That the liver is first in time and making is manifest because the Nurse the vein that feeds the infant yet in the wombe empties it self upon the liver m The first excrement drawn from the liver to the gall is cholerick bitter like flame in colour which were it not removed and kept in due place would fill all the body with bitternesse and gnawing n Choledochus or the Gall is of a membranous substance having but one yet that a strong tunicle It hath two passages one drawing the humour from the liver another conveying the overplus into the first gut and so emptying the gall And this fence hath a double gate to keep the liquour from returning o The second ill humour is earthy and heavy which is drawn from the liver by little vessels unto the splene the native seat of melancholie here some have placed laughter but the splene seems rather the seat of malice and heavinesse p If the splene should fail in this office the whole body would be filled with melancholy fancies and vain terrours q Where the splene flourishes and the body decayes and withers where the splene is kept down the body flourishes Hence Stratonicus merrily said that in Crete dead men walked because they were so splenitive and pale-coloured r Trajan compared the splene to his exchequer because as his coffers being full drained his subjects purses so the full splene makes the body saplesse s The watery humour with some good bloud which is spent for the nourishment of those parts is drawn by the kidneys t The Ureters receive the water separated from the bloud as distilled from little fleshie substances in the kidneys like to teats u The kidneys are both alike the left somewhat higher both have a double skinne and both compassed with fat a The heart is the seat of heat and life therefore walled about with the ribs for more safety b The breasts or paps are given to men for strength and ornament to women for milk and nurserie also c When the infant grows big he so oppresseth the vessels of bloud that partly through the readinesse of the passage but especially by the providence of God the bloud turns back to the breast there by an innate but wonderfull facultie is turned into milk d The breasts are in figure hemisphericall whose tops are crowned with the teats about which are reddish circles called Areolae or little altars e In the Thorax or breast are sixty five muscles for respiration or breathing which is either free or forced The instruments of forced breathing are sixtie foure whereof thirtie two distend and as many contract it f The instrument of the free breathing is the Diazome or Diaphragme which we call the midriffe as a wall parting the heart and liver Plato affirms it a partition between the seats of desire and anger Aristotle a barre to keep the noisome odour of the stomack from the heart g The midriffe dilates it self when it draws in contracts it self when it puffes out the aire h The midriffe consists of two circles one skinny the other fleshie It hath two tunicles as many veins and arteries and foure nerves i Here most men have placed the seat of laughter It hath much sympathie with the brain so that if the midriffe be inflamed present madnes easues it k Within the Pleura or skinne which clotheth the ribs on the inside compasses this middle region l The chiefest part of this middle region is the Heart placed in the midst of this province and of the whole bodie fitly was it placed in the midst of all as being of all the most needfull m The Heart is immured partly by a membrane going round about it and thence receiving his name and a peculiar tunicle partly with an humour like whey or urine as well to cool the heart as to lighten the body n The flesh of the heart is proper and peculiar to it self not like other muscles of a figure pyramicall The point of the heart is as with a diademe girt with two arteries and a vein called the crowns o Though the heart be an entire body yet it is severed into two partitions the right and left of which the left is more excellent and noble p The right receives into his hollownesse the bloud flowing from the liver and concocts it q This right side sends down to the lungs that part of this bloud which is lesse laboured and thicker but the thinner part it sweats through a fleshie partition into the left side r This fleshie partition severs the right side from the left at first it seems thick but if it be well viewed we shall see it full of many pores or passages s Two skinny additions from their likenesse called the ears receive the one the thicker bloud that called the right the other called the left takes in the aire sent by the lungs t The left side of the heart takes in this aire and bloud and concocting them both in his hollow bosome sends them out by the great arterie into the whole body u In the heart are foure great vessels the first is the hollow vein bringing in the blood from the liver at whose mouth stand three little folding doores with three forks giving passage but no return to the bloud * The second vessel is called the arterie-arterie-vein which rising from the right side of the heart carries down the bloud here prepared to the lungs for their nourishment Here also is the like three-folding doore made like half circles giving passage from the heart but not backward x The third is called the Veiny arterie rising from the left side which hath two folds three-forked y The fourth is the great arterie This hath also a floudgate made of three semicircular membranes to give out load to the virall spirits and stop their regresse z The Heart is the fountain of life and heat to the whole bodie and the seat of passions a The Pneumon or lungs is nearest the heart whose flesh is light and spongie very large It is the instrument of breathing and speaking divided into many parcels yet all united into one bodie b The Lungs are covered with a light very thinne tunicle left it might be an hinderance to the motion c The winde-pipe which is framed partly of cartilage or grissy matter because the voice is perfected with hard smooth things these cartilages are compassed like a ring partly of skin which tie the grisles together d And because the rings of the grifles do not wholly meet this space is made up by muscles that so the meat-pipe adjoyning might not be galled or hurt e The Larynx or covering of the winde-pipe is a grisly substance parted into foure grisles of which the first is ever unmoved and in women often double f Adjoyning to it is the Oesophagus or meat-pipe conveying meats and drinks to the stomack g At whose end is the Epiglottis or cover of the throat the
Harpyes train Which in the world had never being yet Oft dreams of fire and water loose delight And oft arrested by some ghastly sprite Nor can he think nor speak nor move for great affright 48 Phantastes from the first all shapes deriving In new abiliments can quickly dight Of all materiall and grosse parts depriving Fits them unto the noble Princes sight Which soon as he hath view'd with searching eye He straight commits them to his Treasurie Which old Eumnestes keeps Father of memorie 49 Eumnestes old who in his living screen His mindefull breast the rolls and records bears Of all the deeds and men which he hath seen And keeps lockt up in faithfull Registers Well he recalls Nimrods first tyrannie And Babels pride daring the lofty skie Well he recalls the earths twice-growing infancie 50 Therefore his body weak his eyes halfblinde But minde more fresh and strong ah better fate And as his carcase so his house declin'd Yet were the walls of firm and able state Onely on him a nimble Page attends Who when for ought the aged Grandsire sends With swift yet backward steps his helping aidance lends 51 But let my song passe from these worthy Sages Unto this Islands highest Soveraigne And those hard warres which all the yeare he wages For these three late a gentle shepherd-swain Most sweetly sung as he before had seen In Alma's house his memorie yet green Lives in his well-tun'd songs whose leaves immortall been 52 Nor can I guesse whether his Muse divine Or gives to those or takes from them his grace Therefore Eumnestes in his lasting shrine Hath justly him enroll'd in second place Next to our Mantuan poet doth he rest There shall our Colin live for ever blest Spite of those thousand spites which living him opprest 53 The Prince his time in double office spends For first those forms and fancies he admits Which to his Court busie Phantastes sends And for the easier discerning fits For shedding round about his sparkling light He cleares their duskie shades and cloudy night Producing like himself their shapes all shining bright 54 As when the Sunne restores the glitt'ring day The world late cloath'd in nights black livery Doth now a thousand colours fair display And paints it self in choice varietie Which late one colour hid the eye deceiving All so this Prince those shapes obscure receiving With his suffused light makes ready to conceiving 55 This first is call'd the Active Facultie Which to an higher power the object leaves That takes it in it self and cunningly Changing it self the object soon perceives For straight it self in self same shape adorning Becomes the same with quick strange transforming So is all things it self to all it self conforming 56 Thus when the eye through Visus jettie ports Le ts in the wandring shapes the crystall strange Quickly it self to every sort consorts So is what e're it sees by wondrous change Thrice happy then when on that mirrour bright He ever fastens his unmoved sight So is what there he views divine full glorious light 57 Soon as the Prince these forms hath clearely seen Parting the false from true the wrong from right He straight presents them to his beauteous Queen Whose Courts are lower yet of equall might Voletta fair who with him lives and reignes Whom neither man nor fiend nor God constrains Oft good oft ill oft both yet ever free remains 58 Not that great Soveraigne of the Fayrie land Whom late our Colin