his Brother and withall left her a great Estate for he was very rich After the Ceremonies of the Funeral his Brother carried the Child home which was nursed up very carefully by his VVife and being all that was likely to succeed in their Family the Unkle grew extream fond and tender of his Neece insomuch that she was all the comfort and delight of his life A great Duke which commanded that Province would often come and eat a Breakfast with this Gentleman as he rid a Hunting and so often they met after this manner that there grew a great Friendship betwixt them for this Gentleman was well bred knowing the VVorld by his Travels in his younger days and though he had served in the warrs and fought many Battels yet was he not ignorant of Courtly Entertainments Besides he was of a very good conversation for he had a voluble Tongue and a ready Understanding and in his retired life was a great Student whereby he became an excellent Scholar so that the Duke took great delight in his company Besides the Duke had a desire to match the Neece of this Gentleman his Friend to his younger Son having only two Sons and knowing this Child had a great Estate left by her Father and was likely to have her Unkle's Estate joined thereto he was earnest upon it but her Unkle was unwilling to marry her to a younger Brother although he was of a great Family but with much perswasion he agreed and gave his consent when she was old enough to marry for she was then not seven years old But the Duke fell very sick and when the Physicians told him he could not live he sent for the Gentleman and his Neece to take his last Farewell and when they came the Duke desired his Friend that he would agree to join his Neece and his Son in Marriage He answered That he was very willing if she were of years to consent Said the Duke I desire we may do our parts which is to join them as fast as we can for Youth is wild various and unconstant and when I am dead I know not how my Son may dispose of himself when he is left to his own choice for he privately found his Son very unwilling being a Man grown to marry a Child The Gentleman seeing him so desirous to marry agreed to what he desired The Duke called his Son privately to him and told him His intentions were to see him bestowed in Marriage before he dyed His Son desired him Not to marry him against his mind to a Child His Father told him She had a great Estate and it was like to be greater by reason all the Revenue was laid up to encrease it and besides she was likely to be Heir to her Unkle who loved her as his own Child and her Riches may draw so many Suiters when she is a Woman said he that you may be refused He told his Father Her Riches could not make him happy if he could not affect her Whereupon the Duke grew so angry that he said His Disobedience would disturb his Death leaving the World with an unsatisfied Mind Whereupon he seemed to consent to please his Father Then were they as firmly contracted as the Priest could make them and two or three Witnesses to avow it But after his Father was dead he being discontented went to the Warrs and in short time was called from thence by reason his Elder Brother dyed and so the Dukedom and all the Estate came to him being then the only Heir But he never came near the young Lady nor so much as sent to her for he was at that time extreamly in love with a great Lady who was young and Handsome being Wife to a Grandee which was very rich but was very old whose Age made her more facil to young Lovers especially to this young Duke who was favoured by Nature Fortune and Breeding for he was very handsom and of a ready Wit Active Valiant full of Generosity Affable well-fashion'd and had he not been fullied with some Debaucheries he had been the compleatest Man in that Age. The old Gentleman perceiving his neglect towards his Neece and hearing of his Affection to that Lady strove by all the Care and Industry he could to give her such Breeding as might win his Love Not that he was negligent before she was contracted to him for from the time of four years old she was taught all that her Age was capable of as to Sing and to Dance for he would have that Artificial Motion become as Natural and so to grow in Perfections as she grew in years When she was Seven years of age he chose her such Books to read as might make her Wise not Amorous for he never suffered her to read in Romances nor such leight Books but Moral Philosophy was the first of her Studies to lay a Ground and Foundation of Virtue and to teach her to moderate her Passions and to rule her Affections The next study was History to learn her Experience by the second hand reading the Good Fortunes and Misfortunes of former times the Errors that were committed the Advantages that were lost the Humours and Dispositions of Men the Laws and Customs of Nations their rise and their fallings of their Warrs and Agreements and the like The next study to that was the best of Poets to delight in their Fancies and in their Wit and this she did not only read but repeat what she had read every Evening before she went to Bed Besides he taught her to understand what she read by explaining that which was hard and obscure Thus she was always busily employed for she had little time allowed her for Childish Recreations Thus did he make her Breeding his only Business and Employment for he lived obscurely and privately keeping but a little Family and having little or no Acquaintance but lived a kind of a Monastical Life But when the Neece was about Thirteen years of age he heard the Duke was married to the Lady with which he was enamoured for being by the death of her Husband left a rich Widow she claimed from him a Promise that he made her whilst her Husband was living That when he dyed being an old man and not likely to live long to marry her which he was loth to do for Men that love the Pleasures of the world care not to be encumbred and obstructed with a VVife and so did not at all reflect neither upon his Contract with the young Lady for after his Father dyed he resolved not to take her to Wife for she being so young he thought the Contract of no validity But the VVidow seeming more coy than in her Husband's time seeking thereby to draw him to marry her and being overcome by several ways of subtilty he married her VVhereupon the Unkle was mightily troubled and very melancholy which his Neece perceived and desired of him to know the cause which he told her Is this the
apt to sigh She said Sighs were the Minds Pulse and when the Mind was sick the Pulse beats strong fast and unevenly which made Lovers sigh softly smutheringly and sometimes deeply and strongly Then they asked her VVhat made Lovers groan She said Groans were the Mind's Voice and when it felt pains it complained as finding no ease Then they asked her VVhat made Lovers extravagant She said That Extravagantness was a distemper in the Mind which distemper was caused by the Pain it felt Then they asked her If there were no Cure She said Yes Time was a good Physician and Change the only Remedy unless said she the Object of Love be unalterable and then it is dangerous But said she the Mind would be well and free from such pains if it were not for the Appetites which are never pleased but are restless run after Excess and hunt after Variety for they are always in pain either in desiring and not enjoying or else with surfeiting of what they have fed upon for the period of the Appetites is Excess and Excess is Surfeit and Surfeit is Sickness and Desire is Travelling and Travelling is Restless and Restlesness is Wearisome and Wearisomness is Painful insomuch as before we get to our desired End we are tired or dead Seldom do Lovers weep sigh groan or tremble But to make love or rather to dissemble For some can forge those Passions by the dozen And act them all poor Women for to cozen The sixteenth sort of Visiters were Poets Who asked her Why Poets were most commonly Poor She said Poets are employed with Contemplations that they have no time for Fruition for Poets said she had rather have Fancies in their Heads than Money in their Purse and take more pleasure in expressing the one than in spending the other which makes their Imaginations their chiefest Possessions being careless of Fortune's Goods despising her Service regarding neither her Frowns nor her Favours being entertained by Nature whom they most industriously serve and diligently attend Then they asked her Who were most in Nature's favour Poets or Philosophers She answered There was no doubt to be made but that she esteemed and loved Poets the best for said she Natural Philosophers tire Nature with Enquiries trouble her with searching and seeking about anger her with their Erroneous Opinions tedious Disputations and sensless Arguments and make her outragious with their cruel Extractions Substractions and Dissections As for Moral Philosophers said she they restrain enclose and tye Nature as one that is mad tormenting her beyond all reason but sometimes said she with strugling and striving she breaks out but cannot get so far but they straight get hold of her again which makes them always at variance But Poets saith she never cross nor anger her nor torment her they please her all they can and humour her every way they sooth her Passions feed her Appetites delight her Senses praise her Wit admire her Beauty adorn her Person and advance her Fame Then they asked her What the Muses were She said That the Muses were Nature's Dressers and Poet's Mistresses to whom they made Love and several Courtships Then they asked her What Poets were She said Poets were Nature's Painters which drew her to the life yet some do flatter her said she and some do her wrong but those that flatter her she favours most as all great Ladies do Then they asked her What was the ground of Poetry She said Distinguishing and Similizing which is said she Judgment and Fancy as for Numbers Rhyme and Rhetorick they are but the several Accoutrements but no part of the Body of Poetry Then they asked her What was the Effect of Poetry She said To move Passions to describe Humours to express Actions to correct Errors to condemn Follies to persecute Vice to crown Virtue to adorn the Graces to entertain Time to animate Youth to refresh Age to encourage Noble Endeavours to quicken the Spirits to please the Senses to delight the Mind to recreate the Thoughts to encrease Knowledg to instruct the Understanding to preserve the Memory to refine Language to praise Heaven to enflame Zeal to register Life to in-urn Death to pencil Nature and raise Fame Then the Poets asked her If Wit might not be gotten by Industry She said Yes for though it is Nature's Work to make a Brain strong and well-temper'd or put it in tune yet it is Learned Practice and Skill that must play therewith like a Lute although it should be well strung and justly tuned yet if there were no hands or other things to set it in motion it would become useless and unless it were tried it would not be known whether it could sound or no and one that was not practised and learnt in the Art of that Instrument might jangle but hardly play a composed Tune or make any Harmony therewith So a Brain becomes dull for want of use stupid for want of subject and barren for want of learning unless Nature doth play on the Instruments she makes without the help of Art which she can do and doth sometimes but so seldom that it is a wonder But although she doth not always make use of Art she never but doth make use of Time for Time is her chief Instrument with which she works and produceth all things I perceive said she that few profit by reading over or repeating of their own Wit for it is like the Breath of Water-Divers who have two Bags one filled with Air the other to put in Breath that issues out and that Breath that goes out can never be drawn back for use for the life of the Body must be fed with fresh Air or else it is smuthered out so the life of Wit must be fed with new Subjects or else it becomes idle or panting dyes The Seventh sort that visited her were Aged Persons They asked her What made Age so dull She said That most commonly Aged Bodies had Melancholy Minds their Thoughts as their Bodies were always travelling towards death unless said she it be the Irrational sort who live only to their Appetites and dye like Beasts for although old Father Time preches Death to them every minute they sensually or being accustomed to his Doctrine regard him not but follow their Senses as long as they can until they become as insensible as before irrational Then they asked her What made Mankind afraid to dye She said Pain and Oblivion but said she all Creatures are afraid of the one but none but Mankind are afraid of the other Then they asked her What Age endured the most violent Pangs of Death She said middle-Middle-age and perfect growth as being strongest Bodies for perfect growth with middle-middle-age is like a well-built House throughly seasoned and strongly setled which makes Death take the greater pains to pull it down But Infacy and Age said she are like to Houses newly wrought or rotten with long time which the least puff of Wind lays level with the ground Then
