ΨΥΞΩΔΙΑ PLATONICA OR A Platonicall Song of the SOUL Consisting of foure severall Poems viz. ΨΥΞΟΖΩΙΑ ΨΥΞΑΘΑÎΑΣΙΑ ΑÎΤΙΨΥΞΟΠΑÎÎΥΞΙΑ ΑÎΤΙΜΟÎΟΨΥΞΙΑ Hereto is added a Paraphrasticall Interpretation of the answer of Apollo consulted by Amelius about Plotinus soul departed this life By H. M. Master of Arts and Fellow of Christs Colledge in Cambridge Nullam majorem afferre solet ignaris inscitia voluptatem 〈◊〉 expeditum factidiosúmque contemptum Scal. CAMBRIDGE Printed by Roger Daniel Printer to the Universitie 1642. To the Reader But whom lust wrath and fear controul Scarce know their body from their soul If any such chance heare my verse Dark numerous Nothings I rehearse To them measure out an idle sound In which no inward sense is found Thus sing I to cragg'd clifts and hills To sighing winds to murmuring rills To wastefull woods to empty groves Such things as my dear mind most loves But they heed not my Heavenly passion Fast fixt on their own operation On chalky rocks hard by the Sea Safe guided by fair Cynthia I strike my silver-sounded lyre First struck my self by some strong fire And all the while her wavering ray Reflected from fluid glasse doth play On the white banks But all are deaf Unto my Muse that is most lief To mine own self So they nor blame My pleasant notes nor praise the same Nor do thou Reader rashly brand My rhymes 'fore thou them understand H. M. ΨΥΞΟΖΩΙΑ OR A CHRISTIANO-PLATONICALL display of LIFE Written in the beginning of the year of our LORD 1640. and now published for all free Phisophers and well-willers to the true Christian Life 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Trismeg CAMBRIDGE Printed by Roger Daniel Printer to the Universitie 1642. TO THE READER upon the first Book of PSYCHOZOIA THis first book as you may judge by the names therein was intended for a mere Platonicall description of Universall life or life that is omnipresent though not alike omnipresent As in Noahs Deluge the water that overflowed the earth was present in every part thereof but every part of the water was not in every part of the earth or all in every part so the low Spirit of the Universe though it go quite through the world yet it is not totally in every part of the world Else we should heare our Antipodes if they did but whisper Because our lower man is a part of the inferiour Spirit of the Universe Ahad Aeon and Psyche are all omnipresent in the World after the most perfect way that humane reason can conceive of For they are in the world all totally and at once every where This is the famous Platonicall Triad which though they that slight the Christian Trinity do take for a figment yet I think it is no contemptible argument that the Platonists the best and divinest of Philosophers and the Christians the best of all that do professe religion do both concur that there is a Trinity In what they differ I leave to be found out according to the safe direction of that infallible Rule of Faith the holy Word In the mean time I shall not be blamed by any thing but ignorance and malignity for being invited to sing of the second Unity of the Platonicall Triad in a Christian strain and Poeticall scheme that which the holy Scripture witnesseth of the second Person of the Christian Trinity As that his patrimony is the possession of the whole earth For if it be not all one with Christ according to his Divinity although their attributes sute exceeding well For that second Unity in the Platonicall Triad is called Filius Boni The Son of the Good The Christian second Person The Sonne of God He 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the first beauty or lustre He the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that the first 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and sometime 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 As in Trismeg 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He the Truth That the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or true platform according to which every thing was made and ought to be made That Aeon He Eternall life He the wisdome of God That the Intellect He 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Yet the Platonists placing him in the same order and giving him the like attributes with the Person of the Sonne in Christianity it is nothing harsh for me to take occasion from hence to sing a while the true Christian Autocalon whose beauty shall adorn the whole Earth in good time if we believe the Prophets For that hath not as yet happened For Christ is not where ever his name is but as he is the Truth so will he be truly displayed upon the face of the whole Earth For God doth not fill the world with his glory by words and sounds but by spirit and life and realtie Now this Eternall life I sing of even in the midst of my Platonisme for I cannot conceal from whence I am viz. of Christ but yet acknowledging that God hath not left the Heathen Plato especially without witnesse of himself Whose doctrine might strike our adulterate Christian professours with shame and astonishment their lives falling so exceeding short of the better Heathen How far short are they then of that admirable and transcendent high mystery of true Christianisme To which Plato is a very good subservient Minister whose Philosophy I singing here in a full heat why may it not be free for me to break out into an higher strain and under it to touch upon some points of Christianitie as well as all-approved Spencer sings of Christs under the name of Pan Saint Paul also transfers those things that be spoken of Jupiter to God himself Arat. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Those latter words he gives to the Christian God whom he himself preached I will omit the usual course of the Spirit of God in holy Writ To take occasion from things that have some resemblance of divine things under them to speak of the true things themselves All this out of a tendernesse of mind being exceeding loth to give any man offence by my writings For though knowledge and theory be better then any thing but honesty and true piety yet it is not so good as that I should willingly offend my neighbour by it Thus much by way of preparation to the first piece of this Poem I will now leave thee to thine own discretion and judgement Upon the second Book THis second Book before we descend to particular lives exhibits to our apprehension by as fit a similitude as I could light upon the Universe as one simple uniform being from Ahad to Hyle no particular straitned being as yet being made no Earth or any other Orb as yet kned together All homogeneall simple single pure pervious unknotted uncoacted nothing existing but those eight universall orders There God hath full command builds and destroyes what he lists That all our souls are free effluxes
