Circle Round Of Honesty no Ends in it is found To Square this Circle many think it fit But Sides to take without Ends hard is it Prudence and Temperance as two Lines take With Fortitude and Justice foure will make If th Line of Temperance doth prove too short Then add a Figure of a discreet Thought Let Wisedomes Point draw up Discretions Figure That make two equall Lines joyn'd both together Betwixt the Line Temperance and Justice Truth must point Justice's Line draw downe to Fortitude that Corner joynt Then Fortitude must draw in equall length To Prudence Line Temperance must give the breadth And Temperance with Justice Line must run yet stand Betwixt Prudence and Fortitude of either hand At every corner must a Point be layd Where every Line that meets an Angle's made And when the Points too high or low do fall Then must the Lines be stretch'd to mak 't even all And thus the Circle Round you 'l find Is Squar'd with the foure Virtues of the Mind A Circle Squar'd in Prose A Circle is a Line without Ends and a Square is foure equall Sides not one longer or shorter then another To square the Circle is to make the Line of the Square Figure to be equall with the Round Figure Honesty is the Circle without Ends or By-respects but is honest for Honesties sake But to square this Circle it is very difficult and hard it is for Honesty to take part with foure sidès without Faction for where there is siding there 's Faction and where Factions are there is Partiality and where Partiality is there is Injustice and where Injustice is Wrong and where Wrong is Truth is not and where Truth is not Honesty cares not to live But let us see how we can square this Circle of Honesty First draw foure Lines Prudence Temperance 〈◊〉 and Justice these foure Lines let them be Crosse Parallels that they may be Longitudes and Latitudes to each other and at each end of every Line make a Point As at the Line of Justice a point of Severity at one end and another of Facility at the other end And at either end of Fortitude one of Rashnesse and another of Timorosity And at the end of Temperance Prodigality and 〈◊〉 At each end of Prudence Sloth and Stupidity Then draw out these Points and make them Angles As Severity and Timorosity make one Angle Rashnesse and Stupidity another Sloth and Prodigality make a third Angle Facility and Covetousnesse make the fourth Then exactly in the midst of either Line set of either side of the Line a Figure As Distributive on the outside of the Line of Justice and Communicative within the Line So on the side of Fortitude Despaire on the outside and Love within On Prudence Line Experience on the outside and Industry within On Temperance Line Observation on the outside and Ease within Then draw a Line of Charity from the point Distribution and from the Point of Observation a Line of Diseretion and make an Angle with Hope Then from Community a Line of Clemency and from the point of Ease a Line of Comfort which make an Angle of Peace Then from Despaire a Line of Hope and from Industry a Line of Fruition which make an Angle of Tranquillity Then from the point of Love a Line of Faith and from the point of Ease a Line of Pleasure this makes an Angle of Joy Then set a Point at every Angle as Obedience Humility Respect and Reverence And thus the Square measur'd with Truth the Line will be equall with the Circle of Honesty The Trasection CUT the Line of Wisdome into three parts Prudence Experience and Judgment Then draw a Line of Discretion equall to the Line of Experience and a Line of Industry equall to the Line of Prudence and a Line of Temperance equall to the Line of Judgment and to Temperance an equall Line of Tranquillity and to the Line Industry a line of Ingenuity and to the line of Discretion draw an equall line of Obedience Then all these lines measur'd with the Rule of Reason and you 'l finde it equall to the line of Wisedome joyne these lines together Truth makes the Angle This is the Trasection The Arithmetick of Passions WIth Numeration Moralists begin Upon the Passions putting Quotients in Numbers divide with Figures and Substract And in their Difinitions are exact And there Substract as taking One from Three That add to Foure 't will make Five to be Thus the Odd Numbers to the Even joyn'd Will make the Passions rise within the Mind TO MORALL PHILOSOPHERS MOrall Philosophy is a severe Schoole for there is no Arithmetitian so exact in his Accounts or doth Divide and Substract his Numbers more subtlely then they the Passions as Arithmetick can multiply Numbers above all use so Passions may be divided beyond all Practice But Moralists live the happiest lives of Man-kind because most contented for they do not