A
comparatiue
Discourse
of
the
Bodies
Naturall
and
Politique
.
IT
was
pithily
spoken
of
Pithagoras
,
Homo
monsura
rerum
omnium
.
That
man
is
the
measure
of
al
things
:
importing
thereby
,
that
man
by
the
ampliation
and
application
of
his
powers
apprehensiue
,
discerneth
,
discusseth
,
and
confineth
the
seuerall
works
of
nature
:
with
his
sences
hee
measureth
things
sensible
,
with
his
vnderstanding
he
perceiueth
things
intellectuall
,
with
his
illuminate
&
inspired
knowledge
,
he
comprehendeth
things
diuine
and
supernaturall
;
yea
more
,
by
this
so
large
and
vnmeasured
measure
,
all
things
are
made
sutable
to
the
esteeme
of
man
,
and
be
either
great
or
small
,
light
or
heauy
,
faire
or
illfauored
,
desireable
or
auoydable
,
as
by
mans
well
or
ill
conceauing
the
same
bee
valued
.
But
beyond
all
this
,
the
meaning
of
that
sage
sentence
extendeth
yet
farther
,
That
in
the
very
composure
of
man
,
there
is
manifestly
discouered
a
summary
abstract
of
absolute
perfection
,
by
the
which
as
by
an
excellent
Idea
,
or
an
exact
rule
,
we
may
examine
and
exemplifie
all
other
things
.
The
Mathematicians
haue
found
out
by
their
obseruance
of
the
beautious
and
vniforme
proportion
of
the
body
of
man
,
and
by
the
symetrie
of
the
parts
therof
,
their
true
scantlines
and
dimensions
;
yea
by
the
laying
of
it
in
his
full
length
,
&
then
spreading
the
armes
and
legges
to
their
widest
compasse
,
they
haue
contriued
both
the
perfect
square
,
and
the
exact
circle
:
The
square
,
by
foure
right
lines
at
the
foure
vttermost
points
of
the
hands
and
feet
;
the
circle
,
by
rounding
a
line
about
those
points
,
placing
the
center
of
their
compasse
vpon
the
nauell
.
The
naturall
Philosophers
reduceth
the
vastnesse
of
the
vniuersal
(
comprehending
all
things
that
hath
either
being
,
or
vegitation
,
or
sence
,
or
reason
)
vnto
this
same
well
compacted
Epitome
of
mans
fabrifacture
.
Then
much
more
may
the
politique
Philosopher
,
hauing
for
his
proper
subiect
the
compound
of
men
ciuilly
assembled
and
associate
,
make
man
the
obiect
of
his
discourse
and
contemplation
,
to
fit
his
treatise
with
good
fashion
to
so
imitable
a
patterne
.
Therefore
this
measure
(
thus
induced
thereto
)
I
haue
made
my
choice
of
,
to
trie
thereby
the
forme
of
a
commonweale
,
what
therein
is
right
or
wrye
,
what
redundant
or
defectiue
,
what
orderly
or
disproportionable
;
the
helpe
of
such
a
briefe
,
and
the
trueth
of
such
a
standerd
,
may
serue
to
ballance
the
matters
of
deliberation
,
fitly
accommodating
and
rectifying
all
designements
and
proceedings
.
And
sith
I
doe
find
this
lyne
of
likenesse
to
bee
chalked
out
vnto
vs
in
Gods
works
,
I
will
there
begin
my
applying
,
where
that
profound
wisdom
hath
begun
his
framing
.
As
in
the
creating
of
man
God
conioined
a
soule
for
action
,
in
a
body
passiue
:
so
in
his
ordinance
of
mans
sociable
conuersing
(
to
make
the
vnion
of
a
body
politike
)
he
hath
knit
together
a
passiue
subiection
to
an
actiue
superoiritie
:
Alexander
,
that
Iupiter
was
not
bound
thereby
to
doe
iustly
,
but
that
the
people
were
thereof
to
conceiue
,
that
whatsoeuer
Iupiter
did
was
iust
.
It
is
worthie
the
noting
,
In
the
creating
of
man
,
It
was
not
in
the
power
of
the
body
either
to
chuse
or
refuse
the
soule
,
but
his
right
of
admission
depended
only
on
the
pleasure
of
his
imediate
maker
.
Nestor
,
reproouing
of
Achilles
for
his
obstinate
withdrawing
from
Agamemnons
regiment
,
and
his
ouerbold
contending
with
the
King
,
sith
his
Imperie
was
of
God
.
True
it
is
,
that
euen
in
the
same
phrases
all
things
may
be
sayd
to
bee
of
God
,
and
from
God
,
as
the
authour
,
creator
,
preseruer
,
and
disposer
thereof
:
yet
when
we
find
him
to
single
out
and
appropriat
any
onething
more
especially
vnto
his
owne
designements
,
wee
are
there
to
take
notice
of
his
greater
respectiuenesse
,
and
his
ouerswaying
greatnesse
in
the
disposing
and
ordering
of
that
matter
beyond
the
orders
and
limitations
of
lawes
or
customes
;
yea
in
such
a
case
he
conformeth
the
secundarie
causes
,
to
cooperate
with
him
to
his
owne
ends
:
as
when
he
framed
the
peoples
hearts
,
and
the
concurrance
of
their
consents
in
the
electing
of
Saul
and
Dauid
vnto
the
kingly
office
,
whom
notwithstanding
he
had
before
himselfe
appointed
and
anointed
to
that
function
.
Wherefore
as
the
soule
notwithstanding
the
mediate
meanes
of
procreation
,
is
vsually
sayd
to
bee
infused
from
aboue
into
the
body
:
so
the
Soueraigne
euen
in
his
particular
parson
,
but
much
more
the
soueraigne
authoritie
may
notwithstanding
the
approbation
of
men
,
or
any
other
assisting
helps
in
the
establishing
thereof
,
be
rightly
auouched
to
bee
ordained
and
designed
by
God
himselfe
.
As
the
soule
(
in
imitation
of
that
infinitenesse
from
which
it
was
first
breathed
)
spendeth
all
his
powers
with
an
insatiate
desire
in
the
search
and
inquisition
of
more
and
more
knowledge
,
In
that
the
soule
is
authour
of
action
and
motion
in
the
body
passiue
,
Agamemnon
.
Howsoeuer
the
body
be
termed
passiue
,
in
regard
of
the
soules
working
in
and
by
his
instruments
,
Iā
iā
not
impossible
&
vnsensible
,
that
a
body
should
liue
or
moue
by
any
other
soule
,
than
that
wherunto
by
nature
it
is
vnited
.
And
is
it
not
as
absurd
in
any
mans
vnderstanding
,
and
as
preposterous
by
vsurpation
,
that
any
forraine
power
should
intrude
to
rule
and
exercise
iurisdiction
in
any
other
kingdom
entire
within
it selfe
,
The
soule
and
the
body
are
so
firmely
and
intirely
vnited
in
nature
,
that
the
Philosophers
found
it
no
easie
worke
to
bound
each
from
other
with
iust
distinguishment
,
or
proportionable
partition
.
Tullie
desirous
to
hold
an
equal
or
middle
course
,
blameth
as
well
Aristippus
,
for
affecting
the
body
too
much
,
as
if
there
were
no
soule
:
as
also
Zeno
,
for
forgetting
that
we
haue
also
bodies
,
To
begin
with
the
soule
:
If
wee
should
gather
and
bind
together
all
his
distinguished
parts
,
To
discourse
at
large
,
with
full
sailes
,
how
the
sences
do
recommend
their
conceiuing
vnto
the
fantasie
;
how
the
fantasie
deliuereth
them
ouer
vnto
the
vnderstanding
;
how
the
vnderstanding
either
absolutely
iudgeth
them
by
reason
,
or
erroniously
mistaketh
them
by
opinion
;
how
either
reason
or
opinion
,
exciteth
affections
;
how
affections
either
aduised
by
deliberation
,
or
passionate
by
humors
,
induceth
the
assent
of
the
will
;
and
how
the
will
commaundeth
&
enforceth
motion
and
prosecution
in
all
or
any
parts
of
the
bobie
:
howsoeuer
it
might
amplie
and
excellently
illustrate
the
powerfull
operations
of
the
soule
,
so
orderly
lincked
,
cheyned
,
and
wrapped
one
within
another
:
yet
lest
the
delightsomnesse
of
following
the
tract
of
so
well
pleasing
a
theame
,
should
draw
me
too
far
out
of
my
way
,
I
will
wynd
about
againe
,
by
making
a
second
suruey
thereof
,
in
the
matching
to
the
same
of
mine
applications
.
