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A53048	Natures picture drawn by fancies pencil to the life being several feigned stories, comical, tragical, tragi-comical, poetical, romanicical, philosophical, historical, and moral : some in verse, some in prose, some mixt, and some by dialogues / written by ... the Duchess of Newcastle.	Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674.	1671 (1671)	Wing N856; ESTC R11999	321,583	731

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

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

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

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

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