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,society ,,henry ,,more ,democritus ,platonissans 7#afdf7 ,introduction by ,p4 ,g4 ,,stanwood ,publication ,number #acj ,,william ,,andrews ,,clark ,,memorial ,,library ,university of ,california1 ,los ,angeles #aifh ,,general ,,editors ,george ,robert ,guffey1 ,university of ,california1 ,los ,angeles ,maximillian ,e4 ,novak1 ,university of ,california1 ,los ,angeles ,robert ,vosper1 ,william ,andrews ,clark ,memorial ,library ,,advisory ,,editors ,richard ,c4 ,boys1 ,university of ,michigan ,james ,l4 ,clifford1 ,columbia ,university ,ralph ,cohen1 ,university of ,virginia ,vinton ,a4 ,dearing1 ,university of ,california1 ,los ,angeles ,arthur ,friedman1 ,university of ,chicago ,louis ,a4 ,landa1 ,princeton ,university ,earl ,miner1 ,university of ,california1 ,los ,angeles ,samuel ,h4 ,monk1 ,university of ,minnesota ,everett ,t4 ,moore1 ,university of ,california1 ,los ,angeles ,lawrence ,clark ,powell1 ,william ,andrews ,clark ,memorial ,library ,james ,sutherland1 ,university ,college1 ,london ,h4 ,t4 ,swedenberg1 ,jr41 ,university of ,california1 ,los ,angeles ,,corresponding ,,secretary ,edna ,c4 ,davis1 ,william ,andrews ,clark ,memorial ,library ,,introduction ,henry ,more 7#afad-afhg71 the most interesting member of that group traditionally known as the ,cambridge ,platonists1 lived conscientiously and well4 ,having early set out on one course1 he never thought to change it2 he devoted his whole life to the joy of celebrating1 again and again1 8a firm and unshaken ,belief of the ,existence of ,,god 4 4 4 1 a ,god infinitely ,good1 as well as infinitely ,great 4 4 4 40#a ,such faith was for ,more the starting point of his rational understanding3 8with the most fervent ,prayers0 he beseeched ,god1 in his autobiographical 8,praefatio ,generalissima10 8to set me free from the dark ,chains1 and this so sordid ,captivity of my own ,will40 ,more offered to faith all which his reason could know1 and so it happened that he 8was got into a most ,joyous and ,lucid ,state of ,mind10 something quite ineffable2 to preserve these 8,sensations and ,experiences of my own ,soul10 he wrote 8a pretty full ,poem call'd ,psychozoia0 7or ,a ,christiano-,platonicall display of ,life71 an exercise begun about #afdj and designed for no audience but himself4 ,there were times1 ,more continued in his autobiographical remarks1 when he thought of destroying ,psychozoia because its style is rough and its language filled with archaisms4 ,his principal purpose in that poem was to demonstrate in detail the spiritual foundation of all existence2 ,psyche1 his heroine1 is the daughter of the ,absolute1 the general ,soul who holds together the metaphysical universe1 against whom he sees reflected his own soul's mystical progress4 ,more must1 nevertheless1 have been pleased with his labor1 for he next wrote ,psychathanasia ,platonica3 or ,platonicall ,poem of the ,immortality of ,souls1 especially ,mans ,soul1 in which he attempts to demonstrate the immortality of the soul as a corrective to his age4 ,then1 he joined to that ,antipsychopannychia1 or ,a ,confutation of the sleep of the ,soul after death1 and ,antimonopsychia1 or ,that all ,souls are not one2 at the urging of friends1 he published the poems in #afdb--;his first literary work--as ,psychodia ,platonica4 ,in his argument for the soul's immortality toward the end of ,psychathanasia 7,,iii4#d71 ,more had urged that there was no need to plead for any extension of the infinite 78a contradiction10 and also1 it would seem1 a fruitless inquiry72 but he soon changed his mind4 ,the preface to ,democritus ,platonissans reproduces those stanzas of the earlier poem which deny infinity 7#cd to the end of the canto7 with a new 7formerly concluding7 stanza #ci and three further stanzas 8for a more easie and naturall leading to the present ,canto10 i4e41 ,democritus ,platonissans1 which ,more clearly intended to be an addition1 a fifth canto to ,psychathanasia 7,book ,,iii72 and although ,democritus ,platonissans first appeared separately1 ,more appended it to ,psychathanasia in the second edition of his collected poems1 this time with ,english titles1 the whole being called ,a ,platonick ,song of the ,soul 7#afdg74 ,there is little relationship between ,democritus ,platonissans and the rest of ,more's poetry2 even the main work to which it supposedly forms a final and conclusive canto provides only the slightest excuse for such a continuation4 ,certainly1 in ,psychathanasia1 ,more is excited by the new astronomy2 he praises the ,copernican system throughout ,book ,,iii1 giving an account of it according to the lessons of his study of ,galileo's ,dialogo1 which he may have been reading even as he wrote4#b ,indeed1 ,more tries to harmonize the two poems--his habit was always to look for unity4 ,but even though ,democritus ,platonissans explores an astronomical subject1 just as the third part of ,psychathanasia also does1 its attitude and theme are quite different2 for ,more had meanwhile been reading ,descartes4 ,more's theory of the infinity of worlds and ,god's plenitude evidently owed a great deal to ,descartes' recent example2 ,more responds exuberantly to him1 especially to his ,principes de la ,philosophie 7#afdd72 for in him he fancied having found a true ally4 ,steeped in ,platonic and neo-,platonic thought1 and determined to reconcile ,spirit with the rational mind of man1 ,more thought he had discovered in ,cartesian #8intuition' what was not necessarily there4 ,descartes had enjoyed an ecstatic illumination1 and so had ,plotinus2 but this was not enough1 as ,more may have wanted to imagine1 to make ,descartes a neo-,platonist4#c ,but the ,platonic element implicit in ,descartes1 his theory of innate ideas1 and his proof of the existence of ,god from the idea of ,god1 all helped to make ,more so receptive to him4 ,nevertheless1 ,more did not really need ,descartes1 nor1 as he himself was later to discover1 had he even understood him properly1 for ,more had looked at him only to find his own reflection4 ,but there was nothing really new about the idea of infinite worlds which ,more described in ,democritus ,platonissans2 it surely was not a conception unique to ,descartes4 ,the theory was a common one in ,greek and ,renaissance thought4 ,democritus and the ,epicureans1 of course1 advocated the theme of infinite worlds in an infinite universe which ,more accepted2 but at the same time1 he rejected their view of a mechanistic and fortuitous creation4 ,although ,plato specifically rejects the idea of infinite worlds 7in ,timaeus71 ,more imagines1 as the title of his poem implies1 a ,platonic universe1 by which he really means neo-,platonic1 combined with a ,democritean plurality of worlds4 ,more filled space1 not with the infinite void of the ,atomists1 but with the ,divine1 ever active immanence4 ,more1 in fact1 in an early philosophic work1 ,an ,antidote against ,atheisme 7#afeb71 and again in ,divine ,dialogues 7#affh71 refutes ,lucretius by asserting the usefulness of all created things in ,god's ,providence and the essential design in ,nature4 ,his reference in ,democritus ,platonissans 7st4 #bj7 is typical3 8though ,i detest the sect_/ of ,epicurus for their manners vile1_/ ,yet what is true ,i may not well reject40 ,in bringing together ,democritus' theories and neo-,platonic thought1 ,more obviously has attempted reconciliation of two exclusive world views1 but with dubious success4 ,while ,more stands firmly before a familiar tradition1 his belief in an infinity of worlds evidently has little immediate connection with any predecessors4 ,even ,bruno's work1 or ,thomas ,digges1' which could have occupied an important place1 seems to have had little1 if any1 direct influence on ,more4 ,it was ,descartes who stimulated his thought at the most receptive moment3 in #afdb to have denied a theory which in #afdf he proclaimed with such force evidently argues in favor of a most powerful attachment4 ,more responded enthusiastically to what he deemed a congenial metaphysical system2 as a champion of ,descartes1 he was first to make him known in ,england and first in ,england to praise the infinity of worlds1 yet ,descartes' system could give to him little real solace4 ,more embraces ,god's plenitude and infinity of worlds1 he rejoices in the variety and grandeur of the universe1 and he worships it as he might ,god ,himself2 but ,descartes was fundamentally uninterested in such enthusiasms and found them even repellant--as well as unnecessary--to his thought4 ,for ,more the doctrine of infinity was a proper corollary of ,copernican astronomy and neo-,platonism 7as well as ,cabbalistic mysticism7 and therefore a necessity to his whole elaborate and eclectic view of the world4 ,in introducing ,cartesian thought into ,england1 ,more emphasized particular physical doctrines mainly described in ,the ,principles of ,philosophy2 he shows little interest in the ,discourse on the ,method of ,rightly ,conducting the ,reason 7#afcg71 or in the ,meditations 7#afda71 both of which were also available to him when he wrote ,democritus ,platonissans4 ,in the preface to his poem1 he refers to ,descartes whom he seems to have read hopefully3 surely 8infinitude0 is the same as the ,cartesian 8indefinite40 8,for what is his mundus indefinit extensus1 but extensus infinit8 ,else it sounds onely infinitus quoad nos1 but simpliciter finitus10 for there can be no space 8unstuffd with ,atoms40 ,more thinks that ,descartes seems 8to mince it10 that difficulty lies in the interpretation of a word1 not in an essential idea4 ,he is referring to ,part ,,ii1 xxi1 of ,the ,principles1 but he quotes1 with tacit approval1 from ,part ,,iii1 i and ii1 in the motto to the poem4 ,more undoubtedly knows the specific discussion of #8infinity' in ,part ,i1 xxvi-xxviii1 where he must first have felt uneasy delight on reading 8that it is not needful to enter into disputes regarding the infinite1 but merely to hold all that in which we can find no limits as indefinite1 such as the extension of the world 4 4 4 40#d ,more asked ,descartes to clarify his language in their correspondence of #afdh-di1 the last year of ,descartes' life4 ,democritus ,platonissans is ,more's earliest statement about absolute space and time2 by introducing these themes into ,english philosophy1 he contributed significantly to the intellectual history of the seventeenth century4 ,newton1 indeed1 was able to make use of ,more's forging efforts2 but of relative time or space and their measurement1 which so much concerned ,newton1 ,more had little to say4 ,he was preoccupied with the development of a theory which would show that immaterial substance1 with space and time as attributes1 is as real and as absolute as the ,cartesian geometrical and spatial account of matter which he felt was true but much in need of amplification4 ,in his first letter to ,descartes1 of #aa ,december #afdh1 ,more wrote3 84 4 4 this indefinite extension is either simpliciter infinite1 or only in respect to us4 ,if you understand extension to be infinite simpliciter1 why do you obscure your thought by too low and too modest words8 ,if it is infinite only in respect to us1 extension1 in reality1 will be finite2 for our mind is the measure neither of the things nor of truth4 4 4 40 ,unsatisfied by his first answer from ,descartes 7#e ,february #afdi71 he urges his point again 7#e ,march73 if extension can describe matter1 the same quality must apply to the immaterial and yet be only one of many attributes of ,spirit4 ,in his second letter to ,more 7#ae ,april71 ,descartes answers firmly3 8,it is repugnant to my concept to attribute any limit to the world1 and ,i have no other measure than my perception for what ,i have to assert or to deny4 ,i say1 therefore1 that the world is indeterminate or indefinite1 because ,i do not recognize in it any limits4 ,but ,i dare not call it infinite as ,i perceive that ,god is greater than the world1 not in respect to ,his extension1 because1 as ,i have already said1 ,i do not acknowledge in ,god any proper extension1 but in respect to ,his perfection 4 4 4 4 ,it is repugnant to my mind 4 4 4 it implies a contradiction1 that the world be finite or limited1 because ,i cannot but conceive a space outside the boundaries of the world wherever ,i presuppose them40 ,more plainly fails to understand the basic dualism inherent in ,cartesian philosophy and to sense the irrelevance of his questions4 ,while ,descartes is really disposing of the spiritual world in order to get on with his analysis of finite experience1 ,more is keenly attempting to reconcile neo-,platonism with the lively claims of matter4 ,his effort can be read as the brave attempt to harmonize an older mode of thought with the urgency of the #8new philosophy' which called the rest in doubt4 ,more saw this conflict and the implications of it with a kind of clarity that other men of his age hardly possessed4 ,but the way of ,descartes1 which at first seemed to him so promising1 certainly did not lead to the kind of harmony which he sought4 ,more's original enthusiasm for ,descartes declined as he understood better that the ,cartesian world in practice excluded spirits and souls4 ,because ,descartes could find no necessary place even for ,god ,himself1 ,more styled him1 in ,enchiridion ,metaphysicum 7#afga71 the 8,prince of the ,nullibists02 these men 8readily acknowledge there are such things as ,incorporeal ,beings or ,spirits1 yet do very peremptorily contend1 that they are no where in the whole ,world 2 4 4 4 because they so boldly affirm that a ,spirit is ,nullibi1 that is to say1 no where10 they deserve to be called ,nullibists4#e ,in contrast to these false teachers1 ,more describes absolute space by listing twenty epithets which can be applied either to ,god or to pure extension1 such as 8,unum1 ,simplex1 ,immobile 4 4 4 ,incomprehensible 0#f ,there is1 however1 a great difficulty here2 for while ,space and ,spirit are eternal and uncreated1 they yet contain material substance which has been created by ,god4 ,if the material world possesses infinite extension1 as ,more generally believes1 that would preclude any need of its having a creator4 ,in order to avoid this dilemma1 which ,democritus ,platonissans ignores1 ,more must at last separate matter and space1 seeing the latter as an attribute of ,god through which ,he is able to contain a finite world limited in space as well as in time4 ,in writing that 8this infinite space because of its infinity is distinct from matter10#g ,more reveals the direction of his conclusion2 the dichotomy it embodies is ,cartesianism in reverse4 ,while ,more always labored to describe the ineffable1 his earliest work1 the poetry1 may have succeeded in this wish most of all4 ,although he felt that his poetry was aiming toward truths which his 8later and better concocted ,prose0#h reached1 the effort cost him the suggestiveness of figurative speech4 ,in urging himself on toward an ever more consistent statement of belief1 he lost much of his beginning exuberance 7best expressed in the brief 8,philosopher's ,devotion07 and the joy of intellectual discovery4 ,in the search 8to find out ,words which will