264:00,000[' ]| 264:00,000[' ]| 264:01,000@@@@@| 264:01,000[' ]| 264:01,201[A ]| As words are out of many letters made, 264:01,202[A ]| That common bodies doe their beings give 264:01,203[A ]| Then that ought without principles can live. 264:01,204[A ]| Lastly why should not nature frame a race 264:01,205[A ]| Of mighty men, outliving mortall space 264:01,206[A ]| Who on their feet could travell through the deepe, 264:01,207[A ]| And with their hands could levell mountains steepe, 264:01,208[A ]| But that a proper matter is assignd 264:01,209[A ]| To all things, which distinguisheth their kind. 264:01,210[A ]| Tis proovd that nothing out of nothing springs; 264:01,211[A ]| Since there's requir'd to all created things 264:01,212[A ]| A seed which doth their tender births unfold 264:01,213[A ]| To the life cherishing ayre. If we behold: 264:01,214[A ]| How manur'd lands exceed the untilld ground, 264:01,215[A ]| And by mans toyle with better fruite abound, 264:01,216[A ]| Th'originalls of all things we shall see 264:01,217[A ]| Hid in th'earths entrailes, whence mans industrie, 264:01,218[A ]| Plowing the glebe, makes way for the new birth, 264:01,219[A ]| For elce, if such seeds were not in the earth, 264:01,220[A ]| Without mens payns things of their owne accord 264:01,221[A ]| Would better grow, and more encrease afford. 264:01,222[A ]| Nature her works dissolves into their owne 264:01,223[A ]| First principles, annihilating none. 264:01,224[A ]| The creatures, if they could in all parts die, 264:01,225[A ]| Out of our eies would vanish suddenly, 264:01,226[A ]| And would not need any exterior force, 264:01,227[A ]| Which might dissolve the bands and parts divorce. 264:01,228[A ]| But since immortall seeds susteine them now, 264:01,229[A ]| Nature by no means will their death allow, 264:01,230[A ]| Till force by outward stroakes drive life away, 264:01,231[A ]| Or secret penitrations death convey. 264:01,232[A ]| Besides, if substances of things should wast 264:01,233[A ]| With aged time, and wholly faile at last, 264:01,234[A ]| Whence should new generations then succeed, 264:01,235[A ]| Or whence should earth the restord creature feed, 264:01,236[A ]| Whence springs and floods supplie the Ocean, 264:01,237[A ]| What food should the A*Etheriall flames maintaine? 264:01,238[A ]| For the past age would have consum'd whatere 264:01,239[A ]| In former times did mortall bodies beare. 264:01,240[A ]| But if we may derive the present race 264:01,241[A ]| From those who livd in that foregoing space, 264:01,242[A ]| All creatures then immortall natures share 264:01,243[A ]| And in nothing, none reverted are. 264:01,244[A ]| Lastly, unlesse eternall matter should 264:01,245[A ]| The complicated frame of things uphold, 264:01,246[A ]| Or more or lesse, one force, one cause, would bring 264:01,247[A ]| Like death, with the same touch to every*thing. 264:01,248[A ]| Against those, where th'eternall mixture failes 264:01,249[A ]| Every assault of outward force prevailes; 264:01,250[A ]| But since we now eternall matter find, 264:01,251[A ]| And principles with different links combind, 264:01,252[A ]| Each bodie, while it equall strength reteins 264:01,253[A ]| To its composure, only firme remains. 264:01,254[A ]| Thus nothing into nothing turns, but soe 264:01,255[A ]| Disjoynd all back to their first bodies goe. 264:01,256[A ]| Further when the paternall heaven powers 264:01,257[A ]| On the greate mother earth engendring showers 264:01,258[A ]| They perish in her womb, but thence comes out 264:01,259[A ]| The shining blade, plants grow, greene branches sprout, 264:01,260[A ]| Thence doth she both wild beasts and mankind nourish, 264:01,261[A ]| And thence with growing youth greate cities flourish. 264:01,262[A ]| Thence doe new birds the shadie groves supplie. 264:01,263[A ]| Hence while the heard in their rich pastures lie 264:01,264[A ]| And on ranck grasse their wearie limbs repose 264:01,265[A ]| White milke from their extended udders flows. 264:01,266[A ]| Hence sportfull younglings in the grounds we find 264:01,267[A ]| Helping their weake joynts with their vigorous mind. 264:01,268[A ]| Thus nothing perisheth that to our eies 264:01,269[A ]| Appears, for nature makes new creatures rise 264:01,270[A ]| From those which were dissolvd, and all that live 264:01,271[A ]| Their beings out of others deaths receive. 264:01,272[A ]| Since things are not of nothing made, I've taught 264:01,273[A ]| They cannot be againe to nothing brought. 264:01,274[A ]| Yet least my sayings find no faith with you, 264:01,275[A ]| Because first bodies are from outward view 264:01,276[A ]| Conceald, attend and you your*selfe shall learne 264:01,277[A ]| There are some bodies eies cannot discerne. 264:01,278[A ]| The wind rufles the clouds, beats on the sands, 264:01,279[A ]| Orewhelms tall ships, and passing through the land 264:01,280[A ]| Strews it with torne up trees, the groves destroys 264:01,281[A ]| And rages through the hills with horrid noyse 264:01,282[A ]| And furious blasts, not in the Oceans waves 264:01,283[A ]| With milder gusts or lesser terror raves; 264:01,284[A ]| And yet the winds concealed bodies be 264:01,285[A ]| Which passe unseene through heaven, earth and sea; 264:01,286[A ]| But with no lesser force and fury goe 264:01,287[A ]| The inundations which from mountains flow 264:01,288[A ]| When store of raine the rapid torrent fills 264:01,289[A ]| Whose violent streame descending the high hills 264:01,290[A ]| Bears downe the groves, and vineyards, overthrows 264:01,291[A ]| Bridges, whose vanquisht strength cannot oppose 264:01,292[A ]| The suddaine furie of the waters fall, 264:01,293[A ]| Which carries downe greate stones, banks, rubbish all 264:01,294[A ]| That in their passage lies; thus with loud noyse 264:01,295[A ]| The rolling flood whatere it meetes destroys, 264:01,296[A ]| Nor with lesse force then swiftest rivers flow 264:01,297[A ]| Doe the impetuous winds of heaven blow 264:01,298[A ]| Whose iterated gusts teare and confound 264:01,299[A ]| Whatere they meete, and often turning round 264:01,300[A ]| With boysterous whirlewinds, vast destructions make. 264:01,301[A ]| Wherefore we winds for unseene bodies take, 264:01,302[A ]| Whose qualities and effects proportion beare 264:01,303[A ]| To those of watry bodies, which appeare. 264:01,304[A ]| We take in many smells, but no man knows 264:01,305[A ]| Which way those various sents approach the nose. 264:01,306[A ]| We see not heate, nor to our eies doth cold 264:01,307[A ]| Appeare, nor can we any voyce behold 264:01,308[A ]| Yet that all these corporiall natures share 264:01,309[A ]| Even the touches which they give declare. 264:01,310[A ]| For bodies only have the propertie 264:01,311[A ]| That they can touch, and toucht againe can be. 264:01,312[A ]| Garments grow moyst, hung out neere the sea*side, 264:01,313[A ]| But are againe, spread in the sunshine, dried; 264:01,314[A ]| Yet we perceive not how the wett comes in, 264:01,315[A ]| And how the heate expells it, is not seene; 264:01,316[A ]| For the moyst humor in small attoms flies 264:01,317[A ]| Which cannot be discerned by our eies. 264:01,318[A ]| Besides in revolution of some yeares 264:01,319[A ]| The ring of mettall on the finger weares, 264:01,320[A ]| The drops of water harder stones decay, 264:01,321[A ]| The iron of the plow time weares away 264:01,322[A ]| And with the frequent tread of vulgar feete 264:01,323[A ]| The solid stones decay, that pave the streete. 264:01,324[A ]| Passengers kisses weare the brazen hand 264:01,325[A ]| Of statues which before the citie stand. 264:01,326[A ]| That these decrease and weare away we know, 264:01,327[A ]| But in what time, or how the bodies goe 264:01,328[A ]| Envious nature from our sight with-holds, 264:01,329[A ]| Nor ever to our peircing eies unfolds 264:01,330[A ]| The slow degrees, which time and nature both 264:01,331[A ]| Make use of in each living creatures growth. 264:01,332[A ]| Nor know we more the times of their decay, 264:01,333[A ]| How old age comes, and salt waves weare away 264:01,334[A ]| The ragged cliffes, all this doth then declare 264:01,335[A ]| That unseene bodies natures agents are. 264:01,336[A ]| Yet condenst bodies not all in nature be 264:01,337[A ]| But there's besides them a vacuitie; 264:01,338[A ]| Which opend to your search will usefull proove, 264:01,339[A ]| Confirme my sayings, an d your doubts remoove. 264:01,340[A ]| There is a place untoucht, emptie and voyd 264:01,341[A ]| Which if it were not, motion were destroyd; 264:01,342[A ]| For since we motion and resistance find 264:01,343[A ]| The functions of all bodies, in one kind 264:01,344[A ]| They all would strive at once, and where there were 264:01,345[A ]| No yielding principles, nothing could there 264:01,346[A ]| Proceed, but now with much varietie 264:01,347[A ]| Both in the earth and sea and heaven high 264:01,348[A ]| We see things moove, which if we doe oppose 264:01,349[A ]| Vacuitie, will not only motion loose, 264:01,350[A ]| But even their very beings too would faile, 264:01,351[A ]| For universall quiet would prevaile 264:01,352[A ]| With the condenst bodies, wherefore, allthough 264:01,353[A ]| Some things may solid seeme, they are not soe. 264:01,354[A ]| We see the rockie caves with moysture filld, 264:01,355[A ]| And frequent dropps from weeping stones distilld. 264:01,356[A ]| All creatures food dissolves into their flesh 264:01,357[A ]| The trees grow up, their branches greene and fresh 264:01,358[A ]| With nourishment they suck up from their roote 264:01,359[A ]| In their due seasons bring forth pleasant fruite. 264:01,360[A ]| Voyces flie through the house, through walls of stone 264:01,361[A ]| And penitrating cold goes to the bone. 264:01,362[A ]| Unto all which, there could no passage be 264:01,363[A ]| Unlesse in bodies were vacuitie. 264:01,364[A ]| Againe, except such certeine vacuums were 264:01,365[A ]| Why should not things of like bulk like weight beare? 264:01,366[A ]| For if a ball of wooll within it had 264:01,367[A ]| As much of bodies, as a ball of lead, 264:01,368[A ]| The weight would equall be, for bodies presse 264:01,369[A ]| But vacuums doe not the weight encrease. 264:01,370[A ]| Wherefore what's greate and light much vacuum hold, 264:01,371[A ]| And heaveie lumps more bodies doe infold; 264:01,372[A ]| Which prooves the thing that we by wisdome trace, 264:01,373[A ]| Even that in nature theres an unfilld place. 264:01,374[A ]| But here let me prevent what some may say 264:01,375[A ]| Least their feignd words should draw your mind astray 264:01,376[A ]| Wh'object, as fishes in their passage cleave 264:01,377[A ]| The floods, and certeine tracks behind them leave, 264:01,378[A ]| In which the parted waters meete againe, 264:01,379[A ]| Soe though the world a fullnesse still reteine, 264:01,380[A ]| Yet things may change their place, and may be moovd; 264:01,381[A ]| All which, by reason in a falsehood proovd. 264:01,382[A ]| For if the waves should not give way, how could 264:01,383[A ]| The fish then swim and whither could the flood 264:01,384[A ]| Retire, when fishes could not passe, so then 264:01,385[A ]| Motion must cease, or vacuum must remaine 264:01,386[A ]| Whence motion takes its first originall. 264:01,387[A ]| Lastly if two greate bodies meete, and fall 264:01,388[A ]| Insunder, though ayre then fills up the place 264:01,389[A ]| Betweene those bodies, yet cannot that space 264:01,390[A ]| Be all at once, but by degrees, possest 264:01,391[A ]| While part makes way to let in all the rest. 264:01,392[A ]| But if perhaps some thinke this may be done 264:01,393[A ]| Even when they part, by th'ayres condensation, 264:01,394[A ]| They erre, for then there would a vacuum be 264:01,395[A ]| More then before, and the vacuitie 264:01,396[A ]| That was before would be filld up, nor could 264:01,397[A ]| The ayre be thus condenst, or if it should, 264:01,398[A ]| Without an emptinesse could not this act 264:01,399[A ]| Produce, nor its dispersed parts contract. 264:01,400[A ]| Wherefore allthough you may use argument 264:01,401[A ]| You must at last to vacuum assent. 264:01,402[A ]| I could adde many other things beside 264:01,403[A ]| But these small footsteps are enough to guide 264:01,404[A ]| You in the way, whose wise discerning mind 264:01,405[A ]| Without my helpe, the rest will easily find. 264:01,406[A ]| As hounds, having once sented out their way 264:01,407[A ]| Run swiftly ore the shadie hills till they 264:01,408[A ]| In its owne covert seize the chased deare, 264:01,409[A ]| So while things thus successively appeare 264:01,410[A ]| You may the track of truths retirements have, 264:01,411[A ]| And draw the Goddesse forth from her darke cave. 264:01,412[A ]| And if your owne delays no stop procure 264:01,413[A ]| This (Memmium) dare I faithfully assure, 264:01,414[A ]| From my sweete tongue, and rich invention shall 264:01,415[A ]| Such plenteous streames of sacred liquor fall, 264:01,416[A ]| As that slowfooted age will first, I doubt, 264:01,417[A ]| Into my bodie creepe, and let life out, 264:01,418[A ]| Ere I can each particular forme in verse 264:01,419[A ]| And my conceptions in due words rehearse. 264:01,420[A ]| But that I may my first intent persue 264:01,421[A ]| All nature lookt on with a single view 264:01,422[A ]| Consisteth only of two parts, which be 264:01,423[A ]| The bodies and th'immense vacuitie, 264:01,424[A ]| In which bodies are plac'd, and exercise 264:01,425[A ]| Their divers motions; now the sence descries 264:01,426[A ]| What simply in a bodie, for all such 264:01,427[A ]| A common propertie have t'endure the touch. 