A
PARADOXE
:
PROVING
The
Inhabitants
of
the
Island
called
Madagascar
,
or
St.
Lawrence
(
in
things
temporall
)
to
bee
the
happiest
People
in
the
World
.
I
Confesse
(
worthy
Sir
)
that
I
have
undertaken
an
Argument
,
which
at
the
first
sight
,
will
seeme
to
most
Men
,
Idle
and
Impertinent
,
although
I
might
answer
for
my
excuse
;
that
I
was
therefore
idle
,
because
I
would
not
bee
idle
;
for
it
may
be
objected
unto
mee
:
Will
you
take
upon
you
to
preferre
this
poore
,
naked
,
and
simple
Ignorant
people
before
the
rich
Gallant
,
understanding
men
of
Europe
.
These
are
naked
,
wee
are
cloathed
.
These
are
poore
and
miserable
,
wee
are
rich
and
wealthy
.
These
are
simple
Innocents
,
we
have
hearing
and
Experience
of
many
things
,
wherein
they
are
altogether
ignorant
.
All
this
I
confesse
to
be
true
,
yet
let
us
examine
their
defects
which
are
supposed
to
consist
in
their
Nakednesse
,
Poverty
,
and
Simplicity
:
As
for
their
Nakednesse
,
So
,
when
this
admirable
piece
of
worke
,
this
perfection
of
Nature
,
this
Master-piece
,
this
Epitome
of
the
World
,
this
Image
of
the
Deiry
,
Man
:
was
spotted
and
blemished
by
sinne
,
it
grieved
the
Almighty
,
to
see
his
Image
so
defaced
in
him
,
who
therefore
did
cloath
him
,
as
it
were
to
hide
and
cover
him
out
of
his
sight
.
Apparell
is
but
like
unto
so
many
Plaisters
,
and
Roulers
,
to
cover
our
soares
and
deformities
,
or
like
Masking
sutes
wherein
wee
act
,
not
what
wee
are
,
but
what
wee
seeme
to
be
,
it
is
the
out-side
that
deceives
us
,
and
by
a
jugling
tricke
makes
us
take
that
for
a
brave
man
which
is
a
piece
of
shreds
,
a
meere
thing
of
the
Taylors
fashioning
.
For
Example
,
put
the
Spruce
Gallant
into
a
Contemptible
habite
,
and
what
is
hee
then
?
A
poore
miserable
wretch
in
the
worlds
opinion
,
which
judgeth
by
the
outward
appearance
,
and
so
esteemeth
him
.
But
the
same
man
he
was
?
No
,
he
is
a
ragged
Rogue
,
a
tattered
Knave
?
Againe
,
put
such
a
Rogue
,
or
Knave
into
the
Acoutrements
of
a
Gallant
,
let
him
be
Scarlified
and
Beveriz'd
,
let
his
Jupoon
be
Carbonadoed
to
discover
his
Damaske
Purpoint
,
or
his
embroidered
Camise
:
arme
his
side
with
steele
,
his
heeles
with
Iron
,
and
his
head
with
Feather
;
and
then
like
Nebuchadnezar
his
Image
,
every
man
is
ready
to
adore
him
.
As
will
it
please
your
worship
,
to
command
me
any
service
:
I
will
waite
upon
your
worship
,
't
is
right
as
your
worship
sayes
.
And
all
this
while
we
reverence
nothing
but
a
suite
of
Cloathes
,
which
these
happy
People
happy
in
this
want
,
judiciously
contemne
.
Apparell
to
them
is
a
Burthen
,
an
impediment
,
a
very
Disease
,
they
care
not
for
it
,
they
count
it
as
an
unnecessary
bundle
and
know
that
it
would
make
them
Dull
,
Heauy
,
and
Effeminate
.
They
preferre
the
good
Constructure
of
the
Limbs
,
and
lineaments
of
the
Body
which
they
have
by
Nature
,
before
all
our
artificiall
Bumbasted
patches
.
Wee
wonder
at
them
how
they
can
goe
Naked
;
but
they
wonder
more
at
us
,
how
we
can
endure
to
goe
packt
up
in
a
fardle
of
Clouts
sewed
together
.
