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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43030	Anatomical exercitations concerning the generation of living creatures to which are added particular discourses of births and of conceptions, &c. / by William Harvey ...; De generatione animalium. English	Harvey, William, 1578-1657.; Lluelyn, Martin, 1616-1682.	1653 (1653)	Wing H1085; ESTC R13027	342,382	600

To this He condescended with much adoe at first urging among many other Disswasive Arguments that this His Tractate would be imperfect without the conjunction of the History of the Generation of Insects In a word at length I prevailed and He said Loe I resign these my Writings freely into your hands with absolute power either suddainly to publish or for a while to suppress them as you shall think convenient Having returned Him very many thanks for so high a favour I took my leave and departed as another Jason enriched with the Golden Fleece And when upon my return home I had surveyed the Book I could not but admire that so vast a Treasure had laien so long concealed And that while other men arrogate so highly to themselves onely for the entertainment of their nanseating Readers with Trifles and Toies and Dishes twice yea an hundred times brought to the Table before the Modesty of this Gentleman should be such as to set so small a value upon these His Excellent Observations And truly when ever He hath been pleased to give any of his own Inventions leave to see the light He hath not deported Himself with Ostentation or superciliousness after the custome of many as if an Oak had spoken or he had deserved a draught of Hen's-Milk but His Dictates were Oraculous and Merits above the reach of Elogie or Reward but with exceeding Modesty as if onely casually or without any difficultie of inquest he had fallen upon the Discovery of those Mysteries which indeed he long searched into with profest diligence and study indefatigable And this also is an Argument of eminent Candour in Him that he never inwades the reputation of any Author but every where delivers his own judgement in mild and friendly language For with him it is Proverbial that That Cause is worthy to be suspected for scarcely good and profitable which its Author contends for with brawling and fierceness But Truth can want no Patron And when it was easie to him to have woven this whole Web from materials of his own such was his care for the prevention of Envy that he yet chose to follow the clue of Aristotle and Aquapendens as if he had contributed thereunto no more then meerly the Woofe Of Him I shall speak no more lest I appear to praise to his face a Person whose Worth hath advanced Him infinitely above my praises especially to You to whom his Virtue Candor and Ingenie are long since very well known But of My selfe I shall adde onely thus much that in this great Business I have performed no more then the meer office of a Midwife producing into the light this noble Issue of His Brain in all its parts and line●ments perfect and consummate as it is now presented to your View but staying long in the Birth fearing perhaps some injurious Blast of Envy or Detraction To speak more plainly I made it my Province to oversee and correct the Press and because the Author writes so obscure a Hand A thing as we say common to learned men as that scarce any man but who hath bin accustomed thereto can read it without difficulty I used all diligence to provide against the Errors of the Compositor that might be occasioned thereby which I observed not to have been duly prevented in the Impression of a small Treatise of the Doctors not long since set forth And thus most Learned Sirs have I rendered you the Reason of this my Writing to you which is to let you know that our HARVEY hath Sacrificed to the Benefit of the Commonwealth of Learning to the Dignity of our Colledge and to His own Eternal Honour Farewel and Prosper To the Incomparable Dr. HARVEY On his Books Of the MOTION of the HEART and BLOOD And of the GENERATION of ANIMALS TO Sol the grateful Persian homage payes He Sees by them and so Adores the rayes Deeming the Suns just title to arise To th' Tribute as to th' Vision of his Eyes And such is thy due claime Great Light of Art Who to the long-dim World dost sight impart To thy Loud Fame for ever be apply'd As th' Conduct so the Glory of our Guide While gray Antiquity Oracular heares Not for the Truths she brings but for the Yeares And her sowr Dictats from the Tripod thrown Look more to be Obey'd then to be Known Thy daring Art first stands her and doth breed This Reseue thence that Science is not Creed Who for their Age alone doe Writers trust Prize Armour not for th' Proof but for the Rust From Books to Nature thy Appeale is made Thy Copies by their Archetype are swayd Though High and Reverend thy Authors sit Yet the Creation is thy Classick Writ The various Colonies whose brood supplyes Inhabitants to Earth to Seas and Skies These are thy Vatican and onely these Are thy Infallible Hippocrates Thy Sibyll-Volumes and Thou knowst them all Like their first Godfathen before the Fall Their Natures Kinds Distinctions and Concent The Parts conteinec't and Parts continent Their Order Substance Temper Site their Force Relations and confederate Entercourse Their different Cells which different Bowels bound Rooft and partition'd from their Neighbours ground The Numerous Intrals Thou hast searched through Might both Appease the Gods and Surfet too Not in the dull Emerit Carcase where The Shops remain where once the Workmen were And onely yield this cold Account there stands The Stuffe and Tools perhaps but not the Hands But in the Living Laboratories when The Vitals ply'd their task like Lab'ring men When Life and Industry one Fountaine fed And to give over Work was to be Dead And now the Beasts hold their Instructive life Innobled by the cunning of thy Knife Their Fall heares Sacrifice to th' Publick good Nor is it to be Slaine but Vnderstood There thy Observing Eye first found the Art Of all the Wheels and Clock-work of the Heart The mystick causes of its Dark Estate What Pullies Close its Cells and what Dilate What secret Engiues tune the Pulse whose din By Chimes without Strikes how things fare within There didst thou trace the Blood and first behold What Dreames mistaken Sages coin'd of old For till thy Pegasus the fountain brake The crimson Blood was but a crimson Lake Which first from Thee did Tyde and Motion gaine And Veins became its Channel not its Chaine With Drake and Candish hence thy Bays is curld Fam'd Circulator of the Lesser World Yet thou no sooner wroughtst this wonder out Though proof both gainst the cool suspense of Doubt And rougher Violence o' th' Despisers tongue But Europe round with hot combustions rung It s early first Defiance sprung up here At last a swarm of Champion Pens appeare From Forreign coasts and to the conflict come Some thy bold Challengers thy Seconds some But when Experience vanquisht their defence And Prejudice was captive led by Sense The Ingenuous laid down Arms and fled to You As their Instructor and their Victor too Thus twice