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A68703 Philomythie, or, Philomythologie wherin outlandish birds, beasts, and fishes, are taught to speake true English plainely / by Tho: Scot ... Scot, Tho. (Thomas), fl. 1605. 1622 (1622) STC 21871; ESTC S1126 100,451 231

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PHILOMYTHIE or PHILOMYTHOLOGIE wherin Outlandish Birds Beasts and Fishes are taught to speake true English plainely By Tho Scot Gent. Philomithus est aliquo modo philosophus fabula enim ex miris constituitur The second edition much inlarged LONDON for Francis Constable at the white Lyon in Paules church yard 1622 TORTI TOTO MVNDO A PRAEMONITION TO THE INTELLIGENT READER Lest hee finding his affection or opinion crost in the praise or dispraise of some particular should thereby be drawn to reade or reiect the rest with Praeiudice WHO safely in the streame would swim Must free from weeds keepe euery lym Lest sl●●e vnto himselfe he grow And vulgar humour drawes him low Or v●n●ring in the deeps too weake Opinions windie bladder breake We ought both in our selues and friends To hate all acts with doubtfull ends And loue euen in our foes the good Which may be seuer'd from their blood And if the times mislead vs so To sooth those sinnes we would not do At least like free-men let vs thinke What 's good and bad although we winke To this free nature if you finde These busie papers much inclinde Yet pardon them and i●dge ar●ght A free man not a slaue did write Reade for your pleasure close the Booke On th' innocent out side all may looke Th' intelligent within may prie But barre th' Intelligencers eye THOMAS SCOT SARCASMOS MVNDO OR The Frontispice explaned HOw apt is Man to erre Antiquitie Thinks it sees right and yet sees all awry Our sight is impot●nt the helpe we haue By Art-full sp●ctacles doth much d●praue The truth of obiects And tradition saith Bookes vse to ly● And Bookes d●ny her faith Ecclipses of the Sunn● were wonders thought Till sage Milesi●● the cause out-sought And man had not the wit to make a doubt Of halfe the world till fortune found it out But what this Age hath s●ene makes that s●eme truth The laughing wiseman wrote which made the youth Shed teares to reade it that more worlds remaine Still vndiscouer'd then are yet made plaine De●pe diuing Paracel●us findes the ground With minerals and mettals to abound More proper for our humors then the weed●s● Hearbs plants flowers which spring from weaker seeds● This earth we liue on and do stedfast call Copernicus proues gid●y-brainde and all Those other bodies whose swift motions we So wonder at he setled finds to be Till sanctifi'd Ignatius and his brood Found out the lawfull way of shedding blood And prou'd it plainly that a s●bi●ct might Murther ●is Prince we fondly vsde t' indite Such persons of high treason Now before them We kneele we pray we worship and adore them For with their merits now w'ar● mor● acquaint●d And know for zealous Pa●riot● they are s●incted His power that doth it till of lat● we do●bted But now who qu●stions it to death are flout●d Th●n l●t what I propound no wonder s●eme Though doting age new truthes do disesteeme For time may mak● it plaine and reason too May beare it out though sure with much adoe Causes for●g●●●ff●cts by course of kinde Yet first th' ●ff●ct and then the cause we finde And so much I do here propound the thing But strong●r reason af●●r-times may bring Attend my Doctrine then I say this Earth On which we tread from whence we take our birth Is not as some haue thought proportion'd round And Globe-li●e with s●ch zon●s and girdles bound As Poets or more lyer● Tr●u●ll●rs s●y But shap●d awry and lookes another way It is a monstrous Creature like a M●n Thrust altog●ther on a heape we can Distinguis● no part goggle cyes wide mouth Eares that reach both the poles from north to south Crump-shouldr●d breast back thighs together The legs and feet all one if it hath ●ither In breefe it is the greatest Master D●uill Thro●ne downe from heauen in whose womb● euery cuill Is radically fixt and from thence springs Infusing natiu● euill in all such things As it doth bre●d and nourish The place of H●ll Is in his wombe there lesser deuils dwell And when he stirres a limme or break●th winde We call 't an earth-quake and the danger finde Kings Emperours and mighty m●n that tread In ●ighest state are l●ce vpon his head The Pope and all his traine are skipping ●leas That know no bounds but l●ape lands-law and seas● The r●st are nits or body-lyc● that craule Out of his sweat s●ch vermin are we all From heauen this monster fell and now doth lye Bruzde with the fall past all recouery Neither aliue nor dead nor whole nor sound Sinking and swimming in a sea profound Of sinn● and punishment of paine and terror Of learn●d ignorance and knowing error No wonder then that we who liu● and dye On curs●d earth do all things thus awry Being monstrous in our mann●rs and our minds And mixing in the lust-full change of kinds That we are full of passions doubts and feares And daily f●ll together by the eares No wonder that the Cl●rgie would be Kings Kings Church-men Lords and Ladies equall things So like in painting spotting starching all That Ladies Lo●ds and Lords we Madams call For euen as Hares change shape and sex some s●y Once ●uery yeare these whores do eu●ry day So that Hirquittall and his wife were waken By Succubus and Incubus mistaken No wonder that Diuines the Parasites play In ieast and earnest Actors euery way No wond●r that some the●ues doe Lawyers proue Since all these euils by course of nature moue So f●rre that it is question●d ' mongst the wise Which now is vertue and which now is vice Two Croo●backs not the third Dick Gloster hight We will haue none of him for he would fight Debate this question each assumes his part Aesope for vertue stands and all his art Is to instruct the world to leaue the sinne And folly which it lyes incompast in We●ps to behold it circled so with vices Whose serpentine and poysond sting intic●s To f●ding pleasure and to deadly paine By vse soone caught but hardly left again● He wries his necke at earth but 't is to see How out of order euery part will bee He wills each R●●der if my tales be darke To iudge the best the morall still to marke And w●ere they finde a doubtfull meaning there To hold an eu●n course and with compass● stere But where strict rigor might inforce a doubt T●incline to ●auour and to helpe me out On th' other side doth learned ●ort●s stand Concomitant and beares the world in hand That Aesope and some Stigmaticks beside In shape and wit did call well-fauour'd Pride A vice because themselues were so deform'd At euery pleasure they with malice storm'd But wiser much he doth with better face With equall wit worth knowledge but lesse grace Confront such fond assertions lookes awry On all the world of vertue giues the lye To iudgement and with crooked minde and backe T●●●sites-like vnloades this learned packe He teacheth