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<P><HI>HORAE VACIVAE,</HI> OR, ESSAYS. SOME OCCASIONALL Con&s;iderations</P>
<P>BY JOHN HALL.</P>
<Q><L>&mdash;Vitiis nemo caret, optimus ille</L>
<L>Qui minimis urgetur&mdash;</L></Q>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed by <HI>E.G.</HI> for <HI>J. Rothwell,</HI> at the Sun and Fountaine in Pauls Church-yard, 1646.</P>
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<P><FIGURE>
<P>olim Majora Aetatis Suae <HI>19. 1646</HI></P>
<P>W. Mar&s;hall &s;culpsit.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="dedication">
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<HEAD>TO The Reverend Mr. <HI>John Arrow&s;mith</HI> Ma&s;ter of St. <HI>Iohns</HI> Colledge in <HI>Cambridge.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_BUt that (<HI>Worthy</HI> Sir) you know as well how to par|don
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as judge, I might ju&s;tly &s;u&s;pect your entertainment of the&s;e peices. Faint breathings of a minde burthened with other Liter|ary employments, neither brought forth with Care, nor ri|pened with Age, yet &s;uch as if they bee not now bla&s;t|ed may be the fir&s;t Fruits of a larger
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Harve&s;t; Let them Sir, Receive the ho|nour and &s;helter of your Name, &s;ince borne under your Government, and cheri&s;ht by your Candor; That if they chance to &s;ur|vive their Father, they may te&s;tify hee was Sir</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your mo&s;t humble Servant, <HI>J. HALL.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>To the Reader.</HEAD>
<P>WHen thou &s;halt peru&s;e the&s;e <HI>ESSAYES,</HI> and compare them with the Authors years, J &s;uppo&s;e thou wilt wonder to &s;ee one who&s;e Pul&s;e beates &s;hort of nineteene, take &s;uch long Strides in
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matters of this na|ture; and be ready to &s;u&s;pect, whether he walkes upon his owne Legs, or be &s;tilted up by what hee hath bor|rowed from others; the truth is, he might be indebted to many, and yet few di&s;cover it, in regard of his acquain|tance with the <HI>French, Spani&s;h</HI> and <HI>Italian:</HI> but yet I dare a&s;&s;ure thee what this Gentle|man
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pre&s;ents thee with, is as free from any &s;uch ingagement as his Fa|thers lands are from morgage. For the lan|guage, tis continued everywhere &s;o like it &s;elfe that any may per|ceive he hath nowhere &s;tretch'd his own mean|ing to make way for anothers fancy: and for the matter, know this, they who are well acquainted in the clo|&s;e&s;t
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&s;hops where wares of this Kinde lie, &s;ay that he is a true man and hath not robbed any Author; the whole web (&s;uch as it is) is his own, if thou will believe him (who alone and only) &s;aw it wo|ven; tis but a <HI>little</HI> one; it is in thy power to make it bigger; for He hath more of it upon the loome, and only &s;tayes to know of thee
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whether he &s;hall goe forward in the worke. Mo&s;t of the&s;e Subjects were not of his own chu&s;iing, but (after di&s;covery of his Genius this way impo&s;ed upon him as taskes, though he was pleas'd then to call, and after make them, Recreations; His Recreations they were; and if thou plea&s;e to make them thine, it may incourage Him to
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begin, compleate, and publi&s;h, what he hath either de&s;igned, be|gunne, or perfected. Be intreated to accept of the&s;e, and He is re&s;olved (being al|ready provided) to acknowledge thy Can|dor by &s;ome <HI>POEMS.</HI> As I hope thou wilt finde Him not alto|gether left-Handed in pro&s;e, &s;o I dare pro|mi&s;e thee Hee will
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be farre more dex|trous in Ver&s;e.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>John Paw&s;on.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Johns in</HI> Camb. <DATE>Iune <HI>12. 1646.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<DIV1 TYPE="encomium">
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<HEAD>To my deare friend <HI>Mr. I. Hall</HI> on his <HI>E&s;&s;ayes.</HI></HEAD>
<L>WIts, that matur'd by time</L>
<L>have courted prai&s;e,</L>
<L>Shall &s;ee their WORKES</L>
<L>outdone in the&s;e ESSAYES;</L>
<L>And blu&s;h to know thy early</L>
<L>years di&s;play</L>
<L>A dawning clearer then their</L>
<L>brighte&s;t day.</L>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Tho. Stanley.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>To his worthy friend the Author, on his <HI>E&s;&s;ayes.</HI></HEAD>
<L>THy youth the&s;e Le&s;&s;ons</L>
<L>learned hath, and more</L>
<L>Then were &s;et out to any</L>
<L>of three &s;core.</L>
<L>Thus thou out-&s;trippe&s;t Life,</L>
<L>and do&s;t beguile</L>
<L>The fatall Si&s;ters of a</L>
<L>longer file;</L>
<L>And like the youthfull Planet</L>
<L>of the light,</L>
<L>Art ever climbing and yet &s;till</L>
<L>at hight.</L>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>W. Hammond.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>To the de&s;erving Author upon his <HI>E&s;&s;ayes.</HI></HEAD>
<L>TIs common to com|mend;</L>
<L>but to de&s;erve</L>
<L>Is for &s;ome <HI>few,</HI> that</L>
<L>march in a re&s;erve</L>
<L>With Thee. Thy <HI>E&s;&s;ayes</HI></L>
<L>rich in native worth,</L>
<L>Need not our Trimming</L>
<L>prai&s;e to &s;et them forth;</L>
<L>But while <HI>judicious</HI> men</L>
<L>the Readers be,</L>
<L>Are monuments of <HI>judg|ment,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Wit,</HI> and <HI>Thee.</HI></L>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Ja. Shirley.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>To the Author.</HEAD>
<L><HI>I</HI> Nor intend with &s;ome</L>
<L>ambitious ver&s;e</L>
<L>To court applau&s;e; nor yet</L>
<L>thy pray&s;e rehear&s;e;</L>
<L>J hence no fame affect;</L>
<L>thou none do&s;t want</L>
<L>That wee can give, who&s;e</L>
<L>larger worth our &s;cant</L>
<L>And narrow thoughts &s;carce</L>
<L>comprehend; thy pray&s;e</L>
<L>Thine own works be&s;t relate;</L>
<L>thy fir&s;t <HI>E&s;&s;ayes</HI></L>
<L><PB REF="10">Shame others ma&s;ter-</L>
<L>peeces; Thy Nineteen</L>
<L>Makes five and forty blu&s;h,</L>
<L>that &s;carce hath &s;cene</L>
<L>What thou ha&s;t read, dige&s;t|ed,</L>
<L>and can&s;t teach;</L>
<L>What wee in other &s;ingly</L>
<L>pray&s;e, thy reach</L>
<L>Together gra&s;pes; thou</L>
<L>&s;tudies can&s;t direct;</L>
<L>Make choyce of friends,</L>
<L>opinions fal&s;e detect;</L>
<L>Thou'&s;t read both men and</L>
<L>Bookes, thou ha&s;t a key</L>
<L>To each mans brea&s;t which</L>
<L>is thy Library.</L>
<L>In &s;hort, no &s;ingle knowledge</L>
<L>can confine</L>
<L>Thy larger Soule; but as</L>
<L>the Sun doth &s;hine</L>
<L><PB REF="11">On the whole globe of earth,</L>
<L>and bani&s;h night</L>
<L>From its u&s;urpt dominion,</L>
<L>yeilding light</L>
<L>To eyes without it u&s;ele&s;&s;e;</L>
<L>Thou like him</L>
<L>Shin&s;t everywhere, en|lightne&s;t</L>
<L>every dim</L>
<L>And heavy eye; darke mat|ters</L>
<L>clear&s;t, turn&s;t night</L>
<L>To brighte&s;t day. J know of</L>
<L>whom I write;</L>
<L>Light wits by every breath</L>
<L>of vulgar pray&s;e,</L>
<L>As empty Ships when the</L>
<L>winde kindly playes,</L>
<L>With their large &s;ayls doe</L>
<L>proudely ride, as pa&s;t</L>
<L>All thought, all feare of</L>
<L>wrack; till &s;ome cro&s;&s;e bla&s;t</L>
<L><PB REF="11">Oreturne and &s;ink them;</L>
<L>but thy nobler &s;oule</L>
<L>Who&s;e bala&s;t's judgement,</L>
<L>is beyond controule</L>
<L>Of popular cen&s;ure; thou</L>
<L>thine own worth,</L>
<L>Parts, skill, ha&s;t better</L>
<L>weigh'd, &amp; &s;ent them forth</L>
<L>Of doores to &s;eek a Cen&s;or,</L>
<L>who at home</L>
<L>Ha&s;t one &s;evere as he &s;o</L>
<L>by old Rome</L>
<L>Sirnamd; Go on then</L>
<L>happy youth; and be</L>
<L>Thy fruits as great as we</L>
<L>can hope to &s;ee.</L>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>A. Holden Col. St.</HI> Ioh. Soc.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>To my worthy Friend the Author, concerning his <HI>E&s;&s;ayes.</HI></HEAD>
<L>ARe the&s;e the bloomings</L>
<L>of thy greener Age?</L>
<L>Sure, they &s;ome mon&s;trous</L>
<L>Summer-fruits pre&s;age.</L>
<L>Nature doth &s;eeme to An|tidate</L>
<L>thy years,</L>
<L>And ere thy Seed-time's</L>
<L>pa&s;t, Harve&s;t appeares.</L>
<L>Well ha&s;t thou writ E&s;&s;ays;</L>
<L>And well Hee may</L>
<L>Whom nature hath &s;et forth</L>
<L>as Her E&s;&s;ay.</L>
<L><PB REF="12">If for thy mornings drawght</L>
<L>Thou drank'&s;t thus deep,</L>
<L>Poor Helicon will grudge</L>
<L>Thee long to keepe.</L>
<L>And if each moale Thou do&s;t</L>
<L>thus heart'ly feede,</L>
<L>Nine Mu&s;es mu&s;t goe</L>
<L>&s;upperle&s;&s;e to bed.</L>
<L>Yet take Thy fill: long</L>
<L>may'&s;t Thou live, and be</L>
<L>Their Patron; They Re|tainers</L>
<L>unto Thee.</L>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>T. Goodwin.</HI>
Fellow of <HI>Johns</HI> Col. Camb.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><GAP DESC="foreign"><NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">E&s;&s;ay 3.31.</NOTE><GAP DESC="foreign">.</P>
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<HEAD>HORAE VACIVAE, OR ESSAYES.</HEAD>
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<HEAD>Of Opinions. <HI>I.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_WE Con&s;ider <HI>Opinions</HI> here as well Er|rours &s;ent abroad under the vi|zards
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of Truth, yet by &s;ome <HI>Wart</HI> or <HI>Moale</HI> di|&s;tingwi&s;hable, as Truths them&s;elves walking un|der the notions of Para|doxes.</P>
<P>Some broach them to &s;erve the glory of their owne Names, and this is ambitious; &s;ome to poy&s;on and infect others, and this is dia|bolicall; others to oc|ca&s;ion further &s;earch &amp; &s;atisfaction, and this is di&s;creete. To &s;tick to ones owne after &s;uf|ficient conviction; ar|gues <HI>&s;elfe-love</HI> to re|ject anothers at the fir&s;t
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blu&s;h, <HI>peevi&s;hne&s;&s;e;</HI> to follow antiquity hood|wink'd, is but <HI>Jmplicite Ignorance;</HI> utterly to reject it, and wholy leane on Novelty, a <HI>hea|dy lightne&s;&s;e.</HI></P>
<P>Tho&s;e Opinions are not like to get much footing which meete not with the di&s;po&s;i|tion of true and place to entertaine them, as that of <HI>Vigilius</HI> of the <HI>Antipodes;</HI> but on the contrary, they ea&s;ily &s;pread, as that Pro|ject of the holy <HI>Warre,</HI> meeting with a &s;tout and &s;uper&s;titious Age;
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they take be&s;t roote when they are &s;owed by degrees, for that in|&s;en&s;ibly qualifyes mens Humors, and adapts them for molding; as <HI>Columbus</HI> de&s;igne of a di&s;covery after hee had beene <HI>&s;tav'd</HI> off by &s;e|verall Chri&s;tian Prin|ces, yet by his owne confidence (which que|&s;tionle&s;&s;e was &s;trength|ned by a higher power) He gained the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of the King and Queene of <HI>Ca&s;tile.</HI></P>
<P>Where they are to meete with a people groaping in gro&s;&s;e ig|norance,
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The weake&s;t and tho&s;e that &s;ute be&s;t with &s;uch conceptions, doe with the greate&s;t facility <HI>po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e</HI> them|&s;elves; for eyes com|ming out of dark|ne&s;&s;e are unable to en|dure light, whereas they can with &s;mall or no paine &s;uffer twi|light; but tho&s;e of more <HI>rectified Rea&s;ons,</HI> can &s;u&s;taine bright and gli|&s;tring di&s;coveries to beat in upon them.</P>
<P>Di&s;puting of an e|vinc'd certainty teach|eth againe to doubt of it; <HI>ca&s;hering</HI> of a proba|bility,
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not throughly &s;ifted, may cut off meanes of further knowing, &s;ince though errror bee blinde, &s;hee &s;ometimes bringeth forth &s;eeing Daughters. The Alchymi&s;ts have benefited the World more by their occa&s;io|nall experiments, then ever they will do with their Gold; and the <HI>prodigious Tenents</HI> of &s;ome of the old Phi|lo&s;ophers, have given hints for &s;ome more <HI>accurate di&s;cu&s;&s;ions,</HI> truth having this advantage over her enemy that
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&s;hee makes her turne many times her wea|pons upon her own &s;elf.</P>
<P>Hee takes the be&s;t cour&s;e to keepe his judgement from <HI>bia|&s;ing,</HI> that narrowly heeds upon what prin|ciples both parties build, whether both &s;tand fa&s;t to their owne grounds (as &s;ometimes in Philo&s;ophy <HI>utraque Pars e&s;t vera</HI>) and whe|ther ground is &s;urer to build upon.</P>
<P>So long as no man can challenge an un|errancy, nay, the grea|te&s;t mindes have beene
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&s;oyled with the foule&s;t &s;taines: to <HI>captivate</HI> ones rea&s;on to a private braine, is to betray it to anothers error; but the <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="foreign">.</NOTE> <HI>Retention of a&s;&s;ent</HI> to &s;ettle it in the be&s;t &s;urety, and rejecting what is di&s;allowed without <HI>protervity,</HI> is the &s;afe&s;t meanes of &s;ure and &s;olid know|ledge.</P>
<P>Multiplication of Opinions in Religion, argues that mens minds are un&s;ettled, and the <HI>Tapour</HI> of Devotion burnes but dimly; they generally u&s;her in up|roares
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in the State, &s;el|dome end in ver|ball conte&s;tation; nay One Sect &s;ubdivided, pur&s;ues her owne <HI>diffe|rences</HI> with the mo&s;t <HI>rancour;</HI> as is &s;een a|mong&s;t the <HI>Jewes, Turks</HI> and <HI>Per&s;ians,</HI> &s;ome <HI>&s;warmes</HI> of <HI>Friers &amp;c.</HI> whether it be that they thinke errours that ap|proach neare&s;t the Truth to be mo&s;t <HI>per|nicious,</HI> or that they can the wor&s;e <HI>tolerate</HI> them where they lea&s;t expected to finde them.</P>
<P>Some Tenents are more ea&s;ily maintained
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then oppo&s;ed, &s;ome better to confute then a&s;&s;ert; &s;ome that are <HI>dete&s;table,</HI> carry in them &s;hewes of <HI>applau&s;e;</HI> o|ther&s;ome &s;eeme more ugly then they are re|ally; it is a poore flat|tery of a mans &s;elfe to propo&s;e his adver&s;aries arguments with their edge blunted; nor can it proceed from any thing el&s;e then a <HI>Spirit of malice,</HI> to &s;et them out in more <HI>horrid vi|&s;ages</HI> then they truly carry. The multitude is <HI>&s;u&s;ceptible</HI> of any opi|nions, being ever un|con&s;tant,
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&s;u&s;pitious, credulous, violently hurried away with them for the time, which is never long; e|ver greedy of liberty, though neither knowing to <HI>obtaine</HI> nor <HI>po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e</HI> it; ea&s;ie to be wrought on in matter of Religion, and that rather out of a reverentiall confidence of their Prie&s;ts, then reliance of their owne Judgements, either a|doring or dete&s;ting their <HI>Governours,</HI> and con&s;equently &s;ome|time &s;truck out of a tu|mult by the pre&s;ence of
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<HI>one,</HI> who&s;e age and vir|tues have <HI>plac'd</HI> him be|yond their envy: Some|times boyling into a commotion at the ap|pearance of <HI>another,</HI> who&s;e Pride, Oppre&s;&s;i|on or Greatne&s;&s;e hath caus'd their malice, <HI>I|dolizing</HI> their owne darlings for the pre&s;ent, and &s;uddenly <HI>cru&s;hing</HI> them; Implacable where they have the upper hand, meerely <HI>A&s;inine</HI> where they know an over-ruling power, &s;u&s;|pecting the de&s;ignes of great ones, and ever taking their practi&s;es