its shining date begun And that same light when 't list can call it in Yet that free light hath given a free wonne To this dependent ray hence cometh sin From sin drad death and hell these wages doth it win 23 Each life a severall ray is from that sphere That sphere doth every life in it contain Arachne Semel and the rest do bear Their proper virtue and with one joynt strain And powerful sway they make impression plain And all their rayes be joyned into one By Ahad so this womb withouten pain Doth flocks of souls send out that have their won Where they list most to grazeâ—… as I shall tell anon 24 The country where they live Psychania hight Great Psychany that hath so mighty bounds If bounds it have at all so infinite It is of bignesse that it me confounds To think to what a vastnesse it amounds The Sun Saturnus Saturn the earth exceeds The earth the Moon but all those fixed rounds But Psychany those fixed rounds exceeds 〈◊〉 farre as those fix'd rounds excell small mustard-seeds 25 Two mighty kingdomes hath this Psychany The one self-feeling Autaesthesia The other hight god-like Theoprepy Autaesthesy's divided into tway One Province cleeped is great Adamah Which also hight Beirah of brutish fashion The other Province is Dizoia There you may see much mungrill transformation â—…h monstrous shapes proceed from Niles foul inundation 26 Great Michael ruleth Theoprepia A mighty Prince King of Autaesthesy Is that great Giant who bears mighty sway Father of discord falshood tyranny His name is Daemon not from Sciency Although he boasteth much in skilfull pride But he 's the fount of foul duality That wicked witch Duessa is his bride â—…m his dividing force this name to him betide 27 Or for that he himself is quite divided Down to the belly there 's some unity But head and tongue and heart be quite discided Two heads two tongues and eke two hearts there be This head doth mischief plot that head doth see Wrong fairly to o'reguild One tongue doth pray The other curse The hearts do ne're agree But felly one another do upbray 〈◊〉 uggly cloâ—…en foot this monster doth upstay 28 Two sons great Daemon of Duessa hath Autophilus the one ycleeped is In Dizoie he worketh wond'rous scath He is the cause what so there goes amisse In Psyches stronger plumed progenies But Philosomatus rules Beirah This proud puft Giant whilom did arise Born of the slime of Autaesthesia And bred up these two sons yborn of Duessa 29 Duessa first invented magick lore And great skill hath to joyn and disunite This herb makes love that herb makes hatred sore And much she can against an Edomite But nought she can against an Israelite Whose heart 's upright and doth himself forsake For he that 's one with God no magick might Can draw or here or there through blind mistake Magick can onely quell natures Daemoniake 30 But that I may in time my self betake To straighter course few things I will relate Of which old Mnemon mention once did make A jolly Swain he was in youthfull state When he mens natures gan to contemplate And Kingdomes view But he was aged then When I him saw his years bore a great date He numbred had full teâ—… times ten times ten There 's no Pythagorist but knows well what I mean 31 Old Mnemons head and beard was hoary white But yet a chearfull countenance he had His vigorous eyes did shine like starres bright And in good decent freez he was yclad As blith and buxom as was any lad Of one and twenty cloth'd in forrest green Both blith he was and eke of counsell sad Like winter morn bedight with snow and rine And sunny rayes so did his goodly eldship shine 32 Of many famous towns in Beirah And many famous laws and uncouth rites He spake but vain it is for to assay To reckon up such numbers infinite And much he spake where I had no insight But well I wote that some there present had For words to speak to uncapable wight Of foolishnesse proceeds or phrensie mad 〈◊〉 alwayes some I wis could trace his speeches pad 33 But that which I do now remember best Is that which he of Psittacusa lond Did speak This Psittacuse is not the least Or the most obscure Country that is found In wastefull Beiron it is renownd For famous clerks yclad in greenish cloak Like Turkish Priests if Amorilish ground We call 't no cause that title to revoke â—…t of this Land to this effect old Mnemon spoke 34 I travelled in Psittacusa lond Th' inhabitants the lesser Adamah Do call it but then Adam I have found It ancienter if so I safely may Unfold th'antiquity They by one day Are elder then old Adam and by one At least are younger then Arcadia O'th'sixth day Adam had 's creation â—…ose on the fifth the Arcades before the Moon 35 In this same land as I was on the rode A nimble traveller me overtook Fairly together on the way we yode Tho I gan closely on his person look And eye his garb and straight occasion sook To entertain discourse He likewise saught Though none could find yet first me undertook â—…o sone as he gan talk then straight I laught â—…e sage himself represt but thought me nigh distraught 36 His concave nose great head and grave aspect Affected tone words without inward sense My inly tickled spright made me detect By outward laughter but by best pretence I pur'gd my self and gave due reverence Then he gan gravely treat of codicils And of Book readings passing excellence And tri'd his wit in praysing gooses quills O happy age quoth he the world Minerva fills 37 I gave the talk to him which pleas'd him well For then he seem'd a learned cleark to been When none contrayr'd his uncontrolled spell But I alas though unto him unseen Did flow with tears as if that onyons keen Had pierc'd mine eyen Strange virtue of fond joy They ought to weep that be in evil teen But nought my lightsome heart did then annoy So light it lay it mov'd at every windy toy 38 As we yode softly on a youngster gent With bever cockt and arm set on one side His youthfull fire quickly our pace out-went Full fiercely pricked on in madcap pride The mettle of his horses heels he tri'd He hasted to his country Pithecuse Most hast worst speed still on our way we ride And him o'retake halting through haplesse bruse We help him up again our help he nould refuse 39 Then gan the learn'd and ag'd Don Psittaco When he another auditour had got To spruse his plumes and wisdome sage to show And with his sacred lore to wash the spot Of youthfull blemishes but frequent jot Of his hard setting jade did so confound The words that he by papyr-stealth had got That their lost sense the youngster could not sound Though he with mimicall attention did abound 40 Yet some of those faint-winged words came
