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A02045 The castel of memorie wherein is conteyned the restoring, augmenting, and conseruing of the memorye and remembraunce, with the safest remedies, and best preceptes therevnto in any wise apperteyning: made by Gulielmus Gratarolus Bergomatis Doctor of Artes and Phisike. Englished by Willyam Fulvvod. The contentes whereof appeare in the page next folovvynge.; De memoria reparanda. English Gratarolo, Guglielmo, 1516?-1568?; Fulwood, William. 1562 (1562) STC 12191; ESTC S117976 36,540 132

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great or carefull studye is likewise hurtefull in as muche as it is not without an earnest gredye desyre In another place he sayeth thus The best arte of the Memorie is to vnderstande thynges throughly and being vnderstanded to reduce them into order last of all to repeat often that which you woulde remember Hitherto Erasmus If therefore you wil haue an excellēt Memory of good things you must take diligēt hede y e you vnderstād y e perfect reasō of that you go about to lerne by hart for reason is an vndissoluable bonde of the veritie and of the Memorie For this cause possibly Plato sayd that thing which is once wel vnderstanded can neuer be altogether forgotten Also those thinges are to be cōmitted to y t Memory which are not only profitable but also pleasaunt For such nourishments as bring y t swetest tast do the easelier passe are cōuerted into our nature w t how much y t better appetite y t any thīg is takē it remaineth so much y t longer Adde herevnto that which Aristotle Simonides thoughte good to be throughly obserued to wit y t there shoulde either be in déede a certain sure order in teaching or els at y t least excogitated supposed Order consisteth in a certaine proporcion and connexion And if you take anye one thynge of those that are set in an exquisite perfect order the reste wyll followe forthewith by a certayne necessarye continuation eyther of Nature or of Arte. It is more ouer to bee obserued that we doe meditate manye tymes those thinges that we haue learned for so be the nourishementes of the mynde digestid and as it ●… eare tourned into the minde It is verye good also to renewe and rehearse verye often suche thinges as are committed to the Memory with an elegant oration or a swete songe as it is heretofore declared For pleasure is the sauce of thinges the foode of loue the quickning of the wit the nourisher of the affection and the strength of the Memorye The soule also must be purged frō euil things that it maye be filled w t good things And we must humbly desyre of God with a faithfull praier to graunt vs his spirite of wisedome and knowledge for our Lorde Iesus Christes sake to whome with the father the holye Ghoste be all honour laude and glorye for euer and euer Amen ¶ Memorie sayeth To hym that would me gladly gaine These three preceptes shal not be vaine The fyrst is wel to vnderstand The thing that he doth take in hand The seconde is the same to place In order good and formed race The thyrde is often to repeate The thing that he would not forgeate Adioynyng to this Castell stronge Great vertue commes er it be longe FINIS Exod. 18. Deut. 1. Iudge Preacher Captayn Marchant Lawyer Husbandman Math. 35. Luck 19. Plato Sapi. 6. 8. 18. A definition of memorie Aristotle Plato The seate of the Memorie is in the hinder part of the head Andrea vesalius The sculo hath 3. operations The spirite is exercised in the concauities of the braine Galenus chap 12. Artis Medicio Plato in Theaeteto Intēperatnes is the cause that the eares be great Aristotle 1. De animaliū natura Galenus Quod animi mores c. Thucidides 2. boke belli Pelop Messala Coruinus Memorie is the chief goodnes of man Seneca Plinius 7. boke 24. Chap. Cirus king of the perfians Mithridates king of 22 nations Wisedome is the doughter of Memorye Cicero Coldenes and moistnes are cōtraryes to the Memorye The natur of coldnes is to represse and the nature of heat is to moue Forgetfulnes is the doghter of coldenes Paulus Aegineta The fignes of moistenes The fignes of drines The fignes of coldnes The fignes of heate Memorie maye be holpen by phisicke The meanes to cure the disseases Obseruations belonging to the Memorye Other obseruations Note Other obseruations for the Memorye Moe obseruations Meates permitted to the pacient Meates for bidden the pacient Pithagoras Moderate vse of wine allowed Certaine exercise Sundry me dicines remedies and oyntmentes Aetius in his 3. boke A dramme is the 〈◊〉 Parte of an vnce A Scruple is the third parte of a dramme Strengtheninges for the paciēt Nucha called also spinalis medulla is a substaunce procedyng from the brayne alonge the backe Other remedies oyntmentes Mesue Mesue .2 descriptione Antid● tarii Excessiue vse of wine in forbiddē The Memorye muste be exercised Simeon Sethi Aristolle Aristotle Sorcerye is superstious and vaine Antonius Fumanellus Veronensis chap 16. de compositione mediciment Nothinge without labour Naturall Philosophie Aristole Auerrhous Albertus Themistius Aristotle Aristotle Foure thinges belong to memorye Another definition of Memorie Terence A certaine Poete Sences Antisthe nes Atheniensis Cato Cheaste playe Tenyce playe Shooting is most cōmendable Philelphus ▪ Homere Virgill Hector Achilles Dionyfius Siracusanus Iustinus A diffination of artificiall Memorie Clcero 2. to Herennius Cicero Thomas Aquinas Metrodorus The righte waye to haue artificiall Memorie is the collocation and dilligent obseruatiō of thinges Thersites Achilles Ouidius Naso Plato Cicero Gelasinus Cicero Hortensius Nep an herbe so called Erasmus Roterodamus 3 booke Eccles Marcilius Ficinus Erasmus Plato Aristotle Simonides
