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Microcosmos The discovery of the little world, with the government thereof. By Iohn Davies.
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Davies, John, 1565?-1618.
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leane leapers lustfull vsd to vant Yet wise in action sober fearefull sad If good most good if bad exceeding bad The Northen Nations are more moist and cold Lesse wicked and deceiptfull faithfull iust More ample strong couragious martiall bold And for their bloud is colder lesse they lust Then cold bloud being thicke it follow must They are lesse witty and more barberous And for they inwardly are more adust They meate and drinke devoure as ravenous The panch and pot esteeming precious Yet are they most laborious loving Artes Whose soules are in their fingers as it s sed For all our best hand-workes come from those parts As from the hotter Climes workes of the hed And those that twixt the South and North are bred As France and Italy Spaine and the like Of hot and cold are ev'nly tempered Therefore they are not made so apt to strike But warre with VVisdome rather then the Pike The coulor likewise shewes the temprament For Sanguin's red and yellow's Cholericke The Mâ—lancholy is to blacknesse bent The white or whitish is the Phlegmaticke The white and blacke are cold and rhewmaticke The Red and yellow hot by course of kinde To this consents each skilfull Empericke Who by experience of their practise finde That coulor shewes the temper notes the minde The Sanguin's frolicke free ingenious Couragious kinde to women over-kinde True Iovialists by nature generous And hot and humid they are by their kinde The Chollericke is hasty and inclinde To Envie pride and prodigalitie As Herc'les-hardy though with anger blinde And in its temper it is hot and drie Which is the cause it is so angery The Phlegmaticke are idle sleepie dull Whose temper 's cold and moist which drownes the wit The Melancholy's mestiue and too full Of fearefull thoughts and cares vnrequisit Who loue as loathing men alone to sit In temper cold and drie too like the dust Dust of the earth ere God life-breathed it Where hence we came and wherevnto we must Which flies as fearefull from a little Gust These are the humors whereof Man consists Which is a substaunce thin to which our foode The Stomackes heate by nature first disgests And hath dominion chiefly in our bloode These like the Elements moue in their moode For bloud is hot and humid like the aire Flegm's cold and moist in VVaters likelyhood Then Melancholy's like Earth cold and dry'r And hot and drie is Choler like the Fire And that the meates to humors should be chang'd They must be thrice concocted thorowly First in the Stomacke they are interchang'd And made that Chyle wherein potentially The Humors Chaos-like at first doe lie Next in the Liver the Masse Sanguiner Of Chyle composed is successiuely The third and last's through al the bodie where Humors are made that Meate and Chyle first were These raigne by turnes vntill their tearmes be done Bloud in the spring from three till nine each Morne Choler from thence till three in th'after noone In sommer-season Then Flegme in his turne From thence till nine at night doth rule the sterne In Autumne then sad Melancholy thence Till three next Morne when VVinter doth returne Thus in their turnes they haue preheminence Till Time turne vs and them with vs from hence And as these humors haue their turnes in time So rule the Planets in like consequence For by the Moone is governed our Prime That 's hot and moist but the preheminence The moisture hath So our Adolescence Is swaid by VVit-infusing Mercury Being hot and moist yet doth more heate dispense Which tunes the voices Organes erst too hy Making them speake with more profundity TheÌ„ youth our third age Loues Queene Venus swaies Bee'ng hot and dry but yet more hot then drie In this we VVantons play in Venus plaies And offer Incense to a rowling eie Bright Sol the gloriou'st Planet in the sky Doth rule our Manhoode which is temperate Hee Author is of race and gravity Of haplesse life this is the happi'st state Which they hold long'st that are most moderate And lastly old age being cold and dry By al-wise Iupiter is governed Author of Councell Craft and Policy VVhich Age againe in two's distinguished The first yonge old age may be Christened The last Decrepit is and so is call'd Which Saturn rules with Scepter of dul lead This Age to Life like Death is stil