set the Body on Fire or melts it as Metal in a Furnace producing an Unnatural Heat in the Arteries and inflames the Vital Spirits therein which produceth incurable Hectick Feavers The Effects of Sickness SIckness will destroy that in one Week that Time will not do in twenty Years for Sickness will make Youth look Old and Decrepid when Health makes Age look Young and Spritly Sickness burns up the Body Time wears out the Body and Riot tears out the Body Of the Senses AS all Objects and Sounds that go through the Eye and Ear must first strike and make such a Motion in the Brain before the Mind is sensible thereof so any thing that toucheth the Body goeth first thorow the Pores of the Skin and Flesh and strikes upon the Nerves which Nerves are little Strings or Pipes full of Brain those spread all over the Body and when those are moved as the Brain is in the Skull then the Body is sensible And that is the reason that when the Flesh is bound or press'd up hard close it is numb and hath no feeling because those Pores where it was bound or press'd are stopped and are no more sensible of touch than the Eye or Ear or Nose when they are stopped are sensible of Outward Objects or Sound or Sent. Thus stoppinig the Pores of the Body is as it were Blind or Deaf Sensless and Tastless and this is the reason that when any one is sick or distempered they cannot eat their Meat because the Pores of the Spungie Tongue are stopped either by Weakness Cold or Drought The Senses of the Body equalized with the Senses of the Soul AS the Body hath five Senses Seeing Hearing Smelling Tasting and Touching so hath the Soul for Knowledge is as the Sense of Touch Memory as the Sense of Sight Reason as the Sense of Hearing Understanding as the Sense of Tast and Imagination as the Sense of Smelling as being the most Acry Sense Of Objects THere are three Imperfections in Sight as the Dimness of Age or Weakness Purblind and Squint Age makes all things look misty as if there were a Veil before their Eyes and Purblind makes all things look level or plain without the distinction of Parts a Squint makes all things look double But to look perfect and clear is that the two Eyes make a Triangular Point upon the Object or else the Eyes are like Burning-Glasses which draw all the Lines of Objects to a Point making themselves the Center Of Touch. ALL Pleasure and Pain is Touch and every several part of the Body hath a several Touch for not onely the various Outward Causes give several Touches but every several part receives a several Touch and as the General Sense throughout the whole Body is Touch so every Particular Sense as all Objects touch the Eyes all Sounds touch the Ears all Sent toucheth the Nose all Meat toucheth the Tongue and all those strike and move and so touch the Brain And though all Touches are Motions yet all are several Motions according to the several Parts for all Pain comes by cross and perturbant Motions all Pleasure by even and regular Motions and every particular Sense may receive Pleasure or Pain without affecting or disaffecting or indeed a notice to the rest of the Senses for the particular Senses take no notice of each other And as I said every several part of an Animal hath a several Touch and a several Tast the Loyn doth not tast like the Breast nor the Breast like the Loyn nor the Shoulder like the Breast nor the Neck like the Shoulder nor the Head like the Neck So in Vegetables the Fruit not like the Leaves nor the Leaves like the Rind Thus the Objects as well as the Senses are different Of Pleasure and Pain THere are onely two General Pleasures and two General Pains all the rest are according to Delectation or Reluctation the two General Pleasures are Quiet in the Mind and Ease in the Body the two General Maladies are Trouble in Mind and Pain in the Body But Slavery can be no Bondage if the Mind can be content withall yet the Mind cannot be pleased if the Body be in Pain it may be Patient but not Content for Content is when the Mind desires not change of the Condition of the Life The Cause of Tears and Laughter ANY Extraordinary Motion in the Spirits causeth Tears for all Motions heat according to their Degrees and Heat doth rarifie and separate the thinnest Substance from the thickest as Chymists know right well and all very thin Bodies are fluent and as I may say agil and all that are fluent and agil seek passage and vent So as a Man in this may be similiz'd to a Still as the Atteries