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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14205	A nevv anatomie VVherein the body of man is very fit and aptly (two wayes) compared: 1 To a household. 2 To a cittie. With diuers necessarie approoued medicines, not commonly practised heretofore: wittie, and pleasant to be read, and profitable to be regarded.; New anatomie.	Underwood, Robert, fl. 1605.	1605 (1605)	STC 24519; ESTC S105362	18,892	50

A Nevv Anatomie Wherein the Body of man is very fit and aptly two wayes compared 1 To a Household 2 To a Cittie With diuers necessarie approoued Medicines no commonly practised heretofore wittie and pleasant to be read and profitable to be regarded A Man a Household and Cittie large All three in one described you may see The Order Ride the Gouernment and Charge Of each of the●● in each poynt doe agree In Man a Soule indued with Grace should bee A Household doth a Man of Wisedome craue Good Magistrates a Cittie ●ke should haue AT LONDON Printed for William Iones and are to be sold at the signe of the Gunne neare Holborne Conduit 1605. Ecclesiastes Chap. xij Remember now thy Creator in the dayes of thy youth whyle the euill dayes come not c. 〈…〉 When the keepers of the House shall tremble The K●●●● And the Strong-men shall bowe themselues The Teeth And the Grinders shall cease because they are few The Eyes And they waxe darke that looke out at the Windowes c. TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL SIR ARTHVR HEVENINGHAM Knight one of his Maiesties Iustices of the Peace and Corum within his Highnes Counties of Suffolke and Norfolke ALthough I do see it by experience Right Worshipfull that it hath alwayes been and yet is the manner and custome of those which indeuour to publish their workes and deuises whether they be sleight or serious pleasant or profitable to make choyse of some worthy person to whom they might dedicate and commende them and vnder whose countenaunce they may be protected from the carping tongues of malitious detractours Yet haue I iust cause to doubt whether it would stand with your Worships good liking to be made Patrone of this so simple and vnpollished a Pamphlet considering I am but a stranger and not knowne to your Worship by any kind of acquaintance or conuersation Notwithstanding seeing the Booke it selfe doth carry with it a deuice of some Noueltie and matter of varietie wherein had there been vsed any kind of learned skill in the penning mought pe●●aps haue bred some pleasure in the reading Yet such as it is I haue presumed vpon the report both of your vertuous and godly disposition and singular elemencie and also of your zelous care in the administration of Iustice and abolishing of diuers Abuses which seeke to shrowde themselues in those and such like places where your Worship by reason of your place and calling haue to deale in I haue I say presumed to present it vnto your wise and graue consideration And though your wisedome and worthinesse deserueth to be presented with a gift farre more excellent then my little learning can any way affoord yet my hope is your Worship will rather esteeme the intent and goodwill of the giuer then the basenes of the gift and more regard the matter then the manner of the handling thereof not doubting but that this shall seeme to men of good iudgement more worthy the Printers trauell and the Readers paines then many vaine Pamphlets of Songes and dallying deuises tending to the artificiall cloaking of Vice and nuslyng of amorous heads therein Therefore crauing your Worships fauourable acceptation hereof and pardon for this my bould attempt fearing to be tedious I humbly take my leaue Your Worships allwayes most humbly to commaunde Ro. Vnderwood A NEW ANATOMIE OR A description of the whole Body of man after an vnwonted manner No lesse pleasant to the Reader then profitable to the Regarder LAte in the night not long agoe as I lay in my bed Musing alone of many things which then came in my hed VVere it by Reuelation by Vision or by Dreame Or yet as lying in a traunce or by some other meane I knew not well but yet mee thought as it were suddainly One caught me vp into the Aire from whence I did discrie A Cittie large of bignes such the world as it the World had beene A thousand thousand Houses there The people or the bodyes of men a man might well haue seene Their fashion stuffe and workemanship in all poynts did excell The order of these Houses too I marked very well These Houses they were mooueable and often did remooue The Soule To places where the Owners thought it fit for their behoue Their substaunce was of mixed stuffe which seemed very faire And was deriued from the Fire The foure Elements Water Earth and Ayre Compacted by such cunning skill as it hath heretofore Continued vnconstant full In Adams time Nine hundred yeeres and more The cullour of these Houses be both faire smoth and white To see them trimly decked vp it would a man delight Yet be as other Houses be in beautie for a time But when they once do come to yeeres their beautie do decline But euery House doe stand alone builded vpright and straight And each was equall in it selfe The Armes being stretched out the two leggs thighes in breadth in length in height Two Pillars framed like an Arch did for foundation stand Whereon was builded Tower wise each House by cunning hand The Pillars and the Timber-worke The Bones was framed all of Boane As cleere as Alabaster and as hard as any Stoane No Siluer Gold Iron or Steele no Copper Tinne or Brasse Nor any mettall VVood or Stone about these Buildings was With Lases very strong and white The Sinewes their Ioyntes were tied suer And euen so long as House did last these Lases would endure A Chimney in each House there was The noctrils where out there did proceede A vapoure very like to Smoake The Breath and sometime Smoake indede Of Tabacco They all had Turrets on their tops Their heads and some were seene to haue Vpon their Turrets tops for shew a Plume of Fethers braue These Turrets being round in them two Windowes did I see The Eyes Which are so like to eyes that I do thinke them eyes to be If any Houses did decay Die as often times there did Then presently an other House was raised in his stead Bornē So that the Cittie was supplide The World though thousands did decay And so shal be supplied still vntill the latter day The Scripturees Oft haue I redd in Auncient Bookes and Auncient Fathers say Diuines The matter of these Houses first was nothing els but Clay God Till one did by a wondrous skill and Wisdome vndertake By mixing of the Ellements these Houses all to make God Not any one saue one alone in all the world can frame These Houses as these Houses be nor any like the same These thinges thus seene thus thought I then If these things thus without These Houses be so wonderfull and glorious then no doubt Those things the which we cannot see which in these Houses are Must nedes exceede these outward things and go beyonde them farre And as I still thus musing stoode euen then it came to