enthrall'd Thus in our life the Planetts are enstall'd And to these Ages dates precize we giue As Child-hood from our Birth till thirteene yeares AdolesceÌ„ce froÌ„ theÌ„ce to tweÌ„ty fiue And youth froÌ„ theÌ„ce til fiue thirty weares FroÌ„ wheÌ„ce til fiftie Mannes-estate apperes And to the rest old-age we doe assigne But one his yeares theÌ„ other better beares As time their temprature doth enterteigne Therfore the temprature should age designe For al men cold dry are old though yonge Some yong at sixtie some at forty old In growing old the youthful Sanguin's loÌ„ge For it doth store of heate and moisture hold The Melancholy being dry and cold Is aged soone So women more then men Soone meete with age which makes some be so bold As vnder Coulor that they are wo-men To keepe off Age till they be yong agen The Aire we breath doth beare an Ore herein And being subtil moves the simple Minde For never yet was foole a Florentine As by the wise hath well observed byn So subtill is the Aire hee draweth in The influences of malignant Starres Vales Caves Stanckes Moores and Lakes that never ryn Carion and filth all such the Aier marres Which killes the Corpes and vvitts Carreër barres From Regions VVinds staÌ„ding of the place Where we abide come the Aires qualities Vnder the Poles the Sun nere showing face But as a stranger the Aire so doth freeze That whosoever breathes it starving dies And in the Torrid Zone it is so hott That flesh and Bloud like flaming fire it fries And with a Cole-blacke beautie it doth blott Curling the Haires vpon a vvyry knott The winds though Aire yet Aire do turne wind VVhich Passions of the Aire our sp'rits affect These by the Nose and Mouth a waie doe finde To Braines and Hart and there their kindes effect And as they are make them in some respect For where the VVindes be cold and violent As where rough Boreas doth his Throne erect There are the People stronge and turbulent Rending the Sterne of civill government The situation of the place likewise The Aire therein doth wel or ill dispose If to the Sea or Southerne winde it lies It 's humid putrifactiue too close So fares it in fatt grounds Slouthes chiefe repose The Sandy grounds doe make it hott and dry As cold and moist it is that Fennes inclose But cleere piercing on the Mountaines hy Thus Place with Aire doth chaÌ„g our quality Of no lesse vertue are our Alements Which VVinde Aire vnto our sp'rits prepare VVho
natural reason of rebels civill fury Simil. A man in fury more furious then a beast A discription of an angry Man All anger springs from offence but al offence grows not to Anger What aÌ„ger is The better a man thinkes of himself the sooner hee is moued to anger What Rancor is Rancor is indifferent to good bad Some call it honorable to revenge with the sworde all iniuries done against a maÌ„s honor But how can that be honorable which God abhorreth condemneth to eternall death The quality of Rancor A reason why angry men for the most part are pale To the brains Simil. * Salomon denies it Eccl. Chap 7.11 I know no maÌ„ worse theÌ„ my selfe God helpe me the while Instruments of revenge The heate of the hart makâ— the fingers nimble The praise of Choler * Anger is better theÌ„ laughter for by a sadd looke the hart is made better Eccl. Cap. 7.5 A Coward caÌ„not be truely honest Simil. Ephâ—s 4. 26. Vertue caÌ„noâ— performe her functioÌ„s without anger * Glory laud. Luke 19.25 Hatred is a child of Ire Iâ—e hatred distinguished Love linckes men togither Hatred putts them a sunder The proude and envious are like the Devill A good vse of Hate Hate worthy of Loue. Sinfull Hate iâ— hatefull â—ut gratious hate is behooâ—ull Simil. Envy is a branch of iniustice Ire Hatred the Parentâ— of Envy Envy is oppoâ—â—t to Mercy The envy of the divel what It is safer to be conversant with a TyraÌ„t then with the envious persoÌ„ for the one takes away but life but the other honor and good name Envy is more obscure then Pride Envy is as the shaddow of vertue Envies natural home is in Kings Courts Ovid. Met. l. 2. Simulâ— The envious are ashamed to bewray their envie Such lookes hath the envious Bion. Envy is as much grieued for others good as her owne hurt Envy flattered sleepes for a while Simil. Before how many the more the envious person slandereth a man the more high in glory hath he plac'd the crown of the slandered if he take it patiently Each Vice caries with it its own torment The envious condemne themselues for most vnworthy men No affection is lesse disclosed then envy