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to be darker then they appeare. Wi&s;e men are timerous in the <HI>disfran|chi&s;ing</HI> of their judge|ment before they &s;uffer their con&s;iderations to be regulated with rea|&s;on, and matur'd by time; once &s;etled, it is one of the greate&s;t ta&s;kes to remove them; doubts cau&s;e them to &s;u&s;pend their A&s;&s;ents; &s;atisfaction of doubts Confirmes them, and renders them <HI>inflexible,</HI> that many times they will write a <HI>Confirmati|on</HI> of their <HI>The&s;es</HI> with their owne Blood.</P>
<P><PB N="14" REF="21">Since we all &s;ee here but <HI>per tran&s;ennam,</HI> or as men in mi&s;ts, one may &s;ee &s;omewhat further then another: yet none can take a ful and cleare Pro&s;pect: it is but Cha|rity to pardon that in another (Errorr) from which no man <HI>can ex|empt</HI> him&s;elfe.</P>
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<HEAD>Of Time. <HI>II.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THe mo&s;t <HI>pretious</HI> thing we can enjoy is time; yet neither is it, nor doe we enjoy it;
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we cannot reinforce a pa&s;s'd minute, nor re|lie upon a future mo|ment; all we have is that <HI>Punctum fluens, Now:</HI> which is no part at all of it. Thus are we like <HI>flowers</HI> nur&s;t by the <HI>wind,</HI> and if we e&s;cape a <HI>violent</HI> hand in our <HI>bloome,</HI> we after wither and droope into the Bo&s;ome of our mother <HI>Earth:</HI> So that he &s;eem'd to carry Rea&s;on along with him, who called Nature <HI>Step-mo|ther,</HI> in that &s;he gives us &s;o &s;mall a portion of Time, that we com|monly
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rot before we ripen; But he con&s;ide|red not that brave Acti|ons are the be&s;t <HI>Chrono|logies,</HI> and that we one|ly live &s;o long as we live under the Colours of vertue; in other actions we are no more then <HI>Irrationals;</HI> nay, they were farre more happy then we (many of them) to climbe to &s;o many Centuries of yeeres, whereas the greater part of us can hardly reach halfe one. 'Tis a comfort <HI>Thetis</HI> gives her brave Sonne in <HI>Homer,</HI> that though
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he &s;hould be (<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="foreign"></NOTE>) &s;hort liv'd, yet he &s;hould continue him&s;elfe in the <HI>Admiration</HI> of <HI>Po&s;te|rity:</HI> Many &s;nacht out of the world in their youth, though they might have been more beneficiall, yet are be|neficiall by their exam|ple, of drawing out the &s;hort threed of life, by <HI>interweaving</HI> it with choice Actions, and ma|king it though &s;mall, yet well <HI>wrought.</HI> Thus indeed we wre&s;t the <HI>Sythe</HI> out of the hand of Time, and pull the <HI>wings</HI> from his <HI>heels;</HI>
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But <HI>idlene&s;&s;e</HI> is too <HI>delicate</HI> to doe either, and it on|ly content to <HI>anticipate</HI> death, by &s;uffering her &s;elfe to be <HI>Rackt</HI> with Pa&s;&s;ions, and <HI>entomb'd</HI> in Plea&s;ures; Thus our Silken Gallants are &s;o &s;icke of Time, that they embrace any meanes to &s;hake it off; but <HI>high Soules</HI> like the Heavens <HI>they</HI> come from, move continu|ally, and are <HI>uncapable</HI> of re&s;t, untill they re&s;t there; They looke at the <HI>gliding</HI> of e|very Sand in the Houregla&s;&s;e of their
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life, and are &s;o <HI>in&s;en|&s;ible</HI> of labours and withall &s;o unwearied, that as in <HI>Naturall mo|tions,</HI> they move with greate&s;t force in the <HI>latter end.</HI> God &s;ends us not unto the Thea|ter of this World to be <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="foreign">.</NOTE> <HI>mute per&s;ons,</HI> but <HI>actors;</HI> and though hee grants many <HI>Exits,</HI> yet it is but that wee may re-enter with the greater <HI>Activity;</HI> and it is an <HI>arcanum</HI> of his <HI>Empire</HI> to conceale from us the <HI>date</HI> of our dayes, that wee may the bet|ter <HI>number</HI> them, and
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keepe us <HI>perpetually a|wake,</HI> becau&s;e we know not how &s;oone he may <HI>come</HI> upon us; for <HI>Hee will come like a Theife in the night.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Thrift</HI> in the Expence of our time is an <HI>ex|cellent</HI> virtue, wi&s;edome to <HI>manage</HI> it to our be&s;t improvement, the <HI>Ba&s;e</HI> whereon the <HI>Su|per&s;tructures</HI> of all o|ther wi&s;dome lyes; 'tis an <HI>hone&s;t injury</HI> to Na|ture, to &s;teale from her &s;ome houres of repo&s;e; <HI>un&s;ufferable</HI> to the &s;oule to let the <HI>Golden</HI> houres of the
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morning pa&s;&s;e without advantage, &s;eeing &s;hee is then more capable of Culture, and &s;eemes to bee <HI>renewed</HI> as well as the day; It were an excellent po&s;ture to paint <HI>Cae&s;ar</HI> in, as hee &s;wome with a <HI>Booke</HI> in the one hand, and a <HI>Sword</HI> in the other, &s;ince hee made his Tent an <HI>Academy,</HI> and was at lei&s;ure to read the <HI>Phy&s;tognomy</HI> of the Heavens in Military Tumults. This &s;hewes hee knew how to <HI>prize</HI> time, and hated <HI>Idle|ne&s;&s;e</HI> as much as a <HI>Su|perior,</HI>
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and indeed to &s;peake to <HI>Chri&s;tians,</HI> we ought to looke how wee &s;pend our houres here, knowing they are but the <HI>praeludium</HI> of <HI>that</HI> which &s;hall be no time but <HI>Eternity.</HI></P>
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<DIV2 N="3" TYPE="essay">
<HEAD>Of Felicity. <HI>III.</HI></HEAD>
<P>IT was an <HI>un&s;ucces|full &s;tratagem</HI> of <HI>sa|tan</HI> to <HI>tempt</HI> his Lord and Maker with the Kingdomes of the <HI>earth,</HI> and the <HI>glories</HI> there|of;
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yet how hath hee ever gained by it? mo&s;t being contented to look upon it through his <HI>Op|tick in&s;truments,</HI> and then indeed it &s;eemes onely <HI>glorious;</HI> but who con&s;ider it as it is in it &s;elfe, &s;ee, that it is the <HI>ba&s;e&s;t Element, &s;pur|ned</HI> (as it were) out from among the <HI>Re&s;t,</HI> as though Nature <HI>di&s;|deigned</HI> it a Roome, but what it crouded for; be&s;ides compared with the Heavens, tis <HI>puncti in&s;tar,</HI> or as the <HI>Arabians</HI> &s;ay, <HI>minimum de minimo,</HI> and can
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produce nothing with|out the <HI>Influence</HI> of them; and tho&s;e cir|cles by which her <HI>mea|&s;ures</HI> doe &s;o magnifi|cently <HI>cantonize</HI> her, are onely <HI>Imaginary,</HI> and but borrowed from the <HI>Sphere.</HI></P>
<P>Now the Soule by the almo&s;t <HI>unanimous</HI> con&s;ent of the Hea|then, being a <HI>Divine</HI> &s;ub&s;tance, and onely mued up in this <HI>cloy&s;ter</HI> of fle&s;h, cannot but entertaine &s;o &s;trong de|&s;ires of liberty, that although courted by all the blandi&s;hments
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the World can offer
<Q>Ae&s;tuat Infoelix angu&s;to limite mundi.</Q></P>
<P>So that tho&s;e who walked in the <HI>midnight</HI> of <HI>Nature,</HI> both wi&s;ht and &s;ought for a <HI>day</HI> of <HI>happine&s;&s;e,</HI> but they like men in the <HI>darke</HI> did onely wander, or like <HI>Pilgrims</HI> in the Wilderne&s;&s;e &s;till ingage on new <HI>errors;</HI> yet what &s;weet did this <HI>di&s;qui|&s;ition</HI> co&s;t? all <HI>confe&s;&s;ing,</HI> mo&s;t <HI>&s;earching,</HI> none <HI>finding.</HI></P>
<P>We have it brought
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brought home to our own doores, nay, are woed to accept it; and yet how many are con|tent to cheat them&s;elves of it for a <HI>Toy?</HI> The&s;e are like <HI>Noahs Crow</HI> &s;ent out an <HI>E&s;piall</HI> of the weather, which being <HI>entertained</HI> with carrion was content to live in <HI>Exile.</HI> But tho&s;e hap|py &s;oules that <HI>cla&s;pe</HI> hold of it, are like the <HI>Dove</HI> that could finde no re&s;ting place, till &s;hee <HI>returned</HI> to the <HI>Arke;</HI> the&s;e though they enjoy the greate&s;t fe|licity can bee enjoyed
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on <HI>Earth,</HI> an <HI>Earne&s;t</HI> of <HI>Heaven,</HI> yet are they un|&s;atisfyed till they en|joy <HI>Heaven</HI> it &s;elfe; They can &s;et a true <HI>e&s;timation</HI> of tho&s;e <HI>&s;ub|lunarie</HI> things, that others are contented &s;o to overbuy, more Sotti&s;h then the Bar|barous <HI>Indians</HI> to ex|change <HI>Gold</HI> for <HI>Gla&s;&s;e:</HI> more greedy then <HI>A|talanta,</HI> loo&s;e them&s;elves to &s;toope <HI>for</HI> a golden Apple; or to take it a <HI>Note</HI> higher, more wicked then <HI>Iudas</HI> to &s;ell their <HI>Ma&s;ter</HI> for a thing of <HI>nothing,</HI> and
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<HI>yet like Plato's people</HI> in the Cave wander they in their plea&s;ing <HI>dark|ne&s;&s;e,</HI> offended if you &s;hew them light, nor marvaile if <HI>Oules</HI> can|not endure the Sunne, when it is the be&s;t di&s;|coverer of a true Eaglet.</P>
<P>They both goe on contrary principles and are led by contrary guides, the&s;e by <HI>Fan|cy,</HI> the other by <HI>judge|ment,</HI> the one by a purblind <HI>Rea&s;on,</HI> the other by a <HI>quick faith;</HI> the one builds on the <HI>Sand,</HI> the other on
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the Rock; the one is the Golden Image who&s;e feete is of clay, the other the Tree who&s;e Roote was in Earth, and branches in Heaven. There is more in that <HI>Elizium</HI> of the <HI>Poets</HI> then a meere flowri&s;h; truely if the <HI>Originall</HI> of it were exactly <HI>traced,</HI> it would bee found in Aegypt, and yet the Aegypti|ans not the fir&s;t Au|thors, and from them devolved among other knowledge into the <HI>Schooles,</HI> which gave the be&s;t fuell to the choy|ce&s;t
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inventions, nei|ther is there any great cau&s;e to wonder at the corruption of it, &s;ince being not <HI>fordable</HI> by <HI>Humane rea&s;on, hu|mane Rea&s;on</HI> brought it downe to that <HI>low|ne&s;&s;e it</HI> could <HI>wade over</HI> it, and fitted it to her owne <HI>capacity,</HI> &s;ince &s;hee was not wide e|nough to <HI>Receive</HI> it as it was in it &s;elfe.</P>
<P>I have not that I remember ob&s;erved of any <HI>Nation</HI> though neer &s;o <HI>barbarous,</HI> but it had &s;ome <HI>glimmering Notion</HI> or other of a|nother
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<HI>Life;</HI> for that <HI>whim&s;ey</HI> of <HI>Pythagoras</HI> of the <HI>tran&s;migration</HI> of Soules, it hath beene hi&s;&s;ed out long &s;ince as <HI>Heterodox.</HI></P>
<P>So that if the&s;e may to Rea&s;on <HI>evinee</HI> a <HI>&s;econd</HI> Life, wee can turne our eyes no way but we have <HI>examples</HI> of the &s;hortne&s;&s;e of <HI>this;</HI> It were madne&s;&s;e to &s;et our hearts on what we cannot long enjoy, al|though there were &s;omewhat here worth our <HI>liking.</HI></P>
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<DIV2 N="4" TYPE="essay">
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<HEAD>Of Preaching. <HI>IIII.</HI></HEAD>
<P>PReaching is the <HI>Chri&s;tall aquaeduct</HI> that <HI>conveighs</HI> the <HI>water</HI> of <HI>Life</HI> to us, the <HI>Pil|lar</HI> of <HI>fire</HI> in the <HI>Night,</HI> the <HI>Manna</HI> in the <HI>Wil|derne&s;&s;e; but that it fals mo&s;t plentifully on the Sabboth;</HI> they gather the be&s;t that are all <HI>eare,</HI> and grow the be&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> by it that are all <HI>Heart;</HI> This is Gods &s;olemne <HI>Amba&s;&s;ie</HI> to the <HI>Soule.</HI>
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and we mu&s;t heare him, although as to <HI>Baalam,</HI> he &s;peake to us by the mouth of an A&s;&s;e, and yet he mu&s;t either <HI>boare</HI> our eares, or we cannot heare what the <HI>Spirit &s;peaketh unto the Churches,</HI> for his me&s;&s;ages are <HI>high</HI> and <HI>my&s;terious,</HI> &s;uch as can finde no <HI>entrance</HI> in at the eare of a man of fle&s;h, who is too fa&s;t a&s;leepe to take any <HI>Alarme</HI> at the <HI>Silver Trumpet of the Go&s;pell;</HI> Nay often when God is de&s;irous he &s;hould &s;hake off &s;uch a Spiri|tuall
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lethargy, calls upon <HI>him;</HI> hee like young <HI>Samuel</HI> mi&s;takes the voice, and returnes againe unto his &s;lum|bers; but &s;uch is Gods <HI>pa&s;&s;ionate</HI> love to man|kinde, that he <HI>irre|&s;i&s;tibly</HI> forces him&s;elfe in; And &s;uch his is infi|nite wi&s;dome that he alwaies &s;elects the fitte&s;t meanes; as Hearts of <HI>Adamant</HI> he <HI>&s;oftens</HI> with <HI>Goats milk,</HI> Hearts of <HI>Iron</HI> with <HI>fire;</HI> &s;ome like <HI>Paul</HI> he brings in with <HI>light</HI> from <HI>Heaven,</HI> others like <HI>Timothy</HI> he lets un|der&s;tand
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the <HI>Scriptures</HI> from their <HI>Childhoods;</HI> to &s;ome Soules he comes as he did to <HI>Eli|&s;ha,</HI> fir&s;t in an <HI>earth|quake</HI> of guilt of Sinne, then in a <HI>whirlewinde</HI> of <HI>&s;orrow</HI> for &s;inne; then in a <HI>fire,</HI> a tyrall of righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e: then in a <HI>&s;till voyce,</HI> a calme and compo&s;ed Con&s;ci|ence; others he builds up as was <HI>Solomons Temple without the noi&s;e of a hammer;</HI> nay &s;uch an <HI>Admirable method</HI> hath he to <HI>in&s;inuate</HI> him&s;elfe, that though he come in a <HI>Conquerer,</HI>
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he &s;uffers the Soule to be <HI>victorious,</HI> and though he force her, leaves her a pure <HI>vir|gin,</HI> and both <HI>compels</HI> her to be <HI>willing</HI> and makes her <HI>willing</HI> to be compelled. Tis an admirable thing to &s;ee two meere <HI>Carnali&s;ts</HI> at a <HI>Sermon,</HI> the one bring away him&s;elfe <HI>di&s;compo&s;'d,</HI> and the o|ther <HI>hardned;</HI> &s;uch a wonderfull <HI>Nature</HI> hath the word, that it <HI>free|zes</HI> as well as <HI>thawes,</HI> and it is as well a <HI>&s;ea-ring Iron,</HI> as a two-edged &s;word; The
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<HI>Law</HI> &s;peakes wounds, the <HI>Go&s;pell oyle;</HI> the one <HI>Threats,</HI> and the other <HI>Blandi&s;hments;</HI> the one of the <HI>wilder|ne&s;&s;e,</HI> the other of the land of <HI>Canaan.</HI> The one begins with our <HI>fall,</HI> the other with our <HI>re&s;titution;</HI> The one &s;hewes us we leane on the bulru&s;h of our owne <HI>merits,</HI> the o|ther how we may finde <HI>acceptation</HI> through Chri&s;t our Lord; The one was delivered with <HI>fire</HI> and <HI>lightening;</HI> the other with a <HI>Quire</HI> of <HI>Angels</HI> and a <HI>Starre,</HI>
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the <HI>vehemency</HI> of the one, and the <HI>delicacy</HI> of the other, are the be&s;t <HI>rhetorike</HI> to win a <HI>Soul;</HI> the one <HI>inforces Arguments,</HI> the other <HI>confirmes</HI> them; yet what poore <HI>Orators</HI> doth God (to convince <HI>rea&s;on</HI> it &s;elfe of his Glory) oft make u&s;e off, that they may not &s;peake in excellency of mans wi&s;dome, but demon&s;trations of the Spirit? but ab&s;tract them into a voyce, and what differs the mea|ne&s;t <HI>Mini&s;ter,</HI> from the greate&s;t <HI>Rabbi,</HI> hu|mane
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learning being a good <HI>Hand-maide</HI> and an ill <HI>companion</HI> to <HI>di|vinity,</HI> who though &s;he carry away the <HI>Jew|els</HI> and <HI>Earerings</HI> of the <HI>Aegyptians,</HI> &s;he de&s;ires to u&s;e them and not wanton with them. <HI>Embo&s;&s;ed</HI> Language tickles the <HI>eares, nervous</HI> twitches the <HI>Heart:</HI> the one is better for an <HI>Oration,</HI> the other for a <HI>Sermon,</HI> in which there would be <HI>Ethicall</HI> Truth as well as <HI>Logi|call.</HI></P>