hath eternized Though Graces decking her with plenteous hand Themselves of grace have all unfurnished Though in her breast she Vertues temple bare The fairest temple of a guest so fair Not that great Glorians self with this might e're compare 59 Her radiant beautie daz'ling mortall eye Strikes blinde the daring sense her sparkling face Her husbands self now cannot well descrie With such strange brightnesse such immortall grace Hath that great parent in her cradle made That Cynthia's silver cheek would quickly fade And light it self to her would seem a painted shade 60 But ah entic't by her own worth and pride She stain'd her beautie with most loathsome spot Her Lords fixt law and spouses light deni'd So fill'd her spouse and self with leprous blot And now all dark is their first morning ray What verse might then their former light display When yet their darkest night outshines the brightest day 61 On her a royall damsell still attends And faithfull Counseller Synteresis For though Voletta ever good intends Yet by fair ills she oft deceived is By ills so fairly drest with cunning slight That Vertues self they well may seem to sight But that bright Vertues self oft seems not half so bright 62 Therefore Synteresis of nimble sight Oft helps her doubtfull hand and erring eye Els mought she ever stumbling in this night Fall down as deep as deepest Tartarie Nay thence a sad-fair maid Repentance rears And in her arms her fainting Lady bears Washing her often stains with ever-falling tears 63 Thereto she addes a water soveraigne Of wondrous force and skilfull composition For first she pricks the heart in tender vein Then from those precious drops and deep contrition With lips confession and with pickled cries Still'd in a broken spirit sad vapours rise Exhal'd by sacred fires and drop through melting eyes 64 These cordiall drops these spirit-healing balms Cure all her sinfull bruises cleare her eyes Unlock her ears recover fainting qualms And now grown fresh and strong she makes her rise And glasse of unmaskt sinne she bright displaies Whereby she sees loathes mends her former waies So soon repairs her light trebling her new-born raies 65 But ah why do we simple as we been With curious labour dimme and vailed sight Prie in the nature of this King and Queen Groping in darknesse for so cleare a light A light which once could not be thought or told But now with blackest clouds is thick enroll'd Prest down in captive chains and pent in earthly mold 66 Rather lament we this their wretched fate Ah wretched fate and fatal wretchednesse Unlike those former dayes and first estate When he espous'd with melting happinesse To fair Voletta both their lights conspiring He saw what e're was fit for her requiring And she to his cleare sight would temper her desiring 67 When both replenisht with celestiall light All coming evils could foresee and flie When both with clearest eye and perfect sight Could every natures difference descrie Whose pictures now they scarcely see with pain Obscure and dark like to those shadows vain Which thinne and emptie glide along Avernus plain 68 The flowres that frighted with sharp winters dread Retire into their mother Tellus wombe Yet in the Spring in troups new mustered Peep out again from their unfrozen tombe The early Violet will fresh arise And spreading his flour'd purple to the skies Boldly the little elf the winters spite defies 69 The hedge green Sattin pinkt and cut arayes The Heliotrope to
double tunicle of the rimme is plainly parted into a large space that with a double wall it might fence the bladder where the vessels of the navil are contained These are foure first the norse which is a vein nourishing the infant in the wombe 2 two arteries in which the infant breaths the fourth the Outachos a pipe whereby while the childe is in the wombe the urine is carried into the Allantoid or rather Amnion which is a membrane receiving the sweat and urine x The passages carrying the urine from the kidneys to the bladder Some action that in the passage stands a curious lid or cover y The bladder endeth in a neck of Hesh and is garded with a muscle which is called Sphincter which holds in the urine lest it flow away without our permission If this be loosened or cold the urine goes away from us of it self without any feeling z Hence the urine is conveyed through the ordinary passages and cast out a Beside the bladder there are six speciall parts contained in this lower region the liver stomack with the guts the gall the splene or milt the kidneys and parts for generation b The stomack or Koilia is the first in order though not in dignitie c Koilia or the stomack is long round like a bag-pipe made to receive and concoct the meat and to perfect the Chyle or white juice which riseth from thee meat concocted d Gustus the taste is the caterer or steward to the stomack which hath his place in Cephal that is the head e In either chap are sixteen teeth foure cutters two dog-teeth or breakers ten grinders f