Wee
are
bound
up
in
Prison
,
whilest
they
are
free
,
and
at
liberty
,
we
are
stifled
up
in
our
sweat
,
and
stinke
,
whilest
the
Exhalations
of
their
vapours
,
offends
them
not
.
Nor
doth
the
coldnesse
of
the
Ayre
hurt
their
naked
Bodies
,
more
then
it
doth
our
naked
faces
;
it
was
our
evill
Custome
that
cloathed
us
,
and
their
Innocency
and
freedome
of
Nature
that
keepes
them
naked
.
For
an
instance
of
the
premises
I
will
onely
call
to
your
remembrance
,
the
behaviour
of
the
Rassee
,
or
Governour
Andrapela
;
at
that
time
when
he
,
with
his
followers
,
were
invited
by
Captaine
Weddell
aboard
the
As
for
our selves
,
we
are
compelled
(
so
miserable
and
poore
we
are
,
)
to
be
beholding
to
the
vnreasonable
creatures
for
our
rayment
,
robbing
one
of
his
Skin
,
another
of
his
Wooll
,
another
of
his
Haire
;
nay
not
so
much
as
the
poore
Worme
,
doe
escape
vs
,
whose
very
Excremens
we
take
to
couer
vs
withall
,
while
they
in
the
meane
time
are
nothing
beholding
vnto
us
?
Was
nature
a
Mother
to
them
,
and
a
Stepdame
to
us
?
No
,
but
as
a
kind
,
and
loving
mother
,
she
hath
sufficiently
provided
for
vs
.
It
is
our
owne
Luxuxious
Effeminacy
,
that
hath
stripped
vs
out
of
our
naturall
simplicity
,
and
cloathed
vs
with
the
ragges
of
Dissimulation
,
Let
vs
consider
the
naturall
beauties
of
all
the
Plants
,
fruits
,
and
flowers
,
they
haue
no
Artificiall
couerings
,
yet
they
so
farre
exceed
Man
in
Beauty
,
and
Magnificience
(
the
Lillye
in
particular
,
Truth
,
it selfe
hath
spoken
it
,
)
that
Salomon
,
in
all
his
Royalty
was
not
cloathed
like
one
of
them
.
The
greatest
and
sole
Monarch
of
the
world
Adam
,
was
cloathed
but
with
the
Skinnes
of
dead
Beasts
,
which
Divines
hold
was
to
put
him
in
mind
of
his
mortality
,
but
now
the
height
of
Apparell
is
growne
to
that
excesse
,
that
not
the
Skinnes
of
the
Cattell
,
or
the
other
commodities
accrewing
,
but
the
soyle
of
a
whole
Lordship
,
is
scarce
sufficient
to
cloath
vs
.
Now
the
Taylor
is
become
the
best
surveyour
,
Euclide
might
haue
spared
his
paines
in
Geometry
,
he
can
measure
all
our
Lands
by
his
Yard-wand
.
And
what
are
the
effects
of
this
monstrous
pride
in
Apparrell
,
but
the
Ruine
of
many
noble
Families
,
the
decay
of
Hospitality
,
the
ushering
in
of
Oppression
,
Bribery
,
and
Extortion
,
Theft
,
Murder
,
Cousening
and
deceit
,
and
in
the
end
Beggery
,
or
which
is
worse
,
a
death
with
Ignominie
.
Now
for
Pride
,
such
is
the
Happinesse
of
these
people
,
that
they
know
not
what
it
meanes
,
here
is
no
man
that
respecteth
another
the
better
for
his
Out-side
,
but
for
his
inward
vertue
,
and
naturall
Endowmens
.
If
hee
haue
but
a
Clout
to
cover
his
privities
,
he
thinkes
himselfe
sufficiently
Apparelled
.
Concerning
their
Poverty
.
J
doe
confesse
indeed
,
True
it
is
,
that
they
have
not
so
many
superfluous
things
as
wee
have
,
and
therein
are
they
happy
.
When
Diogenes
came
by
chance
into
a
Faire
,
and
saw
so
many
toyes
and
bables
to
bee
sold
,
hee
brake
out
into
these
words
.