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<DIV2 N="5" TYPE="essay">
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<HEAD>Of Fame. <HI>V.</HI></HEAD>
<P>DE&s;ire of Fame is an Epidemicall <HI>pa&s;&s;ion,</HI> that po&s;&s;e&s;&s;eth low as well as high mindes, but is only <HI>predominant</HI> in the lat|ter, the other it may force up a little from their owne <HI>center,</HI> but can hardly advance them to any great de|&s;ignements; from this <HI>Roote</HI> &s;prung all the <HI>virtues</HI> of the <HI>Heathens;</HI>
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this very <HI>winde</HI> blew the pens of the <HI>Poets,</HI> and fir&s;t made them <HI>ca&s;t inke</HI> &s;o clearely, and taught Princes to feed them, &s;eeing it was a cheaper way to <HI>outbrave Oblivion,</HI> then by emptying their <HI>Trea&s;ures</HI> on heapes of &s;tones; and it hath proved the &s;urer way too, &s;ince many of them have through <HI>age forgot</HI> the <HI>Names</HI> of their <HI>Founders,</HI> others have quite <HI>&s;hrunke</HI> a|way; other&s;ome with their <HI>ga&s;tly Ruines</HI> can onely pre&s;ent us <HI>&s;ad con|&s;iderations</HI>
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of what they have <HI>been;</HI> wher|as we have <HI>Ajax</HI> fight|ing as &s;toutly this day in <HI>Homer,</HI> as when he made the <HI>Trojans</HI> turne their backs of the <HI>Na|vy;</HI> and the <HI>wildfire</HI> of Lu&s;t burning as hot in <HI>Helens</HI> cheekes, as when it &s;et <HI>Troy</HI> on <HI>fire:</HI> the clouds of the Times intercepted the &s;ight of other <HI>Paths,</HI> nay hardly &s;uffe|red them to tread the&s;e <HI>aright;</HI> they would <HI>adopt one</HI> per&s;on to a great <HI>performance,</HI> and in the &s;ame act by &s;tum|bling
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either at time or place, <HI>ba&s;terdize</HI> him; &s;o that it would be a <HI>Thirteenth Labour</HI> of <HI>Hercules</HI> to make us believe any of his twelve. But more <HI>re|fin'd</HI> Ages <HI>threw</HI> of their <HI>di&s;gui&s;es</HI> and <HI>vi|zards</HI> of fables, and chu&s;'d rather to ap|peare <HI>unmask'd</HI> in Hi&s;tories. But yet how often did they <HI>paint,</HI> how often did Hi&s;torians like <HI>flatte|ring</HI> Limners draw too <HI>favourably,</HI> or &s;hadow ore a <HI>wrinkle;</HI> and <HI>&s;tily</HI> forge in &s;ome &s;e|cret
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grace; How oft <HI>anger</HI> &s;o <HI>jog'd</HI> their hands that they could onely <HI>da&s;h</HI> and <HI>blot,</HI> &s;o that vice many times <HI>Cog'd</HI> virtue out of the <HI>Chariot,</HI> and rode in her &s;tead in <HI>Triumph,</HI> and &s;he is as well con|tent to &s;teale her <HI>ho|nour</HI> as her <HI>upper gar|ments;</HI> yet envy hath done as much hurt as Malice, in <HI>cankering</HI> virtues by looking on them, and tho&s;e not the meane&s;t, but the mo&s;t <HI>faire</HI> and <HI>goodly;</HI> wings become this <HI>Harpye</HI> very well, &s;ince
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&s;he &s;till mounts aloft and <HI>di&s;daines</HI> to &s;toope to inferiour Preyes; Que&s;tionle&s;&s;e, Pens made of her quils are ever blunt in the end; Libels are her &s;pawns, but as other Mon&s;ters &s;hort liv'd if they be not <HI>honoured</HI> with an <HI>encounter,</HI> for &s;o they will continue more <HI>long</HI> and but die <HI>honou|rably;</HI> it argues a great Spirit to fight with them by flying, as did <HI>Augu&s;tus</HI> and other great Per&s;onages, who left examples that there may good u&s;e
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be made of them, in that they may give oc|ca&s;ion to <HI>ca&s;heire</HI> &s;ome lurking vice, which fled, ones <HI>owne</HI> ob&s;er|vation, and had not been <HI>hinted</HI> by the two much <HI>mode&s;ty</HI> of friends. A <HI>good name is better then precious oyntment,</HI> nay <HI>rather to be cho&s;en then great Riches,</HI> &s;aid he that had as great a &s;hare of <HI>Riches</HI> and <HI>Glory</HI> as a|ny man living; 'Tis an <HI>unexpre&s;&s;ible</HI> comfort to any; to have their Actions <HI>&s;mell &s;weet</HI> in the <HI>no&s;trils</HI> of good
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men; as that <HI>Naturall perfume</HI> about <HI>Alexan|ders</HI> body, argued an excellent Cra&s;is; &s;o doth the &s;weet relli&s;h of ones carriage a good <HI>compo&s;ure</HI> in the Soule; <HI>Tacitus</HI> &s;aith, <HI>contemp|tu famae contemni vir|tutes;</HI> and <HI>Tully, Neg|ligere quid de &s;e qui&s;que &s;entiat, non &s;olum arro|gantis &s;ed etiam di&s;&s;olu|ti;</HI> yea the&s;e people that care not for being <HI>well</HI> &s;poken of, are a feard of being <HI>ill;</HI> as was apparent in <HI>Ti|berius,</HI> who &s;o long as he could &s;hadow
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his manners <HI>ad pompam &amp; ornatum</HI> continued at <HI>Rome,</HI> although hee refu&s;ed honour &s;o &s;tif|ly, that it was inter|preted <HI>Mode&s;tia dege|neris animi;</HI> but, when Age begun to <HI>perfect</HI> his corruptions, hee retired to <HI>Capreae,</HI> that hee might with the better <HI>vacancy,</HI> and <HI>&s;ecrecy</HI> attend his lu&s;ts.</P>
<P>Writing of Lives is very profitable both to the memory of the <HI>party,</HI> and to <HI>Po&s;teri|ty;</HI> they doe better <HI>Launce</HI> into <HI>&s;ecret hu|mours,</HI> and pre&s;ent men
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in <HI>their Nightgowns,</HI> when they are <HI>truely them&s;elves.</HI> A Generall may be more perfect|ly di&s;covered on his <HI>Pallet,</HI> then when hee appeares in the head of an <HI>Army;</HI> They leave us withall good <HI>Copies,</HI> that beginners in the World may <HI>write</HI> by; men of mo&s;t <HI>ray&s;ed</HI> thoughts have not <HI>di&s;dained</HI> patterns; as <HI>Germanicus</HI> took <HI>Af|fricanus: Iulius Cae&s;ar, Alexander: Mahomet</HI> the great, both: others, others. A diligent com|paring of tho&s;e that
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re&s;embled one another in their <HI>manners</HI> or <HI>for|tunes,</HI> were more worth then the Paines. <HI>Plu|tarch</HI> (to whom <HI>Rome</HI> &s;tands indebted for the virtues of her <HI>Trajan</HI>) hath done &s;omewhat, yet &s;ome very &s;teady judgements have found <HI>his Matches</HI> are <HI>une|quall,</HI> and hardly <HI>jump,</HI> &s;o that they may tru|ly bee called <HI>Paralells, for they will never meete.</HI></P>
<P>The de&s;cription of ones owne Life might bee thought <HI>ambitious,</HI> were it not it hath
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beene done by &s;ome per&s;ons, either alrea|dy <HI>&s;ated</HI> with <HI>glory,</HI> or not <HI>regarding</HI> it, as among the <HI>Ancients, Io|&s;ephus, Nazianzen, &amp;c.</HI> moderns; <HI>Thuanus, Fr. Junius, &amp;c.</HI> for <HI>fidelity,</HI> they going out of the World, can have no great de&s;ire to <HI>juggle,</HI> and they have the mo&s;t <HI>Liberty</HI> in relation, for <HI>Truth</HI> they are be&s;t able to be acomptants of their own Actions; for <HI>authority,</HI> they can be&s;t command atten|tions; &s;ince their pa&s;t life, hath beene but
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the <HI>Exordium</HI> to what they <HI>&s;peake,</HI> and every word is <HI>rai&s;ed</HI> from a ma&s;&s;e of <HI>experience,</HI> &s;o that it were to bee wi&s;hed, that Mode&s;ty did not withdraw ma|ny men from this <HI>Ta&s;ke,</HI> and that there were not &s;o great a paucity of tho&s;e that have la|boured in the <HI>other.</HI></P>
<P>As there is an <HI>Ex|orbitant</HI> de&s;ire of <HI>Fame,</HI> &s;o is there a too <HI>nice Refu&s;all</HI> of it; nay &s;ometime it is more ambitious then the <HI>Ac|ceptance,</HI> as in that of <HI>Cato,</HI> hee had rather
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men &s;hould aske why his <HI>&s;tatua</HI> was not <HI>there,</HI> then why it <HI>was;</HI> or perhaps it may be with intent to draw on more, as in <HI>Cae&s;ars</HI> refu&s;ing the Crowne, <HI>Non Rex &s;um &s;ed Cae&s;ar:</HI> but it is &s;eldome, or never <HI>Cordiall</HI> and reall, there being an innate de&s;ire in every man, to <HI>tran&s;|mi&s;e</HI> him&s;elfe unto po|&s;terity: For as <HI>Han|niball</HI> gallantly frets it out in <HI>Silius,</HI>
<Q><PB N="54" REF="41">"Heu quantum distant &agrave; morte &s;ilentia vitae.</Q></P>
<P>There may be glea|ned out of Hi&s;tories (but it will require a <HI>whole taske</HI>) &s;everall <HI>wayes</HI> and <HI>Ginnes</HI> u&s;ed for Glory; they are mo&s;t ob&s;ervable in tho&s;e <HI>Mu&s;hrums</HI> that ri&s;e <HI>ex minimis initiis,</HI> becau&s;e, having their fortunes to mold out them&s;elves, they are forced to looke more <HI>narrowly</HI> into <HI>exqui&s;ite</HI> meanes: as fir&s;t to po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e them&s;elves of
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the <HI>People;</HI> who are mo&s;t <HI>&s;oone wonne,</HI> and mo&s;t <HI>hardly held;</HI> for it is ever, that they rather de&s;ire to make men <HI>great,</HI> then they can endure them <HI>when they are</HI> great, and are better to erect then <HI>con&s;erve</HI> a <HI>Favorite;</HI> and this is done by <HI>in&s;i|nuating</HI> into them of mo&s;t authority among them, they being like the <HI>Bells</HI> in the <HI>Grove</HI> of <HI>Iupiter,</HI> touch one and they all &s;ound; this was commonly practi&s;ed in <HI>Rome,</HI> in any <HI>Tumult</HI> to po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e
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them&s;elves fir&s;t of the <HI>Tribunes;</HI> or by <HI>Liberality,</HI> which was <HI>Cae&s;ars</HI> cour&s;e, That wee may &s;ay hee <HI>made him&s;elfe by undoing him|&s;elfe,</HI> or el&s;e by put|ing on a <HI>di&s;gui&s;e</HI> of Religion; and what el&s;e was <HI>Scipio's</HI> &s;tay|ing in the <HI>Capitoll?</HI> withall a good &s;tock of parts is required to begin on, but the&s;e are <HI>Cau&s;e-wayes</HI> of ambition as well as fame.</P>
<P>In&s;erting a Name in|to a Hi&s;tory, is &s;ome|what more flat, com|mending
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it to after Ages by writings, comes farre nearer the Life; the Image of a man is conveyed both <HI>wayes,</HI> the fir&s;t as in a draught of Colours, <HI>Dimen&s;ions</HI> but no <HI>Motions;</HI> for Hi&s;tories for the mo&s;t part <HI>pick</HI> but at the <HI>Rind</HI> of bu|&s;ine&s;&s;e, and few are writ with &s;uch <HI>exact|ne&s;&s;e,</HI> that wee can <HI>perfectly</HI> &s;ee the <HI>con|currence</HI> of <HI>In&s;truments, carriage</HI> of coun&s;ells and <HI>Influence</HI> of <HI>Supe|riors.</HI> The other as in a Chri&s;tall, there is a
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perfect <HI>Repercu&s;&s;ion</HI> of a Mans vi&s;age, and he is hardly a judicious Reader that cannot in any worke (except it be ab&s;olutely <HI>Dram|atick</HI>) g<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;&s;e at the <HI>Genius</HI> and <HI>Inclination</HI> of an <HI>Author.</HI> Ha&s;ty glory frequently ex|tingui&s;heth in Snuffe, for it ari&s;eth from <HI>Ex|pectation,</HI> for the mo&s;t part; which if not &s;ecunded by a <HI>double performance, turns</HI> to undervaluing; And mens judgements have more time to grow <HI>di&s;pa&s;&s;ionate</HI> and <HI>di&s;|intangled,</HI>
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&s;o that there would bee required a &s;ingular cunning in <HI>poy|&s;ing</HI> a Mans &s;elfe, and &s;taying too <HI>ha&s;ty</HI> Aug|mentations, for they give but occa&s;ion of more <HI>narrow inquiry,</HI> and rai&s;e up more <HI>&s;tore</HI> of enemies.</P>
<P><HI>Fame</HI> upon no de|&s;erts may be a &s;ilent in|vitation to de&s;erving; but where there is op|po&s;ite vices, tis merely <HI>&s;arca&s;ticall,</HI> and <HI>Ironi|call,</HI> nor ought to bee <HI>entertained</HI> without a <HI>Sting</HI> and <HI>Blu&s;h.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>Of Studies. <HI>VI.</HI></HEAD>
<P>MAny have <HI>Chalk|ed</HI> us out <HI>Methods</HI> for &s;tudy, out of which it were more ea&s;y to draw one <HI>good</HI> one, then to finde one <HI>a|mong</HI> them. Some give &s;leight directions for the attaining of <HI>Sci|ences,</HI> as though they were meerly to <HI>Relieve</HI> the memory, and with|draw &s;ome <HI>fading</HI> Notions: or el&s;e as if they <HI>&s;uppo&s;ed</HI> us to
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have either &s;o &s;hort <HI>Lives,</HI> or &s;mall <HI>Indu|&s;tries,</HI> that wee could onely ca&s;t &s;ome &s;mall <HI>glances</HI> on Learning. Others are &s;o <HI>Elaborate</HI> that the Lives of the old Patriarkes would be too &s;hort to take tho&s;e <HI>voyages</HI> they direct. Some <HI>parcell</HI> out <HI>Studies</HI> into Time, very unfitly, &s;ince &s;ome wits can <HI>dige&s;t</HI> before others can <HI>Chew,</HI> and &s;ome hot Stomacks <HI>turne</HI> all to good Nouri&s;hment, whereas others are &s;o <HI>weake,</HI> that they cannot <HI>away</HI>
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with any thing that is not a <HI>Chylus</HI> before they Receive it; be|&s;ides &s;ome ingage up|on Literature <HI>towards Maturity,</HI> when their judgement is <HI>&s;tayd,</HI> and <HI>fa&s;tned;</HI> others are brought into it in their <HI>Childhood,</HI> while their parts doe but fluctuate, and there cannot but be a great <HI>di&s;proportion</HI> betwixt the&s;e two; for a&s;&s;idui|ty be&s;t manures the one, whereas the o|ther would onely be <HI>&s;prinkled</HI> with &s;ome <HI>dew;</HI> for overmuch
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watering doth but loo&s;en them in the <HI>Root,</HI> and &s;o de&s;troys them. Some wits are of a finer temper, and would have learning <HI>in&s;tilled</HI> into them by way of Recreation; others it mu&s;t either be <HI>forced</HI> and <HI>hammer|ed</HI> into, or el&s;e they will never <HI>Receive</HI> Im|pre&s;&s;ions to any pur|po&s;e.</P>
<P>The Pre&s;cription of <HI>various</HI> Methods hath ari&s;en from this; &s;ome by the <HI>purene&s;&s;e</HI> of their Naturalls have <HI>reached</HI> to good <HI>perfection</HI> in
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learning more compen|diou&s;ly, and <HI>&s;uppo&s;e</HI> others may doe the <HI>like,</HI> others having <HI>gone about,</HI> thinke at their jornyes end they can <HI>pre&s;cribe</HI> nearer paths; Others having <HI>&s;tumb|led</HI> on &s;ome Method, and finding it &s;ucce&s;|full in two or three more <HI>pregnant wits,</HI> in|deavour to <HI>obtrude</HI> the u&s;e of it upon the World; but indeede &s;ome Generall directi|ons can onely be given, Mens <HI>meanes</HI> and <HI>ends</HI> being &s;o various, &s;ome abounding in <HI>lei&s;ure,</HI>
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others in <HI>meanes;</HI> &s;ome happening on an <HI>Ex|cellent Tutor,</HI> others being forced to <HI>hew</HI> out all them&s;elves; &s;ome de&s;iring to know <HI>much,</HI> others to know <HI>well,</HI> &s;o that we may truly &s;ay in this ca&s;e, a <HI>Lesbian Rule were the mo&s;t certaine.</HI></P>
<P>Studying at <HI>&s;et</HI> houres is much advi&s;ed and practi&s;ed, but cannot but bee a <HI>&s;lavery</HI> to a <HI>free</HI> wit, who when <HI>&s;hee</HI> is &s;tinted begins to di&s;like Her enforce|ment to <HI>horary</HI> taskes, which carry in them a
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&s;hew of Labour, but would <HI>quilt</HI> her im|ployments &s;o with Recreations that &s;hee might &s;eeme to <HI>play</HI> in her &s;evere&s;t bu&s;ine&s;&s;e; Neither can wee &s;o long as we carry the&s;e foure Elements about us, attend at all times with the &s;ame alacri|ty, &s;o that it is in|ju&s;tice to fetter a <HI>mans</HI> &s;pirit to any <HI>fixed</HI> La|bours, but ever to &s;eize on an advantage of her cheerefullne&s;&s;e, and to make u&s;e of it; but finding a Re|luctancy to be weigh|ed