264:01,428[A ]| But except you to these foundations give 264:01,429[A ]| A strong beliefe, you n ever will conceive 264:01,430[A ]| The misteries we declare. Now if the space 264:01,431[A ]| We call vacuitie be not, noe place, 264:01,432[A ]| As we before declar'd, will then remaine 264:01,433[A ]| Which all these mooving bodies can conteine. 264:01,434[A ]| In nature theres no third capacitie 264:01,435[A ]| Wherein things can consist, which equallie 264:01,436[A ]| Nothing of bodies, or of vacuums share; 264:01,437[A ]| For whatsoere it be, they either are 264:01,438[A ]| Or lesse or greater bulk, which if it may 264:01,439[A ]| In the least sort admitt the touch, they then they 264:01,440[A ]| With bodies must be rancked, but if againe 264:01,441[A ]| It no resisting facultie reteine 264:01,442[A ]| But easie passage to all things permitt, 264:01,443[A ]| We then amongst the vacuums number it. 264:01,444[A ]| And farther each thing with a simple view 264:01,445[A ]| Considerd, either doth some action doe, 264:01,446[A ]| Or is the action of some other thing, 264:01,447[A ]| Or elce the place where acts and motions spring. 264:01,448[A ]| Now all that suffer, bodies be 264:01,449[A ]| And all that gives them space, vacuitie. 264:01,450[A ]| Wherefore besides, there is no third 264:01,451[A ]| Which sence can reach, or nature can afford. 264:01,452[A ]| For unto these whatever elce we see 264:01,453[A ]| Either conjoynd, or accidentall be 264:01,454[A ]| Those are conjunctions which at no time force 264:01,455[A ]| Without pernicious injury can divorce 264:01,456[A ]| As wett, heate, weight, from water, fire and stone 264:01,457[A ]| From bodies touch, from incorporealls none. 264:01,458[A ]| But bondage, libertie, wealth, want, war, peace 264:01,459[A ]| And all, by whose departure or accesse 264:01,460[A ]| Nature remains the same, not chang'd nor spent 264:01,461[A ]| These we more fittly may terme accident. 264:01,462[A ]| Time alsoe nothing is, but what sence brings 264:01,463[A ]| Out of the series of transacted things, 264:01,464[A ]| Collecting former acts, with those which wee 264:01,465[A ]| At present doe, and shall hereafter see. 264:01,466[A ]| But cannot be alone, by sence defind, 264:01,467[A ]| From motion and from calme of things disjoynd. 264:01,468[A ]| For when of the faire Hellens rape they tell, 264:01,469[A ]| And how in fight the vanquisht Trojans fell, 264:01,470[A ]| We cannot call these aniething alone 264:01,471[A ]| Since the past age irrevocably gone 264:01,472[A ]| Hath swept them hence who shared those accidents; 264:01,473[A ]| For all former transactions were th'events 264:01,474[A ]| Some of the places, of the persons some. 264:01,475[A ]| Lastly if things no matter had, no roome, 264:01,476[A ]| Nor space wherein each might transacted be 264:01,477[A ]| The fire which Hellens beauty secretly 264:01,478[A ]| Conveyd to Paris brest, had never there 264:01,479[A ]| Engenderd lust, that flamed in cruell warre, 264:01,480[A ]| Nor had the Grecian horse brought forth b night 264:01,481[A ]| The fatall brands that did Troys funeralls light. 264:01,482[A ]| Thus then transacted things you may perceive, 264:01,483[A ]| Noe beings by themselves, like bodies, have 264:01,484[A ]| Nor can be reckond as vacuitie, 264:01,485[A ]| But accidents of place and bodies be. 264:01,486[A ]| Bodies are partly the first ground of things 264:01,487[A ]| And partly what out of that first ground springs. 264:01,488[A ]| Bodies which are of things th'originall held 264:01,489[A ]| Being solid, to noe outward violence yeild 264:01,490[A ]| Although tis very hard to gaine a faith 264:01,491[A ]| That aniething a solid body hath. 264:01,492[A ]| For heavens loud sounding thunder passes through 264:01,493[A ]| The thick walld house, as noyse and voyces doe, 264:01,494[A ]| Ir'n in the fire becomes red hot, and by 264:01,495[A ]| The force of heate greate stones insunder flie. 264:01,496[A ]| The solid masse of gold melts in the flame: 264:01,497[A ]| And lumps of brasse turne liquor in the same. 264:01,498[A ]| The silver cup that in your hands you hold 264:01,499[A ]| Is penetrated by the heate or cold 264:01,500[A ]| Of the infused drinke, all which being thus 264:01,501[A ]| Theres nothing can seeme solid unto us. 264:02,000[' ]| 264:02,201[A ]| Thus doe the nightly tapers of the skie 264:02,202[A ]| With their long trains of fire through heaven flie. 264:02,203[A ]| Thus falling starrs doe frequently appeare; 264:02,204[A ]| And even the sun himselfe from his high spheare 264:02,205[A ]| Clothes th'earth with light, and heate, to all parts sends; 264:02,206[A ]| Whence we perceive his ardor downewards tends. 264:02,207[A ]| Thus we behold when lowd stormes rend the ayre 264:02,208[A ]| Lightnings on all sides flash, now here, now there 264:02,209[A ]| The dreadfull flames encounter, yet fall downe 264:02,210[A ]| At last to th'earth. Tis further to be knowne 264:02,211[A ]| Bodies in a streight line, with their owne weight 264:02,212[A ]| Borne downe, in the vast space alter their state, 264:02,213[A ]| When both in an uncerteine time, and place, 264:02,214[A ]| Suddaine concussions force them to give space; 264:02,215[A ]| For if they were not thus us'd to decline, 264:02,216[A ]| Like drops of raine, they all in a straight line 264:02,217[A ]| Would fall into the vast profunditie, 264:02,218[A ]| Soe noe concursions, nor no touch could be 264:02,219[A ]| Allowd the principles, and by this way 264:02,220[A ]| Nature could nothing frame; but if some say 264:02,221[A ]| The heavie bodies in their swift fall hitt 264:02,222[A ]| Upon the lighter, and doe soe begett 264:02,223[A ]| That touch, which generative motion breeds 264:02,224[A ]| They tread the path which to wild error leads, 264:02,225[A ]| For all, which through the ayre or water goe, 264:02,226[A ]| According to their weight, fall swift, or slow, 264:02,227[A ]| Because thin ayre and water cannot give 264:02,228[A ]| An equall poysure unto things, but cleave 264:02,229[A ]| Swiftly in two, with greater weight compelld. 264:02,230[A ]| But then againe, vast space can never yeild 264:02,231[A ]| Nor can its naturall propertie remitt 264:02,232[A ]| At any time, in any part of it. 264:02,233[A ]| But all things doth in this unfathomd deepe 264:02,234[A ]| Of unlike weight, in equall motion keepe. 264:02,235[A ]| Wherefore the pondorous things can never soe 264:02,236[A ]| Fall on the light, as with that suddaine blow 264:02,237[A ]| To change the motion, and the course of things, 264:02,238[A ]| Whence nature her administrations brings. 264:02,239[A ]| Wherefore we must againe say bodies doe 264:02,240[A ]| Decline, and that but very litle too; 264:02,241[A ]| Least we for oblique motions should dispute, 264:02,242[A ]| Which truth it*selfe would suddenly confute; 264:02,243[A ]| For tis apparent to our eies, that weights 264:02,244[A ]| Which their owne natures still precipitates, 264:02,245[A ]| Directly downe, cannott with naturall force 264:02,246[A ]| Divert their motion to an oblique course; 264:02,247[A ]| Yett there are none who can affirme that they 264:02,248[A ]| Doe not att all decline, the streighter way. 264:02,249[A ]| Lastly if motions are together tied, 264:02,250[A ]| If certeine order their successions guide, 264:02,251[A ]| If noe declension of first bodies can 264:02,252[A ]| Produce new principles, to breake the chaine 264:02,253[A ]| Of destinie, which linking causes brings 264:02,254[A ]| Fatall necessitie on humane things, 264:02,255[A ]| Whence have the creatures freedome then to doe 264:02,256[A ]| Whatever their owne pleasure prompts them to? 264:02,257[A ]| Whence comes their free and fate-resisting-will 264:02,258[A ]| For neither tied to place nor time, we still 264:02,259[A ]| Varie our motions as we change our mind, 264:02,260[A ]| And surely here the will is unconfin'd; 264:02,261[A ]| And the sole author of each humane deed 264:02,262[A ]| From whence the bodies motion must proceed. 264:02,263[A ]| For marke, when coursers from the post you loose 264:02,264[A ]| The swiftest horse cannot so soone dispose 264:02,265[A ]| His members, as his mind to issue out, 264:02,266[A ]| For the whole store of matter spred about, 264:02,267[A ]| Must be collected in the limbs, that they 264:02,268[A ]| May so stirrd up, the minds instinct obey. 264:02,269[A ]| So then motion is first bred in the heart, 264:02,270[A ]| And from the will disperst to every part: 264:02,271[A ]| But yet that motion will not fitt this sence 264:02,272[A ]| Which is enforcd by others violence. 264:02,273[A ]| For there the matter of the bodies, till 264:02,274[A ]| It be restreind by the repugnant will, 264:02,275[A ]| Is hald and forc't along; yet all though wee 264:02,276[A ]| By a prevailing outward power, oft see 264:02,277[A ]| Things driven, cast headlong, and compelld to goe, 264:02,278[A ]| Without their owne accord, yet doe we know 264:02,279[A ]| That a resisting power dwells in our brests, 264:02,280[A ]| Which with that outward violence contests, 264:02,281[A ]| The plentie of the matter doth contract, 264:02,282[A ]| Nor in the members suffers it to act. 264:02,283[A ]| Soe then we must confesse, that in the seeds 264:02,284[A ]| There is another cause, which motion breeds. 264:02,285[A ]| Besides the touch and weight, from whence doth grow 264:02,286[A ]| This innate power in us, because we know, 264:02,287[A ]| That out of noe cause noe effect can flow. 264:02,288[A ]| For did not weight presse downe with strokes, all would 264:02,289[A ]| Moove by exterior force, and least they should 264:02,290[A ]| Still suffering have their active power denied, 264:02,291[A ]| And to a necessary fate be tied, 264:02,292[A ]| The yielding principles must give some space, 264:02,293[A ]| Declining at no certeine time, nor place. 264:02,294[A ]| Materiall bodies never closer were 264:02,295[A ]| Never dilated more, then now they are. 264:02,296[A ]| They no decays nor noe encrease admitt, 264:02,297[A ]| What was their motion in past times, is yett, 264:02,298[A ]| And the same motion shall be evermore. 264:02,299[A ]| All that was generated heretofore, 264:02,300[A ]| Shall the same births and growths againe receive, 264:02,301[A ]| As long as natures lawes gives each kind leave. 264:02,302[A ]| Nor can the whole be changd by any force, 264:02,303[A ]| The failing mater can have no recourse 264:02,304[A ]| Throughout the world, nature cannot make way 264:02,305[A ]| For the irruptions of new powers, which may 264:02,306[A ]| Disorder the whole universe, and bring 264:02,307[A ]| Change to the being and motion of each thing. 264:02,308[A ]| Nor out of this can any wonder rise, 264:02,309[A ]| For though our principles may exercise 264:02,310[A ]| Perpetuall motions, yett the chiefe abide 264:02,311[A ]| Unmoov'd, and in untroubled rest reside. 264:02,312[A ]| And bodies which themselves seeme to dispence 264:02,313[A ]| Motion to others, though our distant sence 264:02,314[A ]| Cannot such farre remoovd things comprehend, 264:02,315[A ]| Yet these on the first principles depend; 264:02,316[A ]| Therefore may moove there, where we cannot see, 264:02,317[A ]| As motions which to us more obvious be, 264:02,318[A ]| At a farre distant space seeme to stand still. 264:02,319[A ]| For white-fleec'd sheepe, feeding on a greene hill, 264:02,320[A ]| The wanton flock, wherere the pearly drop 264:02,321[A ]| Hangs on the springing grasse, the fresh tufts crop, 264:02,322[A ]| And thus fed, skip about, which farre of seene, 264:02,323[A ]| Appeare only white heaps, on mountains greene. 264:02,324[A ]| Soe when the armed legions exercise 264:02,325[A ]| And battells represent, the light horse flies 264:02,326[A ]| Round all the camp, at last i'the middst they joyne, 264:02,327[A ]| And as they grapple, their guilt armors shine, 264:02,328[A ]| Whose glittering in the vaulted skie beheld, 264:02,329[A ]| Shedds dazling lustre round about the field, 264:02,330[A ]| With tumult, and thick trampling, shakes the ground 264:02,331[A ]| And th'ecchoing hills, to heaven the noyse resound; 264:02,332[A ]| Yet might you this from some farre mountaine view, 264:02,333[A ]| Where 'twould but like a standing brightnesse shew. 264:02,334[A ]| Now of the principles, letts here declare 264:02,335[A ]| What all their severall formes and figures are. 264:02,336[A ]| While we the creatures no lesse various find 264:02,337[A ]| Each in his owne, then all, in every kind. 264:02,338[A ]| Nor is it strange their working should be such, 264:02,339[A ]| Where infinite matter doth abound soe much; 264:02,340[A ]| Or that things should in severall shapes arise, 264:02,341[A ]| Whose threds are not all spun of equall size; 264:02,342[A ]| Now whither you observe mankind, fish, plants, 264:02,343[A ]| Every wild beast, and every fowle that hants 264:02,344[A ]| The pleasant marish grounds, the lakes, the springs, 264:02,345[A ]| Or through the forrest flies with nimble wings, 264:02,346[A ]| Every particular, in each kind surveyd, 264:02,347[A ]| You'le find no two, in the same figure made. 264:02,348[A ]| Thus damms their young ones shape, young ones their owne 264:02,349[A ]| Damms figure know, as men by men are knowne. 264:02,350[A ]| So when a calfe, designd for sacrifice, 264:02,351[A ]| Before the incense burning alter dies, 264:02,352[A ]| Shedding his soule in the warme purple flood, 264:02,353[A ]| The damme runs wildly through the shadie wood, 264:02,354[A ]| Printing her cloven footsteps on the ground, 264:02,355[A ]| Makes the whole forrest her lowd shriekes resound, 264:02,356[A ]| With sad enquireing eies, each covert views, 264:02,357[A ]| And once more in the stall her search renews; 264:02,358[A ]| Mad with her losse, greene trees, dew dropping grasse, 264:02,359[A ]| And pleasant bankes, by which the sweete streames passe 264:02,360[A ]| Cannot divert her griefe, nor cure her mind 264:02,361[A ]| Nor can she ease or consolation find 264:02,362[A ]| In other calves, that sport about the plains, 264:02,363[A ]| While she the sure marks of her owne reteins. 