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A29232	The history of moderation, or, The life, death and resurrection of moderation together with her nativity, country, pedigree, kinred [sic], character, friends and also her enemies / written by Hesychius Pamphilus ; and now faithfully translated out of the original.	Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.	1669 (1669)	Wing B4264; ESTC R30241	33,332	145

happy end repented reformed and dyed comfortably Disobedience lived obstinately and dyed miserably and who could look for other Extremi●…y as I told you before was the only Enemy that Moderation had in all the world and had hated her extremely while she lived and she the only Person that rejoyced and i●…deed she insulted at her death But this E●…mity lasted not alwayes for as God would have it within a few years after Moderation's death Extremity fell into a fit of Sickness and a happy Sickness it was to her her Extremity was Graces Opportunity she was sore handled An ordinary Disease it was not but she was in great extremity and pain The Physitians who were sent for were at their Wits end when they saw her They perceived her trouble lay deeper and concluded by all Conjectures they could make it was some inward trouble or grief oppressed her And being much pressed by them to declare whether it were so or no she confessed at last it was so indeed and that she was much troubled in her Mind and could get no rest It was about her former course of life and her many sins especially she ●…aid one thing lay heaviest upon h●…r above all others which they were long ere they could get out of her yet she was observed by them that watched with her sometimes between sleeping and waking to mutter to her self and they could over-hear her now and then and her talk was of Moderation and many times she would start of a sudden and look agast and bid the By-stand●…rs look about and tell her if they saw any thing and sometimes would ask them if they saw not Moderation there Once she lay as in a Trance and seemed to them to pray and call upon God for mercy At another time she would cry out of her self and her former miscarriages saying Ah! vile Extremity Ah! sin●…ul wretch Extremity Ah! cruel Extremity And once she told one of her Maids that Moderation had appeared to her in her sleep all clothed in white and with a smiling Countenance asked her what reason she had to be so bitter an Enemy to her who had never done her wrong in all her life and now she was dead continued her Enmity to her Friends Told her she was sent to admonish her to repent and amend her waȳes then should she be a happy Woman This did much run in her mind and she would often say O! that Moderation were alive again All the World should see I did not so much hate h●…r before as I should now prize and love her She would often wish also that Eusebiu●… or Philotheos the Husband and Brother of Moderation were now alive that she might manifest what respect she bare them and that in h●…r distress she might ease her mind to th●…m and receive some comfort f●…om them which she thought was not possible for her to have but from the hands of some of Mode●…ation's Friends Then she began to make enquiry what able and discreet Divine there was to whom she might unbosom her self And was told there lived not far from her a choice and prudent Minister named Agathophilus one well experienced in Cases and perplexities of Conscience and one mighty tender in dealing with a troubled Spirit a chearful and comfortable old Man he was and a great ch●…risher of every Spark of good were it never so little and for that he had his name given him Extremity had never been acquainted with him before although they lived not far the one from the other nor indeed with many other strict Divines whom she had looked upon ●…or the most of them formerly as a company of Soure and discontented persons for him she presently sends and he came immediately and she at first sight of him was ready somewhat like Cornelius to Saint Pe●…er to rise off her Couch and fall down upon her knees to him He asked her how she did what was her grief She confessed she had been a grievous sinner and had much offended but one thing there was which she had hitherto concealed but now she would hide nothing from him one thing there was that troubled her more then all the rest she had been a bitter Enemy to Moderation and now she saw plainly the Evening of Sickness is the Morning of Light that she had been much mistaken in her and feared she had much to answer for her uncharitableness she had alway●…s looked upon Moderation with an evil eye as if she had been the 〈◊〉 Creature alive and thereupon had hat●…d her to the death but now she was quite and clean of another mind and did think she was as good a Soul as liv●…d and the most innocent and saw that she was a better Christian then her self wishing with all her heart that when she dyed she might change places with Modera●… and were she now alive again he would shew her all the love was ●…ossible This and much more she ●…onfest and the Tears gushed out ●…hen she mentioned these things ●…nd oft-times would lift up her eyes ●…o Heaven and pray God forgive ●…e my bitterness against Moderati●…n And another thing she charged her self withall which she thought made her more inexcusable and she said she had never thought of it till in this her sickness and that was this she had been formerly under the hands of cruel Oppressours and could not help her self and indeed she had had hard measure but it was not from the hands of Moderation nor any of her Friends who could only pity her and were troubled to see it but by other hands as extreme as Extremity