for the Furnace of the Still where the Fire which is Motion is put in the Heart the Pan of the Still where the several Passions as several Herbs are put in the Head the Cover of the Still where the Vapour of herby Passions ascends the Eyes the Spout where it runs or drops forth Laughter is produced as Tears are by Extraordinary Motions by which Extreme Laughter will cause Tears Of Tears SOme say Tears are the Juice of the Mind pressed with Grief But Tears proceed from Joy as well as from Sorrow and they are increased by the Moysture of the Brain in some the Spring is dryed But all Passions are apt to pump out Tears as Extreme Sorrow which contracts and congeals by drawing all inward and the reason why Tears be salt is because the Head is a Limbeck which extracts the thinner part from the thicker which thicker is purged by the Nose and Mouth But Tears which are the Essence of Spirits become a kind of a Vitriol Of Musicians being sometimes Mad. THE reason why Musicians are so often Mad is not alwaies Pride bred by the conceit of their rare Art and Skill but by the Motion of the Musick which is swifter than the ordinary Motion of the Brain and by that reason distempers the Brain by increasing the Motion of the Brain to the Motion of the Fiddle which puts the Brain so out of tune as it is very seldom tuneable again and as a Ship is swallowed by a Whirlpit in the Sea so is Reason drown'd in the Whirlpit of the Brain Comparing the Spleen to a Loadstone THE Spleen is like a Loadstone which draws Steel unto it and as the Loadstone is as it were nourished by Steel so the Spleen is opened and clensed Of Physick THE reason why most Men are addicted to the taking of much Physick is out of love to Life thinking that Physick prolongs it I Am about to publish an Additional Part to joyn with my Book of Philosophical Fancies which by reason some part treats of Diseases I recommend to Physicians I mean not Empiricks or Mountebanks such as take the Name and never studied the Science whose Practice is rather to kill than to cure which disgraceth that Noble Profession But
of Fame with their Bills of Glory from thence they fly over the Groves of Eternity with their wings of Presumption but some Birds of Poetry light on the Ground of Recreation there hop through the paths of Custom made by the recourse of the peopled Thoughts through the Meadows of Memory in the Island of the Brain and sometimes skip upon a Stick of Conceit wagging their tail of Jests or else fly to the Forest of wild Phantasms but there finding little Substance to feed on return with weary Wings to their place of rest again but in the Spring time of Love the Nightingale-Poets sing Amorous Sonnets in several Notes of Numbers somtimes in the Dawny Morning of Hopes or in the Evening of Doubts and somtimes in the Night of Dispair but seldom in the high Noon of Fruition The Worlds Olio LIB II. PART II. Short Essayes 1. AS the Nightingale is the Bird of the Spring so the Fly is the Bird of the Summer 2. There would be no Twilight if there were no Clouds for the Clouds are like the Wieck of a Candle 3. Platonick Love is a Bawd to Adultery so Romancy and the like 4. If a Woman gets a spot in her Reputation she can never rub it out 5. It is the greatest study in the Life of a Chast Woman to keep her Reputation and Fame unspotted for Innocency is oft scandalized amongst the Tongues of the Malicious 6. Womens Thoughts should be as pure as their Looks Innocent Noble Honourable Worthy and Virtuous are words of Praises more proper for Women than Gallant Brave Forward Spirits these are too Masculine Praises for the Effeminat Sex 7. Men should follow Reason and Truth as the Flower that turns to the Sun 8. Pockholes take away the gloss of Youth from a Face 9. Some give Women more Praises than their Modesty dares countenance 10. True Affection is not to be measured because it is like Eternity not to be comprized 11. Those that would be Honoured must have Noble Civilities Gratefull Performances Generous Liberalities and Charitable Compassions 12. A Man may be as soon dishonoured by the Indiscretion of his Wife as by her Dishonesty 13. It is better to live with Liberty than with Riches 14. With Virtue than with Beauty 15. With Love than with State 16. With Health than with Power 17. With Wit than with Company 18. With Peace than with Fame 19. With Beasts than with Fools 20. There is no Sound so unpleasing as to hear Amorous Lovers or Fools speak 21. There