ever Daemon wrought the safest pen That e're held silly sheep for their confusion Ill life and want of love hence springs each false conclâ—… 13 That rabble rout that in this Castle won Is Irefull-ignorance Unseemly-zeal Strong-self-conceit Rotten-religion Contentious-reproch-'gainst-Michael If-he-of-Moses-body-ought-reveal Which-their-dull-skonses-cannot eas'ly-reach Love-of-the-carkas An inept-appeal T' uncertain papyrs A-false-formall-fetch Of-seigned-sighes Contempt-of poore-and-sinfull-wretch 14 A deep self-love Want of true sympathy With all mankind Th' admiring their own heard Fond pride A sanctimonious crueltie 'Gainst those by whom their wrathfull minds be stirr'd By strangling reason and are so aseard To lose their credit with the vulgar sort Opinion and long speech 'fore life preferr'd Lesse reverence of God then of the Court Fear and Despair Evil surmises False report 15 Oppression-of-the-poore Fell rigourousnesse Contempt-of-Government Fiercenes Fleshly lust The-measuring-of all-true righteousnesse By-their own-model Cleaving unto-dust Rash-censure and despising-of-the-just That-are-not-of-their-sect False-reasoning Concerning-God Vain-hope Needlesse mistrust Strutting-in knowledge Egre slavering After hid-skill with every inward fulsome thing 16 These and such like be that rude regiment That from the glitering sword of Michael fly They fly his outstretch'd arm else were they shent If they unto this Castle did not hie Strongly within its wals to fortifie Themselves Great Daemon hath no stronger hold Then this high Tower When the good Majesty Shines forth in love and light a vapour cold â—…d a black hellish smoke from hence doth all infold 17 And all that love and light and offer'd might Is thus chok'd up in that foul Stygian steem If hells dark jawes should open in despight And breathe its inmost breath which foul'st I deem Yet this more deadly foul I do esteem And more contagious which this charmed tower Ever spues forth like that fell Dragons steem Which he from poyson'd mouth in rage did poure 〈◊〉 her whose first-born child his chaps might not devour 18 But lest the rasher wit my Muse should blame As if she did those faults appropriate Which I even now in that black list did name Unto Pantheothen The self same state I dare a vouch you 'll find where ever hate Backd with rough zeal and bold through want of skill All sects besides its own doth execrate This peevish spright with wo the world doth fill â—…hile each man all would bind to his fierce furious will 19 O Hate the fulsome daughter of fell Pride Sister to surly Superstition That clean out-shining truth cannot abide That loves it self and large Dominion And in false show of a fair Union Would all encroch to 't self would purchase all At a cheap rate for slight Opinion Thus cram they their wide-gaping Crumenall â—…t now to Ida hill me lists my feer recall 20 No such inchantment in all Dizoie As on this hill nor sadder sight was seen Then you may in this rufull place espy 'Twixt two huge walls on solitary green Of funerall Cypresse many groves there been And eke of Ewe Eben and Poppy trees And in their gloomy shade foul grisly fiend Use to resort and busily to seize The darker phansied souls that live in ill disease 21 Hence you may see if that you dare to mind Upon the side of this accursed hill Many a dreadfull corse ytost in wind Which with hard halter their loathd life did spil There lies another which himself did kill With rusty knife all roll'd in his own bloud And ever and anon a dolefull knill Comes from the fatall Owl that in sad mood With drery sound doth pierce through the death-shadowâ—… 〈◊〉 22 Who can expresse with pen the irksome state Of those that be in this strong Castle thrall Yet hard it is this Fort to ruinate It is so strongly fenc'd with double wall The fiercest but of Ram no'te make them fall The first Inevitable Destiny Of Gods Decree the other we do call Invincible fleshly infirmity But Keeper of the Tower Unfelt Hypocrisie 23 What Poets phansies fain'd to be in hell Are truly here A vultur Tityus heart Still gnaws yet death doth never Tityus quell Sad Sisyphus a stone with toylsome smart Doth roul up hill but it transcends his art To get it to the top where it may lye On steddy plain and never backward start His course is stopt by strong Infirmity His roul comes to this wall but then back it doth fly 24 Here fifty Sisters in a sieve do draw Through-sipping water Tantalus is here Who though the glory of the Lord oreflow The earth and doth incompasse him so near Yet waters he in waters doth requere Stoop Tantalus and take those waters in What strength of witchcraft thus blinds all yfere Twixt these two massie walls this hold of sinne â—…ye me who shall this Fort so strongly fenced win 25 I heare the clattering of an armed troup My ears do ring with the strong pransers heels My soul get up out of thy drousie droop And look unto the everlasting hills The hollow ground ah how my sense it fills With sound of solid horses hoofs A wonder It is to think how cold my spirit thrills With strange amaze Who can this strength dissunder â—…rk how the warlik steeds do neigh their necks do thunder 26 All milkwhite steeds in trappings goodly gay On which in golden letters be ywrit These words even he that runs it readen may True righteousnesse unto the Lord of might O comely spectacle O glorious sight 'T would easily ravish the beholders eye To see such beasts so fair so full of spright All in due ranks to pranse so gallantly â—…aring their riders arm'd with perfect panoply 27 In perfect silver glistring panoply They ride the army of the highest God Ten thousands of his Saints approchen nie To judge the world and rule it with his rod They leave all plain where ever they have trod Each rider on his shield doth bear the Sun With golden shining beam dispread abroad The Sun of righteousnesse at high day noon 〈◊〉 this same strength I wene this Fort is easly wonne 28 They that but heare thereof shall straight obey But the strange children shall false semblance make But all hypocrisie shall soon decay All wickednesse into that deadly lake All darknesse thither shall it self betake That false brood shall in their close places fade The glory of the Lord shall ne're forsake The earth again nor shall deaths dreadfull shade Return again Him praise that this great day hath made 29 This is the mighty warlick Michaels hoste That easily shall wade through that foul spue Which the false Dragon casts in every coste That the moon-trampling woman much doth rue His deadly spaul but no hurt doth accrew To this strong army from this filthy steam Nor horse nor man doth fear its lutid hew They safely both can swim in this foul stream This stream the earth sups up cleft ope by Michaels beam 30 But whiles it beareth sway this poysons might Is to make sterill or prolong the birth To cause cold