264:02,364[A ]| So tender kids discerne their horned damms, 264:02,365[A ]| So bleating ewes are knowne by their owne lambs, 264:02,366[A ]| To whom nature, by certeine tokens shews 264:02,367[A ]| The proper udders whence their owne milke flows. 264:02,368[A ]| Againe you see, first bodies distribute 264:02,369[A ]| Not allways the same shape to the same fruite. 264:02,370[A ]| So when the thirstie sand the sea receives 264:02,371[A ]| Which in its bosome various cockles leaves, 264:02,372[A ]| It paints the shore with severall sorts of shells; 264:02,373[A ]| All which confirms us, that the principles 264:02,374[A ]| By no creating hand to one forme tied, 264:02,375[A ]| Who in their selfe-subsistencie abide, 264:02,376[A ]| Among themselves, in severall forms are moov’d, 264:02,377[A ]| All which unto our sence is easily proovd. 264:02,378[A ]| For lightnings sooner passe through any place, 264:02,379[A ]| Then those flames which in earthly tapers blaze. 264:02,380[A ]| Hence those quick-darted heavenly fires are sayd 264:02,381[A ]| To be of subtiler and lesse figures made, 264:02,382[A ]| And soe more easily to penetrate, 264:02,383[A ]| Then our grosse fires, which wood and wax create. 264:02,384[A ]| Further through horne, that shutts out raine, light flows: 264:02,385[A ]| For light's of subtiler bodies made, then those 264:02,386[A ]| Which doe the waters of the clowds compose. 264:02,387[A ]| Soe through the streiner wine is quickly past, 264:02,388[A ]| In which the grosse oyle powrd, drops not so fast, 264:02,389[A ]| Either because the bodies grosser be, 264:02,390[A ]| Or hook'd, and link'd with such perplexitie, 264:02,391[A ]| They cannot suddenly themselves dilate, 264:02,392[A ]| And through each porous passage penetrate. 264:02,393[A ]| Againe when we hony or milke receive, 264:02,394[A ]| They a delight in our pleasd palats leave, 264:02,395[A ]| Whereas harsh centaurie and wormwood, still 264:02,396[A ]| The mouth with an unpleasant savour fill. 264:02,397[A ]| Soe that we easily may believe from hence, 264:02,398[A ]| Those bodies smooth and round which please the sence, 264:02,399[A ]| But those entangled more, and hookt, which use 264:02,400[A ]| In tast a bitter harshnesse to diffuse, 264:02,401[A ]| Who to our sence themselves by force convey, 264:02,402[A ]| Entring our bodies in a violent way. 264:02,403[A ]| Thus then what to the sence seemes good, what bad, 264:02,404[A ]| Must be opposd in different figures made. 264:02,405[A ]| Nor must you thinke, that as smooth attoms breed 264:02,406[A ]| Those grating sounds, which from harsh saws proceed, 264:02,407[A ]| As those whence the delightfull musick springs, 264:02,408[A ]| By the sweete touch, drawne from the welltund strings. 264:02,409[A ]| Nor when we smell dead carrion must we thinke, 264:02,410[A ]| As equall attoms, do convey that stinke, 264:02,411[A ]| As those which bring the sweete perfume that comes 264:02,412[A ]| From easterne spices, and Panchean gumms. 264:02,413[A ]| Nor yet must we believe from the same seed 264:02,414[A ]| Which doth the faire eie-pleasing coulours breed, 264:02,415[A ]| That all those other ugly objects rise, 264:02,416[A ]| Which hurt the sight, and force teares from the eies. 264:02,417[A ]| Thus an originall smoothnesse is the cause, 264:02,418[A ]| From which the sence delight in all things draws. 264:02,419[A ]| When as againe, all harsh things that offend 264:02,420[A ]| From rough uneven principles ascend. 264:02,421[A ]| Besides all which, there is another kind 264:02,422[A ]| Which neither smooth, nor hookt at poynt, we find 264:02,423[A ]| Into more angular forms dispos'd, and such 264:02,424[A ]| As rather tickle then offend the touch. 264:02,425[A ]| Which savorie hearbs and poynant sawces doe. 264:02,426[A ]| Lastly the scorching flame, and cold frost shew 264:02,427[A ]| Both biting us with so much difference, 264:02,428[A ]| That they in severall figures touch our sence. 264:02,429[A ]| This touch, this touch, O sacred deities! 264:02,430[A ]| Is that sence which in bodies doth arise, 264:02,431[A ]| When outward things themselves insinuate, 264:02,432[A ]| Or when they'are hurt, by things which are innate, 264:02,433[A ]| Or when with pleasure they send forth their seed, 264:02,434[A ]| Or seeds confusdly mett disturbance breed; 264:02,435[A ]| Which you by striking of your*selfe may know, 264:02,436[A ]| When part of the same body gives the blow, 264:02,437[A ]| Thus principles in forme must differ farre, 264:02,438[A ]| Who authors of such various touches are. 264:02,439[A ]| Soe of hookt attoms that together stick 264:02,440[A ]| Are made all bodies, which seeme firme and thick. 264:02,441[A ]| Where Adamantine stones the first ranck take 264:02,442[A ]| Who mock the vaine hard strokes, and will not breake. 264:02,443[A ]| With these are the strong flints and solid ir'ne found, 264:02,444[A ]| And brasse which struck, returns a hollow sound. 264:02,445[A ]| But those which liquid flowing bodies have, 264:02,446[A ]| Theyr formes from smooth round principles receive, 264:02,447[A ]| Which are not to each other linkt, but all 264:02,448[A ]| In a descending current swiftly fall. 264:02,449[A ]| Lastly those which soone vanish out of sight 264:02,450[A ]| As smoke, flame, clouds, doe in their ayrie flight, 264:02,451[A ]| Though made of principles lesse smooth and round 264:02,452[A ]| Yet doe not their perplexities abound, 264:02,453[A ]| To hinder them from penetrating through 264:02,454[A ]| Rocks and thick bodies, which they could not doe 264:02,455[A ]| Did they like briars catch; hence then we see 264:02,456[A ]| Their elements not hookt, but poynted be. 264:02,457[A ]| Some things againe, like water of the seas, 264:02,458[A ]| Both sharpe and fluid be, in such as these 264:02,459[A ]| The cause of fluidnesse is circular 264:02,460[A ]| And smooth, but yet these plaine round bodies are 264:02,461[A ]| Mixt with most paynefull attoms, which though they 264:02,462[A ]| Not hookt, but globous, easily passe away 264:02,463[A ]| Yet their uneven roughnesse gives offence, 264:02,464[A ]| Whensoever they approach the tender sence. 264:02,465[A ]| And thus in Neptunes bodie, the rough seeds 264:02,466[A ]| Abounding more then smooth, that harshnesse breeds. 264:02,467[A ]| Which principles are severally descried, 264:02,468[A ]| When salt seas in the earth are dulcified. 264:02,469[A ]| Where some deepe pitt the drained flood receives 264:02,470[A ]| Whose water, in the ground it falls through, leaves 264:02,471[A ]| The sharpe harsh bodie, which to grosse earth cleaves. 264:02,472[A ]| This thus explaind, proceed we now from hence 264:02,473[A ]| To draw this necessary consequence 264:02,474[A ]| That figures of first bodies different be, 264:02,475[A ]| But yet have bound in their varietie; 264:02,476[A ]| Which wer't not soe, from some seeds then would rise 264:02,477[A ]| Bodies of vast unbounded quantities; 264:02,478[A ]| For much varietie of figures cannot come 264:02,479[A ]| Together in one bodies narrow roome. 264:02,480[A ]| Of smallest parts the principles suppose, 264:02,481[A ]| Imagine three or add a few to those, 264:02,482[A ]| When you shall have all transmutations tried 264:02,483[A ]| Of parts, above, beneath, on either side, 264:02,484[A ]| And found what shape each order changd can give, 264:02,485[A ]| What figures the whole bodie can receive, 264:02,486[A ]| Would you that bodies figure change once more, 264:02,487[A ]| New parts must be supplied; then, as before 264:02,488[A ]| Should you another change againe desire 264:02,489[A ]| The order would againe, new parts require. 264:02,490[A ]| And every time you did the forme renew, 264:02,491[A ]| The bodies augmentation would ensue. 264:02,492[A ]| Thus may you not believe figures of seed 264:02,493[A ]| Are infinite, which being soe, would breed 264:02,494[A ]| Bodies of such vast monstrous bulk as we 264:02,495[A ]| Have before proovd impossibillitie. 264:02,496[A ]| For soe in things, new colours might arise 264:02,497[A ]| To make you the bright Phrigian roabes despise, 264:02,498[A ]| The shining purple which rich Thessaly staines, 264:02,499[A ]| The various lustre of the peacocks trains; 264:02,500[A ]| The tast of honie and the smell of Myrrhe 264:02,501[A ]| The swans sweete songs, you would not then prefer; 264:02,502[A ]| Nor the harmonious sound of Pho*ebus strings, 264:02,503[A ]| Since nature might produce more excellent things. 264:03,000[' ]| 264:03,199[A ]| Water with the least touch immediately 264:03,200[A ]| Runs downe, because the seeds that forme it be 264:03,201[A ]| Litle and voluble: but honie doth not soe, 264:03,202[A ]| Whose nature being more fixed, acts more slow; 264:03,203[A ]| The same masse of matter sticks together there 264:03,204[A ]| Where seeds lesse smooth, subtile, and globus are. 264:03,205[A ]| The least ayre will a heape of flowers disperse, 264:03,206[A ]| Which will not heaps of stones and ir’ne reverse. 264:03,207[A ]| Soe the least bodies, as they are most light 264:03,208[A ]| Must needs moove swiftest in their nimble flight; 264:03,209[A ]| When as againe, allthings the more they'are mixt 264:03,210[A ]| With rough and ponderous bodies, are most fixd. 264:03,211[A ]| Now the soules nature being most nimble found 264:03,212[A ]| Its seeds must needs be litle, smooth, and round, 264:03,213[A ]| Which well conceiv'd (deare Memmius) will produce 264:03,214[A ]| Things to your knowledge of a speciall use. 264:03,215[A ]| This the fine texture of its substance shews 264:03,216[A ]| What narrow roome would the whole soule enclose 264:03,217[A ]| Could it collected be. When quiet death 264:03,218[A ]| Lays men to sleepe, in whose departing breath 264:03,219[A ]| Both soules expire, tis not perceivd that they 264:03,220[A ]| Doe from the bodie aniething convey 264:03,221[A ]| Of weight or forme, for death leaves all entire 264:03,222[A ]| Except the quickning sence and vitall fire. 264:03,223[A ]| And thus a most small seed knits and preserves 264:03,224[A ]| This soule amongst the bowells, veins and nerves; 264:03,225[A ]| Which when it quite forsakes that mortall seate 264:03,226[A ]| Leaves not the superficies lesse compleate, 264:03,227[A ]| Or ponderous, then in life it was. Of this 264:03,228[A ]| That nimble spiritt the best instance is 264:03,229[A ]| Which out of sparkling wines and sweete oyles flies 264:03,230[A ]| Into the perfumd ayre; or sents that rise 264:03,231[A ]| From other bodies, by whose subtile flight 264:03,232[A ]| No bulk, nor weight, is lessend in our sight. 264:03,233[A ]| Because the juice, and odor of all things 264:03,234[A ]| From many and most litle bodies springs. 264:03,235[A ]| Thus then the minds of smallest seeds must grow 264:03,236[A ]| Since weight is not diminisht, when they goe. 264:03,237[A ]| Nor thinke the soule a simple nature hath 264:03,238[A ]| For that faint breath which is expird in death 264:03,239[A ]| Is mixt with heate; heate draws along the ayre; 264:03,240[A ]| For wheresoere heate is, ayre must be there. 264:03,241[A ]| Now the soules nature being thin, must proove 264:03,242[A ]| That ayrie seeds in its beginning moove. 264:03,243[A ]| Three natures of the soule appeare from hence, 264:03,244[A ]| Yett all these not enough to create sence. 264:03,245[A ]| Because from none of these the thoughtfull mind 264:03,246[A ]| Can any of the sence infusing motions find. 264:03,247[A ]| And therefore to all these a fourth we adde 264:03,248[A ]| Which yett no name in nature ever had; 264:03,249[A ]| But being the thinnest, agil'st of all things 264:03,250[A ]| Out of the least and smoothest elements springs. 264:03,251[A ]| By this, sence to the members is conveyd, 264:03,252[A ]| This, first is of the smallest figures made, 264:03,253[A ]| Hence warmth proceeds, breath hath its hidden force, 264:03,254[A ]| Hence ayre is bred, and motion takes its course, 264:03,255[A ]| The blood hence stirrd, the bowells sence attaine, 264:03,256[A ]| The bones and marrow feele delight or payne. 264:03,257[A ]| No griefe flows hence, or penetrates thus farre 264:03,258[A ]| But all the other parts disturbed are. 264:03,259[A ]| Till life forsake its habitation, 264:03,260[A ]| And the chac'd spiritts through the wide pores run. 264:03,261[A ]| But commonly in bodies it remains 264:03,262[A ]| The terme of motions, which their lives reteins. 264:03,263[A ]| That compact now whereby these minds so are 264:03,264[A ]| In beauteous order mixt, I should declare, 264:03,265[A ]| But that our scant tongue yeilds not copious words. 264:03,266[A ]| Yet I'le proceed, with those the speech affords. 264:03,267[A ]| The principles of principles so flow 264:03,268[A ]| Into each other, and are mixed soe 264:03,269[A ]| They can nor be distinguisht nor disjoynd, 264:03,270[A ]| Whose implicated powers are soe combin'd 264:03,271[A ]| That one united force results from all; 264:03,272[A ]| As may be instanc'd in each animall, 264:03,273[A ]| Within whose bowells colour, tast, and sent 264:03,274[A ]| Joynd all in one, their bodies doe augment. 264:03,275[A ]| Soe the hid force of spiritt, ayre, and heate, 264:03,276[A ]| All mixt into one nature, doe begett 264:03,277[A ]| That power which doth to all the rest dispence 264:03,278[A ]| its motion, and creates the inward sence. 