is no Sight so unpleasant as Affectation 22. A Gracefull Motion sets forth a Homely Person and wins more Affection than the rarest Beauty that Nature ever made 23. Wit and bon Miene and Civility take more than Beauty and gay Clothing 24. Pride without State doth as ill as State without Civility 25. It is better to hear Sense in mean Phrases than Phrases without Sense 26. A Man should alwaies wear his Life for the service of his Honour 27. Men should have Variety in nothing but Gainfull Knowledge 28. It is proper for a Gentleman to have a bon Miene to be Civil and Conversible in Discourse to know Men and Manners 29. It is more proper for a Gentleman to be active in the use of Arms than in the Art of Dancing for a Gallant Man hath more use of his Arms than his Heels 30. It is more proper for a Gentleman to learn Fortification than Grammar But what pains will a Man take in learning several Languages wherein their Tongues are exercised and neglect that Learning that should maintain their Honour which is the Sword the one doth but trouble their Heads and overcharge their Memories the other gets Honour and saves their Lives the one is onely proper for Scholastical Pedants the other for Heroick Spirits 31. A Man should court his Sword as his Mistris and study to learn its Virtue and love it as his Friend which defends his Honour to revenge his Quarrels and guard him from his Enemies 32. For he is the more Gallant Man that hath a Generous Mind a Valiant Heart than he that hath only a Learned Head the first is Noble the other Pedantical the one gives the other receives 33. It becomes a Gentleman rather to love Horses and Weapons than to fiddle and dance 34. And he is not worthy the name of a Gentleman that had rather come Sweating from a Tennis-Court than Bleeding from a Battel 35. Men should never give Gifts but out of three respects either for Charity Love or Fame and it is a good chance when they meet all in one Subject not that one Subject should be all but all in one 36. All Civility hath a Natural and an Attractive Quality and like a Loadstone draws Affection to it 37. There is nothing more Noble that to overcome an Enemy by Curtesy 38. And there is nothing more base than to insult over an Enemy in Adversity 39. It is more Noble to win an Enemy to be their Friend than when they have them in their power to revenge their Quarrel for it is the part of Generosity to Pardon as well as to Exalt 40. It looks with a face like Generosity to be Gratefull 41. There is no greater Usury or Extortion than upon Curtesy for the Lone of Money is but ten twenty or thirty in the Hundred but the Lone of Curtesy is to inslave a Man all his life 42. Yet Gratitude is nothing but to pay a Debt for if one Man save another Mans life and he returns with the hazard of his own he hath paid him what he owed him but if he looks for it oftner than once its Usury than twice it is Extortion 43. It is Commendable to Censure like a Noble and Mercifull Judge not like a Wicked Tyrant 44. Who would esteem Fame when the Cruel and Wicked shall many times have Fortune befriend them so that they shall live with Applause which is Fame and the Virtuous and Well-deserving shall be stabbed or wounded with Reproach which is Infamy so that Fame is like a great King and Fortune the Favourite 45. Every one cannot be a Caesar or an Alexander but there must compile such Times Ages and Actions and Minds together to produce such Exploits 46. Humility is the way to Ambitious ends for few come to them by Pride but by Time serving or Bribery 47. For seeming Humility is the Tower whereon Ambition is bailt and Pride is the Pinnacle where Envy is an Engin to pull it down 48. Nature makes but Fortune distributes 49. God by Fortune doth not alwaies protect the Honest from the Envious of the World or Accidents of Chance 50. It is as impossible to separate Envy from Noble and Great Actions as to destroy Death 61. Power is like unto Love it is the strongest when it is drawn to one point for Power divided is weak so is Love or like the Sun when the Beams are gathered together into one point it burns 52. Kings