palsies and to dull the sight By sleepy sloth the melancholick earth It doth increase that hinders all good mirth Yet this dead liquor dull Pantheothen Before the nectar of the Gods preferr'th But it so weakens and disables men That they of manhood give no goodly specimen 31 Here one of us began to interpeal Old Mnemon Tharrhon that young ladkin hight He prayed this aged Sire for to reveal What way this Dragons poysonous despight And strong Pantheothens inwalling might We may escape Then Mnemon thus gan say Some strange devise I know each youthfull wight Would here expect or lofty brave assay But I 'll the simple truth in simple wise convay 32 Good Conscience kept with all the strength and might That God already unto us hath given A presse pursuit of that foregoing light That egs us on ' cording to what we have liven And helps us on ' cording to what we have striven To shaken off the bonds of prejudice Nor dote to much of that we have first conceiven By hearty prayer to beg the sweet delice 〈◊〉 Gods all-loving spright such things I you aduise 34 Can pity move the heart of parents dear When that their haplesse child in heavy plight Doth grieve and moan whiles pinching tortures tear His fainting life and doth not that sad sight Of Gods own Sonne empassion his good spright With deeper sorrow The tender babe lies torn In us by cruell wounds from hostile might Is Gods own life of God himself forlorn 〈◊〉 was he to continuall pain of God yborn 34 Or will you say if this be Gods own Sonne Let him descend the crosse for well we ween That he 'll not suffer him to be fordonne By wicked hand if Gods own Sonne he been But you have not those sacred misteries seen True-crucifying Jews the weaker thing Is held in great contempt in worldly eyen But time may come when deep impierced sting â—…all prick your heart and it shall melt with sorrowing 35 Then you shall view him whom with cruell spear You had transfix'd true crucified Sonne Of the true God unto his Father dear And dear to you nought dearer under sun Through this strong love and deep compassion How vastly God his kingdome would enlarge You 'll easly see and how with strong iron He 'll quite subdue the utmost earthly verge â—…foolish men the heavens why do you fondly charge 36 Subtimidus when Tharrhon sped so well Took courage to himself and thus 'gan say To Mnemon Pray you Sr. vouchsafe to tell What Antaparnes and Hypomene And Simon do this while in Dizoe With that his face shone like the rosy morn With maiden blush from inward modesty Which wicked wights do holden in such scorn Sweet harmles modesty a rose withouten thorn 37 Old Mnemon lov'd the Lad even from his face Which blamelesse blush with sanguin light had dyed His harmlesse lucid spright with flouring grace His outward form so seemly beautifyed So the old man him highly magnified For his so fit enquiry of those three And to his question thus anon replyed There 's small recourse till that Fort passed be To Simon Autaparnes or Hypomene 38 For all that space from Behirons high wall Unto Pantheothen none dares arise From his base dunghill warmth such magicall Attraction his flagging soul down ties To his foul flesh 'mongst which alas there lyes A litle spark of Gods vitality But smoreing filth so close it doth comprize That it cannot flame out nor get on high This province hence is hight earth-groveling Aptery 39 But yet fair semblances these Apterites Do make of good and sighen very sore That God no stronger is False hypocrites You make no use of that great plenteous store Of Gods good strength which he doth on you poure But you fast friends of foul carnality And false to God his tender sonne do gore And plaud your selves is 't be not mortally Nor let you him live in ease nor let you him fairly die 40 Like faithlesse wife that by her frampard guize Peevish demeanour sullen sad disdain Doth inly deep the spright melancholize Of her aggrieved husband and long pain At last to some sharpe sicknesse doth constrain His weakned nature to yield victory His skorching torture then count death a gain But when death comes in womanish phrensy â—…at froward femal wretch doth shreek and loudly cry 41 So through her moody importunity From downright death she rescues the poore man Self-favouring sense not that due loyalty Doth wring from her this false compassion Compassion that no cruelty can Well equalize Her husband lies agast Death on his horrid face so pale and wan Doth creep with ashy wings He thus embrac'd â—…rforce too many dayes in deadly woe doth wast 42 This is the love that 's found in Aptery To Gods dear life If they his sonne present Halfe live halfe dead handled despightfully Or sunk in sicknesse or with deep wound rent So be he 's not quite dead they 'r well content And hope sure favour of his sire to have They have the signes how can they then be shent The God of love for his dear life us save â—…om such conceits which men to sinne do thus inslave 43 But when from Aptery we were ygone And past Pantheothens inthralling power Then from the east chearfull Eous shone And drave away the nights dead lumpish stour He took by th' hand Aurora's vernall houre These freshly tripp'd it on the silver'd hills And thorow all the fields sweet life did shower Then gan the joyfull birds to try their skills â—…hey skipt they chirpt amain they pip'd they danc'd their fills 44 This other Province of Dizoia Hight Pteroessa on the flowry side Of a green bank as I went on my way Strong youthfull Gabriel I there espide Courting a nymph all in her maiden pride Not for himself His strife was her to win To Michael in wedlock to be tide He promised she should be Michaels Queen And greater things then care hath heard or eye hath seen 45 This lovely maid to Gabriel thus replide Thanks Sr for your good news but may I know Who Michael is that would have me his bride It s Michael said he that works such wo To all that fry of hell and on his foe Those fiends of daâ—…knesse such great triumphs hath The powers of sinne and death he down doth mow In this strong arm of God have thou but faith That in great Daemons troups doth work so wondrous 〈◊〉 46 The simple girl believed every word Nor did by subtle querks elude the might And profer'd strength of the soul-loving Lord But answered thus Good Sr but reade aright When shall I then appear in Michaels sight When Gabriel had won her full assent And well observ'd how he had flam'd her spright He answered After the complishment Of his behests and so her told what hests he ment 47 She willingly took the condition And pliable she promised to be And Gabriel sware he would wait upon Her virginship