264:03,279[A ]| The bodie hides this nature from all eies, 264:03,280[A ]| Where nothing in more deepe concealement lies. 264:03,281[A ]| This is that mind of minds, that mooves the whole, 264:03,282[A ]| Resembled in our members, by that power of soule 264:03,283[A ]| And mind, which, mixt together, there lie hid 264:03,284[A ]| And spring up from small undiscerned seed. 264:03,285[A ]| Even so this nameless force concealed lies, 264:03,286[A ]| Which made of smallest seed, doth exercise 264:03,287[A ]| A soveraigne power over all the rest, 264:03,288[A ]| Soule of all soules, chiefe monarch of the brest, 264:03,289[A ]| Whence all the members are preservd alive 264:03,290[A ]| By'th mixt ayre, spiritt, heate, they thence derive, 264:03,291[A ]| Which, by each other more or lesse fullfilld, 264:03,292[A ]| To th'eie may one entire resultance yeild; 264:03,293[A ]| Least heate, ayre, spiritt working severally, 264:03,294[A ]| Union dissolvd, should make the sences die. 264:03,295[A ]| Where heate prevailes, it kindles burning ire, 264:03,296[A ]| Enflames the eies, and setts the heart on fire. 264:03,297[A ]| Where there is more cold ayre, pale feares abound 264:03,298[A ]| And horrors doe the trembling limbs confound. 264:03,299[A ]| But where the temperate spiritts reigne, they still 264:03,300[A ]| Cleare the calm brows, with peace the bosom fill. 264:03,301[A ]| Where heate predominates, there the fierce mind 264:03,302[A ]| Soone catches fire, to furious wrath enclind; 264:03,303[A ]| Such in the hearts of angrie lions reigne, 264:03,304[A ]| Whose brests cannot that flood of wrath conteine 264:03,305[A ]| Which in their dreadfull roarings they declare: 264:03,306[A ]| But fearefull staggs, pertake more the coole ayre 264:03,307[A ]| Which in their brests doth chilling vapors rayse, 264:03,308[A ]| And trembling motions to their limbs conveys: 264:03,309[A ]| But oxen are of a more temperate frame, 264:03,310[A ]| Whom neither too much anger doth enflame, 264:03,311[A ]| And with black fumes their mistie bosoms fill, 264:03,312[A ]| Nor too much, doth dull feare, their sences chill, 264:03,313[A ]| But betweene both, they middle tempers have 264:03,314[A ]| Dread not like staggs, nor like fierce lions rave. 264:03,315[A ]| These tempers likewise reigne in all mankind, 264:03,316[A ]| Though some by education are refind, 264:03,317[A ]| Which cannot inclinations so deface 264:03,318[A ]| But we the footestepps of their tempers trace. 264:03,319[A ]| Thus some are more to furious anger prone 264:03,320[A ]| Some easier take cold fears impression 264:03,321[A ]| Some of more equall minds, no passions moove 264:03,322[A ]| And as their natures, so their customs proove 264:03,323[A ]| Different in many things, whose causes be 264:03,324[A ]| Soe intricate, I neither can their misterie 264:03,325[A ]| Explore, nor find fitt terms for all those things 264:03,326[A ]| From whence this multiplied varietie springs; 264:03,327[A ]| Yet this affirme, though learning never can 264:03,328[A ]| Quite blott out nature, but some prints remaine 264:03,329[A ]| Even in the wise, th'impressions which they give 264:03,330[A ]| Are not so strong, but men like Gods may live. 264:03,331[A ]| This soule from all the bodie dwells distinct, 264:03,332[A ]| To it, guardian and cause of health, so linckt 264:03,333[A ]| With mutuall nexures, strong and intricate, 264:03,334[A ]| That ruine follows when they seperate. 264:03,335[A ]| As you from franckincense cannot devide 264:03,336[A ]| The odor, but the gumme must be destroyd; 264:03,337[A ]| Soe if you soules out of their bodies force 264:03,338[A ]| Both natures perish, by that sad divorce. 264:03,339[A ]| They in their first beginning are combind 264:03,340[A ]| Nor in lifes tedious voyage ere disjoynd 264:03,341[A ]| Nor can they singly suffer violence 264:03,342[A ]| What neither feeles afflicts the others sence 264:03,343[A ]| In all commotions beare an equall share, 264:03,344[A ]| Whatever tumults in the entrailes are. 264:03,345[A ]| The bodie is not borne, nor grows alone, 264:03,346[A ]| Nor after death subsists, the soule being gone. 264:03,347[A ]| Though water heated, when that heate doth goe 264:03,348[A ]| Reteins its being still, yet tis not soe 264:03,349[A ]| With bodies quitted by the vitall heate, 264:03,350[A ]| Corruption there dissolves the empty seate. 264:03,351[A ]| Thus soule and bodie in lifes entrance payre 264:03,352[A ]| And practise the first vitall motions there 264:03,353[A ]| While in the mothers wombs they yett reside 264:03,354[A ]| Nor without ruine can they then devide. 264:03,355[A ]| Thus since their safetie in their union lies 264:03,356[A ]| Their being must from united natures rise. 264:03,357[A ]| Now if, opposing truth and evidence, 264:03,358[A ]| Some say, that bodies singly have noe sence 264:03,359[A ]| But the mixt soules which there confusdly flow 264:03,360[A ]| Begett those motions, wee entitle soe; 264:03,361[A ]| Whoever bodies shall with sence indue 264:03,362[A ]| Will not the thing it*selfe confirme it true? 264:03,363[A ]| But soules being fled, bodies no sence reteine 264:03,364[A ]| What they in life usurpt thus lost againe, 264:03,365[A ]| And much besides which swift time steales away. 264:03,366[A ]| Yett tis a madnesse against sence to say 264:03,367[A ]| Sight is not in the eies, but that they only be 264:03,368[A ]| Casements, through which the soule doth all things see. 264:03,369[A ]| The sence, first th'object in it*selfe collects, 264:03,370[A ]| Which on the sight it back againe reflects. 264:03,371[A ]| Thus when we gaze on glorious things, the light 264:03,372[A ]| Too forcible, offends our feeble sight. 264:03,373[A ]| Of which, as doores, they could not have a sence 264:03,374[A ]| For even our unshut lidds feele no offence. 264:03,375[A ]| Then, if eies only windores be, soules may 264:03,376[A ]| See better take those casements quite away. 264:03,377[A ]| Among these doctrines see you alsoe shun 264:03,378[A ]| The grave Democritus opinion, 264:03,379[A ]| That principles of soules in bodies, soe 264:03,380[A ]| Into each others compositions flow, 264:03,381[A ]| As every severall member they create 264:03,382[A ]| Doth some of both their seeds participate; 264:03,383[A ]| For principles of soule are smaller farre 264:03,384[A ]| Then these of bowells, and other members are, 264:03,385[A ]| Their number too is lesse, the distance wide 264:03,386[A ]| At which they in the severall limbs reside. 264:03,387[A ]| When we affirme, according to the might 264:03,388[A ]| The first infused bodies have t'excite 224:03,389[A ]| Motions of sence, such are the distances, 264:03,390[A ]| The soules farre-dwelling principles possesse. 264:03,391[A ]| For none the touch of sifted chalke perceives, 264:03,392[A ]| Nor other dust, which to the members cleaves, 264:03,393[A ]| Nights mists, nor spiders webbs soe subtly wrought, 264:03,394[A ]| Wherein we often undiscernd are caught, 264:03,395[A ]| Nor cobwebs falling on our heads, nor downe, 264:03,396[A ]| Nor litle feathers, by the soft ayre blowne, 264:03,397[A ]| Whose levitie makes them soe gently fall; 264:03,398[A ]| Wee feele not how the litle insects crawle, 264:03,399[A ]| Nor yet discerne the stepps of the small feete 264:03,400[A ]| Which fleas and gnatts upon our bodies sett: 264:03,401[A ]| For many severall seeds which lie disperst 264:03,402[A ]| Throughout our members, must be stirrd up first 264:03,403[A ]| Before the principles of soule awake 264:03,404[A ]| With the concussions which these touches make, 264:03,405[A ]| Or that th'impulsive powers can mutually 264:03,406[A ]| Close, strike, and back to their owne distance flie. 264:03,407[A ]| The stronger force of mind prevailes much more 264:03,408[A ]| Then that of soule, in keeping barrd each dore 264:03,409[A ]| That shutts in life, for were the mind away 264:03,410[A ]| No part of soule could the least moment stay, 264:03,411[A ]| But in that flight would to its old mate cleave, 264:03,412[A ]| And with it vanishing to ayre, would leave 264:03,413[A ]| The stiffe limbs in deaths rigid frosts congeald. 264:03,414[A ]| But where the mind stays, life is still upheld 264:03,415[A ]| And the torne carkase which sad maims deprive 264:03,416[A ]| Of many limbs, continues yet alive, 264:03,417[A ]| And vitall breath respires, wanting a soule 264:03,418[A ]| At least in divers parts, if not the whole. 264:03,419[A ]| Soe, though those parts be torne that doe surround 264:03,420[A ]| The eies, yet if the middle have no wound, 264:03,421[A ]| The lively sight is not impayrd thereby, 264:03,422[A ]| While th'inward orbe receives no iniurie: 264:03,423[A ]| But if the least offence approach it there, 264:03,424[A ]| Though all the circle seeme entire and faire, 264:03,425[A ]| Yet that hurt only, quenches out the sight, 264:03,426[A ]| And shades the eies with everlasting night. 264:03,427[A ]| Thus minds and soules a constant league maintaine. 264:03,428[A ]| Proceed we now in order to explaine 264:03,429[A ]| How both are native, and both mortall be; 264:03,430[A ]| Which truth, long sought with paynefull industrie, 264:03,431[A ]| My pleasant labours now expose to view 264:03,432[A ]| In usefull verses not unworthy you. 264:03,433[A ]| Only allow the terms should here be joynd 264:03,434[A ]| And one word should expresse both soule and mind 264:03,435[A ]| When I either mortality declare 264:03,436[A ]| Since both these natures soe united are 264:03,437[A ]| That one cause both their dissolutions brings, 264:03,438[A ]| And each from equall little attoms springs, 264:03,439[A ]| Which I have taught to be farre lesse then those 264:03,440[A ]| That waters liquid bodies doe compose, 264:03,441[A ]| Or those which smoake and clouds produce, that farre 264:03,442[A ]| Lesse swift, then the soules nimble motions are, 264:03,443[A ]| Where weaker causes more impulsive proove, 264:03,444[A ]| For images of smoake and clouds will moove 264:03,445[A ]| The powers of soules, as when our phantasies 264:03,446[A ]| In dreames see smoake, from fuming alters rise. 264:03,447[A ]| For doubtlesse th'images of these things brought 264:03,448[A ]| Unto the mind, excite the active thought, 264:03,449[A ]| As water doth from a crackt vessell flow, 264:03,450[A ]| As smoake and clouds resolve to ayre, even soe 264:03,451[A ]| The melting soule, with speedier motion, 264:03,452[A ]| Doth through the breaches of the bodie run. 264:03,453[A ]| Th assembled principles once routed, all 264:03,454[A ]| Into a suddaine dissolution fall. 264:03,455[A ]| For when the bodie, the soules vessell, can 264:03,456[A ]| Noe more (being crackt with any blow) reteine 264:03,457[A ]| The soule, which issues with the blood, how should 264:03,458[A ]| Thin ayre conteine, what grosse flesh could not hold? 264:03,459[A ]| Then soules and bodies have one birth and growth, 264:03,460[A ]| And the same waste of age decay them both. 264:03,461[A ]| While childrens tender limbs unstable be 264:03,462[A ]| Their soules pertake like imbecillitie; 264:03,463[A ]| But when their riper yeares full strengths attaine 264:03,464[A ]| Their understandings too perfection gaine. 264:03,465[A ]| Then when old age their better time devours 264:03,466[A ]| And all their wasted vigor overpowers 264:03,467[A ]| Their thoughts and speeches dote, their witts decay, 264:03,468[A ]| And time att once steales all their powers away. 264:03,469[A ]| Thus since bodies and soules are joyntly borne, 264:03,470[A ]| At once grow strong, at once to weaknesse turne, 264:03,471[A ]| Soules alsoe must in dissolution share; 264:03,472[A ]| As clouds of smoake resolve to emptie ayre. 264:03,473[A ]| Then, as sore toyles and raging sicknesses 264:03,474[A ]| The outward bodies oftentimes oppresse, 264:03,475[A ]| Soe bitter cares, feares, woes afflict the mind, 264:03,476[A ]| Which must in death too be a partner joynd. 264:03,477[A ]| For oft distraction, dotage, lethargies 264:03,478[A ]| From outward sicknesses, the soule surprize, 264:03,479[A ]| Cast it into profound still lasting sleepe, 264:03,480[A ]| Close the dimme eies, the sence in dullnesse steepe, 264:03,481[A ]| It neither the surrounding mourners heares, 264:03,482[A ]| Nor knows their faces bath'd in floods of teares, 264:03,483[A ]| While with lowd shriekes, they striving to awake 264:03,484[A ]| The stupid soule, sad exclamations make. 264:03,485[A ]| Thus soules whom these contagions penetrate 264:03,486[A ]| Must be confesst to have a mortall state. 264:03,487[A ]| For we in many deaths examples have 264:03,488[A ]| How griefe and sicknesse both bring to the grave. 264:03,489[A ]| Further as bodies may be heald, we find 264:03,490[A ]| Medicines worke cures on the distemperd mind. 264:03,491[A ]| Lastly when men drinke wine and the strong flood 264:03,492[A ]| Diffusd through all the veins, enflames the blood 264:03,493[A ]| Dullnesse ensues, their staggering thighes grow weake 264:03,494[A ]| Their fancies floate, their tongues can hardly speake 264:03,495[A ]| They weepe, belch, quarrell, roare, and into all 264:03,496[A ]| Disorders, vanquisht with the liquor, fall. 264:03,497[A ]| What can cause this, but the strong power of wine 264:03,498[A ]| Which even in the bodie doth encline 264:03,499[A ]| The mind to these distempers: Now whatere 264:03,500[A ]| May be disturb'd, if stronger forces there 264:03,501[A ]| Presse on, and violent assaults renew 264:03,502[A ]| An utter dissolution will ensue. 