Oh
,
how
happy
am
I
,
that
have
no
want
of
any
of
these
things
;
and
upon
a
time
to
shew
how
despicable
unnecessary
things
are
,
he
shrew
away
his
Dish
,
because
he
saw
another
lap
water
out
of
the
hollow
of
his
hand
.
These
People
know
,
that
Nature
is
contented
with
a
little
,
and
that
it
is
not
th●se
outward
things
,
which
make
the
Possessour
,
any
thing
the
better
.
They
know
that
the
inordinate
desire
of
riches
is
the
Root
of
all
mischiefe
,
a
Raging
famisht
Beast
,
that
will
not
bee
satisfied
,
a
bottomlesse
Gulfe
that
cannot
be
filled
,
a
very
Dropsie
,
wherein
by
desire
of
drinke
a
man
may
sooner
breake
his
Bowels
then
quench
his
Thirst.
They
know
that
they
are
gotten
with
Labour
,
Anxiety
,
and
Care
,
kept
with
continuall
feare
,
Suspition
,
and
Watchfulnesse
,
and
lost
with
extreame
Griefe
,
and
Dispaire
.
As
for
Gold
,
the
Soule
of
the
World
(
as
I
may
call
it
,
for
it
giveth
Life
,
Motion
,
and
Action
to
all
.
)
These
people
know
it
not
,
or
doe
they
know
it
,
they
regard
it
not
,
at
least
I
am
sure
they
value
it
not
.
Happy
people
unto
whom
the
desire
of
Gold
hath
not
yet
arrived
;
But
it
may
be
objected
heere
▪
that
although
they
respect
not
Gold
,
yet
they
are
covetous
of
Red
Beads
.
T
is
true
,
they
affect
them
as
Ornaments
,
not
as
incombrances
;
for
whilest
we
lye
as
it
were
chain'd
and
manicled
in
golden
Fetters
,
they
adorne
themselves
with
them
as
with
Iewels
,
onely
heere
is
the
difference
,
they
covet
red
Stones
,
and
wee
desire
a
refined
Earth
almost
of
the
same
colour
?
We
thinke
them
fooles
,
because
they
give
us
an
Oxe
for
a
few
Beads
;
but
they
account
us
greater
fooles
to
part
with
such
Iewels
,
for
so
small
a
valew
,
for
opinion
of
men
not
their
vertue
,
that
makes
them
to
be
deare
or
of
small
price
.
Those
red
Beades
,
which
peradventure
we
valew
but
at
sixe-pence
,
they
may
rate
at
sixe
pounds
.
But
suppose
that
they
should
see
us
give
the
price
of
twenty
Oxen
bought
at
the
dearest
Market
in
Europe
,
for
one
white
Stone
of
the
same
bignesse
;
would
not
they
laugh
at
our
extreame
folly
;
and
yet
when
it
is
bought
The
Golden
Age
,
so
much
celebrated
by
ancient
Writers
,
was
not
so
called
,
from
the
Estimation
,
or
predomination
that
Gold
had
in
the
Hearts
of
men
,
for
in
that
sence
as
one
said
wittily
.
Aurea
Saturni
redierunt
saecula
nam
nunc
.
Auro
venit
honos
conciliatur
Amor.
This
may
be
truely
call'd
the
Age
of
Gold
,
For
it
both
honour
,
love
,
and
Friends
are
sold.
But
from
the
Contemps
thereof
;
then
Love
and
Concord
flourished
,
then
Rapine
,
Theft
,
Extortion
and
Oppression
were
not
knowne
,
which
happy
Age
these
people
doe
at
this
present
enjoy
.
But
when
men
began
to
dive
into
the
Bowels
of
the
Earth
to
make
descents
as
it
were
downe
into
Hell
to
fetch
this
glittering
Oare
,
from
the
habitations
of
Divels
,
and
〈…〉
triall
Goblins
,
with
it
came
up
Contention
,
Deceipt
Lying
,
Swearing
,
Theft
,
Murder
,
and
all
the
seaven
Capitall
sinnes
;
as
Pride
,
Covetousnesse
;
Wrath
,
Gluttony
,
and
the
rest
,
so
that
we
must
needs
confesse
that
it
had
beene
happy
for
us
,
if
Gold
had
never
beene
knowne
.
