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fire_n	body_n	earth_n	element_n	4,634	5	9.8975	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51439	Lusus serius, or, Serious passe-time a philosophicall discourse concerning the superiority of creatures under man / written by Michael Mayerus ...; Lusus serius. English	Maier, Michael, 1568?-1622.; Hall, John, 1627-1656.	1654 (1654)	Wing M286; ESTC R7027	62,551	168

Nobility and Birth but Power Favour Love Wisdome and Learning to the World whether it be by ordinary Right or Attribution For the first Kings Princes and other Magistrates reigne lawfully by it not in order to Gaine but in governing their People For attribution it gives many power who were unfit for it it gives to Men which the Law would not it makes men reverenc'd that were more worthy of hatred it gives Wisdome to fools and Learning to the illiterate 'T is Mercury who cloath'd in Silver and eminent in his witness splendour and other properties commands all this Grant me there was never Mercury and the consequence will be there was neither Silver nor Gold nor any other Mettall Mercury is an Hermaphrodite he is Father and Mother to other Mettalls though in making of imperfect Mettalls he admits an extraneous Sulphur different from his owne Nature For what you say of Mercury in perfect Mettalls is nothing else but a maturer part of Mercury and better concocted and it hath nothing common with the common sulphur but the name But I come to my seventh Sonne which indeed is my first borne because it is every way more perfect than the other Gold is of the Masculine sex Silver of the feminine Now the right of primogeniture falls ever upon the Males the females by a Salick Law of nature being excluded If you looke but on the brightnesse and the splendor of this my sonne Gold you will find nothing to be more gallant nothing more amiable if you consider his durability and faithfull tenacity nothing so strong in fire nothing lesse yeilding of its price nothing worthier or of greater value if the weight colour expansion tenuity of substance in all these you will easily grant that he exceed all others And if I should enlarge my selfe in his prayses as next unto man the epitome of the terrestriall world none would be justly angry with me but I must also be angry with him for wanting common sense The Beauty of Gold is such that will not undeservedly say it is an ectype of the sunne it selfe which is the noblest and fairest of all creatures and the most profitable to Mankinde For without him we should live in continuall darknesse we should not discerne common businesses and affaires nor distinguish one man from another In like manner unlesse Gold dissipated the clouds of humane things by its owne light we should be absolutely confounded and not able to make distinction of any thing Hence hath the Altar of Gold so many unanimously sacrificing to this Idoll as faire and precious For what is faire is lovely and on the contrary as Theognis witnesss for the Muses sung this Epitaphium at the Marriage of Cadmus {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} What 's faire is lovely what 's not so 's not faire Nay Beauty is accounted a Kingdome without an Army a conquest without opposition and a Monster without irregularity of nature which since it is so eminently seated in Gold it presently possesses it selfe of Dominion over all those that addict themselves and sue to it Therefore no man seems to contemne it but will value it at the highest rate no mans humour can so much vilifie it but he must be forc'd to obey it For its fixednesse and enduring of the fire and other qualities it may especially boast like some invincible Hero or Hercules Alexicacus It valiantly sustaines all the buffets of Antaeus all the sleights of Achelous let them turne themselves into Fire Water or any forme whatsoever Unisiquidem nil deperit auro Ignibus Gold onely looses nothing by the fire As the Poet sayes And therefore out of excellent reason Gold which is in it self incorruptible is on earth accounted the Symbol the marke and the shadow of that eternity which we shall enjoy above For other bodies made of the foure Elements are of a weak nature and corruptible this is that hundred handed Gyant the Sonne of the Earth who as often as he touches his Mother recovers his lost strength and gathers new This is that invulnerable Cycnus that yeilds neither to Hercules nor Mars arm'd by his owne nature with a shield of proofe 'T is Apollo the Archer the destroyer of Diseases the Souldier the Knight of the Golden-Fleece the Inventor of Physick whom no Disease or Monster can resist to whom nothing in the Earth is like or equall excepting onely the Soule of Man In Gold all things are most temperate nay contraries of the highest degree so that Heat doth not prevaile over Cold nor Drought over Moisture but they are reciprocally restrain'd and temper one another and conforme themselves to an anatick equality which is the greatest temper imaginable What is said of that most temperate Region which is beyond the tropick of Cancer in the Westerne part of the World where there is neither Frost Heats Raines immoderate Droughts nor any Disease to assault man nor any infectious or venomous Creatures by which meanes the Inhabitants live to a great age as though they were seated in Paradice or the Elizian Fields may be more truly said of the Temperarure of Gold which is impassible of any corruption or ill digestion In it a● the Elements remaine unchang'd firme and lusty in their pristine vigour and temper and in which no rottennesse or putrefaction can assault them Whether one or the other may exceed in power is a businesse that never comes into contest none of them complaines that he is undervalued What they say of a certaine bone in the Thumbe of Man the Hebrews call it Luz some stick not to affirme that it can neither spoyle nor be consum'd that it may remaine as a kinde of seed for the Resurrection and the ground and materiall of the future superstructure but if it be so what affinity and hidden correspondence it holds with Gold that is incorruptible it may appeare since Albertus Magnus hath recorded that Gold hath been found in Sculs of dead men between their Sutors and in their Teeth Hence questionlesse men desire so much to finger Gold as a hint and document of their Resurrection the Eternity they shall enjoy after this life and therefore they look after it not only with greedy eyes but possess'd mindes and utmost intentions desirous if it were but digestible to make it their food and repast and by a pleasing artifice to guild their owne Bowells as it told of Arthemisia Queen of Caria that she had her selfe rather be the Sepulchre and the Mausoleum of her Mausolus than he should putrifie anywhere but within her selfe By this means the vertue of Gold begets affection and its beauty continues it for it is most durable What vertue there is in Gold besides its contempt of fire is well enough understood by Physicians who give it to their Patients either in Leafe Filings or powder with Electuaries Conserves or Syrups as a singular restorative of the heart and in this they are