264:04,000[' ]| 264:04,199[A ]| First because litle species still arrive, 264:04,200[A ]| Which following after, doe the former drive, 264:04,201[A ]| Next being of such subtile textures, they 264:04,202[A ]| Can all things pierce, and easily convey 264:04,203[A ]| Themselves through emptie ayre. Againe since we 264:04,204[A ]| Behold how, litle bodies, such as be 264:04,205[A ]| Those of the suns dilated heate and light, 264:04,206[A ]| Through th'ayre, from heaven, to earth, make their swift flight 264:04,207[A ]| And in a moment through the ample skie 264:04,208[A ]| Through th'upper regions, seas, and low earth flie 264:04,209[A ]| Soe swiftly borne with their owne levitie; 264:04,210[A ]| Why may not species then, as well, which are 264:04,211[A ]| Cast from the outside of things, travell as farre 264:04,212[A ]| And flie as swift, in shorter space, if they 264:04,213[A ]| Encounter with no hinderance in their way? 264:04,214[A ]| Why may they not as swift through vast space run, 264:04,215[A ]| As doe those rayes, which issue from the sunne? 264:04,216[A ]| To give you more example now how fast 264:04,217[A ]| Those species moove, which are from bodies cast, 264:04,218[A ]| When glittering starrs adorne the firmament 264:04,219[A ]| Sett water forth, and it will represent 264:04,220[A ]| As soone as tis discoverd to the ayre, 264:04,221[A ]| The worlds most glorious tapers, shining there. 264:04,222[A ]| Thus may you see in what a moment all 264:04,223[A ]| Heavens species to the under earth doth fall. 264:04,224[A ]| And this confirms, that when small attoms light 264:04,225[A ]| Upon our eies, they there provoke the sight. 264:04,226[A ]| As odor out of certeine bodies goes, 264:04,227[A ]| Heate from the sun, and cold from rivers flowes. 264:04,228[A ]| As walls, oft washt with tides, some substance lose. 264:04,229[A ]| Varietie of voyces evermore 264:04,230[A ]| Flie through the ayre, as neere the salt sea shore 264:04,231[A ]| Salt tasts enter the mouth, as bitter juice, 264:04,232[A ]| Where-ere powrd forth, doth bitternesse disfuse, 264:04,233[A ]| Soe every kind of species falls away 264:04,234[A ]| From every*thing, and doth it*selfe convey 264:04,235[A ]| Into all parts, nor ere doth flowing cease, 264:04,236[A ]| Or by its pawse induce a quiettnesse, 264:04,237[A ]| But allways to the sence new objects brings, 264:04,238[A ]| Which makes us see, heare, feele, and smell allthings. 264:04,239[A ]| Further whatever in the darke wee feele, 264:04,240[A ]| The cleare and shining daylight doth reveale 264:04,241[A ]| A figure like it to our eies, which prooves 264:04,242[A ]| That a like cause both sight and feeling mooves. 264:04,243[A ]| If in the darke by touch we square things know, 264:04,244[A ]| What can the light but a square image shew? 264:04,245[A ]| The cause of seing then doth in the image lie, 264:04,246[A ]| And sight without it, nothing can descrie. 264:04,247[A ]| Now those which images of things we call 264:04,248[A ]| Dispersed every*where, in all parts fall; 264:04,249[A ]| Yett only are discerned by our eies. 264:04,250[A ]| Soe that, where-ere we turne our lookes, they rise 264:04,251[A ]| Before us, all things shapes and colours shew, 264:04,252[A ]| And by them we the objects distance know. 264:04,253[A ]| For th'images being sent forth, immediately 264:04,254[A ]| Gives motion to all ayre betweene the eie 264:04,255[A ]| And th'object plac'd, which agitated flows, 264:04,256[A ]| And gives our sight soft touches as it goes. 264:04,257[A ]| Whence by the ayre which on our eies doth glance, 264:04,258[A ]| As more before the object doth advance, 264:04,259[A ]| Soe we discerne the distances, how farre 264:04,260[A ]| Those objects from our sight remooved are: 264:04,261[A ]| Yet these with swiftest motions acted be, 264:04,262[A ]| While we att once their formes and distance see. 264:04,263[A ]| Nor is it strange that we behold the thing 264:04,264[A ]| But see not the images, whose touches bring 264:04,265[A ]| That object to our eies, for soe we find 264:04,266[A ]| Our bodies often struck with cold and wind, 264:04,267[A ]| Yett doe not we each single part perceive 264:04,268[A ]| Which to our sence those strong impressions give 264:04,269[A ]| But it seemes rather one whole body, whence 264:04,270[A ]| Those blows proceed with outward violence. 264:04,271[A ]| Soe when we lay our hands upon a stone, 264:04,272[A ]| We touch the colour, yet perceive alone 264:04,273[A ]| By touching it, the solid hard outside 264:04,274[A ]| But not the colour, which doth there abide. 264:04,275[A ]| Proceed we now, and here the cause learne 264:04,276[A ]| Why the image wee beyond the glasse discerne. 264:04,277[A ]| For such like cause, when doores are open, brings 264:04,278[A ]| Within the house, many exteriour things. 264:04,279[A ]| For tis a double ayre this sight procures; 264:04,280[A ]| One first which wee behold with-in the doores, 264:04,281[A ]| And next, when they're displayd on either side, 264:04,282[A ]| Another ayre before our eies doth glide. 264:04,283[A ]| And through the glances of the exteriour light 264:04,284[A ]| Brings in the outward objects to our sight. 264:04,285[A ]| So, when the glasse the image first ejects, 264:04,286[A ]| Before that it upon our sight reflects, 264:04,287[A ]| It putts in motion all the ayre that flies 264:04,288[A ]| Betweene the glasse it comes from, and our eies, 264:04,289[A ]| And all that mooving ayre which thus it drives 264:04,290[A ]| First strikes our sight, before the glasse arrives; 264:04,291[A ]| But when the glasse it*selfe comes to our sence, 264:04,292[A ]| The image cast from us, reflected thence, 264:04,293[A ]| Returning to our sight, we then behold, 264:04,294[A ]| Allthough the ayre it chaces is first rolld 264:04,295[A ]| Before our eies, and doth its touches give, 264:04,296[A ]| Before we can the thing it*selfe perceive, 264:04,297[A ]| Which makes the image seeme beyond the glasse. 264:04,298[A ]| No more then let it for a wonder passe 264:04,299[A ]| That things beyond the mirrour thus appeare, 264:04,300[A ]| For tis effected by a double ayre. 264:04,301[A ]| Now in the glasse, that, on our left side stands 264:04,302[A ]| Which out of it, is plac'd on our right hands. 264:04,303[A ]| Because when the image sent from us arrives 264:04,304[A ]| At the smooth glasse, which back the species drives, 264:04,305[A ]| Tis not with the same face it came thrust out, 264:04,306[A ]| But in the repercussion turnd about. 264:04,307[A ]| So figures made of chalke, if they undried 264:04,308[A ]| Be to a pillar or a beame applied, 264:04,309[A ]| If where you lay them on, the right front cleaves 264:04,310[A ]| In the impression, which the place receives 264:04,311[A ]| You an inverted figure still behold, 264:04,312[A ]| That, plact on the right hand, which in the mold 264:04,313[A ]| Stood on the left, that, on the left, which there 264:04,314[A ]| Was on the right. Againe the figures are 264:04,315[A ]| From one glasse to another oft conveyd, 264:04,316[A ]| Till there be five or six reflections made, 264:04,317[A ]| And in a winding passage all things come 264:04,318[A ]| From the obscurest angle of the roome, 264:04,319[A ]| Brought into open view by severall glasses: 264:04,320[A ]| And thus from glasse to glasse, the image passes. 264:04,321[A ]| Where the right hand appears, left in the first, 264:04,322[A ]| And in the next turnes right againe, reverst 264:04,323[A ]| With every reflection. Now when-ere 264:04,324[A ]| The image in the mirror doth appeare, 264:04,325[A ]| With like positions of the sides indued, 264:04,326[A ]| And our right sides, are on the right hand shewd, 264:04,327[A ]| If either is because the image twice, 264:04,328[A ]| From glasse to glasse reflected, strikes our eies, 264:04,329[A ]|| Or by a glasse Cylindricall sent out 264:04,330[A ]| The image in reflection turnes about. 264:04,331[A ]| Now as we walke, the image seemes to goe, 264:04,332[A ]| And soe doth all our gestures shew, 264:04,333[A ]| Because there can be no reflection cast 264:04,334[A ]| From that part of the glasse, from which w'are past, 264:04,335[A ]| From nature only in streight lines reflects 264:04,336[A ]| The images, which every*thing ejects. 264:04,337[A ]| Further, the eies doe splendid objects shun, 264:04,338[A ]| And are made blind with gazing on the sun, 264:04,339[A ]| Because his force is very greate, and all 264:04,340[A ]| His images have such a weightie fall, 264:04,341[A ]| Through the'high pure ayre, that where they light, 264:04,342[A ]| Their blows disturbe the organs of the sight. 264:04,343[A ]| Besides, oft, peircing splendor burnes the eies 264:04,344[A ]| Because much seedes of fire within it lies, 264:04,345[A ]| Which causes payne, insinuated there. 264:04,346[A ]| Further, all objects, unto those who are 264:04,347[A ]| Infected with the jaundice, yellow seeme, 264:04,348[A ]| Because much of that humor flows from them, 264:04,349[A ]| Which th'images in its owne colour staines, 264:04,350[A ]| And much of it, still in the eies remains, 264:04,351[A ]| Whose strong contagions, cast that sickly hiew 264:04,352[A ]| On all the objects which approach our view. 264:04,353[A ]| Then in the darke the visions of the light 264:04,354[A ]| Appeare to us, because our open sight 264:04,355[A ]| Takes in, first the neere shaddows of the mist, 264:04,356[A ]| And by that thick obscure ayre is possest, 264:04,357[A ]| Then the bright shining ayre comes next in place, 264:04,358[A ]| Which, purging the eies, doth those black shaddows chace, 264:04,359[A ]| For this in many severall parts is farre 264:04,360[A ]| More powerfull, swift, and subtile then they are, 264:04,361[A ]| Whose splendor having a cleare passage made 264:04,362[A ]| To the eies, before blockt up with the darke shade, 264:04,363[A ]| The disclosd images of things flow in 264:04,364[A ]| And make us see what in the light is seene. 264:04,365[A ]| Which objects on the other side, cannott 264:04,366[A ]| Out of the darke into the light be brought, 264:04,367[A ]| Because the latter ayre of darknesse is 264:04,368[A ]| Soe grosse, that it obstructs the passages, 264:04,369[A ]| Filling the pores, and stopping every way 264:04,370[A ]| Which might the image to the eie convey. 264:04,371[A ]| Now the square turretts of the cittie doe 264:04,372[A ]| Seeme round to us, att any distant view, 264:04,373[A ]| Because all angles lookt on from afarre 264:04,374[A ]| Either appeare obtuse, or rather are 264:04,375[A ]| Not seene att all, while, in soe long a flight, 264:04,376[A ]| Their species perish, ere they touch our sight. 264:04,377[A ]| For while the images through much ayre flow, 264:04,378[A ]| Frequent encounters blunt them as they goe. 264:04,379[A ]| Thus, as the angles vanish from our eies 264:04,380[A ]| The turrett seemes a roundbuilt edifice, 264:04,381[A ]| Yett is not, as a true round forme, seene cleare, 264:04,382[A ]| But something like it doth in mists appeare. 264:04,383[A ]| Next, in the sunshine shaddows on us waite, 264:04,384[A ]| Which all our steps and gestures imitate. 264:04,385[A ]| If you believe ayre unenlightned can 264:04,386[A ]| Performe the acts and motions of a man. 264:04,387[A ]| For only ayre depriv’d of light, is all 264:04,388[A ]| That which we commonly doe shaddows call. 264:04,389[A ]| For when our bodies interpose betweene 264:04,390[A ]| The earth and the sunbeames, these shades are seene. 264:04,391[A ]| But when we passe away, and that ground leave 264:04,392[A ]| It doth againe fulnesse of light receive: 264:04,393[A ]| And where our bodies other places hide, 264:04,394[A ]| The shaddow seemes to travell by our side; 264:04,395[A ]| As wool by spinsters drawne, soe rayes ensue 264:04,396[A ]| Each other, and the vanisht light renew. 264:04,397[A ]| For earth, of light is easily dispossest, 264:04,398[A ]| Whom bright rayes doe as easily reinvest, 264:04,399[A ]| When as her sable shaddows are dispelld. 264:04,400[A ]| Nor can we here the sights deception yeild, 264:04,401[A ]| For wheresoever light or shaddows be 264:04,402[A ]| They may be seene, but the reallitie 264:04,403[A ]| Of lights, to judge whither one shaddow doe 264:04,404[A ]| Still moove with us, or, as we taught, a new 264:04,405[A ]| Be allwayes made, reason alone descries, 264:04,406[A ]| But th'eies discerne not natures misteries. 264:04,407[A ]| Againe lett not your sight your mind deceive, 264:04,408[A ]| At sea the mountains and fixt shores men leave, 264:04,409[A ]| When strong gales doe their fliing canvas fill, 264:04,410[A ]| Appeare to moove, the vessell to stand still. 264:04,411[A ]| In the a*etheriall arch each glorious starr 264:04,412[A ]| Seemes fixt, yet all in dayly motion are, 264:04,413[A ]| And driving their bright charriots through the skies 264:04,414[A ]| Againe in their declining spheares arise. 264:04,415[A ]| The sun and moone appeare unmoovd, though we 264:04,416[A ]| Are certeine they in constant motion be. 264:04,417[A ]| Two cliffes which such a channell doth devide, 264:04,418[A ]| As whole fleetes may betweene the mountains ride, 264:04,419[A ]| Though farre asunder plac'd, att distance doe 264:04,420[A ]| Present but one whole island to our view. 264:04,421[A ]| So, to boyes, giddie with much turning growne, 264:04,422[A ]| The whole house seemes in whirling motion, 264:04,423[A ]| The fixed columns turning round, and all 264:04,424[A ]| The turning roofe threatens a suddaine fall. 264:04,425[A ]| When nature doth that glaring torch advance, 264:04,426[A ]| Whose purple rayes on the high mountains dance, 264:04,427[A ]| The sun appeares no higher then they, and seemes 264:04,428[A ]| To crowne their steepe heads with his flaming beames. 264:04,429[A ]| And yett, those hill topps, which decieve us thus, 264:04,430[A ]| Are not two thousand flightshotts of from us: 264:04,431[A ]| But betweene the neere-seeming sun, and these 264:04,432[A ]| There are vast distances of skies and seas, 264:04,433[A ]| And many thousand leagues of earth stretcht wide, 264:04,434[A ]| Where sundry sorts of men and beasts abide. 