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downe; for &s;uch idlene&s;&s;e is not onely <HI>harmele&s;&s;e,</HI> but <HI>profit|able,</HI> like the taking of the <HI>Plumets</HI> of a clocke to make it goe in the better <HI>Order;</HI> neither will a great &s;pirit bee content to <HI>Re&s;t</HI> long, but <HI>reinforce</HI> her &s;elfe with <HI>di&s;daine</HI> to bee <HI>buckled</HI> with &s;o <HI>ba&s;e</HI> a companion which <HI>devances</HI> her from her owne Sphear.</P>
<P>A Man may have many fine devices to cheat him&s;elfe into a <HI>new Indu&s;try,</HI> whether by <HI>thinking</HI> of the <HI>exel|lency</HI>
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of that hee goes about, or <HI>placing</HI> his admiration upon the <HI>Eminency</HI> of &s;ome <HI>per|&s;on exqei&s;ite</HI> in it, or hearing it commended by others, or com|mending it him&s;elfe, thru&s;ting him&s;elfe into &s;uch company, where he knowes it is <HI>re&s;pect|ed,</HI> and hee &s;hall have occa&s;ion to make <HI>u&s;e</HI> of as much of it as he knowes; teaching it to &s;ome others. There are a many other neat Incentives, and &s;uch as might well de&s;erve a catalogue; But in
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&s;ome ca&s;es a Man had neede know which way to <HI>di&s;intangle</HI> him|&s;elfe, as if hee finde his Fancy too Luxu|riant, to re&s;traine it with matters of judgement: if hee finde him&s;elfe inclinable to a &s;tudy neither &s;o <HI>profitable,</HI> nor <HI>advantagious, dexter|ou&s;ly</HI> to <HI>conveigh</HI> him|&s;elfe into another, and <HI>weane</HI> him&s;elfe from the former; as to <HI>di&s;|hearten</HI> him&s;elf by look|ing at &s;ome peeces which are above his <HI>Reach,</HI> for then it will abate the <HI>edge</HI> of his
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de&s;ires, when hee &s;ees his hopes &s;econded with no fruits; or looking upon &s;ome Author, who hath but <HI>feebly</HI> handled &s;uch a Subject, or Reading &s;ome <HI>bit|ter</HI> invectives again&s;t it, or <HI>fooli&s;h controver|&s;ies</HI> of it, the&s;e will &s;et a Mans thoughts <HI>&s;traight,</HI> as in rectify|ing a Bough, we <HI>weigh</HI> it downe the <HI>contrary</HI> way.</P>
<P>One had neede take the <HI>hight</HI> of his owne parts, and &s;ee whether they lie <HI>adaequately</HI> to all Sciences, or &s;trong|ly
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bend to any-parti|cular one, and to fol|low his owne <HI>inclina|tion</HI> with the mo&s;t warine&s;&s;e; for they doe but injure a mans parts that drive be&s;ides their owne <HI>bedd,</HI> which is many times the cau&s;e that they runne in &s;o <HI>poore</HI> and <HI>muddy</HI> Chan|nels.</P>
<P>No man ought to <HI>gra&s;pe</HI> more then he can well <HI>fathome,</HI> for &s;o he &s;hall have his la|bour an&s;wered by but &s;mall profit; The <HI>Jtali|an</HI> &s;ayes <HI>Che Abbracchia troppo &s;tringhe puoco,</HI>
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and that very truly.</P>
<P>There is a <HI>ororium vinculum</HI> (as they call it) among&s;t the Scien|ces, and indeed none can tell a perfect tale but <HI>re|ferres</HI> &s;omewhat to the relation of <HI>her Si&s;ter;</HI> &s;o that he that would not make a <HI>Polygamie</HI> of them all, but is con|tent with one, had need admit the re&s;t as <HI>Attendants.</HI></P>
<P>The tongues are the fitte&s;t to be &s;oone&s;t learned, for they mo&s;t depend upon the <HI>me|mory,</HI> which is &s;tron|ge&s;t in children; who
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remember that be&s;t which they <HI>learne</HI> fir&s;t; their tongues are more <HI>flexible</HI> to <HI>per&s;onate</HI> any pronunciation, which cannot &s;o ea&s;ily be <HI>e&s;|&s;aid</HI> by one of riper age; withall, their judgements are not at any <HI>&s;etledne&s;&s;e,</HI> &s;o that they cannot without <HI>prejudice</HI> follow more &s;erious &s;tudies: Now continued meditation, doth <HI>&s;trengthen</HI> and <HI>confirme</HI> old judge|ments, and doth one|ly put young ones on the <HI>Rack;</HI> &s;o that the&s;e <HI>praecocia ingenia,</HI> as
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they &s;hoote out before the <HI>Spring,</HI> &s;o they commonly wither be|fore <HI>Winter.</HI></P>
<P>Tongues are our <HI>In|terpreters</HI> in the World of knowledge; and what advantage hath he in a Nation, that <HI>under&s;tands</HI> the lan|guage by him that <HI>&s;peakes</HI> with anothers <HI>mouth,</HI> and heares by anothers <HI>tongue?</HI> Tis well knowne what gro&s;&s;e errours in &s;ome of the Fathers this hath produced.</P>
<P>The <HI>choice pearle</HI> in Divinity, lies in the
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Hebrew; the be&s;t of <HI>morall</HI> knowledge a|mong&s;t the <HI>Greekes, Politicall</HI> among&s;t the <HI>Romans, Rich Gems</HI> of the <HI>Mathmatiques</HI> a|mong&s;t the <HI>rubbi&s;h</HI> of the <HI>Arabians;</HI> and who can perfectly under|&s;tand the&s;e, unle&s;&s;e he conver&s;e with them in their owne <HI>dialects?</HI> The <HI>effeminate French,</HI> the <HI>lu&s;cious Italian,</HI> the <HI>grave Spani&s;h</HI> (three <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="foreign">.</NOTE> daughters of the Ro|man) adde both lu&s;tre and furtherance to o|ther knowledge. Un|le&s;&s;e an inclination be
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<HI>very</HI> di&s;coverable, it cannot be perceived till after <HI>Twelve;</HI> and from that time <HI>fancy</HI> begins to <HI>&s;prout</HI> &amp; <HI>wan|tonize</HI> for &s;ome yeares, till it have <HI>arrived</HI> at the ju&s;t height.</P>
<P>Judgement is long ere it be <HI>&s;etled,</HI> experi|ence being the be&s;t <HI>nur&s;e</HI> of it; and we &s;ee &s;eldome <HI>Learning</HI> and <HI>Wi&s;dome concurre,</HI> be|cau&s;e the former is got <HI>&s;ub umbra,</HI> but bu&s;i|ne&s;&s;e doth <HI>winnow</HI> ob|&s;ervations, and the better <HI>acquaint</HI> us with <HI>breathing volumes</HI> of
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men, it teacheth us both better to read them, and to apply what we have read.</P>
<P>Memory is the <HI>Trea|&s;ure</HI> of the minde, but <HI>tru&s;t</HI> her with <HI>overmuch,</HI> and &s;he will at the be&s;t <HI>fall &s;hort</HI> in her <HI>ac|compts;</HI> a man &s;hould onely commit choice things to her, which &s;hould &s;ooner <HI>concoct</HI> into good judgement; <HI>meaner</HI> notions take up as much roome as the more <HI>precious,</HI> and con|&s;equently <HI>in&s;en&s;ibly weaken</HI> her. For they give a rea&s;on why
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blind men remember &s;o &s;trongly, becau&s;e they are not taken off with &s;o many exter|nall Objects: There are many <HI>Auxiliaries;</HI> as for the naturall me|mory <HI>meditation, ru|minations</HI> at night, di&s;|cour&s;e, diaeticall and medicinall helps, &amp;c.</P>
<P>For Artificiall me|mory, one wittily com|pares it to the <HI>tricks</HI> of a Pike, though o&s;ten|tation be one great <HI>fruit</HI> of it, yet in the&s;e two things, I have ever thought it <HI>u&s;efull;</HI> fir&s;t, it is a fit <HI>depo&s;itum</HI> of
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knowledge till it can be <HI>di&s;po&s;ed</HI> into notes and <HI>naturall</HI> memory, which que&s;tionle&s;&s;e is a mighty helpe; ano|ther is the <HI>continuing</HI> and <HI>placing</HI> of <HI>Idaeas,</HI> which doth greatly <HI>quicken</HI> and <HI>vegetate</HI> the <HI>Invention.</HI></P>
<P>For notes, whether it be <HI>Analy&s;ing</HI> of an Author, or <HI>clo&s;iting</HI> up ob&s;ervables in &s;everall <HI>Cells,</HI> they would be but very &s;hort, (other|wi&s;e they will draw away too much <HI>time</HI> and <HI>labour</HI>) or be <HI>di&s;|patched</HI> onely by <HI>refe|rences;</HI>
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&s;ome would have common places <HI>renewed</HI> at a certaine time, which whether <HI>advantageous</HI> or no, as long u&s;e can be&s;t di&s;|cover; &s;o it may be ea&s;ily <HI>granted,</HI> that un|le&s;&s;e they be <HI>ranked</HI> in good order, they will prove more <HI>hurtfull</HI> then they could have been <HI>&s;ub&s;idiary</HI> to the memory.</P>
<P>Health ought to be <HI>nicely</HI> re&s;pected by a Student; for the la|bours of the minde are as farre beyond them of the body, as the
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<HI>di&s;ea&s;es</HI> of the one are <HI>above</HI> the other; and how can a Spirit <HI>actu|ate</HI> when &s;he is <HI>caged</HI> in a <HI>lump</HI> of fainting fle&s;h? un&s;ea&s;onable times of &s;tudy are very <HI>obnoxi|ous,</HI> as after <HI>meales,</HI> when Nature is wholy <HI>retired</HI> to concoction; or at <HI>night times,</HI> when &s;he begins to <HI>droope</HI> for want of re&s;t; hence &s;o many <HI>Rhewmes, defluxi|ons, Catarrhs, &amp;c.</HI> that I have heard it &s;poken of one of the greate&s;t <HI>Ambulatory Peices</HI> of learning at this day, <HI>That he would redeeme
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(if po&s;&s;ible) his health with the lo&s;&s;e of halfe his Learning.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">C S.</NOTE></P>
<P>For &s;leepe, &s;even houres comes the neer|e&s;t a <HI>fit</HI> proportion in generall, of any number can be a&s;&s;igned: but <HI>Phlegmatique</HI> Com|plexions may require more, and <HI>Sanguine</HI> may be content with le&s;&s;e; yet ought it to be <HI>piacular</HI> for one of indifferent indu&s;try, to &s;leepe after <HI>foure</HI> in the morne, as to be up after nine at night; turning <HI>day</HI> to <HI>night,</HI> and <HI>night</HI> to <HI>day,</HI> and
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ob&s;erving meale times with them of the other Hemi&s;phere, is being mo&s;t proper to the <HI>Luxury</HI> and <HI>wantonne&s;&s;e</HI> of <HI>Courtiers.</HI></P>
<P>Some &s;tudies would be <HI>hug'd</HI> as <HI>imployments,</HI> others onely <HI>dandled</HI> as &s;ports; the one ought not to <HI>tre&s;pa&s;&s;e</HI> on the other; for to be <HI>Im|ployed in needele&s;&s;e things is halfe to be idle.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>Of Company <HI>VII.</HI></HEAD>
<P>MAn is a Creature made by nature for commerce; &s;ome he &s;orts with in a <HI>gene|rall</HI> manner, and the&s;e we call acquaintance: others in a more <HI>parti|cular,</HI> and the&s;e friends; accordingly we will <HI>&s;hape</HI> our di&s;cour&s;e; for the fir&s;t, &s;ome you &s;hall meete with, whom vices have &s;o <HI>di&s;guized,</HI> that they
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retaine onely the &s;hape of men; of the&s;e you mu&s;t by all meanes <HI>prohibite</HI> your &s;elfe; and if your occa&s;ions <HI>pu&s;h</HI> you upon them, doe it with all feare; remembring that vice is <HI>diffu&s;ive,</HI> and gaines more ea&s;ily upon our <HI>depraved</HI> natures then Virtue: be&s;ides the truth &s;poke it; <HI>Touch not pitch lea&s;t you be de|filed;</HI> Let the civility of your carriage make &s;uch &s;ilent invectives again&s;t tho&s;e that che|ri&s;h vices, as that they may be <HI>di&s;couraged</HI> to at|tempt
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your friend&s;hip, neither will they when they &s;ee contrary vir|tues; a <HI>Carbuncle</HI> &s;hines though covered with many cloathes, Vir|tue will &s;end forth a lu&s;tre through a many of <HI>imperfections;</HI> but Vice is <HI>bleer-ey'd</HI> and cannot endure to looke upon them, but de&s;ires to <HI>recede;</HI> as <HI>Antonies Genius</HI> did from <HI>that</HI> of <HI>Augu&s;tus.</HI></P>
<P>Such as are of a dif|ferent Religion, may be kept company for Traffique, hope of con|ver&s;ion, &amp;c. But if be|yond
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the&s;e limitations, you may be <HI>Lyme-twig'd</HI> with their er|rours and loo&s;e the Truth for a friend, which is a hard ex|change.</P>
<P>The &s;ociety of La|dies and Gentlewo|men, is like the &s;hade of a <HI>Tile-tree,</HI> very plea&s;ant, though, the tree be <HI>unfruitfull,</HI> and the leaves ta&s;ted <HI>poy&s;on.</HI></P>
<P>Other companies are hardly &s;o dangerous, yet &s;ince mens hu|mours are &s;o various as their faces, there is required a <HI>&s;upplene&s;&s;e</HI> in
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behaviour (for men of <HI>moro&s;e</HI> natures, doe but in a manner &s;tifle the <HI>vitall parts</HI> of humane &s;ociety) and this was excellent in <HI>Alci|biades,</HI> who could conforme to the con|&s;titutions of all tho&s;e &s;everall people his variety of fortune made him conver&s;e with; as al&s;o a quicke &s;agacity in di&s;covering complexions whether <HI>&s;ound</HI> or <HI>unhealthfull,</HI> or di&s;agreeing with your owne; if they <HI>hit</HI> not right, to with|draw &s;o unperceived,
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that if you gaine not a friend, you may not get a enemy; for if he be not worthy to be the one, he may be <HI>a|ble</HI> to be the other; but if you finde endow|ments, from whence you may <HI>&s;uck</HI> experi|ence, be as winning as you can, and endea|vour to draw mo&s;t from thence where you finde the parley mo&s;t <HI>furni&s;hed,</HI> and there commonly will he be mo&s;t free; yet doe it in &s;uch a manner as he may not di&s;cover you; po&s;e him, but di&s;patch
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it by &s;uch <HI>facetious turnes</HI> in di&s;cour&s;e, that he may hardly &s;uppo&s;e you to be &s;e|rious; for &s;o he might begin to have an eye on you, and be more <HI>re&s;erv'd;</HI> when a man is in earne&s;t, he &s;tands up|on his <HI>guard;</HI> in mirth he lies open <HI>unfenc't:</HI> This is an hone&s;t and <HI>beneficiall</HI> &s;ubtilty, and by this meanes you may &s;ometime <HI>je&s;t</HI> your &s;elfe into that in an houre, that you could not have <HI>labour'd</HI> out in a moneth; if you meeet with more
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<HI>re&s;erved</HI> natures, you will commonly finde them al&s;o vaine-glori|ous; Let the&s;e know you value their endow|ments as highly as they do them&s;elves, and they can wi&s;h no more; yet not <HI>para&s;itically,</HI> but as if it proceeded from judgement and <HI>&s;erious</HI> ob&s;ervation, and it will very &s;eldome prove <HI>un&s;ucce&s;&s;efull.</HI></P>
<P>But, in ca&s;e it doe, Arrowes tipt with &s;il|ver will pierce the be&s;t Armour of proofe, and for the mo&s;t part cove|tou&s;ne&s;&s;e intrudes in|to
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the <HI>Attendance</HI> of learning, and many times need will make you finde acceptance.</P>
<P>In generall have an eye on profit in what company &s;oever you come; &s;ometime you may glean <HI>high notions</HI> from meane per&s;ons, and finde matter of <HI>&s;peculation</HI> from the mouth of a <HI>Zany,</HI> for a good and &s;trong &s;to|mack will <HI>convert cour&s;e viands</HI> into good nou|ri&s;hment; keepe your &s;ecrets fa&s;t <HI>lock't</HI> up, and be not inqui&s;itive after <HI>anothers,</HI> but
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what is committed to you keepe as a &s;acred <HI>depo&s;itum;</HI> The wi&s;e&s;t of men among many other excellent ones &s;ayes <HI>Boccha chin&s;a occhi aperto</HI> [a &s;hut mouth and open eye] and as Nature hath &s;et a <HI>dou|ble</HI> guard on the tongue, doe not you enlarge her; for you hardly have another member &s;o <HI>potent</HI> to your mi&s;chiefe. <HI>Tram|ple</HI> not on the imper|fections of any, but mode&s;tly di&s;&s;emble them, and be &s;ure they be never the Sub|jects
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of your <HI>&s;currility,</HI> for they will wound <HI>deeper</HI> then the <HI>party</HI> him&s;elfe; mention a|ny mans virtues at <HI>large</HI> and <HI>freely,</HI> his vices not at all or very &s;paring|ly; or if, to him&s;elfe with all candor and mode&s;ty; you will finde this as &s;ubtile a <HI>trap</HI> for Fame as any you can devi&s;e; be e|ver jealous over them you deale with, and commit to them no more then you care if they di&s;clo&s;e; if other|wi&s;e, you <HI>put</HI> a weapon into their hands in ca&s;e