so high lived in the Lower Region and by intermixing together as their Parents did produced more of their Kind But after those productions of these Souls they went to the Planets where they found some of their Climates too cold others too moist others too cold and moist others hot and others hot and moist others hot and dry others cold and dry with which they did not agree being not equally temper'd But yet in every Planet these Souls being fruitful they left many of their Issues called Meteors which are shining-lights like Starrs but being produced from the Mortal temper of the Souls are subject to Mortality for Amorous Thoughts are the Bodily-dregs of Mortality which made these Meteors subject to dye as other Generations being the Mortal Effects of their Immortality otherwise they would be Starrs for whatsoever is Mortal may beget their Like or Kind which other things that are Immortal never do But when these two Souls had travelled above the Planets they became one fix'd Starr as being Eternal and not subject to dye And when they were thus they did produce no more Issues for what Mortality the Body left Those Souls to Earth and Planets did resign Which in a Generation of Meteors shine Fancy's Monarchy in the Land of Poetry IN the Land of Poetry Reason was King a Gallant Prince he was and of a Heroick Spirit a Majestical Presence and of a Sober and Grave Countenance He was tall of Stature and strong of Limbs His Queen was the Lady Wit a Lady of a quick Spirit of a pleasant Conversation amiable Countenance free Behaviour and of a sweet Disposition she was neatly shap'd fair Complexion'd and finely but variously attired This King and Queen loved one another with an extraordinary Affection and lived very happily and peaceably for he governed wisely His Kingdom was large and fully populated well manured and of great Traffick He made profitable Laws set strict Rules and kept good Orders both in the Church and State As for the Church Faith and Zeal were the two Arch-bishops who were sworn to consecrate none but Moral Virtues to preach Good Life and leave all Sects Opinions Superstitions Idolatry and the like Neither were they suffered to make Lectures of Learning because it is always about Controversies puzling Belief with nice Distinctions vain Fantasms and empty Words without Sense The Cathedral Church was the Conscience The two Universities were Study and Practice wherein all the Masculine Youth of the Kingdom were bred As for the State there were Superintendent Officers and Magistrates made of all degrees The Sen ces were the five Ports to this Kingdom the Head and the Heart were the two Magazines There were two Governours made to every Port to Command and Rule Judgment and Understanding always sit at the Ports called the Ears to examine all that enter there having a strict Command from the King to let in no Sound but Harmony no Reports but Truth no Discourses but Rational or Witty and that they should shut the Gates against Flattery Falshood Discord harsh loud Strains Scraping Creaking Squealing Noises Love and Skill were the two Commanders to the Port Eyes who were commanded to let none in but Uniformity Cimmetry Beauty Graceful Motions pleasing Aspects light and well-mixt Colours and to shut the Gates against Deformity or Monstrosity rude or cruel Actions glaring Lights illmix'd Colours false Shadows and Darkness and to set up the light of Dreams when they are shut Also to let no Tears pass through the Eyes but those that have a Pass-port from the Governour of the Heart At the Port of the Nostrils sate Like and Dislike who were commanded to let in none but sweet Smells such as refresh the Brain as the scent of sweet Flowers savoury Herbs Earth new-plough'd new-bak'd Bread also sweet Gums sweet Essences and the like but to shut the Gates of the Nostrils against snuffs of Candles stinking Breaths corrupted Flesh stale Fish old Apples strong Cheese spilt Drink foul Gutters especially the Pump or Sink in a Ship also no Smells of Suet or Grease and from many more stinking Scents which would be too tedious to mention But in case of necessity they were to be allowed or at least commanded to let in some sorts of Stinks as Assafoetida and burnt Feathers to cure the Fits of the Mother Then the two Commanders of the Mouth were Truth and Pleasure one was to govern the Words the other the Taste Pleasure was commanded to let nothing into the Mouth that was either too sharp too bitter too salt or too deliciously sweet Truth was commanded to suffer no Lyes Cursing Slandering Railings Flattering nor Amorous Lascivious Factious Discourses Likewise never to let pass an Oath but to confirm a Truth no Threatning but to terrifie or reclaim the Wicked or Cross-natur'd no Pleading but for Right no Commands but for Good no Praises but for Worth Also to let no Sighs nor Groans pass nor no Professions except they have a Pass-port from the Heart Nor no Promises but when they have a Pass-port from the King which is Reason The two Commanders of Touch were Pain and Pleasure who were commanded to keep out all sharp Colds burning Heats Bruises Pinches Smartings Cuttings Prickings Nippings Pressing Razing and to let in none but nourishing Warmth soft Rubbing gentle Scratching refreshing Colds and the like And upon pain of Death or at least high Displeasure these Rules were to be kept Yet sometimes Bribery corrupted the Commanders The Privy-Council-Chamber was the Breast the Privy-Councellors were Secrecy Constancy Fidelity Unity Truth Justice Fortitude Prudence and Temperance These Privy-Councellors helped the King to manage the Affairs of the Kingdom The Secretaries of State were Intelligence and Dispatch The Treasurer was Memory The Lord Keeper was Remembrance The Mayors of every City were Authority The Constables were Care The Judges were Commutative and Distributive Justice Honesty was the Commander of all the Forces of the Actions and Thoughts The Heroick Actions are the chief Commanders as Captains and Colonels and the like The Common-Soldiers are the ordinary and necessary Actions which are employed in Offensive and Defensive Warrs The Merchants are the Imaginations which traffick and trade all over the World The Inventions are the Handicrafts-men and Labourers The Appetites are the Citizens that are so covetous as to engross all Commodities and the Wealth of the Kingdom and are the most Luxurious People in the Land But as I said the King was a Wise Prince and to divert his Subjects from too serious Studies dull Contemplations and laborious Dictatings he had Masques Plays Pastorals and the like being attended by his Nobles the Sciences and the Gentry of the Kingdom which were the several Languages The Queen by the Muses and Graces The Marriage of Life and Death DEATH went a wooing to Life but her grim and terrible Aspect did so affright Life that she ran away and would by no means hearken unto her Suit Then Death sent Age and
Weakness as two Ambassadors to present her Affection but Life would not give them audience Whereupon Death sent Pain who had such a perswasive power that made Life yeeld to Death's embracements And after they were agreed the Wedding-day was set and Guests invited Life invited the Five Senses and all the Passions and Affections with Beauty Pleasure Youth Wit Prosperity and also Virtue and the Graces But Health Strength Cordials and Charms refused to come which troubled Life much None that Death invited refused to come they were Old Father Time Weakness Sickness all sorts of Pains and all sorts of Diseases and killing-Instruments as also Sighs Tears and Groans Numbness and Paleness But when Life and Death met Death took Life by the Hand then Peace married them and Rest made their Bed of Oblivion wherein Life lay in the cold Arms of Death Yet Death got numerous Issues and ever since whatsoever is produced from Life dyes Whereas before this Marriage there was no such thing as dying for Death and Life were single like Batchelors and Maids But Life proved not so good a Wife as Death a Husband for Death is sober staid grave discreet patient dwelling silently and solitary whereas Life is wild various unconstant and runs about shunning her Husband Death's company But he as a loving and fond Husband follows her and when he embraces her she grows big and soon produces young Lives But all the Off-spring of Death and Life are divided half dwelling with Life and half with Death At this Wedding old Father Time which looked the youngest although he was the oldest in the Company and danced the nimblest and best making several changes in his Dances he trod so gently and moved so smoothly that none could perceive how he did turn and wind and lead about And being wiser than all the rest with long Experience he behaved himself so handsomely insinuated so subtilly courted so civilly that he got all the Ladies Affections and being dextrous got Favours from every one of them and some extraordinary ones for he devirginated Youth Beauty Pleasure Prosperity and all the Five Sences but could not corrupt Wit Virtue nor the Graces But Nature hearing of the abuse of her Maids was very angry and forced him to marry them all But they although they were inamoured of him before they were married yet now they do as most other Wives not care for him nay they hate him rail and exclaim against him that what with his peevish froward and cross Wives and with the jealousie he hath of Sickness Pains and Mischances that ofen ravish them he is become full of wrinkles and his Hair is turned all gray But Virtue and Wit which are his sworn Friends and sweet Companions recreate him with their pleasant free honest and honourable Societies Of the Indispositions of the Mind THE Mind was very sick and sent for Physicians and the first that came were Divines who disputed so long and contradicted one another so much that they could conclude of nothing One advising the Mind to take a Scruple of Calvin's Institutions others a Dram of Luther's Doctrine some two Drams of the Romish Treacle or Opinions some of the Anabaptists Water others to take some of the Brownists Spirits But there were some quite from these Opinions and would advise the Mind to lay some of Mahomet's Pigeons at the feet cutting them with the Turkish Scimitar then bind it up with his Alcaron others would have the Mind bind the Head with the Talmud of the Jews But the Mind grew sicker and sicker insomuch that it was almost at the last gasp whereupon the Mind desired them to depart for said he your Controversies will kill me sooner than your Doctrine will cure me The Mind being very sick sent for other Sects of Physicians who were Moral Philosophers who being come set round a Table and there began to discourse and dispute of the Diseases of the Mind One said Grief is a Lethargie No said another Stupidity is a Lethargie for Grief rather weeps than sleeps O but said another there are dry Griefs that sweat no Tears Pray Gentlemen dispatch said the Mind for I am in great pain One says Hate is an Apoplexy for it is dead to it self though it lives to the Beloved No said he but Hate is a Dead-Palsie No said the other Ignorance is a Dead-Palsie but Hate is an Apoplexie caused by the stopping of the Spirits either Animal or Vital the Vital Spirits being Compassion the Animal Spirits Generosity You are most strangely mistaken said another for all the Spirits are composed of Fortitude the Vital Spirits are active the Animal are passive But they disputed so long upon this point that they had almost fallen out and the Mind prayed them not to quarrel for