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A11769	The philosophers banquet Newly furnished and decked forth with much variety of many severall dishes, that in the former service were neglected. Where now not only meats and drinks of all natures and kinds are serued in, but the natures and kinds of all disputed of. As further, dilated by table-conference, alteration and changes of states, diminution of the stature of man, barrennesse of the earth, with the effects and causes thereof, phisically and philosophically. Newly corrected and inlarged, to almost as much more. By W.B. Esquire.; Mensa philosophica. English.	Scot, Michael, ca. 1175-ca. 1234, attributed name.; Anguilbertus, Theobaldus, attributed name.	1633 (1633)	STC 22063; ESTC S100623	106,565	400

oppressed with time these spur a forward horse whiles the other strive to raine him in Q. Whether is more cleare the night or the day A. The night with the Moone and all her Starres is farre more darke then the day with her one light according as saith the Poet Sit nox eentoculo quamvis oculatior Argo Plus vno cernit lumine luscadies Though the night have many eies yet all this light Equals not day nor th' twentieth part so bright An aged man being asked how old he was answered the yeares I had are gone therefore I am not farre from my rising nor my set Istud patet hoc latet the one is knowne the other hid take away what is past and sever that uncertaine that is to come from thy life and O how ltttle remaines Temporibus in puncto fugientis pe●…deo nec nam Quod nondum est nec quod iam fuit ante meum Q. What creature of all other is thought to be the wisest and yet in many things is more foolish than the bruit creatures A. Man for the Fox being forewarned will come no more into the trap the Wolfe no mo●… into the ditch the Dogge unto the staffe but man will runne an hundred times into the selfe same folly Q. Who is hee that is set forth to us in holy Writ of whose beginning nor end neither father nor mother nor Ancestour is described nor end A. Melchisedeck that King and Prophet and type of God Q. Why did not God at one instant create all the men that ever should be in the world as hee did the whole number of Angels A. It pleased his Wisdome in succession of time by course of generation mankinde should bee daily multiplied and subjected under sinne Anaxagoras the Philosopher being asked to what end hee wa●… borne answered to behold this goodly frame of the world and all the wonders there of but withall he should have knowne this Quid mentem transisse polo quid profuit altum Erexisse caput pecudum si more perirent Q. What riches are those that cannot be exhausted A. Good turnes for these with bestowing doe increase and by scattering abroad are gathered together if thou keepe them thou hast them not if thou distribute thou losest them not One saith the pinch of poverty is great but more the burden of riches ill gotten according as the Poet wittily writes Aeris scruus eris site species trahat aeris ceri cur haeres cras aeris non eris haeres Q. If there were a voyce given to wealth and riches what doest thou thinke they would speake A. If Goods of which thy house is full could speake they would answer thee As thou wouldest have us to be goods to thee so we would have a good master or they woud whisper their chiefe Lord against thee as thus Behold thou hast given our master so much wealth and he is evill what doth it profit him to have all that hath not thee Q. What foure things were those that the ancient heathen were wont sweare by because they found nothing more perfect then this number foure for there are say they foure elements fire ayre water and earth foure seasons of the yeere Spring Summer Autumne and Winter foure qualities of all things Hot Cold Moyst and Dry foure compasles of Heaven East West North and South Q. Whether of these two is more foolish Croesus that cast his money into the Sea in contempt or Midas that out of covetousnesse wisht all that he touchtmight turn to gold and so as the Poets faine his meat was turned into gold and choaked him but the meane is ever safest as both these extreames foolish Severus the Emperour being ready to dye sight out and said I have beene all things and now nothing profits me Another thus admonisheth his worldly friend saying O vaine man why doest thou trouble thy selfe in seeking after goods of body or goods of minde love that one good in whom are all goods Q. Who is the most industrious mam that Stories make mention of A. Hippias Eleus who as he had a generall insight in all learning yet was not ther with so fully content but he was seene in the more meaner sciences that not the ring on his finger but hee made it himselfe as also his owne cloathes and what ever he used but hee is accounted the true wise man that learnes from every man hee the strong man that masters his owne affections hee the true rich man that rejoyceth in his owne store which is the levell many misse which makes their life miserable according as a learned writer thus delivers it The aged man that coffers up his gold Is plagu'd with cramps and gouts and painfull fits And scarce hath eyes his treasure to behold But like stil pining Tantalus he sits Having no other pleasure of game Then torment that it cannot cure his paine So then he hath it when he cannot use it And leaves it to be mastred by his yong Who in their pride doe presently abuse it Their Father was too weake and they too strong To