whiles in simplicity His masters will with all good industry She would fulfill So here the simple maid Strove for her self in all fidelity Nor took her self for nothing but shâ—… plaid Her part she thought as if indentures had been made 48 For she did not with her own self ginthink So curiously that it is God alone That gives both strengths wheâ—… ever we do swink Graces and natures might be both from one Who is our lifes strong sustentation Impossible it is therefore to merit When we poore men have nothing of our own Certes by him alone she stands upright And surely falls without his help in per'lous fight 49 But we went on in Pteroessa lond The fresh bright morning was no small repast After the toil in Aptery we found So that with merry chear we went full-fast But I observed well that in this haste Simon wax'd faint and feeble and decay'd In strength and life before we far had past And by how much his youthfull flower did fade So much more vigour to his parents was repay'd 50 For that old crumpled wight gan go upstraight And Autaparnes face recovered blood But Simon looked pale withouten might Withouten chear or joy or livelyhood Cause of all this at last I understood For Autaparn that knife had from him cast And almost clos'd the passage of that flood That flood that blood was that which Simons taste Alone could fit if that were gone the lad did waste 51 And his old mother call'd Hypomene Did ease her back from that down-swaying weight That leaden quadrate which did miserably Annoy her crazy corse but that more light She might fare on she in her husbands sight Threw down her load where he threw down his blade And from that time began the pitious plight Of sickly Simon so we â—…m perswade Back to retreat and do thâ—… dying son some aid 52 Though loth yet at the length they do assent So we return unto the place where lay The heavy quadrate and that instrument Of bleeding smart it would a man dismay To think how that square lead her back did sway And how the halfeclos'd wound was open tore With that sharpe-pointed knife and sooth to say Simon himself was inly grieved sore Seeing the deadly smart that his dear parents bore 53 So we remeasure the way we had gone Still faring on toward Theoprepy Great strength and comfort 't was to think upon Our good escape from listlesse Aptery And from the thraldome of Infirmity Now nought perplex'd our stronger plumed spright But what may be the blamelesse verity Oft we conceiv'd things were peracted right And oft we found ourselves guld with strong passions might 54 But now more feeble farre we find their force Then erst it was when as in Aptery To strong Pantheothen they had recourse For then a plain impossibility It was to overcome their cruelty But here encouraged by Gabriel We strongly trust to have the victory And if by chance they do our forces quell It 's not by strength of armes but by some misty spell 55 So bravely we went on withouten dread Till at the last we came whereas a hill With steep ascent highly lift up his head To th' aged foot it worken would much ill To clâ—…mb this cliffe with weary ache 't would â—…ill His drier bones But yet it 's smooth and plain Upon the top It passeth farre my skill The springs the bowers the walks the goodly train Of fair chaste nymphes that haunt that place for to explain 56 I saw three sisters there in seemly wise Together walking on the flowry green Yclad in snowy stoles of fair agguize The glistring streams of silver waving shine Skillfully interwove with silken line So variously did play in that fair vest That much it did delight my wondring eyne Their face with love and vigour was ydrest â—…ith modesty and joy their tongue with just behest 57 Their locks hung loose A triple coronet Of flaming gold and star-like twinkling stone Of highest price was on their temples set The Amethyst the radiant Diamond The Jasper enemy to spirits wonne With many other glorious for to see These three enameld rimmes of that fair crown Be these the first hight Dicaeosyne â—…ilosophy the next the last stiff Apathy 58 I gaz'd and mus'd and was well nigh distraught With admiration of those three maids And could no further get ne further saught Down on the hill my weary limbes I laid And fed my feeble eyes which me betray'd Unto loves bondage Simon lik'd it not To see me so bewitchd and thus assay'd By wisest speech to loose this magick knot Great pity things so fair should have so foul a spot 59 What spot said I can in these fair be found Both spot in those white vests and eke a flaw In those bright gems wherewith these maids be crown'd If you 'll but list to see I 'll easly show Then I both Love of man and holy law Exactly 's kept upon this sacred hill True Fortitude that truest foes doth awe Justice and Abstinence from sweetest ill And Wisdome like the sun doth all with light o'respill 60 Thanks be to God we are so well ariv'd To the long-sought for land Theoprepy Nay soft good Sr said Simon you 'r deceiv'd You are not yet past through Autaesthesy With that the spot and flaw he bad me see Which he descry'd in that goodly array The spot and flaw self-sens'd Autopathy Was hight the eldest nymph Pythagerissa Next Platonissa hight the last hight Stoicissa 61 But this high mount where these three sisters wonne Said Simon cleeped is Har-Eloim To these it s said Do worship to my Sonne It s right that all the Gods do worship him There 's none exempt those that the highest climbe Are but his Ministers their turns they take To serve as well as those of lower slime What so is not of Christ but doth partake Of th' Autaesthesian soil is life Daemoniake 62 His words did strangely work upon my spright And wean'd my mind from that I dearly lov'd So I nould dwell on this so pleasing sight But down descended as it me behov'd And as my trusty guide me friendly mov'd So when we down had come and thence did passe On the low plain Simon more clearly prov'd That though much beauty there and goodnesse was Yet that in Theoprepia did far surpasse 63 So forward on we fare and leave that hill And presse still further the further we go Simon more strength more life and godly will More vigour he and livelyhood did show But Autaparnes wox more wan and wo He faints he sinks ready to give up ghost And ag'd Hypomne trod with footing slow And staggerd with her load so ill dispos'd Their fading spirits were that life was well nigh lost 53 By this in sight of that black wall we came A wall by stone-artificer not made For it is nought but smoke from duskish flame Which in that low deep valleys pitchy shade Doth fiercely th' Autopathian