For
the
attaining
whereof
,
what
labours
,
what
sorrow
,
and
what
dangers
doe
we
endure
?
Wee
are
contented
daily
to
expose
our selves
,
to
a
thousand
perils
,
to
suffer
a
thousand
injuries
,
in
hope
to
enjoy
it
;
and
yet
scarce
one
in
a
thousand
,
attaineth
to
the
end
of
his
labour
.
For
this
doe
we
suffer
a
voluntary
Exile
from
our
But
grant
that
wee
doe
escape
all
these
perils
,
and
obtaine
in
some
measure
what
we
have
so
dearely
purchased
,
it
will
be
so
confessed
,
there
is
more
care
and
danger
in
the
keeping
of
them
,
then
in
the
attaining
of
them
.
For
this
doe
Theeves
lye
in
waite
to
robbe
us
,
friends
to
entrap
us
,
and
our
enemies
to
betray
us
;
Nay
,
suppose
we
doe
escape
all
these
outward
casualties
,
our
inward
vices
,
our
disordered
affections
,
and
our
evill
Concupiscences
,
doe
all
threaten
to
ruine
us
.
The
consideration
hereof
,
caused
the
Lady
Catherine
,
Henry
8.
(
who
out
of
her
owne
experience
,
had
tryed
both
fortunes
)
that
if
it
were
put
to
her
choise
,
to
suffer
the
extremity
of
fortune
in
Prosperity
or
Adversity
:
Shee
would
chuse
adversity
;
because
the
former
was
never
without
Danger
,
nor
the
latter
without
Comfort
.
From
their
Poverty
,
I
come
in
the
last
place
to
speake
But
let
us
see
wherein
their
ignorance
and
Simplicity
doth
consist
,
It
may
be
objected
,
that
they
are
Ignorant
of
the
vse
of
the
creatures
which
was
haue
attained
to
,
and
of
many
Arts
that
wee
professe
,
and
that
they
are
simple
in
all
their
actions
.
For
first
,
their
Houses
are
but
simple
Sheddes
made
with
a
few
boughes
heaped
together
(
in
comparison
of
which
)
and
are
stately
Pallaces
.
Their
Dyet
is
grosse
and
ill
cooked
that
they
eate
,
their
meate
halfe
raw
and
badly
drest
;
whereas
our
Tables
are
furnished
plentifully
with
sundry
delicacies
,
curiously
drest
by
the
Art
of
Cookery
,
and
that
with
great
variety
.
That
their
Drinke
is
water
simply
which
is
common
to
them
and
their
Beasts
alike
,
whilest
wee
are
served
with
all
kinde
of
pleasant
Wines
,
and
other
artificiall
aromaticke
▪
Drinkes
.
That
their
Simplicity
appeareth
in
their
ignorance
of
many
Sciences
,
wherein
the
well
beeing
of
a
Common-wealth
doth
consist
;
as
the
Art
of
Navigation
,
by
meanes
whereof
,
wee
are
able
to
visite
the
remotest
parts
of
the
World
,
to
transport
our
owne
Commodities
to
them
,
and
to
import
theirs
to
the
enriching
of
ourselves
;
as
also
,
that
they
know
not
Military
Art
,
nor
the
use
of
Powder
and
Shot
:
all
which
are
evidences
of
their
stupid
Ignorance
,
both
in
these
and
all
other
Sciences
.
What
an
heate
doe
these
small
Coales
cast
?
What
Let
us
compare
them
together
by
the
square
of
Reason
,
and
wee
shall
find
their
defects
in
these
things
,
to
be
a
maine
testimony
of
their
Happinesse
,
and
on
the
contrary
,
our
excesse
herein
the
cause
of
our
misery
,
and
wretchednesse
.