onely subdue the Passions but can make the best use of them to the Tranquility of the mind As Feare to make them Circumspect Hate to Evill Desire to Good Love to Vertue Hope makes Industry Jealous of Indiscretions Angry at Follies and so the like of all the rest For they do not only subdue the feircest of them making them Slaves to execute several works in several places But those Passions that are mild of gentle Nature they make perfect Friend-ship with for the Passions are like Privie Counsellors where some Counsell for Peace others for Warre and some being brib'd with the World and Appetite perswade to mutiny which uses a Rebellion But Moralists are like powerfull Monarchs which can make their Passions obedient at their pleasure condemning them at the Bar of Justice cutting of their heads with the sword of Reason or like skilfull Musitians making the Passions Musicall Instruments which they can tune so exactly and play so well and sweetly as every severall Note shall strike the Eares of the Soule with delight and when they play Concords the Mind dances in Measure the Sarabrand of Tranquillity Whereas when they are out of Tune they do not only sound harsh and unpleasant but when the Notes disagre eing the Mind takes wrong Steps and keeps false time and the Soule is disquieted with the noise But there is no Humour or Passion so troublesome as Desire because it yeilds no sound satisfaction for all it is mixt most commonly with pleasing hopes but hope is a greater pleasure then Injoyment just as Eating is a greater pleasure to the Hungry then when the Stomacke is fully satisfied Yet Desire and Curiosity make a Man to be above other Creatures for by desiring Knowledge Man is as much above a Beast as want of perfect Knowledge makes him lesse then God and Man as he hath a transcending Soule to out-live the World to all Eternity so he hath a transcending desire to live in the Worlds Memory as long as the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that he might not dye like a
In this slow Exercise much Good hath found Night is her Bed her rest therein to take Silence watches least Noise might her awake The Spheares her Musick and the 〈◊〉 way Is where She dances whilst those Spheares do play Natures City NAture of Mountaines Rocks a City built Where many severall Creatures therein dwelt The Citizens are Wormes which seldome stir But sit within their Shops and sell their Ware The Moles are Magistrates who undermine Each ones Estate that they their Wealth may sinde With their Extortions they high Houses builds To take their Pleasure in called Mole-hills The lazy Dormouse 〈◊〉 doth keep Much in their Houses eat and drink and sleep Unlesse it be to hunt about for Nuts Wherein the sport is still to sill their Guts The Peasant Ants īndustrious are to get Provisions store hard Labours make them sweet They dig they draw they plow and reap with care And what they get they to their Barnes do beare But after all their Husbandry and Paines Extortion comes and eates up all their Gaines And Merchant Bugs of all sorts they Traffick on all things travell every way But Vapours they are Artisans with skill And make strong Windes to send which way they will They make them like a Ball of Wild-fire to run Which spreads it selfe about when that round Forme's undone This is the City which great Nature makes And in this City Nature pleasure takes Natures Market IN Natures Market you may all things finde Of severall Sorts and of each severall Kind Carts of Sicknesse bring Paines and Weaknesse in And Baskets full of Surfets some do bring Fruits of Green-sicknesse there are to be sold And Collick Hearbes which are both hot and cold Lemmon of sharp Paine soure Orange sores Besides those things within this Market store Of two Hearts THere were two Hearts an hundred Acres wide Which hedg'd were round and ditcht on every side The one was very rich and fertile Ground The other Barren where small good was found In Pasture Grasse of Virtue grew up high Where Noble Thoughts did feed continually There they grew nimble strong and very large Fit for the Manage or in War to charge Or like good Kine that give the Milk of Wit And Cream of Wisedome for grave Counsels fit And Sheep of Patience whose Wool is thick and long Upon their Backs and Sides to keep out Wrong Rich Meadowes where the Hay of Faith doth grow Which with the Sithes of Reason downe we mow Devotions stackt it up on Hay-cocks high For feare in Winter Death the Soule should dye On Barren Ground there nothing well will grow Which is the cause I no good Seed will sow First soure Rye of crabbed Nature ill Which gives the Collick of displeasure still And cruell Hempseed hanging Ropes to