prudently justly valiantly or wisely done but shall be thought in the present and published in the future that all was done by the counsel of the Favorite especially if Fortune changes her Countenance from Frowns to Smiles when he is in Favour But a Wise Prince makes his own Breast the Cabinet-chamber his own Thoughts his Privy Counsellers his own Judgement his Particular Favorite and his own Arm his Chief Commander But Good Fortune gives Fame an Applause and Bad Fortune makes Fame go upon Crutches The Inventory of Iudgements Common-wealth the Author cares not in what World it is established THis Commonwealth to be composed of Nobility Gentry Burgesses and Pezants in which are comprized Souldiery Merchantry Artificers Labourers Commanders Officers Masters Servants Magistrates Divines Lawyers c. This Commonwealth to be governed by one Head or Governour as a King for one Head is sufficient for one Body for several Heads breed several Opinions and several Opinions breed Disputations and Disputations Factions and Factions breed Wars and Wars bring Ruin and Desolation for it is more safe to be governed though by a Foolish Head than a Factious Heart Item That this Royal Ruler to swear to the People to be Carefull and Loving as well as the People swear Duty and Fidelity The Contracts betwixt the King and people should be these Item That the Militia be put in the Royal Hand for since Power lyes in the Militia the Militia ought to lye in the Kingly Power for without Power Authority and Justice are as Cyphers which signifie nothing For which the King shall contract by Promise and Oath never to give Honours but to the Meritorious Item That if there should be any Dispute betwixt the Royal Command and the Publick Subjection there should be two Men chosen the one for one side and the other for the other these to be approved of both for their Honesty Wisdome and Courage as neither to fear Power nor Censure to be free from Bribes Self-ends Passions and Partiality Experienced and Known Men in the Kingdome or at least as able as any therein to decide all Differences and conclude all Disputes and present all Grievances to the Royal Power and return his Will Pleasure and Desires to the People for Great Counsels do rather insnarl all Publick Business than rectifie Errours by reason of their Various Opinions and Humoursome Differences with their Covetous Byasses and Popular Ambitions Item That the Royal Ruler shall contract with the People never to give Honours either for Favour or sell them for Gain but to reward the Meritorious and grace the Virtuous which will stop the Mouth of Murmure temper the Spleen of Malice clear the Eyes of Spight and encourage Noble Endeavours Item All those that keep not up the Dignity of their House by the Ceremony of the Titles shall be dishonoured and degraded as base and unworthy thereof in neglecting the Mark of their own or their Ancestors Merits Item All those that speak against Honour or Titles or give them not the due respect shall never be created thereunto Item It shall be Death for any Herald at Arms to give Arms for Price or Favour but to those are worthy thereof as those that have purchased them by their Merits Item All those that speak against their Native Country or tell Defects or Weaknesses or rail or dishonour their Country-men shall be banished therefrom or thereout Item That the Royal Ruler shall have no particular Favorite they being for the most part Expensive Proud Scornfull and Mischievous making difference betwixt the King and People by fomenting Errours untill they make them seem Crimes and creating Jealousies by making doubts of the Peoples Fidelity and Favourites most commonly tread upon the Necks of the Nobility and ride upon the Backs of the Gentry and pick the Purse of the Commonalty justle Justice out by Bribery and many times unthrone Royalty through Envy to them which causeth a hatred to the Prince for perchance perceiving this Favorite neither to have Worth nor Merit onely a Flattering Tongue that inchants a Credulous Prince Therefore a Prince should have no Favorite but Justice no Privy Counseller but his own Breast his Intention never to be disclosed but when he puts it in Execution Item This Royal Ruler to have none of those they call their Cabinets which is a Room filled with all useless curiosities which seems Effeminate and is so Expensive bestowing infinite Sums almost to the impoverishing of a Kingdome only to fill a Room with little cut carved Statues and Models of Stones and Metals as also divers Toyes made of Amber Cornelion Agats Chrystals and divers sorts of Shels and the like which Room might be better imployed and to more use in placing Famous and Learned Authors Works as a Library which the whole Kingdome may draw Knowledge and Understanding from and the