her self Schollers have a saying One extr●…am is most opp●…site to 〈◊〉 But then s●…e had promised and made a solemn Vow that if ●…ver sh●… should come out of her sufferings she ha●… learnt to pity sufferers while she liv●… ed and should never countenance Violence again yet since she had bee●… in that good condition she now enjoyed and Moderation she acknowledged had not been backward to contribute her best assistance for hers an●… the common benefit she had bot●… forgotten Moderation and her own former Vows and Promises And here she burst out into Tears a●…resh Agath●…philus seeing her in such an Agony 〈◊〉 to comfort her yet told her she had been much to blame for her former Violence but seeing she was now so true a Pen●…tent and so changed in her mind as she declared he bad h●…r not fear her case was no wayes desperate and to confirm her he told her further that in his Experience he had m●…t with the like before and could give her many Scripture Instances He would not tell her of Manas●…es he said and what he had done yet found mercy for his Case was quite beyond the Line and Eccentrical to her Relation she had made But he could tell her of divers of no mean Quality whose Names and Stories are no wayes blemished by it that had been drawn aside sometimes as she had been As Darius

Bold Anaideia a confident and brazen-fac'd Slut a Shameless and impudent Carryon The Fift Donna Olympia lately come from the Holy Mother-See where she had practised the same Art with much success for many years The youngest Damosilla Blandula a mighty fair tongued smiling and bewitching Creature They lived all under the same Roof and had their several Offices their Lodgings are within or over one another Blandula the youngest was to sit at the door and watch and ●…spy who went by and what Passengers were fit to be called in them would she invite to come and make choice of a Room and tell them what Entertainment was to be had in the House Being entered she conveys them presently into Donna Olympia's Lodging who for her self was richly adorned with Jewels taken out of the Triple Crown and her Room was hung with the rich Hangings she had brought out of the Vatican After a short stay there and a Collation given and the Curiosities viewed and looked over that came from beyond Sea among which w●…re certain Beads and Medals and some Images of our Lady and other Saints and a fair Crucifix she desires them to go up stairs to Mistriss Anaideia's Lodgings Her they found at her Glass curiously curling her Locks and spotting her Face with her naked Breasts and her Chamber all round hung with many a lascivious Picture If then any one startled and thought they had seen enough and craved leave to return they would all three tell them there was more to be seen above and they must not refuse to go up one short pair of Stairs and taste of their Sister Crapula's Cup It was a Gilt Bole of old and clear Circe a Liquor whosoever once tasted was turned into a Swine at the second draught then they would of themselves desire to go on and see all and to behold Donna Spatalosa She was preparing Bracelets made of her hair and mixing Potions for Guests that she had expected and she came boldly and saluted them offering them the courtesie of the House and tells them they must not refuse to visit their eldest Sister Madam Porne whose Room would give them more contem then all they had yet seen There sat she on a stately Couch in rich array of Silk and Crimson Satin all daubed with broad Gold-lace her Face new painted she wa●… old and wrinkled but h●…r paint made her look as fair as a Rose and a mixture of Lilly a fair Room it was indeed hung with the richest Arras and you would wonder to see what a Cupboard was there of Plate and what a fair Prospect into all the Fields and Gardens round about She presented them by the hands of her waiting Gentlewoman Eutrapeleia a smiling merry and witty young Woman all Jests and mirth with a Venus Glass of Wine and some costly Sweet-meats But under the Balcony was a close Trap-door discerned by few over a deep Ditch and narrow Pit called Avernus into which after a few short Amorous Embraces she was wont to throw her Guests headlong with the help of her Sisters after they had first stript them of all they had about them and they were never heard of more Few or none that ever I heard of that came once into Madam Porne's Clutches ever came back again or were seen alive but sometimes a naked Corps was seen floating on the top of the Ditch Only one escaped once as Lot out of Sodom to make the relation of their Entertainment and he said it was almost as great a miracle as his was for he was fain to steal out at a back-door which he found locked but putting forth all his strength he burst it open and then came down a narrow pair of Stairs very steep and dark which few were able to find and so got away resolving never to come more there for said he had I stayed longer or attempted to go back the same way I came I had certainly been snapt He would ever after call them the six fatal Sisters and would warn all his Acquaintance not to come near them But enough and too much of Disobedience and I fear I have troubled the Reader with this long Discourse of her and her Children and their wicked pranks and no wonder for it is this Disobedience that hath troubled all the World troubled both God and Man To return therefore to Moderation the wayes both of the one and other Litter she could not chuse but detest and for the latter breed she never had so much as her name called in question to favour any of them but when any of the former Race broke out into Rebellion she could not help it but watchful and jealous Extremity