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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62264	Ornitho-logie, or, The speech of birds also, The speech of flovvers, partly moral, partly mystical / by T. Fuller ...	Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.	1662 (1662)	Wing S78_VARIANT; ESTC R33896	29,965	155

and the effects which Schol● call à posteriore and this is the more fallible uncertaine the other à priore from the Causes and this as more demonstrative may safely be relyed on I will embrace the latter course and to assure my selfe whether you have a Gall or no I meane to make you a living Anatomie and instantly to insect you Ocular inspection is the best direction and I will presently pry into your intrails for my better information to see with what curiosity Nature hath contrived the things therein and how many ●ittle engines there are to move the wheele of life within you Then beganne the Eagle to dispose himselfe for Supper intending the Turtle-dove for the first Course to begin with and the Phoenix as the finer flesh to close his stomack therewith In preparation wherunto he plumed the Dove of some of her upper Feathers Just in the instant as he beganne his prey who should come in but he was little expected and lesse welcome to the Hawk than the old Eagle and we must a while dwel upon the cause and manner of his inlargement This Eagle was as aforesaid confined to a Grove where he was temperate against his will as not able to feede on any Fowle Nature had hung such a Lock upon his Bill for the Redundancie thereof was such that hee was capable of no food save drinke which hee plentifully powred in thus for some moneths drinke was all the meate hee tooke which served to support his life though not to ●ncrease his strength yet could he not be a good fellow in his Cups as being solitary by himselfe having none to keep him company At last hee descryed a sharpe Rock wherein one place white in colour more prominent than the rest had a shining hardnesse therein to this the Eagle applyes his Bill and never left off rubbing grating and whetting his Beak thereon untill at last hee quite whetted off the superfluous yea hurtfull Excrescencie of his Bill which now reduced to a moderate proportion was as usefull to all purposes as ever before Thus enabled to get his prey in few weekes he recruited his strength so that what the Poets tell of Medea that with her inchanted Baths made her Father-in-law young againe here truly came to passe And now the New old Eagle hearing in what Quarters the Hawke kept his constant residence thought on a sudden to have surprised him had not the other discovered his approach and made a seasonable escape whereby both Turtle and Phoenix obtained their liberty and securely returned unto their owne Nests The Hawke having made an escape posted with all speed to the Lapwinge which with some difficulty he found out and privacie being obtained thus kindly spake unto him Friend Lapwing I have taken notice that you are one of the most subtilest and politick Bird in all our Common-wealth you have the art so to cover your intentions that they are not obvious to common eyes when your Egges or young ones be a mile at distance you use to flutter with your winges and fetch your rounds and circles a great way off as if you intended to broo● that place with your wings or as if that were the Chest wherein your Treasure was deposited this makes many people to search there for your young ones but are frustrated of their hopes you have insecured them farre off this lawfull Simulation I conceive a commendable and necessary quality in every great person it is as necessary as breath to their well being Should men play all above board and expose their actions to all Spectators Folly and Wisdome would bee both of a rate No it is the hanging of such Curtaines and Traverses before our Deeds which keep up our Reputation and enable us for great performances Now I request you help me a little in my extremity the renewed Eagle is in pursuit of me and my safety lyeth much at your disposall The Lapwing promised the utmost of his endeavours and desired the Hawk to proceed See you saith the Hawk yonder empty Cage of great receipt so that it might serve for an Aviarie for which it was first intended though since disused when the Eagle flying this way enquireth after me perswade him I am flowne into the Cage and leave the rest to my performance All was acted accordingly the Eagle demanded what was become of the Hawk the Lapwing returned Here 't is here 't is and then hovered over the Cage fetching so many compasses thereabouts that one might have mistaken him for some ●njurer making his many Circles with intent to raise up some spirit thereabouts The Eagle violently flyes into the Cage whose doores stood open triumphing in his owne happinesse that now he should be revenged on his profest Enemy Instantly the Hawk who stood behinde unseen in a place of advantage clapps an Iron Padlock on the Cage and thus insulteth over the Prisoner Me thinkes Sir Eagle you make mee call to minde the condition of Bajazet the Great Turk whom