264:04,435[A ]| Now in the highwayes litle shallow drills, 264:04,436[A ]| Which every raine amongst the pibbles fills, 264:04,437[A ]| Scarce a foote deepe make th'heavens seeme as farre 264:04,438[A ]| Beneath the ground, as they above it are, 264:04,439[A ]| Deepe sunke in earth celestiall bodies shew, 264:04,440[A ]| The whole ayre, clouds, and space, appeare below. 264:04,441[A ]| Then when your horse in a swift river stayes, 264:04,442[A ]| If you upon the flowing waters gaze, 264:04,443[A ]| Your horse, which mooves not, by the rapid tide, 264:04,444[A ]| Seemes driven back unto the further side, 264:04,445[A ]| And to whatever place our eies wee turne, 264:04,446[A ]| All things appeare so mooving, and so borne. 264:04,447[A ]| So, in a gallerie on pillars rays'd, 264:04,448[A ]| Whose long walls are at equall distance plac'd, 264:04,449[A ]| Who from the upper end the whole length sees 264:04,450[A ]| Will find the prospect lessen by degrees, 264:04,451[A ]| Till roofe and sides and floore all met in one 264:04,452[A ]| Contract the veiw into a narrow cone. 264:04,453[A ]| To men at sea, the sun from th'ocean seemes 264:04,454[A ]| To rise, and there to quench his setting beames, 264:04,455[A ]| Nor is't a light deception of the eies, 264:04,456[A ]| For all they there can see, is seas and skies. 264:04,457[A ]|| A ship which rides at anchor, seene by those 264:04,458[A ]|| Who are unskilld, maimd and unperfect shew, 264:04,459[A ]|| The sterne, and that part of the oares our sight 264:04,460[A ]|| Above the waves discernes, seemes streight and right 264:04,461[A ]|| But all which lie within the salt flood seeme 264:04,462[A ]| Broke and reverst, i'the upmost waves to swimme. 264:04,463[A ]| During night reigne, when winds the thin clowds chase, 264:04,464[A ]| Those splendid lamps, which then in heaven blaze, 264:04,465[A ]| Contrary to those clowds, seeme to persue 264:04,466[A ]| Another race, then what in truth they doe. 264:04,467[A ]| Part of one eie being with the finger held, 264:04,468[A ]| A double view of every*thing shall yeild. 264:04,469[A ]| Two shining flames shall in the lamps give light, 264:04,470[A ]| All housholdstuffe shall double in your sight, 264:04,471[A ]| And soe beheld, all persons shall appeare 264:04,472[A ]| With double bodies, and shall double faces weare. 264:04,473[A ]| Last when sweete sleepe doth weary men release, 264:04,474[A ]| Refreshing their toyld limbs with gentle ease, 264:04,475[A ]| Yett even then; in nights obscuritie 264:04,476[A ]| Wee seeme to walke and moove, and thinke we see 264:04,477[A ]| In that enclosed roome, the suns bright beames, 264:04,478[A ]| The lustre of the day, seas, mountains, streames, 264:04,479[A ]| We thinke we wander through the spatious plains, 264:04,480[A ]| And while nights silence in all quarters reignes 264:04,481[A ]| Heare sounds, and though wee speake not, answers give 264:04,482[A ]| And many such like visions doe receive. 264:04,483[A ]| All which in vaine strive to disparedge sence, 264:04,484[A ]| While our illusions doe not rise from thence, 264:04,485[A ]| But from th'imagination by which wee 264:04,486[A ]| Thinke wee behold the things we doe not see. 264:04,487[A ]| For tis most noble to discerne betweene 264:04,488[A ]| Reall, and dubious, even by thoughts unseene. 264:04,489[A ]| Now if some say, that nothing's to be knowne, 264:04,490[A ]| They know not that, who gen'rall ignorance owne. 264:04,491[A ]| Wherefore I shall not here strive to confute 264:04,492[A ]| Those who on falsehood ground their whole dispute. 264:04,493[A ]| But if this knowledge should be granted, yett 264:04,494[A ]| I aske, since things no certeintie admitt 264:04,495[A ]| From whence they doe their owne discoveries flow, 264:04,496[A ]| Which shew what tis to know, or not to know? 264:04,497[A ]| For you will find, men from their sence derive 264:04,498[A ]| That knowledge which doth just distinctions give 264:04,499[A ]| Whats certeine, or uncerteine, false, or true: 264:04,500[A ]| And none can contradict what sence can shew. 264:05,000[' ]| 264:05,199[A ]| Which way should man himselfe come to their thought? 264:05,200[A ]| And all the severall effects that could be wrought 264:05,201[A ]| By transpositions of the principles? 264:05,202[A ]| But out of that which nature now reveales, 264:05,203[A ]| In divers manners, from eternitie, 264:05,204[A ]| Drawne by their owne weight, driven by others force 264:05,205[A ]| To all conjunctures, into every course 264:05,206[A ]| Wherein they can unite, and trie what thing 264:05,207[A ]| Can from each multiplied congression spring. 264:05,208[A ]| That tis not strange all creatures thence ensue 264:05,209[A ]| And their decays are resupplied with new. 264:05,210[A ]| But were I ignorant whence things arise, 264:05,211[A ]| Yet even from the order of the skies 264:05,212[A ]| And many other arguments, I dare 264:05,213[A ]| Maintaine the natures of the universe were 264:05,214[A ]| Noe workes of Gods, their fraile unperfect state 264:05,215[A ]| Shewes noe immortall power did them create. 264:05,216[A ]| First then, beneath the ample firmament 264:05,217[A ]| Drie lands and seas, which bound that continent 264:05,218[A ]| Extend themselves, vast mountains, rocks, and fenns 264:05,219[A ]| Deserts, and woods, where wild beasts live in denns. 264:05,220[A ]| Two parts of th'earth no mortalls entertaine 264:05,221[A ]| Where heate and cold in distant empires raign, 264:05,222[A ]| I'the habitable fields, thorns would abound 264:05,223[A ]| Did not the paynfull plowman cleare the ground, 264:05,224[A ]| Which groanes, her womb with mighty harrows torne 264:05,225[A ]| And cut with ploughs for life-sustaining corne, 264:05,226[A ]| Which th'unmanured land will not afford, 264:05,227[A ]| Nor will the glad fruits of their owne accord 264:05,228[A ]| In th ayre exalt their waving heads, but when 264:05,229[A ]| Extorted by our toyle, and even then, 264:05,230[A ]| While greene, and flourishing in their new birth, 264:05,231[A ]| The scorching sun oft burns them on the earth, 264:05,232[A ]| Unseasonable rains and frosts oft spoyle, 264:05,233[A ]| And violent winds frustrate our vainespent toyle. 264:05,234[A ]| Againe if the whole world were made for men, 264:05,235[A ]| Why are such man-destroying monsters then 264:05,236[A ]| In every sea and land brought forth, and fed? 264:05,237[A ]| Why are such generall contagions bred 264:05,238[A ]| When seasons of the yeare intemperate be? 264:05,239[A ]| Why rageth such unripe mortallitie? 264:05,240[A ]| Besides, when nature doth with paynefull throes 264:05,241[A ]| A wretched infant first to light expose, 264:05,242[A ]| He, like a ship-wrackt saylor cast on shore 264:05,243[A ]| By raging billows, naked, helpelesse, poore, 264:05,244[A ]| With cries, which well his future woes become, 264:05,245[A ]| Lies on the earth, cast from his mothers womb. 264:05,246[A ]| The young which gentle flocks and wild heards breed 264:05,247[A ]| No rattles, nor no tatling nurses need, 264:05,248[A ]| They change not clothes according to the yeare, 264:05,249[A ]| No armour they to guard their walld towns weare, 264:05,250[A ]| But earth and their greate foundresse nature bring 264:05,251[A ]| Them plentifull suplies of every*thing. 264:05,252[A ]| Now first to proove the worlds mortallitie 264:05,253[A ]| Since earth and water, ayre and hot fire be 264:05,254[A ]| Native and mortall, and that this whole frame 264:05,255[A ]| Consists of them, it needs must be the same. 264:05,256[A ]| Whatever, in the severall parts of it, 264:05,257[A ]| Doth both nativitie and death admitt, 264:05,258[A ]| The whole is not exempt now since tis plaine 264:05,259[A ]| That the worlds parts die and revive againe, 264:05,260[A ]| We must grant heaven and earth begun, and shall 264:05,261[A ]| At last into eternall ruine fall. 264:05,262[A ]| And (Memmius) least you thinke I false grounds lay, 264:05,263[A ]| When I of fire, ayre, earth and water, say 264:05,264[A ]| That each of them is mortall, dayly dies 264:05,265[A ]| And doth againe from dissolutions rise. 264:05,266[A ]| First know, parts of the earth with the suns heate 264:05,267[A ]| Scorcht dayly, and worne out with trav'lers feete, 264:05,268[A ]| Exhale thick clouds of dust, which every*where 264:05,269[A ]| Blowne with wild winds, are scatterd into ayre. 264:05,270[A ]| Part of the furrows wast with every showre, 264:05,271[A ]| And the encroaching floods their banks devoure. 264:05,272[A ]| Earth for her part made by her fruitfull womb 264:05,273[A ]| The generall mother, is the common tomb. 264:05,274[A ]| So wasts she all which they have birth or food, 264:05,275[A ]| Soe is herselfe diminisht and renewd. 264:05,276[A ]| Againe the waters constant current shews 264:05,277[A ]| That to all fountains, seas, floods, springs, there flows 264:05,278[A ]| Dayly supplies, yet wasts too must be found, 264:05,279[A ]| That this might not, more then the rest abound. 264:05,280[A ]| Wherefore drie winds wast part of the full streams, 264:05,281[A ]| Part are exhal'd with the suns glowing beames, 264:05,282[A ]| The grosser earth sucks in another part, 264:05,283[A ]| Through which, all seas are dreind, and floods revert 264:05,284[A ]| To their first heads, from whence in a knowne track 264:05,285[A ]| The gentle currents rowle their cleare waves back. 264:05,286[A ]| Proceed we now to ayre, whose bodies doe 264:05,287[A ]| Numberlesse changes every howre renew, 264:05,288[A ]| For all th'effluxes which from creatures goe 264:05,289[A ]| Dayly into the ayres vast ocean flow, 264:05,290[A ]| And should it not by change those wasts repaire 264:05,291[A ]| The world would soone be all resolvd to ayre. 264:05,292[A ]| Thus from th efflux of things, ayre still doth rise, 264:05,293[A ]| And into them returnd, its owne forme dies. 264:05,294[A ]| Then that full spring of light, th a*etheriall sunne 264:05,295[A ]| Whose fresh cleare streames through heaven dayly run, 264:05,296[A ]| Rays after rayes doth every moment send, 264:05,297[A ]| For wheresoere the first fall, there they end, 264:05,298[A ]| Which you may know by this, when any clowd 264:05,299[A ]| That passeth underneath the sun, doth shrowd 264:05,300[A ]| His radiant beames, and th'issuing light devides, 264:05,301[A ]| The low rays perish, for a black shade hides 264:05,302[A ]| The under earth wherein the darke cloud sayles, 264:05,303[A ]| Whence we perceive that still the first light failes 264:05,304[A ]| And craves a new supplie, without which wee 264:05,305[A ]| No objects underneath the sun can see. 264:05,306[A ]| Soe even those earthly fires which shine by night 264:05,307[A ]| Bright tapers, hanging lamps, whose splendid light 264:05,308[A ]| Flames in the darke, in the same manner doe 264:05,309[A ]| With supplied heate, their wasting light renew, 264:05,310[A ]| Their trembling flame not ceasing to aspire, 264:05,311[A ]| Th'uninterrupted light doth still require 264:05,312[A ]| To be maintaind with birth of new supplies, 264:05,313[A ]| Since those flames vanish, which doe first arise. 264:05,314[A ]| Soe must we thinke sunne, moone and starrs doe cast 264:05,315[A ]| That splendor from new springs, which feed their wast. 264:05,316[A ]| And while their first beames vanish quite away 264:05,317[A ]| They cannot be exempted from decay. 264:05,318[A ]| Last, see you not, time solid stones devours, 264:05,319[A ]| Corrupts firme rocks, and ruins strong built Towers, 264:05,320[A ]| Time ruins Temples, each Gods sacred shrine, 264:05,321[A ]| Nor hath regard to aniething devine: 264:05,322[A ]| Gods cannot keepe them from the common fate, 264:05,323[A ]| Nor the fixt laws of nature violate. 264:05,324[A ]| The monuments of men to ruine fall, 264:05,325[A ]| And a consuming age doth seize on all. 264:05,326[A ]| Huge stones fall from the mounta'nous rocks, 264:05,327[A ]| No finite thing can stand times violent shocks. 264:05,328[A ]| No suddaine ruine could the world surprize 264:05,329[A ]| Were noe breach made by his long batteries. 264:05,330[A ]| View all above, about, in every place, 264:05,331[A ]| Which earth conteins within her vast embrace, 264:05,332[A ]| The generall mother, and the common grave, 264:05,333[A ]| All things native and mortall bodies have. 264:05,334[A ]| All wast, which from themselves yeild others food 264:05,335[A ]| And by the things they take in are renewd. 264:05,336[A ]| If wee ascribing unto heaven and earth 264:05,337[A ]| Eternitie, give them no time of birth, 264:05,338[A ]| Why are the Theban warrs, Troys overthrow, 264:05,339[A ]| The ancientst things wee from the poets know? 264:05,340[A ]| How perisht all deeds elce without a name, 264:05,341[A ]| And monuments raysd to their eternall fame? 264:05,342[A ]| I rather thinke the world was then new made 264:05,343[A ]| And neere those times its first beginning had. 264:05,344[A ]| For even now, arts dayly mend, and more 264:05,345[A ]| Is knowne of navigation then before; 264:05,346[A ]| Musitians still improove harmonious sound 264:05,347[A ]| And natures secretts are but lately found; 264:05,348[A ]| Which I, now first, home to our country bring 264:05,349[A ]| And forreigne learning in our owne tongue sing. 264:05,350[A ]| But if you thinke all these things were long since 264:05,351[A ]| And that heate brought some raging pestilence, 264:05,352[A ]| Or the earths concussions tumbled cities downe, 264:05,353[A ]| Or inundations did all countries drowne, 264:05,354[A ]| Which generall plagues, out of the world did drive 264:05,355[A ]| All mankinds generations then allive, 264:05,356[A ]| This will convince your thoughts that ruine shall 264:05,357[A ]| To heaven and earth in future time befall; 264:05,358[A ]| For where sicknesse and dangers so prevaile 264:05,359[A ]| Should but a litle stronger force assaile 264:05,360[A ]| It must cause totall dissolution, 264:05,361[A ]| And thus we to our*selves are mortall knowne 264:05,362[A ]| By being liable to every ill, 264:05,363[A ]| Which did before death vanquisht captives kill. 264:05,364[A ]| Further, whatere obteins a lasting state 264:05,365[A ]| Either, being solid, no blows penetrate, 264:05,366[A ]| But they repell all force that may disjoyne 264:05,367[A ]| The inward bands, which their firme parts combine, 264:05,368[A ]| As the materiall bodies doe, which wee 264:05,369[A ]| Before explaind, or their eternitie, 264:05,370[A ]| By their exemption from all force arrives, 264:05,371[A ]| Being like vacuitie, which no touch receives. 