Money imployed to more famous Curiosities than Shels or the like As in stately Monuments which shews a Kingdome in a Flourishing Condition and gives it a Noble Grace and makes it a Wonder abroad and a subject of Discourse amongst Strangers inviting curious and inquisitive Travellers from all Nations to view the Structures thereof Besides It makes a Prince seem Effeminate which is a disgrace to the Commonwealth and Forein Nations will despise it when they see or hear that the Prince is so mean a Spirit as to take delight in Toyes spending their time in looking on Shels Beads and Babies For those of Heroick Spirits take Delight to see their Souldiers in Arms to view their Fortifications Forts and Frontiers to behold their Stately Architecture Navigable Rivers their Safe Havens Sailing Ships with their Rich Fraights Likewise They delight in Crowns Scepters and Thrones by which they hold Power and keep up Authority making Obedience Fear and Subjection making it their Pastime to hear Sutes to decide Causes to give Justice And their Sports like the old Olympick Games After these Contracts between the Sovereign and the People there follow the Laws and Decrees in the Commonwealth As first concerning the Clergy Item That those that exercise the Divine Function be not preferred for Learning but for Life as being honest in their Parish or Diocese not exacting more Tythes than their due also Exemplary in their Actions Sober in their Behaviour Item That no Divine shall study Controversy or at least not to dispute but to preach according to the Doctrine that is allowed to be believed and followed for Learned Disputes and Controversies are apt to smother a Lively Faith and quench out a Flaming Zeal Item That no Sermons shall be preached by reason they do more harm than good troubling the Conscience of the Fearfull the Heads of the Ignorant and the Ears of the Wise But there shall be Prayers said in every Parish-Church once a Day and the Moral Laws the Divine Laws and the National Laws with their threatning punishments and promising rewards shall be read and repeated once a Week Item That
no Physician shall be allowed to study more than one Disease or at least practice the Cure but of one lest they make by their half-knowledge and understanding a Confusion in the Body for want of Experience Item That all Sutes shall be heard pleaded and decided in the space of half a Year Item It shall be Death for any to sell Land that is any waies engaged or entangled lest it should ruin the Buyer thereof Item That all Landlords and Freeholders shall be bound to plant Timber for Ships Hemp for Sails and Tow for Cordage if the Land be an Isle Item There shall be a set Stipend for Wages Fees Rewards Sales or Purchases also of all Merchandizes that Cosenages Briberies Extortions and the like may be eschewed Item That none shall execute the Function of two several Trades nor be imployed in more than in one Office lest they should perform none well Item That no Alchymy-Lace nor Stuffs nor Counterfeit Pearls Diamonds and the like shall be worn nor sold unless the Counterfeit be sold at as high a price as the Right or the Right to be sold at as low a rate as the Counterfeit and as different Sexes are distinguished by their Habits so different Habits should distinguish different Qualities Professions and Degrees Item That all degrees of Titles shall be distinguished by their Habits and Ceremonies as well as by their Arms Titles Patents and Creations Item No Men shall wear Swords in time of Peace but Gentlemen and in the Wars there shall be some differences of Arms to make distinction Item That no Officer neither in Martial Command nor Civil Government shall be chosen or imployed but such as have Abilities to execute their Authorities and able to discharge their Duties Item Rewards shall be as frequent as Punishments lest Industry should grow careless and the Flame of Heroick Spirits be quenched out Item None shall make Great Feasts and Sumptuous Entertainments but for Forein Persons of Quality or Strangers that travel to see the Kingdome where they may see the Plenty Riches and Magnificence thereof that they may not despise it when they return to their own Native Country but give cause to renown it in their Relations Item All Detracting or Slandering Tongues shall be clipt and the more the Detraction or Slander is the greater slices shall be cut therefrom Item That the People shall have set times of Recreation to