wrangling noise did disturb him much Then one said That Spight and Envy were Cancers the one caused by sharp Humours the other by salt Another said That Spight was not a Cancer but a Fistula that broke out in many several places and that Envy was the Scurvy that speckled the whole Body of the Mind like Flea-bites The Mind prayed them to go no further in that dispute Then one of them said That Anger was a Hot Burning Fever Nay by your favour said another Anger is an Epilepsie that soams at the Mouth and beats its Breast strugling and striving and will be often in Cold-Sweats and as pale as Death Then another said That an Ague in the Mind was Doubt and Hope the Cold Fit being Doubt and the Hot Fit Hope A second answered That Agues were Fear which caused Shaking-Fits A third said That Jealousie was an Ague that had Cold and Hot Fits Nay said a fourth Jealousie is an Hectick Fever that is an extraordinary Heat got into the Arteries which inflames the Spirit of Action drinks up the Blood of Tranquillity and at last wasts and consumes the Body of Love A fifth said Jealousie is the Gout which is a burning beating pain never letting the Mind be at rest Said a sixth Jealousie is a Head-ake caused from an ill affected Friend But there grew such a Dispute upon this as whether it was the Head Heart or Arteries that the Mind was forced to threaten them they should have no Fees if they did dispute so much As for the Wind-cholick in the Mind some said It was an overflow of Imaginations and Conceptions others That it was strange Opinions others said It was wild Fancies others That it was the over-dilating of the Thoughts and many more several Judgments were given whereupon they were ready to fight To which the Mind replied That it is impossible you should prescribe effectual Medicines if you cannot agree about the Disease Then another said Slander was the Spotted-Fever Another said A Spotted-Fever was Malice Says another A Spotted-Fever and the Plague have near relation but the Plague said he is Discontent that is caused by Envy Slander Malice and the like This Plague of Discontent breaks out
Slaves both Males and Females to breed on as we do breed Flocks of Sheep and other Cattel the Children were eaten as we do Lambs or Veal for young and tender Meat the elder for Beef and Mutton as stronger Meat They kill five Males for one Female for fear of destroying the Breed although they be so fruitful that they never bear less than two at a birth and many times three and they seldom leave Child-bearing until they are Threescore years old for they usually live there until they are Eight score and sometimes Two hundred years but the ordinary Age is a Hundred unless Plagues come not out of Sluttery or evil or corrupt Air but with too much nourishment by reason of their delicious Diet which breeds such a superfluity of Humours that it corrupts their blood As for their Houses they are kept very cleanly by reason they never eat in them for their custom was to eat all together in common Halls as the Lacedemonians did only they had better Cheer and more Liberty Likewise their Women were common to every one's use unless it were those Women of the Royal Blood which is a sort by themselves as was described before and therefore never mixt with the rest but if they did and were known it was death These of the Royal Blood had all their Skins wrought like the Britans As for their Government it was Tyrannical for all the common People were slaves to the Royal Race But to return to the old Man observing how careful and choice they were kept he told his Son what he thought was their intention which vvas to sacrifice them and said he there is no vvay to escape unless vve had their Language and could make them believe vve came from the Gods and that the Gods vvould punish them if they put us to death and you are young said he and apt to learn but I am old and my Memory decayed vvherefore novv or never study for your Life Well said he since my Life lyes in my Learning I vvill learn for my Life Which he did so vvell that he got in that Tvvelve-month their Language so perfect as he understood and could speak most of it In vvhich time he understood all that I have delivered in this Relation and besides understood that they had many Gods and Goddesses The Sun was their chief God and the Earth the chief Goddess their next God was the Sea and their Goddess the Moon and they prayed to the Starrs as some do to Saints to speak in their behalf and to present their Prayers to the Sun and Moon which they thought to be as Man and Wife and the Starrs their Children To their Gods they offered none but the Males and those offerings were offered by Men And the Men pray'd only to the Gods and to their Goddesses none but the Women nor none but Female-offering were offered unto them At last by their Discourse and Preparation they perceiv'd they were to be sacrificed to the Sun as being both Males as they thought and with great Ceremony as being Strangers and such Rarities yet they did not touch Travelia as supposing if they should ' he would dye before he was brought to the place of Sacrifices In all this time he never disclosed that he could speak their Language nor understand them But in this time the old Man had got some Salt-peeter and Brimstone and burnt Wood into Charcoal so made Gunpowder for they had the liberty to go where they would about their Temples and after he had made the Gun-powder he made two things like Pistols although not so curious and neat yet well enough to serve his turn and directed his Son what he should do and say Against that day he made himself a Garment of a Grass which was like to Green Silk which he had woven so finely as it look'd like Sattin He had also upon the Calfs of his Legs like Buskins of several-colour'd Flowers and a Garland of Flowers on his Head the Soles of his Sandals were of that Green but the stripes a-top was of Flowers like his Buskins in each hand he held the two Pistols his Hair which was grown in that time for he never discovered it keeping it tyed up untied and let down spread upon his back But when the Priest which came to fetch him forth saw him thus drest never seeing Hair before for they had none but Wool and very short as Negroes have was amazed at the sight and not daring to touch him went by him guarding him as the chief Sacrifice to the place where the King and all his Tribe and all his People waited for their coming the King being placed at the head of the Altas with a Dart in his right hand the Spear of the Dart being an entire Diamond cut with a sharp Point to signifie the piercing beams of the Sun which Spear he usually struck into the Heart of the Sacrificed which Heart the Priest used tb cut out and give the King to eat raw the whilst the Priest sung Songs in the praise of the Sun as the Father of all things Thus after some expectation the Priests came with their Sacrifices which when the King and People saw they were all amazed as well they might for the Youth appear'd most beautiful But at last they all shouted and cryed out Their Gods had beautified and adorned their Sacrifices as being well pleased therewith making great shouts and noises of Joy But when he came to the Altar he call'd to them in their own Language at which they grew mute with wonder and being silent he thus spake OKING and you Spectators Why do you offend the Gods in destroying their Messengers which come to bring you life and to make you happy Hed I brought you Plagues then you might have sacrifieed me to your God of Lights as coming from Death and Darkness his Enemies but for this your false Devotion the great Sun saith he will destroy you with one of his small Thunder-bolts killing first your Priests and then the rest With that shot off his Pistol into the breast of the Chief Priest wherewith he straight fell down dead The noise of the Pistol and the flash of the Fire which they never saw before and the effect of it upon the Priest struck them with such a horror and did so terrifie them as they all kneeled down imploring Mercy and Forgiveness with trembling Limbs and weeping Eyes Whereupon he told them There was no way to avoid Punishment but first To fast two days from any kind of Nourishment Next Not to open their Lips to speak And then To obey whatsoever he shall teach them as being sent from the Gods bidding them go home until their time of Fasting were out and then to return to the Temple again commanding none to remain there but to leave it to the old Man and himself The Temple was most rich and curiously built having in that Countrey great Art and Skill in Architecuture
Chance She answered That doubtless there were fixt Decrees as Light Darkness Growth Decay as Youth Age Pain Pleasure Life Death and so in every thing else for ought my Reason can perceive For said she as Nature creates by Dissolution and dissolves by Creation so the Diattical Life says she decrees Rules and ruleth by Decrees Then they asked her What was Chance and Fortune Chances said she are visible Effects from hidden Causes and Fortune a conjunction of many sufficient Causes to produce such an Effect since that Effect could not be produced did there want any one of those Causes by reason all of them together were but sufficient to produce but that one Effect many times produces many Effects upon several Subjects and that one Effect like the Sun streams out into several rays darting upon several Subjects and again as the Sun scorches and burns some things and warms and comforts others so this Effect advances some and casts down others cures some and kills others and when the Causes vary and the Effects alter it is called Change of Fortune Then they asked her Whether she thought Faith could naturally produce any Effect She answered That in her opinion it might for said she why may not Faith which is an undoubted Belief joined to such a subject produce or beget an Effect as well as a Seed sown or set in the Earth produceth a Flower a Tree or the like or as one Creature begets another especially if the Faith and Subject whereon it is placed have a sympathy but by reason said she Faith is not so customary a way of producing as other ways are it causeth many Doubts which Doubts are like cold Northern Winds or sharp biting Frosts which nip and kill the Buds of Faith which seldom or never lets the Effects come to perfection Then they asked VVhat the Sun was She answered A Body of Fire Then they askedher VVhat Light was She answered Light was enflamed Air. They said That if Light was enflamed Air it would burn all things and so consume the World She answered That in thin Bodies Fire had but little power to burn for the thinness of the Matter weakens the power of the Strength which causeth Flame said she to be of no great Heat for the hot Flames do rather sindg than burn and the thinner the substance is that is set on fire the purer the Flame is and the purer the Flame is the less Heat it gives as the Flame of Aqua-vitae that may be eaten with Sops Then they asked her What Air was She answered That Air was the Smoak produced from Heat and Moisture For Air said she is a thin Oyl which is set on fire by the fiery Sun or is like a fiery Substance and fiery Motions whose Flame is light Then they asked her what Darkness was She answered Darkness was the absence of Light And then they asked why it was dark immediately when the passage of Light was stopped and that if it were inflamed Air it would burn and give Light as long as that inflamed Air lasted She answered that when the fiery Rays that issued from the Sun were cut off the flame went out for said she it is not the Air that feeds the Flame but the fire that is in the Flame and when that Fire is spent or taken away the Flame dyes this is the reason said she that as soon as the Rays of the Fire is cut off or shut out or taken away it is dark and when they are eclipsed the Light is dull and dim but as I said before Light is only Air set on flame by the fiery Sun and the Blewest Sky is the thinnest Flame being the purest Air and just as if we should carry a Candle away we carry the light also which is the Flame so doth the Sun and as we bring a Candle or the like into a Room we bring in the light so doth the Sun Where the Fire is there is the greatest light and when a Screen is set before it the light is eclipsed and when kindled Fire as a Candle or the like