Tamberlan tooke captive and carried him about the Country that all people might feed their gazing eyes upon him such a spectacle are you this day I have now made an Owle of the Eagle turned him into the ridiculous object of laughter and contempt Tell me doe you not want a Prometheus to feed upon his fruitfull entrails as the Poets feigne which daily increased and afforded the Poets Eagle both Common and Festivals Sir your life shall not bee vented out at once but you shall dye many deaths with long lingering torments I will order it so that you shall feele your self to dye There is no Musick in an Enemies death which is not accompanyed with torment and though no outward torture shall be inflicted upon you yet know that thirst and hunger shall be your two Executioners Now the Guiltlesse blood of so many Birds and innocent Lambs and hurtlesse Hares shall bee required of you and so I leave you till to morrow when I meane to make a new meal of you in scorn and contempt The Eagle sadly yet stoutly auswered my courage shall not abate with my condition whose spirit is planted above the battery of Fortune I will never be lesse than my selfe whatsoever befalls me A Lyon is no lesse a Lyon though in a grate Mischance may make me miserable it shall not make me base I will beare my troubles with as much chearfulnesse as I may I defie thy spleene in triumphing over me After the Hawkes departure the Ostrich came in the place whom the Eagle saw unseen and wishly marked his postures and motions The Ostrich fell into a strange passion and would you know the reason thereof it was as followeth Some three dayes since when hee first repaired to the generall meeting of the Birds he left his Egges in the sand not covering them over such his carelesnesse and incogitancie it was in a Starre-light night wherein he took a mark for the finding of his Egges by such a Sta●re under

surprized with the un●outh sight of the Boare which had entered their Garden following his prescribed directions and armed with the Corslet of his Bristles vaunted like a triumphant Conqueror round about the Garden as one who would first make them suffer in their fear before in their feeling how did he please himselfe in the variety of the fears of the flowers to see how some pal● ones looked red and some re● ones looked pale leaving it to Philosophers to dispute and decide the different effects should proceed from the same causes and among all Philosophers commending the question to the Stoicks who because they pretend an Antipathy that they themselves would never be angry never be mounted above the modell of a common usuall Temper are most competent Judges impartially to give the reason of the causes of the anger of others And now it is strange to see the severall waies the Flowers embraced to provide for their owne security there is no such Teacher as extremity necessity hath found out more Arts then ever ingenuity invented The Wall-Gilly flower ran up to the top of the Wall of the Garden where it hath grown ever since and will never descend till it hath good security for its own safety and being mounted thereon he entertained the Boar with the following discourse Thou basest and unworthiest of four-footed Beasts thy Mother the Sow passeth for the most contemptible name that can be fixed on any She Yea Pliny reporteth that a Sow growne old useth to feed on her owne young and herein I beleeve that Pliny who otherwise might be straitned for fellow-witnesses might find such who will attest the truth of what he hath spoken Mens Excrements is thy element and what more cleanly creatures do scorn and detest makes a feast for thee nothing comes amisse unto thy mouth and we know the proverb what can make a pan-cake unto thee Now you are gotten into the Garden shame light on that negligent Gardner whose care it was to fence the same by whose negligence and oversight you have gotten an entrance into this Academy of Flowers and Herbs let me who am your enenie give you some Counsell and neglect it not because it comes from my Mouth You see I am without the reach of your Anger and all your power cannot hurt me except you be pleased to borrow wings from some Bird thereby to advantage your selfe to reach my habitation My Counsell therefore to you is this be not Proud because you are Prosperous who would ever have thought that you could have entered this place which we conceived was impregnable against any of your kind Now because you have had successe as farre above our expectations as your deserts show your own moderation in the usage thereof to ●aster us is easie to Master your selfe is difficult Attempt therefore that which as it is most hard to performe so will it bring most honour to you when executed and know I speak not this in relation to my selfe sufficiently priviledged from your T●sks but as acted with a publique spirit for the good of the Comminalty of Flowers and if any thing hereafter betide you other then you expect you will remember that I am a ●rophet and for●●ell that which too late you will credit and bel●eve The Boar heard the words and entertained them with a surly silence as conceiving