ease them from their Labours and to refresh their Spirits Item That all Noble Youths shall be bred by Experienced Age to perswade admonish and correct by Grave Authority instructed by Virtuous Examples taught Honourable Principles and the practice of Heroick Actions their onely Play-fellows shall be the Muses the Grave and Sober Companions the Sciences the Domestick Servants and Acquaintance the profitable and usefull Arts for the Life of Man As for the generality of Youth they shall be bred to Silent Attentions Sober Demeanors Humble Obediences Handsome Customes and Gracefull Arts As for the meaner sort of Youth to Trades of Arts and Arts of Trades for the use and benefit of the Commonwealth Item No Children shall speak before their Parents no Servants before their Masters no Scholars before their Tutors no Subject before the Prince but either to answer to their Questions to deliver a Message or to know their will and pleasure to declare their Grievances to ask pardon for Faults committed or to present an humble request in the most humblest manner unless they command them to discourse freely to them yet not without a respect to their Presence and Authority Item For the Generality none shall speak but to ask rational dutifull and humble Questions to request just Demands to discourse of probable Arguments to defend Right and Truth to divulge Virtue to praise the Meritorious to pray to Heaven to ask Mercy to move Pity to pacisie Grief to asswage Anger to make an Atonement and to instruct the Ignorant Item All shall be accounted Wise that endure patiently that live peaceably that spend prudently that speak sparingly that judge charitably that wish honestly and that obey Authority Item All Men that may live quietly at home and travel to no purpose or that neglect their own Affairs to follow the Affairs of other Men or decide those Mens Quarrels they shall have no thanks for or live upon hopes of great Fortunes of high Favours when they may feed upon present Comfort and enjoy humble Delights in that Estate and Condition they possess shall wear a Fools Cap and a Motly Coat Item That none shall live at a greater Expence than their Estate will allow and maintain Item That all Spendthrifts shall be condemned for Fools all Gamesters for idle Miscreants all Drunkards for Mad-men a Bedlam provided for the Drunkards a Bridewell for Gamesters and an Hospital with Long Coats for Spend-thrifts Item All Men that beget Children shall strive to provide for them by their Thrifty Managements or Industrious Labours Item No Man shall Father a Whores Child or Children unless he were sure he were the Father which few can tell otherwise it makes a Wise Man seem a Fool as being facile Item It shall be accounted not only a double Crime but a Baseness equal to Cowardise and a disgrace equal to a Cuckold for a Gentleman to court or make love to a Common Whore who is an Alms Tub of Corruption but if a Gentleman must or will have a Whore let him have one of his own making and not feed upon Reversions Item That no Husband shall keep a Houshold Friend lest he should make love to his Wife and he become a Cuckold thereby Item No married man or Master of a Family shall kiss or make love to his Maid nor Serving-men to their Mistrisses lest they should grow idly Amorous impertinently Bold rudely Saucy neglecting their Duty to their Mistris or Master through scornfull Pride Item In all publike Company all Husbands shall use their Wives with Respect unless they dishonor themselves with the neglect thereof Item No Husband nor Wife although but a day married shall kiss each other in publick lest it turn the Spectators from a lawfull and wholsome Appetite of Marriage to a gluttonous Adultery or weakning the Appetite so much as to cause a Loathing or an aversion to the Wedlock Bed Item No Wife shall entertain an Admiring Servant lest her Husbands and her own Reputation be lost or buried in his admiring Courtships nor their Hearts to receive and return Love to none but their Husbands no not Platonick love for the Conversation of Souls is a great temptation to Amorous Friendship indeed the Soul of a Platonick Lover is a Baud to the Body Item That Dancing be commendable as a gracefull Art in Maids or Batchelors but shall be accounted an Effeminacy for married Men a May-Game for Old men and Wanton Lightnes for Married Women Item That no woman of quality should receive Visits or give Visits but in publick Meetings nor have any