is carried quite from the place it leaves as great a darkness as if it were put out just so doth the Sun which is the World's Candle when it goeth down draweth away the light which is the Flame and as it riseth it bringeth in the Fire which causeth the Flame and when it is high-Noon then is the brightest light as casting no shadows if nought Eclipses it and when Clouds get before it it is Eclipsed as with a Screen and when it is quite removed to another part of the World it doth as if it went into another Room or Chamber leaving no light behind it for twi-light is caused from the Rays of the Sun for though the Body of the Sun is gone from off such a part of the Earth yet the Rays which are the spreading-part of Fire are not quite drawn away as soon as the Sun for as those Rays usher the Sun-rising so they follow the Sun-setting and though these Rays of Fire which are the Beams of the Sun enflame the Air yet not so bright as the Body of the Sun doth and where the Sun is gone so far as the Beams cannot reach that part of it becomes dark It is not the gross Clouds as some think make twi-light for we see a cloudy day makes the twi-light seem shorter though it be not and it is by reason they eclipse the enflamed Air for Clouds are rather Vapour than Air and though Vapour and Air have some relation the like hath Vapour and Water and Vapour when it is gathered into the Clouds doth rather eclipse than prolong light They said That if the Light was Flame the Vapoury Clouds might quench it out She answered That although Vapour could eclipse the Light it could not put out the light of the Sun 't is true said she it may and doth often allay the fiery heat in the Rays for some days will be cooler than other days although the Sun be higher and some will be cooler than others although in the same degree of the Sun by reason of low Marish Grounds or near great Rivers from whence Vapours arise But though the Vapour may abate the heat in the Rays as the enflamed Air and eclipse the light either of Mists or Fogs or when they are gathered into Clouds yet they can neither put out the light nor quench out the heat of the Sun which is the Fountain of both no more than a drop of Water can quench a House on fire The Sun is a World of bright shining Fire from which other Worlds receive both light and heat 'T is true if there could be such a quantity of Water as could equal the Sun's power it might quench the Sun unless the Sun be an eternal Fire But as for Vapour were there a greater quantity than what arises from the Earth it could not change the natural property of the Sun besides Vapour is of a
said This Tale I will requite To vindicate our Sex which you did slight A Man in love was with a Lady fair And for her sake would curl perfume his Hair Professions thousands unto her did make And swore for her a Pilgrimage would take I swear said he Truth shall for me be bound Constant to be whilst Life in me is found With all his Rivals he would Quarrels make In Duels fought he often for her sake It chanc'd this Lady sick was like to dye Of the Small Pox Beauty's great Enemy When she was well her Beauty decay'd quite He did forsake her and her Friendship slight Excuses made her did not often see Then asked leave a Traveller to be And thus poor Lady when her Beauty 's gone Without her Lover she may sit alone Then was the third Man's turn his Tale to tell Which to his Company he fitted well A Description of Constancy THere was a Noble Man that had a VVife Young Fair and Virtuous yet of so short life That after she had married been a year A Daughter 's born which Daughter cost her deer No sooner born the Mother laid in bed Before her Lord could come his VVife was dead Where at the sight he did not tear his Hair Nor beat his Breast nor sigh nor shed a Tear Nor buried her in state as many do And with that Funeral-Charge a new Wife wo But silently he laid her in a Tomb Where by her side he meant to have a Room For by no other side he meant to lye In Life and Death to keep her company The whilst he of his Daughter care did take And fond he was ev'n for his dear VVife's sake But Grief upon his Spirits had got hold Consum'd him more than Age that makes Men old His Flesh did waste his Manly Strength grew weak His Face grew pale and faintly did he speak As most that in a deep Consumption are Where Hectick-Fevers do with Life make warr And though he joy'd he had not long to live Yet for to leave his Daughter young did grieve For he no Kindred had to take a care Of his young Child and Strangers he did fear They would neglect their Charge not see her bred According to her Birth when he was dead Or rob her of her Wealth or else would sell Her to a Husband might not use her well Or else by Servants brib'd might her betray With some mean Man and so to run away These cares of his his Mind did much torment And her Ill Fortune to his Thoughts present At last he did conclude If any be True Just and full of Generosity They 're such as are like to the Gods on high As Powerful Princes and Dread Majesty The Soveraign was dead but left to reign His Widowed-Queen whose Prudence did maintain The Government though Forreign Warrs she had Which was a Charge and oft-times made her sad This Noble-man sent to the Queen to crave That she upon his Child would pity have To take her to the Court there to be bred That none might wrong her after he was dead The Queen most willingly his Suit did sign And so in Peace his Soul he did resign This Lady soon did to the Court repair Where she was bred with tender Love and Care And Youth that 's bred in Courts may wisest be Because they more do hear and more do see Than other Children that are bred obscure Because the Senses are best Tutors sure But Nature in this Maid had done her part And in her frame had shew'd her curious Art Compos'd her every way Body and Mind Of best Extracts that were to form Mankind All which she gave to Time for to distill And of the subtil'st Spirits the Soul to fill As Reason Wit and Judgment and to take The solid'st part the Body for to make For though that Nature all her works shapes out Yet Time doth give strength length and breadth about And as her Person grew in stature tall And that her Beauty did encrease withall So did affection in her Heart grow high Which there was planted in her Infancy There was a Subject Prince within the Land Although but young the Army did command He being chose for Birth Wealth Valour Wit And Prudence for to lead and martial it The whilst his Father did the Queen assist To manage State-affairs as knowing best The Kingdom 's Constitutions Natures bad Of Common-People who are sometimes mad And wildly in Distempers Ruins bring For most Rebellions from the Commons spring But he so just and loyally did serve His Queen and Countrey as he did preserve Himself within her Favour and her Love As great Respect and honour'd Praise did prove And in the Warrs his Son such Fame did get That in Fame's Chariot he triumphant set For he was Valiant and of Nature free Courteous and full of Generosity His VVit was quick yet so as to delight Not for to cross or in Disputes to fight For gallant Sword-men that do fight in warr Do never use with Tongues to brawl and jarr He was exact in Body and in Mind For no Defects in either could you find The Queen that had a Neece both young and fair Did strive to match her to this Prince and Heir Of all his Father's VVealth who had such store As all the Nobles else did seem but poor And the young Princess lik'd so well the choice That thoughts of marrying him did her rejoice And through her Eyes such Messages Love sent On smiling-rays and posting-glances went The other Lady did hear the Report For every one did talk of it in Court Besides she saw his Person still attend Upon the Princess and did Presents send And every day to visit her did go As being commanded by his Father so At which she sad and melancholy grew Yet her Disease not thorowly she knew Like as a Plant that from the Earth doth spring Sprouts high before a full-blown Flower it bring So did her Love in Bud obscurely lye Not any one as yet did it descry Nor did the Prince the least affection find She being reserv'd in action and in mind Sober she was and of a bashful look Of but few words yet she good notice took And much observ'd for Love hath a quick Eye And often by her Countenance doth spy The hidden Thoughts that the Tongue dare not tell For in the Mind obscurity doth dwell But yet she did espy something lay cross To his Desires but guess'd not what it was But griev'd that any thing should him displease For those that love do wish their Lov'd much ease Nay so much ease they Torments would endure If these for those they love might good procure But she grew restless and her Thoughts did run About him as about the VVorld the Sun For he was her sole VVorld and wish'd her Love Had influence as Planets from above To order his affections and to bring From several Causes one Effect to spring And the Effect that he might
tell you said the Mind Nature builds some Minds like a curious and stately Palace and furnishes them so richly that it needs neither Time nor the Senses laying Reason as the Foundation and Judgment for the Building wherein are firm and straight Pillars of Fortitude Justice Prudence and Temperance is paved with Understanding which is solid and hard walled with Faith which is roofed with Love and bows like an Arch to embrace all towards a round Compass is Leaded with Discretion which sticks close keeping out watry Errors and windy Vanities it hath passages of Memory and Remembrance to let Objects in and Doors of Forgetfulness to shut them out likewise it hath Windows of Hopes that let in the Light of Joy and Shutts of Doubts to keep it out also it hath large Stairs of Desire which arise by steps or windings up by degrees to the Towers of Ambition Besides in Architecture of the Mind there are wide Rooms of Conception furnish'd richly with Invention and long Galleries of Contemplation which are carved and wrought with Imaginations and hung with the Pictures of Fancy Likewise there are large Gardens of Varieties wherein flow Rivers of Poetry with full Streams of Numbers making a purling Noise with Rhymes on each side are Banks of Oratory whereon grow Flowers of Rhetorick and high Trees of Perswasion upon which a Credulous Fool helped by the Senses will climb and from the top falls on the Ground of Repentance from whence old Father Time takes him up and puts him into the Arms of Expence who carries him in to the Chyrurgeon of Expence and is healed with the Plaster of Warning or else dyes of the Apoplexical Disease called Stupidity But Wisdom will only look up to the top viewing the growth and observing what kind they are of but never adventures to climb she will sit sometimes under the Branches for Pleasure but never hang on the Boughs of Insinuation While they were disputing in comes grim Death whose terrible Aspect did so affright the Mind that the very fear put out its Light and quenched out its Flame and the Body being struck by Death became sensless and dissolved into Dust. But old Father Time run away from Death as nimbly as a light-heel'd Boy or like those that slide upon the Ice but never turned to see whether Death followed or no Death called him but he made himself as it were deaf with Age and would not hear A Tripartite Government of Nature Education and Experience NATURE Education and Experience did agree to make a Juncto to govern the Monarchy of Man's Life every one ruling by turns or rather in parts being a Tripartite Government The Soul the Senses and the Brain where Nature creates Reason as the chief Magistrate to govern the Soul Education creates Virtue to govern the Appetites for Virtue is bred not born in Man And Experience creates Wit to govern the Brain for Wit though native without Experience is defective As for the Soul which Natural Reason governs it hath large Territories of Capacity and Understanding and many Nobles living therein as Heroick Passions and Generous Affections Subtil Enquiries Strong Arguments and Plain Proofs The Senses which Virtuous Education governs are five great Cities and the various Appetites are the several Citizens dwelling therein which Citizens are apt to rebel and turn Traitors if Virtue the Governess be not severe and strict in executing Justice with Courage cutting off the Heads