The tongue with great agilitie delivers up the meat well chewed to the instruments of swallowing eight muscles serving to this purpose which instantly send the meat through the Oesophagus or meat-pipe into the stomack g The upper mouth of the stomack hath little veins or strings circular to shut in the meat and keep it from returning h Vas breve or the short vessel which sending in a melancholy humour sharpens the appetite i In the bottome of the stomack which is placed in the midst of the belly is concoction perfected k The concoction of meats in the stomack is perfected as by an innate propertie and speciall vertue so also by the outward heat of parts adjoyning For it is on every side compassed with hotter parts which as fire to a caldron helps to seethe and concoct and the hot steams within it do not a little further digestion l The lower orifice or mouth of the stomack is not placed at the very bottome but at the side and is called the Janitor or Porter as sending out the food new concocted through the entrails which are knotty and full of windings left the meat too suddenly passing through the body should make it too subject to appetite and greedinesse m It is approved that the entrails dried and blown are seven times longer then the body they are all one entire body yet their differing substance hath distinguished them into the thinne thick the thinne have the more noble office n The first is straight without any winding that the chyle might not return and most narrow that it might not finde too hasty a passage It takes in a little passage from the gall which there purges his choler to provoke the entrails when they are slow to cast out the excrements This is called Duodenum or twelve finger from his length o The second is called the lank or hungry gut as being more emptie then the rest for the liver being neare it sucks out his juice or cream it is known from the rest by the red colour p The third called Ilion or winding from his many folds and turnings is of all the longest q The first of the baser is called blinde at whose end is an appendant where if any of the thinner chyle do chance to escape it is stopt and by the veins of the midriffe suckt out r The second is Colon or the tormenter because of the winde there staying vexing the body s The last called Rectum or straight hath no windings short larger toward the end that the excrement may more easily be ejected and retained also upon occasion t The thinne entrails serve for the carrying through-concocting of the chyle the thicker for the gathering and containing the excrements u They are all sprinkled with numberlesse little veins that no part of the chyle might escape till all be brought to the liver x Epiploon or Overswimmer descends below the navill and ascends above the highest entrails of skinny substance all interlaced with fat y The Mesenterium or midst amongst the entrails whence it takes the name ties and knits the entrails together it hath a double tunicle z Pancreas or All flesh for so it seems is laid as a pillow under the stomack and sustains the veins that are dispread from the gate-vein a Of all this lower region the Hepar or liver is the principall The situation strong and safe walled in by the ribs b It is covered with one single cunicle that very thinne and slight c The liver is tied to the heart by arteries to the head by nerves and to both by veins dispersed to both d The liver consists of no ordinary flesh but of a kinde proper to it self e The livers upper part rises swells gently is very smooth and even the lower in the outside like to an hollow rock rugged craggy f From it rise all the springs of bloud which runnes in the veins g The steward of the whole Isle is here fitly placed because as all that is brought in is here fitted and disposed so from hence returned and dispensed h Here Plato disposed the seat of love And certainly though lust which some perversly call love be otherwhere seated yet that affection whereby we wish and do well to others may seem to be better fitted in the liver then in the heart where most do place it because this moderate heat appeares more apt for this affection and fires of the heart where as a Salamander anger lives seem not so fit to entertain it i Hence rise the two great rivers of bloud of which all the rest are lesser streams The first is Porta or the gate-gate-vein issuing from the hollow part and is shed toward the stomack splene guts and the Epiploon The second is Cava the hollow vein spreading his river over all the body k The chyle or juice of meats concocted in the stomack could not all be turned into sweet bloud by reason of the divers kindes of humours in it Therefore there are three kinds of excrementall liquors suckt away by little vessels and carried to their appointed places one too light and fiery an other too earthy and heavy a third wheyish and watery l Famous the controversie between the Peripateticks and Physicians one holding the heart the other the liver to be first