The
gouerning
preeminence
of
the
estate
,
But
who
so
listeth
to
behold
this
Politicall
soule
of
the
State
in
his
full
royaltie
and
amplitude
,
let
him
looke
vpon
his
more
noble
parts
,
the
sensuall
and
intellectuall
;
Gerion
,
whom
Iustine
interpreteth
to
signifie
the
vnion
of
three
louing
brethren
;
then
it
seeth
more
than
the
hundreth
eyes
of
Argus
,
and
acteth
more
than
the
hundreth
handes
of
Briareus
.
All
Subiects
will
,
as
the
sences
,
play
the
espials
and
intelligencers
;
as
the
members
,
be
stirred
and
commaunded
in
cases
of
imployment
;
and
as
the
spirits
imaginatiue
,
propose
for
apprehension
,
the
true
shapes
and
formes
of
things
,
either
pleasing
and
eligible
,
or
hurtfull
and
auoydable
.
The
Councellors
of
State
like
the
vnderstanding
facultie
,
The
fauorites
of
a
Prince
may
be
resembled
to
the
fantasies
of
the
Soule
,
The
will
of
the
Soueraigne
in
the
decreeing
or
enacting
of
Lawes
,
From
the
errors
of
inferior
sences
,
the
conceit
of
the
common
sence
receiueth
much
misinforming
,
Bellorophon
,
Pegasus
.
The
force
of
these
headie
and
giddie
perturbations
is
tyrannously
extreame
,
and
that
not
onelie
in
the
common
sort
of
men
,
(
whom
like
to
a
heard
of
Swine
,
they
whirle
headlong
into
a
Sea
of
vices
)
but
also
in
persons
of
the
best
qualitie
,
whose
resistance
proueth
oft
too
faint
to
escape
,
or
keepe
off
such
violent
inuasions
as
suppresseth
and
vanquisheth
euen
reason
it selfe
:
So
is
the
Soueraigne
sometimes
by
Traytors
and
Reuolters
surprised
and
constrained
vnnaturally
and
vnlawfully
,
to
the
interruption
of
his
gouernment
,
and
ruinating
of
the
State
.
Opinion
is
the
forerunner
(
if
not
the
father
)
of
affections
,
Medusa
,
fearfull
,
fretfull
,
greeuing
,
carefull
,
repining
,
and
dispairing
thoughts
,
filling
the
soule
with
the
horror
of
much
discomfiture
;
such
malecontents
and
froward
cinicks
the
Soueraigne
oft
is
pestered
with
,
The
mind
hath
yet
one
endowment
more
,
which
almost
equalleth
all
the
rest
;
These
faculties
the
soule
doth
shew
and
exercise
,
in
and
with
the
organs
of
the
body
,
but
he
hath
a
farther
and
more
inlarged
force
,
preter
&
contra
naturam
:
So
the
soule
,
besides
his
vsuall
&
functionarie
operations
,
in
and
by
the
ministerial
abilities
of
the
body
,
hath
other
peculiar
motions
and
actions
of
his
owne
,
neither
aided
nor
impeached
by
any
corporiall
assistance
or
resistance
.
To
this
likenesse
of
God
and
the
soule
,
let
vs
also
shape
our
Soueraigntie
:
which
(
besides
that
which
is
regular
in
regiment
,
and
from
his
power
and
goodnes
imparted
vnto
the
people
)
hath
still
,
and
reteineth
to
it selfe
certaine
prerogatiue
rights
of
most
ample
extentions
,
and
most
free
exemptions
,
whereof
true
reuerence
(
filled
with
all
submissiue
acknowledgements
,
and
contented
with
that
portion
and
interest
which
it
receiueth
from
regalitie
)
admitteth
no
questioning
disputes
,
and
whereof
iust
gouernours
do
not
so
farre
inlarge
the
lists
,
as
to
do
what
they
lust
,
but
do
so
moderate
the
vse
(
as
God
in
the
world
,
and
the
Soule
in
the
body
)
not
to
the
impeach
,
but
to
the
support
of
iustice
;
not
to
the
hurt
,
but
to
the
good
of
subiects
.
Thus
hauing
perused
the
seuerall
parts
and
properties
of
the
soule
,
together
with
the
likenesse
and
correspondence
of
soueraigntie
therto
;
not
without
touching
also
the
dangers
and
declinations
whereunto
they
both
are
subiect
:
I
should
(
if
I
were
not
tied
within
a
teather
,
and
thereby
restrained
from
al
affectionate
discoursing
or
dilating
)
frame
vnto
them
both
some
hortatorie
admonition
vnto
circumspect
demeanure
,
for
the
preuenting
of
ensnaring
euils
,
and
reprochfull
obloquies
.
Anaximenes
,
to
terme
him
as
he
conceiued
of
the
soule
,
to
bee
wauering
and
fleeting
ayre
?
If
caringly
he
regard
the
support
of
his
high
port
,
by
attending
his
profits
,
and
looking
to
his
prouisions
,
is
hee
to
be
concluded
and
pronounced
,
as
Zenophantes
thought
the
soule
,
to
be
concreat
of
earth
?
How
much
better
were
it
rather
to
apply
vnto
the
Soueraigne
the
opinion
which
Aristotle
held
of
the
soule
,
that
he
consisteth
of
the
pure
and
excellentest
essence
,
being
to
be
accounted
scant
any
humane
creature
,
Cicero
.
but
wholy
of
a
celestiall
temper
,
as
from
thence
both
originally
ordained
,
&
daily
gouerned
?
or
to
make
him
hold
comparison
with
the
soule
,
in
that
supremest
title
(
which
Euripides
durst
bestow
vppon
the
soule
)
euen
to
be
a
God
.
For
which
appellation
to
bee
bestowed
vppon
the
Soueraigne
,
the
God
of
gods
hath
giuen
vs
a
warrant
beyond
all
warrants
,
The
manifold
and
mightie
effects
,
which
in
,
and
for
the
body
politique
,
this
states
soule
performeth
,
doth
ratifie
the
same
by
reason
also
.
Is
not
the
body
of
it selfe
a
confused
lump
,
vnformed
,
sencelesse
,
witlesse
,
and
destitute
of
all
helping
meanes
to
mayntaine
it selfe
from
perishing
and
vtter
dissoluing
?
and
doth
not
this
soule
(
setting
to
worke
all
his
assisting
powers
)
quicken
it
,
moue
it
,
care
for
it
,
prouide
for
it
,
cherish
it
with
his
loue
,
furnish
it
with
his
gifts
,
gouerne
it
with
his
wisdome
,
establish
it
with
his
iustice
,
&
protect
it
with
his
puissance
?
If
then
he
bee
the
deriuatiue
,
and
(
as
it
were
)
a
diminitiue
of
the
mightie
God
,
shall
not
his
vassals
(
both
respectiuely
to
his
so
high
entitelings
,
There
is
a
question
amongst
the
Philosophers
,
where
and
in
what
part
of
the
body
the
soule
should
bee
seated
;
some
place
it
in
the
head
,
If
any
desire
to
vnderstand
how
this
discourse
of
the
Soules
either
larger
dilatation
of
himselfe
throughout
the
whole
bodie
,
or
of
his
more
especiall
appropriating
of
his
presence
and
worke
vnto
particuler
parts
,
will
accord
by
comparison
with
Soueraigntie
in
a
State
ciuill
;
let
him
in
like
sort
examine
how
fitly
the
name
of
the
head
agreeth
with
the
nature
of
a
Soueraigne
;
and
how
properly
the
heart
patterneth
the
preeminence
,
and
how
he
doth
seuerally
conuey
and
impart
to
any
part
of
his
dominions
,
the
verie
essentiall
faculties
of
his
gouernment
;
without
the
which
no
people
can
euer
as
subiects
raunge
themselues
into
the
order
,
and
communitie
of
humane
societie
,
howsoeuer
,
as
men
,
or
rather
as
wild
sauages
,
they
may
perhaps
breath
a
while
vpon
the
earth
.