of Curiosity Nicety Variety Luxury and Excess and though Temperance must weigh measure and set Limits yet Prudence must distribute to Necessity and Conveniency the several Gifts of Nature Fortune and Art The third is the Brain wherein Experienc'd Wit governs which is the pleasantest part and hath the larrgest Compass wherein are built many Towers of Conceptions and Castles of Imaginations Grounds ploughed with Numbers and sowed with Fancies Gardens planted with Study set with Practice from whence Flowers of Rhetorick grow and Rivers of Elegancy flow through it This part of the Kingdom hath the greatest Traffick and Commerce of any of the three parts and flourishes most being populated with the Graces and Muses Wit being popular hath great power on the Passions and Affections and in the Senses makes Civil Entertainments of Pleasure and Delight feeding the Appetites with delicious Banquets NATURE's HOUSE THE whole Globe is Nature's House and the several Planets are Nature's several Rooms the Earth is her Bed Chamber the Floor is Gold and Silver and the Walls Marble and Porphyrie the Portals and Doors are Lapis-Lazarus instead of Tapistry Hangings it is hung with all sorts of Plants her Bed is of several precious Stone the Bed-posts are of Rocks of Diamonds the Bed's-head of Rubies Saphires Topasses and Emeralds Instead of a Feather-bed there is a Bed of sweet Flowers and the Sheets are fresh Air her Table is of Agats and the like yet the Roof of the Chamber is Earth but so curiously Vaulted and so finely wrought that no Dust falls down it is built much like unto a Martin's Nest the Windows are the Pores of the Earth Saturn is her Gallery a long but a dark Room and stands at the highest Story of her House Sol is her Dining-Room which is a round Room built with Heat and lined with Light Venus is her Dressing-Room Cynthia is her Supping-Room which is divided into four Quarters wherein stand four Tables one being round at which she sits being furnished with all Plenty the other are Side-board Tables Mercury is her Room of Entertainment The Rational Creatures are her Nobles The Sensitive Creatures are her Gentry The Insensible Creatures are her Commons Life is her Gentleman-Usher Time is her Steward And Death is her Treasurer A DISPUTE THE Soul caused Reason and Love to dispute with the Senses and Appetites Reason brought Religion for whatsoever Reason could not make good Faith did Love brought Will for whatsoever Love said Will confirmed The Senses brought Pleasure and Pain which were as two Witnesses Pleasure was false Witness but Pain would not nor could not be bribed Appetite brought Opinion which in somethings would be obstinate in others very facil But they had not disputed long but they were so entangled in their Arguments and so invective in their Words as most Disputers are that they began to quarrel as most Disputers do Whereupon the Soul dismist them although with much difficulty for Disputers are Captains or Colonels of ragged Regiments of Arguments and when a Multitude are gathered together in a Rout they seldom disperse until some Mischief is done and then they are well pleased and fully satisfied The Preaching-Lady Dearly Beloved Brethren IHAVE called you together to Instruct Exhort and Admonish you My Text I take out of Nature the third Chapter in Nature at the beginning of the fourth Verse mark it dearly Beloved the third Chapter beginning at the fourth Verse The Text In the Land of Poetry there stands a steep high Mount named Parnassus at the top
Fool and a Disease most Men have being married young But a Man in years is solid in his Counsels sober in his Actions graceful in his Behaviour wise in his Discourse temperate in his Life and appears as Nature hath made him Masculine Whereas a young Man is rash in his Counsels desperate in his Actions wild in his Behaviour vain in his Discourses debauch'd in his Life and appears not like his Sex but Effeminate A fair Forehead and a smooth Skin a rosie Cheek and a ruby Lip wanton Eyes and a flattering Tongue are unmanly appearing like Women or Boys let them be never so Valiant and as if they would sooner suffer the Whip than handle the Sword In an ancient Man every Wrinkle is a Trench made by Time wherein lies Experience to secure the Life from Errors and their Eyes are like active Soldiers who bow and sink down by the over-heavy Burthens of their Spoils which are several Objects that the Sight carries into the Brain and delivers to the Understanding as Trophies to hang up in the Magazine of the Memory His white Hairs are the Flage of Peace that Time hangs out on the Walls of Wisdom that Advice and Counsel may come to and fro safely Nay the very Infirmities of Age seem manly his seeble Legs look as if they had been over-tired with long Marches in seeking out his Foes and his Palsey-Hands or Head the one seems as if they had been often used in beating of their Enemies and the other in watching as if they knew not what Rest meant Sir said the Duchess you commend Aged Husbands and dispraise young ones with such Rhetorick torick as I wish the one and hate the other and in pursuit of my Hate I will cross my Husband's Amours as much as I can In the mean time the Duke was gone to the old Gentleman the young Lady's Unkle who when he saw him enter he started as if he had seen an Evil he desired to shun Sir said he What unlucky occasion brought you into my House First Repentance answered the Duke and then Love and lastly my Respect which I owe as a Duty My Repentance begs a Forgiveness My Love offers you my Advice and good Counsel My Respect forewarns you of Dangers and Troubles that may come by the Marriage of your Neece to the Vice-Roy Why what danger said he can come in marrying my Neece to a Wise Honourable Rich and Powerful Man and a Man that loves and admires her that honours and respects me But said the Duke put the case he be a Covetous Jealous Froward Ill-natured and Base Cowardly Man Shall she be happy with him But he is not so said he But answered the Duke if I can prove him so Will you marry her to him Pray said he spare your Proofs of him since you cannot prove your self an Honest Man Sir said the Duke Love makes me endure a Reproach patiently when it concerns the Beloved but though it endures a Reproach it cannot endure a Rival Why said the old Gentleman I hope you do not challenge an Interest in my Neece Yes said the Duke but I do and will maintain that Interest with the power of my Life and never will quit it till Death and if my Ghost could fight for her it should Heaven bless my Neece said the old Gentleman What is your Design against her Is it not enough to fling a Disgrace of Neglect on her but you must ruin all her good Fortunes Is your Malice so inveterate against my Family that you strive to pull it up by the Roots to cast it into the Ditch of Oblivion or to fling it on the Dunghill of Scorn The Duke said My Design is To make her happy if I can and will oppose all those that hinder her Felicity disturbing the content and peace of her Mind for she cannot love this Man besides he disclaims her and vows never to marry her Sir said the Gentleman I desire you to depart from my House for you are a Plague to me and bring an evil Infection Sir said the Duke I will not go out of your House nor depart from you until you have granted my Request Why said the Gentleman you will not threaten me No said the Duke I do petition you The Gentleman said If you have any Quarrel to me I shall answer it with my Sword in my hand for though I have lost some strength with my years yet I have not lost my Courage and when my Limbs can fight no longer the heat of my Spirits shall consume you besides an Honourable Death I far prefer before a baffled Life Sir said he I come not to move your Anger but your Pity the Sorrows I am in for the Injuries I have done you being extream great and if you will be pleased to take me into your Favour and assist me by giving my Wife your Neece leave to claim the Laws of Marriage and Right to me all my Life shall be studious to return Gratitude Duty and Service to you Yes answered he to divulge her Disgrace declaring your neglect in an open Court and to make my self a Knave to break my Promise Sir said the Duke your Disgrace by me is not so much as you apprehend but it will be a great Disgrace when it is known the Vice-Roy refuses her as I can shew you his hand to it and if he deserts your Neece you are absolved of your Promise made to him and to let you know this is a Truth here is his Hand The whilst the old Gentleman was reading the Papers the Vice-Roy comes in O Sir said he you are timely come Is this your Hand says he Yes answered the Vice-Roy And do you think it is honourably done said the Gentleman Why said the Vice-Roy Would you have me marry another Man's Wife Well said the old Gentleman when your Vice-Roy-ship is out as it is almost I will give you my Answer till then fare you well But the Duke went to the young Lady and told her the progress he had had with her Unkle and his Anger to the Vice-Roy After the old Gentleman's Passion was abated towards the Duke by his humble submission and the Passion enflamed towards the Vice-Roy he hearkned to the Law Suit being most perswaded by his Neece's Affection which he perceived was unalterably placed upon the Duke And at last advising all three together they thought it sit since the Parties must plead their own Cause to conceal their Agreements and to cover it by the Duke's seeming dissent lest he should be convicted as a Breaker of the known Laws and so be liable to punishment either by the hazzard of his Life or the price of a great Fine Being thus agreed of all sides the Law-suit was declared which was a business of discourse to all the Kingdom and the place of Judicature a meeting for all curious inquisitive and idle People When the day of hearing was come there was a Barr set out where the Duke
five years for as the years of Twenty by his Parents Perswasion being a younger Brother at that time although afterwards he was lest the first of his Family by the death of his Eldest Brother he married a Widow being Noble and Rich but well stricken in years never bearing Child And thus being wedded more to Interest than Love was the cause of his seeking those Societies which best pleased him But after long Conflicts and Doubts Fears Hopes and Jealousies he resolved to remove her from that House and to try to win her by Gifts and Perswasions And sending for a reverent Lady his Aunt whom he knew loved him he told her the passage of all that had hapned and also his affection praying her to take her privately from that place and to conceal her secretly until he was well recovered entreating her also to use her with all the Civility and Respect that could be Going from him she did all that he had desired her removing her to a House of hers a Mile from the City and there kept her The young Lady in the mean time expecting nothing less than Death was resolved to suffer as valiantly as she had acted So casting off all care she was only troubled she lived so idly But the old Lady coming to see her she prayed her to give her something to employ her time on for said she my Brain hath not a sufficient stock to work upon it self Whereupon the old Lady asked her If she would have some Books to read in She answered Yes if they were good ones or else said she they are like impertinent persons that displease more by their vain talk than they delight with their Company Will you have Romances said the old Lady She answered No for they extol Virtue so much as begets an Envy in those that have it not and know they cannot attain unto that perfection and they beat Infirmities so cruelly as it begets pity and by that a kind of love Besides their Impossibilities makes them ridiculous to Reason and in Youth they beget Wanton Desires and Amorous Affections What say you to Natural Philosophy said she She answered They were meer Opinions and if there be any Truths said she they are so buried under Falshood as they cannot be found out Will you have Moral Philosophy No said she for they divide the Passions so nicely and command with such severity as it is against Nature to follow them and impossible to perform them What think you of Logick She answered It is nothing but Sophistry making Factious Disputes but concludes nothing Will you have History No said she for