life invade With glowing heat and eateth out that spot This dreadfull triall many hath dismaid When Autaparnes saw this was his lot â—…ear did his sense benumme he wox like earthly clot 54 In solemn silency this vapour rose From this dread dale and hid the eastern sky With its deep darknesse and the evening close Forestall'd with Stygian obscurity Yet was 't not thick nor thin nor moist nor dey Nor stank it ill nor yet gave fragrant smell Nor did't take in through pellucidity The penetrating light nor did't repell Through grosse opacity the beams of Michael 55 Yet terrible it is to Psyche's brood That still retain the life Daemoniake Constraining fear calls in their vitall flood When the drad Magus once doth mention make Of the deep dark abysse for fear they quake At that strong-awing word But they that die Unto self-feeling life naught shall them shake Base fear proceeds from weak Autopathy This dale hight Ain the fumes hight Anautaesthesy 56 Into this dismall dale we all descend Here Autaeparnes and Hypomene Their languid life with that dark vapour blend Thus perished fading vitality But nought did fade of lifes reality When these two old ones their last gasp had fer In this drad valley their dead corps did lie But what could well be sav'd to Simon flet Here Simon first became spotlesse Anautaesthet 68 When we had waded quite through this deep shade We then appeard in bright Theoprepy Here Phoebus ray in straightest line was laid That earst lay broke in grosse consistency Of cloudy substance For strong sympathy Of the divided natures magick band Was burnt to dust in Anautaesthesie Now there 's no fear of deaths dart-holding hand Fast love fixt life firm peace in Theoprepia land 69 When Mnemon hither came he leaned back Upon his seat and a long time respired When I perceiv'd this holy Sage so slack To speak well as I might I him desired Still to hold on if so he were not tired And tell what fell in blest Theoprepy But he nould do the thing that I required Too hard it is said he that kingdomes glee To show who list to know himself must come and see 70 This story under the cool shaddowing beach Old Mnemon told of famous Dizoie To set down all he said passeth my reach That all would reach even to infinity Strange things he spake of the biformity Of the Dizoians what mongrill sort Of living wights how monstrous shap'd they be And how that man and beast in one consort Goats britch mans tongue goose head with monki's mouth distoâ—… 71 Of Centaures Cynocephals walking trees Tritons and Mermaydes and such uncouth things Or weeping Serpents with fair womens eyes Mad making waters sex trans-forming springs Of foul Circean swine with golden rings With many such like falshoods but the straight Will easly judge all crooked wandrings Suffice it then we have taught that Ruling-right The good is uniform the evil infinite ΨΥΞΑΘΑÎΑΣΙΑ PLATONICA OR Platonicall Poem of the Immortality of Souls especially Mans Soul By H. M. Master of Arts and Fellow of Christs Colledge in Cambridge 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Empedocles Omnia mutantur nihil interit Ovid. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Trismegist CAMBRIDGE Printed by Roger Daniel Printer to the Universitie 1642. THE PREFACE TO THE READER THe very nerves and sinews of Religion is hope of immortality What greater incitement to virtue and justice then eternall happinesse what greater terriculament from wickednesse then a full perswasion of after-judgement and continuall torture of spirit But my labour is superfluous Men from their very childhood are perswaded of these things Verily I fear how they are perswaded of them when they become men Else would not they vvhom the fear of hell doth not affright die so unvvillingly nor vvicked men so securely nor vvould so many be vvicked For even naturall-providence vvould bid them look forvvard Beside some men of a melancholick temper vvhich commonly distrust and suspicion do accompany though othervvise pious yet out of an exceeding desire of eternall being think they can never have security enough for this so pleasing hope and expectation and so even vvith anxiety of mind busie themselves to prove the truth of that strongly vvhich they desire vehemently to be true And this body vvhich dissolution vvaits upon helpeth our infidelity exceedingly For the soul not seeing it self judgeth it self of such a nature as those things are to which she is nearest united Falsly saith but yet ordinarily I am sick I am weak I faint I die when it is nough but the perishing life of the body that is in such plight to which she is so close tied in most intimate love and sympathy So a tender mother if she see a knife struck to her childs heart would shreek and swound as if her self had been smit whenas if her eye had not beheld that spectacle she had not been moved though the thing were surely done So I do verily think that the mind being taken up in some higher contemplation if it should please God to keep it in that ecstasie the body might be destroyed without any disturbance to the soul. For how can there be or sense or pain without animadversion But while we have such continuall commerce with this frail body it is not to be expected but that we shall be assaulted with the fear of death and darknesse For alas how few are there that do not make this visible world their Adonai their stay and sustentation of life the prop of their soul their God How many Christians are not prone to whisper that of the Heathen Poet Soles occidere redire possunt Nobis cùm semel occidit brevis lux Nox est perpetua una dormienda The Sunne may set and rise again If once sets our short light Deep sleep us binds with iron chain Wrapt in eternall Night But I would not be so injurious as to make men worse then they are that my little work may seem of greater use and worth then it is Admit then that men are most what perswaded of the souls immortality yet here they may reade reasons to confirm that perswasion and be put in mind as they reade of their end and future condition which cannot be but profitable at least For the pleasure they 'll reap from this Poem it will be according as their Genius is fitted for it For as Plato speaks in his Io 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or according to the more usuall phrase 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. The spirit of every Poet is not alike nor his writings alike suteable to all dispositions As Io the reciter of Homers verses professeth himself to be snatcht away with an extraordinary fury or ecstacie at the repeating of Homers Poesie but others so little to move him that he could even fall asleep So that no man is rashly to condemn another mans labour in this kind because he is not taken with
spoke my mind so fully before The motives that drevv me to adde them to the former are exprest in the Poems themselves My drift is one in them all vvhich is to raise a certain number of vvell ordered Phantasms fitly shaped out and vvarily contrived vvhich I set to skirmish and conflict vvith all the furious phansies of Epicurisine and Atheisme But here 's my disadvantage that victory vvill be no victory unlesse the adversary acknovvledge himself overcome None can acknovvledge himself overcome unlesse he perceive the strength and feel the stroke of the more povverfull arguments But the exility and subtletie of many and that not of the meanest is such nor can they be othervvise that they vvill as that kind of thunder vvhich the Poets do commonly call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from it s over quick and penetrating energie go through their more porous and spongie minds vvithout any sensible impression Sure I am that sensuality is alvvayes an enemy to subtilty of reason vvhich hath its rise from subtilty of phansie so that the life of the body being vigorous