It
is
a
truth
,
that
as
the
Soule
,
so
the
power
of
principalitie
in
gouernment
,
(
though
shewing
it selfe
in
diuerse
manner
,
as
the
varietie
of
euents
ministreth
occasion
)
yet
in
all
points
,
and
all
parts
is
all
one
.
And
that
a
righteous
Soueraigne
(
as
the
soule
doth
in
defending
and
succouring
any
the
least
member
from
destruction
and
harme
)
hath
an
vnpartiall
and
most
respectiue
care
,
which
extendeth
it selfe
(
as
God
and
the
Soule
doth
)
vniuersally
to
the
whole
,
and
particulerly
to
each
member
indiuiduall
.
The
which
point
of
so
large
dilating
his
force
,
(
to
the
resemblance
of
such
two
patterns
in
a
manner
secresed
and
vnseene
)
if
I
might
haue
leaue
to
straine
a
little
farther
,
I
could
haue
it
serue
me
also
thus
far
,
as
(
at
the
least
)
to
make
a
shew
in
that
question
propounded
by
some
great
Clerks
in
policie
,
touching
the
Princes
ouer
prodigall
imparting
of
his
presence
amongst
his
people
:
For
seeing
that
both
God
and
the
Soule
,
Philip
Comm.
and
to
work
more
regarding
,
more
admiring
,
and
more
adoring
,
if
(
howsoeuer
their
power
in
operating
doth
shew
it selfe
)
yet
their
presence
be
more
sparingly
&
lesse
familiarly
vouchsafed
.
What
is
become
ordinarie
,
that
we
vse
either
neglectingly
to
contemne
,
or
fastidiously
to
dislike
;
as
on
the
other
side
,
what
hath
for
strangenesse
a
noueltie
,
for
worth
a
dignitie
,
and
for
attayning
a
difficultie
,
is
more
desiringly
,
and
more
admiringly
esteemed
.
Hence
ariseth
in
the
minds
of
subiects
such
egernesse
and
longing
to
satisfie
their
sences
in
the
seeing
,
hearing
,
and
well
knowing
of
their
Soueraigne
,
as
if
they
were
to
seeke
after
the
head
of
Nilus
,
which
sendeth
them
the
ouerflow
of
their
plentie
;
or
after
the
primum
mobile
of
the
world
,
which
gouerneth
the
conuersions
and
fortunes
of
their
life
.
It
is
herof
concluded
,
that
a
Soueraigne
the
lesse
he
is
exposed
to
publique
obseruance
,
the
more
he
is
presupposed
to
excell
in
amplitude
of
glorie
:
neuerthelesse
it
being
so
commendable
a
vertue
in
a
gouernour
to
haue
such
a
facilitie
and
goodnesse
of
nature
,
as
(
remitting
the
high
cariage
of
his
greatnesse
)
yeeldeth
to
his
people
with
an
affable
gentlenesse
easie
approach
for
enterlocution
.
I
cannot
tell
whether
the
contrarie
sternenesse
(
in
haughtily
shunning
or
repulsing
their
aspect
)
will
not
haue
(
in
the
euen
eye
of
a
well
regarding
policie
)
the
greater
disallowing
.
Now
let
vs
passe
on
to
peruse
the
comparisons
,
taken
from
the
head
.
Plato
imagined
man
to
be
an
heauenlie
plant
;
Plato
.
his
head
to
be
the
roote
;
Plautus
,
that
the
head
thought
himselfe
priuiledged
,
as
it
were
with
a
point
of
prerogatiue
,
to
charge
the
inferior
parts
with
the
shame
of
his
owne
distemper
;
Siccine
fit
hoc
pedes
?
statin
an
non
?
Nam
hercle
si
cecidero
vestrum
erit
flagitium
.
In
Pseud.
Here
leauing
the
head
in
his
vnresistable
right
of
ruling
ouer
the
bodie
,
I
will
to
the
Soule
againe
,
taking
a
farther
view
thereof
,
It
is
admirable
to
see
the
swift
and
sudden
recourse
of
bloud
,
now
stirred
outwardly
at
a
start
like
lightning
,
and
anon
posting
backe
in
feare
of
daunger
to
the
hearts
succour
,
leauing
a
palenesse
and
trembling
in
the
outward
parts
.
The
heart
is
the
well
of
life
,
the
furnace
of
heat
,
the
center
of
bloud
,
the
first
liuing
and
the
last
dying
part
.
Agreeably
to
these
vertues
or
efficacies
of
the
heart
,
let
it
be
confessed
,
that
euerie
commonweale
acknowiedgeth
a
soueraigne
power
,
from
the
which
it
drew
his
first
beginning
,
of
which
it
receiueth
his
dearest
life
bloud
,
with
which
it
is
quickened
as
with
a
liuing
fire
,
to
the
which
it
wholy
trusteth
,
and
returneth
for
refuge
,
by
which
it
is
imployed
and
directed
in
all
intentions
,
and
without
which
it
fayleth
of
continuance
,
and
is
incontinently
dissolued
.
Then
to
such
a
Gouernour
which
both
imparteth
to
al
parts
the
vaines
and
artiries
of
their
surest
welfare
,
and
hath
a
sence
of
any
their
griefs
and
wrongs
,
as
of
his
owne
;
what
and
how
regardant
thankfulnesse
,
seruice
,
and
obseruance
is
deseruedly
due
by
the
faythfull
performance
(
with
the
vttermost
strayne
of
the
very
heart-strings
)
of
all
obedience
to
his
commaunds
and
authoritie
.
The
heart
is
of
all
other
the
firmest
flesh
,
yet
not
fed
with
bloud
by
any
vaynes
;
and
from
it
all
other
flesh
deriueth
by
veynes
his
borrowed
liuing
.
I
haue
heard
it
argued
,
Where
any
affection
predominantly
reigneth
,
it
draweth
thither
such
humors
of
the
bodie
,
as
are
likest
and
best
consorteth
to
it selfe
:
There
is
nothing
that
is
either
more
gracefull
for
seemelinesse
of
shew
,
We
doe
account
as
the
head
,
so
the
heart
to
receiue
hurt
two
waies
,
Admit
that
the
heart
or
the
brayne
were
so
layd
open
to
ouraspects
,
Doe
you
desire
a
brighter
displaying
of
the
illustrious
maiestie
shining
in
soueraigntie
?
Iupiter
,
that
in
his
verie
cradle
could
gripe
Snakes
to
death
,
being
at
no
time
abridged
or
enfeebled
,
but
to
be
supposed
euer
of
a
full
strength
,
age
,
and
power
.
In
his
personall
respects
he
may
partake
of
the
mixture
of
bloud
and
kindred
with
the
subiects
,
but
soueraigntie
admitteth
no
termes
or
titles
of
consanguinitie
.
In
his
personall
respects
hee
is
as
one
man
,
single
and
indiuiduall
,
yet
as
in
the
right
of
Soueraigntie
,
he
gayneth
the
appellation
and
capacities
of
a
corporation
:
In
his
personall
respects
death
maketh
an
end
of
his
life
and
glorie
all
at
once
,
but
soueraigntie
neuer
faileth
(
not
by
the
space
of
one
moment
still
liuing
in
a
successiue
continuation
:
)
and
as
the
consideration
of
the
excellencie
of
the
soule
(
wherunto
the
soueraigntie
,
as
in
these
respects
also
is
agreeably
patterned
)
caused
the
old
Philosophers
(
not
able
by
their
sharpe
inquirings
to
penetrat
into
the
deep
profoundnes
therof
)
admiringly
to
proclayme
,
Let
me
yet
proceed
a
little
farther
in
the
discerning
of
the
wisdome
and
goodnesse
of
the
Creator
,
in
the
ordeining
and
enduing
with
propertie
of
these
principall
receptacles
of
the
soule
,
the
head
,
and
the
heart
:
The
Soule
also
hath
made
choice
of
some
other
principall
parts
in
the
body
,
The
mentioning
of
these
partes
of
the
bodie
(
though
vpon
occasion
of
setting
forth
the
operations
of
the
Soule
,
in
and
by
them
)
hath
put
me
in
mind
of
my
fore-intended
Method
;
which
after
a
matching
of
the
ruling
preeminence
to
the
nature
of
the
soule
,
calleth
me
to
a
suruey
or
recounting
of
such
obserueable
respects
,
as
may
make
the
like
correspondence
betweene
the
subiects
of
a
state
,
and
the
condition
of
a
bodie
:
Wherein
I
must
be
faine
to
deale
with
the
bodie
of
the
state
,
as
Minerua
did
with
the
bodie
of
Vlisses
,
who
in
the
safe
conducting
,
and
reducing
of
him
to
his
true
Penelope
,
did
transforme
him
into
diuers
shapes
,
sometimes
putting
vpon
him
the
shew
of
a
rimpled
and
withered
age
,
and
anone
againe
restoring
him
to
his
freshest
hew
,
and
lustiest
strength
:
So
will
I
also
(
holding
my
intention
to
make
at
last
an
euerlasting
vnion
of
the
obeying
bodie
to
the
soueraigne
aucthoritie
)
turne
the
same
,
as
I
treat
thereof
,
into
different
formes
,
diuersities
,
and
altering
respects
,
according
as
any
varietie
of
consideration
shall
afford
.