prove faithful witnesses of the peculiarities of my ,thoughts10 he staggers under the unsupportable burden of too many words4 ,in trying so desperately to clarify his thought1 he rejected poetic discourse as 8slight02 only a language free of metaphor and symbol could1 he supposed1 lead toward correctness4 ,indeed1 ,more soon renounced poetry2 he apparently wrote no more after collecting it in ,philosophical ,poems 7#afdg71 when he gave up poetry for 8more seeming ,substantial performances in solid ,prose40#i 8,cupids ,conflict10 which is 8annexed0 to ,democritus ,platonissans1 is an interesting revelation of the failure of poetry1 as ,more felt it3 he justifies his 8rude rugged uncouth style0 by suggesting that sweet verses avoid telling important truths2 harshness and obscurity may at least remind one that there is a significance beyond mere words4 ,his lament is characteristic3 8,how ill alas6 with wisdome it accords_/ ,to sell my living sense for liveless words40 ,in spite of these downcast complaints1 ,more was quite capable of lively and meaningful poetic ideas4 ,one is the striking image of the cone which occurs in ,democritus ,platonissans 7especially in stanzas #g-h1 #ff-fg1 and #hh7 and becomes the most essential symbol to ,more's expression of infinitude and extension4 ,the figure first appears in ,antipsychopannychia 7,,ii4#i7 where his purpose is to reconcile the world ,soul with ,christian eschatology4 ,in ,democritus ,platonissans1 the cone enables ,more to adapt the familiar ,hermetic paradox3 ,a ,circle whose circumference no where ,is circumscrib'd1 whose ,centre's each where set1 ,but the low ,cusp's a figure circular1 ,whose compasse is ybound1 but centre's every where4 7st4 #h7 ,every point on the circumference1 or base of the cone1 relates to the single point at the top4 ,the world1 ,more wants to say1 has no limits1 no center1 yet there are bounds in its not having any4 ,more recognizes the contradiction when he fancies 8some strong arm'd ,archer0 at the wide world's edge 7st4 #cg74 ,where shall he send his shafts8 ,into 8mere vacuity08 ,but ,more hardly seems aware of the inappropriateness of the cone3 he uses a geometrical figure to locate space1 time1 and numberless worlds within the universal sight of ,god1 but matter is infinite1 8distinct_/ ,and yet proceeding from the ,deitie0 7st4 #fh74 ,obviously1 the archer must forever be sending his arrows through an infinitely expanding surface4 ,nevertheless1 the cone has great value as a metaphor1 as a richly suggestive and fascinating conception4 ,more1 however1 does not want to speak metaphorically2 he is attempting to disclose truths1 literal and plain1 where pretty words and metaphors have no place4 ,even as he is writing his most effective poetry1 we are aware that ,more is denying his poetic office2 for he is pleading a reasoned case where the words crack and strain1 where poetic meaning gathers1 only to be denied4 ,but these objections momentarily disappear when ,more forgets himself enough to let us feel his imagination and does not worry that we might miss the proofs of his philosophy4 ,democritus ,platonissans concludes with an apocalyptic vision wherein the poet imagines the reconciliation of infinite worlds and time within ,god's immensity4 ,he is also attempting to harmonize ,psychathanasia1 where he rejected infinitude1 with its sequel1 ,democritus ,platonissans1 where he has everywhere been declaring it2 thus we should think of endless worlds as we should think of ,nature and the ,phoenix1 dying yet ever regenerative1 sustained by a 8centrall power_/ ,of hid spermatick life0 which sucks 8sweet heavenly juice0 from above 7st4 #aja74 ,more closes his poem on a vision of harmony and ceaseless energy1 a most fit ending for one who dared to believe that the new philosophy sustained the old1 that all coherence had not gone out of the world1 but was always there1 only waiting to be discovered afresh in this latter age4 ,the ,university of ,british ,columbia ,,notes ,,to ,,the ,,introduction ,footnote #a3 ,the quotations from ,more's ,latin autobiography occur in the ,opera ,omnia 7,london1 #afge-gi71 portions of which ,richard ,ward translated in ,the ,life of 4 4 4 ,henry ,more 7,london1 #agaj74 ,cf4 the modern edition of this work1 ed4 ,m4 ,f4 ,howard 7,london1 #aiaa71 pp4 #fa1 #fg-fh1 the text followed here4 ,there is a recent reprint of the ,opera ,omnia in #c volumes 7,hildesheim1 #aiff7 with an introduction by ,serge ,hutin4 ,the 8,praefatio ,generalissima0 begins vol4 ,,ii4 #a4 ,one passage in it which ,ward did not translate describes the genesis of ,democritus ,platonissans4 ,more writes that after finishing ,psychathanasia1 he felt a change of heart3 8,postea vero mutata sententia furore nescio quo ,poetico incitatus supra dictum ,poema scripsi1 ea potissimum innixus ratione quod liquido constaret extensionem spacii dari infinitam1 nec majores absurditates pluresve contingere posse in ,materia infinita1 infinitaque2 ,mundi duratione1 quam in infinita ,extensione spacii0 7p4 ix74 ,footnote #b3 ,cf4 ,lee ,haring's unpub4 diss41 8,henry ,more's ,psychathanasia and ,democritus ,platonissans3 ,a ,critical ,edition10 7,columbia ,univ41 #aifa71 pp4 #cc-eg4 ,footnote #c3 ,marjorie ,hope ,nicolson's various articles and books which in part deal with ,more are important to the discussion that follows1 and especially 8,the ,early ,stage of ,cartesianism in ,england10 ,,sp1 ,,xxvi 7#aibi71 #cef-cgi2 ,mountain ,gloom and ,mountain ,glory 7,ithaca1 #aiei71 pp4 #aac-adc1 and ,the ,breaking of the ,circle 7,new ,york1 #aifj71 pp4 #aeh-afe4 ,footnote #d3 ,cf4 ,the ,meditations and ,selections from the ,principles of ,ren ,descartes1 trans4 ,john ,veitch 7,chicago1 #aijh71 p4 #adc4 ,the quotations from the letters which follow occur in ,alexandre ,koyr's very helpful book1 ,from the ,closed ,world to the ,infinite ,universe 7,baltimore1 #aieg71 pp4 #aad1 #abb-abc1 but the complete and original texts can be consulted in ,descartes1 ,correspondance avec ,arnaud et ,morus1 ed4 ,g4 ,lewis 7,paris1 #aiec74 ,footnote #e3 ,this passage occurs at the beginning of 8,the ,easie1 ,true1 and ,genuine ,notion1 ,and consistent ,explication ,of the ,nature of a ,spirit10 a free translation of ,enchiridion ,metaphysicum1 ,i4 #bg-bh1 by ,john ,collins which he included in ,joseph ,glanvil's ,saducismus ,triumphatus 7,london1 #afha74 ,i quote from the text as given in ,philosophical ,writings of ,henry ,more1 ed4 ,f4 ,i4 ,mac,kinnon 7,new ,york1 #aibe71 p4 #ahc4 ,footnote #f3 ,cf4 ,enchiridion ,metaphysicum1 ,,viii4 #h1 trans4 ,mary ,whiton ,calkins and included in ,john ,tull ,baker1 ,an ,historical and ,critical ,examination of ,english ,space and ,time ,theories 4 4 4 7,bronxville1 ,n4,y41 #aicj71 p4 #ab4 ,for the original1 cf4 ,opera ,omnia1 ,,ii4 #a1 p4 #afg4 ,footnote #g3 8,infinitum igitur hoc ,extensum ,materia distinctum10 ,enchiridion ,metaphysicum1 ,,viii4 #i1 in ,opera ,omnia1 loc4 cit4 ,quoted by ,mac,kinnon1 p4 #bfb4 ,footnote #h3 ,this and the following reference appear in ,an ,explanation of the grand ,mystery of ,godliness 7,london1 #affj71 8,to the ,reader10 pp4 vi and v4 ,footnote #i3 ,ibid41 ,,ii4 xi4 #e 7p4 #eb74 ,,bibliographical ,,note ,the text of this edition is reproduced from a copy in the ,henry ,e4 ,huntington ,library4 ,democritus ,platonissans1 ,or1 ,,an ,,essay ,upon ,the ,,infinity ,,of ,,worlds ,out ,of ,,platonick ,,principles4 ,hereunto is annexed ,,cupids ,,conflict together with ,,the ,,philosophers ,,devotion3 ,and a ,particular ,interpretation appertaining to the three last books of the ,song of the ,soul4 ,by ,h4 ,more ,master of ,arts1 and ,fellow of ,christs ,colledge in ,cambridge4 1 4 ' 4 ,plat4 ,pythagoras ,terram ,planetam quendam esse censuit qui circa solem in centro mundi defixum converteretur1 ,pythagorans secuti sunt ,philolaus1 ,seleucus1 ,cleanthes1 c4 im ,,plato jam senex1 ut narrat ,theophrastus4 ,libert4 ,fromond1 de ,orbe terr immobili4 ,,cambridge ,printed by ,,roger ,,daniel1 ,printer to the ,,universitie4 #afdf4 ,to the ,reader4 ,,reader1 ,if thou standest not to the judgement of thine eye more then of thy reason1 this fragment may passe favourably1 though in the neglectfull disguise of a fragment2 if the strangenesse of the argument prove no hinderance4 ,,infinitie of ,,worlds6 ,a thing monstrous if assented to1 and to be startled at1 especially by them1 whose thoughts this one have alwayes so engaged1 that they can find no leisure to think of any thing else4 ,but ,i onely make a bare proposall to more acute judgements1 of what my sportfull fancie1 with pleasure hath suggested3 following my old designe of furnishing mens minds with varietie of apprehensions concerning the most weightie points of ,philosophie1 that they may not seem rashly to have settled in the truth1 though it be the truth3 a thing as ill beseeming ,philosophers1 as hastie prejudicative sentence ,politicall ,judges4 ,but if ,i had relinquishd here my wonted self1 in proving ,dogmaticall1 ,i should have found very noble ,patronage for the cause among the ancients1 ,epicurus1 ,democritus1 ,lucretius1 c4 ,or if justice may reach the dead1 do them the right1 as to shew1 that though they be hooted at1 by the ,rout of the learned1 as men of monstrous conceits1 they were either very wise or exceeding fortunate to light on so probable and specious an opinion1 in which notwithstanding there is so much difficultie and seeming inconsistencie4 ,nay and that sublime and subtil ,mechanick too1 ,des,chartes1 though he seem to mince it must hold infinitude of worlds1 or which is as harsh one infinite one4 ,for what is his mundus indefinit extensus1 but extensus infinit8 ,else it sounds onely infinitus quoad nos but simpliciter finitus4 ,but if any space be left out unstuffd with ,atoms1 it will hazard the dissipation of the whole frame of ,nature into disjoynted dust4 ,as may be proved by the ,principles of his own ,philosophie4 ,and that there is space whereever ,god is1 or any actuall and self-subsistent ,being1 seems to me no plainer then one of the 4 ,for mine own part ,i must confesse these apprehensions do plainly oppose what heretofore ,i have conceived2 but ,i have sworn more faithfull friendship with ,truth then with myself4 ,and therefore without all remorse lay batterie against mine own edifice3 not sparing to shew how weak that is1 that my self now deems not impregnably strong4 ,i have at the latter end of the last ,canto of ,psychathanasia1 not without triumph concluded1 that the world hath not continued ab terno1 from this ground3 ,extension ,that's infinite implies a contradiction4 ,and this is in answer to an objection against my last argument of the souls ,immortalitie1 viz4 divine goodnesse1 which ,i there make the measure of his providence4 ,that ground limits the essence of the world as well as its duration1 and satisfies the curiositie of the ,opposer1 by shewing the incompossibilitie in the ,creature1 not want of goodnesse in the ,creatour to have staid the framing of the ,universe4 ,but now roused up by a new ,philosophick furie1 ,i answer that difficultie by taking away the ,hypothesis of either the world or time being finite3 defending the infinitude of both1 which though ,i had done with a great deal of vigour and life1 and semblance of assent1 it would have agreed well enough with the free beat of ,poesie1 and might have passed for a pleasant flourish3 but the severitie of my own judgement1 and sad ,genius hath cast in many correctives and coolers into the ,canto it self2 so that it cannot amount to more then a discussion4 ,and discussion is no prejudice but an honour to the truth3 for then and never but then is she ,victorious4 ,and what a glorious ,trophee shall the finite world erect when it hath vanquished the ,infinite2 a ,pygmee a ,giant4 ,for the better understanding of the connexion of this ,appendix1 with the ,poem of the souls ,immortalitie2 ,i have taken off the last stanza's thereof1 and added some few new ones to them for a more easie and naturall leading to the present ,canto4 ,psychathan4 lib4 #c4 ,cant4 #d4 ,stanz4 #cc;d4 ,but thou who ere thou art that thus dost strive ,with fierce assault my groundwork to subvert1 ,and boldly dost into ,gods secrets dive1 ,base fear my manly face note make m' avert4 ,in that odde question which thou first didst stert1 ,i'll plainly prove thine incapacitie1 ,and force thy feeble feet back to revert1 ,that cannot climb so high a mysterie1 ,i'le shew thee strange perplexed inconsistencie4 #cd ,why was this world from all infinitie ,not made8 say'st thou3 why8 could it be so made ,say ,i4 ,for well observe the sequencie3 ,if this ,out-world continually hath wade ,through a long long-spun-time that never had ,beginning1 then there as few circulings ,have been in the quick ,moon as ,saturn sad2 ,and still more plainly this clear truth to sing1 ,as many years as dayes or flitting houres have been4 #ce ,for things that we conceive are infinite1 ,one th' other no'te surpasse in quantitie4 ,so ,i have prov'd with clear convincing light1 ,this world could never from infinitie ,been made4 ,certain deficiencie ,doth alwayes follow evolution3 ,nought's infinite but tight eternitie ,close thrust into itself3 extension ,that's infinite implies a contradiction4 #cf ,so then for ought we know this world was made ,so soon as such a ,nature could exist2 ,and though that it continue1 never fade1 ,yet never will it be that that long twist ,of time prove infinite1 though ner'e desist ,from running still4 ,but we may safely say ,time past compar'd with this long future list ,doth show as if the world but yesterday ,were made1 and in due time ,gods glory out may ray4 #cg ,then this short night and ignorant dull ages ,will quite be swallowed in oblivion2 ,and though this hope by many surly ,sages ,be now derided1 yet they'll all be gone ,in a short time1 like ,bats and ,owls yflone ,at dayes approch4 ,this will hap certainly ,at this worlds shining conflagration4 ,fayes1 ,satyrs1 ,goblins the night merrily ,may spend1 but ruddy ,sol shall make them all to flie4 #ch ,the roaring ,lions and drad beasts of prey ,rule in the dark with pitious crueltie2 ,but harmlesse ,man is matter of the day1 ,which doth his work in pure simplicitie4 ,god blesse his honest usefull industrie4 ,but pride and covetize1 ambition1 ,riot1 revenge1 self-love1 hypocrisie1 ,contempt of goodnesse1 forc'd opinion2 ,these and such like do breed the worlds confusion4 #ci ,but sooth to say though my triumphant ,muse ,seemeth to vant as in got victorie1 ,and with puissant stroke the head to bruize ,of her stiff so1 and daze his phantasie1 ,captive his reason1 dead each facultie3 ,yet in her self so strong a force withstands ,that of her self afraid1 she'll not aby1 ,nor keep the field4 ,she'll fall by her own hand ,as ,ajax once laid ,ajax dead upon the strand4 #dj ,for thus her-self by her own self's oppos'd2 ,the ,heavens the ,earth the universall ,frame ,of living ,nature ,god so soon disclos'd ,as ,he could do1 or she receive the same4 ,all times delay since that must turn to blame1 ,and what cannot ,he do that can be done8 ,and what might let but by th' all-powerfull ,name ,or ,word of ,god1 the ,worlds ,creation ,more suddenly were made then mans swift thought can run8 #da ,wherefore that ,heavenly ,power or is as young ,as this ,worlds date2 or else some needlesse space ,of time was spent1 before the ,earth did clung ,so close unto her-self and seas embrace ,her hollow breast1 and if that time surpasse ,a finite number then ,infinitie ,of years before this ,worlds ,creation passe4 ,so that the durance of the ,deitie ,we must contract or strait his full ,benignitie4 #db ,but for the cradle of the ,cretian ,jove1 ,and guardians of his vagient ,infancie ,what sober man but sagely will reprove8 ,or drown the noise of the fond ,dactyli ,by laughter loud8 ,dated ,divinitie ,certes is but the dream of a drie brain3 ,god maim'd in goodnesse1 inconsistencie2 ,wherefore my troubled mind is now in pain ,of a new birth1 which this one ,canto'll not contain4 ,now ,reader1 thou art arrived to the ,canto it self1 from which ,i have kept thee off by too tedious ,preface and ,apologie1 which is seldome made without consciousnesse of some fault1 which ,i professe ,i find not in my self1 unlesse this be it1 that ,i am more tender of thy satisfaction then mine own credit4 ,as for that high sullen ,poem1 ,cupids ,conflict1 ,i must leave it to thy candour and favourable censure4 ,the ,philosophers ,devotion ,i cast in onely1 that the latter pages should not be unfurnished4 ,h4 ,m4 ,nihil tamen frequentius inter ,autores occurrit1 qum ut omnia ade ex moduli fer sensuum suorum stiment1 ut ea qu insuper infinitis rerum spatiis extare possunt1 sive superb sive imprudenter rejiciant2 quin ea omnia in usum suum fabricata fuisse glorientur1 perinde facientes ac si pediculi humanum caput1 aut pulices sinum muliebrem propter se solos condita existimarent1 eque demum ex gradibus saltibsve suis metirentur4 ,the ,lord ,herbert in his ,de ,causis ,errorum4 ,de generali totius hujus mundi aspectabilis constructione ut rect ,philosophemur duo sunt imprimis observanda3 ,unum ut attendentes ad infinitam ,dei potentiam bonitatem n vereamur nimis ampla pulchra absoluta ejus opera imaginari3 sed contra caveamus1 n si quos fort limites nobis non cert cognitos1 in ipsis supponamus1 non sats magnific de creatoris potentia sentire videamur4 ,alterum1 ut etiam caveamus1 n nimis superb de nobis ipsis sentiamus4 ,quod fieret non mod1 si quos limites nobis null cognitos ratione1 nec divin revelatione1 mundo vellemus affingere1 tanquam si vis nostra cogitationis1 ultra id quod ,deo revera factum est ferri posset2 sed etiam maxim1 si res omnes propter nos solos1 ab illo creatas esse fingeremus4 ,renatus ,des,cartes in his ,princip4 ,philosoph4 the third part4 ,,the ,,argument4 ',gainst boundlesse time th' objections made1 ,and wast infinity ,of worlds1 are with new reasons weigh'd1 ,mens judgements are left free4 #a ,hence1 hence unhallowed ears and hearts more hard ,then ,winter clods fast froze with ,northern wind4 ,but most of all1 foul tongue ,i thee discard ,that blamest all that thy dark strait'ned mind1 ,can not conceive3 ,but that no blame thou find2 ,what e're my pregnant ,muse brings forth to light1 ,she'l not acknowledge to be of her kind1 ,till ,eagle-like she turn them to the sight ,of the eternall ,word all deckt with glory bright4 #b ,strange sights do straggle in my restlesse thoughts1 ,and lively forms with orient colours clad ,walk in my boundlesse mind1 as men ybrought ,into some spacious room1 who when they've had ,a turn or two1 go out1 although unbad4 ,all these ,i see and know1 but entertain ,none to my friend but who's most sober sad2 ,although the time my roof doth them contain ,their pretence doth possesse me till they out again4 #c ,and thus possest in silver trump ,i found ,their guise1 their shape1 their gesture and array4 ,but as in silver trumpet nought is found ,when once the piercing sound is past away1 7,though while the mighty blast therein did stay1 ,its tearing noise so terribly did shrill1 ,that it the heavens did shake1 and earth dismay7 ,as empty ,i of what my flowing quill ,in heedlesse hast elswhere1 or here1 may hap to spill4 #d ,for 'tis of force and not of a set will4 ,ne dare my wary mind afford assent ,to what is plac'd above all mortall skill4 ,but yet our various thoughts to represent ,each gentle wight will deem of good intent4 ,wherefore with leave th' infinitie ,i'll sing ,of time1 ,of ,space3 or without leave2 ,i'm brent ,with eagre rage1 my heart for joy doth spring1 ,and all my spirits move with pleasant trembeling4 #e ,an inward triumph doth my soul up-heave ,and spread abroad through endlesse 'spersed aire4 ,my nimble mind this clammie clod doth leave1 ,and lightly stepping on from starre to starre ,swifter then lightning1 passeth wide and farre1 ,measuring th' unbounded ,heavens and wastfull skie2 ,ne ought she finds her passage to debarre1 ,for still the azure ,orb as she draws nigh ,gives back1 new starres appear1 the worlds walls 'fore her flie4 #f ,for what can stand that is so badly staid8 ,well may that fall whose ground-work is unsure4 ,and what hath wall'd the world but thoughts unweigh'd ,in freer reason8 ,that antiquate1 secure1 ,and easie dull conceit of corporature2 ,of matter2 quantitie1 and such like gear ,hath made this needlesse1 thanklesse inclosure1 ,which ,i in full disdain quite up will tear ,and lay all ope1 that as things are they may appear4 #g ,for other they appear from what they are ,by reason that their ,circulation ,cannot well represent entire from farre ,each portion of the ,cuspis of the ,cone 7,whose nature is elsewhere more clearly shown7 ,i mean each globe1 whether of glaring light ,or else opake1 of which the earth is one4 ,if circulation could them well transmit ,numbers infinite of each would strike our 'stonishd sight2 #h ,all in just bignesse and right colours dight ,but totall presence without all defect ',longs onely to that ,trinitie by right1 ,ahad1 on1 ,psyche with all graces deckt1 ,whose nature well this riddle will detect2 ,a ,circle whose circumference no where ,is circumscrib'd1 whose ,centre's each where set1 ,but the low ,cusp's a figure circular1 ,whose compasse is ybound1 but centre's every where4 #i ,wherefore who'll judge the limits of the world ,by what appears unto our failing sight ,appeals to sense1 reason down headlong hurld ,out of her throne by giddie vulgar might4 ,but here base senses dictates they will dight ,with specious title of ,philosophie1 ,and stiffly will contend their cause is right ,from rotten rolls of school antiquitie1 ,who constantly denie corporall ,infinitie4 #aj ,but who can prove their corporalitie ,since matter which thereto's essentiall ,if rightly sifted 's but a phantasie4 ,and quantitie who's deem'd ,originall ,is matter1 must with matter likewise fall4 ,what ever is1 is ,life and ,energie ,from ,god1 who is th' ,originall of all2 ,who being everywhere doth multiplie ,his own broad shade that endlesse throughout all doth lie4 #aa ,he from the last projection of light ,ycleep'd ,shamajim1 which is liquid fire 7,it ther eke and centrall ,tasis hight7 ,hath made each shining globe and clumperd mire ,of dimmer ,orbs4 ,for ,nature doth inspire ,spermatick life1 but of a different kind4 ,hence those congenit splendour doth attire ,and lively heat1 these darknesse dead doth bind1 ,and without borrowed rayes they be both cold and blind4 #ab ,all these be knots of th' universall stole ,of sacred ,psyche2 which at first was fine1 ,pure1 thin1 and pervious till hid powers did pull ,together in severall points and did encline ,the nearer parts in one clod to combine4 ,those centrall spirits that the parts did draw ,the measure of each globe did then define1 ,made things impenetrable here below1 ,gave colour1 figure1 motion1 and each usuall law4 #ac ,and what is done in this ,terrestriall starre ,the same is done in every ,orb beside4 ,each flaming ,circle that we see from farre ,is but a knot in ,psyches garment tide4 ,from that lax shadow cast throughout the wide ,and endlesse world1 that low'st projection ,of universall life each thing's deriv'd ,what e're appeareth in corporeall fashion2 ,for body's but this spirit1 fixt1 grosse by conspissation4 #ad ,and that which doth conspissate active is2 ,wherefore not matter but some living sprite ,of nimble ,nature which this lower mist ,and immense field of ,atoms doth excite1 ,and wake into such life as best doth fit ,with his own self4 ,as we change phantasies ,the essence of our soul not chang'd a whit1 ,so do these ,atoms change their energies ,themselves unchanged into new ,centreties4 #ae ,and as our soul's not superficially ,colourd by phantasms1 nor doth them reflect ,as doth a looking-glasse such imag'rie ,as it to the beholder doth detect3 ,no more are these lightly or smear'd or deckt ,with form or motion which in them we see1 ,but from their inmost ,centre they project ,their vitall rayes1 not merely passive be1 ,but by occasion wak'd rouze up themselves on high4 #af ,so that they're life1 form1 sprite1 not matter pure1 ,for matter pure is a pure nullitie1 ,what nought can act is nothing1 ,i am sure2 ,and if all act1 that is they'll not denie ,but all that is is form3 so easily ,by what is true1 and by what they embrace ,for truth1 their feigned ,corporalitie ,will vanish into smoke1 but on ,i'll passe1 ,more fully we have sung this in another place4 #ag ,wherefore more boldly now to represent ,the nature of the world1 how first things were ,how now they are3 ,this endlesse large ,extent ,of lowest life 7which ,i styled whileere ,the ,cuspis of the ,cone that's every where7 ,was first all dark1 till in this spacious ,hall ,hideous through silent horrour torches clear ,and lamping lights bright shining over all ,were set up in due distances proportionall4 #ah ,innumerable numbers of fair ,lamps ,were rightly ranged in this hollow hole1 ,to warm the world and chace the shady damps ,of immense darknesse1 rend her pitchie stole ,into short rags more dustie dimme then coal4 ,which pieces then in severall were cast 7,abhorred reliques of that vesture foul7 ,upon the ,globes that round those torches trac'd1 ,which still fast on them stick for all they run so fast4 #ai ,such an one is that which mortall men call ,night1 ,a little shred of that unbounded shade4 ,and such a ,globe is that which ,earth is hight2 ,by witlesse ,wizzards the sole centre made ,of all the world1 and on strong pillars staid4 ,and such a lamp or light is this our ,sun1 ,whose firie beams the scortched ,earth invade4 ,but infinite such as he1 in heaven won1 ,and more then infinite ,earths about those ,suns do run2 #bj ,and to speak out3 though ,i detest the sect ,of ,epicurus for their manners vile1 ,yet what is true ,i may not well reject4 ,truth's incorruptible1 ne can the style ,of vitious pen her sacred worth defile4 ,if we no more of truth should deign t' embrace ,then what unworthy mouths did never soyl1 ,no truths at all mongst men would finden place ,but make them speedie wings and back to ,heaven apace4 #ba ,i will not say our world is infinite1 ,but that infinitie of worlds ther be4 ,the ,centre of our world's the lively light ,of the warm sunne1 the visible ,deitie ,of this externall ,temple4 ,mercurie ,next plac'd and warm'd more throughly by his rayes1 ,right nimbly 'bout his golden head doth flie3 ,then ,venus nothing slow about him strayes1 ,and next our ,earth though seeming sad full spritely playes4 #bb ,and after her ,mars rangeth in a round ,with firie locks and angry flaming eye1 ,and next to him mild ,jupiter is found1 ,but ,saturn cold wons in our utmost skie4 ,the skirts of his large ,kingdome surely lie ,near to the confines of some other worlds ,whose ,centres are the fixed starres on high1 ',bout which as their own proper ,suns are hurld ,joves1 ,earths and ,saturns2 round on their own axes twurld4 #bc ,little or nothing are those starres to us ,which in the azure ,evening gay appear 7,i mean for influence7 but judicious ,nature and carefull ,providence her dear ,and matchlesse work did so contrive whileere1 ,that th' ,hearts or ,centres in the wide world pight ,should such a distance each to other bear1 ,that the dull ,planets with collated light ,by neighbour suns might cheared be in dampish night4 #bd ,and as the ,planets in our world 7of which ,the sun's the heart and kernell7 do receive ,their nightly light from suns that do enrich ,their sable mantle with bright gemmes1 and give ,a goodly splendour1 and sad men relieve ,with their fair twinkling rayes1 so our worlds sunne ,becomes a starre elsewhere1 and doth derive ,joynt light with others1 cheareth all that won ,in those dim duskish ,orbs round other suns that run4 #be ,this is the parergon of each noble fire ,of neighbour worlds to be the nightly starre1 ,but their main work is vitall heat t' inspire ,into the frigid spheres that 'bout them fare1 ,which of themselves quite dead and barren are4 ,but by the wakening warmth of kindly dayes1 ,and the sweet dewie nights they well declare ,their seminall virtue in due courses raise ,long hidden shapes and life1 to their great ,makers praise4 #bf ,these with their suns ,i severall worlds do call1 ,whereof the number ,i deem infinite3 ,else infinite darknesse were in this great ,hall ,of th' endlesse ,universe2 ,for nothing finite ,could put that immense shadow unto flight4 ,but if that infinite ,suns we shall admit1 ,then infinite worlds follow in reason right4 ,for every ,sun with ,planets must be fit1 ,and have some mark for his farre-shining shafts to hit4 #bg ,but if he shine all solitarie1 alone1 ,what mark is left18 what aimed scope or end ,of his existence8 wherefore every one ,hath a due number of dim ,orbs that wend ,around their centrall fire4 ,but wrath will rend ,this strange composure back'd with reason stout ,and rasher tongues right speedily will spend ,their forward censure1 that my wits run out ,on wool-gathering1 through infinite spaces all about4 #bh ,what sober man will dare once to avouch ,an infinite number of dispersed starres8 ,this one absurdity will make him crouch ,and eat his words2 ,division nought impairs ,the former whole1 nor he augments that spares4 ,strike every tenth out1 that which doth remain1 ,an equall number with the former shares1 ,and let the tenth alone1 th' whole nought doth gain1 ,for infinite to infinite is ever the same4 #bi ,the tenth is infinite as the other nine1 ,or else1 nor they1 nor all the ten entire ,are infinite4 ,thus one infinite doth adjoyn ,others unto it and still riseth higher4 ,and if those single lights hither aspire1 ,this strange prodigious inconsistencie ,groweth still stranger1 if each fixed fire 7,i mean each starre7 prove ,sunnes1 and ,planets flie ,about their flaming heads amid the thronged skie4 #cj ,for whatsoever that their number be ,whether by seavens1 or eighths1 or fives1 or nines1 ,they round each fixed lamp2 ,infinity ,will be redoubled thus by many times4 ,besides each greater ,planet th' attendance finds ,of lesser4 ,our ,earths handmaid is the ,moon1 ,which to her darkned side right duly shines1 ,and ,jove hath foure1 as hath been said aboven1 ,and ,saturn more then foure if the plain truth were known4 #ca ,and if these globes be regions of life ,and severall kinds of plants therein do grow1 ,grasse1 