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they prove your ene|mies.</P>
<P>Make accompt &s;uch as you <HI>conver&s;e</HI> with &s;hall you bee <HI>accompt|ed;</HI> for it is ea&s;y to &s;ound a Mans condi|tions by his company, and company by his conditions; thus knew <HI>Augu&s;tus</HI> his two daugh|ters con&s;titutions: The one &s;orting in the Theater with <HI>Senators,</HI> the other with <HI>Gal|lants;</HI> Man is of an <HI>Api&s;h</HI> nature, and con|tent to take up his manners many times on <HI>tru&s;t,</HI> yea, and at
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the <HI>wor&s;e</HI> hand; Cu|&s;tomes in&s;en&s;ibly <HI>Na|turalize</HI> them&s;elves, and wee draw them from tho&s;e wee live with; It is be&s;t to call and <HI>&s;elect</HI> the <HI>choyce&s;t</HI> wher|&s;oever wee mete them. Change of Society, as it makes the carriage <HI>pliant</HI> and <HI>various,</HI> &s;o it prevents &s;ucking too much of any ones hu|mour. They which u&s;e much old People, grow rigid, and har&s;h; youth light and active; bring|ing up Princes in cels hath made them more fit for to hold a <HI>cro&s;&s;e</HI>
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then a <HI>Scepter;</HI> breed|ing the Per&s;ian Kings among &s;o many Wo|men made them fitter for a <HI>Nur&s;ery</HI> then for a <HI>Throne.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>Of Friends. <HI>VIII.</HI></HEAD>
<P>FRiends are a Mans <HI>&s;elfe</HI> in <HI>Fractions;</HI> hee that admits every one into the Number of them, <HI>pro&s;titutes</HI> his Soule to all <HI>comers;</HI> hee who <HI>none,</HI> denies her one of the be&s;t
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<HI>comforts</HI> &s;hee can here enjoy. Friend&s;hip of great men hath much <HI>honour,</HI> and &s;mall <HI>Se|curity;</HI> of meaner men, le&s;&s;e <HI>credit,</HI> but more <HI>&s;weetne&s;&s;e.</HI> That of e|qualls is ever be&s;t <HI>&s;ol|dered,</HI> &s;ince their thoughts <HI>running par|allell,</HI> are not like to <HI>Cla&s;h;</HI> hee who chu&s;e|eth in ha&s;te, &s;hall have lea&s;ure enough to re|pent; Hee who at lea|&s;ure and with directi|on, <HI>time</HI> enough to en|joy the fruits of his <HI>Wi&s;dome.</HI> Hee who di&s;covers all his &s;e|crets,
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layes open his owne <HI>Nakedne&s;&s;e;</HI> Hee who none, may well faint under his <HI>Bur|then.</HI></P>
<P>Hee who <HI>climbes</HI> up into the favour of Princes, &s;teps a Ladder who&s;e <HI>Rungs</HI> breake as hee pa&s;&s;eth up, that when&s;oever hee mu&s;t returne, hee mu&s;t ne|ce&s;&s;arily fall. The mo&s;t <HI>doggi&s;h</HI> Princes of all have had &s;ome choyce <HI>Privados,</HI> and the&s;e generally men of <HI>comely features</HI> and <HI>low births,</HI> whether it be they may the more
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<HI>ab&s;olutely</HI> co~mand <HI>crea|tures</HI> of their owne <HI>immediate Creation,</HI> or that they may the more ea&s;ily reduce them <HI>in Materiam pri|mam; The&s;e</HI> &s;eldome &s;tand as <HI>con&s;tellations,</HI> but are onely Comets, which blaze as long as their <HI>piceous</HI> &s;ub|&s;tance remaines, and then <HI>vani&s;h.</HI></P>
<P>Great Men are like <HI>Summer &s;uns;</HI> we de|light to eate the fruits of their <HI>bringing forth,</HI> but care not for <HI>lying under</HI> them, without the <HI>Jnterpo&s;ition</HI> of a
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&s;hade; yet in Winter when they are <HI>Low,</HI> and <HI>feeble,</HI> wee are con|tent to admire the <HI>beau|ty</HI> of their Rayes; they nouri&s;h tho&s;e of mea|ner quality, mo&s;t part onely to &s;et the <HI>Trayns</HI> they lay, on fire, and when they fall, doe but like <HI>great Oakes</HI> breake their own <HI>bran|ches</HI> and <HI>Neighbouring underwoods; Aequality</HI> be&s;t glewes minds &s;ince there is neither occa|&s;ion of <HI>Envy</HI> nor <HI>Con|tempt;</HI> it better <HI>Bal|la&s;ts</HI> humours, whereas if any one grow <HI>prae|dominant,</HI>
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it cau&s;eth the di&s;&s;olution of &s;o &s;weet a frame. The Fable of the <HI>Lyon</HI> and <HI>Fox,</HI> (&s;ayth <HI>Iulian</HI> the <HI>Apo&s;tate</HI> teach|eth meaner Friend&s;hips are not altogether un|u&s;efull; no more they are; but yet hee that is Superior ought &s;o to behave him&s;elfe, that the Inferior may keep him&s;elfe <HI>levell,</HI> by &s;eeing the other &s;till remember the di&s;tance betweene them, in &s;uch a manner as <HI>hee</HI> may rather ob&s;erve it then <HI>his Friend</HI> &s;hew it. Popularity <HI>&s;inkes</HI>
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greatne&s;&s;e downe too low; the <HI>Medium</HI> be|tweene this and too much &s;tateline&s;&s;e is ve|ry hard to hit upon. <HI>Antonius</HI> the Philo&s;o|pher, would give any man his hand hee met; <HI>Con&s;tance</HI> would &s;it without either <HI>hem</HI> or <HI>&s;pit;</HI> but where is there an <HI>example</HI> of any that equally avoyded the&s;e two <HI>Rocks?</HI> of the two, the latter comes neerer <HI>Maje&s;ty;</HI> 'Tis excellently ob&s;er|ved by <HI>Livie</HI> of <HI>Cam|illus</HI> his Souldiers, <HI>eandem virtutem ode|rant,
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&amp; mirabantur.</HI></P>
<P>But for private friend&s;hip, had it not onely <HI>allowance,</HI> but al&s;o <HI>prai&s;e,</HI> the <HI>Holy Spirit</HI> would not &s;o oft have beene <HI>flo&s;culent,</HI> when Hee touched here; nay, Chri&s;t have loved <HI>one</HI> Di&s;ciple. It is the greate&s;t plea&s;ure becau&s;e it Receives <HI>Augmentation</HI> from <HI>Con|tinuance:</HI> and the &s;u|re&s;t Trea&s;ure, becau&s;e it neede feare no <HI>violent</HI> hand but Death.</P>
<P>Communication of Secrets is one of the be&s;t <HI>fruits</HI> of it; yet
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would they not bee <HI>forced</HI> into one ano|thers bo&s;ome, but <HI>drop</HI> of them&s;elves; paps too <HI>&s;traitly</HI> pre&s;|&s;ed, give onely <HI>ulcer|ous matter</HI> in &s;tead of Milke.</P>
<P>Admonition is ano|ther maine advantage; but it would be done rather with <HI>Teares</HI> then <HI>Gall;</HI> and if po&s;&s;ible, out of <HI>pa&s;t</HI> di&s;cour&s;es and private <HI>Maxims;</HI> and what is this but to <HI>grind a Diamond with his own du&s;t?</HI></P>
<P>Hee was too caute|lous that bid <HI>&s;ic ama
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tanquam o&s;urus.</HI> The&s;e two can never &s;ee one another perfectly, where Di&s;truct and Iea|lou&s;y put a mi&s;t be|tweene; The <HI>Graces</HI> were painted <HI>naked;</HI> And the wi&s;e&s;t Men will be content to lay a&s;ide them&s;elves to an <HI>Intimate</HI> friend; th'o|ther halfe was very <HI>Chri&s;tian, odi tanquam amaturus;</HI> yet hee that bid have no <HI>Gall,</HI> al|lowed a <HI>&s;ting</HI> for de|fence; And hee who advi&s;ed us not to let the <HI>Sun &s;et on our An|ger,</HI> did not <HI>advi&s;e</HI> to
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tru&s;t a deceiving e|nemy the next mor|ning.</P>
<P>Friend&s;hip would <HI>creepe</HI> to an hight, and not <HI>Ru&s;h</HI> to it, for &s;o it will &s;oone <HI>Run</HI> it &s;elfe out of breath. Entertaine no &s;ini&s;ter and by-ends, for the&s;e will bee but &s;o many <HI>Moths,</HI> and <HI>Canker-Wormes</HI> that will eat out the heart and mar|row of it, and turne it to a more biter enmity; As to love is an emi|nency of man beyond bea&s;ts, &s;o to love con|&s;tantly argues a <HI>fixt
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high</HI> &s;pirit, and &s;uch a one as &s;cornes to &s;toope to <HI>change;</HI> it be&s;t agrees with the Levi|ty of children to bee both friends and ene|mies in the beating of a Pul&s;e; wi&s;e men are the mo&s;t cautelous in the <HI>Reception</HI> of an Inti|mate; <HI>Mecaenas's Chari|ne&s;&s;e</HI> to <HI>Horace,</HI> was ex|emplary,</P>
<P><HI>Nono revocas me de|nique men&s;e;</HI> but when they once joyne league, it is <HI>indi&s;&s;oluble.</HI> Hi&s;tory affords us ma|ny pompous examples of &s;trict amities, but
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it may be ju&s;tly feard that &s;ome have in them too much of the <HI>Fable;</HI> for &s;oules may indeed <HI>mingle,</HI> but doubtle&s;&s;e can never <HI>grow</HI> one. <HI>Lubrick</HI> is the e&s;tate of Favorites, few doe not &s;tand &s;ometime in <HI>umbrage</HI> or &s;et in a <HI>Cloud,</HI> if not in a <HI>&s;torme.</HI> 'Tis as rare for one to &s;tand in an eminent degree of favour two Kings Reignes as a &s;on to <HI>inherit</HI> the good affection of a Prince to his Father. Kings of <HI>compo&s;ed tempers,</HI> be&s;t pre&s;erve their <HI>dar|lings,</HI>
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when they have arrived to ju&s;t growths; they of hotter &s;pirits change them with as little pa&s;&s;ion as they do their <HI>Robes.</HI> That favourite is the like&s;t to continue that &s;uffers the rayes of favour not to fall <HI>perpendicular|ly,</HI> but <HI>Obliquely</HI> upon him.</P>
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<DIV2 N="9" TYPE="essay">
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<HEAD>Of Di&s;&s;imulation. <HI>IX.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>DI&s;&s;imulation</HI> quick|ens Policy, and <HI>mortifyes</HI> Divinity; in the former the Tongue is the &s;ole actor, in the latter the heart is al&s;o an agent; The fir&s;t may &s;ometimes bee connived at, the latter alwayes <HI>dete&s;ted:</HI> wee &s;hall according to our <HI>cur&s;ory</HI> and <HI>imperfect</HI> manner (for hee that expects exactne&s;&s;e and method in an ES|SAY,
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wrongs both the Author and his owne expectation) look upon a part and joynt|ly.</P>
<P><HI>Sleights</HI> in civill car|riages are now be|come &s;o frequent, that they are almo&s;t nece&s;|&s;ary, both &s;ides in their performance ra|ther <HI>&s;uppo&s;ing</HI> they act in the <HI>darke</HI> to others, then that it <HI>is</HI> &s;o; which may bee one rea|&s;on, why there is now a dayes &s;o little gain|ed by <HI>Treaties;</HI> It was the ob&s;ervation of an excellent man, that
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in <HI>Modern</HI> councells, there is rather a <HI>&s;huffling</HI> of approaching dangers, then <HI>preventing</HI> them from afarre; if &s;o, it argues men are not very cunning in laying traines, and there is a decay in pre&s;ent policy; As hee playes not well at <HI>draughts,</HI> that onely can avoyd <HI>&s;napping</HI> when it comes to a <HI>pinch,</HI> &s;o doth it not argue any excellent wi&s;dome in them that &s;uffer dangers to <HI>meet</HI> them at their owne doores; Wee have
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many times wondred at the <HI>greatne&s;&s;e</HI> and prudence of the <HI>Ro|man</HI> State; and no doubt before the <HI>luxa|tion</HI> of the Common-Weale, the latter was more eminent; but e&s;pecially in prevent|ing of <HI>growing Evills,</HI> notwith&s;tanding hardly di&s;coverable by the mo&s;t <HI>Eagle&s;ighted:</HI> yet did that State more then any other at above board, whether meer|ly out of genero&s;ity or ambition, is not much materiall; 'Tis great <HI>art</HI> in <HI>di&s;&s;imulati|on</HI>
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to di&s;&s;emble the <HI>art</HI> of <HI>di&s;&s;imulation;</HI> grea|ter to performe that <HI>Magnale</HI> in <HI>Ser&s;pective,</HI> to <HI>appropinquate</HI> things <HI>remote,</HI> and <HI>Remove</HI> things <HI>approximate;</HI> thus apply'd it may prove <HI>advantageous;</HI> but if it once <HI>leap</HI> over tho&s;e <HI>bounds prefixt</HI> to it by <HI>Religion</HI> and <HI>Hone&s;ty,</HI> (as they &s;ay) <HI>&s;teppe beyond the altar,</HI> what a man gaines by it in his affaires, hee loo&s;es in the <HI>&s;erenity</HI> of his con&s;cience; for wee under&s;tand not at all <HI>Macchiavilian</HI> Machina|tions,
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wrought by <HI>per|jury</HI> and <HI>Inhumanity,</HI> but an hone&s;t and <HI>co|lumbine</HI> kinde of cun|ning, which &s;hakes at <HI>perjury</HI> as that which in|fringes the Maje&s;ty of the deity, nor can allow of <HI>equivocations</HI> which rather <HI>&s;trengthen</HI> then <HI>elude</HI> oaths.</P>
<P>In &s;ome ca&s;es natu|rall de&s;ire of ones own <HI>con&s;ervation,</HI> will force him to di&s;&s;emble, as the retaining of &s;ecrets among <HI>Potentates,</HI> which unle&s;&s;e &s;trictly ob&s;er|ved, brings a&s;&s;ured ruine upon the <HI>di&s;co|verer;</HI>
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A lamentable <HI>example</HI> hereof is there in <HI>Guicciardin</HI> of the Bi&s;hop of <HI>Setta,</HI> who too precipitantly re|vealing a Breife to the King of <HI>France,</HI> was not by <HI>Cae&s;ar Borgia</HI> &s;uf|fered many dayes to &s;urvive.</P>
<P><HI>Per&s;onall</HI> di&s;&s;imulati|on, (that I meane by which one individuall doth either <HI>meliorate,</HI> or <HI>con&s;erve</HI> him&s;elfe) is either in concealing defects, or purpo&s;es; For the former, that Governour de&s;erves to have his <HI>Robe</HI> cut in
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peeces, that though he be crookbackt, will not have it &s;o made, that he may appeare &s;traight. Men may out of a <HI>brave &s;ecurity</HI> &s;uffer their vices to be eyed or <HI>&s;poken</HI> of, confi|dently a&s;&s;ured that their better merits doe farre out&s;trip them; but no doubt this path is too <HI>open,</HI> &s;ince one &s;mall <HI>blemi&s;h</HI> doth &s;ome|times &s;taine many ex|cellent vertues, and though &s;o &s;mall that it cannot &s;tand in com+petition with other <HI>eminencies,</HI> yet doth
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it by degrees <HI>weaken</HI> a mans repute; this granted, it will <HI>Pori&s;|matically</HI> follow, that Magi&s;trates ought what they may po&s;&s;ibly to cover tho&s;e <HI>&s;lips</HI> that attend humanity, as well for example, as their owne Repute; 'tis (they &s;ay) dan|gerous to act any naughtine&s;&s;e before children.</P>
<Q>Maxima debetur puero Reverentia &s;i quid Turpe paras.</Q>
<P>Tis &s;o with the peo|ple; tho&s;e vices which
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they wi&s;h in great men and al&s;o hate, they mo&s;t times follow; for <HI>obnubilating</HI> a mans de&s;ignes, he that laies his ultimate end o|pen, teaches but ano|ther to prevent him; &s;ubordinate aimes, as they are ever among States, &s;o are they a|mong private men; be&s;ides when tis known what a man goes about, tis co~monly fore&s;talled by attending <HI>expectan|cies;</HI> there is be&s;t meanes of preventing this, where there is one <HI>&s;econdary</HI> end worth
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the <HI>repute</HI> and <HI>vi&s;age</HI> of a primary, on which while a man lookes <HI>a|&s;quint,</HI> he may with the better &s;ecurity <HI>fix</HI> his eye on the other.</P>
<P>The Spaniard &s;ayes, <HI>Amores, dolores, y di|neros no pueden e&s;tar &s;e|cretas; (Love, Ioy, Mo|ney, cannot be kept &s;ecret</HI>) &s;uch <HI>&s;overaignty</HI> hath love over the affecti|ons, that it is the high|e&s;t difficulty to di&s;&s;em|ble it <HI>accurately,</HI> nay after all, it will be laid open by &s;ome <HI>Erotique &s;ymptomes,</HI> but they fall not under this <HI>con|&s;ideration;</HI>
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for griefe, tis every whit as ardu|ous; a while it may be <HI>&s;uppre&s;t,</HI> but if ve|hement, it breakes out with the greater force; nay though it may co|zen the Publique, yet will it write it &s;elfe in <HI>Characters</HI> of pallor, in the vi&s;age; and for money, the alterations of mens <HI>di&s;po&s;itions</HI> with their e&s;tates; doth &s;ufficiently ar|gue; methinks the moderation of <HI>Pompo|nius Atticus</HI> was here|in excellent, in that <HI>he</HI> in &s;o many <HI>changes</HI>