make And treacherous Linseed small Birds for to take And many such like Seeds this Ground doth beare As cole black Branck and Melancholy Tare The other parts so sipid and so dry That neither Furse nor Ling will grow but dye Rich Arable good Education plow'd Deep Furroughs of Discretion well allowed And severall sorts of Seeds about did sow Where Crops of Actions good in full Eares grow First Wheat of Charity a fruitfull Seed It makes the Bread of Life the Poore to feed Ripe valiant Barley which strong Courage make Drinking the Spirits no Affront will take And Hospitable Peas firm Friend-ship breeds And gratefull Oates restoring still good Deeds This Corne is reapt by Fames sharp Sithe and cut And into large great Barnes of Honour put Where Truth doth thresh it out from grosse abuse Then Honesty doth grind it fit for Vse Similizing the Clouds to Horses THe Aiery Clouds do swistly run a Race And one another follow in a Chase. Like Horses some are sprightfull nimble fleet Others sweld big with watry Spavind Feet Which lag behind as tir'd in mid-way Or else like Resty Jades stock-still will stay They of all severall Shapes and Colours be Of severall Tempers seldome well agree As when we see Horses which highly fed Do proudly snort their Eyes look fiery red So Clouds exhaled fed by the hot Sun With Sulphur and Salt-Peter feirce become Flashing out Fire when together strike And with their Flames do th' World with Terrour fright Meeting each others they Encounters make With strong Assaults they one another break Falling upon each others Head and Back Nere parted are but by a Thunder Clap Pouring downe Showres of Raine upon the Earth Blow out strong Gusts of Wind with their long Breath Then Boreas whips them up and makes them run Till their Spirits are spent and Breath is gone Apollo breakes and backs them fit to ride Bridling with his hot Beames their strengths to guide And gives them Heates untill they foam and sweat Then wipes them dry least they a Cold should get Leades them into the middle Region Stable Where are all sorts dull quick weak and able But when they loose do get having no feares They fall together all out by the Eares Similizing Birds to a Ship BIrds from the Cedars tall which take a flight On stretched Wings to beare their Bodies light As Ships do saile over the Ocean wide So Birds do saile and through the Aire glide Their Bodies as the Keele Feet Cable Rope The Head the Steer-man is which doth guide the Poope Their Wines as Sailes with Wind are stretcht out wide But hard it is to flye against the Iide For when the Clouds do flow against their Breast Soon weary grow and on a Bough they rest THose Verses still to me do seem the best Where Lines run smooth and Wit eas'ly exprest Where Fancies flow as gentle Waters glide Where Flowry banks of Fancies grow each side That when they read Delight may them invite To read againe and wish they could so write For Verse must be like to a Beauteous Face Both in the Eye and in the Heart take place Where Readers must like Lovers wish to be Alwaies in their Deare Mistris Company Similizing the Mind THE Mind 's a Merchant trafficking about The Ocean of the 〈◊〉 to finde Opinions out Remembrance is the Ware-house to lay in Goods which Imaginations Ships do bring Which severall Trades-men of beliefe still buies They onely gaine in Truth but loose by Lies Thoughts as the Journey-men and 〈◊〉 Boies Do help to 〈◊〉 the Wares and sell the Toies A Prospect of a Church in the Mind STanding at Imaginations Window high I saw a Prospect in the Mind to lye Shutting the Ignorant Eye as close may be Because the Eye of Knowledge cleare might see Drawing a Circle round of fine Conceits Contracting Extravagant Speeches strait The more I view'd my Eye the farther went Till Vnderstandings Sight was almost spent An Isle of Thoughts so long could see no End Fill'd full of Fancies Light to me there seem'd Pillars of Judgments thick stood on a row And in this Isle Motion walk'd to and fro Feare
I should be rude Kissing her Garment thin which Fancy made Kneeling upon a Thought like one that pray'd In whispers soft I did present His humble service which in mirth was sent Thus by imagination I have been In Fairy Court and seen the Fairy Queen For why imagination runs about In every place yet none can trace it out A Poet I am neither borne nor bred But to a witty Poet married Whose Braine is Fresh and Pleasant as the Spring Where Fancies grow and where the Muses sing There oft I leane my Head and 〈◊〉 harke To heare his words and all his Fancies mark And from that Garden Flowers of Fancies take Whereof a Posie up in Verse I make Thus I that have no Garden of mine owne There gather Flowers