And
I
must
also
further
entreat
the
good
patience
&
licence
of
my
frendly
Readers
,
for
affording
vnto
me
such
libertie
,
as
my selfe
scantly
liketh
of
;
which
is
of
inserting
and
giuing
a
place
in
the
contexrure
of
this
Treatise
,
vnto
some
such
comparisons
,
as
by
there
frequent
vse
in
good
Authours
may
seeme
to
be
ouer
vulgar
,
which
I
could
haue
been
well
content
to
haue
auoyded
,
had
they
not
pressed
vpon
me
with
some
shew
of
necessitie
,
sith
the
more
notoriously
their
likenesse
hath
bin
discouered
&
allowed
,
the
more
might
I
be
noted
either
of
ignorance
in
not
discerning
so
publike
proofs
for
my
purpose
,
or
of
an
affected
singularitie
,
in
contemningly
omitting
what
the
worthiest
writers
haue
chosen
as
diamonds
and
precious
stones
to
enrich
and
garnish
their
works
withall
.
And
thus
much
perhaps
I
may
performe
in
part
of
amends
,
that
by
such
(
as
it
were
)
my
new
setting
thereof
,
the
same
shall
be
more
lightsomly
refreshed
,
and
emblazoned
with
a
more
orient
lustre
.
In
the
composition
of
the
bodie
politique
(
as
of
the
naturall
)
there
is
required
a
concurrance
or
euen
mixture
of
foure
Elements
,
Where
the
humors
are
in
good
harmonie
of
good
agreement
,
&
the
bodie
thereby
in
good
health
,
there
we
doe
not
dislike
to
haue
flesh
and
fat
enough
,
but
if
they
be
peccant
,
and
so
the
bodie
crasie
,
The
naturall
body
hath
his
infancy
,
his
youthfulnes
,
Vulcan
)
I
will
onely
make
this
gaine
of
that
first
comparison
,
That
sith
the
said
two
bodies
are
so
fitly
and
fully
conioined
in
semblance
by
their
whole
course
,
euen
from
the
cradle
to
the
graue
;
I
shall
not
need
to
feare
blame
,
for
fashioning
of
their
agreeablenes
in
other
also
more
particuler
considerations
.
The
naturall
body
for
the
preseruing
of
health
,
As
the
regiment
of
health
in
our
bodies
may
fayle
or
offend
,
si
laxes
erepit
,
but
si
string
as
erumpit
:
so
that
(
though
he
be
hardly
by
either
way
detayned
in
steaddinesse
)
yet
by
the
feeling
of
himselfe
to
be
too
much
griped
,
hee
the
more
enforceth
all
his
strength
and
motion
for
his
enlargement
:
for
my
part
I
professe
,
that
I
had
rather
(
as
taking
it
to
be
lesse
to
my
harme
)
go
slackly
girt
,
yea
quite
loose
&
male
cinctus
,
than
to
bee
straightly
pinched
with
tying
or
swadling
too
hard
:
and
it
is
but
too
often
found
by
experience
,
that
the
straight
laced
men
,
whether
so
held
in
by
any
compelling
authoritie
,
or
thereunto
fashioned
by
a
voluntary
imposition
,
from
their
owne
austeritie
,
doe
breake
forth
more
outragiously
,
and
shake
off
the
cords
of
obedience
more
desperatly
,
when
occasion
shall
moue
them
to
streine
and
striue
for
a
pretenced
libertie
,
by
a
course
of
commotion
;
opinionat
wilfulnesse
,
the
more
check
and
stop
it
findeth
,
the
more
violently
it
will
seeke
to
make
his
way
forth
,
vt
exeat
in
ingenuum
suum
.
The
bodie
also
must
haue
moderate
exercise
for
the
encrease
of
heat
,
the
digesting
of
crudities
,
and
the
acquiring
of
a
more
actiue
strength
.
Both
the
bodies
doe
also
herein
agree
,
as
to
be
tended
and
ordered
as
seuerall
respects
shal
giue
occasion
:
In
the
bodie
naturall
the
sustenance
is
not
all
caried
to
one
side
,
or
to
one
part
,
Neither
yet
must
wee
hereuppon
induce
any
paritie
or
equallitie
,
which
nature
herselfe
abandoneth
:
If
there
bee
any
not
yet
persuaded
of
this
different
respectiuenesse
to
be
had
of
men
in
the
state
,
It
is
not
therefore
called
a
Commonwealth
,
All
the
members
ioine
their
assisting
aid
,
and
effect
their
whole
force
according
to
their
diuers
functions
,
This
fellow
suffering
,
this
strong
vnion
,
and
enterchanged
kindnesse
,
shewed
so
louingly
in
the
parts
of
the
bodie
,
instructeth
all
true
subiects
of
any
countrie
to
the
mutuall
performance
of
all
friendly
offices
,
and
to
the
firmest
adherence
against
all
opposing
enmities
,
or
in
all
perilous
necessities
;
remembring
that
a
common
daunger
alike
distresseth
the
lesse
as
the
greatest
;
but
especially
,
to
bee
tenderly
affected
in
the
losse
or
harme
likely
to
befall
their
choicest
statesmen
of
the
best
account
and
qualitie
,
against
whom
the
enemies
of
the
state
doe
chiefly
bend
their
malignant
intentions
,
From
this
founteine
of
natures
so
wise
distribution
and
distinguishment
of
the
parts
,
in
sorting
them
so
orderly
to
their
seuerall
functions
,
this
consideration
also
floweth
and
offereth
it selfe
;
that
as
there
must
be
a
proportionablenesse
and
a
kind
of
vnanimitie
of
the
members
,
for
the
aiding
and
adorning
of
the
publike
comprehending
all
:
so
that
foule
daughter
of
darknesse
and
Chaos
confused
and
all
disturbing
Anarchie
,
is
to
be
exiled
,
or
rather
excluded
out
of
this
compaction
of
the
bodie
politique
each
part
is
to
know
and
administer
his
owne
proper
worke
,
without
entermixing
or
entermedling
in
the
offices
of
any
other
.
Shall
the
foot
be
permitted
to
partake
in
the
point
of
preeminence
with
the
head
?
Hercules
,
till
it
eate
and
consume
the
same
to
the
hard
bones
:
a
sinne
and
shame
that
no
conscience
(
though
steeled
ouer
with
the
Romish
mettall
)
can
make
so
much
as
any
colourable
defence
for
:
a
sinne
and
shame
that
God
himselfe
of
his
miraculous
mercie
,
for
the
honour
of
his
name
,
and
the
loue
of
his
truth
,
so
happily
discouered
,
that
they
might
not
say
,
Where
is
now
their
God
:
A
sinne
and
shame
,
that
we
shall
not
need
to
call
Diuines
by
any
their
disputings
to
conuince
them
of
;
but
which
the
verie
Humanists
and
Moralists
out
of
the
grounds
of
reason
and
learning
,
will
make
the
whole
world
to
wonder
,
hisse
,
and
gnash
their
teeth
at
.
