and not a cold nature in the Simples for when the Disease as I said is gone the Body is well-temper'd and cooled Then they asked her which was the best way to make the best temperament for Health She said that way that was best towards Mediocrity as neither to eat too gross meats nor too watrish nor to drink too strong drink nor such as was very small that is neither too hot nor too cold either virtually or actually As for gross Meats they fill the Body with too much Melancholy Humours and the Head with Malignant Vapours Very fine and tender Meat makes the Stomack weak by reason the substance is not sufficiently solid for as very gross meat over-powers the Stomack by the laborious working thereon so very fine and tender meat makes it lazy and weak for want of exercise Very small Drinks being very watrish quench the natural heat and those that are very strong burn it out but said she Meats and Drinks must be wisely match'd and not only Meats and Drinks but the Nourishment and the Nourished for although in general hot Constitutions should use cooling drinks and meats for their diets and cold hot diets and moist dry diets and dry moist diets yet if the Body be any ways diseased or distempered they must order such a Body according to the Cause and not to the Effects of their Disease As for example To all Hydropical Bodies must not be applied drying Medicines nor Diets for if the Dropsie proceeds from a dry cause dry Diets or Medicines are as bad as poyson for though the Effect be watrish in such Diseases yet the Cause was dry So for heat or cold And this example may serve for all other Diseases wherefore Physicians must search out and know the original cause before they can cure the Disease for those that prescribe according to the Effect may cure by chance but kill with ignorance Then they asked her If the Spirits were always affected with the Distemper of the Body or the Body with the Distemper of the Spirits She answered Not always for sometimes the Spirits will be ill-affected and the Body in health other times the Body sick and the Spirits lively and well-temper'd But said she this is to be observed that the Body may be cold and the Spirits enflamed and the Body heated and the Spirits quenchched or stupified for the Spirits are the thinnest and subtillest substances of the Creature now this thinnest and subtillest substance in the Creature may be enflamed when the solid'st is be-numb'd with cold for a cold melancholy Body may have enflamed and distracted Spirits Likewise a cold diseased Body may have Hectick Spirits and thus both the Animal and Vital Spirits may be hot and the more solid Parts or Humours of the Body cold Also the heat of the Spirits may be quenched and the Body burning-hot as the Stomack Liver or other parts may be parched with heat when both the Animal and Vital Spirits have not a sufficient heat to give them lively motions And it is to be observed said she that the Animal and Vital Spirits as they are the thinnest and subtilest part of a Creature so they are nourished by the thinnest substances or parts of Food which dilate to the Spirits for though the Spirits can and do work upon the solid'st parts of the Body or Nourishment yet they only receive benefit by the thinnest As also the great annoyance for it is the Vapour of Meats and Drinks that feeds the Spirits and not the Substance for Vapour will choak smuther burn or quench them out But the Vapours from Liquors work more suddenly upon the Spirits either to good effect or bad than Vapours from a solid Substance by reason all Liquors have a dilatating nature which spreads it self amongst the Spirits with more facility Also the Vapour of Liquid Bodies is more facil than the Vapour of Solid Bodies and said she some burn their Stomacks with Drugs and some quench their Spirits with Julips others burn their Spirits with Cordials and flat or dead the Stomack with Meats virtually cold For it is to be observed that there is a general Error amongst Mankind about Rules concerning Health some practising with a belief that Drinks virtually cooling temper hot Meats and virtually cooling Meats hot Drinks In which they are deceived for though they may mix so and temper yet for the most part it is only as Water and Meal makes Dough or as Earth and Water makes Mud or as Sugar and Water makes Syrrup but doth not temper that virtual heat or cold that works upon the substantial or the spiritual parts for that which works upon the Spirits hath a more sudden operation than that which works upon the solid parts of the Body and that from the solider parts has a flower operation so that the Stomack may be parched and the heat of the Spirits quenched and the Spirits burnt and the Stomack weak by a heavy or dull coldness But those Bodies that are in health have not such defects as to fear such a sudden operation for as defects are easily inveterated so Health is not suddenly annoyed wherefore they may temper their Meat and Drink by cooling and heating yet