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friend_n	mercury_n	planet_n	venus_n	1,132	5	12.1294	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12787	Three proper, and wittie, familiar letters: lately passed betvveene tvvo vniuersitie men: touching the earthquake in Aprill last, and our English refourmed versifying With the preface of a wellwiller to them both.	Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599.; Harvey, Gabriel, 1550?-1631. aut	1580 (1580)	STC 23095; ESTC S111268	38,417	65

they say and as they say say with great Physicall and Naturall Reason The Earth in some place or other euer lightly after any great and suddayne alteration of weather or diet is excéedingly troubled and payned as namely this very Time of the yeare after the extréeme pynching colde of Winter and agayne in Autumne after the extréeme parching heate of Sommer But shall I tell you Mistresse Inquisitiua The soundest Philosophers in déede and very déepest Secretaries of Nature holde if it please you an other Assertion and maintayne this for truth which at the leastwise of all other séemeth maruellous reasonable and is questionl●sse farth●st off from Heresie That as the Earth vppon it hath many stately and boysterous fierce Creatures as namely Men and Women and diu●rs Beastes wherof some one is in maner continually at variaunce and fewde with an other euermore séeking to be reuenged vpō his enimie which eft soones breaketh forth into profess●d and open Hostilitie and then consequently followe set battels mortall warres wherin the one partie bendeth all the force of his Ordinance and other Martiall furniture against the other ●o likewise within it too it hath also some as vengibly and frowardly bent as for Example Woormes and Moules and Cunnyes and such other valiauntly highminded Creatures the Sonnes and daughters of Mars Bellona ● that nurrish ciuill debate and contrarie factions amongst them selues which are seldome or neuer ended too without miserable bloudshed and deadly warre and then go me their Gunnes lust●ly off and the one dischargeth his Péece co●tagious●y at the other and there is suche a Generall dub a dubbe amongst them and such horrible Thundering on euery syde and suche a monstrous cruell shaking of one an others For●es and Castels that the whole Earth agayne 〈◊〉 at the least so muche of the Earth as is ouer● or néere them is terribly hoysed and No more An●s or Ifs for Gods sake quoth the Madame and this be your great Doctorly learning Wée haue euen Enoughe alreadie for our Money and if you shoulde goe a little farther I feare mée you woulde make vs nyghe as ●unning as your selfe and that woulde bée a great disgrace ●o the Uniuersi●i● Not a whi●te gentle Madame quoth I● there be of vs that haue greater store in our bowgets than we can well occupie our selues and therefore we are glad as you sée when by the fauourable gratious aspect of son●e bl●ssed Planet and specially our Mercury or your Venus it is our good Fortune to lighte on such good friendes as you and some other good Gentle woomen be that take pleasure comfort in such good things Wherat Mistresse Inquisitiua laughing right out and beginning to demaunde I know not what me thought shée made as if it shoulde haue béen some goodly plausible Iest wherat shée is and takes her selfe prettily good Well well Master H. quoth the Gentleman of the house now you haue playde your part so cunningly with the Gentlewoomen as I warrant you shall be remembred of Inquisitiua ● when you are gone and may happely forget her which I hope Mistresse Incredula will do sometyme too by hir leaue I pray you in earnest let vs men learne some thing of you too and especially I would gladly heare your Iudgement and resolution whether you counte of Earthquakes as Naturall or Supernaturall motions But the shorter all the better To whom I made answere in effect as followeth Master Hs. short but sharpe and learned Iudgement of Earthquakes TRuely Syr vnder correction and in my fancie The Earthquakes themselues I would saye are Naturall●● as I veryly beléeue the Internall Causes there of are I meane those two Causes which the Logicians call the Materiall and the Formall● Marr● the Exter●●ll ●auses which are the Efficient and Finall I take rather of the two to be sup●rnaturall I must ●ra●e a little lea●e to l●ye open the matter The ●●teriall Cause of Earthquakes as was superficially ●ouche● in the begin●ing of our speache and is sufficiently proo●ed by Aristotle in the seconde Booke of his Meteor● is no doubt great aboundance of wynde or stoare of gros●● and ●●y●●●●●●s and spirites fast shut vp as a man would saye emprysoned in the Caues and Dange●ns of the Earth● which winde or vapors séeking to be set at libertie and to get them home to their Naturall lodgings in a great fume violently rush out and as it were breake prison which forcible Eruption and strong breath causeth an Earthquake As is excellently and very liuely expressed of Ouid as I remember thus Vis fera ventorum caecis inclusa cauernis Exspirare aliquò cupiens luctataque frustra Liberiore fru● coelo cùm carcere Rima Nulla foret toto nec peruia flatibus esset Extentam tumefecit humum ceu spiritus oris Tendere vesicam solet and so foorth The formall Cause is nothing but the very manner of this same Motion and shaking of the Earth without and the violent kinde of striuing and wrastling of the windes and Exhalations within which is and must néedes be done in this or that sort after one fashion or other Nowe syr touching the other two Causes which I named Externall The first immediate Efficient out of all Question is God himselfe the Creatour and Continuer and Corrector of Nature and therefore Supernaturall whose onely voyce carrieth such a reuerend and terrible Maiestie with it that the very Earth againe and highest Mountaines quake tremble at the sounde and noyse thereof the text is rife in euery mans mouth Locutus est Dominus contremuit Terra howbeit it is not to be gainesayd that is holden of all the auncient Naturall Philosophers and Astronomers for the principall or rather sole Efficient that the Influence and heate of the Sunne and Starres and specially of the thrée superior Planets Saturne Iupiter and Mars is a secondarie Instrumentall Efficient of such motions The finall not onely that the wynde shoulde recouer his Naturall place than which a naturall reasonable man goeth no farther no not our excellentest profoundest Philosophers themselues but sometime also I graunt to testifie and denounce the secrete wrathe and indignation of God or his sensible punishmen● vppon notorious malefactours or a threatning Caueat and forewarning for the inhabitantes or the like depending vppon a supernaturall Efficient Cause and tending to a supernaturall Morall End Which End for that I knowe is the very poynt whereon you stande albeit it be acknowledged Supernaturall and purposed as I sayd of a supernaturall Cause to whom nothing at all is impossible and that can worke supernaturally and myraculously without ordinarie meanes and inferiour causes yet neuerthelesse is we sée commonly performed by the qualifying and conforming of Nature and Naturall things to the accomplishment of his Diuine and incomprehensible determination For being as the olde Philosophers call him very Nature selfe or as it hath pleased our later schoolemen to terme him by way of distinction Natura Naturans he hath