flowers1 hearbs1 trees1 which the impartiall knife ,of all consuming ,time still down doth mow1 ,and new again doth in succession show3 ,which also 's done in flies1 birds1 men and beasts2 ,adde sand1 pearls1 pebbles1 that the ground do strow ,leaves1 quills1 hairs1 thorns1 blooms1 you may think the rest ,their kinds by mortall penne can not well be exprest3 #cb ,and if their kinds no man may reckon well1 ,the summe of successive particulars ,no mind conceive nor tongue can ever tell4 ,and yet this mist of numbers 7as appears7 ,belongs to one of these opacous sphears4 ,suppose this ,earth2 what then will all those ,rounds ,produce8 ,no ,atlas such a load upbears4 ,in this huge endlesse heap o'rewhelmed1 drownd1 ,choak'd1 stifled1 lo6 ,i lie1 breathlesse1 even quite confound4 #cc ,yet give me space a while but to respire1 ,and ,i my self shal fairly well out-wind2 ,keep this position true1 unhurt1 entire1 ,that you no greater difficulty find ,in this new old opinion here defin'd ,of infinite worlds1 then one world doth imply4 ,for if we do with steddy patience mind ,all is resolv'd int' one absurdity1 ,the grant of something greater then infinitie4 #cd ,that ,god is infinite all men confesse1 ,and that the ,creature is some realty ,besides ,gods self1 though infinitely lesse4 ,joyn now the world unto the ,deity4 ,what8 is there added no more entitie ,by this conjunction1 then there was before8 ,is the broad breasted earth8 the spacious skie ,spangled with silver light1 and burning ,ore8 ,and the wide bellowing seas1 whose boyling billows roar1 #ce ,are all these nothing8 ,but you will reply2 ,as is the question so we ought restrain ,our answer unto ,corporeity4 ,but that the phantasie of the body's vain ,i did before unto you maken plain4 ,but that no man depart unsatisfi'd ,a while this ,universe here will we feigne ,corporeall1 till we have gainly tride4 ,if ought that's bodily may infinite abide4 #cf ,what makes a body saving quantity8 ,what quantitie unlesse extension8 ,extension if 't admit infinity ,bodies admit boundlesse dimension4 ,that some extension forward on doth run ,withouten limits1 endlesse1 infinite ,is plane from ,space1 that ever paceth on ,unstop'd1 unstaid1 till it have filled quite ,that immense infinite ,orb where ,god himself doth sit4 #cg ,but yet more sensibly this truth to show ,if space be ended set upon that end ,some strong arm'd ,archer with his ,parthian bow1 ,that from that place with speedy force may send ,his fleeter shafts1 and so still forward wend4 ,where8 ,when shall he want room his strength to trie8 ,but here perversly subtill you'l contend ,nothing can move in mere vacuity1 ,and space is nought1 so not extended properly4 #ch ,to solve these knots ,i must call down from high ,some heavenly help1 feather with angels wing ,the sluggish arrow4 ,if it will not flie1 ,sent out from bow stiff-bent with even string1 ,let angels on their backs it thither bring ,where your free mind appointed had before1 ,and then hold on1 till in your travelling ,you be well wearied1 finding ever more ,free passage for their flight1 and what they flying bore4 #ci ,now to that shift that sayes ,vacuity ,is nought1 and therefore not at all extent ,we answer thus3 ,there is a distancy ,in empty space1 though we be well content ,to balk that question 7for we never meant ,such needlesse niceties7 whether that it be ,a reall being2 yet that there's parts distent ,one from another1 no mans phantasie ,can e're reject if well he weigh't and warily4 #dj ,for now conceive the aire and azure skie ,all swept away from ,saturn to the ,sunne1 ,which each is to be wrought by him on high4 ,then in this place let all the ,planets runne 7,as erst they did before this feat was done7 ,if not by nature1 yet by divine power1 ,ne one hairs breadth their former circuits shun ,and still for fuller proof1 th' ,astronomer ,observe their hights as in the empty heavens they scoure4 #da ,will then their ,parallaxes prove all one ,or none1 or different still as before8 ,if so1 their distances by mortall men ,must be acknowledg'd such as were of yore1 ,measur'd by leagues1 miles1 stades1 nor lesse nor more ,from circuit unto circuit shall be found ,then was before the sweeping of the floor4 ,that distance therefore hath most certain ground ,in emptinesse we may conclude with reason sound4 #db ,if distance now so certainly attend ,all emptinesse 7as also mensuration ,attendeth distance7 distance without end ,is wide disperst above imagination 7,for emptinesse is void of limitation7 ,and this unbounded voidnesse doth admit ,the least and greatest measures application2 ,the number thus of the greatest that doth fit ,this infinite void space is likewise infinite4 #dc ,but what so e're that infinite number be1 ,a lesser number will a number give ,so farre exceeding in infinity ,that number as this measure we conceive ,to fall short of the other4 ,but ,i'll leave ,this present way and a new course will trie ,which at the same mark doth as fully drive ,and with a great deal more facility4 ,look on this endlesse ,space as one whole quantity4 #dd ,which in your mind int' equall parts divide1 ,tens1 hundreds1 thousands or what pleaseth best4 ,each part denominate doth still abide ,an infinite portion1 else nor all the rest ,makes one infinitude4 ,for if one thousandth part may be defin'd ,by finite measures eas'ly well exprest1 ,a myriad suppose of miles assign'd ,then to a thousand myriads is the whole confin'd4 #de ,wherefore this wide and wast ,vacuity1 ,which endlesse is outstretched thorough all1 ,and lies even equall with the ,deity1 ,nor is a thing meerly imaginall1 7,for it doth farre mens phantasies forestall ,nothing beholden to our devicefull thought7 ,this inf'nite voidnesse as much our mind doth gall ,and has as great perplexities ybrought ,as if this empty space with bodies were yfraught4 #df ,nor have we yet the face once to denie ,but that it is although we mind it not2 ,for all once minded such perplexity ,it doth create to puzzled reason1 that ,she sayes and unsayes1 do's she knows not what4 ,why then should we the worlds infinity ,misdoubt1 because when as we contemplate ,its nature1 such strange inconsistency ,and unexpected sequels1 we therein descry8 #dg ,who dare gainsay but ,god is every where ,unbounded1 measurelesse1 all infinite2 ,yet the same difficulties meet us here ,which erst us met and did so sore affright ,with their strange vizards4 ,this will follow right ,where ever we admit infinity ,every denominated part proves streight ,a portion infinite1 which if it be1 ,one infinite will into myriads multiply4 #dh ,but with new argument to draw more near ,our purpos'd end4 ,if ,god's omnipotent ,and this omnipotent ,god be every where1 ,where e're he is then can he eas'ly vent ,his mighty virtue thorough all extent4 ,what then shall hinder but a roscid aire ,with gentle heat each where be 'sperst and sprent4 ,unlesse omnipotent power we will empair1 ,and say that empty space his working can debarre4 #di ,where now this one supposed world is pight ,was not that space at first all vain and void8 ,nor ought said2 no1 when he said1 ,let 't be light4 ,was this one space better then all beside1 ,and more obedient to what ,god decreed8 ,or would not all that endlesse emptinesse ,gladly embrac'd 7if he had ever tride7 ,his just command8 and what might come to passe ,implies no contradictious inconsistentnesse4 #ej ,wherefore this precious sweet ,ethereall dew ,for ought we know ,god each where did distill1 ,and thorough all that hollow voidnesse threw ,and the wide gaping drought therewith did fill1 ,his endlesse overflowing goodnesse spill ,in every place2 which streight he did contrive ,int' infinite severall worlds1 as his best skill ,did him direct and creatures could receive ,for matter infinite needs infinite worlds must give4 #ea ,the ,centre of each severall world's a sunne ,with shining beams and kindly warming heat1 ,about whose radiant crown the ,planets runne1 ,like reeling moths around a candle light1 ,these all together1 one world ,i conceit4 ,and that even infinite such worlds there be1 ,that inexhausted ,good that ,god is bight ,a full sufficient reason is to me1 ,who simple ,goodnesse make the highest ,deity4 #eb ,als make himself the key of all his works ,and eke the measure of his providence2 ,the piercing eye of truth to whom nought lurks ,but lies wide ope unbar'd of all pretense4 ,but frozen hearts6 away6 flie farre from hence1 ,unlesse you'l thaw at this celestiall fire ,and melt into one minde and holy sense ,with ,him that doth all heavenly hearts inspire1 ,so may you with my soul in one assent conspire4 #ec ,but what's within1 uneath is to convey ,to narrow vessels that are full afore4 ,and yet this truth as wisely as ,i may ,i will insinuate1 from senses store ,borrowing a little aid4 ,tell me therefore ,when you behold with your admiring eyes ,heavens ,canopie all to bespangled o're ,with sprinkled starres1 what can you well devize ,which causen may such carelesse order in the skies8 #ed ,a peck of peasen rudely poured out ,on plaister flore1 from hasty heedlesse hond ,which lie all carelesse scattered about1 ,to sight do in as seemly order stond1 ,as those fair glistering lights in heaven are found4 ,if onely for this world they were intended1 ,nature would have adorn'd this azure round ,with better art1 and easily have mended ,this harsh disord'red order1 and more beauty lended4 #ee ,but though these lights do seem so rudely thrown ,and scattered throughout the spacious skie1 ,yet each most seemly sits in his own ,throne ,in distance due and comely ,majesty2 ,and round their lordly seats their servants hie ,keeping a well-proportionated space ,one from another1 doing chearfully ,their dayly task4 ,no blemmish may deface ,the worlds in severall deckt with all art and grace4 #ef ,but the appearance of the nightly starres ,is but the by-work of each neighbour sun2 ,wherefore lesse marvell if it lightly shares ,of neater ,art2 and what proportion ,were fittest for to distance one from one 7,each world ,i mean from other7 is not clear4 ,wherefore it must remain as yet unknown ,why such perplexed distances appear ,mongst the dispersed lights in ,heaven thrown here there4 #eg ,again1 that eminent similitude ,betwixt the starres and ,phbus fixed light1 ,they being both with steddinesse indu'd1 ,no whit removing whence they first were pight1 ,no serious man will count a reason slight ,to prove them both1 both fixed suns and starres ,and ,centres all of severall worlds by right1 ,for right it is that none a sun debarre ,of ,planets which his just and due retinue are4 #eh ,if starres be merely starres not centrall lights ,why swell they into so huge bignesses8 ,for many 7as ,astronomers do write7 ,our sun in bignesse many times surpasse4 ,if both their number and their bulks were lesse ,yet lower placed1 light and influence ,would flow as powerfully1 and the bosome presse ,of the impregned ,earth1 that fruit from hence ,as fully would arise1 and lordly affluence4 #ei ,wherefore these fixed ,fires mainly attend ,their proper charge in their own ,universe1 ,and onely by the by of court'sie lend ,light to our world1 as our world doth reverse ,his thankfull rayes so farre as he can pierce ,back unto other worlds4 ,but farre aboven ,further then furthest thought of man can traverse1 ,still are new worlds aboven and still aboven4 ,in the endlesse hollow ,heaven1 and each world hath his sun4 #fj ,an hint of this we have in winter-nights1 ,when reason may see clearer then our eye1 ,small subtil starres appear unto our sights ,as thick as pin-dust scattered in the skie4 ,here we accuse our seeing facultie ,of weaknesse1 and our sense of foul deceit1 ,we do accuse and yet we know not why4 ,but the plain truth is1 from a vaster hight ,the numerous upper worlds amaze our dazzled sight4 #fa ,now sith so farre as sense can ever trie ,we find new worlds1 that still new worlds there be1 ,and round about in infinite numbers lie1 ,further then reach of mans weak phantasie 7,without suspition of temeritie7 ,we may conclude2 as well as men conclude ,that there is aire farre 'bove the mountains high1 ,or that th' ,earth a sad substance doth include ,even to the ,centre with like qualities indu'd4 #fb ,for who did ever the ,earths ,centre pierce1 ,and felt or sand or gravell with his spade ,at such a depth8 what ,histories rehearse ,that ever wight did dare for to invade ,her bowels but one mile in dampish shade8 ,yet ,i'll be bold to say that few or none ,but deem this globe even to the bottome made ,of solid earth1 and that her nature's one ,throughout1 though plain experience hath it never shown4 #fc ,but sith sad earth so farre as they have gone ,they still descrie1 eas'ly they do inferre ,without all check of reason1 were they down ,never so deep1 like substance would appear1 ,ne dream of any hollow horrour there4 ,my mind with like uncurb'd facilitie ,concludes from what by sight is seen so clear ,that ther's no barren wast vacuitie ,above the worlds we see1 but still new worlds there lie1 #fd ,and still and still even to infinitie4 ,which point since ,i so fitly have propos'd1 ,abating well the inconsistencie ,of harsh infinitude therein supposd ,and prov'd by reasons never to be loos'd ,that infinite space and infinite worlds there be2 ,this load laid down1 ,i'm freely now dispos'd ,awhile to sing of times infinitie1 ,may infinite ,time afford me but his smallest fee4 #fe ,for smallest fee of time will serve my turn ,this part for to dispatch1 sith endlesse space 7,whose perplext nature well mans brains might turn1 ,and weary wits disorder and misplace7 ,i have already passed3 for like case ,is in them both4 ,he that can well untie ,the knots that in those infinite worlds found place1 ,may easily answer each perplexitie ,of these worlds infinite matters endlesse durancie4 #ff ,the ,cuspis and the ,basis of the ,cone ,were both at once dispersed every where2 ,but the pure ,basis that is ,god alone3 ,else would remotest sights as bigge appear ,unto our eyes as if we stood them near4 ,and if an ,harper harped in the ,moon1 ,his silver sound would touch our tickled eare3 ,or if one hollowed from highest ,heaven aboven1 ,in sweet still ,evening-tide1 his voice would hither roam4 #fg ,this all would be if the ,cuspe of the ,cone ,were very ,god4 ,wherefore ,i rightly 't deem ,onely a ,creaturall projection1 ,which flowing yet from ,god hath ever been1 ,fill'd the vast empty space with its large streem4 ,but yet it is not totall every where ,as was even now by reason rightly seen3 ,wherefore not ,god1 whose nature doth appear ,entirely omnipresent1 weigh'd with judgement clear1 #fh ,a reall infinite matter1 distinct ,and yet proceeding from the ,deitie ,although with different form as then untinct ,has ever been from all ,eternitie4 ,now what delay can we suppose to be1 ,since matter alway was at hand prepar'd ,before the filling of the boundlesse skie ,with framed ,worlds2 for nought at all debar'd1 ,nor was ,his strength ungrown1 nor was ,his strength empair'd4 #fi ,how long would ,god be forming of a flie8 ,or the small wandring moats that play i' th' sun8 ,least moment well will serve none can denie1 ,his ,fiat spoke and streight the thing is done4 ,and cannot ,he make all the ,world as soon8 ,for in each ,atom of the matter wide ,the totall ,deitie doth entirely won1 ,his infinite presence doth therein reside1 ,and in this presence infinite powers do ever abide4 #gj ,wherefore at once from all eternitie ,the infinite number of these ,worlds ,he made1 ,and will conserve to all infinitie1 ,and still drive on their ever-moving trade1 ,and steddy hold what ever must be staid2 ,ne must one mite be minish'd of the summe1 ,ne must the smallest atom ever fade1 ,but still remain though it may change its room2 ,this truth abideth strong from everlasting doom4 #ga ,ne fear ,i what hard sequel after-wit ,will draw upon me2 that the number's one ,of years1 moneths1 dayes1 houres1 and of minutes fleet ,which from eternitie have still run on4 ,i plainly did confesse awhile agone ,that be it what it will that's infinite ,more infinites will follow thereupon1 ,but that all infinites do justly fit ,and equall be1 my reason did not yet admit4 #gb ,but as my emboldened mind1 ,i know not how1 ,in empty ,space and pregnant ,deitie ,endlesse infinitude dares to allow1 ,though it begets the like perplexitie3 ,so now my soul drunk with ,divinitie1 ,and born away above her usuall bounds ,with confidence concludes infinitie ,of ,time of ,worlds1 of firie flaming ,rounds2 ,which sight in sober mood my spirits quite confounds4 #gc ,and now ,i do awhile but interspire ,a torrent of objections 'gainst me beat1 ,my boldnesse to represse and strength to tire4 ,but ,i will wipe them off like summer sweat1 ,and make their streams streight back again retreat4 ,if that these worlds1 say they1 were ever made ,from infinite time1 how comes 't to passe that yet ,art is not perfected1 nor metalls fade1 ,nor mines of grimie coal low-hid in griesly shade4 #gd ,but the remembrance of the ancient ,floud ,with ease will wash such arguments away4 ,wherefore with greater might ,i am withstood4 ,the strongest stroke wherewith they can assay ,to vanquish me is this2 ,the ,date or ,day ,of the created ,world1 which all admit2 ,nor may my modest ,muse this truth gainsay ,in holy ,oracles so plainly writ4 ,wherefore the ,worlds continuance is not infinite4 #ge ,now lend me1 ,origen6 a little wit ,this sturdy stroke right fairly to avoid1 ,lest that my rasher rymes1 while they ill fit ,with ,moses pen1 men justly may deride ,and well accuse of ignorance or pride4 ,but thou1 ,o holy ,sage6 with piercing sight ,who readst those sacred rolls1 and hast well tride ,with searching eye thereto what fitteth right ,thy self of former ,worlds right learnedly dost write3 #gf ,to weet that long ago these ,earths have been ,peopled with men and beasts before this ,earth1 ,and after this shall others be again ,and other beasts and other humane birth4 ,which once admit1 no strength that reason bear'th ,of this worlds ,date and ,adams efformation1 ,another ,adam once received breath ,and still another in endlesse repedation1 ,and this must perish once by finall conflagration4 #gg ,witnesse ye ,heavens if what ,i say's not true1 ,ye flaming ,comets wandering on high1 ,and new fixt starres found in that ,circle blue1 ,the one espide in glittering ,cassiopie1 ,the other near to ,ophiuchus thigh4 ,both bigger then the biggest starres that are1 ,and yet as farre remov'd from mortall eye ,as are the furthest1 so those ,arts declare ,unto whose reaching sight ,heavens mysteries lie bare4 #gh ,wherefore these new-seen lights were greater once ,by many thousand times then this our sphear ,wherein we live1 'twixt good and evil chance4 ,which to my musing mind doth strange appear ,if those large bodies then first shaped were4 ,for should so goodly things so soon decay8 ,neither did last the full space of two year4 ,wherefore ,i cannot deem that their first day ,of being1 when to us they sent out shining ray4 #gi ,but that they were created both of old1 ,and each in his due time did fair display ,themselves in radiant locks more bright then gold1 ,or silver sheen purg'd from all drossie clay4 ,but how they could themselves in this array ,expose to humane sight1 who did before ,lie hid1 is that which well amazen may ,the wisest man and puzzle evermore3 ,yet my unwearied thoughts this search could not give o're4 #hj ,which when ,i'd exercis'd in long pursuit ,to finden out what might the best agree ,with warie reason1 at last ,i did conclude ,that there's no better probabilitie ,can be produc'd of that strange prodigie1 ,but that some mighty ,planet that doth run ,about some fixed starre in ,cassiopie ,as ,saturn paceth round about our ,sun1 ,unusuall light and bignesse by strange fate had wonne4 #ha ,which ,i conceive no gainer way is done ,then by the siezing of devouring fire ,on that dark ,orb1 which 'fore but dimly shone ,with borrowed light1 not lightened entire1 ,but halfed like the ,moon4 ,and while the busie flame did sieze throughout1 ,and search the bowels of the lowest mire ,of that ,saturnian ,earth2 a mist broke out1 ,and immense mounting smoke arose all round about4 #hb ,which being gilded with the piercing rayes ,of its own sun and every neighbour starre1 ,it soon appear'd with shining silver blaze1 ,and then gan first be seen of men from farre4 ,besides that firie flame that was so narre ,the ,planets self1 which greedily did eat ,the wastning mold1 did contribute a share ,unto this brightnesse2 and what ,i conceit ,of this starre doth with that of ,ophiuchus sit4 #hc ,and like ,i would adventure to pronounce ,of all the ,comets that above the ,moon1 ,amidst the higher ,planets rudely dance ,in course perplex1 but that from this rash doom ,i'm bett off by their beards and tails farre strown ,along the skie1 pointing still opposite ,unto the sun1 however they may roam2 ,wherefore a cluster of small starres unite ,these meteors some do deem1 perhaps with judgement right4 #hd ,and that these tayls are streams of the suns light ,breaking through their near bodies as through clouds4 ,besides the ,optick glasse has shown to sight ,the dissolution of these starrie crouds4 ,which thing if 't once be granted and allow'd1 ,i think without all contradiction ,they may conclude these ,meteors are routs ,of wandring starres1 which though they one by one ,cannot be seen1 yet joyn'd1 cause this strange vision4 #he ,and yet methinks1 in my devicefull mind ,some reasons that may happily represse ,these arguments it's not uneath to find4 ,for how can the suns rayes that be transmisse ,through these loose knots in ,comets1 well expresse ,their beards or curld tayls utmost incurvation8 ,beside1 the conflux and congeries ,of lesser lights a double augmentation ,implies1 and 'twixt them both a lessening coarctation4 #hf ,for when as once these starres are come so nigh ,as to seem one1 the ,comet must appear ,in biggest show1 because more loose they lie ,somewhat spread out1 but as they draw more near ,the compasse of his head away must wear1 ,till he be brought to his least magnitude2 ,and then they passing crosse1 he doth repair ,himself1 and still from his last losse renew'd ,grows till he reach the measure which we first had view'd4 #hg ,and then farre distanc'd they bid quite adiew1 ,each holding on in solitude his way4 ,ne any footsteps in the empty ,blew ,is to be found of that farre-shining ray4 ,which processe sith no man did yet bewray1 ,it seems unlikely that the ,comets be ,synods of starres that in wide ,heaven stray4 ,their smallnesse eke and numerositie ,encreaseth doubt and lessens probabilitie4 #hh ,a cluster of them makes not half a ,moon1 ,what should such tennis-balls do in the skie8 ,and few 'll not figure out the fashion ,of those round firie meteors on high4 ,ne ought their beards much move us1 that do lie ,ever cast forward from the ,morning sunne1 ,nor back cast tayls turn'd to our ,evening-eye1 ,that fair appear when as the day is done4 ,this matter may lie hid in the starres shadowed ,cone4 #hi ,for in these ,planets conflagration1 ,although the smoke mount up exactly round1 ,yet by the suns irradiation ,made thin and subtil no where else its found ,by sight1 save in the dim and duskish bound ,of the projected ,pyramid opake1 ,opake with darknesse1 smoke and mists unsound4 ,yet gilded like a foggie cloud doth make ,reflection of fair light that doth our senses take4 #ij ,this is the reason of that constant site ,of ,comets tayls and beards3 ,and that their show's ,not pure ,pyramidall1 nor their ends seem streight ,but bow'd like brooms1 is from the winds that blow1 ,i mean ,ethereall winds1 such as below ,men finden under th' ,equinoctiall line4 ,their widend beards this aire so broad doth strow ,incurvate1 and or more or lesse decline3 ,if not1 let sharper wits more subtly here divine4 #ia ,but that experiment of the ,optick glasse ,the greatest argument of all ,i deem1 ,ne can ,i well encounter nor let passe ,so strong a reason if ,i may esteem ,the feat withouten fallacie to been1 ,nor judge these little sparks and subtile lights ,some auncient fixed starres though now first seen1 ,that near the ruin'd ,comets place were pight1 ,on which that ,optic instrument by chance did light4 #ib ,nor finally an uncouth after-sport ,of th' immense vapours that the searching fire ,had boyled out1 which now themselves consort ,in severall parts and closely do conspire1 ,clumper'd in balls of clouds and globes entire ,of crudled smoke and heavy clunging mists2 ,which when they've staid awhile at last expire2 ,but while they stay any may see that lists ,so be that ,optick ,art his naturall sight assists4 #ic ,if none of these wayes ,i may well decline ,the urging weight of this hard argument1 ,worst is but parting stakes and thus define3 ,some ,comets be but single ,planets brent1 ,others a synod joyn'd in due consent3 ,and that no new found ,meteors they are3 ,ne further may my wary mind assent ,from one single experience solitaire1 ,till all-discovering ,time shall further truth declare4 #id ,but for the new fixt starres there's no pretence1 ,nor beard nor tail to take occasion by1 ,to bring in that unluckie inference ,which weaken might this new built mysterie4 ,certes in raging fire they both did frie4 ,a signe whereof you rightly may aread ,their colours changeable varietie ,first clear and white1 then yellow1 after red1 ,then blewly pale1 then duller still1 till perfect dead4 #ie ,and as the order of these colours went1 ,so still decreas'd that ,cassiopean starre1 ,till at the length to sight it was quite spent3 ,which observations strong reasons are1 ,consuming fire its body did empare ,and turn to ashes4 ,and the like will be ,in all the darksome ,planets wide and farre4 ,ne can our ,earth from this state standen free ,a ,planet as the rest1 and ,planets fate must trie4 #if ,ne let the tender heart too harshly deem ,of this rude sentence3 for what rigour more ,is in consuming fire then drowning stream ,of ,noahs floud which all creaturs choak'd of yore1 ,saving those few that were kept safe in store ,in that well builded ship8 ,all else beside ,men1 birds1 and beasts1 the lion1 buck1 and bore ,dogs1 kine1 sheep1 horses all that did abide ,upon the spacious earth1 perish'd in waters wide4 #ig ,nor let the slow and misbelieving wight ,doubt how the fire on the hard earth may seize2 ,no more then how those waters erst did light ,upon the sinfull world4 ,for as the seas ,boyling with swelling waves aloft did rise1 ,and met with mighty showers and pouring rain ,from ,heavens spouts2 so the broad flashing skies ,thickned with brimstone and clouds of fiery bain ,shall meet with raging ,etna's and ,vesuvius flame4 #ih ,the burning bowels of this wasting ball ,shall gullup up great flakes of rolling fire1 ,and belch out pitchie flames1 till over all ,having long rag'd1 ,vulcan himself shall tire ,and 7th' earth an ashheap made7 shall then expire3 ,here ,nature laid asleep in her own ,urn ,with gentle rest right easly will respire1 ,till to her pristine task she do return ,as fresh as ,phenix young under th' ,arabian ,morn4 #ii ,o happy they that then the first are born1 ,while yet the world is in her vernall pride3 ,for old corruption quite away is worn ,as metall pure so is her mold well tride4 ,sweet dews1 cool-breathing airs1 and spaces wide ,of precious spicery wafted with soft wind3 ,fair comely bodies goodly beautifi'd ,snow-limb'd1 rose-cheek'd1 ruby-lip'd1 pearl-ted1 star eyn'd ,their parts each fair in fit proportion all conbin'd4 #ajj ,for all the while her purged ashes rest ,these rellicks dry suck in the heavenly dew1 ,and roscid ,manna rains upon her breast1 ,and fills with sacred milk sweet fresh and new1 ,where all take life and doth the world renew2 ,and then renew'd with pleasure be yfed4 ,a green soft mantle doth her bosome strew ,with fragrant herbs and flowers embellished1 ,where without fault or shame all living creatures bed4 #aja ,ne ought we doubt how ,nature may recover ,in her own ashes long time buried1 ,for nought can ever consume that centrall power ,of hid spermatick life1 which lies not dead ,in that rude heap1 but safely covered2 ,and doth by secret force suck from above ,sweet heavenly juice1 and therewith nourished ,till her just bulk1 she doth her life emprove1 ,made mother of much children that about her move4 #ajb ,witnesse that uncouth bird of ,arabie ,which out of her own ruines doth revive ,with all th' exploits of skillfull ,chymistrie1 ,such as no vulgar wit can well believe4 ,let universall ,nature witnesse give ,that what ,i sing 's no feigned forgerie4 ,a needlesse task new fables to contrive1 ,but what ,i sing is seemly verity ,well suting with right reason and ,philosophie4 #ajc ,but the fit time of this mutation ,no man can finden out with all his pains4 ,for the small sphears of humane reason run ,too swift within his narrow compast brains4 ,but that vast ,orb of ,providence contains ,a wider period2 turneth still and slow4 ,yet at the last his aimed end he gains4 ,and sure at last a fire will overflow ,the aged ,earth1 and all must into ashes go4 #ajd ,then all the stately works and monuments ,built on this bottome shall to ruine fall4 ,and all those goodly statues shall be brent ,which were erect to the memoriall ,of ,kings ,ksars1 ne may better 'fall ,the boastfull works of brave ,poetick pride ,that promise life and fame perpetuall2 ,ne better fate may these poor lines abide4 ,betide what will to what may live no lenger tide6 #aje ,this is the course that never-dying ,nature ,might ever hold from all ,eternitie1 ,renuing still the faint decayed creature ,which would grow stark and drie as aged tree1 ,unlesse by wise preventing ,destinie ,she were at certain periods of years ,reduced back unto her ,infancie1 ,which well fram'd argument 7as plain appears7 ,my ship from those hard rocks and shelves right safely stears4 #ajf ,lo6 now my faithfull muse hath represented ,both frames of ,providence to open view1 ,and hath each point in orient colours painted ,not to deceive the sight with seeming shew ,but earnest to give either part their due2 ,now urging th' uncouth strange perplexitie ,of infinite worlds and ,time1 then of a new ,softening that harsher inconsistencie ,to fit the immense goodnesse of the ,deity4 #ajg ,and here