not to a high degree for all Extreams are naught Then they asked her What was the reason that all Creatures look fuller and fatter in Summer than in Winter She answered The reason was Because then the Blood extends to the extream parts which swells out the flesh and puffs out the skin and in the Winter the blood falls back as the sap of Plants doth to the Roots which causeth the flesh and skin to look withered and dry as Branches and Leaves do sear'd faded wither'd and dry The like reason is when Men have Pimples Scabs Swellings Pocks and the like which is the fruit of corrupted blood Then they asked her opinion of Mineral Waters What Virtues and Vices they have being drunk She answered That all Mineral-waters were of a kind of a Brine but not so much a salt Brine as a sharp Brine if I may call that which is sharp Brine said she but whether it hath the effects upon the body as Brine hath upon dead flesh as to preserve or keep it from putrefaction I cannot say but certainly it drinks up the natural moisture in healthful bodies more often than it purifies the corrupted Humours in diseased bodies The Effects of Sharp and Salt are oft-times alike as a sharp Pickle will preserve from putrefaction as well as Brine But howsoever the Mineral-waters have much salt in them the Effects are hot and
dry and have a corroding quality their corroding quality is caused by the sharpness and their heat by their corroding and their driness by their insipid nature and though they are actually cold they are virtually hot their virtues are only on cold and moist bodies or diseases as those that have obstructions caused by raw cold flegm or swellings caused by cold clammy Humours or Ulcers caused by cold corrupted Humours or Rheums or Dropsies caused by too many cold moist Humours or the like Diseases caused by cold Humours and in my opinion said she they would be excellently good for all outward Ulcers or old Sores or Wounds being washed and bathed therewith by reason they have a cleansing drying faculty not only inwardly taken but outwardly applied Also they may temper the inflamations that most commonly attend all Ulcers Sores or Wounds not only by cleansing and drying up the putrefactions but being actually cold especially outwardly applied for though they are virtually hot being inwardly taken and digested into the blood or as I may say the Mineral rubbed or wrought into the body yet they are actually cold that is cold to touch But to return to the interior Maladies All those Diseases that are produced from hot dry and sharp causes are as bad as poysons They are so for such obstructions that proceed from hard-baked dry Humours or Dropsies caused by hot dry Livers Spleens or other parts or Consumptions that proceed from salt sharp Rheums or hot dry Lungs Livers Spleens or the like parts or all Swellings caused by hot dry or sharp Humours or interior Ulcers caused by hot dry or sharp Humours or Apoplexies caused by hard crusted flegm or dry black melancholy or burnt dry thick blood which stops the natural passages of the spirits or Epilepsies or Convulsions caused by sharp Humours which shrivel and knit up the Nerves or Veins or Joints of the Body or hot Winds which work and foam and as I may say yeest the natural Humours in the body distempering the body therewith Likewise it is an Enemy to all melancholy bodies being full of sharp Humours like Aqua-fortis which are bred in the body or as a sharp green Humour which is a poisonous Verdigrease bred in the body which Humour is the cause most commonly of the Disease called Epilepsis or Falling-sickness and oft-times is the cause of Convulsions but this Humour is a certain cause of the Stomack-Cholick that is to say a Wind in the Stomack and Sides Also they are Enemies to the Gout by reason that the Gout proceeds from a hot-baked dry salt or sharp Humour It is a bitter or sulphureous Humour or a limy chalky Humour that causeth the Gout and indeed it is a calcined Humour which makes it incurable For the Stone they may work good Effects although my Reason cannot perceive but that the Minerals may contract and confirm humours into stone as well as dissolve stone for thought their acuteness is penetrating and so may dissolve yet their driness is Contracting Uniting Combining and they are not only dry by the insipidness of their nature but by their sharpness for all sharpness is drying more or less and though sharpness is actually dissolving by corroding yet it is virtually drying by heating for corroding is the cause of heat For whatsoever is rubb'd or grated hard or swiftly grows hot even Stones or any Metal which is the hardest Matter we know but looser Matter as Wood will be set on fire Wherefore if Wood Stone and Metal will become actually hot by rubbing or grating actually thereon well may soft flesh especially the inward parts that are most tender And as it is the nature of sharpness to corrode and the nature of corroding or rubbing to heat so it is the nature of heat to drink