and radiant in the soul hinders us of the sight of more attenuate phantasms But that being supprest or very much castigate and kept under our inward apprehension grows clearer and larger Few men can imagine any thing so clearly awake as they did when they were asleep And what 's the reason but that the sense of the body is then bound up or dead in a manner The dark glasse-windows will afford us a further illustration for this purpose Why is it that we see our ovvn faces there by night What can reflect the species as they phrase it when the glasse is pervious and transparent Surely reflection in the ordinary apprehension is but a conceit The darknesse behind the glasse is enough to exhibit visibly the forms of things within by hiding stronger objects from the eye which would burie these weak idola in their â—…ore orient lustre The starres shine and fill the aire with their species by day but are to be seen onely in a deep pit which may fence the Sunnes light from striking our sight so strongly Every contemptible candle conquers the beams of the Moon by the same advantage that the Sunnes doth the Starres viz. propinquitie But put out the candle and you will presently find the moon-light in the room exclude the moon and then the feeblest of all species will step out into energie we shall behold the night All this is but to shew how the stronger or nearer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 doth obscure the weaker or further off and how that one being removed the energie ' of the other will easily appear Now that our comparison may be the fitter let us consider what Aristotle saith of phansie that it is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Thus much I will take of him that Phansie is sense and adde to it that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is also 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and what I have intimated in some passages of these Poems That the soul doth alwayes feel it self it s own actuall Idea by its omniform centrall self So that the immediate sense of the soul is nothing else but to perceive its own energie Now sith that that which we call outward sense is indeed the very energie of the soul and inward sense which is phansie can be but the very energie of the soul there seems to be no reall and intrinsecall difference betwixt the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of any form no more then there is betwixt a frog born by the Sunne and mere slime and one born by copulation For these are but extrinsecall relations Wherefore 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the soul it self is all one But now sith it is the same nature why is there not the same degree of energie in both I say there is as appears plainly in sleep where we find all as clear and energeticall as when we wake But here these 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for I have prov'd them all one do as greater and lesser lights dim one another or that which is nearest worketh strongliest Hence it is that the light or life of this low spirit or body of ours stirring the soul into a perpetuall sensuall energie if we foster this and unite our minds will and animadversion with it will by its close nearnesse with the soul dim and obscure those more subtil and exile phantasms or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 risen from the soul it self or occasioned by other mens writings For they will be in the flaring light or life of the body as the stars in the beams of the Sunne scarce to be seen unlesse we withdraw our selves out of the flush vigour of that light into the profunditie of our own souls as into some deep pit Wherefore men of the most tam'd and castigate spirits are of the best and most profound judgement because they can so easily withdraw themselves from the life and impulse of the lower spirit of this body Thus being quit of passion they have upon any occasion a clear though still and quiet representation of every thing in their minds upon which pure bright sydereall phantasms unprejudiced reason may safely work and clearly discern what is true or probable If my vvritings fall into the hands of men othervvise qualified I shall gain the lesse approbation But if they vvill endeavour to compose themselves as near as they can to this temper though they vvere of another opinion then vvhat my writings intend to prove I doubt not but they vvill have the happinesse to be overcome and to prove gainers by my victorie To say any thing more particularly concerning these last I hold it needlesse Onely let me excuse my self if any chance to blame me for my 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as confuting that which no man will assert For it hath been asserted by some as those Mauri whom Ficinus speaks of and the question is also discussed by Plotinus in his fourth Ennead where he distinguisheth of all souls being one after this manner 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The latter member is that vvhich my arguments conclude against Though they vvere 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 yet vvere vve safe enough as safe as the beams of the Sunne the Sunne existing But the similitude of Praxiteles broken glasse is brought in according to the apprehension of such as make the image to vanish into nothing the glasse being taken away and that as there is but one face though there be the appearances of many so though there be the appearances of many souls by reason of that ones vvorking in divers bodies yet there is but one soul and understanding sense and motion to be the acts of this one soul informing severall bodies This is that which both Plotinus and I endeavour to destroy vvhich is of great moment For if one onely soul act in
Spirits Helios 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Sunne Heterogeneall is that which consists of parts of a diverse nature or form as for example a mans body of flesh bones nerves c. Homogeneall That whose nature is of one kind I IDea-Lond The Intellectuall world Idothea The fleet passage of fading forms from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Forma and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 curro Ida. See Pompon Mel. lib. 1. cap. 17. Isosceles A triangle with two sides equall Idiopathie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is ones proper peculiar 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 mine or thine being affected thus or so upon this or that occasion as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is this or that mans proper temper But this property of affection may also belong unto kinds As an Elephant hath his idiopathy and a man his at the hearing of a pipe a cat and an Eagle at the sight of the Sunne a dogge and a Circopithecus at the sight of the Moon c. Iao. A corruption of the Tetragrammaton Greek writers have strangely mash'd this word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 some calling it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 others 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 some 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It is very likely that from this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 came Bacchus his appellation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the Maenades acclamations 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in his Orgia Which sutes well with the Clarian Oracle which saith that in Autumne the Sun is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is the time of vintage 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 See Fullers Miscel. 