by curious men 't may be expected ,that ,i this knot with judgement grave decide1 ,and then proceed to what else was objected4 ,but1 ah6 ,what mortall wit may dare t' areed ,heavens counsels in eternall horrour hid8 ,and ,cynthius pulls me by my tender ear ,such signes ,i must observe with wary heed3 ,wherefore my restlesse ,muse at length forbear4 ,thy silver sounded ,lute hang up in silence here4 ,,finis4 ,cupids ,conflict4 ,mela4 ,cleanthes4 ,cl4 ,mela my dear6 why been thy looks so sad ,as if thy gentle heart were sunk with care8 ,impart thy case2 for be it good or bad ,friendship in either will bear equall share4 ,mel4 ,not so2 ,cleanthes1 for if bad it be ,my self must bleed afresh by wounding thee4 ,but what it is1 my slow1 uncertain wit ,cannot well judge4 ,but thou shalt sentence give ,how manfully of late my self ,i quit1 ,when with that lordly lad by chance ,i strive3 ,cl4 ,of friendship ,mela6 let's that story hear4 ,mel4 ,sit down ,cleanthes then1 and lend thine ear4 ,upon a day as best did please my mind ,walking abroad amidst the verdant field ,scattering my carefull thoughts i' th' wanton wind ,the pleasure of my path so farre had till'd ,my feeble feet that without timely rest ,uneath it were to reach my wonted nest4 ,in secret shade farre moved from mortals sight ,in lowly dale my wandring limbs ,i laid ,on the cool grasse where ,natures pregnant wit ,a goodly bower of thickest trees had made4 ,amongst the leaves the chearfull birds did fare ,and sweetly carrol'd to the echoing air4 ,hard at my feet ran down a crystall spring ,which did the cumbrous pebbles hoarsly chide ,for standing in the way4 ,though murmuring ,the broken stream his course did rightly guide ,and strongly pressing forward with disdain ,the grassie flore divided into twain4 ,the place a while did feed my foolish eye ,as being new1 and eke mine idle ear ,did listen oft to that wild harmonie ,and oft my curious phansie would compare ,how well agreed the ,brooks low muttering ,base1 ,with the birds trebbles pearch'd on higher place4 ,but senses objects soon do glut the soul1 ,or rather weary with their emptinesse2 ,so ,i1 all heedlesse how the waters roll ,and mindlesse of the mirth the birds expresse1 ,into my self 'gin softly to retire ,after hid heavenly pleasures to enquire4 ,while ,i this enterprize do entertain2 ,lo6 on the other side in thickest bushes ,a mighty noise6 with that a naked swain ,with blew and purple wings streight rudely rushes4 ,he leaps down light upon the flowry green1 ,like sight before mine eyes had never seen4 ,at's snowy back the boy a quiver wore ,right fairly wrought and gilded all with gold4 ,a silver bow in his left hand he bore1 ,and in his right a ready shaft did hold4 ,thus armed stood he and betwixt us tway ,the labouring brook did break his toilsome way4 ,the wanton lad whose sport is others pain ,did charge his bended bow with deadly dart1 ,and drawing to the head with might and main1 ,with fell intent he aim'd to hit my heart4 ,but ever as he shot his arrows still ,in their mid course dropt down into the rill4 ,of wondrous virtues that in waters been ,is needlesse to rehearse1 all books do ring ,of those strange rarities4 ,but ne're was seen ,such virtue as resided in this spring4 ,the novelty did make me much admire ,but stirr'd the hasty youth to ragefull ire4 ,as heedlesse fowls that take their per'lous flight ,over that bane of birds1 ,averno lake1 ,do drop down dead3 so dead his shafts did light ,amid this stream1 which presently did slake ,their fiery points1 and all their feathers wet ,which made the youngster ,godling inly fret4 ,thus lustfull ,love 7this was that love ,i ween7 ,was wholly changed to consuming ire4 ,and eath it was1 sith they're so near a kin ,they be both born of one rebellious sire4 ,but he supprest his wrath and by and by ,for feathered darts1 he winged words let flie3 ,vain man6 said he1 and would thou wer'st not vain ,that hid'st thy self in solitary shade ,and spil'st thy precious youth in sad disdain ,hating this lifes delight6 ,hath god thee made ,part of this world1 and wilt not thou partake ,of this worlds pleasure for its makers sake8 ,unthankfull wretch6 ,gods gifts thus to reject ,and maken nought of ,natures goodly dower ,that milders still away through thy neglect ,and dying fades like unregarded flower4 ,this life is good1 what's good thou must improve1 ,the highest improvement of this life is love4 ,had ,i 7but ,o that envious ,destinie1 ,or ,stygian vow1 or thrice accursed charm ,should in this place free passage thus denie ,unto my shafts as messengers of harm6 ,had ,i but once transfixt thy froward breast1 ,how would'st thou then----,i staid not for the rest2 ,but thus half angry to the boy replide3 ,how would'st thou then my soul of sense bereave6 ,i blinded1 thee more blind should choose my guide6 ,how would'st thou then my muddied mind deceive ,with fading shows1 that in my errour vile1 ,base lust2 ,i love should tearm1 vice1 virtue stile4 ,how should my wicked rymes then idolize ,thy wretched power1 and with impious wit ,impute thy base born passions to the skies ,and my souls sicknesse count an heavenly fit1 ,my weaknesse strength1 my wisdome to be caught ,my bane my blisse1 mine ease to be o'rewraught4 ,how often through my fondly feigning mind ,and frantick phansie1 in my ,mistris eye ,should ,i a thousand fluttering ,cupids find ,bathing their busie wings8 ,how oft espie ,under the shadow of her eye-brows fair ,ten thousand ,graces sit all naked bare8 ,thus haunted should ,i be with such feat fiends3 ,a pretty madnesse were my portion due4 ,foolish my self ,i would not hear my friends4 ,should deem the true for false1 the false for true4 ,my way all dark more slippery then ice ,my attendents1 anger1 pride1 and jealousies4 ,unthankfull then to ,god ,i should neglect ,all the whole world for one poor sorry wight1 ,whose pestilent eye into my heart project ,would burn like poysonous ,comet in my spright4 ,aye me6 how dismall then would prove that day ,whose onely light sprang from so fatall ray4 ,who seeks for pleasure in this mortall life ,by diving deep into the body base ,shall loose true pleasure3 ,but who gainly strive ,their sinking soul above this bulk to place ,enlarg'd delight they certainly shall find ,unbounded joyes to fill their boundlesse mind4 ,when ,i my self from mine own self do quit ,and each thing else2 then an all-spreaden love ,to the vast ,universe my soul doth sit ,makes me half equall to all-seeing ,jove4 ,my mighty wings high stretch'd then clapping light ,i brush the starres and make them shine more bright4 ,then all the works of ,god with close embrace ,i dearly hug in my enlarged arms ,all the hid paths of heavenly ,love ,i trace ,and boldly listen to his secret charms4 ,then clearly view ,i where true light doth rise1 ,and where eternall ,night low-pressed lies4 ,thus lose ,i not by leaving small delight ,but gain more joy1 while ,i my self suspend ,from this and that2 for then with all unite ,i all enjoy1 and love that love commends4 ,that all is more then loves the partiall soul ,whose petty loves th' impartiall fates controll4 ,ah son6 said he1 7and laughed very loud7 ,that trickst thy tongue with uncouth strange disguize1 ,extolling highly that with speeches proud ,to mortall men that humane state denies1 ,and rashly blaming what thou never knew ,let men experienc'd speak1 if they'll speak true4 ,had ,i once lanc'd thy froward flinty heart ,and cruddled bloud had thawn with living fire ,and prickt thy drousie sprite with gentle smart ,how wouldst thou wake to kindly sweet desire1 ,thy soul fill'd up with overflowing pleasures ,would dew thy lips with hony-dropping measures4 ,then wouldst thou caroll loud and sweetly sing ,in honour of my sacred ,deity ,that all the woods and hollow hills would ring ,reechoing thy heavenly harmonie4 ,and eke the hardy rocks with full rebounds ,would faithfully return thy silver sounds4 ,next unto me would be thy ,mistresse fair1 ,whom thou might setten out with goodly skill ,her peerlesse beauty and her virtues rare1 ,that all would wonder at thy gracefull quill4 ,and lastly in us both thy self shouldst raise ,and crown thy temples with immortall bayes4 ,but now thy riddles all men do neglect1 ,thy rugged lines of all do lie forlorn4 ,unwelcome rymes that rudely do detect ,the ,readers ignorance4 ,men holden scorn ,to be so often non-plusd or to spell1 ,and on one stanza a whole age to dwell4 ,besides this harsh and hard obscuritie ,of the hid sense1 thy words are barbarous ,and strangely new1 and yet too frequently ,return1 as usuall plain and obvious1 ,so that the show of the new thick-set patch ,marres all the old with which it ill doth match4 ,but if thy haughty mind1 forsooth1 would deign ,to stoop so low to hearken to my lore1 ,then wouldst thou with trim lovers not disdeign ,to adorn the outside1 set the best before4 ,nor rub nor wrinkle would thy verses spoil ,thy rymes should run as glib and smooth as oyl4 ,if that be all1 said ,i1 thy reasons slight ,can never move my well establishd mind4 ,full well ,i wote alwayes the present sprite1 ,or life that doth possesse the soul1 doth blind1 ,shutting the windows 'gainst broad open day ,lest fairer sights its uglinesse bewray4 ,the soul then loves that disposition best ,because no better comes unto her view4 ,the drunkard drunkennesse1 the sluggard rest1 ,th' ,ambitious honour and obeisance due4 ,so all the rest do love their vices base ',cause virtues beauty comes not into place4 ,and looser love 'gainst ,chastitie divine ,would shut the door that he might sit alone4 ,then wholly should my mind to him incline3 ,and woxen strait1 7since larger love was gone7 ,that paultrie sprite of low contracting lust ,would fit my soul as if 't were made for 't just4 ,then should ,i with my fellow bird or brute ,so strangely metamorphis'd1 either ney ,or bellow loud3 or if 't may better sute ,chirp out my joy pearch'd upon higher spray4 ,my passions fond with impudence rehearse1 ,immortalize my madnesse in a verse4 ,this is the summe of thy deceiving boast ,that ,i vain ludenesse highly should admire1 ,when ,i the sense of better things have lost ,and chang'd my heavenly heat for hellish fire1 ,passion is blind1 but virtues piercing eye ,approching danger can from farre espie4 ,and what thou dost ,pedantickly object ,concerning my rude rugged uncouth style1 ,as childish toy ,i manfully neglect1 ,and at thy hidden snares do inly smile4 ,how ill alas6 with wisdome it accords ,to sell my living sense for livelesse words4 ,my thought 's the fittest measure of my tongue1 ,wherefore ,i'll use what's most significant1 ,and rather then my inward meaning wrong ,or my full-shining notion trimly scant1 ,i'll conjure up old words out of their grave1 ,or call fresh forrein force in if need crave4 ,and these attending on my moving mind ,shall duly usher in the fitting sense4 ,as oft as meet occasion ,i find4 ,unusuall words oft used give lesse offence2 ,nor will the old contexture dim or marre1 ,for often us'd they're next to old1 thred-bare4 ,and if the old seem in too rustie hew1 ,then frequent rubbing makes them shine like gold1 ,and glister all with colour gayly new4 ,wherefore to use them both we will be bold4 ,thus lists me fondly with fond folk to toy1 ,and answer fools with equall foolerie4 ,the meaner mind works with more nicetie1 ,as spiders wont to weave their idle web1 ,but braver spirits do all things gallantly ,of lesser failings nought at all affred3 ,so ,natures carelesse pencill dipt in light ,with sprinkled starres hath spattered the ,night4 ,and if my notions clear though rudely thrown ,and loosely scattered in my poesie1 ,may lend men light till the dead ,night be gone1 ,and ,morning fresh with roses strew the skie3 ,it is enough1 ,i meant no trimmer frame ,or by nice needle-work to seek a name4 ,vain man6 that seekest name mongst earthly men ,devoid of ,god and all good virtuous lere2 ,who groping in the dark do nothing ken ,but mad2 with griping care their souls do tear1 ,or burst with hatred or with envie pine ,or burn with rage or melt out at their eyne4 ,thrice happy he whose name is writ above1 ,and doeth good though gaining infamie2 ,requiteth evil turns with hearty love1 ,and recks not what befalls him outwardly3 ,whose worth is in himself1 and onely blisse ,in his pure conscience that doth nought amisse4 ,who placeth pleasure in his purged soul ,and virtuous life his treasure doth esteem2 ,who can his passions master and controll1 ,and that true lordly manlinesse doth deem1 ,who from this world himself hath clearly quit ,counts nought his own but what lives in his sprite4 ,so when his sprite from this vain world shall flit ,it bears all with it whatsoever was dear ,unto it self1 passing in easie fit1 ,as kindly ripen'd corn comes out of th' eare4 ,thus mindlesse of what idle men will say ,he takes his own and stilly goes his way4 ,but the retinue of proud ,lucifer1 ,those blustering ,poets that flie after fame ,and deck themselves like the bright ,morning-starre4 ,alas6 it is but all a crackling flame4 ,for death will strip them of that glorious plume ,that airie blisse will vanish into fume4 ,for can their carefull ghosts from ,limbo take ,return1 or listen from the bowed skie ,to heare how well their learned lines do take8 ,or if they could2 is ,heavens felicitie ,so small as by mans praise to be encreas'd1 ,hells pain no greater then hence to be eas'd8 ,therefore once dead in vain shall ,i transmit ,my shadow to gazing ,posteritie2 ,cast farre behind me ,i shall never see't1 ,on ,heavens fair ,sunne having fast fixt mine eye4 ,nor while ,i live1 heed ,i what man doth praise ,or underprize mine unaffected layes4 ,what moves thee then1 said he1 to take the pains ,and spenden time if thou contemn'st the fruit8 ,sweet fruit of fame1 that fills the ,poets brains ,with high conceit and feeds his fainting wit4 ,how pleasant 'tis in honour here to live ,and dead1 thy name for ever to survive6 ,or is thy abject mind so basely bent ,as of thy ,muse to maken ,merchandize8 7,and well ,i wote this is no strange intent47 ,the hopefull glimps of gold from chattering ,pies1 ,from ,daws and ,crows1 and ,parots oft hath wrung ,an unexpected ,pegaseian song4 ,foul shame on him1 quoth ,i1 that shamefull thought ,doth entertain within his dunghill breast1 ,both ,god and ,nature hath my spirits wrought ,to better temper and of old hath blest ,my loftie soul with more divine aspires ,then to be touchd with such vile low desires4 ,i hate and highly scorn that ,kestrell kind ,of bastard scholars that subordinate ,the precious choice induements of the mind ,to wealth or worldly good4 ,adulterate ,and cursed brood6 ,your wit and will are born ,of th' earth and circling thither do return4 ,profit and honour be those measures scant ,of your slight studies and endeavours vain1 ,and when you once have got what you did want ,you leave your learning to enjoy your gain4 ,your brains grow low1 your bellies swell up high1 ,foul sluggish fat ditts up your dulled eye4 ,thus what the earth did breed1 to th' earth is gone1 ,like fading hearb or feebly drooping flower1 ,by feet of men and beast quite trodden down1 ,the muck-sprung learning cannot