hold this blessed cursed fortune long Q. Two fathers and two sonnes had beene a hunting and catcht three haires and every one had one and how could that be A. It is said of the grandfather the father and the sonne which are out two seeming three the father being both sonne and father Musica damnoru guomodo sehabet thus by which it is unpleasant and so it sounds Utinam montes nos obruerent Repleta enim malis est anima nostra Miserabiles factisumus Faciem enim nostrum operuit caligo Sol autem justiti ae nunquam crietur nobis La Lassatis it aque nobis nulla datur requies Englished O would the hils might fall on us For we are fild with griefe And miserable is our case Of sinners being chiefe For we of comfort are depriv'd And bard of all reliefe Q. Why doe tho●…e that carrie bur hens for the most part sing A. Because the sence being delighted with the mirth is the lesse capable of her sorrow Q. May it be that stollen pleasures should be thought more sweet then an honest fruition in lawfull marriage A. We desire forbidden things and that is the preversenesse of our fiesh that will not be brideled with no lawfull bounds and wee see by experience that many men that have at home beautiful wives neglect their own better and pray upon others more deformed For Vertue as it never will bee mou'd though lewdnesse court it in the shape of heaven So Lust though to a radiant Angell linckt will sort it selfe in a terrestrial bed and prey on garbige Q. Be there more faiths or Religions in the world than were of antient A. To answer with Moses here wee may enter into a Cloud of darkenesse unlesse wee follow the thrid of Christ to guide us out of our blinde steps wee lose our selves in this labyrinth for according to our Author Ie. Oudoneus

ibid. The best part of the day for study p. 317 Why the morning is colder then the evening p. 318 Why wee desire forbidden things p. 326 Of Fortune p. 329 The wonders of the world p. 330 The beginning of Time p. 331 The part of the yeare that pleaseth the Eye more then the Belly p. 332 The biggest Bird in the world 333 Of the Sterke ibid. Of him that tilleth another mans ground and leaveth his owne barren p. 334 A description of Seed-time p. 335 Whether there were Vines before the flood or not p. 336 The reason why Wine is dearer ●…ow than it hath beene of old times p. 337 Whether there be Mermayds or Syrens in the Sea or not p. 342 Of the soule p. 344 Why the soule of man is called the lanthorne of God p. 346 The secrets of writing ibid. The most faithfull Messenger p. 347 What things we most love and esteeme p. 349 Whether our Countrey or our Parents are to bee most honoured p. 352 Whether money makes a rich man or not p. 353 When doe Enemies profit vs and our Friends hurt vs. ibid. Of the Empires p. 354 Of the Roman Empire ibid. The Answer of a Coward ibid. Where a man is counted evil when he committeth least p. 355 Of the true vse of all Learning p. 356 Whether Education alters nature or not p. 358 Ernes●…s Couns●…ll to hi●… friend p. 359 Of the stomabke ibid. Of Oppertunity p. 361 Why the Earth is most barren where the richest Mines are p. 363 Diogenes Counselconcerning lending and borrowing of money p. 364 The Preface to the Matter THat Health is abou●… Gold and a sound bodie above infinite Riches is a Text of Truth approved with most joyfull acknowledgement to their comforts that entirely possesse it and know the worth by the use not by the want as doe those poore and life-weari●…d wretches whose pleasures by sicknesses perplext and dayes spunn●… out in griefe and misery by the contrary yet what is this precious stone to the Dunghill-cocke or the richest ●…ifts of bodie or mind●… fortune to him that is not Gemmarius one that truly vnderstandeth their value and valueth them according to his understanding The Crab the Gangrene or the Stone that put the knife to inscition or the sawe to abscition and Traytor-like racke the body with tortures not inferiour to death cry out in him that is patient of this misery Happy man that art borne from these woes that art free from these maladies Cherish therfore that good which is so precious in life thou that enjoyest it which keepes off death and sweetens all the affictions that oppose us in life and abuse it not in Riots in surf●…ts and disorders things so apt to deprive it the losse being so great and the pleasures so small and without which all humane solace is but sorrow all rejoycing is but mourning and life it selfe is but death For to him that hath the highest titles the largest honours the fairest reuenues nay all the pleasures that the earth and Sea to boot can affoord yet what are all these present where 〈◊〉 ●…ne is wanting Therefore to the preservation of that which is and redeeming of that which hath beene but is not our Phylosophers propose certaine Rules and directions for the ordering reducing and maintaining of mans body in health which like a Clocke by reason of the many severall particles and connexions thereunto belonging is ever subject to diversion and error For as Galen the Light of Physicians writeth of that little window or light of Man the delicacie whereof not the least creature or attomic in the world but by accident may sore offend yet that there are subjectory and pertinent peremptory infirmities besides thereunto belonging ingendred by Rheumes Convulsions and other operations of the brain and strings thereunto officiall 52. diseases If then so many disastrous Planets reigne