up moisture and make all things dry And as sharp things may cleanse Ulcers by eating the filth therein or may be good to take off superfluous flesh call'd proud-flesh in Sores or may dissolve some hard Humours moderately taken or applied so they may make Ulcers Sores and Wounds and contract and confirm humours if immoderately or unnecessarily or wrongfully applied But as I said the Mineral-waters may as well cause the Stone in the Kidneys or Bladder as dissolve it and may also ulcerate as soon as cleanse but the Mineral-waters do rather make a passage and send forth Gravel by the quantity that is drunk and passes through the Uretories which like a stream doth wash and carry all loose Matter before it and not so much by the virtue of dissolving But to conclude concerning Mineral-waters said she I cannot perceive but they may breed more Diseases than they cure and those Bodies they are most proper for must be purged and empty before they take them lest the weight and quantity of the Waters should carry obstructions to the parts open and free by carrying too suddenly or forcibly or pressing or thrusting too hard Then they asked her about the nature of Purging-Drugs She said All Purging-Drugs were full of Spirits which was the cause they were so active and quick in operation for said she whatsoever hath most Spirits is most active which shews saith she that Birds have more Spirits which is innated Matter than any other sort of Animal-kind for they are always hopping and flying about also chirping whistling and singing which shews them not only to be more active as having more vital or sensitive Spirits but also more rational as being fuller of Animal Spirits But to return to Drugs said she they seem to have more of the Sensitive spirits vulgarly called Vital Spirits which work upon the grossest Substance than the Rational Spirits which are vulgarly called Animal spirits do with which spirits Cordials seem to be full as working upon the finer parts for Cordials do cheer and do revive the Soul or Mind making the thoughts more cheerful and pleasing which alacrity doth help to abate and qualifie the disorders in the body Then they asked her What was the best study for such as would practise Physick She said Natural Philosophy for said she those can never be good Physicians that are not good Natural Philosophers and if they would study Natural Philosophy more than they do there would be more frequent Cures for if they do not study Nature that makes the Body they shall never know Remedies to cure the body for those that do not understand the Works of Nature cannot mend a fault or prevent a danger to come but they must study Nature's Creations Dissolutions Sympathies Antipathies in Matter Motion and Figure but said she it is a difficult study and requires a subtil moving-brain to find out the several motions although they be the plainest vulgar and grossest much more the subtil and intricate ones And had Aristotle said she studied the motions in Nature or Natural motions as he did the parts of Nature or Natural parts he would have been a far more learned Man than he was but his study
the Sensitive prints which is to put their own Matter into such Figures as the Sensitive spirits print upon the dull and unmoving parts of Matter so many times the Sensitive spirits do print or engrave those Conceptions Imaginations Fancies or the like upon the dull part of Matter as Patterns of the Rational Figures for as I said the Rational spirits do cast work or move their own part of Matter into Figures and the Sensitive spirits do figure and print upon other parts of Matter as that which is called the dull and unmoving part but when the Rational Matter perswades or causes the Sensitive Matter to work and print from their figurings or that the Sensitive spirits do it of their own free choice they work for the most part irregularly I will not say always for when the Rational spirits move to invention the Sensitive spirits work those inventions regularly if not at first yet with a little practice but when the Rational spirits move to any passion especially violent passions the Sensitive spirits are apt to work irregularly and to discompose the Animal Figure with Irregularities for oft-times not only the irregular motions of the Rational spirits but the violence of their motions although regular doth disorder the Sensitive spirits causing them to work irregularly but violence is not always irregular or perturbed also the regularity of the Sensitive spirits will cause a disorder amongst the Rational spirits as we shall see the Mind will distemper the Body as the Body will disorder the Mind but where the Rational innated Matter or Spirits move so irregularly as to make unusual imaginations or imaginary fears and other conceptions and passions which are irregular as much as violence causeth the Sensitive spirits also to work both irregularly and violently whereby they print strange figures in the Animal Senses as we may prove by those