264:05,372[A ]| Or elce, because no place doth them enclose, 264:05,373[A ]| To which the new dissolved substance goes, 264:05,374[A ]| As the eternall Chiefe of chiefes, to whom 264:05,375[A ]| No dissolution from without can come, 264:05,376[A ]| There being no place where they dissolvd may goe, 264:05,377[A ]| Nor bodies to afford the killing blow. 264:05,378[A ]| But the worlds natures neither sollid be, 264:05,379[A ]| All things being mixed with vacuitie, 264:05,380[A ]| Nor, like vacuitie, the touch avoyd. 264:05,381[A ]| And bodies too, by whom they are destroyd 264:05,382[A ]| Eternally in every place abound, 264:05,383[A ]| With all the other ills that may confound 264:05,384[A ]| The worlds estate; nor wants nature a place 264:05,385[A ]| And vast immensitie of profound space, 264:05,386[A ]| Wherein the fabrique of the earth reverst 264:05,387[A ]| By age, or violent force, may be disperst. 264:05,388[A ]| Wherefore nor earth, sea, sun, nor heaven, are barrd 264:05,389[A ]| Deaths open gates, who hath deepe gulfes prepard 264:05,390[A ]| To swallow their dissolved frames; for those 264:05,391[A ]| Who native mortall bodies have, cannot oppose 264:05,392[A ]| The strong assaults which time doth still renew, 264:05,393[A ]| Whose batteries will at last their powers subdue. 264:05,394[A ]| Then while the worlds chiefe elements so jarre, 264:05,395[A ]| Maintaining a perpetuall civill warre, 264:05,396[A ]| Shall not this battle end at last, and one 264:05,397[A ]| Remaine the conqueror? Either the sun 264:05,398[A ]| By the prevailing heate shall rivers drie, 264:05,399[A ]| And gaine the long disputed victorie, 264:05,400[A ]| Which supplied waters have till now withstood, 264:05,401[A ]| More menacing an universall flood, 264:05,402[A ]| Had not the sweeping winds consumd their streames, 264:05,403[A ]| Or the hot sun exhal'd them with his beames, 264:05,404[A ]| By which the vaine attempts of high seas faile, 264:05,405[A ]| And generall droughts now threaten to prevaile. 264:05,406[A ]| While these thus their fierce doubtfull battles wage, 264:05,407[A ]| Some mightie cause must all their powers engage. 264:05,408[A ]| Fame says, fire once on earth was prevalent, 264:05,409[A ]| Once water was the conquering element. 264:05,410[A ]| Then many countries burnt, when Phaeton, 264:05,411[A ]| Being by the sunns high mettled coursers drawne, 264:05,412[A ]| In untrackt roades through heavn was whirld, 264:05,413[A ]| And carried round about the flaming world, 264:05,414[A ]| With which allmightie Jove incensed grew 264:05,415[A ]| And at high-minded Phaeton lightnings threw, 264:05,416[A ]| Which him to earth, out of his proud seate strooke, 264:05,417[A ]| When Sol days vacant empire undertooke. 264:05,418[A ]| His scatterd panting steeds harnest againe, 264:05,419[A ]| Tamed their hot courage to endure the reine 264:05,420[A ]| And all things did into due order bring, 264:05,421[A ]| If we believe what th old Greeke poetts sing, 264:05,422[A ]| Which they too farre from the true cause remoove; 264:05,423[A ]| For fire can only then victorious proove 264:05,424[A ]| When from the infinite space larger supplies 264:05,425[A ]| Of those materiall bodies doe arise, 264:05,426[A ]| Whose force must bate by other cause orepowerd, 264:05,427[A ]| Or all will be with burning ayre devourd. 264:05,428[A ]| Fame goes that water did of old abound 264:05,429[A ]| And conquering floods did many nations drownd, 264:05,430[A ]| But when the infinite deepe sent forth a force 264:05,431[A ]| Whatere it was, which did revert their course 264:05,432[A ]| Then all the late descending showers ceast 264:05,433[A ]| And the highflowing rivers soone decreast. 264:05,434[A ]| Now I proceed in order to declare 264:05,435[A ]| What those congressions of first bodies were 264:05,436[A ]| Which first produc't heaven, earth, sea, moone and sun, 264:05,437[A ]| For this was not by any compact done, 264:05,438[A ]| Where 'twas amongst the principles agreed, 264:05,439[A ]| How each in place and order should proceed, 264:05,440[A ]| But many principles, which many wayes 264:05,441[A ]| Concussions now in infinite time did rayse, 264:05,442[A ]| With their owne poysures carried still about, 264:05,443[A ]| Triing what all congressions could bring out, 264:05,444[A ]| Wandring many long ages, were at last 264:05,445[A ]| After all conjunctions and all motions cast 264:05,446[A ]| Into that forme, whence heaven, earth, sea, and all 264:05,447[A ]| That live in them draw their originall. 264:05,448[A ]| Here, first the suns orbe was not seene on high 264:05,449[A ]| Spreading his radiant beames in the archt skie, 264:05,450[A ]| The starres of the greate world did not appeare 264:05,451[A ]| Earth, heaven, sea, ayre, all that wee see here 264:05,452[A ]| Had then no forme, but in that new time was 264:05,453[A ]| A yett confused undigested Masse. 264:05,454[A ]| Then severall parts their severall stations chose 264:05,455[A ]| Like things uniting, did the world disclose. 264:05,456[A ]| Members, severd from seeds of all things mixt, 264:05,457[A ]| Retir'd to proper seates, and there were fixt; 264:05,458[A ]| Whose severall formes and figures while they stayd 264:05,459[A ]| Together in one crowd, such discord made, 264:05,460[A ]| And all their poysures, distance, touches, wayes, 264:05,461[A ]| Concourse, and motion did such tumults rayse, 264:05,462[A ]| They neither could abide soe, nor unite, 264:05,463[A ]| Nor those expedient motions could excite, 264:05,464[A ]| Which should high heaven above the earth erect, 264:05,465[A ]| And severd waters into seas collect, 264:05,466[A ]| Distinguishing pure and a*etheriall fire. 264:05,467[A ]| Wherefore earths ponderous bodies did retire 264:05,468[A ]| First to the Center, where declining weight 264:05,469[A ]| Did them i'the lowest region scituate, 264:05,470[A ]| Whose congregation, as 'twas more condense 264:05,471[A ]| Did with more force presse forth those seeds, from whence 264:05,472[A ]| The greate worlds walls, sun, moone, seas, starrs were made 264:05,473[A ]| Who all smoother and rounder elements had, 264:05,474[A ]| And farre lesse seeds then those which did compose, 264:05,475[A ]| The ponderous earth, from whose small chinks first rose, 264:05,476[A ]| In severall parcells, the whole starrie skie 264:05,477[A ]| With which the seeds of fire did upwards flie. 264:05,478[A ]| As when the early sun his beames displays 264:05,479[A ]| Enriching the red east with those bright rayes, 264:05,480[A ]| Mists from the greene earth dropping gemlike dew, 264:05,481[A ]| From lakes, and living streames, we often view 264:05,482[A ]| Exhal'd on high, which joyning in the ayre 264:05,483[A ]| And all into darke clowds condensed there: 264:05,484[A ]| So heavens light bodies did in vapors rise 264:05,485[A ]| Till all was hemd in with concreted skies, 264:05,486[A ]| Which spred themselves to such a vast extent 264:05,487[A ]| As made the all-embracing firmament. 264:05,488[A ]| Next this, the suns and moons beginnings were 264:05,489[A ]| Whose bright orbs are revolved in the ayre 264:05,490[A ]| Betweene the earth and th'upper element; 264:05,491[A ]| Neither of which, can challenge their descent, 264:05,492[A ]| Who have not weight enough to fall below, 264:05,493[A ]| Yet more then can to'the highest heaven goe. 264:05,494[A ]| Wherefore i'the middst, with both they hold commerce 264:05,495[A ]| As living parts of the greate universe. 264:05,496[A ]| So certeine members of our bodies may, 264:05,497[A ]| Moovd with the rest, in their fixt places stay. 264:05,498[A ]| The greate earth having now exhaled these 264:05,499[A ]| Sunke downe into those gulfes, where the blew seas 264:05,500[A ]| Their farre extending liquid plains displaid 264:05,501[A ]| And with their salt floods deeper channells made. 264:06,000[' ]| 264:06,199[A ]| Those lightnings flash, with strange celerity 264:06,200[A ]| From one to th'other passing; neither be 264:06,201[A ]| Amusd, because that here below wee see 264:06,202[A ]| How large those are, which neerer to us moove, 264:06,203[A ]| And not what bulke they have which passe above. 264:06,204[A ]| Who lookes on Heaven, when without stormes 264:06,205[A ]| Winds carrie on the clowds in various formes 264:06,206[A ]| May there huge, craggie, bending hills behold 264:06,207[A ]| And ayrie mountains, upon mountains rolld, 264:06,208[A ]| May see the figures those vast bodies have, 264:06,209[A ]| Like hanging rocks over a hollow cave, 264:06,210[A ]| Where murmuring windes, when furious tempests rise 264:06,211[A ]| Horribly rave in those concavities. 264:06,212[A ]| Like wild beasts, shut in dens, they roare alowd, 264:06,213[A ]| Now here, now there, clattering the troubled clowd, 264:06,214[A ]| And, whirling round, they seeke a passage out, 264:06,215[A ]| Gathering all seeds of fire, scatterd about 264:06,216[A ]| In the surrounding clowds, and as they turne 264:06,217[A ]| Th'enkindled flames, as in a furnace burne, 264:06,218[A ]| Then, through the rended heavens, forcing way, 264:06,219[A ]| Their new conceived splendor they display. 264:06,220[A ]| And hence it comes that wee on earth behold 264:06,221[A ]| The liquid fire descend like shining gold, 264:06,222[A ]| Because that many seeds of fire reside 264:06,223[A ]| Even in the clowds themselves, whose moysture dried 264:06,224[A ]| Changes their colour to a flamelike splendor; 264:06,225[A ]| For there, the sunbeames must much fire engender 264:06,226[A ]| Whose sparkes disperst, that ruddy colour gives, 264:06,227[A ]| Which when the active wind together drives, 264:06,228[A ]| And doth within a narrow space confine, 264:06,229[A ]| There the extracted seeds in bright flames shine; 264:06,230[A ]| For lightnings blaze where clowds dissolve their throng, 264:06,231[A ]| Whom, if the wind but gently drives along 264:06,232[A ]| And slowly dissipates, yet needs must all 264:06,233[A ]| Those seeds, which make the light, enforcdly fall 264:06,234[A ]| But without fragors, which high heaven rend 264:06,235[A ]| And horrid tumults, lightnings so descend. 264:06,236[A ]| Now, with what nature lightnings are indued 264:06,237[A ]| Is by their fiery operations shewd, 264:06,238[A ]| And sulphurous vapours which infect the ayre 264:06,239[A ]| Which only fire, not wind, nor raine declare. 264:06,240[A ]| Lightnings alone have thick rooft houses pierct 264:06,241[A ]| And structures, with swift-conquering flames reverst. 264:06,242[A ]| This fire, nature of such small attoms made 264:06,243[A ]| So subtile, and so swift, that tis conveyd 264:06,244[A ]| Without resistance every*where, can passe 264:06,245[A ]| Like voyce or sounds, through brick walls, rocks or brasse, 264:06,246[A ]| Will in a moment gold or mettalls melt 264:06,247[A ]| Cause wine, in earthen vessells, to be spilt, 264:06,248[A ]| Yet leave the vessell whose, for when the heate, 264:06,249[A ]| Into the pitcher, doth insinuate 264:06,250[A ]| It*selfe, it rarifies the softned clay 264:06,251[A ]| And swiftly carries all the wine away 264:06,252[A ]| Which the sun-beames, that wee so glorious view 264:06,253[A ]| Attracting still cannot in ages doe 264:06,254[A ]| So much more swift and powerfully these reigne. 264:06,255[A ]| Now whence they're bred, how they such force attaine 264:06,256[A ]| That breaches they in strong-built Castles make 264:06,257[A ]| Teare up the roofes, the beames, the structures shake, 264:06,258[A ]| The Heroes Monuments in ruine lay, 264:06,259[A ]| With suddaine violence, men and cattle slay, 264:06,260[A ]| Why they doe these and such like things effect 264:06,261[A ]| You shall no more the promist cause expect. 264:06,262[A ]| Know then, in thick, clowds drawne up high 264:06,263[A ]| Thunders are formd, which in a serene skie, 264:06,264[A ]| Or not much overcast, wee never heare 264:06,265[A ]| And this even the thing it*selfe makes cleare. 264:06,266[A ]| For, before they breake forth, thick darknesse shrowds 264:06,267[A ]| The shining ayre, and the assembled clowds 264:06,268[A ]| Spread blacknesse over the whole earth, which shewes 264:06,269[A ]| As if hells dreadfull mists to heaven rose. 264:06,270[A ]| So when this night of clowds obscure the ayre 264:06,271[A ]| Heavens face is maskt with horror, while as there 264:06,272[A ]| Tempests engender thunder and dire flame; 264:06,273[A ]| Then, as if floods of pitch from heaven came, 264:06,274[A ]| The storms into the troubled sea descends 264:06,275[A ]| And darknesse over all the waves extends. 264:06,276[A ]| Thus from above doth the maine tempest come, 264:06,277[A ]| With showers and lightnings in its pregnant womb, 264:06,278[A ]| Which wind and fire, wherewith it was repleate 264:06,279[A ]| At first, did in the upper ayre begett. 264:06,280[A ]| Nor is lesse horror on the earth begun. 