DE MOC 11. I TUs to the Reader. feminarieof folly,which if it bejlirred ~<p,or get ahead,will rrmininfini. rum & infinitely varies ,.u rveourfllves arefoverally a{idtE!cd,[a,th 1Bal. q L<&. '·' ' 1ha;,ar caftilio:and cannot fo ealily be rooted out,it takesfuch fall: hold, "/:J::·• .,q""f> as Tully holds alt• radtcesJlultttt.e,' fowe are bred,and fo we connnue. noflr!lm fimi- · Some fay cher~ be twomain defects ofwir,error and ignorance,to which ftriu~ aliquoJ allothersarereduccd; by ignorancewc knownotthings necetfarie, byj.~:;:;:;,~~~ err01·we know them fallly. Ignorance Jsapnvanon, error apolinvemur,<n.infni· ad. From ignora~cc' comes vice, from error herelie,&c. But make how !~';/c~~'1' exmany kinds you will, d1v1de and fubdlVIde,few men are free,or that doer Primaque lux not impinge on fome~ne kinde or other. r Stc plerttmq~e agitat Jlt~ltosin. ~::z!,~~·J•· foitia, as he that exammes h1s ownand other mens achons, !hall finde. fTibuUus,flul- * CIMron in Lttctan,as hewnnly fatgnes, was conducted by Mercurze to ''.P"'"'""' fuch aplace,where he might fee all the world at once; after he had fuffi. =~'; !~~!::'"' ciencly viewed and looked about, Mercrme would needs know of !urn .,thcring. what he had obfervcd: He told him, that he faw a vall: multitude and a §ofools com- . h . h b' · J.k J h'J h h monlydoto. pronufcuous, t e1r a 1tat1ons 1·e mo e- 1s, t emen as emmecs, e * 'Diat.eontemcotdddtfcernecities likefomany hives ofbees, wherein everze bee hadapta.rer;rom.>. fting,and they did no11ght elfe b11tfling one Another, fome domineering like hqrn<ts bigger then the rejl, .(Ome like filching rva[f~, others ,u drones. Over their heads were hovenng a confufed compame 0f perturbations, hope, fear, anger, avarice, ignorance, &c. and a multitude of difeafes hanging, whtch they ll:1ll pulled on che1r pates. Some were brawlmg, fomefighting,riding,running,fo//icite amlJientes, callide litigantes, for toyes,& trifles,and fuch momencanie things.There towAS and provinces meere faClions,rich againft poor, poor againH rich, nobles againll: artificers, they againfi nobles, and fo the reil:. In conclulion he condemned thfm all for mad-men,fools, idiots, alfes.o ftultt, tJH•tnamh.ecejl amen. tia? 0 fools, 0 mad.men heexclaims,in(ana ftudia, in(ani lahores,&c. Mad endeavours, mad aClions,mad,mad,mad,< 0 (..clllminftpi ns & in., Catuii:H; focet_flm agiddy-headed age. Heraclitm the philo(opher,out of a U:rious meditation ofmens lives, fell a weeping, and with continual! teares be. wailed their miferie,madnes,&.folly. Democritm on the other fide burll: out a laughing,rheirwholelifefeemed to him fo ridiculous, & he was fo far carried with this ironicall paffion,that the Citizens of vtbderatook him to be mad,and fent thereforeembalfadors to Hyppocratesche Phyfi. tian, that he would exercife his skill upon him.But the ftorie is fee down at large by flyppocrates ,in his epifrletoD nmogetm ,which becaufe it is not impertinent to this difcourfe,l will inferr verbatim almoll:,as it is delivered by Il yppocrates himfeH:with all thecircumll:ances belonging unto it, WhenHJppocrates was now come to Abdera, thepeopleofthecitie . came flockmg about him,fome weeping,fome increating of him, that he u su!rant•fil would doe hts bell:. After fome little repatt, he went to fee Democritm, P'•''""' fiJ,,.. the people following h;m, whom he found (as before) in his garden in ~:7:f:t~:,,d{t. thefuburbs all alone, "ftttrng upona ftone rmder a plane tree, rvithoM per lap•.km, · ho(e or P1oes, rvzth abook onhis knees Ctlttinn••foverallbeAfl.f and /m&e ·wlde P<S!I•tium h ' ft d . Th J. d ' . <> r ~· ' ~· acm.u•l••tum, at ts " ze. emu mu. e ll:ood gazmg roundabout to fee the con- prrnmjfob-.ba, grelfe. Hyppocrates after a lmlepaufe,faluted him by his name,whom he m,.,. Jllper refaluced,athamed almofi that he could not call him likewif~ by his, orf:::;.bu• Me~to, , that · ..
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