that are affrighted or have imaginary fears who see strange and unusual objects which Men call Devils Hobgoblins Spirits and the like and without question they do see such things as are strange and unusual to them for such strange and unusual Figures are printed by the irregularity of the Sensitive spirits upon the Optick Nerve And so for Hearing Scent Touch and the like for when Men have such imaginary fears they will say they saw strange things and that they heard strange noises and smelt strange Scents and that they were pinched and beaten black and blew and that they were carried out of their way and cast into Ditches or the like and it is not to be doubted but that they did see such Sights hear such Sounds smell such Scents and feel such Pains for many times the black-and-blew marks will be seen in the flesh and the flesh will be sore and how should it be otherwise when the Sensitive innated Matter or Spirits by moving in such motions work in each Sense those Objects Sounds Scents Touches and the like And I see no reason but the whole Body may be carried violently from place to place by the strength of the Sensitive spirits for certainly the innated Matter in every Animal Figure doth not commonly use its full strength for the Body will be more actually strong at some times than at other times and upon some occasion more than when they have no occasion to use strength for though the several degrees of innated Matter cannot work beyond the strength of their degree yet they can work in their strength and not always work to their full power and as we may observe the power of strength is seldom used in Animal Figures but certainly it is amongst the Sensitive and Rational spirits in every Animal Creature as it is with the Governours or Citizens of every Kingdom they know not their own power and strength until they be put to it for every particular Part knoweth not the strength of the Whole until they join together as one Part. This is the reason Man or any other Creature is ignorant not only each of other but of themselves for How is it possible Man should know himself since Nature cannot know her self being divided into several Parts and Degrees But to return to the strength of the united-spirits of Mankind which united-spirits working irregularly carry the Body forcibly into unnecessary or dangerous places for the violence and irregularity doth disorder the Rational spirits if they were not disordered before so much that they cannot direct prudently nor order methodically not advise subtilly but are all as I may say in a hurly-burly for the Rational spirits making imaginary fears do as those that begin an Uproar so the Rational spirits are not only afraid of the Tumult amongst the Sensitive spirits but are discomposed and hurried about themselves and their Society which is their own Matter is dispersed abroad that is dis-united and disordered in their regular motions so as the Rational innated Matter or spirits although they were the first Cause of the extravagant Commotions amongst the Sensitive spirits yet they are discomposed therewith by reflexion their own disorders returning in double lines of strength from the Sensitive Body Then they asked her Why the Animal Figure did not always dream in sleep since the Sensitive and Rational spirits or innated Matter did never desist from moving She said That although the innated Matter did never desist from moving yet they did not always figure or print for they dissolve as well as create Besides said she they may work to the preservation or consistence of the Figure and of every particular sense and yet not always make use of the senses Besides said she the Rational Matter doth not always figure it self by the Sensitive Print and for proof many times those that are in a serious Discourse studious Contemplations or violent Passions will take no notice of the Sensitive motions for in a violent passion many will receive a deadly wound and never take notice of the touch and many times those in serious discourse receive a pinch on their Arm or Finger or any other part and yet they at that time never take knowledg thereof and yet when their violent passion or discourse is ended then their Rational knowledg takes notice that their Finger Arm or other parts ake or their Wounds smart which shews the sense of Touch was sometimes in their Finger or in that part wounded before the Rational knowledg took notice of it So in a deep Contemplation when they view Objects hear Sounds smell Scents tast and touch the Rational knowledg takes no notice of it because the Rational spirits move not to the Sensitive Works so that only the Eye sees or the Ear hears or the Nose smells or the Tongue tasts or any particular part feels but the Rational takes no notice thereof so that these are but particular knowledges in every particular sense or part of the Figure and not a general knowledg for the Sensitive knowledg which are the Sensitive spirits are bound to parts but the Rational