they are seldom writ in the time of Action but a long time after when Truth is forgotten but if they be writ at present Partiality Ambition or Fear bears too much sway Will you have Divine Books No said she they raise up such Controversies that cannot be allayed again tormenting the Mind about that they cannot know whilst they live and frights their Consciences so that it makes men afraid to dye But said the young Lady Pray give me Play-Books or Mathematical ones the first said she discovers and expresses the Humours and Manners of Men by which I shall know my self and others the better and in shorter time than Experience can teach me And in the latter said she I shall learn to demonstrate Truth by Reason and to measure out my Life by the Rule of good Actions to set Marks and Figures on those Persons to whom I ought to be grateful to number my days by Pious Devotions that I may be found weighty when I am put in the Scales of God's Justice Besides said she I may learn all Arts useful and pleasant for the Life of Man as Musick Architecture Navigation Fortification Water-works Fire-works all Engines Instruments Wheels and many such like which are useful besides I shall learn to measure the Earth to reach the Heavens to number the Starrs to know the Motions of the Planets to divide Time and to compass the whole World The Mathematicks is a Candle of Truth whereby I may peep into the Works of Nature to imitate her in little It comprises all that Truth can challenge All other Books disturb the Life of Man this only settles it and composes it in sweet Delight The old Lady said By your Beauty and Discourse you seem to be of greater Birth and better Breeding than usually ordinary young Maids have and if it may not be offensive to you pray give me leave to ask you From whence you came and What you are and How you came here She sighing said I was by an unfortunate Warr sent out of my Countrey with my Mother for safety being very young and the only Child my Parents had My Father who was one of the Greatest and Noblest Subjects in the Kingdom and being employed in the Chief Command in that Warr sent my Mother not knowing what the Issue would be to the Kingdom of Security where he had been formerly sent Embassador So my Mother and I went to remain there until the troubles were over But my Father being killed in the Warrs my Mother dyed for grief and left me destitute of Friends in a strange Countrey only with some few Servants I hearing a Peace was concluded in the Kingdom was resolved to return to my own Native Soil to seek after the Estate which my Father left me as his only Heir When I embarked I only took two Servants a Maid and a Man but by an unfortunate Storm I was cast upon a Shore belonging to this Kingdom where after I was landed my two Servants most treacherously robb'd me of all my Jewels and those Moneys I had and then most barbarously left me alone where afterwards my Host sold me to an old Bawd and she to one of her Customers who sought to force me whereas I to defend my self shot him but whether he be dead or alive I know not afterwards I was brought hither but by whose directions you I suppose can give a better account to your self than I yet I cannot say but that since I came hither I have been civilly used and courteously entertained by your self who seem to be a Person of Worth which makes my fears less for I hope you will secure me from Injuries though not from Death And since you are pleased to enquire what I am and from whence I came I shall entreat the same return to instruct me in the knowledg of your self and why I was brought hither and by whose Order The old Lady said She was Sister to the Prince's Mother and a tender lover of her Nephew and to comply with his desires she was brought there to be kept until he should dispose of her Then she told her what he was but never mentioned the affection he had for her but rather spoke as if her Life were in danger So taking her leave she left her telling her She would send her such Books as she desired Thus passing
he having more Passion then Doubt would not believe her Which she perceiving broke the Bladder asunder betwixt her Teeth and immediately fell down as dead Whereat he was so amazed as he had not power to stir for a time But at last calling for help the old Lady came to them he telling her what she had done as well as his Fear would give him leave The Lady having skill in Physick as most Ladies have reading in Herbals and such kind of Books gave her something to make her vomit up the Poyson wherewith she weakly revived to life again But she was so very sick as almost cut off all hopes of keeping that Life Whereat he lamented tearing his Hair beating his Breast cursing himself praying and imploring his Pardon and her Forgiveness promising and protesting Never to do the like again She returning no answer but Groans and Sighs But he being a diligent Servant and much afflicted watch'd by her until she mended by the Lady's Care and Skill When she was indifferently well recovered she began to lament her ill condition and the danger she was in employing her Thoughts how she might escape the Snares of Spightful Fortune and gain her Friendship where soon after finding opportunity to take Time by the fore-lock the Prince being sent for to Court and the old Lady being not well whereby she had more liberty and searching about the Room found a Suit of Clothes of the old Lady's Page which Suit she carried into her Chamber and privately hid it then taking Pen and Ink writ two Letters the one to the Prince the other to the old Lady So sealing the Letters up and subscribing them left them upon the Table Then she straight stripped her self of her own Clothes which she flung in a dark place with her hair that she had cut off and putting the Page's Clothes on in this disguise she went towards the chief City to which came up an Arm of the Sea making a large Haven for many Ships to lye at Anchor in But as soon as she came to the Sea-side there was a Ship just going off which she seeing got into it her Fears being so great as not to consider nor examine whither they were bound and they were so employed hoisting their Sails and fitting their Tacklings that they took no notice when she came in But being gone three or four Leagues from the Shore and all quiet and free from labour the Master walking upon the Deck seeing a handsome Youth stand there in Page's Clothes ask'd him Who he was and How he came there She said I do suppose you are bound for the Kingdom of Riches where I desire to go but coming late seeing every one busily employed I had no time to bargain for my Passage but I shall content you with what in reason you can require The Master said We are not bound to that Kingdom but are sent for new Discoveries towards the South neither have we Provision for any more than those that are appointed to go Which when she heard the Tears flowed from her Eyes becoming her so well that they moved the Master to pity and affection Then asking him What he was She answered him That she was a Gentleman's Son who by the reason of Civil-Warrs was carried out of his own Countrey very young by his Mother and so related the very truth of his being cast into that Kingdom only she feigned that she was a Boy that had served a Lady as her Page but desiring to return into his own Countrey had mistaken and put himself into a wrong Vessel but said she I perceive the Fates are not willing I should see my Native Countrey and Friends and being young Travel may better my knowledg and I shall not neglect any service I am able to do or you are pleased to employ me in if you will accept of it At last her graceful and humble Demeanour her modest Countenance and her well-favoured Face preferr'd her to this Master's Service who was a grave and a discreet Man and told her as supposing her a Boy That since he was there he would not cast him out and although it will be hard for me to keep you yet you shall parrake of what I have allowed for my self She giving him many thanks said She would strive to deserve it But after some Weeks the Master fell very sick in which sickness she was so industrious to recover his health by her diligent attendance and care that it begot such affection in the old Man that he adopted him his Son having no Children of his own nor none like to have he being in years They sailed five or six Months without any tempestuous Winds yet not without danger of Rocks and Shelves of Sand which they avoided by their skill and many times refreshed themselves in those Harbours they met with in their way which made them hope a pleasant and prosperous Voyage But Fortune playing her usual tricks to set Men on high hopes and then to cast them down to ruin irritated the Gods against them for their Curiosity in searching too far into their Works which caused them to raise a great Storm making the Clouds and Seas to meet Showers to beat them Winds to toss them Thunder to affright them Lightning to amaze them insomuch as they had neither strength to help nor sight to guide nor memory to direct nor courage to support themselves the Anchor was lost the Rudder was broke the Masts were split the Sails all torn the Ship did leak their hopes were gone Nothing was left but black Despair And grim Death on their Face to stare For every gust of Wind blew Death into their Face And every Billow digg'd their burial place In this time of Confusion the Traveller for so now she calleth her self followed close her old new Father who had as many careful Thoughts and as great a regard for her safety as she of her self and giving order to the Pilate that had lost his steerage to cast over the Cock-Boat which no sooner done but a gust of Wind drave them on a Rock that split the Ship and as soon as he perceived it he took his beloved and supposed Boy and put him with himself and the Pilate into the Boat cutting the Cable emploring the favour of the Gods committing themselves to the Fates and setting up a little Sail for the Wind to carry them which way it pleased No sooner put off but the Ship and all therein sunk But the Gods favouring the young Lady for her Virtue tied up the strong Winds again into their several corners after which sailing six days at last they were thrust through a Point into a large River which for the greatness might be called a large Sea for though it was fresh water yet it was of that longitude and latitude that they could not perceive Land for four days together but at the last they espied Land and coming nigh they perceived a Multitude of People which