And
first
for
their
Buildings
,
they
are
such
as
best
These
men
feare
not
the
opression
of
a
covetous
Landlord
,
nor
the
danger
of
a
crackt
title
,
his
quarters
rackt
rent
,
rends
not
his
sleepe
,
nor
takes
he
care
for
the
renewing
of
his
old
Lease
,
the
breaking
in
of
Theeves
he
feares
not
;
for
hee
hath
nothing
to
loose
,
and
the
surprise
of
Enemies
he
regards
not
;
for
if
they
be
not
strong
enough
for
encounter
,
they
can
suddainly
remove
themselves
to
a
place
of
more
security
.
I
have
seene
a
Towne
,
consisting
of
above
one
hundred
Families
,
and
all
of
them
busied
about
their
severall
imployments
.
Some
about
their
Cattle
,
some
making
of
Launces
,
and
Darts
,
and
some
weawing
of
Cotton
,
to
make
their
Aprons
,
when
upon
a
suddaine
,
suspecting
us
as
Enemies
,
in
the
space
of
halfe
an
houre
,
they
have
planted
and
removed
their
dwellings
.
The
women
carrying
their
implements
for
dressing
their
food
,
and
their
young
Infants
;
Their
Children
Whereas
we
like
so
many
wilde
Beasts
can
hardly
be
forced
out
of
our
Dennes
,
except
Famine
,
Sword
,
or
Fire
doe
compell
us
.
And
then
,
Oh
what
lamentation
,
what
Exclamation
,
and
grievous
Complaints
doe
we
make
.
Yet
what
are
our
Houses
,
but
so
many
strong
Prisons
,
wherein
the
Owner
lyes
bound
in
severall
actions
of
Debt
,
which
I
forbeare
to
particularize
,
and
although
he
walke
abroad
sometimes
,
hee
doth
but
traile
his
fetters
after
him
,
and
is
bound
to
keepe
within
the
Rule
.
Hee
must
endure
discomodity
of
evill
Neighbours
,
the
unhealthfulnesse
of
the
Scituation
,
which
these
happy
People
can
avoid
at
their
pleasure
without
much
pudder
or
turmoile
.
And
lastly
,
suppose
that
one
of
our
Houses
should
take
fire
,
by
accident
or
otherwise
,
then
what
passion
?
What
Rage
?
What
ungoverned
fury
doe
we
fall
into
?
Oh
I
am
undone
for
ever
,
Oh
I
have
lost
that
Chest
,
that
Boxe
of
writings
,
that
Casket
of
Iewels
,
out
alas
!
I
am
undone
;
what
shall
▪
I
doe
?
Nay
,
we
are
so
farre
out
of
our selves
,
and
transported
with
fury
,
that
as
if
the
blacke
Chambers
of
death
was
not
to
be
found
otherwise
,
wee
sometimes
lay
violent
hands
upon
our selves
,
and
increase
the
danger
of
an
eternall
Death
to
prevent
a
temporall
Dereliction
.
Whereas
,
on
the
contrary
,
if
any
of
their
Houses
happen
to
bee
on
fire
,
he
is
not
moved
at
all
with
it
,
but
can
patiently
stand
by
and
warme
himselfe
at
the
flame
,
and
say
,
heere
is
a
good
fire
,
I
find
much
comfort
by
it
.
This
is
the
last
benefit
my
House
can
doe
mee
,
and
in
this
point
they
are
happier
then
wee
are
.
Their
DIET
.
AS
for
their
food
,
it
may
be
objected
,
that
it
is
but
course
and
simple
:
for
defence
whereof
,
I
might
answer
,
that
it
is
therefore
the
more
healthfull
,
and
agreeable
to
Nature
,
who
is
best
pleased
with
meats
of
simple
qualities
.
But
it
is
further
objected
,
that
it
is
sluttishly
drest
,
transeous
and
loathsome
.
How
know
we
that
?
Because
we
love
it
not
,
is
it
therefore
unwholesome
?
One
man
loveth
no
Fish
,
an
other
no
Cheese
,
another
no
Flesh
;
which
are
not
onely
hurtfull
,
but
poison
to
their
constitutions
.