And
which
my
poore
selfe
(
as
the
meanesse
of
my
wit
and
erudition
affordeth
)
euen
by
the
comparatiue
respects
of
the
parts
in
the
bodie
,
which
I
haue
vndertaken
to
set
forth
,
do
condemne
to
the
deepest
dongion
of
hell
,
whence
the
fathers
and
factors
of
the
Romish
faith
hath
first
fetched
it
.
In
the
bodie
there
is
not
any
part
so
weake
,
so
little
,
or
so
base
,
which
God
hath
not
framed
and
appointed
to
some
good
vse
;
and
shall
there
in
the
state
bee
cherished
,
or
suffered
,
any
so
loose
,
idle
,
vagrant
,
and
vnprofitable
people
,
as
that
no
vse
can
bee
made
of
them
for
the
publique
behoofe
?
nay
,
that
bee
noysome
,
pernitious
,
combersome
,
and
contrarious
thereunto
?
Let
vs
but
obserue
nature
,
who
because
shee
would
be
sure
to
make
nothing
in
vaine
(
thereby
teaching
vs
in
the
order
of
gouernment
,
to
allow
no
needlesse
or
fruitles
parts
)
hath
endued
and
designed
some
one
part
vnto
many
vses
.
I
will
propound
onely
one
instance
of
the
hand
,
which
serueth
for
so
many
purposes
,
as
I
thinke
to
resemble
therunto
,
sometimes
the
souldier
that
fighteth
,
sometimes
the
husbandman
that
laboureth
,
sometimes
the
marchant
that
reacheth
and
fetcheth
far
and
neere
,
sometimes
the
artificer
,
who
wholy
practiseth
the
handiecraft
,
sometimes
the
purueiour
,
that
feedeth
and
releeueth
our
liues
with
needfull
nutriment
.
This
so
prouident
accommodating
of
the
parts
vnto
many
imployments
,
disproueth
our
heedlesse
tollerating
of
these
begging
and
shifting
mates
,
who
swarming
euery
where
,
bee
so
farre
from
doing
any
good
in
the
State
,
as
that
they
will
doe
nothing
for
their
owne
liuing
.
Neuerthelesse
,
I
would
not
be
so
mistaken
,
as
if
by
this
president
of
natures
worke
in
bestowing
of
manifold
abilities
vppon
one
part
,
This
allotting
of
two
parts
to
one
function
might
cause
in
our
so
little
bodies
a
great
faction
,
I
must
yet
inferre
one
obseruation
more
of
natures
prouidence
,
Britania
,
Here
I
find
the
matter
of
Vnion
to
lye
so
full
in
my
way
,
The
bodie
may
haue
many
imperfections
and
deformities
,
yea
may
be
bereaued
of
whole
parts
,
There
is
a
time
when
the
bodies
constitution
is
thought
perfect
and
at
the
height
,
as
setled
in
the
middle
point
betweene
redundacies
,
and
deficiencies
,
hauing
neither
any
distemper
within
it selfe
,
nor
disturbance
by
outward
wrongs
:
which
soundnes
of
welfare
,
is
manifested
in
externall
seemings
also
;
as
in
a
liuely
cheerfulnesse
,
a
fresh
colour
,
an
actiue
lustinesse
,
and
such
like
faire
blossomes
of
a
prospering
plant
:
The
State
also
hath
such
a
time
,
Plato
;
his
imagined
Idea
,
nor
Aristotles
sharpe
discussings
doth
fully
discouer
so
much
thereof
,
to
my
apprehension
,
but
my
wishes
may
exceed
the
same
,
by
addition
of
some
further
good
.
When
I
speak
of
perfection
,
I
would
patterne
it
by
paradise
,
or
the
Ierusalem
of
God
;
but
we
must
be
faine
now
to
account
that
perfect
,
which
bewraieth
least
imperfection
,
and
commeth
neerest
to
that
goodnesse
which
may
receiue
allowance
.
Now
(
me
thinketh
)
I
haue
opened
a
fit
passage
for
my
pen
into
a
discourse
very
large
,
and
scantly
to
bee
limitted
;
Of
the
health
requisite
,
the
diseases
incident
,
and
the
remedies
,
applyable
to
a
Commonweale
,
that
herein
also
,
I
may
make
good
my
comparison
thereof
to
the
body
naturall
.
There
is
none
either
so
witlesse
,
or
so
carelesse
,
that
considereth
not
of
the
necessitie
of
health
,
Aristotle
Ethic.
lib.
3.
Chyron
that
wise
centaure
,
ouercome
with
the
paine
of
an
vlcer
,
(
renouncing
immortalitie
)
wished
rather
to
die
than
to
endure
,
In
subiectes
such
an
vlcer
is
discontentednesse
,
That
health
which
the
bodie
hath
by
the
strength
and
goodnes
of
nature
,
Those
things
whereunto
we
haue
bene
most
accustomed
do
lesse
harme
,
and
are
not
to
be
exchanged
,
no
not
for
the
better
;
There
must
be
a
leasurely
and
aduised
proceeding
in
euery
alteration
:
The
mutabilitie
of
this
earthly
state
stirred
by
the
diuersitie
of
causes
,
I
hold
it
better
phisick
to
preserue
health
,
than
to
restore
it
;
and
a
more
commendable
care
to
preuent
,
Tollite
malum
e
vobis
,
and
libera
nos
a
malo
,
And
will
confesse
my selfe
in
this
point
a
Stoycall
statesman
,
by
auouching
no
euill
to
be
so
small
,
(
cloak
it
or
extenuate
it
neuer
so
much
)
but
that
the
(
Tollite
)
barreth
it
of
Tolleration
;
and
the
(
Libera
)
setteth
vs
at
libertie
,
to
haue
nothing
to
doe
therewith
.
I
know
not
what
nice
mitigations
,
or
constructions
(
by
their
fauours
)
they
may
applie
to
this
word
(
Euill
)
but
well
I
wot
,
that
in
the
prescribed
praier
taught
vs
by
Christ
,
in
that
verie
tearme
of
(
euill
)
is
included
and
conteined
the
Diuell
himselfe
:
And
therefore
whatsoeuer
we
assuredlie
resolue
to
be
euill
,
is
as
absolutely
vnsufferable
,
as
any
the
limbs
or
deriued
issues
of
the
diuell
.
Now
(
lest
I
should
be
charged
by
following
of
a
by-path
)
to
haue
digressed
and
raunged
from
my
theame
,
I
will
reuert
to
the
proofs
and
appliances
borrowed
from
the
bodie
.
Let
me
know
of
them
,
whether
their
stomacks
be
so
strong
,
as
when
they
be
clogged
with
heauie
meats
which
they
cannot
digest
,
yet
will
hold
and
still
deteine
the
same
,
neuer
once
striuing
to
cast
them
vp
?
or
is
there
any
of
them
,
that
in
his
owne
bodie
will
with
his
tollerating
patience
endure
a
disease
or
griefe
,
if
it
lyeth
in
his
power
to
remedie
and
rid
the
same
?
nay
more
,
admit
he
be
thereby
but
a
little
troubled
,
and
not
endamaged
at
all
,
yet
will
he
not
(
for
that
trouble
onely
)
seek
redresse
thereof
?
let
it
be
but
the
itching
of
some
salt
humour
,
or
a
fleabyting
(
by
a
sleight
touch
of
the
skin
,
starting
all
the
spirits
)
can
he
be
so
contented
,
as
not
to
attempt
to
ease
himselfe
of
such
disquieting
?
Then
,
from
the
warrant
of
God
,
the
sence
of
nature
,
the
directions
of
wisdome
,
the
necessitie
&
dignitie
of
the
State
,
(
which
is
not
only
to
remoue
his
opposites
,
but
to
aduance
it selfe
to
all
perfection
)
let
vs
abandon
all
such
party-coloured
and
ambodexter
tollerations
,
not
fitting
the
Iustice
or
dignitie
,
or
good
of
the
Commonwealth
.