or rather resolution for Love is obstinate and if it finds not a like return but a neglect grows spightful rather wishing evil to what they love than another should enjoy what they would have and hate themselves out of a displeasure in not having what they desire So did he and was impatient until he was shipt and gone who steered his course towards the Kingdom of Riches as believing she was sailed towards her own Countrey and resolved he was to find her out or to end his days in the search his Life being a burthen to him without her company Thus Love sailing in the Ship of Imagination on the Ocean of the Mind toss'd on the troubled Waves of discontented Thoughts whilst his Body sailed in the Ship on the Sea cutting the salt Waves they were set on by Pyrates and taken Prisoners so that he was doubly captivated his Soul before now his Body At first they used him but roughly according to their barbarous natures but by degrees his noble Disposition and affable Behaviour got indifferent entertainment It chanced some time after in the sharing of those Prizes they got with him and some others they had got before they fell out and from rude words they fell to ruder blows The Prince apprehending the danger that might befall to himself strove to pacifie them giving them such Reasons in elegant words that it charmed their Ears and softned their Hearts and ended the strife amongst them and begot from them such love and respect that they made him their Albitrator and Divider of the Spoils which he performed with that Justice and Discretion to each one that they made him their Governour and chief Ruler over them which Power he used with that Clemency and Wisdom that he was 〈◊〉 father as their God than their Captain giving him all Ceremonious Obedience And thus reigning in his Watry Kingdom with his three-forked Trident we leave him for a time and visit the old Man and adopted Son who now began to grow weary of their Divine Honours and like wise Men that seek a retired and secured life from the Pomp of dangerous Glories bethought themselves how they might get away and to return into their own Countreys again for an humble and mean Cottage is better beloved by the Owner than the bravest and stateliest Palace if it be another's Thus putting their Designs in execution they invited the King and People to a solemn Meeting in the Temple where Travelia standing in his usual place thus spake THE Gods said he will have us to return from whence we came and to you Great King their Command is To love your People and to distribute Justice amongst them guarding the Innocent punishing the Offendor and not to use any cruel Ceremony to destroy your own Kind but to instruct them in the Right and to lead them into the ways of Truth as being their High-Priest amongst them Also To make as Warrs against your Neighbouring Kingdoms but as a defence and guard to your own for in Peace lives Happiness when Warrs bring Ruin and Destruction and in doing this Tranquillity shall be as a Bed of Ease for Life to sleep on and Length of Days as a Chariot for Life to ride in to Heaven where your Souls shall dwell in the height of Bliss And in this World Fame shall Crown your Deeds and your Posterity shall glory in your Name And to you beloved People the Gods command Piety in your Devotion Obedience to your King Love to your Neighbour Mercy to your Enemies Constancy to your Friends Liberty to your Slaves Care and Industry for your Children Duty to your Parents and in doing this Plenty shall flow in amongst you Mirth shall dance about you Pleasures shall invite you Delight shall entertain you Peace shall keep you safe till the Gods call you to partake of the Glories of Heaven and my Prayers shall always be That Jove may preserve you all Then going off from the place where he stood they went to the King to take their leaves whereat the King and People wept and wish'd the Gods had given them leave to dwell amongst them But since they could not have their desire therein they travelled to the River-side in attendance on them offering them great Riches to carry with them But they desired nor took they any more with them than they thought would defray their charges in a time of necessity Neither did they build a new Ship to sail in but went in the same Boat they came which had been kept as a Relick safe for the old Man considered with himself that a bigger Vessel would be more dangerous without Sea-men than the small Boat which they could manage themselves And so with great sorrow of either side the one to lose their Angels as they thought them to be the others for the dangers they were to run through And thus they parted from the Kingdom of Fancy putting forth their Boat from the shore the old Man who was very skilful at Sea observing what Angle they came in returned the same way where after six days they were upon the Main Sea the Winds being fair and the Waters smooth the Boat went as swift as an Arrow out of a Parthian's Bow and as even as if it meant to hit a Mark but if by a fresh Gale the Waves did chance to rise the Boat would as nimbly skip each ridg as a young Kid over a green Hillock being as leight as Mercury's winged Heels So Joy filled their Hearts with Hopes as Winds filled their Sails But various Fortune causing several changes in the World did raise such Storms of Fears as drowned all their Joys for a Ship fraughted with Pyrates like a great Whale seized on them Pyrates let nothing escape which they can get to make advantage of so ravenous is their covetous Appetite But finding not such a Prize as they did expect but such as might rather prove a burthen consulted to put the old Man into the Boat again and to keep only the young Youth whom being very handsom they might sell for a Slave and get a Sum of Money But when the old Man was to depart Travelia clasped about him so close that his Tears and the Tears of the old Man mix'd and joined and flowed as Waters through a Channel swell'd with several Brooks But when he was forced to leave his hold down on his kness he fell begging he might go or keep his Father there Pity said he my Father's Age Cast him not out alone to sail on the wide and dangerous Sea for though my Help is weak yet I am a Stay and Staff for his decayed Life to lean upon and I hope the Gods have destin'd me to that end but if no pity can move your Hearts for Him O let it do it for Me Cut me not from the Root though old and dry For then poor Branch I wither shall and dye Nay said he I will dye when I can no longer help him
for Death is in my power though Life is not But the Prince who was their Commander hearing a noise came on the Deck who no sooner saw him but was struck with Compassion raised by a resemblance of his Mistress appearing in the Face of the Youth and going to him bid him dry his Eyes and cease his Sorrow for they both should live together so long as he could keep them Heaven bless you said he and may you never part from that you most do love But when Travelia's Tears were stopped and sight got a passage through her Eyes again and looking up to view that Man from whom his Obligations came no sooner saw his Face but Terror struck his Heart and trembling seized her Limbs as if she had seen some hideous and prodigious thing The Prince observing her in that Agony asking him as supposing her a Boy What made him shake and tremble so In quivering Words she answered As Fear before had shrunk his Sinews short so now Joy had extended them too far The Prince then stroaking his Head promised they should both be well used and so returned into his Cabin Thus travelling on the Sea as on a great Champain the Ship like a Horse went several paces according as the Waves did rise and fall But at last this Ship became like a Horse diseased with Spavins which broke out and sprung a leak which they stopt as well as they could for the time but doubting it could not long hold out grew very sad some weeping some praying some murmuring some raving according as their Fear and Hopes were But the Prince who was valiant by nature expected Death with as much patience as they with fear did apprehend it neither was he struck with terror but yeelded to the Fates and was willing to dye But in the midst of their Afflictions at last they espied an Island at which sight they all shouted for joy Thus in the life of Man many several accidents pass about and it chances many times that out of the midst of Grief and Sorrow rises up Objects of Comfort so was it here and setting up all their Sails made haste to it but before they could come close to it although they were not far from it the Leak broke out again and likewise their Fears for the Ship grew sick of a lingring Disease that it could swim no farther but perished by little and little which perceiving they hoist out their Boat where the Prince gave order That those which were most afraid should go first he himself was the last that went therein though the Boat did go and unload and return'd many times insomuch that not only the Passengers were saved but all their Goods which no sooner were out but the Ship sunk and dyed of that Incurable Dropsie But in these Dangers the Prince forgot not Travelia for why the Prince was more fond of him than Travelia was of himself for her fears of being known gave her no rest But being all safely arrived in the Island they began to consider what to do the Prince counselled them to chuse out some of the Company to build up Hutts to lay their Goods in and also to cut down some Trees there being great store of Wood chusing that which was most proper and fit to build a new Ship whilst the rest of the Company went to seek Food and to discover the place This being agreed upon they divided themselves and those that travelled up into the Island found it very small as being not above thirty miles long and twenty broad and unpeopled but great store of Fish and Fowl few Beasts but those that were were of a gentle Kind fine Meadows full of Grass and sweet Flowers refreshing and shady Woods wherein ran clear Springs and bubling Brooks Thus though it were little it was very pleasant the greatest Inconvenience they found there was want of Houses for they found the ground somewhat damp with Dews which being an Island it was subject to but the Air was ferene and clear the Climate a little more than temperately hot But the time that the Ship was a building the Prince had a little House or thing like an Arbour built in the midst of the Island to lodg in and the rest made Hutts for themselves and several Recreations they found to pass away the time Being in so solitary a place the Prince who was melancholy for the loss of his Mistress grew full of Thoughts and having her Picture in his Mind drawn to the life comparing it to Travelia's Face which he often looked upon began to reason with himself why that might not be she considering her private escape and the little acquaintance she had in that Countrey and seeming of a better breeding than a Ship-Master's Son could have it did almost confirm his hopes But discoursing one day with the old Man of several accidents telling their Misfortunes and good hap of both sides and being both of one Countrey the old Man thinking no harm discovered by his talking that Travelia was none of his Son begotten from his Loins but adopted through Compassion and Affection and then telling the Story how he came into his Ship unknown or without his leave by the circumstances of Time Place and Manner found that it was she whereat being transported with joy he could scarce conceal his Passion but dissembled his knowledg as well as he could for the present yet after that time sought an occasion to get her alone where he did usually go a Birding and did command Travelia to carry his Bags of Shot after him who loved the Service though she feared the Lord and when they were gone some distance from the rest of the Company and being in a shady Wood the Prince feigned himself weary and setting down to rest commanded him to do the like and at last discovered to him how he came to know her She finding her self discovered turned as pale as Death and in that passion of Fear prayed him to kill her or otherwise she should find a way to do it her self But the Prince told her He would satisfie himself first unless she would consent to live with him as his Wife in that Island wherein said he we may live free and secure without any Disturbance She musing with her self what to do believing he was not grown the Chaster with living amongst rude and barbarous People thought it best to dissemble and give a seeming-consent Whereat the Prince's Thoughts being more elevated than if he had been Master of the whole World they return'd to the rest of the Company the one with an over-joyed Mind the other sad and full of perplexed Thoughts But when she came to a place where she might be alone sitting down in a melancholy posture without uttering Words or shedding Tears for Grief and Amazement had congealed the one and stopt the other yet at last her smuthered sorrow broke out into Complaint You Gods said she Who will offer Sacrifice to your Deities since