would have some hard thoughts of her as if she had been an Abettor whereas she was never so much as privy to any of their Designs and whensoever she came to hear of them was as forward as any to declare against them and to give her best assistance to suppress them and whensoever any of the Sons of Rebellion and Disobedience were taken and did receive condign punishment she did heartily rejoyce as having no such enemies of her own in that defiance as those that were enemies to God to the King to Religion and to her Country CHAP. X. Of the Pedigree and Progeny of Politicus no great friend to Moderation I Could give you a Relation of a third Person also that lived in the midway between Extremity and Moderation who was no sure friend to Moderation yet can I not call him an enemy neither His na●…e Politicus and a meer Politician he was no body could tell of what Religion he was neither fish nor flesh as he loved not Moderation so he cared not for Extremity he hated Disobedience indeed to the very death and was for that much to be commended He came of the Ancient Roman Race Gallio his Grand-father and Portius Festus his near Alliance Politicus was no bad Member in the Commonwealth though none of the greatest Friends to the Church nor Church-men at whose Revenues he would sometime have a fling no Recusant much less Phanatick scarce good Protestant but of the Epicene Gender He was a conformable quiet and peaceable Subject and many wayes useful and serviceable being an extreme good natured man ever loyal to his Prince and true to his Country In times of Peace he had a Commission for the Peace and was in Authority and singular good service he did and kept his Country in quiet and good order executing Justice between man man now then he would put down some notorious ill Ale-house In time of War he had a Command and kept his Souldiers in good discipline from Robbing and Plundering as severe as Tamerlane But he never troubled his head about Religion If God Almighty had created man for no higher end then to live in Civil Society and to mind the things of this inferiour world and this present life there had been no better man then Po●…iticus

peaceable let them dwell in the Land and trade t●…erein behold the Land is large enough let us make Marriages with them and take their Daughters in marriage with our Sons Others again said it was no more but this the good hour was come wherein God would bring Moderation out of her Troubles as he had done Joseph who had lyen in disgrace under some foul Accusations till the time that his Word came the Word of the Lord had tryed him then the King sent and loosed ●…im the Ruler of the people and let him go free And the rather because he had been ●…formed by some about him that he had skill in opening Divine Revelations and might be of great use in preventing a spiritual Famine Others again that it had been with the Daughter now as it was with her Father Hyperzelotes both in his first and last Time and immediate inspiration from God had wrought this 〈◊〉 change in him who after his intemperate zeal spent against Mode●…ation became now her great Friend Patron and Advocate and then the most glorious Champion for Truth Piety and Charity that ●…ver was and a most Emin●…nt Instrument of good to the universal Church after which it is observed by a Sacred Pen Then had the Churches rest in all Judea 〈◊〉 and Galil●…e ●…nd ●…re edified and walking in the fear of the Lord and in the Comforts of the Holy Ghost were multiplyed And in all the Churches where Tidings came of this blessed change They glorified God in him The like was now done in all Feliciana Howsoever it was and whatsoever may be thought the cause it becomes not Pamphilus to determine but all remembred what a Blessed Peace-making and GreatUniting-Monarch of a famous Island had given for his Motto upon his Coin A Domino factum est illud est mirabile in oculis nostris This was the Lords doing and it is marvelous in our eyes who h●…d united Kingdoms formerly divided and at enmity and said the like had befallen them and therefore desired God might 〈◊〉 the whole glory and praise ascribed to him Only this is certain nothing could have b●…n done more to the general satisfaction of the sober sort of Men in the Island to r●…ise up their hearts in the highest praise o●… God and to the greatest measu●… of thankfulness to so Graci●…us a●…d Prudent a Prince and to the cementing of Christian Love and mutual good Affection all the Island over only Disobedience was much dis●…ontented and looking seorn●…ully ou●… at a Window as M●…chal o●…e when all Is●…ael were in their highest joy at a great Festival and shook her head So that Isr●…el of old did not more rejoyce when the King had brought the Ark out of a private House into publick again and appointed it a fixed Station or when the Son of the same King had newly Dedicated the holy Temple it being set down in their sacred Stories that both these Princes blessed their people and th●…y were again blessed by their people And the conclusion of the Story of the lat●…er was this after his Devotions ended He sent away the people and they blessed the King and went into their Tents joyful and glad in heart for all the goodness the Lord had done for David his Servant and for Israel his People CHAP. XV. What became of Disobedience and her Children they being quelled and reduced what a happy World followed according to an old Prophecy NOw when we shall have dispatch●…d Disobedie●…ce out of th●… way our work is at an end we shall ther●…fore tell you what b●…came of her now th●…re was no other Enemy to be 〈◊〉 And would we could say she came to the like good end Extremi●…y made But it was 〈◊〉 likely