Should
we
therfore
infer
,
that
Fish
,
Cheese
or
Flesh
,
are
poyson
?
such
judges
are
we
of
their
food
,
which
best
agreeth
with
their
constitutions
,
and
preserveth
them
in
health
,
strength
and
vigour
;
for
they
eate
not
,
but
for
Necessity
,
knowing
no
other
sauce
than
the
Lacedemonian
sauce
,
Hunger
;
eating
rather
for
preservation
of
life
,
than
delight
or
luxury
:
whilst
we
in
our
Diet
are
so
voluptuous
,
that
we
even
dig
our
graves
with
our
teeth
,
(
as
the
French
proverb
hath
it
)
the
whole
world
being
scarse
sufficient
to
make
a
Bacchanalian
sacrifice
for
that
Deity
,
the
Belly
:
France
,
Spain
,
Italy
,
the
Indies
,
yea
and
the
Molluqes
must
be
ransackt
,
to
make
sauce
for
our
meat
;
whilst
we
impoverish
the
land
,
air
and
water
,
to
in
rich
a
privat
Table
.
Thus
we
live
,
as
if
we
were
born
to
no
other
end
,
but
by
Gluttony
and
surfetting
to
oppose
Nature
,
dull
the
spirits
,
subvert
the
animall
faculties
,
and
heap
upon
our selves
an
innumerable
company
of
diseases
,
it
being
a
maxime
amongst
our
Europaean
Physicians
,
that
Gluttony
hath
killed
more
than
the
sword
.
Whereas
to
the
contrary
,
such
is
the
Temperance
of
these
people
,
that
I
can
scarse
see
one
sick
or
diseased
among
them
.
Now
for
Wine
,
the
cherisher
of
the
heart
,
the
expeller
of
cares
and
sorrows
,
the
reviver
of
the
spirits
,
and
the
infuser
of
valour
and
courage
,
these
Heretofore
in
our
country
of
England
,
all
forraign
Wines
were
sold
in
Apothecaries
shops
,
for
the
relief
of
the
sick
,
weak
and
aged
;
then
Physicians
walked
on
foot
,
for
the
service
of
Gods
people
:
but
when
it
once
came
to
be
sold
publikely
in
Taverns
,
then
they
rode
on
horsback
like
Princes
;
the
excesse
of
Wine
being
a
main
upholder
of
theirs
:
thence
proceed
Fevers
,
Convulsions
,
Epilepsies
,
Vertigo's
,
Lethargies
,
Gowts
,
and
all
Exotique
diseases
,
unknown
to
our
Ancestors
.
Besides
,
what
horrible
and
execrable
actions
hath
it
not
perpetrated
?
what
sacrileges
?
what
rapes
?
what
murthers
have
not
been
committed
by
the
excesse
of
Wine
?
The
examples
of
this
kinde
are
Where
to
the
contrary
,
water
produceth
no
evill
effects
;
for
it
asswageth
thirst
,
refresheth
the
spirits
,
abateth
choller
,
quickneth
the
sences
,
and
temperatly
doth
humect
and
moisten
the
inward
parts
of
the
body
.
And
had
not
the
distemperature
of
our
parents
,
our
evill
education
,
and
our
naturall
corruptions
prevailed
against
us
,
we
might
have
enjoyed
the
like
happinesse
which
these
people
possesse
.
And
may
not
their
ignorance
in
the
Art
of
Navigation
,
be
deservedly
accounted
an
happinesse
.
Certainly
by
this
means
they
are
not
contaminated
with
the
vices
and
evill
customes
of
strangers
:
when
we
have
derived
to
our selves
,
with
our
commerce
with
forraign
Nations
,
with
their
wares
and
commodities
,
their
vices
and
evill
conditions
;
as
our
drunkennesse
and
rudenesse
from
the
Germans
;
our
fashions
and
factions
from
the
French
;
our
insolence
from
the
Spaniards
;
our
Machivillianisme
from
the
Italians
;
our
levity
and
inconstancie
from
the
Greeks
;
our
usury
and
extortion
from
the
Iews
;
our
Atheisme
and
impiety
from
the
Turks
and
Besides
,
those
happy
people
have
no
need
of
any
forraign
commodity
,
Nature
having
sufficiently
supplied
their
necessities
,
wherewith
they
remain
contented
.