my Soul is yours there is nothing I can own that is not so And since you must and will go from this place let me go with you to set your Triumphs out and lead me as your Slave Sir answered she I have not been so ill treated nor am I so ungrateful to go away and leave no thanks behind me Wherefore I will stay until there is such a Peace made as you may receive as much Profit and as little Losses thereby as I. Wherefore in order thereunto I desire that the General of my Forces and some of my Council may come hither and so confer both with my self and you The King gave order that the Gates of the City might be set open but the Queen sent a Messenger to the Army that none of the Forces should enter into it but keep themselves where they were without only the General and the Council and some of the chiefest Commanders to come unto her But when they were ready to wait upon the Queen the old Man fell very sick and sent to his Son the young General to come unto him to take his leave of him before he dyed who went with a sorrowful heart and sad countenance and when he came close to his Bed the old Man spake Son said he My Lease of Life is expired and Death the Landlord of my Body knocks at my old and ruinated Cottage sending out my Soul to seek another Habitation which Soul intends to travel through the Airy Skies unto the Mansion of the Gods where it shall pray for your success and happy days on Earth O Father said Travelia Must you go and leave me here behind Why will the Gods so cruelly oppress An innocent Youth to leave it in distress You were my good Angel to guard me from those Evils that Fortune sets about me you were my Guide which did direct my simple Youth to just and honest ways What will become of me when you are gone Or who will rescue me from those that seek my ruin The old Man said The Gods the Gods my Son they will reward your Virtue Farewel farewell then turned his head and dyed After he had lamented and mourned over his lifeless Corps he sent to the Queen to give him leave to interr his Father's ashes The King hearing thereof sent to the General inviting him to bring his Father's Body into the City and there to be interr'd in his chief Temple which Honour he accepted Whereupon all the Army brought the Hearse unto the Gates and then returned unto their Trenches But the Chief Commanders did bear it unto the Grave the young General came into the Temple being clad all in Mourning only his Face seen which appeared like the Sun when it breaks through a dark and spungy Cloud whose Beams did shine on those watry drops that fell upon her Cheeks as Banks where Roses and Lillies grow and standing on a mounted Pillar he said I come not here to flatter or be-lye the dead but to speak the truth as far as my knowledg is informed He was aged in years not old for those are only old whose Memories and Understanding are grown defective by the length of time He was Wise by Experience not led with Self-opinion He was learned in the Art of Navigation and not ignorant of Land-Service or Command although few that dwell on Seas and profess that Art know more of Land than the Ports where they take harbour to shelter themselves from furious storms or to take fresh Victuals in or to be deboist with Wine and Women But he was most temperate not only in moderating his Passions but also his Appetites with Reason Honour and Religion In his Behaviour he was affable and free not formal nor constrain'd by vain and self-conceit His Disposition gentle sweet and kind He was in his Nature compassionate to all that were in distress He was Industrious to all good Effects and had a nimble and ingenious Wit and 〈◊〉 a superfluity of Courage as did not only banish fear in himself but begot spirit in others He was bred in the Schools of Honour where he had learnt Vertuous Principles and Heroick Actions He had all the Ingredients that goeth to the making of an Honest and Gallant Man And he was not only Morally Honest but most Pious and Devout He offered not Sacrifice to the Gods for Worldly Prosperity but out of Pure Love and Adoration to the Gods He was a Pattern for all others to take Example by His Soul was as the Breath of the Gods and his Animal Part as the best of Nature's Extraction But Nature makes nothing to last in one Form long for what she creates she dissolves again With that her Tears fell so fast from her Eyes as stopt her mouth for a time but at last she sighing said Although my Tears are useless to him since it is not in their power to alter the Decrees of Fate nor can perswade the Gods to give perpetual Life here in this World yet Natural Affections are forced through my Eyes Then bowing down her Head over the Corps which was placed underneath said These as satisfaction may asswage my grief to think my new-born Fears the issues of my Love shall be buried and lye intombed with his cold Ashes which is the only way to mingle Souls when Death hath parted Bodies But if Fate had had the power to twist the Thread of of my Life with his then Death had struck me too and so eased my grief But since it is not so his Memory shall lye entombed in my Heart until I dye After he had spoke this Funeral-speech he descended from the Pillar and helping to lay the Corps upon the Funeral-Pile did with a flaming-Torch set the Fuel on fire and gathering up the Ashes put them in the Urn and placed it in a Tomb. Having thus executed those Ceremonies belonging to the dead he changed his Mourning-Robes and clothed himself fit for the Court or Camp again Then he and the Council and the chief Commanders went unto the Palace of the King where after some discourse he was brought to the Queen who joyed more to see her Travelia than for the Victories they had won and after she had condoled with him for the loss of his Father she congratulated with him for the good success he had in the Warrs aud withal told him She must set at liberty his Prisoner the Prince for she had given him back unto the King Whereupon he presently gave order for the Prince to repair to the Court and after she had heard the relations of all their several Actions and Accidents and pleased her self with the variety of other Discourses she told them She would sit in Council to consider what was to be done as concerning the Peace and so dismist them for that time only she stayed Travelia loving his company so well she could not so easily part with him But the King perceiving her Affections as being never pleased but when
they asked her What course of life was best for Age to live She said Piously temperately soberly easily peaceably pleasantly and sagely to be Pious in serving the Gods duly and to be Compassionate and Charitable for the Aged many times seem as if they were tired in the Service of the Gods making their Age a lazy excuse for their omissions And Age having the Experience of the changes of Fortune the accidents of Chance the Miseries and Cruelties in Nature and the Havocks and Spoils Death makes grow hard-hearted for as Time hardens a tender Plant with the growth so Custom hardens a tender Heart with frequency As also having observed the false Natures the malicious Dispositions the subtil Designs the Self-ends the cruel Actions in the generality of Mankind they are apt to censure mistrust and condemn all which makes their Charity cold and Assistance slow They should be Bountiful for Age seeing the many Miserie 's that Poverty brings and the Power that Riches hath become oft-times so covetous and so sparing that they become miserable making their Stores their Prisons their Gold their Shackles lashing themselves with the Rods of Scarcity and Inconveniency and though their Blood streams not through a porous skin yet are their Veins shrunk up and dry within they feed on Thoughts as Lovers do and their Gold is their Mistress admiring it as the fairest of Nature's Works worship it as a Deity believe all happiness lives therein and good is produced thereby But those that have a generous Soul by Nature and have been accustomed to relieve by Practice encrease in Humanity Compassion Charity and Liberality as in years also their Love and Piety is fuller of Fervencies and though the Lamp of their Life is blinking yet the Flames of their Zeal are more clear for as their Oil of Life wasts their Oil of Devotions encreases continually pouring in Glory Praises and Thanksgiving Likewise said she Age should live soberly and temperately As for Temperance said she Age is a Distemper in it self and therefore they should have a greater care in ordering themselves but some are so far from patching the Ruins of Time or propping or upholding a sagging sinking Life that they make the rents greater and pull down the Building sooner than Nature intended disturbing their bodily rest and peaceable mind by their unseasonable Hours and unnecessary Cares as also by their unwholsome Diets and disordered Appetites which weakens Nature and disturbs Health more than otherwise they would be But those that are prudently wise survey themselves and industriously maintain Life in as good Repairations as they can placing shelters before it or laying covers upon it to defend and keep it from boisterous Storms and nipping Colds Likewise they repair it with nourishing Food comfortable Cordials and quiet Rest which makes them appear like a famous Monument or an ancient Palace whose stately Structure cannot be buried in the Ruins They should also live soberly gravely and reservedly for an aged Body with a vain Mind fantastical Humours extravagant Actions apish Behaviours and idle Discourses suit not well together they appear both uncomely undecently and unnaturally for Can there be any thing vainer than for Age to rant and swagger brag and boast or to be vain-glorious or Can there be any thing more phantastical than for Age to be inconstant and various pining and spightful gossipping and thwarting amorous and wanton And can there be more phantasticalness than for Age to be fooling and toying sporting and playing dancing and singing flanting and revelling posting and travelling searching and seeking sharking and fawning crouching and creeping Or Can there be more apishness than to see Age full of imitation as to affect a dancing jetting strutting stragling gait a pruning jointing wreathing rowling posture a simpring fleering jeering mopping mewing Countenance or leering fleering winking gloting Eyes And what can be idler than to hear Age talk lasciviously buffoonly impertinently falsly amorously vain-gloriously maliciously factiously and wickedly But sober Age hath a setled Mind quiet Thoughts well governed Passions temperate Appetites noble Resolutions honest Designs prudent Actions rational Discourses and Majestical Behaviours For an easie life said she Age should shun all troublesome Offices painful Employments tedious Travellings long Speeches impertinent Talkers hard Couches uneasie Garments sharp Colds burning Heats also Surfeits or unpleasant or loathsome Meats or Drinks for it were better to dye than live in pain and the infirmities of Age is pain enough without any addition to encrease them Likewise Age should strive to live a peaceable life as neither to hear Quarrels or make Quarrels or be a Party in Quarrels or quarrelsome business should abate all turbulent Passions restless Cares endless Desires vexing Thoughts It should also avoid all Clamours or mournful Noises cruel dreadful or pitiful Objects they should forgive Injuries freely suffer Injuries patiently submit to Power willingly or at least readily for Life is a torment when Peace is banished and to have an unquiet Life a troubled Mind joined with a weak Body would be as bad as Hell's torments The last is To have a pleasant Life for Age being apt to be melancholy it ought to please it self to divert its saddest Thoughts and raise its drooping Spirits Besides Age hath most reason to please it self having by nature the shortest while to live and they are most unwise that make not the best use or take not the most profit of Time But some may say That Age cannot take pleasure by reason that Pleasure lives in the Senses and the Senses which are the Strings Organs or Pipes of Pleasure are broke or out of tune and the Mind they will say is subject to ruinous Time as much as the Body and Senses for Knowledg which is the Foundation thereof and Understanding the Building thereon and Memory the Doors thereto and Remembrance the Windows therein is apt to decay which forceth the Inhabitant which is Delight to forsake its Mansion But I speak not to those that are so old or so infirm as to be past thinking as it were for those are but breathing-Carcasses not living-Men but I speak to such whose Knowledg is more and Understanding clearet by Time's Experience for though the Body hath a fixt time to arrive to a perfect growth and perfection yet the Mind hath not for the Mind can never know nor understand so much that it might not know and understand more neither hath Time such a Tyrannical Power over the Mind as over the Body Wherefore said she the Mind may have delight when the Body is past Pleasures and the Thoughts which are the Children of the Mind may have more various Pastimes and Recreations to delight them than the Senses can have Varieties of Substance to work Pleasures out of for they can create Delight in themselves which the Senses cannot for they become dull and grow as dead when they have nothing to work on When the Thoughts are like Spiders or Silk-worms that can spin out