long endure4 ,back she returns lost in her filthy source1 ,drown'd1 chok'd or slocken by her cruell nurse4 ,true virtue to her self's the best reward1 ,rich with her own and full of lively spirit1 ,nothing cast down for want of due regard4 ,or 'cause rude men acknowledge not her merit4 ,she knows her worth and stock from whence she sprung1 ,spreads fair without the warmth of earthly dung1 ,dew'd with the drops of ,heaven shall flourish long2 ,as long as day and night do share the skie1 ,and though that day and night should fail yet strong ,and steddie1 fixed on ,eternitie ,shall bloom for ever4 ,so the foul shall speed ,that loveth virtue for no worldly meed4 ,though sooth to sayn1 the worldly meed is due ,to her more then to all the world beside4 ,men ought do homage with affections true ,and offer gifts for ,god doth there reside4 ,the wise and virtuous soul is his own seat ,to such what's given ,god himself doth get4 ,but earthly minds whose sight's seal'd up with mud ,discern not this flesh-clouded ,deity1 ,ne do acknowledge any other good ,then what their mole-warp hands can feel and trie ,by groping touch2 thus 7worth of them unseen7 ,of nothing worthy that true worth they ween4 ,wherefore the prudent ,law-givers of old ,even in all ,nations1 with right sage foresight ,discovering from farre how clums and cold ,the vulgar wight would be to yield what's right ,to virtuous learning1 did by law designe ,great wealth and honour to that worth divine4 ,but nought's by law to ,poesie due said he1 ,ne doth the solemn ,statesmans head take care ,of those that such impertinent pieces be ,of common-weals4 ,thou'd better then to spare ,thy uselesse vein4 ,or tell else1 what may move ,thy busie use such fruitlesse pains to prove4 ,no pains but pleasure to do the dictates dear ,of inward living nature4 ,what doth move ,the ,nightingall to sing so sweet and clear ,the ,thrush1 or ,lark that mounting high above ,chants her shrill notes to heedlesse ears of corn ,heavily hanging in the dewy morn4 ,when life can speak1 it can not well withhold ,t' expresse its own impressions and hid life4 ,or joy or grief that smoothered lie untold ,do vex the heart and wring with restlesse strife4 ,then are my labours no true pains but ease ,my souls unrest they gently do appease4 ,besides1 that is not fruitlesse that no gains ,brings to my self4 ,i others profit deem ,mine own3 and if at these my heavenly flames ,others receiven light1 right well ,i ween ,my time's not lost4 ,art thou now satisfide ,said ,i3 to which the scoffing boy replide4 ,great hope indeed thy rymes should men enlight1 ,that be with clouds and darknesse all o'recast1 ,harsh style and harder sense void of delight ,the ,readers wearied eye in vain do wast4 ,and when men win thy meaning with much pain1 ,thy uncouth sense they coldly entertain4 ,for wotst thou not that all the world is dead ,unto that ,genius that moves in thy vein ,of poetrie6 ,but like by like is fed4 ,sing of my ,trophees in triumphant strein1 ,then correspondent life1 thy powerfull verse ,shall strongly strike and with quick passion pierce4 ,the tender frie of lads and lasses young ,with thirstie eare thee compassing about1 ,thy ,nectar-dropping ,muse1 thy sugar'd song ,will swallow down with eagre hearty draught2 ,relishing truly what thy rymes convey1 ,and highly praising thy soul-smiting lay4 ,the mincing maid her mind will then bewray1 ,her heart-bloud flaming up into her face1 ,grave matrons will wex wanton and betray ,their unresolv'dnesse in their wonted grace2 ,young boyes and girls would feel a forward spring1 ,and former youth to eld thou back wouldst bring4 ,all ,sexes1 ,ages1 ,orders1 ,occupations ,would listen to thee with attentive ear1 ,and eas'ly moved with thy sweet perswasions1 ,thy pipe would follow with full merry chear4 ,while thou thy lively voice didst loud advance ,their tickled bloud for joy would inly dance4 ,but now1 alas6 poore solitarie man6 ,in lonesome desert thou dost wander wide ,to seek and serve thy disappearing ,pan1 ,whom no man living in the world hath eyde3 ,for ,pan is dead but ,i am still alive1 ,and live in men who honour to me give3 ,they honour also those that honour me ,with sacred songs4 ,but thou now singst to trees ,to rocks to ,hills1 to ,caves that senselesse be ,and mindlesse quite of thy hid mysteries1 ,in the void aire thy idle voice is spread1 ,thy ,muse is musick to the deaf or dead4 ,now out alas6 said ,i1 and wele-away ,the tale thou tellest ,i confesse too true4 ,fond man so doteth on this living clay ,his carcase dear1 and doth its joyes pursue1 ,that of his precious soul he takes no keep ,heavens love and reasons light lie fast asleep4 ,this bodies life vain shadow of the soul ,with full desire they closely do embrace1 ,in fleshly mud like swine they wallow and roll1 ,the loftiest mind is proud but of the face ,or outward person2 if men but adore ,that walking sepulchre1 cares for no more4 ,this is the measure of mans industry ,to wexen some body and getten grace ,to 's outward presence2 though true majestie ,crown'd with that heavenly light and lively rayes ,of holy wesdome and ,seraphick love1 ,from his deformed soul he farre remove4 ,slight knowledge and lesse virtue serves his turn ,for this designe4 ,if he hath trod the ring ,of pedling arts2 in usuall pack-horse form ,keeping the rode2 ,o6 then 't's a learned thing4 ,if any chanc'd to write or speak what he ,conceives not 't were a foul discourtesie4 ,to cleanse the soul from sinne1 and still diffide ,whether our reasons eye be clear enough ,to intromit true light1 that fain would glide ,into purg'd hearts1 this way 's too harsh and rough3 ,therefore the clearest truths may well seem dark ,when sloathfull men have eyes so dimme and stark4 ,these be our times4 ,but if my minds presage ,bear any moment1 they can ne're last long1 ,a three branch'd ,flame will soon sweep clean the stage ,of this old dirty drosse and all wex young4 ,my words into this frozen air ,i throw ,will then grow vocall at that generall thaw4 ,nay1 now thou 'rt perfect mad1 said he1 with scorn1 ,and full of foul derision quit the place4 ,the skie did rattle with his wings ytorn ,like to rent silk4 ,but ,i in the mean space ,sent after him this message by the wind ,be 't so ,i 'm mad1 yet sure ,i am thou 'rt blind4 ,by this the out-stretch'd shadows of the trees ,pointed me home-ward1 and with one consent ,foretold the dayes descent4 ,so straight ,i rise ,gathering my limbs from off the green pavement ,behind me leaving then the slooping ,light4 ,cl4 ,and now let's up1 ,vesper brings on the ,night4 ,,finis4 ,illustration ,a ,particular ,interpretation appertaining to the three last books of the ,platonick ,song of the ,soul4 ,a ,atom-lives4 ,the same that ,centrall lives4 ,both the terms denotate the indivisibility of the inmost essence it self2 the pure essentiall form ,i mean1 of plant1 beast or man1 yea of angels themselves1 good or bad4 ,apogee1 ,autokineticall1 ,ananke1 ,see ,interpret4 ,gen4 ,acronycall1 ,alethea-land1 ,animadversall4 ,that lively inward animadversall4 ,it is the soul it self1 for ,i cannot conceive the body doth animadvert2 when as objects plainly exposed to the sight are not discovered till the soul takes notice of them4 ,b ,body4 ,the ancient ,philosophers have defined it1 ' 4 ,sext4 ,emperic4 ,pyrrhon4 ,hypotyp4 lib4 #c4 cap4 #e4 ,near to this is that description1 ,psychathan1 ,cant4 #b4 ,stanz4 #ab4 lib4 #b1 ,matter extent in three dimensions4 ,but for that 1 simple trinall distension doth not imply it1 wherefore ,i declin'd it4 ,but took in matter according to their conceit1 that phansie ,materia prima1 ,i acknowledge none1 and consequently no such corpus naturale as our ,physiologist make the subject of that science4 ,that is nothing but a fixt spirit1 the conspissation or coagulation of the ,cuspidall particles of the ,cone1 which are indeed the ,centrall ,tasis or inward essence of the sensible world4 ,these be an infinite number of vitall ,atoms that may be wakened into diverse tinctures1 or energies1 into fiery1 watery1 earthy1 c4 ,and one divine ,fiat can unloose them all into an universall mist1 or turn them out of that sweat into a drie and pure ,etheriall temper4 ,these be the last projections of life from the soul of the world2 and are act or form though debil and indifferent1 like that which they call the first matter4 ,but they are not meerly passive but meet their information half way1 as ,i may so speak3 are radiant ab intimo and awake into this or the other operation1 by the powerfull appulse of some superadvenient form4 ,that which change of ,phantasmes is to the soul1 that is alteration of rayes to them4 ,for their rayes are ab intrinseco1 as the phantasmes of the soul4 ,these be the reall matter of which all supposed bodies are compounded1 and this matter 7as ,i said7 is form and life1 so that all is life and form what ever is in the world1 as ,i have somewhere intimated in ,antipsychopan3 ,but however ,i use the terme body ordinarily in the usuall and vulgar acception4 ,and for that sense of the ancients1 nearest to which ,i have defined it in the place first above mentioned1 that ,i seem not to choose that same as most easie to proceed against in disproving the corporeity of the soul1 the arguments do as necessarily conclude against such a naturall body as is ordinarily described in ,physiologie 7as you may plainly discern if you list to observe7 as also against this body composed of the ,cuspidall particles of the ,cone4 ,for though they be ,centrall lives1 yet are they neither ,plasticall1 ,sensitive1 or ,rationall1 so farre are they from proving to be the humane soul whose nature is there discust4 ,c ,cone3 ,is a solid figure made by the turning of a rectangular triangle1 about2 one of the sides that include the right angle resting1 which will be then the ,axis of the compleated ,cone4 ,but ,i take it sometimes for the comprehension of all things1 ,god himself not left out1 whom ,i tearm the ,basis of the ,cone or ,universe4 ,and because all from him descends1 ' 1 with abatement or contraction1 ,i give the name of ,cone to the ,universe4 ,and of ,cone rather then ,pyramid because of the roundnesse of the figure1 which the effluxes of all things imitate4 ,chaos1 ,chronicall1 ,see interpret ,gen4 ,clare1 ,circulation1 ,the terme is taken from a toyish observation1 viz4 the circling of water when a stone is cast into a standing pool4 ,the motion drives on circularly1 the first rings are thickest1 but the further they go they grow the thinner1 till they vanish into nothing4 ,such is the diffusion of the species audible in the strucken aire1 as also of the visible species4 ,in brief any thing is said to circulate that diffuseth its image or species in a round4 ,it might have been more significantly called orbiculation2 seeing this circumfusion makes not onely a circle1 but fills a sphere1 which may be called the sphere of activity4 ,yet ,circulation more fitly sets out the diminution of activity1 from those ringes in the water which as they grow in compasse1 abate in force and thicknesse4 ,but sometimes ,i use ,circulate in an ordinary sense to turn round1 or return in a circle4 ,centre1 ,centrall1 ,centrality4 ,when they are used out of their ordinary sense1 they signifie the depth or inmost being of any thing1 from whence its acts and energies flow forth4 ,see ,atom-lives4 ,cuspis of the ,cone4 ,the multiplide ,cuspis of the ,cone is nothing but the last projection of life from ,psyche1 which is a liquid fire or fire and water1 which are the corporeall or materiall principles of all things1 changed or disgregated 7if they be centrally distinguishable7 and again mingled by the virtue of ,physis or ,spermaticall life of the world2 of these are the ,sunne and all the ,planets1 they being kned together1 and fixt by the ,centrall power of each ,planet and ,sunne4 ,the volatile ,ether is also of the same1 and all the bodies of plants1 beasts and men4 ,these are they which we handle and touch1 a sufficient number compact together4 ,for neither is the noise of those little flies in a summer-evening audible severally3 but a full ,quire of them strike the ear with a pretty kind of buzzing4 ,strong and tumultuous pleasure and scorching pain reside in these1 they being essentiall and centrall1 but sight and hearing are onely of the images of these1 ,see ,body4 ,eternitie4 ,is the steddie comprehension of all things at once4 ,see on discribed in my ,expos4 upon ,psychozoia4 ,energie4 ,it is a peculiar ,platonicall terme4 ,in my ,interpret4 ,gen4 ,i expounded it ,operation1 ,efflux1 ,activity4 ,none of those words bear the full sense of it4 ,the examples there are fit1 viz4 the light of the ,sunne1 the phantasms of the soul4 ,we may collect the genuine sense of the word by comparing severall places in the ,philosopher4 1 1 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 ' 4 ,for every being hath its ,energie1 which is the image of it self1 so that it existing that ,energie doth also exist1 and standing still is projected forward more or lesse4 ,and some of those energies are weak and obscure1 others hid or undiscernable1 othersome greater and of a larger projection4 ,plotin4 ,ennead4 #d4 lib4 #e4 cap4 #g4 ,and again1 ,ennead4 #c4 lib4 #d4 1 1 ' 1 1 4 ,and we remain above by the ,intellectuall man1 but by the extreme part of him we are held below1 as it were yielding an efflux from him to that which is below1 or rather an energie he being not at all lessened4 ,this curiositie ,antoninus also observes1 7lib4 #h4 ,meditat47 in the nature of the sun-beams1 where although he admits of 1 yet he doth not of which is 4 1 4 4 4 ,the sunne1 saith he1 is diffused1 and his fusion is every where but without effusion1 c4 ,i will onely adde one place more out of ,plotinus4 ,ennead4 #c4 lib4 #f4 4 ,the naturall energie of each power of the soul is life not parted from the soul though gone out of the soul1 viz4 into act4 ,comparing of all these places together1 ,i cannot better explain this ,platonick term1 energie1 then by calling it the rayes of an essence1 or the beams of a vitall ,centre4 ,for essence is the ,centre as it were of that which is truly called ,energie1 and ,energie the beams and rayes of an essence4 ,and as the ,radii of a circle leave not the centre by touching the ,circumference1 no more doth that which is the pure ,energie of an essence1 leave the essence by being called out into act1 but is - a working in the essence though it flow out into act4 ,so that ,energie depends alwayes on essence1 as ,lumen on ,lux1 or the creature on ,god2 ,whom therefore ,synesius in his ,hymnes calls the ,centre of all things4 ,entelecheia4 ,see ,interpret4 ,gen4 ,f ,faith4 ,platonick faith in the first ,good4 ,this faith is excellently described in ,proclus1 where it is set above all ratiocination1 nay1 ,intellect it self4 1 ' 4 ,but to them that endeavour to be joyned with the first ,good1 there is no need of knowledge or multifarious cooperation1 but settlednesse1 steddinesse1 and rest4 lib4 #a4 cap4 #bd4 ,theolog4 ,platon4 ,and in the next chapter2 ' 1 ' 1 4 ,for we must not seek after that absolute or first ,good cognoscitively or imperfectly1 but giving our selves up to the divine