himselfe to be mounted above danger sometimes he pittied the sillinesse of the Wall-flower that pittyed him and sometimes he vowed revenge concluding that the stones of the Wall would not afford it sufficient moisture for its constant dwelling there but that he should take it for an advantage when it descended for more sustenance It is hard to expresse the panick fear in the rest of the flowers and especially the small Prim-ro●es begged of their Mothers that they might retreat into the middle of them which would only make them grow bigger and broader and it would grieve a pittifull heart to hear the child plead and the mother so often deny The Child began dear Mother she is but halfe a Mother that doth breed and not preserve only to bring forth and then to expose us to worldly ●isery less●ns your Love and doubles our sufferings See how this tyrannicall Boare threatens our instant undoing I desire only a Sanctuary in your bosome a retreating place into your breast and who fitter to come into you then she that came out of you whether should we return then from whence we came it will be but one happinesse or one misfortune together we shall die or together be preserved only some content and comfort will be unto me either to be happy or unhappy in your company The broader Prim-rose hearkned unto these words with a sad countenance as ●ensible in her ●elfe that had not the present necessity hardned her affections she neither would nor could return a deaf ●are to ●o equall a motion But now she rejoyned Dear Child none can be more sensible then my selfe of Motherly affections it troubles me more for me to deny thee then for thee to be denyed I love thy safety where it is not necessarily included in my danger the entertaining of thee will be my 〈◊〉 and destruction how many Parents in this age have been undone meerly for affording house and home to such Children whose condition might be quarrel'd with as exposed to exception I am sure of mine owne innocency which never in the least degree have offended this Boar and therefore hope he will not offend me what wrong and injury you have done him is best known to your selfe stand therefore on your own bottome maintain your own innocence for my part I am resolved not to be drowned for others hanging on me but I will try as long as I can the strength of my own armes and leggs excuse me good child it is not hatred to you but love to my selfe which makes me to understand my own interest The younger Prim-rose returned Mother I must again appeal to your affections despairing to find any other Judge to Father my cause remember I am part of your ●elfe and have never by any undutifulnesse disobliged your affections I professe also mine own integrity that I never have offended this Boar being more innocent therein then your selfe for alas my tender years intitles me not to any correspondency with him this is the first minute and may it be the last that ever I beheld him I reassume therefore my suite supposing that your first denyall proceeded only from a de●ire to try my importunity and give me occasion to enforce my request with the greater earnestnesse By your motherly bowels I conjure you an exorcisme which I beleeve comes not within the compasse of ●uperstition that you tenderme in this my extremity whose greatest ambition is to die in those armes from whence I first fetcht my originall And then she left her tears singly to drop out the remainder what her tongue could not expresse The Affections of Parents

a man Let every thing appear in its owne shape Men speak the language of Men Birds of Birds Hypocrisie is that which hath betrayed the world to a generall de●usion thence to destruction when people counterfeit the Tongues and Tones of those from whose Hearts they dissent how many demure people hath this age brought forth sadly and soberly dropping forth their words with much affected deliberation as if all the hearers were bound thereby to believe them as solid reserved and discreet in Deeds as in their words when they onely Palliate and cloak a base and unworthy inside under the shadow and pretence of an outward fair representation I therefore must throw my graines into the Negative scale and conceive the Parrot utterly unfit for the soveraignty of birds After many debates and disputes pro and con plurality of voices at last pitched on the Hauke as whose extraction was known to be honorable valour undoubted providence or foresight admirable as appeared in the quicknesse of his eyes being a Prometheus indeed foreseeing all dangers and his own advantages of great distance The Hauke returning his full and fair thanks unto them for their free favour accepted of their profer and all their meeting for the present was diminished onely two birds commanded to stay behind the Phenix and the Turtle Doye whom the Hawk severally accosted beginning with the former Sir or Mistris Phoenix saith the Hawk for I know not in what Gender to addresse my language unto you in whom both Sexes are jumbled together I desire to be informed of you whether that bee a truth or a long lived common Error of the manner of your original from