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of e&s;tate kept the &s;ame con&s;tancy in his expences, that they were the &s;ame in the <HI>ebb</HI> as high tide of his fortunes.</P>
<P>Tis hard to keepe the&s;e two equally <HI>bal|lanc't,</HI> e&s;pecially tho&s;e that <HI>devance.</HI> The <HI>in|tempe&s;tive lavi&s;hne&s;&s;e</HI> of our <HI>Richard</HI> the fir&s;t in his returne from <HI>Pa|le&s;tine,</HI> was the meanes of his di&s;covery, and wretched captivity. Vice makes e&s;peciall u&s;e of di&s;guizes.</P>
<Q>Nemo repente fuittur|pi&s;&s;imus.</Q>
<P><PB N="124" REF="76">Should &s;he at the fir&s;t view di&s;cover her &s;elfe, &s;he would prove &s;o <HI>ugly,</HI> that &s;he would be hi&s;&s;'d of the <HI>&s;tage</HI> of the World, and we &s;hould not know that vertue had an <HI>oppo&s;ite;</HI> but we have &s;taid lon|ger on this then we at fir&s;t <HI>determined.</HI></P>
<P>For di&s;&s;imulation of Religion, it cannot be to him <HI>who trieth the heart and reines,</HI> who &s;eeth the mo&s;t inward rece&s;&s;e of our Soules, and knoweth our thoughts before we thinke them; men we
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may indeed deceive, either in the appea|rance of our manners, or opinions; &s;ome to avoid the name of <HI>&s;uper|cilious,</HI> ca&s;t them&s;elves to a lighter <HI>garbe</HI> then be&s;eemes them; tis a kind of pitty the&s;e &s;hould have any thing commendable, &s;ince goodne&s;&s;e is &s;o valua|ble even in the &s;ight of her enemies, that very Hypocrites would claime <HI>kindred</HI> to her though meere <HI>aliens;</HI> another &s;ort &s;trive to &s;et out them&s;elves with the faire&s;t <HI>glo&s;&s;e;</HI>
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the&s;e before di&s;covery may be <HI>imitable,</HI> but prove after odious; good &s;entences in their in their <HI>mouthes,</HI> are like pearls &s;et in Iron, deba&s;t by being there; and carry but contradictions in their owne <HI>bowels;</HI> now of the two &s;urely <HI>the&s;e</HI> are the better, in that they give &s;ome coun|tenance to, and in a manner <HI>beare</HI> up the <HI>traine</HI> of vertue; where|as the other kicke her, while &s;he <HI>repo&s;es,</HI> from form their owne <HI>bo|&s;omes.</HI></P>
<P><PB N="127" REF="77">There is much <HI>&s;pit|ting</HI> again&s;t tho&s;e that declaime again&s;t vices whereunto they &s;ome|times <HI>&s;lip.</HI> If this pro|ceede from a <HI>&s;incere</HI> dete&s;tation, and when by the &s;hooting at o|thers, to make it <HI>dart</HI> more deepely at ones owne <HI>bo&s;ome,</HI> if there appeare &s;ome amends, with endeavours and hopes of further pro|gre&s;&s;e, it de&s;erves &s;omewhat more then meer <HI>toleration.</HI></P>
<P>For Tenents of Reli|gion a <HI>negative</HI> di&s;&s;imu|lation (that is the fit|te&s;t
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name I can give that) which <HI>&s;oberly</HI> con|ceales them, where there is not a place fit to indure their <HI>venting,</HI> and no probability of di&s;per&s;ing them; it will &s;urely be appro|ved by any <HI>moderate</HI> judgement. But a <HI>po&s;i|tive</HI> confe&s;&s;ion (though not <HI>cordiall</HI>) is meere|ly <HI>damnable;</HI> &s;o deare ought truth to be to us that we ought to <HI>po&s;t-habite</HI> our lives to the &s;malle&s;t princi|ple of it; yet &s;ome time winding up to high may make it fall
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a&s;under; as he is a <HI>mad-man</HI> that will &s;uf|fer <HI>prepo&s;terous zeal</HI> to carry him to an <HI>un&s;ea|&s;onable</HI> profe&s;&s;ion; &s;o is he a weake man that when he is called will not <HI>avouch</HI> it.</P>
<P>Though God doth not <HI>ordaine</HI> and <HI>&s;trengthen</HI> every man to <HI>Martyrdome,</HI> yet ought every man to propo&s;e to him&s;elfe to be a Martyr.</P>
<P>Illu&s;ory deceits may not bee done though to a good end; for this is e|vill that good may
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come of it; me thinks, an aright con&s;cience may tremble even at a je&s;ting lye;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mendaci|um joco|&s;um.</NOTE> he bid not make a &s;hew of any thing that is <HI>unlawfull</HI> to doe, that bid <HI>&s;hun not onely evill but the appearance.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>Of Recreations. <HI>X.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THe mo&s;t artifici|all running <HI>de&s;cant</HI> continued too long, will at length wax te|dious even to the vul|gar;
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tis &s;o with <HI>Plea|&s;ures,</HI> the mo&s;t <HI>various</HI> and <HI>exqui&s;ite</HI> after &s;ome continuance grow <HI>nau|&s;eous</HI> to them that mo&s;t greedily de&s;ired them; They being altogether like <HI>civet,</HI> &s;mell at the lump <HI>un&s;avory</HI> and <HI>ful|&s;ome,</HI> by drams <HI>&s;weet</HI> and <HI>plea&s;ant;</HI> we &s;hould u&s;e them as Phy|&s;ick with <HI>prae&s;cription, or (being on our Jour|ney</HI>) as Travelers <HI>baite</HI> onely at Them, and like Dogs at <HI>Nilus</HI> touch and be gone for feare of Crocodiles, re|membring they are but
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<HI>Gourds,</HI> and carry a Worme in the Roote. So u&s;ed, they &s;weetly <HI>Checquer</HI> our imploy|ments and &s;teale from us all thoughts of Irk|&s;omene&s;&s;e, and may be in their u&s;e as com|modable as labour it <HI>&s;elfe;</HI> for the minde having <HI>&s;tood long cen|tinell</HI> upon &s;erious Thoughts, becomes at length <HI>&s;luggi&s;h,</HI> like a Bow continued bent; if &s;hee bee not &s;lack|ned with &s;ome plea|&s;ant Relaxation. <HI>Pain|ters</HI> take a good cour&s;e with their eyes, draw
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them off the Table to let them recreate and recollect them&s;elves a while on &s;ome <HI>delight|&s;ome Greene;</HI> other|wi&s;e they would grow <HI>dim</HI> and weake; the like would bee done with the <HI>&s;pirits,</HI> which &s;till ingaged on hard imployments, grow <HI>li&s;tle&s;&s;e</HI> and <HI>flag,</HI> and can onely flutter not <HI>fly;</HI> hence Booke|wormes, who&s;e heads being the <HI>Tombes</HI> of &s;o many brave Writers, might well be &s;uppo|&s;ed animate libraries, while they conver&s;e
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with the <HI>dead,</HI> become in a manner <HI>dead</HI> them|&s;elves, and like <HI>dream|ing Dogs</HI> they retaine onely &s;ome <HI>confus'd no+tions,</HI> which by <HI>Hete|rogeneous</HI> mixtures be|get armies of Chimera's that like <HI>Cadmus</HI> &s;oul|diers fall a quarrelling among them&s;elves; and truly how &s;hould they not bee <HI>opplete</HI> with gro&s;&s;e humours, when they want <HI>evacu|ation?</HI> well might they be compared to <HI>unpo|li&s;ht Statues,</HI> at the fir&s;t graving <HI>rough-hewn,</HI> and <HI>formele&s;&s;e,</HI> which levi|gated
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by the file may become peeces of per|fection. This ca&s;ts an a&s;per&s;ion upon learn|ing that it <HI>enervates</HI> men for high imploy|ments, when indeed it is the be&s;t Thread to bee directed by in &s;uch <HI>labyrinths;</HI> the be&s;t <HI>compa&s;&s;e</HI> to &s;ayle by in &s;uch <HI>Aegaeum's;</HI> what el&s;e was the mea|ning of <HI>Plato's Philo|&s;ophante Rege, Reg|nante Philo&s;opho;</HI> di&s;|joyned, the one may doe hee knowes not what: the other know what to doe, but un|powerfull
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to act, united make up a per&s;onage fit to move in the <HI>highe&s;t Sphee<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">;</HI> but re|creations carry in their <HI>tayls</HI> &s;ome cautions; el&s;e they recede from <HI>them&s;elves</HI> and are pre|cipitated into <HI>crimes;</HI> let them not bee &s;uch as come within the <HI>cognizance,</HI> of the Law and <HI>drag</HI> danger along; <HI>harmele&s;&s;e,</HI> not <HI>Amphi|theater</HI> &s;ports, not je&s;ts <HI>empoy&s;oned</HI> with <HI>bitter|ne&s;&s;e,</HI> and <HI>needle-point|ed,</HI> that will draw blood a&s;well <HI>out of,</HI> as <HI>into</HI> the cheeks; <HI>Sea|&s;onable,</HI>
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otherwi&s;e they will make va&s;t <HI>Ruptures</HI> in time, and become imployments: <HI>frugall,</HI> otherwi&s;e you may die by a laughing di&s;|ea&s;e; <HI>moderate,</HI> for that were <HI>to adde drunken|ne&s;&s;e</HI> to thir&s;t; <HI>generous,</HI> &s;uch as may reinforce a vivacity in the Spi|rits, in&s;till &s;ome re|pa&s;t of profit into the minde; <HI>civill,</HI> that they may not commit a rape upon the Soule; <HI>ea&s;y,</HI> for if <HI>puzling,</HI> they become burthens, and this would cau&s;e mee to dislike <HI>Che&s;&s;e,</HI>
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becau&s;e tho&s;e <HI>ab&s;tracti+ons</HI> of the &s;en&s;es be|&s;towed on a game of it, might bee farre more u&s;efully imploy|ed: I might add &s;e|lection of company by it &s;elfe. This caution would al&s;o bee layd downe, you bee not bewitched with any plea&s;ure; for &s;o it wil <HI>ingro&s;&s;e</HI> you wholy, and hardly &s;uffer you to di&s;ingage. Thus may you touch with|out harme, handle the <HI>Serpent</HI> Plea&s;ure, and bereave her of her <HI>&s;ting;</HI> but I verely
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believe Hi&s;tory can &s;hew us as few exam|ples of this kinde as of any <HI>morall virtue;</HI> Of tho&s;e I have met with the&s;e two mo&s;t de|&s;erve an <HI>A&s;teriske,</HI> the two <HI>Africani, Major,</HI> and <HI>Minor;</HI> the <HI>Grand|father,</HI> and <HI>Nephew</HI> who though hee were an <HI>Aemilian</HI> was ingrafted on the &s;tocke of the <HI>Carnelians;</HI> The fir&s;t by that memorable &s;peeeh of his <HI>Nunquam minus &s;olus quam cum &s;olus, nunquam minus otio&s;us quam cum otio|&s;us,</HI> Shewes he knew to
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to &s;et a <HI>value</HI> on his minutes; and a <HI>Law</HI> on his thoughts, and one thus <HI>par&s;imonious</HI> cannot but bee very rich in <HI>ma&s;culine</HI> virtues: Th'other by that Elogy of <HI>Vellejus Paterculus, Nemo elegantius negoti|orum intervallo otia di&s;|punxit,</HI> tells hee was adopted to the man|ners of the <HI>Scipio's,</HI> as well as <HI>Name,</HI> and that hee was an excel|lent man as well as a Captaine; And trode up the &s;tairs of vertue to the <HI>Capitol</HI> of ho|nour, &s;o that his law|rell
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might well grow out of the ruines of two &s;o great and fa|mous Cities as <HI>Carthage</HI> and <HI>Numantia.</HI> Since I am thus farre I care not much to &s;peake my conceptions of &s;ome of the&s;e &s;ports mo&s;t common in u&s;e.</P>
<P>Hunting is very magnificent, and a &s;port for Princes (and it may be noted that <HI>more</HI> of them have be&s;tow|ed them&s;elves on this then any other, nay &s;ome of them even to <HI>exce&s;&s;e,</HI> as our two <HI>Williams, Pope Leo, &amp;c.</HI>)
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It inures the body to travell, being as <HI>Oppian calls</HI> it a <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="foreign">.</NOTE> <HI>counterfeit of War,</HI> &amp; by it doth <HI>Xeno|phon</HI> di&s;cover the genius of his <HI>Cyrus.</HI> The fable might &s;eeme to have from hence his <HI>Origi|nall, Adonis</HI> a delicate youth, <HI>Venus</HI> owne darling &s;laine by a Boare; 'twas anciently practi&s;ed on the mo&s;t <HI>fierce Savages,</HI> as well by the Kings of <HI>Per&s;ia</HI> (who tooke &s;ingular delight therein) as in the <HI>Spectiles</HI> and <HI>&s;ports</HI> at <HI>Rome;</HI> but now it is reduced almo&s;t only
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to timerous creatures, for whom nature hath provided no other <HI>de|fence</HI> but <HI>flight,</HI> yet as it is, there is nothing le&s;&s;e in it then Idlene&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>Hawking, which is but <HI>Aeriall hunting,</HI> cannot challenge the antiquity of the for|mer; it is not for mean per&s;ons, yet a gene|rous exerci&s;e, as well for variety of depraeda|tors as preys. <HI>Fi&s;hing</HI> is a melancholy <HI>exer|ci&s;e,</HI> yet is there more &s;tirring with the <HI>fly</HI> then <HI>baite;</HI> there might be many <HI>pretty</HI> inventi|ons
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of baits, every ri|ver commonly enter|taining one more pecu|liar <HI>Fi&s;h,</HI> w^c^h would re|quire a particular bait.</P>
<P>Tennis is a <HI>vio|lent</HI> &s;port, there is much activity required in it; tis &s;omewhat &s;trange that this age bringeth forth &s;o many <HI>fine</HI> wits; none hath honoured it in the like manner as <HI>Vida</HI> hath done <HI>Che&s;&s;e, Thuanus Hawking,</HI> and <HI>Natales Comes Hunting.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Shittle-cock</HI> requires a nimble arme, with a <HI>quick</HI> and <HI>waking</HI> eye;
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'twere fit for Students, and not &s;o vehement as that <HI>waving</HI> of a <HI>&s;tool&egrave;</HI> &s;o commended by <HI>Le&s;|&s;ius.</HI></P>
<P>Wra&s;tling &s;eemes to grow out of u&s;e; tis of <HI>ancient &s;tanding,</HI> as may be &s;eene in <HI>Homer</HI> and <HI>Virgill;</HI> Prizes there were for it in the <HI>Olympicks,</HI> neither was it unpracti&s;ed by the <HI>Roman Souldiery;</HI> veri|ly it conduces both <HI>ad robur &amp; &s;anitatem,</HI> and will admit of the advantage of <HI>&s;leight,</HI> and might more com|mend it &s;elfe by more
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frequent practi&s;e.</P>
<P>Bowling exerci&s;eth proportionably all the <HI>parts,</HI> and that <HI>mildely;</HI> he is like to be mo&s;t exqui&s;ite in it, that can make his hand obey the <HI>judgement</HI> of his eye.</P>
<P>Shooting with the Arrow of a private exerci&s;e, may be ve|ry <HI>advantageous</HI> to the <HI>publique;</HI> many Na|tions have hardly knowne any other weapons, or at lea&s;t not bin &s;kil'd in them, as the <HI>Paleares,</HI> the <HI>Par|thians</HI> who&s;e arrowes
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<HI>&s;heilded</HI> them again&s;t the Roman greatne&s;&s;e; yea the <HI>nerves</HI> of this Nation have &s;ome|times been in her bow|&s;trings; What rai&s;ed the Turk to &s;uch a height, but his excel|lent Archers? tis an injury they are ju&s;led out by Guns &s;o whol|ly; whether upon good grounds hath been hot|ly di&s;puted; we con|&s;ider them onely as an exerci&s;e, and &s;o they are every deale as ple|&s;ant as healthfull.</P>
<P>The traver&s;es at Che&s;&s;e are exceeding
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<HI>laborious,</HI> yet they may be recompenced with the plea&s;ure of &s;o many furious <HI>encoun|ters, plots,</HI> and ju&s;tlings which come neare&s;t the broyles of wa&s;pi&s;h men.</P>
<P>Tis not proper here to &s;peake of the Law|fulne&s;&s;e of &s;ortelegi|ous Games; Dice have beene u&s;ed by many <HI>great men</HI> as <HI>Claudius</HI> the Emperour, who writ a Booke of it, <HI>Domitian, Theodorick</HI> King of the <HI>Goths</HI> too liberally; yet cannot that ju&s;tifie private
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practi&s;e. The Incon|&s;tancy of <HI>Iri&s;h,</HI> fitly repre&s;ents the change|ablene&s;&s;e of humane occurrences, &s;ince it e|ver &s;tands &s;o fickle, that one malignant throw can quite ruine a never &s;o well built <HI>Game;</HI> Art hath here a great <HI>&s;way,</HI> by rea&s;on if one cannot well &s;tand the <HI>fir&s;t a&s;|&s;ault,</HI> hee may &s;afely <HI>retire</HI> backe to an after game.</P>
<P><HI>Tick-Tack</HI> &s;ets a mans intentions on their guard; errors in this and war can be but once amended.</P>
<P><PB N="150" REF="89">For Cardes, the <HI>phi|lologie</HI> of them is not for an ESSAY; a mans <HI>fancy</HI> would be <HI>&s;um'd</HI> up in <HI>cribbidge;</HI> Gleeke requires a <HI>vi|gilant</HI> memory; Maw a pregnant <HI>agility; Pich|et</HI> a various invention; Primero a dexterous kinde of ra&s;hne&s;&s;e, &amp;c. <HI>&s;ed manum de Tabula,</HI> I make an imployment of a Recreation.</P>