light1 and winking 7that is shutting our eyes of reason and understanding7 so to place our selves steddily in that hidden ,unitie of all things4 ,after he preferres this faith before the clear and present assent to the 1 yea and the 1 so that he will not that any intellectuall operation should come in comparison with it4 ' 1 4 4 ,for the operation of the ,intellect is multiform and by diversitie separate from her objects1 and is in a word1 intellectuall motion about the object intelligible4 ,but the divine faith must be simple and uniform1 quiet and steddily resting in the haven of ,goodnesse4 ,and at last he summarily concludes1 4 ,see ,procl4 ,theolog4 ,platonick4 lib4 #a4 cap4 #be4 ,h ,hyle4 ,see ,interpret4 ,gen4 ,i ,intellect4 ,sometimes it is to be interpreted ,soul4 ,sometime the intellectuall facultie of the soul4 ,sometimes ,intellect is an absolute essence shining into the soul3 whose nature is this4 ,a substance purely immateriall1 impeccable1 actually omniform1 or comprehending all things at once1 which the soul doth also being perfectly joyned with the ,intellect4 1 1 4 ,plot4 ,ennead4 #a4 lib4 #a4 cap4 #h4 ,ideas1 or ,idees4 ,sometimes they are forms in the ,intellectuall world4 viz4 in on1 or ,on1 other sometimes1 phantasmes or representations in the soul4 ,innate ,idees are the souls nature it self1 her uniform essence1 able by her ,fire to produce this or that phantasme into act4 ,idiopathy4 ,see ,interpret4 ,gen4 ,iao ,l ,logos4 ,see ,interpret4 ,gen4 ,life4 ,the vitall operation of any soul4 ,sometime it is the soul it self1 be it sensitive1 vegetative1 or rationall4 ,lower man4 ,the lower man is our enquickned body1 into which our soul comes1 it being fitly prepared for the receiving of such a guest4 ,the manner of the production of souls1 or rather their non-production is admirably well set down in ,plotinus1 ,see1 ,ennead4 #f4 lib4 #d4 cap4 #ad1 #ae4 ,m ,monad4 ,see ,interpr4 ,gen4 ,mundane4 ,mundane spirit1 ,is that which is the spirit of the world or ,universe4 ,i mean by it not an intellectuall spirit1 but a fine1 unfixt1 attenuate1 subtill1 ethereall substance1 the immediate vehicle of plasticall or sensitive life4 ,memory4 ,mundane memory4 ,is that memory that is seated in the ,mundane spirit of man1 by a strong impression1 or inustion of any phantasme1 or outward sensible object1 upon that spirit4 ,but there is a ,memory more subtill and abstract in the soul it self1 without the help of this spirit1 which she also carries away with her having left the body4 ,magicall4 ,that is1 attractive1 or commanding by force of sympathy with the life of this naturall world4 ,moment4 ,sometimes signifies an instant1 as indivisible1 as 1 which in motion answers to an instant in time1 or a point in a line1 ,aristot4 ,phys4 ,in this sense ,i use it1 ,psychathan4 lib4 #c4 cant4 #b4 stanz4 #af2 ,but in a moment sol doth ray4 ,but ,cant4 the #c4 ,stanz4 #de4 v4 #b4 ,i understand1 as also doth ,lansbergius1 by a moment one second of a minute4 ,in ,antipsych4 ,cant4 #b4 ,stanz4 the #bj4 v4 #b4 by a moment ,i understand a minute1 or indefinitely any small time4 ,o ,orb4 ,orb ,intellectuall1 is nothing else but on or the ,intellectuall world4 ,the ,orbs generall mentioned ,psycathan4 lib4 #a4 cant4 #c4 stanz4 #bc4 v4 #b4 ,i understand by them but so many universall orders of beings1 if ,i may so terme them all2 for ,hyle hath little or nothing of being4 ,omniformity4 ,the omniformity of the soul is the having in her nature all forms1 latent at least1 and power of awaking them into act1 upon occasion4 ,out-world4 and ,out-,heaven4 ,the sensible world1 the visible ,heaven4 ,p ,perigee1 ,psychicall1 ,pareties1 ,see ,interpret4 ,gen4 ,parallax1 ,protopathy4 ,parturient4 ,see1 ,vaticinant4 ,phantasie4 ,lower phantasie1 is that which resides in the ,mundane spirit of a man1 ,see ,memory4 ,q ,quantitative4 ,forms quantitative1 are such sensible energies as arise from the complexion of many natures together1 at whose discretion they vanish4 ,that's the seventh ,orb of things1 though broken and not filling all as the other do4 ,but if you take it for the whole sensible world1 it is entire1 and is the same that ,tasis in ,psycozoia4 ,but the centre of ,tasis1 viz4 the multiplication of the reall ,cuspis of the ,cone 7for ,hyle that is set for the most contract point of the ,cuspis is scarce to be reckoned among realities7 that immense diffusion of atoms1 is to be referred to ,psyche1 as an internall vegetative act1 and so belongs to ,physis the lowest order of life4 ,for as that warmth that the sense doth afford the body1 is not rationall1 sensitive1 or imaginative1 but vegetative2 ,so this1 i4e4 liquid fire1 which ,psyche sends out1 and is the outmost1 last1 and lowest operation from her self1 is also vegetative4 ,r ,rhomboides4 ,see ,interpr4 general4 ,reason4 ,i understand by ,reason1 the deduction of one thing from another1 which ,i conceive proceeds from a kind of continuitie of phantasmes3 and is something like the moving of a cord at one end2 the parts next it rise with it4 ,and by this concatenation of phantasmes ,i conceive1 that both brutes and men are moved in reasonable wayes and methods in their ordinary externall actions4 ,rayes4 ,the rayes of an essence is its energie4 ,see ,energie4 ,reduplicative4 ,that is reduplicative1 which is not onely in this point1 but also in another1 having a kind of circumscribed ubiquitie1 viz4 in its own sphear4 ,and this is either by being in that sphear omnipresent it self1 as the soul is said to be in the body tota in toto tota in qualibet parte1 or else at least by propagation of rayes1 which is the image of it self2 and so are divers sensible objects ,reduplicative1 as light1 colours1 sounds4 ,and ,i make account either of these wayes justly denominate any thing spirituall4 ,though the former is most properly1 at least more eminently spirituall4 ,and whether any thing be after that way spirituall saving the ,divinitie1 there is reason to doubt4 ,for what is entirely omnipresent in a sphear1 whose diametre is but three feet1 ,i see not1 why 7that in the circumference being as fresh and entire as that in the centre7 it should stop there and not proceed even in infinitum1 if the circumference be still as fresh and entire as the centre4 ,but ,i define nothing4 ,s ,spermaticall4 ,it belongs properly to ,plants1 but is transferred also to the ,plasticall power in ,animalls1 ,i enlarge it to all magnetick power whatsoever that doth immediately rule and actuate any body4 ,for all magnetick power is founded in ,physis1 and in reference to her1 this world is but one great ,plant1 7one giving it shape and corporeall life7 as in reference to ,psyche1 one happy and holy ,animall4 ,spirit4 ,sometimes it signifieth the soul1 othersometime1 the naturall spirits in a mans body1 which are ,vinculum anim corporis1 and the souls vehicle3 ,sometimes life4 ,see ,reduplicative4 ,soul4 ,when ,i speak of mans ,soul1 ,i understand that which ,moses saith was inspired into the body1 7fitted out and made of earth7 by ,god1 ,genes4 #b4 which is not that impeccable spirit that cannot sinne2 but the very same that the ,platonists call 1 a middle essence betwixt that which they call 7and we would in the ,christian language call 7 and the life of the body which is 1 a kind of an umbratil vitalitie1 that the soul imparts to the bodie in the enlivening of it3 ,that and the body together1 we ,christians would call 1 and the suggestions of it1 especially in its corrupt estate1 4 ,and that which ,god inspired into ,adam was no more then 1 the soul1 not the spirit1 though it be called ,spiraculum vit2 is plain out of the text2 because it made man but become a living soul1 4 ,but you will say1 he was a dead soul before1 and this was the spirit of life1 yea the spirit of ,god1 the life of the soul that was breathed into him4 ,but if implie such a life and spirit1 you must acknowledge the same to be also in the most stupid of all living creatures1 even the fishes 7whose soul is but as salt to keep them from stinking1 as ,philo speaks7 for they are said to be chap4 #a4 v4 #bj4 #ba4 ,see #a ,cor4 chap4 #ae1 v4 #de1 #df4 ,in brief therefore1 that which in ,platonisme is 1 is in ,scripture 2 what in one1 1 the brute or beast in the other1 the same in both4 ,self-reduplicative4 ,see ,reduplicative4 ,t ,tricentreitie4 ,centre is put for essence1 so ,tricentreitie must implie a trinitie of essence4 ,see ,centre1 and ,energie4 ,v ,vaticinant4 ,the soul is said to be in a vaticinant or parturient condition1 when she hath some kind of sense and hovering knowledge of a thing1 but yet cannot distinctly and fully1 and commandingly represent it to her self1 cannot plainly apprehend1 much lesse comprehend the matter4 ,the phrase is borrowed of ,proclus1 who describing the incomprehensiblenese of ,god1 and the desire of all things towards him1 speaks thus2 1 1 1 4 ,theolog4 ,platon4 lib4 #a4 cap4 #ba4 ,see ,psychathan4 lib4 #c4 cant4 #c4 stanz4 #ab4 #ad4 ,the ,philosophers ,devotion4 ,sing aloud his praise rehearse ,who hath made the ,universe4 ,he the boundlesse ,heavens has spread ,all the vitall ,orbs has kned2 ,he that on ,olympus high ,tends his flocks with watchfull eye1 ,and this eye has multiplide ,midst each flock for so reside4 ,thus as round about they stray ,toucheth each with out-stretch'd ray1 ,nimbly they hold on their way1 ,shaping out their ,night and ,day4 ,never slack they2 none respires1 ,dancing round their ,centrall fires4 ,in due order as they move ,echo's sweet be gently drove ,thorough ,heavens vast ,hollownesse1 ,which unto all corners presse3 ,musick that the heart of ,jove ,moves to joy and sportfull love2 ,fills the listning saylers eares ,riding on the wandering ,sphears4 ,neither ,speech nor ,language is ,where their voice is not transmisse4 ,god is ,good1 is ,wise1 is ,strong1 ,witnesse all the creature-throng1 ,is confess'd by every ,tongue4 ,all things back from whence they sprong1 ,as the thankfull ,rivers pay ,what they borrowed of the ,sea4 ,now my self ,i do resigne1 ,take me whole ,i all am thine4 ,save me1 ,god6 from ,self-desire1 ,deaths pit1 dark ,hells raging fire1 ,envy1 ,hatred1 ,vengeance1 ,ire4 ,let not ,lust my soul bemire4 ,quit from these thy praise ,i'll sing1 ,loudly sweep the trembling string4 ,bear a part1 ,o ,wisdomes sonnes6 ,free'd from vain ,relligions4 ,lo6 from farre ,i you salute1 ,sweetly warbling on my ,lute4 ,indie1 ,egypt1 ,arabie1 ,asia1 ,greece1 and ,tartarie1 ,carmel-tracts1 and ,lebanon ,with the ,mountains of the ,moon1 from whence muddie ,nile doth runne1 ,or whereever else you won2 ,breathing in one vitall aire1 ,one we are though distant farre4 ,rise at once lett's sacrifice ,odours sweet perfume the skies4 ,see how ,heavenly lightning fires ,hearts inflam'd with high aspires6 ,all the substance of our souls ,up in clouds of ,incense rolls4 ,leave we nothing to our selves ,save a voice1 what need we els6 ,or an hand to wear and tire ,on the thankfull ,lute or ,lyre4 ,sing aloud his praise rehearse ,who hath made the ,universe4 ,,finis4 ,,the ,,augustan ,,reprint ,,society ,,william ,,andrews ,,clark ,,memorial ,,library ,,university ,,of ,,california1 ,,los ,,angeles ,,publications ,,in ,,print ,decoration ,where available1 ,project ,gutenberg e-text numbers are given in brackets4 #aidh-aidi #af4 ,henry ,nevil ,payne1 ,the ,fatal ,jealousie 7#afgc74 #afiaf #ah4 ,anonymous1 8,of ,genius10 in ,the ,occasional ,paper1 ,vol4 ,,iii1 ,no4 #aj 7#agai71 and ,aaron ,hill1 ,preface to ,the ,creation 7#agbj74 #aehgj #aidi-aiej #ai4 ,susanna ,centlivre1 ,the ,busie ,body 7#agji74 #afgdj #bj4 ,lewis ,theobald1 ,preface to the ,works of ,shakespeare 7#agcd74 #afcdf #bb4 ,samuel ,johnson1 ,the ,vanity 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author used a number of forms that were unusual or archaic even in #afdf1 and might be mistaken for typographical errors3 ne 7conjunction7 won 7stay1 dwell1 like ,german wohnen7 eath 7easy1 light2 also 8uneath07 words in -en1 especially verbs3 aboven1 amazen1 been 7infinitive71 causen1 standen1 withouten444 ,greek diacritics were consistently printed over the first vowel of an initial diphthong4 ,this has been silently regularized4 ,both occurrences of the name 8,des,cartes0 or 8,des,chartes0 are at line break2 the hyphen has been omitted conjecturally4 ,in general1 spellings that appear more than once1 such as 8,psyc-0 for 8,psych-01 were assumed to be intentional4 ,the word 8invisible0 means that the letter is absent but there is an appropriately sized blank space4 ,modern ,introduction3 ,immobile 4 4 4 ,incomprehensible 0#f line-initial long space in the original1 not explained in the footnote with its seque ,democritus ,platonissans l in 8sequel0 invisible at line-end describes the genesis of final s in 8genesis0 illegible at line-end ,footnote #i3 ,ibid41 ,,ii4 xi4 #e 7p4 #eb74 ,,ii4xi4 #e ,to the ,reader3 in the neglectfull disguise of a fragment of of or which is as harsh one infinite one4 4 missing2 text otherwise unchanged defending the infinitude of both1 both4 ,unum ut attendentes ad infinitam ,dei potentiam first i in 8infinitam0 invisible ,democritus ,platonissans #g4 ,numbers infinite of each would strike our 'stonishd sight2 er in 8,numbers0 invisible #be4 ,this is the parergon of each noble fire is is #bg4 ,what mark is left18 what aimed scope or end punctuation as printed #de4 ,this inf'nite voidnesse as much our mind doth gall text cut off2 8-all0 conjectural #dg4 ,with their strange vizards4 ,this will follow right text cut off2 8-ht0 conjectural #ee4 ,keeping a well-proportionated space ptoportionated #ha4 ,and immense mounting smoke arose all round about4 mountiug #ii4 ,snow-limb'd1 rose-cheek'd1 ruby-lip'd1 pearl-ted1 star eyn'd ,their parts each fair in fit proportion all conbin'd4 text unchanged3 possible hyphen in 8star eyn'd0 #ajb4 ,such as no vulgar wit can well believe4 vnlgar #ajc4 ,a wider period2 turneth still and slow4 tnrneth ,cupids ,conflict ,had ,i 7but ,o that envious ,destinie1 mismatched parenthesis in original2 closing parenthesis may belong after 8harm60 in #dth line of stanza ,who can his passions master and controll1 aud ,for can their carefull ghosts from ,limbo take reading uncertain3 may be 8take0 corrected by hand to 8,lake0 ,particular ,interpretation ,energie4 ,it is a peculiar ,platonicall terme4 ,energie1 ,faith4 444 excellently described in ,proclus1 roclus4 4 444 ,original text could not be checked1 but is grammatically impossible4 ,intellect4 ,intellect44 ,idiopathy4 ,see ,interpret4 ,gen4 ,iao ,printed as shown2 may be damage or error for 8,idea0 or similar ,omniformity4 ,omniformity1 ,reduplicative4 444 as the centre4 ,but ,i define nothing4 blank space at mid-line in original ,soul4 444 ,and that which ,god inspired into ,adam that that ,vaticinant4 444 ,theolog4 ,platon4 ,theolog ,platon ,augustan ,reprints ,here as in e-texts #bibcg and #bifhd 7from the same year71 one or two pages from the list of titles in print appear to be missing4 ,the same list should be present in any ,augustan ,reprint from a later year4 ,first page ,,university ,,of ,,california1 ,,los ,,angeles 4 for1 #aag4 ,sir ,roger ,l',estrange1 ,citt and ,bumpkin 7#afhj74 ,sir ,george