in artificiall Memorie thou must diligentlye and circumspectly often pervse the same whiche if at the length thou canst not vnderstande doe not therefore opprobriouslye contemne it but rather aske counsell at some other for Non cuiuis homini contingit adire Corynthum or elles repare to easyer and playner wherof there is in this treatise greate abundaunce to the same effect what soeuer it be for I haue not presumed to lessen myne Authour and therefore reporte me fauourablye In whiche doynge thou shalte styll encorage and prouoke me to further paynes I truste to thy furtheraunce and the glorye of almightye God the Father the Sonne and the Ghost to whome be laude and praise worlde without ende Amen This. xx of Nouember 1562. Lege perlegé Ne quid temeré The Bookes verdicte A Castell stronge I doe present well furnished and sure Munited eke with armoure bent For euer to endure Vhich hitherto longe tyme hath bene In limbo patrum hidd But now at last may here be sene from daungers men to ridd Procuringe them a perfect state And safe security Whereby they may fynde out the gate Of wisedomes lore For why He that hath lost his Memorie By me may it renewe And he that will it amplifie Shall fynde instructions trewe And he that will still kepe the same That it shall not decaye By me must learne the way to frame And my precepes obaye Lo here ye see my full effecte And that I doe entend The secrettes therof to detect That therby wittes may mend Then Iudge me As I am worthie What Memorie is where it florisheth how profitable and necessary it is The first Chapter MEmorie is by the whiche the mynde repeateth things y t are past Or it is a stedfast percesuyng in the mynde of the disposition of thinges and wordes Or as Aristotle supposeth it is an imagination that remaineth of such thinges as the sense had conceyued Also by y t sentence of Plato Memorie is a sense a safetie or safe reteining of things for y t soule obtaineth by the office of the senses whatsoeuer thinges chaunce vnder the sense and therefore it is the beginninge of an opinion But by the mynde it selfe it considereth intellectuall thynges so is it become intelligence Yet y t Memorie being lost it is renued againe by remembraunce for whereas forgetfulnes or the losse of Memorie is double to wit perpetuall and temporall or for a tyme in this verely remembraunce worketh of the which it shalbe spoken hereafter in his place Neither is inuention or imaginatiō of y t one part of the soule or braine and Memorie of the othe●… but they are in one same subiecte thing and the functions of the same part of the soule and either of them is of y e hole brayne in whose hole body y t soule being y t principal parte of vnderstanding is dispersed yet haue auncient Writers not withoute a cause saide that diuers partes of the head and braine be occupied of these functions of the soule Memorie therefore hath his seate in the hinder part of the head in the thyrde Ventricle whiche is also called Puppis It would be long and altogether superfluous here where I studye breuitie to describe the Anatomie of the whole braine the whiche is to be seene in the bookes of manyé especially of the learned yea and dilligent Andrea Vesalius Yet will I briefely speake somwhat making nerer vnto our matter There be three operations of the soule in the braine fantasie or imagination reasonyng or iudgement and Memorie or remembraunce The two first haue their operation in the two greater Ventricles of the braine and the thyrde is erxercised in thirde and lesser Ventricle In the concauities or holownes of the brayne is frequented a liuelye small pure and moste cleane spirite and suche a one is caried to the Memorie the which surely hath neede of thè clearenes and subtilitie of the spirite For if so be that that waye be not opened by the whiche the spirite passeth to the hinder part or Puppis of the braine the man remembreth nothing and contrariwise they that haue a swifte openinge of that waye are wise and answere spedely as are diuers cholericke persons and they that haue that openinge slowe are dull and slack to learne and to aunswere and such are for the most parte flematick or melancholicke vsynge grosse and much meates and drincks Certeinlye there be fewe founde that are indewed with a good witte and an excellent Memorie of Nature for because that witte betokeneth a subtile and softe substaunce of the braine and Memorie a permanent substaunce Also Galenus saith in his .xii. Chapter Artis medicinalis that witte declareth a subtile substaunce of the braine and the dulnes of vnderstandinge a grosse substaunce c. The spirite seruynge for this office doth flee vpwarde from the heart thorough the synowes to the head and is nourished with an outwarde compassing ayre obtayneth a longe continuaunce And to be short al Philosophers do accorde that Memorie is most of strength by the good temperature of the organe or seate in the whiche the soule doth exercise this office And it shalbe a token that they haue a good Memorie whose hinder part of the head is great and longe and they a weake Memorie whose hinder parte of the head is as it were playne and equall with the necke It is also to be knowen that it causeth wisedome by the goodnes of the spirites and those are good spirites whiche be tempered with clearenes mouing and subtilitie Plato in Theaeteto saieth that the soule is not well at ease in a body that is thicke or muddye or that hath the fleshe to softe or harde And vntemperatnesse chaungeth many wayes For sometyme a body shall bringe it oute of the mothers wombe so stronge and violent that not onelye the Memorie but also the reason shalbe hurte in suche sorte y t euen folishnes shall happen therewithall the whiche amongest the other signes that it hath is the cause that the eares are verye great and erected as Aristotle reciteth in hys firste De animalium natura Who so chaunceth to be borne when the Moone doth encounter the Sunne wandering through Aries and Scorpio shall haue his brayne so afflicted that beinge somewhat growen in yeres a melancholicke passion shall beginne to spring Also this vntemperatues of the brayne commeth manye tymes of ill nourishement sometyme of the vnwholsome ayre that is aboute vs For it is an olde sayinge there as the ayre is dryer there also for the most part the wits be sharper and the soule wiser and prompter euen so a thicke grosse element causeth the wittes to be duller Of the same diet is reason as also Galenus saieth in his booke Quod animi mores c. The Memorie also is weakened of chaunce of being striken of sickennes and diuers other lyke accidentes whereof there maye be had manye examples