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<HEAD>Of Warre. <HI>XI.</HI></HEAD>
<P>WArre is the <HI>Phle+botomy</HI> of the Body <HI>Politique,</HI> which &s;ometimes in taking away <HI>&s;uperfluous</HI> hu|mours brings it into a con&s;umption; 'Tis Gods &s;courge of a people, whether he whip them by them|&s;elves or a <HI>forraigne e|nimy.</HI></P>
<P>Civill warres are e|ver mo&s;t cruell, Par|ties
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being mo&s;t <HI>incens'd,</HI> and fighting either out of <HI>de&s;paire</HI> or <HI>revenge,</HI> there is in them the be&s;t roome to exerci&s;e pri|vate malice. The con|querour, though <HI>pride</HI> and <HI>petulancy</HI> are in&s;e|parable companions of victory) more in&s;ul|ting and &s;carce putting up the Sword when there is not an enemy for to draw it again&s;t, as being mo&s;t <HI>in&s;ecure;</HI> the&s;e that have a&s;&s;i&s;ted, if di&s;plea&s;ed, being as powerfull to his hurt, (in that back't with <HI>followers</HI> and <HI>alliances</HI>)
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and with difficulty re|taind, when they &s;ee not their expectation in the reformation of a State, (as dome&s;tique jarres have ever &s;uch <HI>pretences,</HI> not <HI>meanings</HI>) and hopes of rewards fully <HI>&s;atisfied,</HI> nay, o|ver-e&s;timating their merits, they are apt to fall off at the lea&s;t <HI>in|dignity;</HI> as was evi|dent in <HI>Richard</HI> Earle of <HI>Warwick,</HI> who di&s;|ta&s;ting <HI>Edward</HI> the fourths marriage, be|cau&s;e him&s;elfe had bin employed in <HI>France</HI> a|bout another match,
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<HI>revolted, unking'd</HI> him, though he was the prime in&s;trument to &s;et him in the <HI>Throne;</HI> and &s;uffered his malice never to period till he had made his <HI>life</HI> a <HI>&s;a|crifice</HI> to it; neither is any warre &s;o long &s;pun out, although they have <HI>breathing inter|vals:</HI> oppre&s;&s;ed facti|ons when they &s;eeme utterly extinct, glea|ning them&s;elves into a head (being a&s;&s;i&s;ted what with pitty of their <HI>pre&s;ent lowne&s;&s;e,</HI> what with <HI>envy</HI> that at|tends the prevailing
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party) growing to <HI>o|vertop</HI> the other, and perhaps they them|&s;elves after breaking into two; as <HI>Augu&s;tus</HI> and <HI>Antonius,</HI> when they had de&s;troyed the murtherers of <HI>Cae|&s;ar,</HI> fell out between them&s;elves; neither could any mediation &s;o <HI>&s;oder</HI> them but it ended with one of their ru|ines. Warre of neigh|bouring States, whe|ther begun out of <HI>jea|lou&s;ie</HI> (as there is both rea&s;on and precedent for preventive warres) harbouring one ano|thers
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fugitives, or any other politick cau&s;e, are after two or three fields ea&s;ily <HI>&s;u&s;pended</HI> with &s;hort truces; e|&s;pecially if the one par|ty have not gained of the other, but if there bee &s;ome <HI>inequality,</HI> matters are <HI>hu&s;ht</HI> a while in a <HI>nece&s;&s;itated peace.</HI></P>
<P>Tho&s;e who have lit|tle or nothing of their owne, gaine by di&s;|cords, the lo&s;&s;e falling on their &s;ide who are mo&s;t <HI>full</HI> and be&s;t able; to pro&s;ecute a victory too farre on a broken
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enemy, is to teach him to be <HI>de&s;perate,</HI> and make him obtaine what hee could not have hop't for, a bettering of his condition; a no|table example of this, was <HI>Charles</HI> Duke of <HI>Burgundy,</HI> who by pre&s;|&s;ing too hard upon the broken <HI>Swy&s;&s;es,</HI> lo&s;t fir&s;t a field to them, and after his life.</P>
<P>Tho&s;e States whom providence de&s;ignes for burthens of the World, and <HI>devourers</HI> of con|fining Countries, (&s;uch as that old <HI>Roman</HI> State and the modern <HI>Otto|mons</HI>)
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though they may be re&s;i&s;ted with much <HI>courage, re&s;oluti|on</HI> and <HI>pertinacy,</HI> yet at the la&s;t doe over|weigh, as did the <HI>Ro|mans</HI> over us here in <HI>England,</HI> and them in <HI>Spaine;</HI> for overpel|ling with renewed for|ces and &s;uccours, they leave the <HI>Conquered</HI> no other <HI>&s;olace</HI> in their ru|ines, then the glory of the continuance of their re&s;i&s;tance. That money is the <HI>&s;innewes,</HI> nay the <HI>vitall &s;pirits</HI> of warre, is acknowled|ged by all, it being
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impo&s;&s;ible to pre&s;erve di&s;cipline in an <HI>unpaide</HI> Army; but when the Souldier growes <HI>full,</HI> he growes withall <HI>wan|ton;</HI> learnes to <HI>di&s;con|tinue</HI> military hard|ne&s;&s;e; is ready to for|&s;ake his colours; &s;o that Gold which many times makes a Souldi|er, <HI>againe marrs</HI> him. A Generall is the <HI>heart,</HI> as well as the <HI>head</HI> of an Army; and hath need of a <HI>working</HI> braine, as a &s;trong arme; <HI>&s;ecret</HI> &s;hould he be in his de|&s;ignes, <HI>Saturnine</HI> in con&s;ulting, and <HI>Mercu|riall</HI>
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in acting, comming on his enemy like the hammer on an anvill, touch it before wee &s;ee it &s;trike, not like the di&s;charging of a Can|non, to &s;end forth a flame before the <HI>erup|tion</HI> of the bullet; &s;e|vere to puni&s;h even pro&s;perous di&s;orders, and &s;uccesfull di&s;obe|diences, as but meere <HI>connivances</HI> of fortune; &s;trict in exacting the duties of the Souldiery, as Creatures better commanded with <HI>feare</HI> then <HI>love;</HI> indu&s;trious, and rather leading in
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labours then dan|gers, (the per&s;on of a Generall being <HI>different</HI> from that of a <HI>Souldier</HI>) valuing his Countries glory above his own, and his owne above his life, neither <HI>&s;teal|ing</HI> honour nor force|ing it, not refu&s;ing a triumph becau&s;e of a &s;harer, nor fainting under the weight of bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, when there are no other &s;houlders but his own; carry|ing alwayes a <HI>fixt</HI> &s;pi|rit, which will neither &s;hrinke under the <HI>&s;ud|denne&s;&s;e</HI> nor <HI>weight</HI> of
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any danger, gratefully acknowlegding him that conducts him through all <HI>difficulties,</HI> and wi&s;hing rather to peri&s;h then to attribute any thing what&s;oever to him&s;elfe. The <HI>modern Militia</HI> differs much from the <HI>ancient,</HI> there being in it more roome for <HI>&s;tratagems</HI> then <HI>per&s;onall</HI> valour; yet are not <HI>pitcht bat|tailes</HI> &s;o bloody as be|fore, whether it be that &s;moke gives bet|ter a&s;&s;i&s;tance to <HI>flight,</HI> or that they doe not clo&s;e as before, or that
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order is not &s;o <HI>entirely</HI> pre&s;erv'd, and Batta|lias are <HI>&s;ooner broken;</HI> this is certaine that conflicts are not pro|tracted to that length as before, but Victory doth &s;ooner <HI>ca&s;t</HI> the <HI>Ballance.</HI></P>
<P>Of all Nations who&s;e remembrance time hath pre&s;erved to us, tho&s;e two States of <HI>Greece</HI> and <HI>Rome</HI> did mo&s;t excell in the art of War, whether the <HI>Tactick</HI> or the <HI>Strata|gematick</HI> part; both which may be &s;ayd to be in a manner lo&s;t, yet
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do they &s;omewhat re|flouri&s;h in the practice of the <HI>Low-Countries,</HI> which may be a&s;&s;igned as one <HI>&s;erecondary</HI> cau&s;e of their long re&s;i&s;tance of the <HI>Spaniard.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="12" TYPE="essay">
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<HEAD>Of Religion. <HI>XII.</HI></HEAD>
<P>IF men could have been <HI>without</HI> Religi|on, <HI>Super&s;tition</HI> had ne|ver bin molded into &s;o many <HI>mon&s;trous &s;hapes;</HI> could ca&s;uality have performed it, tis &s;trange if among &s;uch varie|ty <HI>none</HI> had <HI>hit;</HI> could &s;ucce&s;&s;ion of time have <HI>refined</HI> any into a good <HI>one,</HI> it had beene done in &s;o long continuance; but &s;uc|ceeding Ages, ren|ded
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them &s;till more <HI>fae|culent:</HI> could nature have lent any <HI>light;</HI> The mo&s;t <HI>elevate</HI> Heathens had &s;eene &s;omewhat, but it was all they could doe to get a &s;ight of the dim prin|ciples of Rea&s;on; but without <HI>God</HI> who was the Author of <HI>Reli|gion,</HI> it was impo&s;&s;ible, the <HI>wide&s;t</HI> &s;oule being too narrow to <HI>Receive</HI> him, unle&s;&s;e hee were plea&s;ed to &s;hoot in a few <HI>beames</HI> of <HI>him|&s;elfe</HI> at &s;ome <HI>crevices,</HI> and were plea&s;ed to teach what hee <HI>was</HI>
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(though Man could never <HI>perfectly learne</HI>) and <HI>how</HI> hee would bee wor&s;hipt, though Man could never doe him <HI>compleate ho|mage.</HI></P>
<P>To prove Religion by rea&s;on, is like tho&s;e <HI>tricks, which before performance &s;eeme im|po&s;&s;ible, after, contemp|tible;</HI> one of them was that of <HI>Columbus,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>8</HI> Lip&s;. Praelante Critic.</NOTE> in &s;etting an Egge upright: when our hearts are once po&s;|&s;e&s;t of the truth of it, it &s;eemes nothing, but a <HI>&s;ublimated</HI> and <HI>re|fin'd</HI>
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Rea&s;on; but did Rea&s;on ever per&s;wade it to any heart, or <HI>Antidote it, again&s;t A|postacy?</HI> Wee mu&s;t profe&s;&s;e our ignorance of any; Tho&s;e <HI>prety</HI> naturall Di&s;cour&s;es and Arguments, with many both <HI>old</HI> and <HI>new</HI> Lu|minaries of Learning found out, &s;hew, that they could rather fight with their enemies, then ore-come them.</P>
<P>For the Ancients that encountered with <HI>hea|theni&s;me</HI> at pu&s;h of Pikes, they could bet|ter lay open, the <HI>va|nity</HI>
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of the other, then a&s;&s;ert the <HI>truth</HI> of their <HI>owne;</HI> The be&s;t &s;er|vice they did was to <HI>unteach</HI> the people their Idolatry, that they might bee the better <HI>capable</HI> of true devotion, and bring them from a by-path; but they could onely &s;et their faces <HI>towards</HI> (and point at) the <HI>true.</HI></P>
<P>For the Moderns, they have had to doe either with Jewes, Turkes, or Barba|rians; The fir&s;t (were they not &s;o <HI>ob&s;tinate</HI>)
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are the be&s;t to deale with, by rea&s;on they grant us <HI>one &s;ide of our two edged Sword;</HI> The maine is in applying the Prophe&s;ies, and manife&s;tation of the <HI>Me&s;&s;iah,</HI> in which GOD him&s;elf mu&s;t either <HI>in|terpo&s;e,</HI> or they will never <HI>&s;ee him whom they have peirced;</HI> that being now <HI>Chaffe which the</HI> winde drives to and fro from the face of the Earth, they may not be burnt in <HI>unquenchable fire.</HI></P>
<P>For the &s;econd, the ground where it
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thrives mu&s;t be Plowd with <HI>Cymiters,</HI> Sowd with <HI>Carca&s;&s;es,</HI> and watered with <HI>Bloud,</HI> &s;o that it is not like|ly that verball in&s;tru|ments will be able to eradicate this pe&s;tilent darnell.</P>
<P>For the la&s;t, they are of &s;o many climes, and <HI>praepo&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions,</HI> that little can bee &s;aid in generall; onely this, that the <HI>&s;avagenes</HI> of the Spaniards in <HI>America</HI> &s;hewed that they are &s;ooner <HI>flattered</HI> then <HI>threatned</HI> into better notions, and the <HI>In|nocency</HI>
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of tho&s;e that have not much <HI>ming|led</HI> with others, &s;eemes to promi&s;e &s;ome <HI>Fa|ciliation;</HI> But whe|ther the <HI>&s;edulity</HI> of the Je&s;uits in tho&s;e parts hath beene a meanes of <HI>preparing</HI> or <HI>ob&s;truct|ing</HI> them to <HI>Prote&s;tan|ti&s;me,</HI> is onely known to him who&s;e incom|prehen&s;ible wi&s;dome it was to <HI>re&s;erve</HI> their di&s;covery to the&s;e la&s;t Times.</P>
<P>Tis <HI>hand&s;omely</HI> ob|&s;erved, that the maine of other Religions ne|ver gained by Chri|&s;tianity,
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&s;ince &s;he carried before her <HI>the light of the World;</HI> they, <HI>fuliginous Torches</HI> of error: &s;ince her God came like a <HI>Shepheard,</HI> theirs like <HI>Roarers:</HI> &s;he required the more difficult part of wor&s;hip, internall; the other onely cor|poreall; that no won|der if the Roman Se|nate did not admit <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> into the Pantheon&mdash; but they were more aware then they thought of: &s;ince His Pre&s;ence might have cau&s;ed the re&s;t to fall, his crying formerly &s;truck them
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dumb. Were it not there is a great <HI>hand</HI> and <HI>eye,</HI> and a <HI>con&s;ci|ence,</HI> that can <HI>&s;ting</HI> and <HI>whi&s;per,</HI> Religi|on would doe a great deale of hurt in Poli|cy, becau&s;e &s;he <HI>pini|ons</HI> Men, whereas A|thei&s;ts have their <HI>armes</HI> loo&s;e, and neede ne|ver be oppo&s;ed with that <HI>empty</HI> name of Equity, which ought much to regulate him who remembers that hee &s;tands <HI>accomptable:</HI> whereas tis ea&s;y for him to bee an excel|lent Polititian that
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can <HI>brawne</HI> his Con|&s;cience, that it bee not peirceable by any pricks: or &s;o <HI>ore-ma&s;ter</HI> it, that it cannot <HI>cry</HI> when it is <HI>prickt,</HI> and &s;o <HI>&s;till</HI> it that it cannot continue when it &s;hall <HI>cry.</HI></P>
<P>For Athei&s;ts, (as hee &s;poke of the Scep|ticks) <HI>tis better to tell what they thinke not, then what they thinke;</HI> They are milder op|po&s;ers then the <HI>blinde &s;uper&s;titious,</HI> as think|ing Religion an enemy only worth the jeer|ing; Tis que&s;tioned,
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whether there be any &s;uch really or no; <HI>divines</HI> &s;ay tis <HI>extra, non intra; aliis, non &s;ibi;</HI> mi&s;er|able are they (if any) who&s;e hearts tell them the contrary.</P>
<P>The A&s;cen&s;ion of cau&s;es to one &s;upreame, for <HI>Rea&s;on;</HI> and the Energy of nature, for &s;ence, be&s;t confutes them; the one calls home their wandering &s;en&s;es, the other com|po&s;es them.</P>
<P>Fal&s;e Religions gain mo&s;t by <HI>violence,</HI> the true by <HI>oppo&s;ition;</HI> gawdy be&s;t plea&s;e the <HI>&s;imple,</HI>
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decent the wi&s;e; loo&s;e ones be&s;t plea&s;e <HI>Naturall</HI> Men; &s;trict ones, <HI>good|men.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="12" TYPE="essay">
<HEAD>Of Rewards. <HI>XII.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>GReat</HI> Per&s;ons &s;tand for Imitation, <HI>le&s;|&s;er</HI> for Ob&s;ervation: Man is led by nothing better then <HI>Example;</HI> and Examples of Great ones, are mo&s;t <HI>effectuall;</HI> they have both a great <HI>influence</HI> on manners; and Men &s;uppo&s;e there ea&s;ilie&s;t to finde a <HI>Reward,</HI>
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where there is a <HI>con|formity</HI> of carriage. Rewards ever beget <HI>proportionable</HI> endea|vours; pa&s;&s;ing by de|&s;erts doth but <HI>extin|gui&s;h</HI> them; feede a Lampe with <HI>competent Oyle,</HI> it will yeeld a &s;ufficient light; deny it <HI>nouri&s;hment</HI> and it dyes; every one is not &s;ufficiently &s;atisfyed with the <HI>applau&s;e</HI> of his owne Con&s;cience in doing <HI>well,</HI> but would looke for &s;ome <HI>exter|nall advantage.</HI> What more honorable then to dye for ones Coun|try?