Neuerthelesse
,
lest
I
should
too
much
lay
open
my
weaknesse
,
both
in
discretion
by
a
presumptuous
asseueration
,
To
conclude
this
point
of
health
:
It
is
so
precious
and
of
so
vnualuable
a
worth
,
The
diseases
that
may
annoy
or
indaunger
the
state
,
are
more
than
I
am
able
to
recount
,
Diseases
arise
as
in
the
body
naturall
by
distemper
of
humours
;
As
against
all
diseases
of
the
naturall
bodie
the
skill
and
application
of
Phisicke
is
ordained
;
Omega
,
The
whole
worke
of
Phisike
is
either
to
continue
health
when
wee
haue
it
,
Panchresta
,
generall
for
all
assayes
,
accommodable
to
any
disease
;
they
haue
some
that
be
meerely
peculier
for
one
or
verie
few
infirmities
,
and
bee
respectiue
to
some
one
part
;
they
haue
some
,
which
for
their
as
well
safenesse
as
vertue
bee
termed
Benedicta
by
the
helpe
wherof
they
both
conceiue
hope
of
helpefull
successe
,
and
assurance
from
all
endangerings
:
They
haue
some
extremely
forcible
,
euen
Eradicatiua
,
pulling
vp
by
the
roots
the
firmely
implanted
,
and
predominantly
preuayling
humours
:
They
haue
some
which
be
preparatiues
,
seruing
but
to
make
way
,
and
worke
an
aptnesse
for
the
stronger
ensuing
remedies
:
They
haue
some
comfortatiue
and
cordiall
,
to
assist
the
softnesse
of
nature
against
ouercharging
assaults
:
They
haue
some
restoratiue
,
to
repaire
the
decaies
,
and
raise
againe
the
deiected
estate
of
health
:
They
haue
some
consuming
corrosiues
,
to
eate
out
what
is
become
dead
and
vnsensible
:
They
haue
some
soporiferous
to
enduce
a
sleeping
dulnesse
and
stupiditie
,
whilest
cures
of
great
aduenture
must
be
effected
:
They
haue
some
lenetiue
,
to
asswage
excessiue
and
raging
paines
:
They
haue
some
exasperating
heaters
,
to
digest
and
draw
out
the
cores
of
corruption
:
They
haue
some
drying
consumers
,
to
waste
away
the
superfluous
confluence
of
any
annoying
matter
:
They
haue
some
attractiue
openers
,
to
loose
and
draw
forth
any
inwardly
infixed
festerings
:
They
haue
dispersers
&
dissoluers
of
any
gathered
together
or
swelling
putrifactions
:
They
haue
repercussiues
,
to
suppresse
and
repell
all
beginning
outrages
:
They
haue
expellers
of
all
that
is
hurtfull
and
burdenous
,
cleansing
the
verie
fountaynes
of
euill
:
They
haue
preseruatiues
against
all
venemous
and
infectious
contagious
:
They
haue
substantiall
consolidators
of
the
dissolued
and
apostumed
parts
,
reducing
all
agayne
to
the
health
and
vnitie
of
nature
;
and
they
both
do
enterchangingly
vse
or
administer
all
or
any
of
these
,
according
to
the
many
different
qualities
,
malice
,
degrees
,
disposition
,
state
,
and
condition
of
diseases
.
The
Phisition
is
not
so
strictlie
tied
to
the
vsuall
forme
or
composure
of
his
receits
and
prescriptions
,
Id
Deus
aliquis
viderit
,
This
is
proponed
for
a
truth
perpetuall
,
vniuersall
,
and
vnresistable
,
that
where
difference
of
considerations
maketh
a
Maius
and
Minus
in
any
fault
,
the
punishment
also
should
be
proportionable
by
the
intention
or
remission
of
lenitie
or
austeritie
.
The
States
Phisitions
after
the
order
and
skill
of
phisick
naturall
,
But
hauing
dwelt
too
long
in
the
description
of
this
disease
(
for
the
remedying
whereof
,
preuention
is
the
best
prescription
)
what
I
haue
farther
to
deliuer
touching
the
diseases
of
the
State
,
or
the
likenes
which
they
haue
with
them
of
the
bodie
,
or
how
to
carrie
or
direct
the
manner
of
tendance
or
ordering
of
them
;
I
must
be
faile
more
compendiously
to
couch
the
infinitenes
thereof
within
the
compasse
of
some
short
positions
,
lest
raunging
too
far
,
I
be
offensiuelie
tedious
,
orseeking
to
match
all
,
I
mar
all
by
making
more
a
doo
than
I
need
.
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1
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1
1
Diseases
in
the
nobler
parts
most
to
be
looked
to
.
The
forenoted
diseases
setled
in
the
nobler
parts
,
are
the
more
principally
to
be
prouided
for
,
and
it
is
ordinarie
to
withdraw
the
anguish
thereof
,
to
some
of
the
lesse
principall
,
yea
though
it
should
be
with
torments
of
incision
,
burning
,
or
ligature
.
[
2
](A01075-e6770-b)
2
2
Where
the
cause
is
inward
.
Where
the
greife
is
outward
,
and
the
cause
inward
,
it
is
the
surest
course
of
curing
to
begin
at
the
remouing
of
the
inward
cause
,
whereby
the
fountaines
of
supplie
may
be
dried
vp
,
[
3
](A01075-e6780-b)
3
3
Where
the
cause
is
vnknowne
.
and
the
braunching
euill
more
easelie
withered
away
.
When
the
disease
proceedeth
from
vnknowen
causes
,
it
is
more
to
be
suspected
and
feared
,
because
it
mateth
and
amazeth
the
Phisition
himselfe
,
finding
either
no
apparance
of
reason
,
[
4
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4
4
Where
the
disease
feedeth
it selfe
from
other
parts
adioyning
.
how
to
make
resistance
or
applying
hazardably
with
likelyhood
of
as
well
hurting
as
helping
.
It
is
vsuall
that
a
disease
setled
in
one
part
,
feedeth
it selfe
by
sucking
the
corruption
from
other
parts
adioyning
;
wherein
for
the
timely
cutting
off
of
such
a
confluence
,
to
make
a
strong
faction
,
it
is
likewise
vsuall
to
comfort
and
make
good
the
parts
adiacent
,
that
the
griefe
more
singly
accompanied
,
may
the
more
soundly
be
encountred
.
The
diseases
that
be
inueterate
&
oflong
continuance
asketh
a
long
healing
,
[
5
](A01075-e6800-b)
5
5
Diseases
inueterate
.
and
be
seldome
so
soundly
remedied
,
but
they
will
reuert
,
and
ioyne
with
any
new
grieuance
,
and
be
lightly
then
more
exasperate
and
cumbersome
than
before
,
or
than
the
new
it selfe
.
The
relaps
into
a
disease
from
which
wee
haue
been
lately
recouered
,
[
6
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6
6
Relaps
into
any
disease
.
doubleth
the
perill
of
the
first
sicknesse
,
being
aduantaged
by
the
weaknesse
and
poore
case
which
it
had
formerly
brought
vs
vnto
.
Some
diseases
taken
in
time
are
easily
helped
,
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7
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7
7
To
applie
cure
in
time
.
which
if
they
be
suffered
to
run
on
,
and
through
our
heedlesnesse
confirme
themselues
,
do
as
easilie
grow
vncureable
;
and
where
a
small
matter
at
the
first
might
restore
health
,
there
after
some
continuance
the
medicine
will
come
too
late
.
Such
diseases
as
be
infectious
,
[
8
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8
Infectious
diseases
.
and
do
spread
far
and
neer
,
are
to
be
auoyded
by
all
meanes
,
as
scant
to
be
helped
by
any
meanes
,
seeing
that
they
force
the
Phisitions
themselues
to
flight
,
not
daring
to
entrude
venterously
into
the
thickest
daunger
,
and
when
they
be
chased
away
,
or
hide
themselues
,
vpon
whom
our
hope
of
help
relyeth
,
what
can
be
expected
but
remedilesse
miserie
?
The
diseases
that
bring
with
them
a
depriuation
of
sence
,
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9
Diseases
depriuing
sence
.
without
any
feeling
or
acknowledging
of
sicknesse
,
argueth
a
great
vnlikelyhood
of
recouerie
,
because
nature
yeeldeth
her selfe
as
contented
,
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10
Diseases
comming
suddenlie
.
and
no
wayes
opposing
thereunto
.
When
sicknesse
commeth
suddenly
and
vnexpected
,
the
verie
violence
of
that
surprise
so
daunteth
the
hart
,
as
that
the
fort
will
be
lost
before
the
forces
be
assembled
.