She was not of like Temper and Spirit as Extremity was ever to be touched with any sense of Honour or Conscience Extremity was of a Generous Spirit and Noble Education and ever bare a true Love to her Country only too too passionate Disobedienc●… on the other side was of a dogged surly and unquiet Spirit nothing could pl●…ase her neither could she well tell what she would have only fretted at the times and her own private condition But now those great Famili●…s of Extremity and Moderation being united and allyed there was no fear of any considerable disturbance Disobedience could make And to make sure and timely to pr●…vent any mischief that any of the Children of Disobedi●…nce could hatch or devise Extremity and Moderation's Friends agreed with their united Forces to fall upon them And they being within a short time after up in Rebellion it was the Lot of a Party of Extremities Forces to give the first charge who scattered the body and took some of the chief Heads and made them Examples and Moderation's with their Party took some others And both agreed to the terror of the rest to send them bound to their Father Absalom's Oak drawn backward in his Chariot by his Mule whom when she carried thither and had left them safe hanging by the head between Heaven and Earth upon a three-forked Branch the Wood devoured more that day then the Sword the lightened Beast went away from under them leaving them hanging Some of the rest that were taken stragling were made to go on Pilgrimage a foot to the Oak of Reformation a Tree which had formerly done good service o●… like occasion in the dayes of their fore-fathers And because this Tree was somewhat higher then the former they were fain to climb or else to be lifted up to it an●… 〈◊〉 after the kind Earth ●…o 〈◊〉 the World of them opened and they were swallowed up wi●…h the Congregation of Abiram The Heads being taken off thus the rest submitted and f●…ll to hard Labour all save a f●…w desperate ones who seeing they could do no more good on it others call it mischief and wickedness fled the Island Only some too many of them too of the latter brood of Disobedience the Hectors and T●…ries the Drunkards Whoremongers and other vicious persons remained sculking in Corners and har●…oured in wicked houses who●… it is hoped the good and wholesome Laws of the Island for there are no better any where and due execution of them may in time reduce from the evil wayes of their Mother Disobedience then no Nation in the World more happy and may well be called Feliciana or Elisiana for ever But already all S●…orms were scattered and an happy Calm followed and there seemed to be a new World The Island was settled Armies disbanded every Man sate under his own Vine and Fig-tree eating drink●…ng and making merry as in the older World or in the Halcyon and Golden dayes of Solomon's Reign rejoycing that Mercy and Truth Righteousness and Peace Extremi●…y and Moderation had kissed each other And the Primitive times did seem to be returned wherein they did eat their meat with gladn●…ss and sing●…eness of heart praising God and having favour with all the people and the Lord added to his Church dayly such as should be saved And all good Men prayed long may Extremity and Moderation be friends or rather no more Extremity but alwayes Moderation And then many could remember there ha●… been an old Prophecy which their Fathers had told them foretold many a day agone by a holy Man which was now fulfilled and was to this effect Moderation shall Revive Extremity shall Cease Disob●…dience stoop to Reason All end in Peace The Envy of Ephraim shall cease Ephraim shall not envy Judah no●… Judah vex Ephraim Te Duce siqua manent sceleris vestigia nostri Irrita perpetua solvent formidine ●…erras Virgil. Glory to God in the highest on Earth Peace and good will amongst Men. Moderations Rec●…ipt taught her b●… her Aunt Experience Soveraign to cure any Distempers i●…●…he Church especially in●…ard in the Bowels as ●…lso of excelle●…t vert●…e against a Rupture BLest Soul she taught how to secure The Church 'T will do if put in ure A Pound of Piety she singles As much of Charity then mingles Zeal bruis'd with Knowledge next she takes Two Pugils a rare Compound makes Then tops of Prudence and the Pith Of Elder Faith Stale Truth therewith A good handful of Humility Some mild Forbearance Unity In Matters Mayn Opinions New Leaves Roots and Stalks away she threw And to make sure it shall Digest Loyalty sweetens all the rest THE Outlandish Names IN THIS DISCOURSE ENGLISHED ABaddon and Apollyon Names given in Scripture to Satan signifie a Destroyer Agathophilus a Lover of Goodness or good Men. Anaideia Impudence Asotos a Prodigal or Riotous person Avernus a Lake put for Hell Blandula a fair spoken Woman or a Flatterer Ben-hagios an holy Son Bar-Jonah the Son of the Dove Crapula Drunkenness or Excess Circe a Witch whose Cups turned men into Swine Donna Olympia a Roman Lady who lately managed all Affairs for the Pope at the Court at Rome Donna Spatulosa a lascivious Lady Dolosus Subtle or Crafty Eulaleia a well-spoken Woman Eudorla Comeliness or making a fair shew Eupolemus a good Warriour Eusebius a Godly person Eutrapeleia Jesting or Merriment Feliciana an happy Island Gelasius one given to Laughter Hyperphiladelphotus one exceeding loving to the Brethren Hyperzelotes excessively zealous Misoponos one that hates labour and pains Phantasia Pomp or Gallantry Philautos one that loves himself Philallelos one that loveth others Philedonos a lover of pleasure Philodemus a lover of the people Philodike a lover of Justice Philotheos a lover of God Porne a Harlot Probation Tryal Temerarius Rash or venturous FINIS