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yet I dare &s;ay the <HI>Decii</HI> them&s;elves had thoughts of glory. What <HI>morall</HI> man did ever &s;o extenuate <HI>wealth,</HI> and &s;poke &s;o <HI>goodly &s;entences</HI> in com|mendatio~ of poverty as <HI>Seneca?</HI> yet his <HI>Admirer Lip&s;ius</HI> can make Re|port, what an e&s;tate he <HI>&s;crapt</HI> together un|der his <HI>Scholer Nero:</HI> &s;o powerfull are incou|ragements over the endeavours of Men. <HI>Munificency</HI> conduceth much to the <HI>glory</HI> and <HI>greatne&s;&s;e</HI> of Princes but &s;hould hold proportion
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with their <HI>Trea&s;uries,</HI> and the parties whom it <HI>falls</HI> upon; heaping too much upon one, (perhaps of meaner merits) while another that hath performed more <HI>&s;ingular</HI> &s;ervices is pa&s;&s;ed by, is a way to bani&s;h vertue out of the <HI>VVorld,</HI> and introduce <HI>envy</HI> and <HI>factions</HI> into the Court.</P>
<P>There is no better meanes to di&s;cover the <HI>abilities</HI> of a Prince, then by his Mini&s;ters of State; it both &s;hewes whether he know how
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to <HI>pick</HI> them out, and whether he know how to <HI>make u&s;e of them,</HI> when hee hath cho&s;en them. <HI>Lewes</HI> the eleventh of <HI>France</HI> was excellent in this, and would &s;pare for no Reward (though hee were coveteous be|low the <HI>decorum</HI> of a <HI>King</HI>) to one whom hee thought would prove a convenient <HI>in&s;trument</HI> for his pur|po&s;e.</P>
<P>Some wi&s;e&s;t Mo|narchs have <HI>&s;edulou&s;ly</HI> noted the de&s;erts of their &s;ervants; no
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doubt a wi&s;e cour&s;e, and &s;uch a one as may keepe their hands <HI>&s;tea|dy</HI> in di&s;pencing of their bounty.</P>
<P>Tho&s;e who have many attendants, mu&s;t not thinke to feede them by <HI>pecuniary</HI> lar|ge&s;&s;es, which will be &s;oone out of minde, and make the other &s;till gaping after <HI>renewed</HI> liberty; but &s;hould be rather free of their <HI>countenance</HI> then <HI>pur&s;e,</HI> which as it cannot be <HI>inexhau&s;tible;</HI> &s;o if im|moderatly <HI>drain'd</HI> mu&s;t be &s;upplyed by &s;ome
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unlawfull meanes. In a word, <HI>Rewards</HI> ought not to exceede t<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e <HI>me|rits</HI> of him they are confer'd <HI>on,</HI> nor the <HI>abi|lity</HI> of him that <HI>confers</HI> them.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="13" TYPE="essay">
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<HEAD>Of Fables. <HI>XIII.</HI></HEAD>
<P>AS <HI>Parrha&s;ius</HI> limnd a Veile with &s;uch <HI>happine&s;&s;e,</HI> that his Corrivall would have drawne it <HI>a&s;ide</HI> to &s;ee what it covered; &s;uch are the <HI>Fables</HI> of Po|ets; wee &s;uppo&s;e they &s;hadow &s;ome|what, but finde No|thing. To &s;hape every one of them to a <HI>Morall</HI> were all one
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as to force every Picture to an Emblem-and with Pictures they hold a great <HI>Analogy;</HI> Some are <HI>rough drawne</HI> and <HI>&s;hew be&s;t</HI> at <HI>di&s;|tance,</HI> &s;ome are <HI>&s;mooth</HI> and admit a <HI>nearer</HI> &s;urvay; Some <HI>Tougher</HI> Inventions be&s;t plea&s;e at a <HI>carele&s;&s;e peru&s;all;</HI> Others more <HI>finely wrought</HI> after a curi|ous enquiry, be&s;t <HI>comply</HI> with the Fan|cy; &s;mall peeces be&s;t commend them&s;elves through a <HI>Magnifying</HI> Gla&s;&s;e; greater, in a <HI>Shaddow; &s;hort</HI> Fables
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become <HI>Amplificati|ons,</HI> longer would be &s;omewhat <HI>wound up; Antick</HI> worke plea|&s;eth with its <HI>ab&s;urdi|ty, Hi&s;toricall</HI> by its <HI>Jmitation;</HI> &s;ome &s;to|ries delight more by their further reced|ing <HI>from,</HI> &s;ome by their nearer <HI>approach|ing</HI> to the truth; So <HI>Picture</HI> is nothing but <HI>Poe&s;ie</HI> in <HI>Colours,</HI> and <HI>Poe&s;ie</HI> onely <HI>Picture</HI> in <HI>black</HI> and <HI>white;</HI> both of them, <HI>skrue</HI> and <HI>winde</HI> up the imagi|nation, and give mo&s;t life to Pa&s;&s;ions and
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Receive the <HI>be&s;t Or|nament</HI> from them; but it is hight of Art in both; which, who &s;o hath attained, can withall command a|nothers <HI>Eye,</HI> or <HI>Coun|tenance. Landskapps</HI> and <HI>fine De&s;criptions</HI> doe <HI>dilate</HI> and <HI>enlarge</HI> the Eye, but the <HI>dexter|ous Characterizing</HI> of a thought in the face attracts and fixes it.</P>
<P>Where many Rela|tions are to bee <HI>knit</HI> up in one &s;eries, it &s;hewes excellent cun|ning to joyne them
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without a <HI>Seame. Ovids</HI> Metamorpho&s;es &s;peake him extreame happy in <HI>this,</HI> in that hee hath &s;o <HI>quaintly</HI> knit &s;o many various rela|tions, that they are indeed but one entire body, whereas <HI>Ario|&s;to</HI> will interruptly &s;hake hands with the Reader, at halfe a Tales end and <HI>wre&s;t</HI> his Attention to a new bu|&s;ine&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>That Fabling is no lying, may ea&s;ily bee granted, &s;ince Divines will acknowledge it is but truth <HI>apparelled</HI>
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like a fiction; things by this meanes doe more <HI>&s;lily</HI> drop into the minds of Men, e&s;pe|cially the vulgar, who will bee be&s;t led by things that come nea|re&s;t the <HI>Sen&s;e;</HI> This made Morality <HI>a&s;&s;ume</HI> the &s;hapes of <HI>Rationall</HI> bea&s;ts, <HI>&s;peaking</HI> woods, <HI>Articulate</HI> Birds; this I conceive hath made the <HI>Aeygptians,</HI> want|ing the u&s;e of Let|ters, flie to <HI>Hierogly|phicks;</HI> or to &s;peake <HI>out,</HI> what hath cau&s;ed &s;o many <HI>Anthropo|pathies,</HI> and <HI>Allegories</HI>
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in the holy Scrip|ture?</P>
<P>As they are u&s;efull this way, &s;o are they dangerous if they bee prophane, and <HI>indi&s;|creetly</HI> tampering with Dieties; 'tis a <HI>ble|mi&s;h</HI> of the Prince of Poets in <HI>a&s;&s;igning</HI> &s;o unfitting parts to his <HI>deathle&s;&s;e</HI> and <HI>bloodle&s;&s;e</HI> (that is all hee can make of them) <HI>Men,</HI> making <HI>Counter&s;cuffles</HI> in Olympus, bringing his <HI>Iove</HI> one time <HI>ram|bling,</HI> another time <HI>cheated</HI> with a &s;leepy drinke, other while
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<HI>bound; Juno</HI> jealous, <HI>Venus</HI> wounded, and &s;uch kinde of <HI>Ribal|dry,</HI> that young wits may ea&s;ily draw in <HI>Athei&s;me,</HI> or <HI>Polythei&s;|me</HI> like <HI>Poy&s;on</HI> in a <HI>perfume;</HI> And why may not dealing in &s;uch Wares make <HI>Poeta&s;ters</HI> &s;o <HI>chill</HI> in their Reli|gion, nay render them &s;o <HI>profane?</HI> why may not their <HI>Poverty</HI> and <HI>Contempt</HI> bee a ju&s;t Re|ward of Heaven, that though &s;inging cleare their <HI>Che&s;ts,</HI> it can ne|ver fill their <HI>bellies,</HI> or <HI>warme</HI> their Backs;
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<HI>Canta larana</HI> (&s;ayes the Spaniard) <HI>y no tein peil nilana.</HI></P>
<Q><L>The Frogge &s;till &s;ings,</L>
<L>yet never gaines</L>
<L>A Fleece nor haire</L>
<L>for all her pains.</L></Q>
<P>But this is <HI>digre&s;|&s;ive;</HI> That <HI>foolery</HI> (to name it be&s;t) of <HI>Ho|mer</HI> procured his ba|ni&s;hment out of <HI>Pla|to's</HI> Common-Wealth, though <HI>Plato</HI> by his <HI>practice</HI> &s;hewed the <HI>high e&s;timation</HI> hee had of Poetry; yet though <HI>Homer</HI> bee mo&s;t guil|ty,
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few there are of the other Poets that can <HI>&s;tand</HI> cleere; but it is ob&s;ervable the&s;e Inventions are mo&s;t <HI>quick, fine,</HI> and <HI>full of life,</HI> wherein there doe not <HI>intervene</HI> any other per&s;ons but mor|tall.</P>
<P>Nor would Stories bee la&s;civious, no drug &s;o powerfull to pro|voke Lu&s;t, they be|ing <HI>&s;peculative filth,</HI> and <HI>contemplative wan|tonne&s;&s;e,</HI> which wound the &s;oule deeper, be|cau&s;e they doe &s;ur|pri&s;e her <HI>unguarded;</HI>
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how uncleane have the Heathens beene in that they &s;hamed Heaven it &s;elfe, with &s;uch <HI>pollution,</HI>
<Q>In Caelo e&s;t meretrix, in Caelo e&s;t turpis adu<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters">;</Q></P>
<P>And <HI>honoured</HI> &s;uch high Crimes with no wor&s;e <HI>Monuments</HI> then <HI>A&s;teri&s;mes?</HI> how ill have many Moderns, as well as Ancients de&s;erved in making Poetry their Baude and Limners to make their Tables the <HI>In|terpreters,</HI>
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nay the <HI>Pro|moters</HI> of lewdene&s;&s;e? One example may bee <HI>Chaerea</HI> in <HI>Terence,</HI> beholding <HI>Jove</HI> turn|ing him&s;elfe into a <HI>bribe,</HI> to gaine <HI>Danae. Egomet quoque id &s;pect|are caepi, &amp; quia con &s;imilem lu&s;erat jam olim ille ludum&mdash;Ego Homuncio hoc non fa|cerem?</HI></P>
<P>There hath beene a great deale of <HI>Rich Fancy</HI> lo&s;t in <HI>frothy</HI> Love-Stories, and <HI>fanta&s;ticall Chimera's,</HI> which had it beene be&s;towed on &s;ome
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<HI>rare Idaeas,</HI> might have beene altogether as <HI>profitable</HI> and <HI>delight|&s;ome</HI> as they are now <HI>hurtfull;</HI> what rare Common-wealths have beene <HI>molded,</HI> by Sir <HI>Thomas Moore, Cam|panella,</HI> &amp;c. What a &s;tupendious Fabrick of a College for Na|ture, hath great Saint <HI>Albanes</HI> reard; how hath <HI>Barclay</HI> layd open the <HI>di&s;tempers</HI> of a <HI>&s;urfeting</HI> State <HI>Xene|phon</HI> the Vertues of an excellent Captain?</P>
<P>Tis a delicate In|vention, that of Ma&s;ter
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<HI>Howell,</HI> wherein hee turnes <HI>Europe</HI> into a Grove, and among the <HI>Thickets Satyrizes</HI> an exact Hi&s;tory; tis wholy new; nor can Antiquity &s;hew the like; and might be much <HI>promoted,</HI> if &s;ome <HI>re|fin'd</HI> wits would per|forme the like on o|ther Peeces of Na|ture, &s;ince Bea&s;ts, or Birds might as well act &s;uch parts as Trees.</P>
<P>We will take a &s;hort view of Poetry, &s;ince it hath &s;uch <HI>Relation</HI> to Fables, that it
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may bee a Que&s;tion whether Poetry be|get Fables, or Fables Poetry; it is a &s;weete kinde of madne&s;&s;e, which yet argues an <HI>Harmonious &s;oule, Doctri|uae tanquam Somnium,</HI> (&s;ayes that Prodigy of Literature) <HI>Res dul|cis &amp; varia, &amp; vo|lens in &s;e aliquid ha|bere Divini quod etiam Somnia vendicant;</HI> tis too high for a Recre|ation, and too <HI>&s;leight</HI> for an imployment; where it meetes with a prone&s;&s;e of Na|ture, very <HI>bewitching,</HI>
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and not ea&s;ily <HI>avoyded,</HI> but it will make <HI>In|rodes</HI> into &s;erious and great employments, as in King, <HI>Iames, Pius</HI> the &s;econd who was a Poer Laureat, <HI>&V;r|ban</HI> the Eight, the Cardinals <HI>Bembo</HI> and <HI>Peron,</HI> and Sir <HI>Philip Sydney,</HI> his compa|nion the Lord <HI>Brooke,</HI> The Earle of <HI>Strivel|ing</HI> and others; this excellency it hath, that it both <HI>makes</HI> and <HI>formes</HI> its owne mat|ter, and is as bound|le&s;&s;e as the imagination of Man.</P>
<P><PB N="200" REF="114">Epick <HI>Straines lift</HI> the Soule into high conceptions of vertue, and <HI>Glory;</HI> Lyrick <HI>lull</HI> it a&s;leepe with plea|&s;ure; Elegaick melt it with <HI>Sorrow</HI> and <HI>pi|ty;</HI> Satyrick &s;tir up hate again&s;t <HI>Vice,</HI> and &s;ometimes <HI>teach</HI> it, which makes their writings of an <HI>Ambi|guous</HI> Nature; <HI>Lubin</HI> prote&s;ts there is more Morality in one Sa|tyre of <HI>Iuvenal,</HI> then in the ten Bookes of <HI>Ari&s;totle</HI> to <HI>Nichoma|chus; Scaliger</HI> cryes out of him as not fit for <HI>Chri&s;tian</HI> ears.</P>
<P><PB N="201" REF="114">Every one that can make words dance in Numbers (there may be a Poem too in Pro&s;e) is not a Poet, but onely The&s;e that <HI>rai&s;e</HI> them|&s;elves to &s;uch a <HI>pitch</HI> that they are <HI>inacce&s;&s;ible</HI> by future imitation; and in this &s;en&s;e hee &s;pake truly that &s;ayd, <HI>E|very Age hath &s;carce pro|duc'd a Poet.</HI></P>
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<P><HI>Imprimatur</HI> Charles Herle.</P>
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<P>The Judicious <HI>Reader</HI> may be plea|&s;ed to pa&s;&s;e the li|teral &s;lips, they being ea&s;ily cor|rigible.</P>
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