But
it
is
we
that
are
in
want
,
and
are
compelled
like
famisht
Wolves
,
to
range
the
world
about
for
our
living
,
to
the
hazard
both
of
our
souls
and
bodies
;
the
one
by
the
corruption
of
the
Air
,
the
other
by
the
corruption
of
Religion
.
Their
ARMS
.
AS
for
their
ignorance
in
the
Millitary
profession
,
though
they
be
not
trained
up
in
the
practise
of
those
Arms
our
Moderns
have
lately
invented
,
they
retain
the
use
of
those
Weapons
which
have
been
in
use
from
all
Antiquity
,
I
mean
the
Lance
and
Dart
,
wherein
they
have
attained
to
such
perfection
,
that
therein
I
beleeve
no
Nation
in
the
World
doth
equall
,
I
am
sure
cannot
exceed
them
.
But
you
will
say
,
they
want
desensive
Armour
,
and
places
of
strength
,
and
retirement
.
It
is
true
,
they
have
no
other
Armour
than
their
own
valour
;
nor
Forts
,
but
fortitude
and
courage
;
who
,
like
the
Parthians
,
fight
flying
,
making
their
retreat
as
dangerous
to
the
Enemy
,
as
their
first
encounter
.
And
lastly
,
for
the
use
of
powder
and
shot
,
and
the
managing
of
great
Ordnance
,
whereof
they
are
altogether
ignorant
.
Herein
they
are
happy
also
above
all
other
Nations
;
it
being
one
of
the
most
damnable
inventions
that
ever
was
forged
in
the
Devils
Conclave
:
against
the
fury
whereof
,
neither
the
courage
of
the
valiant
,
nor
the
strength
of
the
mighty
can
prevail
;
so
that
Hercules
himself
,
whom
the
Poets
falsly
,
or
Sampson
,
whom
the
Scriptures
truly
deliver
for
the
strongest
of
men
,
were
living
in
these
times
,
a
childe
might
kill
them
with
a
Pistoll
.
Let
us
examine
the
invention
,
state
,
and
progresse
of
this
pernicious
and
cruell
Engine
.
All
Writers
do
agree
,
that
a
German
Monk
was
All
inventions
,
as
they
are
but
the
imitations
of
Nature
,
do
ever
fall
short
of
the
patern
;
but
in
this
they
have
exceeded
Nature
.
Take
it
thus
briefly
:
the
Thunder
and
Lightning
which
these
Salmonians
would
imitate
,
doth
transcend
the
other
in
fury
and
violence
;
for
the
Thunderbolt
,
as
naturall
and
accidentall
,
falleth
sometimes
on
a
a
tree
,
mountain
,
a
tower
,
seldom
on
a
man
:
but
this
infernall
Engine
,
guided
by
the
malice
of
man
,
aims
onely
at
man
,
to
whose
destruction
it
is
wholly
directed
.
There
are
some
countries
,
that
by
reason
of
the
coldnesse
of
the
climate
,
as
Russia
,
Tartaria
,
Greenland
,
at
certain
seasons
of
the
yeer
,
as
in
the
depth
of
Winter
,
and
the
midst
of
Summer
,
are
exempt
from
Thunder
.
But
no
country
or
season
can
privilege
the
Inhabitants
from
the
fury
of
this
pernicious
Engine
.
The
Thunderbolt
,
by
the
means
of
the
lightning
,
and
noise
in
the
air
,
giveth
some
warning
to
men
,
to
avoid
the
insuing
danger
;
but
this
thundereth
in
striking
,
and
striketh
in
thunder
,
sending
the
mortall
Bullet
,
as
soon
into
our
bowels
,
as
the
sound
into
our
ears
.
Therefore
we
have
good
reason
to
detest
the
Author
of
this
so
pernicious
and
damnable
an
invention
.
And
here
I
cease
not
,
presuming
to
advise
Kings
and
Princes
(
this
being
but
a
Paradox
)
in
the
use
of
the
instrument
:
(
for
I
know
it
to
be
as
well
defensive
as
offensive
)
but
magnifying
the
mercies
of
GOD
towards
this
people
,
whose
simplicity
hath
herein
made
them
more
happy
than
our
too
deer
bought
knowledge
hath
advantaged
us
.