over one little member had it not need of sight and light to prevent them And if to this one so many to the whole body of man how many are incident and what curiosity therefore is to be given to our steps when without their limits they are so many enemies of Nature ready to seize upon us And which discipline and direction being observed we may lengthen out our dayes with joy and delight to the last period of their prefixment when either sicknesse or casualty one Accident or other shall fall upon us to the accomplishment of that Sentence which was never yet frustrated by any nor ever shall whilest the foure●… indes blow one against another For against that here is no prevention Contra vim mortis non esc medicam●… in hertis although some and no meane Clarks have thought and written to the contrary that Age might be kept backe and sicknesse kept by which if it may be for a time wee conclude it cannot be for ever That Age may not be kept backe though sometimes tardied in his speed FRyer Bacon a man of infinit learning study capabilitie and Art in his time amongst many other his strange and impossible endevours published a booke De retardanda Senecture or the keeping backe of old age the which whilst he himselfe in observing and prescribing the Rules Orders Observations and Retardadation thereof grew old in the act and himselfe was overtaken with age Let the ayre in her wholsommest kinde with the most nicest ceremonies that Physicke or curiosity observed Fennes and Marishes and the low and unwholsome vapors of the earth unsuckt up thereby the unsavory breath whereof may breathe contagion into windowes In stead thereof brush over Rockes and Hils and Fields and Fountaines with the wholsommest perfumes that the best matters may give it to worke upon bring health through the Crannies and receptacles of our houses and breathe it in at the nostrils of the most healthfull creature living let him rise early not walke late be temperate in Dyet moderate in exercise wary in lust cheerefull of disposition sit not much walke not sildome surfet never know the disposition and state of his owne body from the largest content to the least particular be a Physician himselfe on himselfe use the art and direction of all the world and all the Colledges and Physicians therein yet notwithstanding shall age creepe upon him and burden him with her weight and the unnecessary luggage of her carriage which is strength in peevishnesse weaknesse in performances will to desire yet want to execute as helplesly is daily experienced For otherwise who would weare his head white and his beard gray his eyes hollow and his eares deafe blacke veines and dry braines a dropping nose a wrinckled brow shaking hands and toothlesse gummes feeble legs and shrunke sinewes that might ransome himselfe either by paine or price The old Courtier inamored of his young mistris sleighted more for his want then his will having some sparkes of heat not yet extinguished by antiquity would offer if it might be more then the portion of his supple

hammes to enjoy the one but to obtaine the other likewise the face once adorned with beauty and more adored th●…n the Indian sunne now crept into wrinkles and folded up in the pleats of antiquity and more ecclipsed then the Sunne for this I say what paine or price so heavy that these creatures of lightnesse would not undertake but that this ceaselesse lackey to eternity trouped with Kings to his pages never turnes backe to make amends in his regresse for any injury hee effects in his progresse which makes one complaine in a Sonnet to this effect as followeth Could age like dayes as nights ensue Each morning sresh her selfe renue What Lady then at nights decay But would i' th morne begin her day For where 's a face so much declinde That beares not youthfull thoughts in minde That often peepe with oylie eyes Through doctor'd strange adulteries Vpon the world in silke and Gold That grieve to thinke they are so old The Matrons in their rip●…st age That should have wisdome as their Page So much inclin'd to this Devotion That to obtain 't would give an Otian Old age bad cloat●…es such griefe imparts Th●…y break or wound al womens harts Therefore the Phylosophers not to perswade impossibilities would have no man thinke but they must be old but would have no man old before hee be wise yet somewhat to runne with the current of humour have here added certaine linkes or lengthenings to these Summa Desideria and as much as may be done by art or precept laboured to keepe backe these aged wrinkles that deprive our beauty and strength and nip the flower of all worldly delight and therefore doe here at their Tables disccurse of Seriacum jocis according to the rules of wisedome which saith Mingle thy cares with joyes and thy sorrowes with delight crowne the morsels of thy labour with the height of thy contentment and reserve some times for thy vacancie and freedome For the bowe that is alwayes bent must needs be weakened and unapt for use And where sorrow griefe and vexation which sucke veines dry and rowle up the countenance in wrinkles like a scrowle of scorched parchment ever lye tugging what can be expected but the wast ruine and deformity of the whole body and therefore at thy Table in thy Chamber in thy places of rest and retirement lay thy cares and affaires and worldly thoughts aside till time of convenient deliberation or prosecution require them For as saith Macrobius Moderate mirth at our tables