the Ashes of your Ancestor if it be a truth I stand ready with admiration to embrace and entertaine it If an errour I am resolved Posterity shall no longer bee deluded therewith We live in an Age of Knowledge the Beames whereof have dispelled those mists of Errour wherewith our Forefather were cheated into the belief of many impossibilities recommended unto them by Tradition as if the gray Perriwigg● of Old-age should command so much veneration from us that we should consign up our judgement to the implicite belief of any thing which former Ages have related Deale therefore openly with me and informe me the truth whether your Generation be thus by Continuation of a Miracle I cannot resolve you herein saith the Phoenix of the particulars of my Extraction which happened long before the register of my memory Sure I am there are no other of my kinde for me to couple with which demonstrates the truth of that which is generally received I confesse men make use of me rather for a Moral and an Embleme to denote those things which are rare and seldome come to passe Thus a Court Lord who will honestly pay all his Debts is accounted a Phoenix A Judge who will not suffer his Conscience to be robbed by a bribe secretly proffered unto him is a Phoenix A Great man who lookes straight forward to the Publique good not bound on e● ther side with his own interest is a Phoenix However assur● your selfe that besides th● Morality that may be mad● thereof I have as you see real Existence in Nature an● if any will take the paines t● travel into Arabia to Mech● he shall finde my Nest in a Tre● hanging there almost as Artificially as doth the Tombe o● Mahomet bribed by an invisibl● Loadstone into that miraculous posture thereof But now saith the Hawk suppose I should seise on yo● this night for my supper whether doe you thinke that th● losse of your life would be s● great a defect in Nature that the whole Universe would fare the worse for the same Undoubtedly it would saith the Phoenix for this is received for an undoubted Maxime amongst Philosophers that if one whole kinde or species of Creatures be destroyed the whole world would be ruined thereby For every kinde of Creatures are so Essential to the well being thereof that if any one of them be utterly destroyed all the rest out of sympathy will decay I conceive not saith the Hawk that you are such a foundation stone in Natures building that the taking you away will hazard the whole Architecture thereof However I am resolved to put it to the tryal be it but to gaine knowledge by the experiment I know what Plato saith That those are the happiest Kingdomes wherein either their Kings are Philosophers or their Philosophers their Kings Seeing therefore the History of Nature is so necessary to an accomplished Governour I who desire all perfections in that kind will to satisfie my curiositie make proof thereof The Phoenix pleaded for her self the benefit of a Proclamation of liberty to all for three dayes to come and goe with safety the Eagle smiling at her silly plea informing her that such grants are to be kept no farther than they are consistent with the conveniency of those that grant them Yet for the present the Phoenix was reprieved because the Hawkes stomach lately gorged had not as yet recovered his appetite to his supper Then the Hawk approached to the Turtle-dove demanding of her whether it was true or no what passeth for a common truth that the Turtle if once losing their Mate never wed more but passe the remainder of their dolefull dayes in constant widdowhood Most true it is saith the Turtle which I may speake by my owne sad experience for some three vears since the unhappy shot of a cruel Falk oner deprived me of my deare Husband since which time I have sequestred my selfe from all company never appearing in publique till now forced thereunto by command from Authority And surely I conceive all second Marriages little better than excusable lust for when once the heate of youth hath been abated in one Match none can pretend Necessity of Marrying againe except it be for quenching those heates which they themselves willingly and wilfully kindle Besides when one hath once really affected a Husband or he a Wife affections so ingrosse the whole soul that notwithstanding his or her death it can never admit another to the same degree of dea●nesse Especially if their love were signed and sealed with Issue as mine was having three of both Sexes surviving ●end them better successe than their unhappy Father ●ad so that in them me●hinkes I behold my Husband ●till alive She therefore that ●ath not the modesty to d●e ●he Relict of one man will charge through a whole Arm● of Husbands if occasion wer● offered before her love wil● meet with a full stoppe there of You are too rigid and s● vere saith the Hawk to mak● your personal temper and pr● vate practice the rule to me● sure all other by unacquainte● with the Necessities of othe● in this kinde But to co● closer to the matter I desi● satisfaction in another thing namely whether you be wit● out a Gall as is commonly r● ported I know there is a twofo● knowledge one by the fru●