The
disease
that
haunteth
vs
,
and
whereunto
we
be
accustomed
,
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11
Diseases
wherunto
we
be
accustomed
.
we
do
watch
and
obserue
verie
diligently
,
that
we
may
meet
with
it
at
euery
turne
,
and
turne
away
his
rigor
,
before
it
can
get
the
masterie
,
and
against
it
we
be
better
prepared
,
with
vsuall
applications
.
The
disease
that
is
vniuersall
,
affecting
the
whole
bodie
,
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12
Diseases
of
the
whole
bodie
.
awaketh
&
stirreth
all
the
parts
to
bring
together
their
concordant
aide
,
and
is
the
more
caringly
to
be
withstood
,
because
it
aduentureth
the
whole
at
one
stake
.
Where
the
diseases
seemeth
remedylesse
,
and
of
desperat
condition
,
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13
Diseases
desperate
.
there
it
is
permitted
and
aduised
to
minister
desperat
medicines
.
Vncureable
diseases
shame
and
foile
the
Phisitions
,
and
then
doth
it
go
hard
with
them
,
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14
Diseases
vncurable
.
when
the
patient
wholy
depending
vpon
their
help
,
Iaieth
the
blame
vpon
their
vnsufficiencie
;
where
contrarywise
,
if
they
help
at
a
pinch
(
all
seeming
past
help
)
then
doe
they
(
as
it
were
)
play
their
prizes
,
&
make
themselues
well
esteemed
,
and
much
renowmed
.
In
the
diseases
of
great
men
,
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15
Diseases
of
great
men
require
more
help
and
aduise
.
and
those
grieuous
and
daungerous
,
the
whole
colledge
of
Phisitions
is
consulted
with
;
for
the
greater
the
cause
or
person
is
,
the
more
will
the
attendance
and
assistance
of
Councell
,
Iudges
,
and
Magistrates
concur
for
the
suppressing
of
such
raging
fits
,
by
timely
remedies
.
Many
diseases
haue
an
eager
appetite
to
those
meats
which
are
fittest
to
encrease
their
force
,
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16
Diseases
made
worse
by
feeding
on
that
they
desire
.
and
it
is
a
part
of
the
cure
appertaining
thereunto
,
to
restraine
the
patient
from
the
vse
of
such
hurtfull
food
;
as
if
a
mad
man
were
to
bee
kept
from
a
sword
,
he
that
is
aguish
from
wine
,
the
seditious
from
seducing
books
,
and
traiterous
complottors
,
and
the
vngouerned
from
riches
and
honour
.
Such
diseases
as
detecteth
and
discouereth
themseluesby
some
certaine
signes
whereby
they
may
be
knowne
,
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17
Diseases
discouered
in
their
signes
.
may
be
sooner
suppressed
;
and
the
verie
assuaging
or
altering
of
those
signes
,
doth
often
weaken
,
vanquish
,
and
driue
away
the
disease
it selfe
.
Where
a
disease
is
particular
only
to
one
part
,
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18
Destruction
of
members
in
any
disease
,
when
to
be
vsed
.
as
to
the
eye
,
the
hand
,
foot
,
or
such
like
,
the
losse
wherof
inferreth
not
the
destruction
of
the
whole
;
there
,
rather
than
a
continuall
molesting
&
annoying
grieuance
should
encumber
the
ioyes
of
life
,
the
part
wherunto
such
paine
sticketh
&
is
so
affixed
,
as
that
it
cannot
be
remoued
or
remedied
,
were
better
to
be
pulled
out
,
cut
of
,
&
disseuered
from
the
bodie
:
howbeit
much
extremitie
is
to
be
abidden
,
and
many
waies
for
healing
are
to
be
tried
befor
it
com
to
so
hard
a
passe
,
as
to
harden
the
hart
to
endure
such
violence
.
Manie
diseases
are
dissolued
and
ouercome
meerly
by
the
strength
of
nature
,
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19
Diseases
oft
dissolued
by
nature
.
that
the
Phisicions
ayd
is
not
implored
at
all
:
and
many
againe
because
their
nature
hath
beene
too
much
trusted
vnto
,
and
Phisicke
hath
bene
neglected
or
loathed
,
maketh
a
conquest
ouer
both
.
The
excesse
of
humours
,
will
seeke
either
to
settle
in
some
principall
part
,
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20
Diseases
to
be
forced
to
break
outwardly
.
as
in
a
fortified
place
,
entrenching
the
same
with
strong
obstructions
;
or
els
outwardly
to
get
an
head
,
which
(
if
they
cannot
by
scattering
bee
dispatched
)
are
to
beeforced
to
breake
out
rather
than
to
fester
within
.
Some
diseases
haue
a
propertie
like
the
Adder
that
turneth
to
be
a
Serpent
,
being
chaunged
after
a
while
from
being
the
same
it
was
into
an
other
new
and
different
worser
than
it selfe
.
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21
Diseases
growing
to
a
worse
nature
than
they
were
.
Most
diseases
haue
certaine
degrees
&
standing
points
of
either
encrease
or
declination
,
and
according
as
nature
is
comforted
and
seconded
by
the
helpes
of
Phisicke
,
so
they
eyther
slacke
their
sharpnesse
,
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22
The
state
or
standing
point
of
a
disease
.
or
become
outragious
,
after
they
haue
once
touched
and
attained
to
those
poynts
.
Yet
there
resteth
one
rule
that
ruleth
all
the
rest
,
which
is
,
That
euery
disease
desireth
his
proper
cure
;
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23
Euerie
disease
must
haue
his
proper
cure
.
wherein
if
there
bee
any
missing
or
mistaking
,
the
mischiefe
will
bee
this
,
That
the
weakening
of
nature
by
that
which
is
wrong
applyed
(
for
such
phisicke
not
fitting
the
disease
,
worketh
vpon
nature
)
must
necessarily
augment
the
power
and
perill
of
the
sicknesse
.
This
position
is
of
a
much
importing
consequence
,
and
(
howsoeuer
I
leaue
all
the
former
to
the
applying
and
moralizing
of
the
Reader
)
this
I
may
not
so
suddenly
forsake
,
or
lightly
passe
ouer
:
it
concerneth
the
skil
of
the
Phisicion
,
who
hath
our
liues
in
his
hands
.
There
bee
sometimes
such
nimble
headed
Pragmatickes
,
Ariadne
,
to
lead
him
through
the
laberinth
of
so
many
intricat
diuersities
,
how
shall
hee
be
able
to
rule
the
matter
,
when
hee
standeth
enwrapped
,
and
euen
ouer-matched
with
the
contrarietie
of
rules
?
Aristotle
propoundeth
as
a
Probleame
,
That
the
selfe
fame
inflammations
by
some
be
cured
with
cooling
,
Idem
,
or
Eodem
modo
,
but
that
from
the
axiomes
&
conclusions
of
learning
,
he
doe
so
aplie
his
cogitations
to
the
discrepancie
of
occasions
,
as
that
(
being
vsque
quaque
sapiens
)
he
accomodate
his
cures
rather
by
certeinty
than
at
aduenture
,
and
euen
therein
to
shew
himselfe
regular
,
by
varying
of
his
proceedings
from
his
rules
,
as
the
variablenesse
of
condicions
,
circumstances
,
and
considerations
shall
with
reason
ouerrule
him
.
And
he
doth
oftentimes
(
as
a
well
skilled
phisicion
doth
)
finding
any
imperfection
or
vnaptnesse
in
the
first
remedies
repeale
and
cast
aside
them
by
prouiding
and
ordeining
new
.
Such
expert
Phisicions
of
the
Realme
,
doe
(
like
far
darting
Apollo
)
spread
abroad
their
golden
rayes
and
happie
influence
,
Pithons
,
and
miscompounded
monsters
,
that
infect
the
ayre
,
or
defile
the
land
of
the
Common-weale
.
Some
other
good
requisits
in
our
State-Phisicions
may
not
be
pretermitted
.
It
is
needfull
,
that
they
bee
of
a
graue
stayednesse
,
and
free
from
ficklenesse
or
flexibilitie
.