beautifieth the body enlightneth the mind and causeth a good digestion in the stomacke delighteth our selves and our company and increaseth knowledge and with his opinion likewise it seemes altogether convenient and fitting that our discourse at the table should either concerne the natures of those meats and drinkes wee furnish our tables with or the natures and conditions of those that accompany us at our Tables or ingenious positions and questions to exercise our wits at our Tables or of such pleasant conceits and jests as doe exhillerate our company and cause mirth at our Tables And therefore I have determined to call this present worke The Phylosophers Banquet dividing it into foure equall parts or Bookes as the nature of the foure subjects wee chiefly handle conveniently require THE PHILOSOPHERS BANQVET CHAP. I. Of MAN IN the Creation of the World and the admirable composition and frame thereof with the diversityand distinction of all the creatures therein and the severall formes shapes dispositions and Natures there●…of although the least of them in co●…ation may take us up with wonder and astonishment perpetually yet to his Omnipotency and Power that created them they were facile and easie For he spake but the Word and they were made Fiat Lux facta est Lux Let there be Light and there was Light and so of the rest But when Man was to be made as Lord and Ruler over all the rest there was a conjunction of the Trinity and consultation of the God-head about the producement of so excellent a creature Faciamus Let us make man according to our Image Indue him with soule and bodie capability and reason giving him dominion over the Fowles of the ayre the Fishes of the Sea and all the creatures of the Earth Therfore Man thus highly honoured thus deliberately made endued with a forme so Angelicall prerogatives so royall Status corporis celsus erectus in Coelum a stature of body ascendant and lifted up towards Heaven a minde so delate and ample able to comprehend the height and depth of mysteries asuring the World in a moment yet not contained in the world as one writeth very pithily of this speedy messenger She is sent as so one to China as to Spain And thence returnes as so one as shee is sent Shee measures with like length and with like paine An elme of silke and heavens wide spreading tent The contemplation whereof made King David being stirred up with the wonder and love of such a workman to breake forth into this 138. Psalme of passion I will magnifie thy Name O Lord how wonderfully am I made All the workes of thy hands are wonderfull as my souie hath tasted and knoweth right well my mouth was not hid from thee being made in darkenesse How wonderfully was I fashioned in the wombe of my mother Thine eyes saw me arude and indigested he aps and all my members to thee were as written in a booke which afterwards were not perfitted but in many dayes And this little concerning this little world Man especially for a draught of the outward shape and lineaments his honor his excellency his majesty his discourse and reason his beauty his Angelicall faculties Now let us a little Anatomise in our consideration of the inward part of this workmanship and how each article and member in his function and office is ●…mployed in the which the very tract of the feet and print of the fingers of that Divine worke-man that thus wonderfully hath formed them doth most evidently appeare the which the more we meditate of the more we shall admire CHAP. II. A division of the body of Man and of the use and office of the inward members thereof Quest. HOw is Mans body divided Ans. Into two parts Simple and Compound Q. What are the parts simple A. They are these which being divided doe notwithstanding keepe the name and Title still of the whole whereof they were a part as every peece of flesh is flesh Q. How many are the parts simple A. Nine viz. 1. Bones 2. Ligaments 3. Gristles 4. Sinewes 5. Pannicles 6. Cords or Filiaments 7. Veines 8. Arteries 9. Flesh. Q. How may they severally bee distinguished in their use 1. Ans. First Bones the foundation and frame of the body Senselesse Dry Cold and Earthly 2. Secondly the Lineaments are white fastenings proceeding from the Bones voyd of blood and sense 3. Thirdly the Gristles are a stay to the Bones that they rub not over-hardly one

saith Salomon Giue strong drinke to him that is ready to perish It is the preserver of health by comforting the naturall heat It tempereth chollericke humours and moderately taken rejoyceth the spirits and it much commends the gooduesse of God that out of such a dry and fraile plant so many precious vertues should accrew to man but by the abuse all these vertues are made vices for God was the Author of the Wine but the Divell of drunkennesse Q. What is the reason that in our Grandfathers dayes and fathers likewise there were fewer Vineyards as many yet living can testifie and yet Wine and all things cheaper A. Because Drunkennesse and Gluttony was lesse common in those dayes than now in ours Of Wine one thus further Vina parant animos faciuntque coloribus aptis Cont. Vina parant Asinos faciuntque furoribus aptis Q. What is the greatest wonder in a man A. His Conscicnce which cannot be removed for his heart may bee sooner pulled out of his belly than his Conscience being of it selfe a thousand witnesses as God himselfe a thousand Consciences which at the last day will be in every one of us guilty the Iudge the tortor the