that are newly blowne REader I have a little Tract of Philosophicall Fancies in Prose which will not be long before it appear in the world FINIS AN Eye As Round and Long have As the numbers of Sharpe Atomes do peirce and make way through greater numbers as a Sparke of fire will kindle and burn up a house * These Atomes are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Atomes and half Fiery Long Round Sharpe Flat * This is when some Atomes overpower others by their Numbers for they cannot change their Formes Over power'd 〈◊〉 do so In compasse * In compasse * In compasse * As water will make a wheele to go so 〈◊〉 makes water go * A crosse Motion 〈◊〉 the Circular if there be 〈◊〉 space between The world turns 〈◊〉 two imaginary Poles the Earth upon one the Heavens upon another yet the Earth nor the Heavens could not stir 〈◊〉 no 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 example A wheel could not 〈◊〉 round if the 〈◊〉 were prest 〈◊〉 close and the center on either side * I meane all Rayes in generall of all sorts 〈◊〉 Atomes which move * The Suns Rayes * Concaves draw to a center * 〈◊〉 Atomes shine but sharp Atomes * It seems like a burning coal * Long Atomes sharp at each end * That part of the Earth is darke which is from the Sun * To that part of the Earth the Moone hides * At the Poles Round Atomes are water Sharp Atomes By Gone 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Motion ceases Their Forme doth not dissolve 〈◊〉 at their Death * Life is such kinde of Motion as sharp Atomes * That is when they are separated or their Motion 〈◊〉 and though every Figure hath 〈◊〉 Motions 〈◊〉 to their Shape yet they do not move alwaies alike 〈◊〉 they have one kinde of Motion singly and another kinde when they are united but when they are mixt with other Figures their Motion 〈◊〉 according to their severall mixtures * The sharpe Atomes are like the Teeth of Mice * Not the form of the Atomes but the forme of their Settlement * 〈◊〉 loose Atomes which we perceive not doe run to those which are united in the Coale * Wood is made most of flat Atomes * For severall Formes are according to the 〈◊〉 of Atomes which Formes are undone still by the strongest party When there is no Substance left for sharp Atomes to worke upon they disperse for they seek to undo the composure of all other Atomes When it 〈◊〉 Warmth * They separate the sharp Atomes * When Water is throwne on Fire * When Water is throwne on Fire * The encounters of Bodies make all Sound * Long and round Atomes are more thin theu flat or sharpe by reason they are more hollow and their hollowness makes their Bulk blgger though not their weight heavier * Those Drops ioyning close and even * 〈◊〉 there be Infinites of Worlds then there may be insiuites of Centers although not a Center in 〈◊〉 * The Sun in the midst of the 〈◊〉 which are sharpe Atomes As it were without partition but it is but one They would beat against each other They are 〈◊〉 according to the severall strengths of their motion They turne as they go A Jack Bowle is the marke The severall Elements are at but one matter The Wind. * All things come from God Almighty * When the Sun draws up more Moisture then it can digest it turns to Raine or wind * As it seems to us * As I have before 〈◊〉 they do it 〈◊〉 Atomes Because my Lines are too long for my Rhimes therefore I put them in Prose * Numbers * Fancy * Because 〈◊〉 Poets imitate Homer * The Theft of Poets * There may be more Earths then one for all we know and but one Sun * The Crest in the Wainscot gilt Good Mines are found out by the Birches bowing * Sun Beames * There would be no 〈◊〉 if no Light These Smocks are the daies * The Moon * The five Senses are Natures Boxes Cabinets The Braine her chiefe Cabinet which are Love Verses Natures Cellar 〈◊〉 wine Strong-waters * Flesh and Fish Natures wheele Natures Garden Natures Musicall Instruments Natures Musick Natures Arable and Meadow Natures Horses Natures Ship * In the Aire Clouds move or wave as water in the Sea and Ebb and Flow according to dry or moist weather * A bough is their Haven * A Church As ripe Corne will do with the wind * Here the Ship is taken for a Horse * Five Senses 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * Which are the 24. Letters of the Alphabet 1 〈◊〉 2 Masquer 3 〈◊〉 * As a 〈◊〉 5 Masquer A Masquer drest with Honour Time * Times Cabinet is Oppertunity The Offerings * The waters run in circulations It was a custome in ancient time to hang their offerings on trees All objects that the Senses bring in are as Merchandises brought from forreign parts When 〈◊〉 are shot from each corner they make 〈◊〉 triangular point upon the 〈◊〉 Vanity Pride Ambition Fame * The under lid