I
yeeld
,
that
a
Phisicion
may
by
occasions
and
circumstances
bee
moued
to
dispose
himselfe
to
change
both
his
opinion
and
his
practise
:
yet
I
hold
it
requisite
that
such
his
change
may
appeare
to
proceed
rather
from
deliberation
than
lightnesse
,
from
iudicious
discerning
of
right
causes
,
rather
than
from
a
vayne
affectation
of
new
courses
;
so
hee
be
constant
to
his
propounded
end
of
effecting
the
saftie
&
health
of
the
bodie
,
resting
vppon
his
skill
and
best
endeuour
,
to
make
tryall
of
sundrie
different
meanes
likely
,
and
seruing
thereunto
,
is
no
vnconstancie
at
all
.
The
same
may
bee
affirmed
of
Gouernours
:
It
cannot
but
bee
hatefull
and
scandalous
to
any
Magistrate
,
to
play
the
light
headed
temporizer
,
by
the
exchange
and
oft
shifting
of
his
opinion
,
still
to
conforme
to
euerie
accidentall
alteration
in
the
State
:
for
howsoeuer
it
may
bee
allowed
vnto
him
(
vppon
preuayling
considerations
)
to
change
his
medicines
rather
than
his
mind
,
retayning
stil
his
integritie
and
constancie
towards
the
state
:
yet
is
it
made
a
note
of
common
obseruance
,
that
such
as
be
either
caried
about
by
euerie
tempest
of
the
time
,
or
be
swayed
by
their
owne
leuitie
to
entertaine
diuersities
in
the
order
of
gouernment
;
as
they
do
but
affect
Latebram
male
fidei
,
so
they
giue
place
and
passage
to
euery
stirring
&
vpstart
spirit
(
as
the
heedlesnes
or
giddinesse
of
the
bodies
phisicion
oft
doth
)
with
force
&
furie
to
conquer
all
.
I
know
that
a
remedilesse
necessitie
may
constrayne
the
skilfullest
Pilot
(
being
beaten
from
his
intended
hauen
)
to
take
into
the
next
harbor
that
fortune
shall
offer
,
rather
than
with
extreme
perill
to
contend
with
the
storme
:
Such
a
kind
of
compelled
alteration
no
indifferent
obseruer
will
debarre
any
prouident
Polititian
of
,
That
whensoeuer
he
shall
varie
from
his
first
well
grounded
resolution
,
his
relinquishing
of
the
former
,
or
his
pursuing
of
any
new
intention
,
may
be
iudged
rather
necessarie
than
voluntarie
,
more
reasonable
than
fashionable
,
and
for
the
performing
of
farther
good
rather
than
to
follow
the
inclination
of
his
owne
vnsteady
humours
.
They
must
be
louing
and
compassionate
,
Medice
viuere
,
est
misere
viuere
,
so
to
be
neuer
out
of
law
,
is
neuer
to
know
any
happie
dayes
:
for
as
too
much
phisicke
weakeneth
and
wasteth
health
;
so
to
be
ouerlaid
with
law
,
is
the
vtter
losse
and
confounding
of
all
comforts
of
life
.
But
leauing
such
purse-purging
Lawyers
,
Lastly
,
I
will
bestow
vpon
our
politicall
Phisition
that
complement
of
qualities
,
which
we
vsually
look
for
in
a
Surgion
;
that
is
an
Hawks
eye
,
a
Ladies
hand
,
Curate
ipsum
.
I
would
not
aduise
any
man
to
be
so
saucy
,
as
to
bid
the
Magistrat
look
to
his
owne
faults
;
but
it
must
be
confessed
,
that
such
as
be
seated
in
places
of
aucthoritie
,
may
as
basely
and
as
badly
misgouerne
themselues
as
inferior
persons
,
and
thereby
not
vndeseruedly
fitted
with
that
frumpe
,
That
the
greater
Theefes
hang
vp
the
lesser
.
It
is
now
time
to
find
some
meanes
for
the
obseruing
of
a
meane
,
lest
tediousnes
banish
delightsomnesse
:
I
haue
reserued
yet
one
comparison
more
,
wherwith
at
the
last
to
close
vp
all
,
and
to
reduce
this
discourse
to
my
promised
period
,
of
the
entire
embracements
betweene
Soueraigne
and
Subiect
.
Mentem
sanam
in
corpore
sano
,
the
tranquillitie
of
the
mind
,
with
indolence
of
the
bodie
.
Thus
hauing
aduentured
to
propound
vnto
publique
view
(
like
as
Appelles
did
his
picture
)
this
portracture
of
the
bodie
Politique
,
though
not
so
compleatly
shaped
in
all
the
lyneaments
,
as
may
either
allure
the
lookers
on
to
liking
,
or
may
suffice
to
equall
the
dignitie
and
maiestie
of
the
matter
represented
:
I
must
entreat
of
the
wise
and
expert
Polititians
,
their
fauourable
interpreting
,
and
encouraging
entertainments
thereof
;
vnto
whom
I
haue
reason
(
with
all
reuerent
regard
)
to
dedicate
these
endeuors
;
Them
hath
the
coniunction
of
learning
and
acting
,
well
entermixed
,
Ptolemie
,
aduising
him
diligentlie
to
reade
the
bookes
written
of
Politicall
gouerment
:
but
his
reason
is
sharpe
pointed
and
toucheth
to
the
verie
quick
;
Prouerb
.
24.
so
in
the
multitude
of
them
that
can
giue
councell
,
is
strength
.
To
such
Atlas-like
gouernours
,
that
be
the
supporting
Arches
of
a
ciuill
State
,
all
politicall
learning
,
and
whatsoeuer
industrie
or
discoueries
,
in
that
subiect
doth
properly
belong
,
and
ought
in
them
to
be
treasured
vp
for
store
at
all
times
to
besteed
the
State
;
euen
as
the
light
created
on
the
first
day
,
was
after
transferred
into
the
bodies
of
the
Sun
,
Moone
,
and
Starres
of
the
firmament
,
to
illighten
the
whole
world
.
In
Trinumo
.
terming
them
by
an
old
but
significant
name
of
famigeratores
,
as
filled
both
in
the
eares
and
in
the
mouth
,
with
a
certaine
saleable
windy
matter
of
rumors
and
reports
.
There
is
a
sobrietie
to
be
obserued
in
the
gayning
of
knowledge
by
inquisitiuenesse
;
Inquisitiuenes
.
for
such
as
ouerfill
themselues
,
and
doe
drinke
too
deepe
of
harkening
and
hearesayes
,
will
likewise
incurre
the
other
extremities
,
both
of
reeling
as
disied
by
vntruthes
;
and
of
casting
vp
againe
,
by
the
publishing
of
all
they
heare
.
But
when
this
searching
and
piercing
presumption
shall
get
vp
to
the
highest
step
,
and
fall
to
prie
into
the
Prince
himselfe
,
to
make
discoueries
and
dinulgings
of
his
dispositions
,
intentions
,
affections
,
qualities
,
Phaeton
,
of
the
lightnesse
of
Icarus
,
of
the
treacherie
of
Tantalus
,
of
the
blabbing
of
Sisiphus
,
of
the
lust
of
Ixion
,
of
the
immodestie
of
Acteon
,
and
of
the
slie
surreption
of
Prometheus
,
and
is
worthily
punishable
with
some
of
their
tortures
.
Salomon
compareth
the
vnsearchable
heart
of
the
King
,
to
the
height
of
heauen
,
and
the
depth
of
the
earth
;
arguing
thereby
as
well
the
presumption
as
the
impossibilitie
of
discouering
the
same
,
Pro.
25.
Against
this
odious
iniury
of
the
subiects
ouermuch
enquiring
and
spying
into
their
Soueraigne
,
Animus
oculorum
effugit
obtutum
.
Then
in
the
same
sort
,
as
well
for
a
warning
to
my selfe
,
as
for
a
reproofe
to
any
other
that
way
offending
,
let
mee
set
it
downe
for
a
positiue
trueth
,
that
euen
heerein
also
our
manners
and
dutie
should
contemplate
and
imitate
nature
,
as
with
a
modest
reuerence
to
forbeare
to
intromit
our
animaduerting
curiositie
into
the
bosome
of
sacred
and
vnsearchable
Maiestie
:
which
who
so
doth
with
an
humbled
spirit
well
vnderstand
what
it
is
in
his
verie
altitude
and
latitude
,
FINIS
.