Envies rest in funerals Envie is the parent of Iealousie Obtrectation is Iealousie in the largest Sense Iealousie a Linx in loue Iealousy good or bad according to her obiect How Iealousie is good Gods iealousy touching vs doth procure our good Evil Iealouâ—â—â— Quarrells raised through SuspitioÌ„ causlesse Iealousy what Prov. 6.34 Ecles 10.14.19 Pride what The proude person hates pride in all but in himself Pride holdes all in scorne but her selfe If Humility be the mother of true piety what is Pride her contrary The proud are taught to know themselues by their proper overthrow He that knowâ— himselfe best esteemes himselfe least All vnder the Sunne is vanity and vexation of Spirit Eccles. 1. Proude men are senselesse in the strictest sense * The proude haue Hell with the Prince thereof abiding in their hartes Simil. Spirituall pride God doth most detest Over-weening an odious Vice Provâ— 13.10 The proude obstinate in their opinioÌ„ a Reproofs do enrage the proud though for their good bestowed * The proude maÌ„ the druÌ„ckard and the Coward are nought to make fâ—ends of the proud will scorne thee if he out start thee in fortunes the druÌ„kard wil in wine bewray thy secrts for what is in the haâ—t of the sober is in the tongue of a drunkard the Coward dares not speake one word in defence of thy reputation though hee heare it slanderously depraved Sith the Earth cannot hould her Hell must and can Pride the Fountaine of all Heresies * If a man live Soule Bodie in Hell to all eternities that his name may live in the mouthes of men to all posterities he hath but an hellish purchase Each man seemes to know more then he doth * Eccl. 39.1 â— 3 Not the tongs but the matter contained in theÌ„ make men learned Wee may light a Torch at none day seeke such a one among a multitude yet misle to finde him b As if wisdome and learning were buried in them For they haue the name of wisedome but there be but few that haue the knowledg of her Ec. 6.22 Wee shall bee modest if wee take not that vpon vs which we haue not and brag not of that which we haue * If any where I haue followed our newe learning and Time in their fashion Time and Learning ought the more to favor me coÌ„sidering how little I am beholding to them both a The Divels knowledge far exceedes mans b The warr of the Elements in man mars his wit The Divel can looke into all the hiddeÌ„ causes of nature How the Divell workes wonders The Divels wonders are Mira non Miracula * Elixer-makers a golden yet beggarly corporationâ— for they are as poore as a Poet. The skill iâ— Earthly and earth is the basest of Elements Because it teÌ„ds to the attainment of riches which in this worlde are of most estimation Eccles. 1. God only and alone is wise a SoÌ„e lawyers sell both their silence and speech Immoderate desire of having honor be enemies can hold no coÌ„gruency in one man togither If it be an inâ—allible token of health wheÌ„ the Physitions be poore theÌ„ is it a true sign of contention a states disease when Lawyers bee rich Verie manie laws are notes of a corrupte CoÌ„mon weale Tacit. Cato in Râ—me forbad al to be called to the Barre that were found eloqueÌ„t in a bad cause * Money The duty of Lawes and Lawyers b Petty-foggers the graÌ„d disturbers of good mens quiet c If hee ought to be punished which offereth to corrupt a Iudge with guiftes howe much more ought he which goeth about to blind his iudgmeÌ„t wiâ—h lies or eloquence because a vertuous Iudge wil not be corrupted with the first but he may be deceived by the last Pride in whoÌ„ so ere is notable for she wil be seene being still overseene b Proud of a conning invectiue against pride Poetry no skil humane On the topp of Olimpus at the foote whereof runs Helicon Humility is the surest foundation for the highest glory d Humility doth best become the highest knowledge Extreame precisenes or affectation in words stile doth quench the heate of our invention and bridleth the freedome of our witts Wee must vse words as wee vse Coyne that is those that be coÌ„mon and currant It is daÌ„gerous to coine without priviledg Poesie is the Caesar of Speech Poesie more perdurable then Prosâ— Some Philosophers supposed our soules to be musicke some others Number b Poesie inveagles â—he iudgment to assent to her assertionâ— Relifh and double-relish words of arte incident to the Soule-inchaÌ„ting Arte of musicke Oracles delivered alwaies in Verse d They give those meÌ„ fame that recompence them with famine Poets â—irst found the distinctioÌ„ of the Spheares Poets