prison to judge to accuse condemne or acquit An evill Conscience saith one is like a short bed wherein let a man turne which way hee will hee can finde no ease Nero having slaine his mother was continually tormented in minde and that the first beginning of his tertor Richard the third of England had such apparitions and terrors in his Conscience after his murders that he could not finde a minutes rest A man may sooner sleepe on the top of the mast in a storme than lodge in quiet with this unruly Chamber-fellow it being to many the Hell before Hell Saith the Wise-man A mans Conscience will tell him more then seuen Watchmen on the top of a Tower and it is that from whence all the beames of Reason flow Erasmus saith as the Sunne is to the world that is reason in man for if the Sunne be clouded there is darkenesse so if Reason be ecclipsed notwithstanding the other senses we differ little from bruit beasts I remember I haue heard thee speake before that the earth doth wax old doth it now worke the same effect upon mans body as in former ages and so Virgil describes men of his time long agoe Qualianunc hominis prodierit corporatellus And so likewise Homer as oft as he recites this clause saith Vt nunc homines sunt remembring the former times their length of dayes greatnesse of stature and the like as one to that purpose seemes to imply When as the Age was long the size was great Mans growth consest and recompenc'd his meat But now our longest times decay so soone We are scarce our fathersshadows cast at noone Q. What is the reason that in the holy toogue all the names of God end in the plurall termination although they are joyned in the singular verbe A. This is a mystery and so it is found every where except in that one name of his Essence lehovah and this is the reason that the Hebrewes giue because the Essence is one though the persons three Certaine Divine flowers of Saint Bernard Behold Lord saith Saint Bernard I doe not give what thanks I should but what I can which hast given me an Essence and above that a vegetive life and aboue that a sensitive and aboue that an intellectiue and above that a saving faith which is the soule of my soule and the reason of my reason Lord saith Saint Bernard that thou hast made me I owe my selfe to thy love I owe all mee and so much more then my selfe by how much thou art greater than I for whom thou gavest thy selfe The kingdome of God conceditur promittitur ostenditur precipitur conceditur in predestinatione promittitur invocatione ostenditur in Iustificatione precipitur in Glorificatione The kingdome of God is yeelded promised shewen perceived it is yeelded in predestination promised in Vocation shewen in Iustification received in Glorification Q Whether are the positive or the privative blessings of God more A. The privative blessing of God are no lesse if not more and yet there is few that takes notice thereon as that we are not blind nor dumbe nor deafe that wee live not in continuall darkenesse c. His positive blessings are life cloathing health and such like of which there is neither number nor end of either Q. The Sea is an Element of wonders are there Syrens or Marmaids therein A. Syrens of ancient times were wont to be called the wonders of the Sea and the monsters therein partly having a body of Fish and the upper part flesh and faced like a Virgin singing sweetly but deceitfully thereby to circumvent and endanger the wandring passengers By this deceit would our Ancestors note unto us the danger of pleasure and yet there are that earnestly affirme that there are such things in rerum natura Saint Hierom moraliseth that hastening towards our Countrey wee must avoyd this Syren in what kind soever she allures passing by with a setled resolution that this inchantment pierce not our stopped eares Saith a Father every Creature speakes unto us with three voyces 1 Voyce receive a benefit 2. pay thy benevolence 3. Avoid punishment The heaven saith I give thee lightin the day that thou maist worke saith darkenesse I spread my Curtaine in the night that thou mayst rest The Ayre saith I nourish thee with breath all kind of Fowles I keepe at thy command the water saith I give thee drinke I purge away all uncleannesse and I preserve all my Elementary creatures to thy use from the smallest minnum to the mighty Whale The earth saith I beare thee I nourish thee with bread and wine I fill thy Table with all sorts of Creatures and fruits The second is a voyce of admonition in which the world saith See man how he loved thee which made me for thee I serve thee as thou servest him which made both mee and thee The third voyce the voyce of threatning where the fire saith thou shalt be burnt by me the water saith thou shalt bee drowned by me the earth saith thou shalt be swallowed by mee as some have beene and if thou lay by thy obedience to him wee put off all subjection to thee Theresore saith Saint Gregory all Creatures call upon man to serve him because hee is the summe and epitome of all and that doe and pay thy due homage and all creatures shall willingly obey thee Q. What is the Soule A. It is a spirituall and reall substance created by God to enliven the body and by how much the heaven is more glorious then the earth by so much doth the beauty of the soule excell the body the immediate descent being from God and not from the body for the Wise-man saith Si cum corpore oritur cum corpore moritur If it had his beginning from the body then the