264:06,281[A ]| Then mortalls, terrified, to shelters run 264:06,282[A ]| Seing the tempest gather over*head, 264:06,283[A ]| Which could not upon earth such darknesse shed, 264:06,284[A ]| Were there not many clowds, heapd up on high, 264:06,285[A ]| Whose unpeirct bodies cause the'obscuritie 264:06,286[A ]| Yeilding no passage to the suns bright beames. 264:06,287[A ]| So't must be many clowds, which make full streames, 264:06,288[A ]| When the black storme descends, oreflow their bound 264:06,289[A ]| And all the fields with inundations drownd; 264:06,290[A ]| These clowds, with fire and wind impregnated, 264:06,291[A ]| From them that horrid noyse and light is bred 264:06,292[A ]| Which every*where in heaven breakes forth, for when 264:06,293[A ]| As before taught, those hollow clowds reteine 264:06,294[A ]| Much seed of heate, which their owne natures give, 264:06,295[A ]| And much, from the suns burning rayes conceive, 264:06,296[A ]| These when the winde to one place congregates, 264:06,297[A ]| And in their hollow wombs insinuates 264:06,298[A ]| It*selfe, much fiery seed it there drawes out 264:06,299[A ]| With which it mixes, and still whirls about 264:06,300[A ]| Till it the lightning in that forge compose 264:06,301[A ]| Whose ardor from a double reason flowes, 264:06,302[A ]| Its owne mobillity, engendring heate, 264:06,303[A ]| And the contracted fires, that flame begett. 264:06,304[A ]| The wind thus kindled, and the fiery flood 264:06,305[A ]| High flowne, the mature lightning breakes the clowd, 264:06,306[A ]| With suddaine flashes throughout heaven flies 264:06,307[A ]| And makes a dreadfull splendor in the skies. 264:06,308[A ]| This rent is followd with a noyse of thunder 264:06,309[A ]| As if heavens vast arch were torne asunder 264:06,310[A ]| The trembling earth shakes at the lowd reports 264:06,311[A ]| Terrible sounds fill all the a*etheriall courts. 264:06,312[A ]| The shaken tempest threatens in the ayre 264:06,313[A ]| With horrid fragors, whose concussions there 264:06,314[A ]| Such violent showers produce, as if the skie 264:06,315[A ]| Were all turnd into rayne, which suddenly 264:06,316[A ]| Would bring the deluge back, such cracks wee heare 264:06,317[A ]| When stormie flashing winds the black clowds teare. 264:06,318[A ]| Sometimes, unto a clowd whose pregnant womb 264:06,319[A ]| With mature lightning swells, a force doth come 264:06,320[A ]| Excited from without, whose violence 264:06,321[A ]| Breaks it, and makes that swift flame fall from thence 264:06,322[A ]| Which in our tongue wee lightning name. 264:06,323[A ]| This power wherere it goes effects the same 264:06,324[A ]| In other parts; Sometimes that windie force 264:06,325[A ]| Deliverd without fire, in a long course 264:06,326[A ]| Loosing the grosser bodies, which cannot 264:06,327[A ]| Pierce through the ayre, and having others gott 264:06,328[A ]| Even in the ayre, which, lesse, and mixt with it 264:06,329[A ]| In motion, fire produce, soe gathers heate 264:06,330[A ]| As leaden bullets fliing in the ayre 264:06,331[A ]| Many cold bodies loose and soften there. 264:06,332[A ]| Sometimes the clash it*selfe doth fire excite 264:06,333[A ]| And violent motion doth the cold ayre light 264:06,334[A ]| When principles of fire together flow, 264:06,335[A ]| Both out of that which gives the violent blow 264:06,336[A ]| And that thing which is struck, as when wee hitt 264:06,337[A ]| A flint with steele, and sparks flie out of it, 264:06,338[A ]| The seeds of fire have not lesse swift concourse 264:06,339[A ]| Because excited by the steeles cold force. 264:06,340[A ]| So thunderbolts have oft-times flames begott 264:06,341[A ]| In things combustible, yet can wee not 264:06,342[A ]| Without some weighty reasons rashly hold 264:06,343[A ]| That wind, so forcibly driven on, is cold. 264:06,344[A ]| For if it kindle not in fliing, yet 264:06,345[A ]| It comes downe warmd with the mixt seeds of heate. 264:06,346[A ]| That which the thunders sudden fall provokes, 264:06,347[A ]| So swift a motion, and such rending strokes, 264:06,348[A ]| Is might, within the clowds contracted first, 264:06,349[A ]| Augmenting still, till they those prisons burst; 264:06,350[A ]| For when the full clowds can no more comprize 264:06,351[A ]| The crowded ayre from thence, with such force, flies 264:06,352[A ]| As shott out of the battring engine doth. 264:06,353[A ]| Then being of Elements little and smooth, 264:06,354[A ]| A nature that's not easie to oppose, 264:06,355[A ]| It thorough all things penetrable goes; 264:06,356[A ]| And meeting few obstructions in its flight, 264:06,357[A ]| With wondrous force and swiftnesse falls downe-right. 264:06,358[A ]| Againe, as ponderous bodies downewards tend 264:06,359[A ]| They if new stroakes be added must descend 264:06,360[A ]| With double speed and violence, which breakes through 264:06,361[A ]| All obstacles, while they their course persue. 264:06,362[A ]| Last thunders, that through vast space goe, 264:06,363[A ]| More swift and strong in their long journey grow 264:06,364[A ]| While they receive encrease of force and speed 264:06,365[A ]| By new recruits of their owne scatterd seed 264:06,366[A ]| Which, liing in their way they congregate, 264:06,367[A ]| And, so augmented, fall with greater weight. 264:06,368[A ]| Perhaps, as't goes, even from the ayre it drawes 264:06,369[A ]| Bodies, whose stroakes it's swifter motion cause. 264:06,370[A ]| Then thunders without harme themselves convey 264:06,371[A ]| Through many things, whose pores yeild open way; 264:06,372[A ]| Other againe, in their encounters splitt 264:06,373[A ]| When sollid against sollid bodies hitt. 264:06,374[A ]| Both brasse and gold they easily melt, for those 264:06,375[A ]| Little and even elements compose 264:06,376[A ]| Which easily are pierct, and soone disjoynd 264:06,377[A ]| All bands dissolvd, whereby they were combind. 264:06,378[A ]| When Autumne comes, and Spring disclosing flowers 264:06,379[A ]| Then thunders oftnest shake heavens flaming Towers 264:06,380[A ]| And the low earth; For Winters want that fire, 264:06,381[A ]| And Summers those strong winds, which they require. 264:06,382[A ]| Nor are the clowds, which heate then rarifies, 264:06,383[A ]| Condenst enough, for tis in troubled skies 264:06,384[A ]| That they are formd, and in compounded weather 264:06,385[A ]| Where all their various causes meete together. 264:06,386[A ]| Then wee the greate a*etheriall tumults heare 264:06,387[A ]| At those stormie conjunctions of the yeare. 264:06,388[A ]| Which soe doe heate and cold in heaven blend, 264:06,389[A ]| As clashing tides that in streight seas contend. 264:06,390[A ]| For flames and winds encountring in the ayre 264:06,391[A ]| Fill all with discord and confusion there; 264:06,392[A ]| When the cold armie is, in its retreate, 264:06,393[A ]| Assaulted by the vantguard of the heate 264:06,394[A ]| Wee call that season Spring. Natures which jarre 264:06,395[A ]| Never encounter without civill warre. 264:06,396[A ]| Autumne wee name that quarter of the yeare 264:06,397[A ]| When Colds returning forces charge the reare 264:06,398[A ]| Of heate's declining Bodie, in which fight 264:06,399[A ]| Fierce Winter putts the Summer Host to flight. 264:06,400[A ]| Thus, the yeares battles, may wee terme each change, 264:06,401[A ]| Nor in such perplext seasons is it strange 264:06,402[A ]| Heaven should be filld with thunder and black showers 264:06,403[A ]| At the conjunction of those opposite powers, 264:06,404[A ]| Who on all sides maintaine a doubtfull warre 264:06,405[A ]| Here Wind, there raine, there Flame the Conqueror. 264:06,406[A ]| Thus you the thunders fiery nature know 264:06,407[A ]| And from what cause its operations flow 264:06,408[A ]| Nor need in Tyrrhene bookes vaine labours spend 264:06,409[A ]| To search what mistery Gods by them intend 264:06,410[A ]| To know from whence the winged lightning flies 264:06,411[A ]| Or to what part of the disturbed skies 264:06,412[A ]| The quick flame bends, how it doth wind 264:06,413[A ]| Itselfe into the hollow clowd, how there confind 264:06,414[A ]| It, with prevailing might, breakes out from thence 264:06,415[A ]| What things are subject to its violence. 264:06,416[A ]| If Jove, or other Gods, doe, as they please, 264:06,417[A ]| With horrid fragors shake heavens Pallaces 264:06,418[A ]| And dart downe flame, Why doe they not employ 264:06,419[A ]| Their quick consuming lightnings to destroy 264:06,420[A ]| Those impious sinners who their threats contemne 264:06,421[A ]| That thus, their bosoms peirct, others from them 264:06,422[A ]| Instruction might receive? but in this fire 264:06,423[A ]| Those rather, who are voyd of guilt, expire. 264:06,424[A ]| Why should just Jove with whirlewind and fierce flame 264:06,425[A ]| Slay innocents? Why doth he only ayme 264:06,426[A ]| At desarts with vaine toyle? Ist when he tries 264:06,427[A ]| His force and doth his strong arms exercise? 264:06,428[A ]| Why doe his ministers those shafts direct 264:06,429[A ]| To his owne land? Why doth he not protect 264:06,430[A ]| His native soyle? Why keepes he not all those 264:06,431[A ]| Which they spend there, to shoote at his bold foes? 264:06,432[A ]| Againe why doth not Jove when heaven is cleare 264:06,433[A ]| Dart flames on earth? Why doe wee not then heare 264:06,434[A ]| His thunders roare? Doth he when skies condense 264:06,435[A ]| Descend in the thick clowd? that soe from thence 264:06,436[A ]| Att neerer distance he may ayme his strokes 264:06,437[A ]| More sure? But what cause in the sea provokes 264:06,438[A ]| Him alsoe there his wandring shafts to send? 264:06,439[A ]| Can the salt waves and liquid plains offend? 264:06,440[A ]| Then, if the God will have us shun the blow, 264:06,441[A ]| Why doth he not his fliing arrows shew? 264:06,442[A ]| If he would mortalls unawares surprize 264:06,443[A ]| Why warns he them with thunders, darknesse, noyse? 264:06,444[A ]| Againe, how can you think those lightnings doe 264:06,445[A ]| At once in many places flash? Dare you 264:06,446[A ]| The thing it*selfe dispute? Yet since tis plaine 264:06,447[A ]| That at the same time the descending raine 264:06,448[A ]| In severall regions falls, none can denie 264:06,449[A ]| But many lightnings all at once may flie. 264:06,450[A ]| Lastly, if Gods, dire thunders still bestow, 264:06,451[A ]| Why doe they their owne Temples overthrow? 264:06,452[A ]| Their glorious seats, and images deface? 264:06,453[A ]| Their goodly statues with rude hurts disgrace? 264:06,454[A ]| Why doe they strike the highest places still? 264:06,455[A ]| Why is their violence trac'd on every hill? 264:06,456[A ]| By what's allready sayd you easily 264:06,457[A ]| May now know what those fiery whirlwinds be 264:06,458[A ]| What cause, to th'Ocean, drawes them from the skies 264:06,459[A ]| For thence it is the Greekes their name devize. 264:06,460[A ]| These, like a pillar, from above let downe 264:06,461[A ]| Into the sea, the waves by strong winds blowne 264:06,462[A ]| Encircle them with a tumultuous rage 264:06,463[A ]| Which shipps, in desperate perills, doth engage. 264:06,464[A ]| This happens when the wind, enclosd about 264:06,465[A ]| With the thick clowd, can force no passage out 264:06,466[A ]| And so the clowd with it to th’Ocean beares 264:06,467[A ]| Which like a falling Columne there appeares. 264:06,468[A ]| As if some hand above did, by degrees, 264:06,469[A ]| So thrust it out of heave’n, into the seas, 264:06,470[A ]| Where when it breakes amidst the foamie waves 264:06,471[A ]| The issuing whirlewind with strange fury raves. 264:06,472[A ]| Th'unfixed whirlewind too falls from above 264:06,473[A ]| And, drawing slow-bodied clowds, doth softly moove 264:06,474[A ]| Till they, impregnated, into the Ocean come 264:06,475[A ]| And there discharge their tempest-burthened womb; 264:06,476[A ]| Whose disclosd issue the whole sea deforms 264:06,477[A ]| Which roars alowd, vext with those horrid storms. 264:06,478[A ]| Sometimes strong winds, still whirling in the ayre 264:06,479[A ]| Involve themselves in clowds, while loose seeds there 264:06,480[A ]| They with their orblike motion congregate, 264:06,481[A ]| And falling, the fird whirlwinds imitate; 264:06,482[A ]| This, sliding to the earth, there burst, and thence 264:06,483[A ]| The furious storms bursts forth with violence. 264:06,484[A ]| But in earth, where hills interpose betweene 264:06,485[A ]| Heaven and our sight, these are more seldome seene 264:06,486[A ]| Then in the liquid plains, where the broad skies 264:06,487[A ]| Are not so much concealed from our eies, 264:06,488[A ]| Noe clowds are found, when rougher bodies, such 264:06,489[A ]| As slightly implicated, yet so much 264:06,490[A ]| That linkd, they take sure hold in a loose flight, 264:06,491[A ]| Mounting above, there suddenly unite. 264:06,492[A ]| These first small clowds compose, and then those joynd 264:06,493[A ]| A congregation make, which, by the wind 264:06,494[A ]| Driven about, augmenting with more clowds 264:06,495[A ]| At last into a hideous Tempest crowds. 264:06,496[A ]| The mountains fume, as they’re exalted higher 264:06,497[A ]| Those most, whose proud heads, neerest heaven aspire. 264:06,498[A ]| For these, still wrapt up in thick mists, appeare 264:06,499[A ]| Because, when clowds at first are gatherd here 264:06,500[A ]| Ere wee their slender substances perceive 264:06,501[A ]| The winds doe them to the high mountains heave 264:06,502[A ]| Where they condense, and joyne with more, which shews 264:06,503[A ]| As if they thence, into the pure ayre rose 264:06,504[A ]| For when wee climb high hills, even they declare 264:06,505[A ]| To our quick sence, that constant winds blow there.