2. Book L LOgos 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The appellation of the Sonne of God It is ordinarily translated the Word but hath an ample signification It signifieth Reason Proportion Form Essence any inward single thought or apprehension Is any thing but matter and matter is nothing Leontopolis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Lions city or Politie Lypon from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sorrow M MOnocardia 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 single-heartednesse Myrmecopolis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The City or Polity of Pismires Michael Who like unto God from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 similitudinis and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Deus Monad 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is unitas the principle of all numbers an emblem of the Deity And so the Pythagoreans call it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God It is from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because it is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 stable and immoveable a firm Cube of it self One time one time One remains still one See Ahad N NEurospast 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Puppet or any Machina that's moved by an unseen string or nerve O ON 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Beeing Ogdoas 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 numerus octonarius the number of â—…ight Onopolis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The asses City or Politie P PSyche 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Soul or spirit Penia 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Want or poverty Physis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nature vegetative Proteus Vertumnus changeablenesse Psychania The land of Souls Philosomatus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A lover of his body Psittacusa The land of Parots Pithecusa The land of Apes Pithecus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an Ape Phobon from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Fear Phrenition Anger impatiency fury from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 phrensie or madnesse Ira furor brevis est Pantheothen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 All from God Which is true in one sense false in another You 'll easly discern the sense in the place you find the word This passage of Panthcothen contains a very savory hearty reproof of all be they what they will that do make use of that intricate mystery of fate and infirmity safely to guard themselves from the due reprehensions and just expostulations of the earnest messengers of God who would rouse them out of this sleep of sin and stirre them up seriously to seek after the might and spirit of Christ that may work wonderfully in their souls to a glorious conquest and triumph against the devil death and corruption Pandemoniothen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 All from the devil viz. all false perswasions and ill effects of them Panoply 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Armour for the whole body Pteroessa 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The land of winged souls from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a wing Perigee 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Is that absis or ark of a Planets circle in which it comes nearer the earth Psychicall Though 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 be a generall name and belongs to the souls of beasts and plants yet I understand by life Psychicall such centrall life as is capable of Aeon and Ahad Parelies 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are rorid clouds which bear the image of the Sunne Psittaco Don Psittaco from Psittacus a Parot a bird that speaks significant words whose sense notwithstanding it self is ignorant of The dialogue betwixt this Parot and Mnemon sets out the vanity of all superficiall conceited Theologasters of what sect soever having but the surface and thin imagination of divinity but truly devoid of the spirit and in ward power of Christ the living well-spring of knowledge and virtue and yet do pride themselves in pratling and discoursing of the most hidden and abstruse mysteries of God and take all occasions to shew forth their goodly skill and wonderfull insight into holy truth when as they have indeed scarce licked the out-side of the glasse wherein it lies Plastick 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is that 〈◊〉 might in the seed that shapes the body in its growth Phantasme 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Any thing that the soul conceives in it self without any present externall object Parallax 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is the distance betwixt the true and seeming place of a starre proceeding from the sensible difference of the centre and the height of the superficies of the earth in reference to the starre and from the stars declining from the Zenith Protopathy 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It is a suffering or being affected at first that is without circulation If any man strike me I feel immediately because my soul is united with this body that is struck and this is protopatâ—…y If the aire be struck aloof off I am sensible also of that but by circulation or propagation of that impression unto my eare and this is deuteropathy See Deuteropathy Periphere Peripheria it is the line that terminates a circle Q QUadiate A figure with foure equall sides and foure right angles The rightnesse of the â—…ngles is a plain embleme of erectnesse or uprightnesse of mind The number of the sides as also of the angles being pariter par that is equally divisible to the utmost unities 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as it is in Aristotle intimates equity or â—…ustice The sides are equall one with another and so are 〈◊〉 angles and the number of the sides and angles equall one with another Both the numbers